Do you remember when Mark Radcliffe had the graveyard shift on Radio 1? He used to play some good music (did you know it was Mark Radcliffe who discovered White Town – Your Woman?) and have poetry reading and stupid banter. I sometimes used to record the show on cassette, and loved it when they used to do silly cover versions. I think my favourite will always be Gazebo – Lardy Boy.
Later, when they sold out onto the Breakfast Show, they started churning out these cover versions pretty quickly, and their popularity grew to an extent which facilitated a cd release of the songs. Crappy versions of late-90s britpop. It’s Friday!
Our Kid Eh
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2y5mjsk4
The Worst Album in the World..Ever..Ever!
http://rapidshare.com/files/89792636/The_Worst_Album_in_the_World_…_Ever_…_EVER_.rar
And someone else was home taping, and has ripped and uploaded bits of the graveyard shift. Mark Radcliffe now shares a Radio 2 show with Stuart Maconie, while Marc Riley (Lard) has a BBC 6 Music show. I feel so lucky to have had Mark Radcliffe and John Peel on the radio when I was growing up, Andy Kershaw can still fuck off though.
22 May 2009 at 6:57 pm
word up that show was rad. i remember this weird thing they used to do called the adventures of slim and shady the woodland rabbits. dope fi reel