Making Their Bow

Our final week of broadcasting in terms of Specialist shows was a bit disapointing, mainly because a lot of them didn't bother to turn up.

Monday was probably the exception with the final editions of The Live Variety Show and Tudor Rock. The former consisted of a selection of comedy songs such as Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park", a bizarre offering from Tom Waits from his most recent album "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" a song about emos by Bill Bailey as provided by Tudor and a tune that I contributed to the show "When I'm Cleaning Windows" by George Formby.
Ross and Paul's final record they played was a special live performance of "Like A Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan although unlike most of the other shows on the station I can remember what the first was which happened to be "Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis which they played on their first show back in Freshers Week 2006.

Tudor's final show was what you'd expect in terms of quirkiness, not much on the ranting side of things but a very good look into really bad Finnish music such as this offering from Raptori "Oi Beibei", typical early 90s Finnish rap/dance which I quite happen to like.
Tudor's final link can be heard here although it wasn't his final appearance on the station overall as he provided the funny news stories each day on Smoke Signal.

Following this was Mattie on You Heard It Here First where I reckon his catchphrase has become "Sorry Mum" due to the amount of swearing on the show, and bringing the night to a close was Johnny on the Chill Out Sessions with some stunning tunes from artists such as Quantic and one from 4hero featuring Jill Scott which I played on one of my summer soul shows and I have Joe Haddow to thank for introducing me to that one.

Even though there weren't many Specialist shows on that week, it probably made things sound more eclectic due to the fact that most of the shows that didn't go out were indie shows.
I definitely think we had a more cultured set of shows in the first and second year although on a plus side we have seen an increase in live performances this year which looks set to continue.