Last night - Sunday 19 March- on BBC 6 Music ( the station made very special above all because listeners fought the BBC to keep it on air - you always love best what you fight for it seems ) they had the Now Playing show usually hosted by Tom Robinson but he’s off on tour at the mo.
That’s another great thing about Radio 6 - they have a range of presenters who’ve been there, done it and still are. Even Iggy Pop FFS- another great Sunday show ( back on air in April is Iggy )
Anyway Deb Grant is filling in for Tom and I don’t know her. She’s Irish and I thought maybe she’s an actor because they often have such doing shows- Cillian Murphy is the obvious example here. Can I just say ( and I know I’m still far from the point I plan to make Tosh but trust me I’ll get there. I have taken up a $5 sub to make this comment )
I did look Deb up there and discovered she used to operate under the DJ moniker Anne Frankenstein but dropped that for her real name during lockdown when it all became more about broadcasting rather than live gigs and Anne Frankenstein didn’t feel like a fit anymore. So many ways lockdown affected things and that’s pertinent to me too as you’ll see if you stick with me baby for a thousand years no few more paragraphs...
Deb’s guest on the show was Daniel Avery, whom I remembered from the legendary Tardis Studios in Clerkenwell, London ( now there’s a tale or two but not now ). I tweeted in to say this and Deb read that out straight after Diesel Power by The Prodigy which kinda fitted as Tardis was right beside Farringdon train station.
It’s a strange and yes lovely feeling to hear your name read out on the radio, especially when it’s not your “Christian” name but one you’ve adopted like Tam instead of Thomas or Tosh instead of...? Or Anne Frankenstein.
So I then realised the show was about electronic collaborations and I tweeted again my favourite such collaboration which was a direct consequence of lockdown between myself and George T. We put four tracks out and this was the lead one and it’s all about my relationship with rain and that’s why I’m writing this and I don’t know if it allows links and I think now I maybe mixed up Daniel Avery with someone else anyway and they didn’t play it so there we have it.
Thanks if you’re still here. All the best Tosh ( my mother-in-law’s ((if we’d married)) maiden name is Tosh )
Last night - Sunday 19 March- on BBC 6 Music ( the station made very special above all because listeners fought the BBC to keep it on air - you always love best what you fight for it seems ) they had the Now Playing show usually hosted by Tom Robinson but he’s off on tour at the mo.
That’s another great thing about Radio 6 - they have a range of presenters who’ve been there, done it and still are. Even Iggy Pop FFS- another great Sunday show ( back on air in April is Iggy )
Anyway Deb Grant is filling in for Tom and I don’t know her. She’s Irish and I thought maybe she’s an actor because they often have such doing shows- Cillian Murphy is the obvious example here. Can I just say ( and I know I’m still far from the point I plan to make Tosh but trust me I’ll get there. I have taken up a $5 sub to make this comment )
I did look Deb up there and discovered she used to operate under the DJ moniker Anne Frankenstein but dropped that for her real name during lockdown when it all became more about broadcasting rather than live gigs and Anne Frankenstein didn’t feel like a fit anymore. So many ways lockdown affected things and that’s pertinent to me too as you’ll see if you stick with me baby for a thousand years no few more paragraphs...
Deb’s guest on the show was Daniel Avery, whom I remembered from the legendary Tardis Studios in Clerkenwell, London ( now there’s a tale or two but not now ). I tweeted in to say this and Deb read that out straight after Diesel Power by The Prodigy which kinda fitted as Tardis was right beside Farringdon train station.
It’s a strange and yes lovely feeling to hear your name read out on the radio, especially when it’s not your “Christian” name but one you’ve adopted like Tam instead of Thomas or Tosh instead of...? Or Anne Frankenstein.
So I then realised the show was about electronic collaborations and I tweeted again my favourite such collaboration which was a direct consequence of lockdown between myself and George T. We put four tracks out and this was the lead one and it’s all about my relationship with rain and that’s why I’m writing this and I don’t know if it allows links and I think now I maybe mixed up Daniel Avery with someone else anyway and they didn’t play it so there we have it.
Thanks if you’re still here. All the best Tosh ( my mother-in-law’s ((if we’d married)) maiden name is Tosh )
Have a great Monday. It’s rainy in Glasgow...
https://youtu.be/-pA61p93_3Q
https://therealgeorget.bandcamp.com/album/my-favourite-place
https://open.spotify.com/album/2UuphszyYOFwWj8y4s8guC?si=q-QTjGGgSGKKV0U9v5UiMg