I've been looking forward to this for a while - this week I was a guest on Dave Renegade's show on Hard Rock Hell Radio. I had been a guest in the studio at Total Rock Radio a few years ago when Alex and Clare from AntiProduct had their own show on the station, but this time on Hard Rock Hell Radio I actually got to pick most of the music on this three hour long show. And talk a load of bollocks while getting progressively more drunk. Not very professional I know, but I'm not a professional so I can do what I want! Other recent guests on the show have included Duncan Reid and Nigel Mogg.
If you want to hear me make an idiot of myself you can listen to the show at your leisure at the link here. There are a few surprises in there, as well as many bands who will come as no surprise to those who know me! I went in armed with enough music to last for over six hours, so I had to leave out a lot of stuff I was hoping to play. Also, there was a load of other music I wanted to play that we couldn't play due to file format issues with the radio station software - so the show was only half as good as I wanted it to be - there were a lot of great bands that would have been new to most listeners who I really wanted to play. I am having trouble ripping from CDs at home at the moment, so there were some glaring omissions - no AC/DC or Led Zeppelin for instance! Nothing from my favourite Ramones albums either. When picking the music for the show I was limited to stuff that I already had on MP3 - there was so much I have on CD/vinyl that I'd have loved to play but couldn't bring with me!
Here is the full tracklisting - including a few songs chosen by Dave Renegade - see if you can guess which ones?
1 Intro - Hanoi Rocks
2 Never Shut Up! - Texas Terri Bomb
3 Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio - Ramones
4 Crying Shame - Motörhead
5 Vanilla Radio - The Wildhearts
6 I Got Sound - Fireroad
7 Kick It Down - Girlschool
8 Live Rock N Roll - JoanOvArc
9 Waking Up The Neighborhood - Planet Of Women
10 Wolfman Sideburns - Pussycat And The Dirty Johnsons
11 Sweet N Sour - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
12 Summer That Never Was - The Idol Dead
13 When the Rain Comes - Jacobites
14 How Come it Never Rains - Dogs D'Amour
15 Crash - Aerosmith
16 Honey from a Knife - The Cult
17 Pump It Up - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
18 I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses
19 Groove is in the Heart - Deee-Lite
20 Wall Of Glass - Liam Gallagher
21 Blockbuster! - The Sweet
22 Chez Maximes - Hollywood Brats
23 Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead) - Kitty Hudson
24 Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
25 In Cold Blood - Johnny Thunders
26 29 X the Pain - The Wildhearts
27 Beer For Breakfast - Silver Ginger 5
28 Hurt - Johnny Cash
29 Generation RocknRoll - Wolfsbane
30 Spend Your Money - The Main Grains
31 King Rocker - Generation X
32 Back At The Funny Farm - Motörhead
Doing this show with Dave Renegade was a lot of fun! We'll have to do it again sometime - I think we had some terrific music on the show, but this was just barely scraping the surface of what I was hoping to play. I have loads and loads more stuff in store, old bands, new bands, stuff that's only been very rarely played on any station anywhere, and plenty of stuff I'm sure has never been heard on any other station. Stuff that will have you thinking "This is great - why have I never heard this before?". There was lots more stuff I wanted to talk about as well, but we just ran out of time - those three hours went so fast! Hopefully Dave and me can do another show together before too long - and the next one will be even better! In the meantime, Dave Renegade's 'Dark Heart of Camden' radio show is on Hard Rock Hell Radio every Wednesday night at 21.00 GMT and I highly recommend listening to it. The show is packed full of dirty raw rock 'n' roll, punk, a bit of indie and the odd bit of metal - plus maybe some country, and often some unexpected surprises too! The station broadcasts 24/7 so there is always something rockin' happening.
Thanks again to Dave Renegade for inviting me to be a guest on his show - I really enjoyed it!
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