When I got the music, I got a place to go
April 26th, 2007 at 13:56
Exciting development! This Sunday at 12pm, it turns out I’ll be presenting a one-off punk show on Demon FM, my university’s student radio station. So if you live in the Leicester area or have an internet connection, tune in and listen to me talk rubbish between playing songs that you’ll hate.
I’ve got to do a fair bit of preparation for the show – it’s a pre-watershed programme and unfortunately its quite easy to anger up bands of this genre, so they seem to enjoy nothing more than swearing. This unfortunately means that I’ve had to rule out playing Propagandhi’s Fuck the Border, and Choking Victim’s Fuck America, among many, many others.
To make matters worse, of the non-swearing songs I’ve picked, the one I wanted to open the show on, MXPX’s Punk Rock Show, in order to act as a sort of theme tune, turns out to be hideously tainted. Playing it would be like eating Polonium-210 on toast. Why? It turns out that MXPX are a Christian-punk band. For fucks sake, MXPX.
I’m currently trying to think of some things I can say between songs – it’s all well and good me taking in a pile of CDs and saying “that was x, now here’s y”, but if I want to stand out, I need to do some banter. And unlike Steve Wright, I can’t pre-record it all, so have to do it live. I’m thinking that I can repeat some of my best columns and pass it off as new material – it’s a different market I’d be broadcasting too after all. And I’d get to offend railway workers and religious people all over again!
I’ll post more (hopefully with clips) on Sunday.
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