Back on the wireless again...

[Bruce]

As I've mentioned in another topic, I've been doing a wee bit of broadcasting on Celtic Music Radio, a community radio station based in Glasgow, which promotes traditional and contemporary Scottish/Celtic/Folk/Irish/Americana genres of music. I've been involved for years on the engineering side, but don't often get behind the microphone.

Our FM and DAB signals cover most of Glasgow, and you can also get us online via http://www.celticmusicradio.net, or via Tunein, Radioplayer etc.

However, with the current COVID19 crisis, the studios are in lockdown and we've been doing what we can to enable the regular team to broadcast from home. Some have the facilities to do this, others don't, so I've been doing occasional afternoon shows to fill some gaps, broadcasting live from my spare bedroom in sunny Saltcoats.

Next show is 3pm this coming Friday (24th) - happy to take any requests!

[brian f]

Looking forward to it Bruce! I know Meg loves her "Mountains"

And do you do.. anniversaries and birthdays?

[Bruce]

I’ll do anything, me

Just send your request on the back of a stamped, addressed ten pound note to....

[Bruce]

On from 3 til 5 today - and I've got access to the full station audio library - so let me know what you want to hear!

[bonzo]

Bruce, I can listen when you put up the listen again link but I can't seem to get it live

[Bruce]

Let me guess - you're using Chrome? The security setting in the latest Chrome browser are blocking us - and if we fix that, we break things for lots of other listeners.
There's a workaround here: https://celticmusicradio.net/streaming-help-chrome/ - or use a different web browser


And today's catch-ups are on http://podcast.canstream.co.uk/celticmu ... p?id=33864 and http://podcast.canstream.co.uk/celticmu ... p?id=33865



Today's playlist:

Queen – A Kind Of Magic
Skipinnish – The Island (full version)
Dick Gaughan – Now Westlin Winds
Skerryvore – Everyday Heroes
James Taylor – Wild Mountain Thyme
Gerry Reilly – Lily
Heron Valley – The Lost Valley
Rab Noakes & Fraser Speirs – Bring It On Home
Box O’Bananas – Gie’s a Smile
Auld Hats, New Heids (Fraser Bruce, Ian Bruce, Pete Clark, Gregor Lowrey – Prelude/The Wee Room Underneath the Stair/Gallowa’ Hills
Amy Macdonald – Barrowland Ballroom
5 Hand Reel – Bratach Bana


Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Rondstadt, Emmylou Harris) – After The Gold Rush
Davy Lees – The Ballad of St Anne’s Reel
Rhiannon Giddens – Shake Sugaree
Tanita Tikaram – Good Tradition
Alistair McDonald – Bonnie Wee Jeannie McColl
Jack Emblow – Under Paris Skies
Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
Christine Sparks – My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats – S.O.B
Jessie Buckley – Glasgow (No Place Like Home)
Jim McKenna – The Dieter’s Prayer
Darius Rucker – Wagon Wheel
Laura Boosinger – Back to Old Smokey Mountain

[Meg]

Looking forward to it Bruce! I know Meg loves her "Mountains"

And do you do.. anniversaries and birthdays?

Wild Mountain Thyme

One day I’ll tell a wee story of this lovely song .... might be a good idea Bruce to ask people their back stories to their favourites in your playlist. Milda just felt Caledonia was her salve to constant homesickness.

[Bruce]

I had about a dozen versions of “Wild Mountain Thyme” - chose the one by James Taylor just for a change.
Other ones we have are by The Corries, Nick, Christine Sparks, Sons of Malarkey, Norris McGregor, Buddy Macdonald, The McCalmans, Ewen Sutherland, Eilidh Grant, Andy Chung, Sgoil Chiuil na Gaidhealtachd, Ewen Maclennan, The Flailing Shilaleighs Band, and Dick Gaughan/Emmylou Harris.

I’ve managed to grab a copy of the entire audio library from the studio!

Popular song!

[bonzo]

But not The Silencers Bruce? In my eyes the best version.

[Bruce]

Yeah - how did I miss that off the list!

It was originally the one I chose - but then i realised it was about 8 minutes long!

Now, if I’d been needing a cup of tea, and a visit to the bathroom, it’d have been ideal....

[bonzo]

Aye, just like Ken Bruce after popmaster

[brian f]

No Place Like Home- Loved it Bruce