Sunday 28 November 2010

Brit Rock 27th November

Greetings. I think it's about time Brit rock won an award. Kerrang are running their annual polls for the best in everything rock. One of these concerns the best radio show. Now you'd make me very happy and I'd be your best friend forever if you'd go to
http://poll.kerrang.com/vote.aspx?category=best+radio+show... and paste Brit Rock with Dominic Forbes. Then this show would receive the recognition it deserves.
No other shows offers you as many high profile interviews together with the highest production values in Europe. Many thanks for your help on this.
1) Guns'N'Roses - Sweet child of mine
2) Crosby Stills & Nash - Teach your children
3) Pearl Jam - Daughter
4) Kansas - Carry on my wayward son
5) Ozzy Osborne - Over the mountain
6) Metallica - Hero of the day
7) Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy name
8) Slash feat. Fergie - Beautiful dangerous
9) Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (just because you feel good)
10) Kid Rock - Born free
11) Sum 41 - Fat lip
12) Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
13) Rainbow - 16th century greensleeves
14) Deep Purple - Burn
15) Elton John - Pinball wizard
16) Doobie Brothers - Take me in your arms
17) Smokie - Don't play your rock and roll to me
18) Bad Company - Shooting star
19) David Bowie - Fame
20) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder road
21) Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
The third hour continues to play some extremely long tracks
1) Marillion - Grendel
2) Genesis - Supper's ready
3) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
4) Moody Blues - Question

Sunday 21 November 2010

Brit Rock 20th November

Here we go, the answer to musical mediocrity.
1) Eric Clapton - Motherless child
2) Three Dog Night - Mama told me not to come
3) Quiet Riot - Mama we're all crazy now
4) Genesis - Mama
5) Meatloaf - All revved up with no place to go
6) Bryan Adams - Straight from the heart
7) The Eagles - Life in the fast lane
8) Dawntrader - Homebreaker. Nottingham's finest band back with new material. Go to www.dawntrader.net
9) Status Quo - Paper plane
10) Robert Plant - You can't buy my love
11) Golden Earring - Radar love
12) Slade - Coz I luv you
13) Queen - One vision
14) David Lee Roth - California girls
15) Y&T - Summertime girls
16) ZZ Top - Rough boy
17) Heart - Never
18) Gary Moore & Phil Lynott - Out in the fields
19) Motley Crue - Home sweet home
20) Marillion - Lavender
21) Dio - Rock and roll children
22) Dire Straits - Money for nothing
23) Focus - Sylvia
24) Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the memories
Hour three features some very long songs
1) Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells
2) Rush - 2112
3) Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
4) Yes - Changes

Friday 12 November 2010

Brit Rock 13th November

Greetings rockers. Here's this weeks selection which can be heard on a fine radio station near you soon.
1) Black Sabbath - Iron man
2) Neil Young - Old man
3) Nirvana - The man who sold the world
4) Fleetwood Mac - Man of the world
5) Tom Robinson - Glad to be gay
6) Led Zeppelin - D'yer mak'er
7) Supertramp - Take the long way home
8) Bat Kinane - Stage struck 74. For more on this fine singer/songwriter, go to www.batkinane.com or www.myspace.com/batkinane
9) Rory Gallagher - Tatto'd lady
10) Nick B Byrne - Turning. More new talent on Brit Rock. Go to www.rollingnewspr.com
11) 10,000 Maniacs - Candy everybody wants (unplugged)
12) The Kinks - 'till the end of the day
13) Warrant - Cherry pie
14) Jeff Lynne - Every little thing
15) Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
16) Black Crowes - Hard to handle
17) Aerosmith - What it takes
18) Quireboys - Hey you
19) Michael Penn - No myth
20) Queensryche - Silent lucidity
21) Faith No More - Epic
22) ACDC - Money talks
23) Tom Petty - Mary Jane's last dance
24) The Who - The kids are alright
Hour three features some mellow rock from female singer/songwriters
1) Carole King - Hard rock cafe
2) Amy Grant - Lead me on
3) Joni Mitchell - Chelsea morning
4) Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Circle
5) Tanita Tikaram - Twist in my sobriety
6) Tracy Chapman - Baby can I hold you
7) Tori Amos - Cornflake girl
8) Alanis Morrisette - Ironic
9) KD Lang - Constant craving
10) Heart - What about love
11) Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
12) Joan Armatrading - All the way from America
13) Pat Benatar - Love is a battlefield

Sunday 7 November 2010

Brit Rock 6th November

It's the UK so of course it's cold. Had the misfortune to see Bon Jovi on commercial TV, playing to an audience of trendies who'd look just as happy at a Take That concert. The whole thing was introduced by the nauseating Fearne Cotton, a woman whose main talent must be making the drinks because it certainly isn't any kind of presenting. Bon Jovi have bugged me since I saw them on the Slippery When Wet tour in 1986, they were a decent band before, then they were pandering to selective rock fans. I remember at the concert, it started badly when the curtains opened and we were engulfed by girlie screams, there was a stupid kid in front of us break dancing, and they turned the whole thing into a pantomime, "Hey, my side can sing louder than yours Ritchie". I still play them, but as it says outside one of their recent concerts, Bon Jovi - sold out. I quite agree.
1) Guess Who - American woman
2) The Beatles - She's a woman
3) Rolling Stones - Honky tonk woman
4) Eagles - Witchy woman
5) Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb
6) ZZ Top - Gimme all your loving
7) Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
8) The Swiines - Stone faced. This weeks fine newish band. Go to www.theswiines.co.uk or www.myspace.com/theswiines for more details
9) Kings Of Leon - Radioactive
10) Raven Black Eyes Of Fire - Lightning rider
11) T-Rex - 20th century boy
12) Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the bridge
13) Santana - Black magic woman
14) U2 - Elevation
15) Bon Jovi - It's my life
16) Iron Maiden - Blood brothers
17) Flogging Molly - Devil's dance floor
18) Offspring - Original prankster
19) Linkin Park - Crawling
20) Coldplay - Yellow
21) Don Henley - Taking you home
22) The Swiines - Vampires
23) Slash featuring Fergie - Beautiful dangerous
24) Toto - Hold the line
25) Python Lee Jackson - In a broken dream
Hour three features some mellow rock
1) Sting - If I ever lose my faith in you
2) Hall & Oates - Kiss on my list
3) Steve Winwood - Valerie
4) Tracy Chapman - Fast car
5) James Taylor - Your smiling face
6) Crowded House - It's only natural
7) Billy Joel - Don't ask me why
8) Carole King - It's too late
9) Bread - Sweet surrender
10) Simon & Garfunkel - The sound of silence
11) Elton John - Tiny dancer
12) Chris Rea - Tell me there's a heaven
13) Joe Jackson - Real men
14) Chicken Shack - I'd rather go blind

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Brit Rock 30th October

Hey ho, away we go.
1) Bob Seger - Hollywood nights
2) Graham Bonnet - Night games
3) Paul McCartney - Every night
4) Moody Blues - Nights in white satin
5) The Babys - Isn't it time
6) Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush - Don't give up
7) Blood Swat & Tears - Spinning wheel
8) Skuffle - Sunshine of your love. A very interesting rock covers band. For more, go to www.joeysjukebox.com
9) Cream - Strange brew
10) Goo Goo Dolls - Not broken
11) Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
12) Ozzy Osborne - Crazy train
13) Faith No More - Midlife crisis
14) INXS - Heaven sent
15) Nirvana - Come as you are
16) Ugly Kid Joe - Everything about you
17) Genesis - Jesus he knows me
18) Extreme - Rest in peace
19) Bon Jovi - I'll sleep when I'm dead
20) Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway
21) REM - Nightswimming
22) Skuffle - Crazy little thing called love
23) Queen - Good old fashioned lover boy
24) Led Zeppelin - Ramble on
The third hour plays music by artists from the land of song - Wales
1) Tom Jones - Burning hell
2) Catatonia - Mulder and Scully
3) Stereophonics - Bartender and the thief
4) Love Sculpture - Sabre dance
5) Badfinger - No matter what
6) Lostprophets - Last train home
7) Manic Street Preachers - Ocean spray
8) The Alarm - 68 guns
9) Bonnie Tyler - Holding out for a hero
10) Velvet Underground - I'm waiting for my man
11) Amen Corner -If paradise is half as nice
12) Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger
13) Manic Street Preachers - La tristesse durera (scream to a sigh)
14) The Durvant Male Choir - Sospan fach patrol