Where The Action Is – Thu 28 Apr 2011 LEITH FM

Here is the playlist for tonight’s pre-recorded edition of Where The Action Is, featuring the usual mix of mod, soul, Motown, girl groups and alternative 60s tunes, as well as all the usual features: Connect 3, the Birthday track, Half-Time Instrumental, Foreign Language, Death Disco, Under the Influence and Two of a Kind.

Paul Revere & The Raiders – Kicks (Columbia 1966)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)
The Outsiders – Time Won’t Let Me (Capitol 1966)
Jean & The Statesides – Putty In Your Hand (Columbia 1964)
The Bittersweet – Hurtin’ Kind (Toma 1967)
Del Shannon – Mind Over Matter (Liberty 1967)
The Kinks – Hide and Seek (Unreleased 1965) (Connect 3)
Hopscotch – Look at the Lights Go Up (United Artists 1968) (Connect 3)
Jamo Thomas – I Spy for the FBI (Thomas 1966) (Connect 3)
Elkie Brooks – He’s Gotta Love Me (HMV 1965)
Karen Verros – You Just Gotta Know My Mind (Dot 1965)
Barbara Acklin – Am I The Same Girl (Brunswick 1969) (Birthday: 28/4/44)
Little Milton – We’re Gonna Make It (Checker 1965)
Petula Clark – I Know a Place (Pye 1965)
The Stonehenge Men – Pinto (HMV 1962) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The She Trinity – She Fought The Law (Columbia 1966)
Petula Clark – La Nuit N’En Finit Plus (Needles and Pin) (Vogue 1963) (Foreign Language)
The Beach Boys – This Whole World (Brother 1969)
Lulu – Bye Bye Heart (Ace of Clubs 1967)
Del Shannon – The Prom (Big Top 1961) (Death Disco)
Tracy – Strange Love (Columbia 1971)
The Spooks – Sally Machine (Egomania 1990) (Under The Influence)
Denise & Co – Boy, What’ll You Do Then (Wee 1966)
The Starlets – You Don’t Love Me (Tower 1965)
Jackie Lee – You Too (Can Have Heartaches) (Columbia 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Jackie Lee – The Town I Live In (early take) (Columbia 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Del Shannon – Kicks (Liberty 1966)
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (Polydor 1971)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in and took part in the show via text, phone, email, Twitter or Facebook. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. I really mean that. Tonight’s show included requests for Julie and Phil Cruickshank, Catriona Vernal, Stafanie Magura (South Carolina), David Paul and John Turnbull.

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk. You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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The Big Stramash – Garage/Beat/Rock ‘n’ Roll (28-31 July 2011)

Stramash – from the Scots: n. 1. An uproar, commotion, hubbub, disturbance, a broil, squabble, row.

2011 sees Edinburgh’s first International garage punk, beat and rock’n’roll four day festival held over the last weekend of July (Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st). This first Big Stramash aims to champion the very finest of today’s garage rock’n’roll artists and reintroduce at least one seminal musical force from the past.

Headliners The Poets play for first time since 1969, performing only material from their mid sixties act which gave them almost legendary status amongst freakbeat aficionados. They are joined by European Garage Festival regulars The Masonics, The Wildebeests, and The Higher State along with King Salami & The Cumberland 3 who play their first ever gig north of the border. Also of note are 90s cult, all girl band Sally Skull, who have reformed specially for the Big Stramash. Wigan’s The Shook-Ups, Liverpool’s Dr. Combover, London’s The Strip Chords along with Edinburgh’s own The Fnords and 13th Floor Elevators tribute band The Wrong Elevators complete the line up.

The festival is organized by three established club nights based in Edinburgh The Go-Go (now in its 12th year), The Green Door and Land Of 1000 Dances.

The gigs will take place at Henry’s Cellar Bar (8-12 Morrison Street, Edinburgh) and Studio 24 (Calton Road, Edinburgh). Tickets go on sale on 1 May are strictly limited. No prices available as yet.

The Big Stramash is Where The Action Is! See you there cats.

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Where The Action Is – Thu 21 April 2011 LEITH FM

What a crackin’ show, even if I do say so myself (and I do). Here is the playlist for tonight’s edition of Where The Action Is, featuring the usual mix of mod, soul, Motown, girl groups and alternative 60s tunes, as well as all the usual features: Connect 3, the Birthday track, Half-Time Instrumental, Foreign Language, Death Disco, Under the Influence and Two of a Kind.

Tony Jackson & The Vibrations – Fortune Teller (Pye 1965)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)
Fun and Games – The Grooviest Girl in the World (Uni 1969)
Judy Street – What (Strider 1966)
Val McKenna – House for Sale (Spark 1969)
The Castaways – Liar Liar (Soma 1965)
Shirley Ellis – Ever See a Diver Kiss His Wife While The Bubbles Bounce About Above The Water (London 1966) (Connect 3)
The Bubble Puppy – Days of Our Time (International Artists 1969) (Connect 3)
The Free Design – Bubbles (Project 3 1970) (Connect 3)
Billie Davis – Livin’ In the Past (Decca 1970)
Timebox – Beggin’ (Decca 1968)
The Foundations – Baby Now That I’ve Found You (Pye 1967) (Birthday: 21/4/47 Alan Warner)
Marilyn Powell – Something To Hold On To (CBS 1968)
The Bystanders – When Jesamine Goes (Pye 1968)
Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers – Oo La La (Decca 1963) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Kinks – Stop Your Sobbin’ (Pye 1964)
Jocelyne – La La La La La (Polydor 1964) (Foreign Language)
The Eyes – I’m Rowed Out (Mercury 1965)
Ella Washington – Too Weak To Fight (Sound Stage 7 1972)
Jan and Dean – Deadman’s Curve (Liberty 1964) (Death Disco)
Barbara Ruskin – Pawnbroker, Pawnbroker (President 1968)
The Slingbacks – Hot On My Heels (Vinyl Japan 1993) (Under The Influence)
The Clinger Sisters – Shoop Shoop De Doop Rama Lama Ding Dong Yeah Yeah Yeah (Tollie 1964)
Bandwagon – Breakin’ Down The Walls of Heartache (Direction 1968)
The Creation – Biff Bang Pow (Planet 1966) (Two of a Kind)
The Creation – Try and Stop Me (Planet 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Cilla Black – Something Tells Me (Something’s Gonna Happen Tonight) (Parlophone 1971)
Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood – Sumemr WIne (Reprise 1967)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in and took part in the show via text, phone, email, Twitter or Facebook. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed. I really mean that.

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk. You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Art School Dancing – Mon 18 Apr 2011 LEITH FM

Due to the death of one of his close friends, Ally Gourlay has asked me to step into his shoes and present this week’s edition of the excellent Art School Dancing, the apple pie to the ice cream of Where The Action Is. Tonight’s show was one of Ally’s regular request shows – covering 1976 to 2011 – and while I have accomodated some of these requests he has given me free rein on the estate of the Asylum for the Musically Insane.

Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Columbia 1976)
John Barry – Big Shield (Ember 1964) (show theme)
The Vaccines – Post Break Up Sex (Marshall Teller 2011)
Gang of Four – I Found That Essence Rare (EMI 1979)
World Domination Enterprises – Asbestos Lead Asbestos (Karbon 1985)
Sugarcubes – Birthday (One Little Indian 1987)
Eddie and the Hot Rods/The Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do (Island 1977)
Stereolab – Ping Pong (Duophonic 1994)
My Bloody Valentine – Paint a Rainbow (Lazy 1987)
The La’s – Son of a Gun (BBC 1988)
Simple Minds – Chelsea Girl (Zoom/Arista 1978)
The Fall – US 80s 90s (Beggars Banquet 1986)
The Sound – Heyday (Korova 1980)
The Chills – Pink Frost (Flying Nun 1984)
The Loft – Up The Hill and Down The Slope (Creation 1985)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nature Boy (Mute 2004)
Jonny – Continental (Turnstile 2010)
Kraftwerk – The Model (EMI Capitol 1981)
The Rubinoos – I Think We’re Alone Now (Beserkley 1977)
Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup (4AD 1983)
McCarthy – Keep an Open Mind, Or Else (Midnight Music 1989)
The Orchids – The Way That You Move (Pebble 2011)
Robert Lloyd and the New Four Seasons – Something Nice (In-Tape 1988)
Jim Noir – Car (My Dad Recordings 2010)
Randolph’s Leap – As I Lie In The Mud (Olive Grove 2010)
Maple Leaves – Golden Ether (Bubblegum 2010)
Joy Division – Transmission (Factory 1979)
Wah! Heat – Seven Minutes to Midnight (Inevitable 1980)
Babybird – Goodnight (Echo 1996)
John Barry – Big Shield (Ember 1964) (show theme)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in and took part in the show. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed.

You can tune in to my usual show, Where The Action Is, every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk. You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Where The Action Is – Thu 14 Apr 2011 LEITH FM

Another bountiful feast of mod, soul, Motown, girl groups and alternative 60s tunes from the pop picnic basket that is Where The Action Is. Plenty of top tunes from the late 50s through to the early 70s, as well as all the usual features: Connect 3, the Birthday track, Half-Time Instrumental, Foreign Language, Death Disco, Under the Influence and Two of a Kind.

The Fleur de Lys – Circles (Immediate 1966)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)
The Friends of Distinction – Grazing in the Grass (RCA 1969)
Jackie Lee – The Town I Live In (Columbia 1966)
Paul Jones – I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Boy (HMV 1967)
Ella Washington – He Called Me Baby (Sound Stage 7)
The Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine (Buddah 1967) (Connect 3)
The Raspberries – Go All The Way (Capitol 1972) (Connect 3)
Moby Grape – Omaha (Columbia 1967) (Connect 3)
Noreen Corcoran – Love Kitten (Vee Jay 1963)
Linda Kaye – I Can’t Stop Thinking About You (Columbia 1966)
Fanny – Charity Ball (Reprise 1971) (Birthday: 14/4/49 June Millington)
The GTOs – Love on an 11-Year-Old Level (Straight 1969)
The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter (Decca 1969)
The Original Checkmates – The Spy (Decca 1963) (Half-Time Instrumental)
The Twilights – I Have The Right (Select 1965)
Francoise Hardy – Voila (Vogue 1967) (Foreign Language)
The Kinks – Who’ll Be The Next in Line (Pye 1965)
Alma Cogan – Snakes and Snails (Colulmbia 1965)
The Whyte Boots – Nightmare (Philips 1966) (Death Disco)
The Peppermint Rainbow – Don’t Wake Me Up in the Morning, Michael (Decca 1969)
The Stairs – Weed Bus (Go! Discs 1991) (Under The Influence)
Marmalade – Butterfly (CBS 1969)
Beryl Marsden – Break-A-Way (Columbia 1966)
Lulu – Boy (Columbia 1968) (Two of a Kind)
Lulu – Lies (Ace of Clubs 1967) (Two of a Kind)
Wishful Thinking – VIP (Decca 1966)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)

Thanks, as ever, to everyone who tuned in and took part in the show via text, phone, email, Twitter or Facebook. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed.

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk. You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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Where The Action Is – Thu 7 Apr 2011 LEITH FM

Spring has sprung and April brings forth four more editions of Where The Action Is, starting with tonight’s extravaganza. Our usual mix of mod, soul, Motown, girl groups and alternative sounds from the late 50s through to the early 70s, as well as all the usual features: Connect 3, the Birthday track, Half-Time Instrumental, Foreign Language, Death Disco, Under the Influence and Two of a Kind.

The Left Banke – She May Call You Up Tonight (Smash 1967)
Tony Newman – Let The Good Times Roll (Decca 1968) (show theme)
The Flirtations – Nothing But a Heartache (Deram 1968)
Dusty Springfield – Little By Little (Mercury 1966)
The Chiffons – I Have a Boyfriend (Laurie 1963)
The Troggs – Hi Hi Hazel (Page One 1967)
The Orchids – That Boy Is Messin’ Up My Mind (Columbia 1963) (Connect 3)
Dee King – Sally Go Round The Roses (Piccadilly 1966) (Connect 3)
Emitt Rhodes – Fresh as a Daisy (ABC/Dunhill 1970) (Connect 3)
Billie Davis – Billy Sunshine (Decca 1969)
PP Arnold – (If You Think You’re) Groovy (Immediate 1968)
Love Affair – Bringing On Back The Good Times ) (Birthday: 7/4/50 Steve Ellis)
The Move – Message From The Country (Harvest 1971)
The Beach Boys – I Can Hear Music (Capitol 1969)
The Sunsets – Mountain King (Ember 1963) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Margo Guryan – Sun (Bell 1968)
The Hollies – Regardez Par Des Fenetres (Look Through Any Window) (Unreleased 1968) (Foreign Language)
Tony Rich – Don’t Mention Her Name (Piccadilly 1966)
David Bowie & The Lower Third – Can’t Help Thinking About Me (Pye 1965)
J Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers – The Last Kiss (Josie 1964) (Death Disco)
The Kinks – Where Have All The Good Times Gone (BBC session) (1965 Pye)
The Thanes – Gone Away Girl (Rev-ola 2008) (Under The Influence)
Silver Apples – Oscillations (KAPP 1968)
Karen Verros – Little Boy (Dot 1965)
Petula Clark – Colour My World (Pye 1966) (Two of a Kind)
Petula Clark – Don’t Sleep in the Subway (Pye 1967) (Two of a Kind)
John Mayall – Crawling Up a Hill (Decca 1964)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in and took part in the show via text, phone, email, Twitter or Facebook. Your contributions are always appreciated and very much welcomed.

You can tune in every Thursday night between 8.30pm and 10pm on 98.8 FM in and around Edinburgh and online via www.leithfm.co.uk. You can also join in the chat during the show on the “Where The Action Is (Radio Show)” Facebook page.

Requests are welcome for the show, including the features, and I’ll try and accommodate them all, although it may take a couple of weeks to slot them all in.

That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.

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