So farewell, then . . .
Mar. 29th, 2004 04:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotz. . . Mark and Lard, departed from Radio One after more than ten years. I remember listening to the first Out On Blue Six on a Monday evening a long, long time ago with Lara, and being quite entranced.
Their last show can be streamed from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/rpms/r1marklard.rpm, featuring nothing off the current Radio One playlist, but several very odd tributes, including something very strange (about four minutes in) from Dave Bowie (of "Dave Bowie and the Dave Bowie band", of course). Copy that URL into your Real client or go via the BBC's page on the subject. This may be a time-limited offer. Other methods of finding the show may exist.
It's been a fun week. DD on Tuesday, as previously mentioned. Thursday was the pub (as usual, but for longer this time). Friday was the pub again, but the Southsider this time for the first time in ages. I was summoned by Anonymouseth on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sibelian's behalf, and Ed was there also. Addlestones was drunk, resulting (I am told) in a certain amount of breakage affecting one of those present the next day. And it wasn't me. Saturday was mostly quiet. My folks came round with Mervin, briefly, and very late on I went for a swift pint or two (including one of guess-what?) with bootpunk in the Auld Hoose.
Sunday, of course, was a trip out to the climbing wall with Lara, Seth, Duncan Airburst, Alex^2 (black and red), Marianne and Iain Third, Helen, and at least one other (correction: two others), which was much fun. I've been promised a great deal of breakage of my own for tomorrow, particularly covering my arms, legs and shoulders. We'll see. I feel OK so far (following an unnecessarily prolonged and unusually hot bath). We'll see.
Update: I still feel OK, but I can't sleep.
Further update: Of all the tributes, not one was from Mark E Smith congratulating or commiserating with his old guitarist. I bet you're all as surprised as I am.
Their last show can be streamed from http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/rpms/r1marklard.rpm, featuring nothing off the current Radio One playlist, but several very odd tributes, including something very strange (about four minutes in) from Dave Bowie (of "Dave Bowie and the Dave Bowie band", of course). Copy that URL into your Real client or go via the BBC's page on the subject. This may be a time-limited offer. Other methods of finding the show may exist.
It's been a fun week. DD on Tuesday, as previously mentioned. Thursday was the pub (as usual, but for longer this time). Friday was the pub again, but the Southsider this time for the first time in ages. I was summoned by Anonymouseth on
sibelian's behalf, and Ed was there also. Addlestones was drunk, resulting (I am told) in a certain amount of breakage affecting one of those present the next day. And it wasn't me. Saturday was mostly quiet. My folks came round with Mervin, briefly, and very late on I went for a swift pint or two (including one of guess-what?) with bootpunk in the Auld Hoose.Sunday, of course, was a trip out to the climbing wall with Lara, Seth, Duncan Airburst, Alex^2 (black and red), Marianne and Iain Third, Helen, and at least one other (correction: two others), which was much fun. I've been promised a great deal of breakage of my own for tomorrow, particularly covering my arms, legs and shoulders. We'll see. I feel OK so far (following an unnecessarily prolonged and unusually hot bath). We'll see.
Update: I still feel OK, but I can't sleep.
Further update: Of all the tributes, not one was from Mark E Smith congratulating or commiserating with his old guitarist. I bet you're all as surprised as I am.
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Date: 2004-03-29 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-03-29 12:44 am (UTC)I'll still have to listen to Radio 1 at work, unless I can find Radio 2 on the wireless. Local radio is too dire!
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Date: 2004-03-29 03:49 am (UTC)I always liked the fact that they never pretended to like the playlist records. The "four good records per show - guaranteed!" jingle was just class. I wonder if that's what got them fired?
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Date: 2004-03-29 01:34 am (UTC)I'm sure I heard their GMR show too, but I don't remember going to Manchester so perhaps I'm imagining things.
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Date: 2004-03-29 04:03 am (UTC)The guide to living in a bedsit/rented accommodation was hilarious, especially the episode of coming home and being Not Drunk.
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Date: 2004-03-29 05:39 pm (UTC)