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THE WEEK THAT WAS...
|15:12 UK time, Friday, 12 March 2010
What a week it's been! After a turbulent week in the 6 Music camp, this week has been a bit of a return to normality. This week we played host to session guests including top Antipodean songstress Sarah Blasko (Monday), the perfectly-cheekboned Danish craftsmen of epic indie The Kissaway Trail (Wednesday), an extremely hungover Frightened Rabbit (Thursday) and headband-wearing disco popsters French Horn Rebellion (Friday).
Robin Ince also popped in on Tuesday to tell us about his latest School for Gifted Children shows and to talk about the time his entire record collection got covered in sewage :( and our own Grace Dent, Danny Robins and Mark Dinning dropped by on Monday, Thursday and Firday respectively to talk about BBC2's "Lambing Live", why Tia Maria and Guinness should not necessarily be kept apart and the very scary new fillum Shutter Island.
As usual our amazing listeners were my favourite bit of the week. This week we asked you to register as experts in... well, in whatever you're an expert in. We were inundated with knitters, MGMT superfans, vegetable-growers, artistic types and even particle physicists! You're all going into the system and will be called upon when the time is right. Like Batman. Be ready.
Anyway, our first show expert Dr Helen Hurley-Walker then joined us for a chat on Tuesday to tell us some awesome cosmology-type-physics and music facts. It made our brains hurt. You also excelled yourselves in compiling this week's People's Playlist. A half hour of themed tunes per week, as usual on the show. And since 6 turned 8 on Thursday the theme for this week's mix was our inner eight-year-old. You suggested songs from Bugsy Malone, Charly by the Prodigy and a haunting cover of God Only Knows by the Langley Schools Music Project. Small children singing breakdown classics about the impossibility of love. THAT'S WHY WE LOVE YOU, YOU FREAKS!
I'm off next week (boo!) finishing a book (writing, not reading) so will see you all the following Monday. In the meantime you will be in the capable paws of the gorgeous Jo Good - please treat her well!
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