Next Date : Friday 8th May.

Half an Hour guest slot at Spitfire in Glasgow.

30 minutes ain't a lot of time, and it'll be early on so no one will be up for the dancing.

And I'll need to go back to working off cds. Which I'll need to burn on to separate discs so I can mix between them. All this means thought beforehand and a vague plan on what I am going ot play. Whereas, I prefer the tried and tested way of staring at a huge list of tracks on the laptop for far longer than usual before realising that time is running out and then slammin' on the first song that comes to mind. Seems to work in a primative artist kind of a way.

I have some ideas and will take a selection of toons I like and play them - how hard can it be? It'll just be one damn song after another.

At present I am definately favouring 'Life during Wartime' by Talking Heads. I was leaning towards 'Poplife' by Blur but played it out on Saturday and it was a bit muffly and underproduced. It is far from the best sound system on Friday and if I remember they guys mix through a Soundlab mixer with all the lights turned to a nice bright red colour, so anything not crystal clear in production, sounds like the veritable herd of elephants falling down the stairs. Which is not the sound I intentionally go for.
How the elephants got up there in the first place is a different question.

I am also going to think about '500(shake baby shake) by Lush, 'Gasoline' by Airborne Toxic Event and 'Revolution' as covered by Stereophonics.
The usual suspects will be Orange Juice, Pixies, Beatles, Lemonheads, Go-Betweens and St Etienne.
There was also an unexplained urge to dig out 'Lucky Number' by Lene Lovich. This I am trying to ignore.

Tune in next week and I'll tell you how it went.

Just One Damn Song After Another - Saturday 2nd May

Tracks played at Smugglers.

1 Always There ( Morales mix) - Incognito
2 You've got the love (Crazy P mix) - Staton/Shapeshifters
3 Same Old Scene (Glimmers Remix) - Roxy Music
4 Township Funk (Crazy P Remix) - Mujava
5 Breathe - Blaze
6 Masterblaster - Stevie Wonder
7 Video - India Irie
8 Your love gets sweeter - Finlay Quaye
9 This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) - DJ Shadow
10 Against all odds - Chase and Status
11 Twisting the night away - Sam Cooke
12 Jai Ho - The Pussycat Dolls
13 Halo (Red Soul Mix) - Beyonce
14 The Boy Does Nothing - Alesha Dixon
15 Takin’ Back My Love (Glam As You Edit)- Enrique Iglesias
16 New In Town (Fred Falke Vocal) - Little Boots
17 Dusk Till Dawn - Ladyhawke
18 One Day - The Juan MacLean
19 Fade to Grey - Visage
20 Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
21 I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris
22 Shoes (Green Velvet Remix) - Tiga
23 Controversy (Fresh Remix)- Prince
24 Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
25 Blame it on The Boogie - The Jacksons
26 Love Sex Magic - Ciara
27 Ain’t no love, Ain’t no use - Sub Sub
28 R U Sleeping (DONS Mix) - Indo
29 Dusk Til Dawn (Hanaghan remix) - Howells & Trevor
30 To be in love - M.A.W.
31 French Navy - Camera Obscura
32 Hug My Soul - Saint Etienne
33 In For The Kill (Hostage Remix)- La Roux
34 Heart Of Glass - Blondie
35 Poker Face ( Audé Edit) - Lady GaGa
36 Bonkers - Rascal & Van Helden
37 Spaceman - The Killers
38 The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
39 Are u gonna be my girl - Jet
40 Swastika eyes - Primal Scream
41 Its my life - Bon Jovi
42 A Town Called Malice - The Jam
43 Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go)- Noisettes
44 Great DJ - The Ting Tings
45 Friday on my mind - The Easybeats
46 True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)- Golden Silvers
47 Not Fair - Lily Allen
48 Jackson - Johnny Cash
49 Girlfriend In A Coma - The Smiths
50 Tiny Dancer - Ironik
51 One Day - The Juan MacLean
52 Temptation - Heaven 17
53 Chant No 1 (US Remix)- Spandau Ballet
54 Show me love - Robin S
55 Do your thing - Basement Jaxx
56 Mr Blue Sky - Lily Allen
57 If You Find Yourself Caught In Love - Belle & Sebastian
58 Jet - Helen Love
59 Abc - Pipettes
60 Popscene - Blur
61 500 (Shake Baby Shake)- Lush
62 Rapture Riders - Blondie vs Doors
63 Life during wartime - Talking Heads
64 Manic Monday - The Bangles

More to Life than Music

(But not much more!)

Things to do when not at the wheels of steel.

1. Watch Dundee United struggle to draw with doomed Killie.







2. Watch seals lying on a rock on Rothesay.






Makes dealing with members of the public who ask for Patrick Hernandez's 'Born to be alive' look quite attractive.

Dj Alan - an advert for.

Next Date : Smugglers, 2nd May
2100 - 0100

Last fm - an advert for.

I'm into indie, electronic, rock, house and pop, including:
Bob Dylan, The Airborne Toxic Event, The Gaslight Anthem, Frightened Rabbit, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Softies, Little Joy, Morrissey, Wilco, Imelda May, The Whitest Boy Alive, Van Morrison, John Martyn, Empire of the Sun, Mama, Okkervil River, The Beatles, Woodpigeon, Cut Copy, Ryan Adams, Lisa Ekdahl, Ra Ra Riot, School of Seven Bells, Gomez, Franz Ferdinand, Deerhunter, Röyksopp, Kanye West, Das Pop, The Shins, M83, Sun Kil Moon, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Elbow, Bon Iver, Ladyhawke, R.E.M., Babyshambles, Antony and the Johnsons, Simon & Garfunkel, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & The True Loves, Ray LaMontagne, Belle and Sebastian, Belleruche, The Zombies, Sonic Youth, Thievery Corporation, LCD Soundsystem, The National, The Duke Spirit.

Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/stairwel2heaven

Don't Ask Why.

Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since. - Lester Bangs

Just One Damn Song After Another. Tracks played 18th April

1 Boogie - Brand new heavies
2 Breathe - Blaze
3 Got To Get You Into My Life - Earth Wind & Fire
4 Harvest for world - Isley brothers
5 Listen To The Music - Incognito
6 Breathe Slow (Cahill Club Mix) - Alesha Dixon
7 Beautiful (Mike Rizzo Funk Generation Mix) - Akon
8 Teardrops - Diamond Cut
9 Show me love - Robin S
10 Against all odds - Chase and Status
11 Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield
12 Mr Blue Sky - Lily Allen
13 Jai Ho - Pussy cat Dolls
14 Brown Eyed Girl - Reel Big Fish
15 In the morning - The Coral
16 Dancing in moonlight - Toploader
17 Peaceful easy feeling - The Eagles
18 Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
19 Highwayman - Willie Nelson *
20 Hotel Yorba - White Stripes
21 Human (Ferry Corsten Club Mix)- The Killers
22 Music Matters - Mark Knight Remix - Faithless
23 I'm Not Alone (Radio Edit)- Calvin Harris
24 Beachball dance - Lady gaga vs nalin
25 Big love - Pete Heller
26 Romeo - Basement Jaxx
27 My Delerium - Ladyhawke
28 Call Me - Blondie
29 Don't Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) - Noisettes
30 Great DJ - The Ting Tings
31 Satisfaction (DiscoTech Remix)- The Rolling Stones
32 Kids (Skyve Reuters Bunkalifony Edit) - MGMT
33 Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams*
34 Pinball Wizard - The Who*
35 Tiny Dancer - Ironik *
36 Love Sex Magic - Ciara
37 Wish i didn't miss you ( Poundboys mix) - Angie Stone
38 American boy (Soulseekerz mix) - Estelle
39 If you knew - Chris Lake
40 Sweet Gypsy Dreams - Dirty South Bootleg
41 Poker Face - Lady Gaga
42 King Of My Castle (Rowald Steyn Remix )- Wamdue Project
43 Walking On A Dream (Van She Tech Remix) - Empire Of The Sun
44 Put em high - Stonebridge
45 New day (Ride On Piano Instrumental Remix) - NeeVald & Manteeno
46 Could You Be Loved ( Montanari Dance Mix) - Nick Corline
47 Grooving With Mr G - Richard Holmes
48 How To Save A Life - The Fray *
49 Hey there Delilah - Plain white T's
50 Take it easy - The Eagles
51 Suddenly i see - k t Tunstall
52 Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
53 Going Home ..- Mark Knopfler

* request