The Radio RAG-A-Muffins

I've now reached Feburary in my look back over the last year of Smoke Radio and that rather last minute put together event that was RAG Day. Basically Smoke Radio was given a day of live broadcasting on the Wednesday of Raising and Giving week at Uni where the majority of the daytime shows were each given an hour throughout the day to raise awareness of the charities involved. The antics of what happened that day can be seen in this rather silly video podcast.

There was quite a big atmosphere on campus that day with outside broadcasts taking place but there wasn't really any creativity that day in terms of content with more than one show doing live waxing which produced a few four letter word outbursts.
I also felt rather left out during the day not just because I wasn't presenting on that day but also because I had a lecture to go to that afternoon and had a note taker in there who I couldn't just leave at the last minute.

Anyway amongst the other shows I've listened to have been Eric from "Razzle Dazzle" covering for Chris Chilvers on the chart, giving random information on almost every act in the rundown but still playing IDs that said "The Smoke Radio Chart Show, With Chris Chilvers".
Apart from that he still did quite a good job.

Caroline's "Back To The Future" show was also sounding pretty good, blending in new tracks with a few classics such as a brilliant Led Zeppelin track called
"Trampled Underfoot" which I reckon sounds similar to "Long Train Running" by the Doobie Brothers.
Others thought that Franz Ferdinand ripped part of it off for their breakthrough hit
"Take Me Out" which is what brought my attention to the record around four years ago.
Then again Alex and the guys from the band haven't really done anything new since I started University so it would be good to hear some stuff from them in the not to distant future.

I'm hoping to complete my look back on the year by the end of the month when I go back to London for "Glasto in the Garden" which I've started to sort out a few tracklistings for my DJ set consisting of tunes from bands who are playing at the real Glastonbury alongside some "traditional" garden party tunes such as "Double Barrel", "Liquidator", and Toots and The Maytals "54-46 Was My Number".

I'm hoping it won't be too much of a washout but then again that's normally what's expected of the real Glastonbury.