UKC

It's on now.

First time I have ever heard someone on DID who knows and loves his music.

"You are the first guest we have ever had who sings along to the tracks".

Brilliant.

Alan

In reply to Alan James - UKC: Heard it on Sunday - great choice of music - just about the only person worthy to inherit the John Peel mantle !

In reply to David Peters: And despite his protestations that he is a coward, think how much balls it must have taken to go into Rwanda when the genocide had just kicked off!

In reply to Alan James - UKC:

Awww - i'm missing it, and they don't put desert island disks on their Listen Again thingy.

In reply to brothersoulshine: 'cos of the music and the PRS as i understand it

In reply to Alan James - UKC:

was there a track listing Alan ?

In reply to rich:

Yeah, it's bloody stupid i reckon. With internet broadcasting it costs more to licence songs than broadcasting over them over the airwaves. It's laughable really - if you wanted to copy stuff at a high quality you'd do it from an FM or digital broadcast, not some poxy web stream.

In reply to Alan James - UKC: ta v. much - just listened !

I`d agree with his choice of the Bhundu Boys- went to see them a couple of times in 87/88 and they were the most enthusiastic and fun band I`ve ever seen- sadly now ravaged by HIV/AIDS.

When you think about how much tee wats like Moyles get paid...

In reply to stonewall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs.shtml

In reply to rich:

Yet you can get other BBC shows with music on listen again ? And it's a pity they don't release the spoken bits as a podcast - I always like listening to Andy Kershaw even if his musical tastes don't exactly match mine. Plus, he used to be Billy Bragg's roadie.....

In reply to Alan James - UKC:
I was pretty impressed by Joe Simpson's selection

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/desertislanddiscs_20040919.shtml

In reply to Chris the Tall: As you say you can listen to all sorts of other programmes with recorded music (such as the Andy Kershaw show on R3). I thought the problem with Desert Island Discs was the company who own the copyright to the format (Roy Plombley kept the copyright)

In reply to Chris the Tall:


Maybe some but they will have done the appropriate licencing deal, I guess.

If you listen to the Now Show podcasts any bits involving music from records (thankfully not the magnificent Mitch Benn's live performances!) is removed and replaced with a voiceover explaining that they can't include it.

In reply to tmh: Desert Island Discs should be listened to on a Sunday morning 11.15 - so civilized At least it's repeated Friday morning.

In reply to Marc C:

*I* listened to it on Sunday, I'm just helping out the latecomers

I thought the prog revealed a side of Kershaw I hadn't heard before - when doing a music programme he comes across as a non-stop gobby Manc but he had quite a few dour Lancashire moments in the interview, responding the questions with one-word answers that were usually "No."

In reply to tmh: I`m not sure he`d take very kindly to being called a Manc, gobby or not.

He actually uses and understands polysyllabic words- which raises him above the inane monkeys on R1 R2 straight away...

In reply to tmh: Probably in a minority, but I'm not a fan of Andy Kershaw. His musical cosmopolitanism ("now for some gonjo music from Frigistan") seems (to me) to disguise a musical snobbishness (i.e. the idea that because the noise is made by a shepherd on a camel's udder bagpipe, it MUST be better than a Western pop group).

In reply to stonewall:

Off top of head

Bhundu Boys ????
Tinariwen ????
Dylan Like a Rolling Stone (live)
Clash hammersmith Palais (live)
Warren Zevon Guns & Lawyers
Loudon Wainwright One man man{?}
Joni Mitchell Carey
Jennifer Rush The Power of Love*










*I made that one up.

In reply to Marc C: I think you do him a disservice- he`s always been a champion of Britsh and American music- but not necessarily pop : )

In reply to Marc C: 'Desert Island Discs should be listened to on a Sunday morning 11.15 - so civilized'

Bloody hell man - you should be out climbing at 11.15 on a Sunday morning.

In reply to John2: Climbing at 11.15 on a Sunday morning? What would my congregation - let alone the Dear Lord - think? The Reverend Marc C

In reply to Marc C: Ah - now I understand. Forgive me, but when I heard you talking about your flock I assumed that you'd been bothering sheep again.

In reply to lummox:

Probably true. Guess he just annoys me! Not sure why...Maybe it's his John Peel hero-worship, his unreconstructed simplistic socialism - or maybe I'm just a curmudgeonly miseryguts!

In reply to John2: Ha ha! My son, I'm a Follower of Christ NOT Baal

In reply to Alan James - UKC:

That's weird !

As I write this I'm just listening to Andy's Radio 3 prog where he plays the records which didn't make it onto his list.

I listened to the repeat this morning as I was driving along through the beautiful Welsh Marches twixt mid Wales and South Shropshire. Loved his selection and like his mentor JP he's a reet good lad.

In reply to Marc C:

Well that's a charge often levelled at all "world" music enthusiasts, not just Kershaw - that or the closely related one that they will rave uncritically about the latest recording of gonjo music from Frigistan that's come their way because it sounds so terribly exotic and ethnic even if an actual Frigistanian gonjo musician would be able to tell it was rubbish. I would say "maybe guilty - so what?". Western rock and pop is kind of big enough to cope with the setback, don't you think?

In reply to tmh: Having just purchased a complete box set of gonjo music from Frigistan, I now agree!

Cosmopolitan Marc C

In reply to Marc C:


The shop told me mine was the only one in existence, and I paid £247 for it as well.

In reply to Marc C:

His 8 records were quite mainstream and accessible actually.
Including...The Clash..Joni Mitchell..Bob Dylan..Loudon Wainwright.

In reply to Jonno: I know! I was expecting more gonjo music from Frigistan

In reply to sutty: You might at least have started a Culture Bunker thread about gonjo music from Frigistan!

PS apparently 3 box sets were distributed. Andy bought one and you and me have the other 2.