Tag: Radio

  • #ThePlaylist – 109 – Morally Bankrupt

    #ThePlaylist – 109 – Morally Bankrupt

    Promotional artwork for my radio show. It's designed to look like the now playing screen on a classic iPod, with the show info on the right side of the screen, and a photo of me on the left. It details that the show is broadcast on Mondays from 7pm until 9pm UK time.
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    #ThePlaylist – 109 – Morally Bankrupt
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    This week on #ThePlaylist, we’re celebrating the World Cup™️, with the theme of:

    Morally Bankrupt

    So sit back and enjoy all the tunes that people paid us the most to play.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Pet Shop Boys - Shameless
02. Heaven 17 - Temptation
03. BTS - BAEPSAE (뱁새) (Try-Hard/Silver Spoon)
04. The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
05. Talking Heads - Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
06. She Drew The Gun - Class War (How Much)
07. Bo Burnham - Bezos I
08. Electronic - Getting Away With It
09. B.B. King - Sell My Monkey
10. Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Devils Look Like Angels
11. Elvis Presley - (You're the) Devil in Disguise
12. Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
13. Midnight Oil - Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine
14. Skunk Anansie - Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)
15. Violent Femmes - America Is
16. The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy
17. The Fatima Mansions - A Pack of Lies
18. The Northern Pikes - Things I Do For Money
19. TISM - (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River
20. New Order - Thieves Like Us
21. Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
22. Alex Brightman - The Whole "Being Dead" Thing
23. Supergrass - In It For The Money
24. My Vitriol - Infantile
25. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
26. Neil Young - Rockin in the Free World
27. INXS - The Devil Inside
28. The Levellers - What A Beautiful Day

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  • #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours

    #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours

    This week's theme-specific artwork, which is the cover to Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours', but instead of Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks, it's me. And I look wonderful. Thanks, Troggie.
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    #ThePlaylist – 105 – Rumours
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    This week, another guest theme, this time from sodslawyer, who suggests:

    Rumours

    or ‘Rumors’ if you’re one of those folks who spells words wrong and that.

    Two hours of tunes that don’t like to spread gossip, but simply have to tell you that…

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
02. Gossip - Standing In the Way of Control
03. Adele - Rumour Has It
04. Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour
05. Hear'Say - Pure And Simple
06. Snow - Informer
07. Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks
08. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
09. The Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her
10. Panic! at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
11. Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You
12. Marvin Gaye - Heard It Through The Grapevine
13. Brownstone - Grapevyne
14. Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
15. Half Man Half Biscuit - Secret Gig
16. Pixies - I'm Amazed
17. Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees
18. REO Speedwagon - Take It on the Run
19. Reba McEntire - Rumor Has It
20. George Michael - Careless Whisper
21. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Johannesburg
22. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him?
23. Depeche Mode - The Things You Said
24. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
25. The Abyssinian Baptist Choir - Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody
26. Billlie - the rumor
27. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix)

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  • #ThePlaylist – 104 – Lord Sir David Attenborough

    This week's theme-specific artwork. It's 16 repeated photos of Sir David Attenborough, all tinted different colours, like an Andy Warhol piece.
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    #ThePlaylist – 104 – Lord Sir David Attenborough
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    #ThePlaylist is back, bothering your ears like a tiny mosquito, but one that brings nothing but the finest vibes.

    This week our theme is:

    Lord Sir David Attenborough

    And it has to be said, some of the suggestions have come from straight out of the left field. Which is exactly how we like it.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Biscuithead & the Biscuit Badgers - David Attenborough
02. Def Leppard - Animal
03. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
04. Lin-Manuel Miranda - It's a Habitat Song
05. The Lonely Island feat. T‐Pain - I'm on a Boat
06. Rico, Guan, Sticks - David Attenborough
07. Leftfield - Phat Planet
08. Reef - YER OLD
09. (Hed) P. E. - Bartender
10. Jack Rundell - The Indoctrination of Sir David Attenborough
11. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Iron Lion Zion
12. Toto - Africa
13. Embrace - Nature's Law
14. Bastille, Freya Ridings, Hans Zimmer - Pompeii
15. Scott Walker - Farmer In The City
16. Frenzal Rhomb - Bird Attack
17. shedfromthebody - Nature's Weapons
18. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees
19. Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
20. Odds - Heterosexual Man
21. Concrete Blonde - Joey
22. DREAMCATCHER - Maison
23. DJ Format feat Edan - Spaceship Earth
24. World Party - World Party
25. Eels - I Like Birds
26. Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
27. Leyla McCalla - A day for the hunter, a day for the prey
28. Died Pretty - D.C.
29. The Divine Comedy - Life on Earth

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 103 – Monkey Man

    #ThePlaylist – 103 – Monkey Man

    This week's artwork, in which Troggie has turned me into a crested macaque. Which is a monkey, so it's ok.
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    #ThePlaylist – 103 – Monkey Man
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    #ThePlaylist has stalked into your podcast feed, eyeing up your car to see what it can pull off, because the theme this week is:

    Monkey Man

    Two hours of SWINGING tunes, all set and ready to get you shaking your (bright red) arses. Not all of the songs are about monkeys though. Some are about apes, great and otherwise. But we’ll overlook that.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Toots & The Maytals - Monkey Man
02. Pet Shop Boys - Monkey business
03. Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch
04. Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix)
05. Tones and I - Dance Monkey
06. Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends
07. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge
08. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
09. The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
10. Louis Prima, Phil Harris - I Wanna Be Like You
11. The Goodies - The Funky Gibbon
12. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman
13. Chimpo feat. Sålo - I Don't Care
14. dodie - Human
15. The Black Dahlia Murder - Statutory Ape
16. Die Spitz - Monkey Song
17. Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
18. THE BOBBY LEES - Monkey Mind
19. AC/DC - Money Talks
20. The Kinks - Apeman
21. Findlay Napier - King Kong's Visit to Glasgow
22. Jake Thackray - Brother Gorilla (Le Gorille)
23. Dave & Ansell Collins - Monkey Spanner
24. Little Simz - Gorilla
25. Aphex Twin - Monkey Drummer
26. Plants and Animals - The Jungle
27. Regular Fries - King Kong
28. George Michael - Monkey

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  • #ThePlaylist – 102 – Other

    #ThePlaylist – 102 – Other

    This week's theme-specific artwork by Troggie. It me viewed from the side, but there are loads of Others of me, all stretching off to the left, like the stacking cards at the end of a game of Windows Solitaire.
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    #ThePlaylist – 102 – Other
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    This week on #ThePlaylist, we welcome a Guest Suggestor. Giflian brings us the theme of:

    Other

    And like Santa working as a butcher, we’re bringing you a sackful of bangers. Some of them even fit the theme!

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
02. One Direction - One Way or Another
03. Christina Aguilera - Ain't No Other Man
04. Benny Benassi - Who's Your Daddy
05. Beverly Ann - You Got Your Mind On Other Things
06. Dolly Parton - Jolene
07. Caro Emerald - The Other Woman
08. KT Tunstall - Other Side of the World
09. Del Amitri - Some other sucker's parade
10. KD Lang - Constant Craving
11. Weird Al Yankovic - The Alternative Polka
12. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
13. Mika - Any Other World
14. Yann Tiersen - Comptine d’un autre été (l’après‐midi)
15. Jeff Buckley - The Other Woman
16. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
17. Supergrass - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
18. Wire - The Other Window(Peel Session)
19. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
20. Sloan - The Other Man
21. Birds of Tokyo - The Others
22. Geoff Thompson - Drone081622
23. Sally Shapiro - The Other Days
24. Maribou State; Holly Walker - Otherside
25. Digital Underground - Same Song
26. TV Rock vs. Dukes of Windsor - The Others
27. Elbow - Fugitive Motel
28. Biffy Clyro - Different People
29. The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

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  • #ThePlaylist – 100 – ONE HUNDRED

    #ThePlaylist – 100 – ONE HUNDRED

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    This week on #ThePlaylist:

    ONE HUNDRED

    Because, somehow, despite EVERYONE’S better judgement, we’ve still managed to wring one hundred weeks out of this nonsense. Which says more for my endless desire to be relevant than anything else.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Haircut 100 - Fantastic Day
02. Sleeper - Sale Of The Century
03. Nena - 99 Red Balloons
04. AsapSCIENCE - The Pi Song  (Memorize 100 Digits Of π)
05. The Tragically Hip - Ahead by a Century
06. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (100 Miles)
07. Lord Kitchener - The Denis Compton Calypso
08. T. Rex - 20th Century Boy
09. Kiss - 100,000 Years
10. Flanders and Swann - The Hundred Song
11. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
12. Jamie Cullum - 21st Century Kid
13. Augie March - One Crowded Hour
14. Mark Lanegan Band - One Hundred Days
15. Dan Reeder - This New Century
16. Tegan and Sara - 100x
17. The Golden Horde - 100 Boys
18. Idlewild - Little Discourage
19. Levellers - 100 Years of Solitude
20. Sonic Youth - 100%
21. Hundred Reasons - If I Could
22. Modena City Ramblers - I Cento Passi
23. AJR - 100 Bad Days
24. Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love
25. 808 State - 10x10
26. Sidestepper - Sidestepper
27. MF DOOM feat. DJ Cucumber Slice - Rhymes Like Dimes
28. N.W.A - 100 Miles And Runnin'
29. Mazarati - 100 Mph
30. Faithless - God Is a DJ

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  • #ThePlaylist – 098 – Fast

    This weeks theme-specific artwork by Troggie. It's a full English breakfast zipping through space at faster than the speed of light. Obviously.
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    #ThePlaylist – 098 – Fast
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    Strap in for this week’s high-octane edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is:

    Fast

    Or, for our Northern comrades, ‘fast’.

    Will the tunes rocket along at 300bpm, or will they be about being fast? Or a secret third option. Listen in to find out.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
02. Chris Spedding - Motor Bikin'
03. Strange Advance - We Run
04. Käärijä & Joost Klein - TRAFIK!
05. Dirtyphonics - Got Your Love (Jakka-B Hard Psy Flip)
06. Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
07. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
08. The Sisters of Mercy - Something Fast
09. The Primatives - Crash
10. Eagles - Life in the Fast Lane
11. Charlie Ryan - Hot Rod Lincoln
12. Alabama 3 - Speed of the Sound of Lonliness
13. Dusty Springfield - Breakfast In Bed
14. Snow Patrol - Run
15. The Chats - 6L GTR
16. Feeder - Hole In My Head
17. Manic Street Preachers - Faster
18. Primus - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
19. Toby Fox - Thundersnail
20. Pendulum - Colourfast
21. Ultramagnetic MC's - Travelling at the Speed of Thought
22. Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow
23. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
24. Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
25. Pat Boone - Speedy Gonzales
26. Ray Stevens - The Streak
27. Billy Idol - Speed
28. Joe Satriani - Can’t Slow Down
29. Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream
30. Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 097 – Åççéñtš

    The artwork for this week's edition of #ThePlaylist. It features a musical crotchet on a white background, with a black and white photo of Jarvis Cocker looked squished in the filled in head. Above the crotchet is a stylised circumfle with one leg thicker than the other.
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    #ThePlaylist – 097 – Åççéñtš
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    Behold this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is:

    Accents

    This week we’re taking a trip around the world of accents – both linguistically and designerly. You won’t hear a single generic mid-Atlantic voice in this show. Apart from that one tune. Oh, and that other one.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 01. Shakin' Stevens - Green Door 02. The Proclaimers - Letter From America 03. Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness 04. Björk - Play Dead 05. David Holmes - Don't Die Just Yet (Arab Strap Remix) 06. Shakira - Suerte 07. Bad Bunny - NUEVAYoL 08. A Tribe Called Quest - Luck of Lucien 09. Morgan McVey, Neneh Cherry - Looking Good Diving With The Wild Bunch 10. Paolo Conte - Via con me 11. Pulp - I Spy 12. Polica - Lay Your Cards Out 13. Fran Smith - Contours 14. Wax - American English 15. Hamish Hawk - The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973 16. The Dubliners - McAlpine's Fusiliers 17. Christine And The Queens - Tilted 18. Pez feat. 360 & Hailey Cramer - The Festival Song 19. Bob and Doug McKenzie - Take Off 20. Kasey Chambers - The Captain 21. Ray Wylie Hubbard - Without Love 22. Allan Smethurst - Hev Yew Gotta Loight Boy 23. Lord Kitchener - London Is The Place For Me 24. Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely 25. Las Ketchup - Aserejé 26. Catatonia - Road Rage 27. Duke Special - Freewheel

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  • #ThePlaylist – 096 – Toys & Games

    This week's artwork for #ThePlaylist. It's a photo of a toy digger on a bright, multi-coloured backdrop. Beneath it, the word 'TOYS' in a fun, colourful, rounded font.
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    #ThePlaylist – 096 – Toys & Games
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    Have a rummage around in the big box for this week’s edition of #ThePlaylist, where our theme is:

    Toys & Games

    So all of the suggestions this week have been formatted to play on one of those Fisher Price ‘My First Record Players’. Two hours of gentle tinkling that vaguely reminds you of Top Pop Tunes.

    Or not.

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are:

01. Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me
02. Roachford - Cuddly Toy
03. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
04. The Bees - Chicken Payback
05. Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing
06. Blancmange - Game Above My Head
07. Men Without Hats - Pop Goes The World
08. Main Source - Snake Eyes
09. Paul and Storm - Frogger! The Frogger Musical
10. MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Hey Hey 16K
11. Harry Nilsson - Cuddly Toy
12. Joe South - Games People Play
13. France Gall - Poupée De Cire, Poupée De Son
14. Joss Stone - Snakes And Ladders
15. Julianna Raye - Dominoes
16. Motörhead - Ace of Spades
17. Spiderbait - Buy Me A Pony
18. Porter Robinson - Cheerleader
19. Hideki Sakamoto feat. Abby Trott - Lifelight
20. ATARASHII GAKKO! - NAINAINAI
21. The Sugarcubes - Sick for Toys
22. Down With Webster - Big Wheels
23. Huggy Bear - Hopscotch
24. Grinspoon - Just Ace
25. Silversun Pickups - Toy Soldiers
26. Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
27. Small Faces - Tin Soldier
28. The Idle Race - I Like My Toys
29. Mick Jagger - Strange Game
30. The Devonnes - I'm Gonna Pick Up My Toys (And Go Home)
31. The Pooh Sticks - Dare True Kiss Promise
32. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

    // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //

  • #ThePlaylist – 095 – Ya Mama

    Artwork for this week's episode, which is a photo of a mother holding her newborn baby to her breast. But the mother is me, a baldy, beardy man, and the newborn baby is an iPod with me on the screen. Looking on in horror is Troggie, the artist who devised this magnificent piece.
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    #ThePlaylist – 095 – Ya Mama
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    This week on #ThePlaylist we celebrated:

    Ya Mama

    Yes, YOUR mother. We celebrated her*, and we celebrated** her good. Two hours of songs about *your* mother.
    _
    *if she is/was great. We will berate her if not. Harshly.
    **or berate her

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    The tracks played on this episode, presented on the screen of a comically elongated iPod The songs are: 

01. Mr. T - Treat Your Mother Right
02. Big Mama Thornton - They Call Me Big Mama
03. Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind Of Music
04. ABBA - Does Your Mother Know
05. Junior - Mama Used To Say
06. Fatboy Slim - Ya Mama
07. Outkast - Ms. Jackson
08. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
09. Rag 'n' Bone Man - Human
10. Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
11. Sparks - Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth
12. Nadine Shah - Topless Mother
13. Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless
14. Jann Arden - Good Mother
15. La Femme Pendu - Maman
16. Tom Lehrer - Oedipus Rex
17. Lemmy Kilmister - Tie Your Mother Down
18. Babes In Toyland - Mother
19. Wolfmother - Joker And The Thief
20. John Butler Trio - Treat Yo Mama
21. Lenny Kravitz - Always On The Run
22. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love
23. Annie and the Caldwells - Wrong
24. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
25. Suprême NTM - Police
26. Danzig - Mother
27. Rammstein - Mutter
28. Thunder - Low Life In High Places
29. Will Young - Leave Right Now

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