MAK's most recent show

[johncorrigan]

Could he have been the one Susan Maughan was singing about ?
http://www.memorabilia-uk.co.uk/admi...1143557401.jpg

Equally it could have been Eddie, Paul.....assuming his middle name's Joe of course!

http://www.recordsale.de/cdpix/t/the_equals-viva_bobby_joe.jpg

[Paul Sherratt]

John,
I really did say Susan Maughan. And yesterday took a walk along the promenade at Morecambe where
I first got smitten ..

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/MP/MP_1064841.jpg

B. http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/...7_f5e1b59f.jpg

C. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...46033175_1.jpg


Had a fantastic Morecambe night in ' B ' too ...

[Globaltruth]

John,
I really did say Susan Maughan. And yesterday took a walk along the promenade at Morecambe where
I first got smitten ..

http://www.art247.com/images/large/MIRRORPIX/MP/MP_1064841.jpg

B. http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/...7_f5e1b59f.jpg

C. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image...46033175_1.jpg


Had a fantastic Morecambe night in ' B ' too ...

Picture C captures a rare moment when Her Maj confused Eric with the DoE and told him to get orf the plinth as it was gin o'clock.

[Paul Sherratt]

Some creative and sensitive film makers should park themselves at that popular statue and film/interview the mix of folk that stop by
for the essential photo op.

Back to MAK the Bibilang Boys are music to the ears. Grand bit of public service broadcasting.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00d69zm

Did they make it on to Ken Bruce or any of his colleagues ?

[Lateralthinking1]

I doubt that they would have been welcome Paul. Bit of a closed shop there. Not many visas handed out. (odd attitudes on immigration)

[Paul Sherratt]

Odd attitude to broadcasting as a whole, imo, lat, have those self-serving daytime bbc radio 2 producers.

( im h o .. )

[Paul Sherratt]

MAK's most recent ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kopm59faOQs&feature=youtu.be

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes, I like that very much.

[Globaltruth]

So I watched this and thought 'most recent what?'

Well, ‘Black Snow / Bliadhna an t-Sneachd Dhuibh’,is a new work apparently inspired by the relationship between Gaels and the natural world around them. And I'm assuming, given the topic, that it is a carbon neutral production?

A fine piece of work... Thanks for posting.

[johncorrigan]

Motice it was performed in the Playfair Library in Edinburgh - that is one wonderful building - would have liked to have seen that in there.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3962618677_0c30a48991.jpg

No penguins were harmed in the making of this film.

[Lateralthinking1]

When at the end of this year I compile my list of the best tracks I first heard in 2011, Jarabi will be there obviously. It feels like the soundtrack to this summer. But also this - http://www.footballandmusic.co.uk/hamish/.

I am a bit vague about it - John, I know that you said quite a bit about it and it was fascinating - but the bit I am vague about is the broadcast. It was certainly from MAK and the last thing she played on a show. I think it may have been in the very early hours of 1 January. It was around that time. And from memory, it wasn't the studio recording but live. The point of writing is to ask if anyone knows how it would be possible to locate that live recording. I would love to have that sometime.

[johncorrigan]

When at the end of this year I compile my list of the best tracks I first heard in 2011, Jarabi will be there obviously. It feels like the soundtrack to this summer. But also this - http://www.footballandmusic.co.uk/hamish/.

I am a bit vague about it - John, I know that you said quite a bit about it and it was fascinating - but the bit I am vague about is the broadcast. It was certainly from MAK and the last thing she played on a show. I think it may have been in the very early hours of 1 January. It was around that time. And from memory, it wasn't the studio recording but live. The point of writing is to ask if anyone knows how it would be possible to locate that live recording. I would love to have that sometime.

A very popular man thon Hamish MacAlpine - here's the programme you were talking about Lat - although Mick Marra memorably appeared 'live' on the New Year Wo3, the programme you're talking about was the Christmas one the week before.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wldzw

Here's a link to the record.

http://www.delphianrecords.co.uk/webshop/DCD34092.html

[Lateralthinking1]

Thanks John. That is really excellent. I see the record has "Green Grow The Rashes" too - another new favourite. Incidentally, I have recommended the Hamish track to more people than I have done with any other track this year.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks John. That is really excellent. I see the record has "Green Grow The Rashes" too - another new favourite. Incidentally, I have recommended the Hamish track to more people than I have done with any other track this year.

.....those were the days when Scottish teams played in Europe, Lat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqwxJzpHBAg

[Lateralthinking1]

Blimey, John, doesn't that look like a picture of.......sanity. From the way in which the players looked like proper human subbuteo rather than warming up for the Golden Globe awards to that most underrated of ITV mantras "absolutely everything must be in beige". It's brilliant!

I assume that was the mid 1980s although it looks older. Manchester United had a very good side - Whiteside, Strachan etc. The Terrors did very well on that night. I doubt that there was much singing from the rivals of "Up Wi' The Bonnets" even at closing time.

Yes something was in the air whereas now because of X Factor it tends to be more this stuff - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sva8vmTlUM4. Still, I can't really think of Ian and Jimmy as being other than they were then. Ditto John Paul Young.

Fortunately, before all of the nostalgia begins to get in the way of our "real" lives today, some good news from dependable radio land. You can join Mark, Ewen and the legend that was Roughy regularly on Real Radio Scotland http://www.realradio-scotland.co.uk/...hdqj/hdqjfe67/. I doubt that I will ever leave my house again.