In the absence of Alice, EddyB presented a Rick Wakeman "retrospective".

Wakeman is his singular favourite musician of all time, and as many of you know Eddy has wanted to do a show on his work for ages. Without Alice there to cramp his style and insist on playing "other" things, this was his chance! HOORAY!

If you don't like the idea of 2 hours of prog rock, have a listen anyway as there's a real mix of stuff. On the other hand, if you do like the idea of 2 hours of prog rock then you may be surprised by what's on offer!

• Hamfatter - Sziget (We Get Wrecked)
• The Gypsy Pop Orchestra - Karma Chameleon
• Interview with the Gypsy Pop Orchestra
• The Gypsy Pop Orchestra - I Want to Break Free
• Manu Chao - King of the Bongo
• Gogol Bordello - Ultimate
• Madness - Our House
• Arany Aszok karaoke tent extracts, including EddyB singing She's Like The Wind (trad. arr. Eggnog)
• Largo - Sunny (I Love You)
• Interview with Frenchmen wearing bikinis
• Visnu - Hare Krisna
• Interview with Visnu
• Visnu - Brahmastra
• Babylon Circus - Dances of Resistance
• Balkan brass band playing in the street
• Yorgui Loeffler - Les Yeux Noirs
• White Tom - Jump, Jive and Wail
• The Hives - A.K.A.I.D.I.O.T.
• The Hives - Diabolic Scheme
• Gentleman and the Far East Band - Serenity
• Napalm Death - Suffer the Children
• Tiger Lillies - Kick a Baby
• Leningrad - Huynja
• The Good, the Bad and the Queen - Herculean
• Juliet and the Licks - I Never Got To Tell You What I Wanted To
• The Killers - Mr Brightside

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Today began slowly with EddyB not really being "with it", but soon snowballed into a rollercoaster of chortles and fun. We were linking to Kev's choice of song, and later on gave him a call to discuss the household problems of Tim1701, Dutchy, and Steph.

This week the one-and-only Maz joined us to play UKNova Radio Bullseye, and blimey did she do well! Next week we'll be linking to Charlene's I've Never Been to Me - a song EddyB had never heard of but, now he's got a copy, knows rather well.

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. Joe Strummer performed Bankrobber with Mick Jones (also of The Clash) at a fireman’s benefit gig in Acton Town Hall just a couple of weeks before he died
3. Acton was the home of The Who, who all went to Acton High School – Behind Blue Eyes
4. Behind Blue Eyes has been covered by Limp Bizkit – Faith
5. Faith was originally by George Michael of Wham! – Edge of Heaven
6. George Michael harmonised with Paul McCartney at Live 8 on the Beatles classic Drive My Car
7. Paul McCartney said that a major influence on Sgt Peppers Lonely Harts Club Band was Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. Similarly Brian Wilson said he was inspired to make Pet Sounds after listening to Rubber Soul - God Only Knows
8. Both Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille played touring keyboards for the Beach Boys and went on to be known as Captain and Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together
9. Listen carefully! In the coda you could hear “Sedaka is back” because the song was co-written by Neil Sedaka – Speedy Gonzales
10. Neil attended Queens College with Carole King, who inspired his first big hit, "Oh, Carol". She wrote "Oh, Neil" in return.
11. Carole King wrote “You’ve Got a Friend”. The most famous rendition of the song is by James Taylor

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Today we had a jam-packed show, beginning by linking to Stuie's choice of Every Loser Wins after he lost everything on last week's UKNova Radio Bullseye. This week EddyB's dad (also known as DaddyB, EddyB Senior, and Kev) played - live! He did amazingly well!

Towards the end of the show we also spoke live to Eggnog by satellite link, who was having a beer at a Brett Anderson gig!

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. At the Grammy Awards of 2003, Bruce Springsteen performed The Clash's "London Calling" along with Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, and E Street Band member Steven van Zandt in tribute to the late Joe Strummer - Badlands
3. Bruce Springsteen was one of the few musicians who publicly expressed their support for The Dixie Chicks after they spoke out against Bush and the Iraq War - Travellin' Soldier
4. The Dixie Chicks are HEAR’s featured artist of the month. Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers' initial funding was provided by Pete Townsend of The Who - I Can See for Miles
5. Pete Townsend described that song as the loudest, rawest, dirtiest song the Who had ever recorded. Paul McCartney read this and then "wrote 'Helter Skelter' to be the most raucous vocal, the loudest drums, etcetera" by The Beatles
6. This song is directly referred to in Don Maclean’s American Pie “Helter Skelter in a summer swealter”
7. That song was about “The Day the Music Died” which refers to the plane crash which killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959 – Heartbeat
8. There was a UK TV show called Heartbeat, which starred Nick Berry – Every Loser Wins

Stuie joined us on the phone to play UKNova Radio Bullseye. He did incredibly well by sweeping up almost all the prizes, before riskign them all in the final Star Prize Gamble.

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt, Dave Grohl and Elvis Costello performed a cover of that song to honour Joe Strummer at the 45th Grammy Awards - Elvis Costello with Bert Bacharach – I’ll Never Fallin Love Again
3. That song featured in Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged me, alongside Madonna – Beautiful Stranger
4. Madonna’s son, Rocco’s godmother is Trudi Styler. She is married to Sting from The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
5. The Police's song Roxanne was features in Moulin Rouge
6. Another band that gave a popular song the tango treatment was Take That - It Only Takes a Minute
7. Robbie Williams used to be a member of Take That - We're the Pet Shop Boys
8. Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys collaborated with Electronic on Getting Away With It
9. Bernard Sumner and Johnny Marr of Electronic collaborated with Karl Bartos on that track. Bartos also co-wrote Kraftwerk – The Model
10. Kraftwerk were the first German’s to top the UK charts; the second were Goombay Dance Band – Seven Tears

Stuie won the chance to choose next week's song we link to - listen next week to hear Nick Berry's Every Loser Wins. Deary me.

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Today we had a lot of fun with lots of people in IRC suggesting a range of Dictator Merchandise, after EddyB shared a video of his new Chairman Mao pocket watch. It's sheer class.

Our new top-of-the-hour competition seemed to go down well too, with Eggnog steppign up to the oche to play UKNova Radio Bullseye. He gambled and lost his prizes, but got to keep his linking choice of Goombay Danceband - Seven Tears.

However, we started the show as ever by linking to last week's winner Maz's choice.

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Clash drummer Pete Howard went on to join Vent 414 – Life Before You
3. A fellow member of Vent 414 was Miles Hunt, who went on to be the lead singer of the Wonderstuff – Dizzy
4. The Wonderstuff recorded Dizzy with Vic and Bob, Bob Mortimer being the lawyer who represented Jarvis Cocker of Pulp in the case against Michael Jackson – Underwear
5. A cover version of Pulp’s song Common People was done by William Shatner – Common People
6. Aimee Mann performed backing vocals on that William Shatner album – Voices Carry
7. Voices Carry was featured in the film Boogie Nights, which starred Marky Mark – Good Vibrations
8. Marky Mark’s brother is Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block – You got it (The Right Stuff)
9. That song was at Number 1 in 1989, while Andy Stewart was at number 4 – Donald Where’s Your Troosers

Today we played the final "top of the hour" competition in its current format, and introduced everyone to our new quiz - Radio Bullseye! If you'd like to be a contestant in future weeks, let us know. Egg, EddyB's mate from home, agreed to do a trial run of the quiz in the second hour...

However, in the first hour we were linking to Chimp's choice.

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. The Clash recorded the London Calling album in Camden, London. Camden is strongly associated with Madness – The Prince
3. That record was a tribute to Prince Buster, whose song gave Madness their name
4. Prince Buster produced Big Youth – Hit the Road Jack
5. The “Youth” in Big Youth inspired the name of the band Sonic Youth – Bull in the Heather
6. This was recently covered by The Go! Team – Bottle Rocket
7. Bottle Rockets are an American band – Better than Broken
8. The lead guitar from Bottle Rockets, Brian Henneman, played guest guitar on Wilco – True Love Will Find You in the End
9. That song was a cover version of a song originally by Daniel Johnston – A Little Story

Today saw sadness of great proportions. We were due to be visiting the Peace and Iyatoni Show, but due to the incompetence of our local garage they did not finish our car's Service and MOT in time. Therefore we did the show from London as usual, linking to Maz's choice.

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. Original guitarist Keith Levene went on to join Public Image Limited - Rise
3. Gabrielle also had a song by the same name – Rise
4. Rise features a sample from Bob Dylan – Knocking on Heaven's Door
5. Knocking on Heaven's Door has been covered by Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry
6. Bob Marley’s No Woman No Cry was notably recorded in the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. When this caught fire, it inspired Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water
7. Ian Gillan, lead singer of Deep Purple sang the role of Jesus on the original album for Jesus Christ Superstar - Gethsemane
8. Agnetha Fältskog starred in the original Swedish production of the musical at the same time as forming ABBA – Summer Night City
9. Benny and Björn produced Ted Gardestad's debut album Undringrar – Rockin’ ‘n’ Reelin’
10. Ted Gardestad produced the album on which we find Caramba – Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot

Today Chimp won the competition and chose Daniel Johnston's A Little Story for us to link to next week...

Crikey, this was probably our most challenging link to date. Clodmax not only chose a difficult one to link to, but also one of the best songs I've heard in a while. It was glorious getting to it!

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. Mick Jones of The Clash presented Primal Scream with the Godlike Genius prize at the NME awards – Movin’ on Up
3. Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream was the drummer with The Jesus and Mary Chain – Head On
4. There was a riot at a Jesus and Mary Chain concert (North London Polytechnic) where the opening band was Meat Whiplash – Don’t Slip Up
5. Meat Whiplash were named after a b-side by Fire Engines – Meat Whiplash
6. Fire Engines and Franz Ferdinand have covered each others’ songs (Jacqueline, Get Up and Use Me)
7. Franz Ferdinand are Kanye West’s favourite band, and he tried to emulate their “white crunk” drum sound on – Diamonds from Sierra Leone
8. The song features a sample from the James Bond theme Diamonds are Forever. David Arnold is the new Bond composer – The Name’s Bond…James Bond
9. David Arnold produced this Bjork track – Play Dead
10. 30 Seconds to Mars covered the Bjork song Hunter
11. Jared Leto, lead singer and guitarist with 30 Seconds to Mars started out starring with Claire Danes in My So Called Life, while Claire was dating Ben Lee – Catch My Disease
12. Ben Lee was in the video for the Har Mar Superstar song EZ Pass
13. Har Mar Superstar won the dance-off in film Starsky and Hutch. David Soul had a cameo in the film as he was the original Hutch – Don’t Give Up On Us
14. David Soul starred in Jerry Springer the Opera - Talk to the Hand
15. Stewart Lee co-wrote Jerry Springer the Opera, but found fame in Fist of Fun
16. Stewart Lee and Richard Herring starred, but many of the characters were played by Kevin Eldon who joined Bill Bailey to perform – Das Hokey Kokey
17. Bill Bailey favours the hairstyle called a “skullet” also worn by Devin Townsend - Dynamics

We ran a competition, which was won by Maz, but next week will be a rather different show as Alice hosts on her own while EddyB goes off to play guitar in his school's production of Back to the 80s.

1. London Calling – The Clash
2. There is a new music magazine out called The Clash, which features an article on Johnny Cash this month – Rowboat
3. Rowboat originally appeared on Beck's Stereopathetic Soulmanure. Submit it Again was written for Johnny Cash, but Beck never submitted it, considering it "rubbish."
4. Beck is a Scientologist. Another one is Issac Hayes – Papa Was a Rolling Stone
5. Issac Hayes voiced the character of Chef in South Park. He sang in the show and film, including this song that features an appearance from “James Taylor” – The Prostitute Song
6. There is NO connection between James Taylor (American singer-songwriter) and the James Taylor Quartet (British jazz funk band) – Theme from Starsky and Hutch
7. James Taylor and Allan Crockford formed JTQ, but started out as half of The Prisoners - Whenever I'm Gone
8. Allan Crockford produced The Dentists album “Some People Are On The Pitch They Think It Is All Over It Is Now” where Beautiful Day is from
9. A branch of dentristy is “odontology” which Alban Nwapa studied before starting to produce his own music and recording Sing Halleluja

Clodmax won this week's competition, choosing Devin Townsend's awesome track Dynamics for us to link to next week.

Today saw the first part of the show being rather Mancunian focussed, as we linked between various Cheshire-based bands. However, we soon managed to escape and reach teh rest of the world as we linked ot Purpaboo's choice of Love Song by Ofra Haza.

1. The Clash – London Calling
2. In 2003 The Clash were awarded the rank of “Godlike Geniuses” by the NME. Two years later, so were New Order – Blue Monday
3. After Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had gone off to release solo work, Gillian Gilbert and Stephen Morris worked as a duo called The Other Two – Super Highways
4. The vocals were provided Melanie Williams first found moderate fame providing vocals for
   Sub Sub – Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use)
5. After their recording studio burnt down, Sub Sub took time off before reforming as Doves – Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
6. When performing live, Doves use the keyboard skills of Martin Rebelski – Little White Lights
7. Rebelski is signed to Twisted Nerve records alongside James Routledge, aka Pedro – Fear and Resilience
8. Pedro has worked extensively with Kathryn Williams – Hallelujah
9. Hallelujah was originally written and performed by Leonard Cohen – Sisters of Mercy
10. The song title was used to name Sisters of Mercy – Temple of Love
11. The guest female vocalist on Temple of Love was Ofra Haza – Love Song

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My what a show. Lots of people joining in with the competition and, surprisingly, staying tuned in as we played a load of middle-of-the-road stuff! Thsi week were linking to a choice by Bobince...

1. London Calling
2. The iconic photograph on the album cover was taken at The Palladium in New York, where The Ramones recorded a live album called “January 7, 1978 at the Palladium, NYC [LIVE]” – My Sharona
3. The Ramones were parodied by The Shirehorses as the Ra-Gnomes - Sheena Easton/Joe's F*cked Off
4. Marc “Lard” Riley of The Shirehorses was once bassist (and then lead guitarist) with
   The Fall – Mr Pharmacist
5. One of The Fall’s early hits was Dresden Dolls – Coin Operated Boy
6. The Dresden Dolls once covered Kermit the Frog – The Rainbow Connection
7. The Rainbow Connection was co-written by Paul Williams, who also collaborated on
   
   
   
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