MEMORY TAPES - 23RD APRIL 2010

Another Friday; another Memory Tapes. Yes, the feature that celebrates your old compilations is back (it's only been seven days, but feels like a lot longer).

TeamLaverne's favourite feature takes one listener's mixtape, picks five songs from it, and plays them back to back on the radio whilst celebrating the home-made artwork and story behind it.

This week, the Memory Tape comes from... Georgie Agass!

Georgie writes..."The attached mixtape was made for me by a friend Keith Dinning, who, like me at the time (Feb 1996) was an English teaching assistant in north Germany. It was the one of the biggest years for British music (aren't they all, but when you're 20/21, it seems like the biggest year ever!) and we were miles away in the frozen north of Schleswig-Holstein with only good cheap beer for company.

"My dad would post NME out to me every week, and then, right on my 21st birthday (19 Feb 1996) Keef arrived with the best mixtape ever, and what made it really special was that he had coloured-in the index card (it's the little things that mean the most). It introduced me to McAlmont & Butler's "Yes" which got me through some dark days, and I will always be grateful to Keef for widening my taste in music.

"We're still friends, and when I told him I still had this tape and was sending it in to you, he came up trumps with another library of mix CDs (everything modernises, I guess), which I'm sure will come to be as liked by me as the original tape."

Nice work Keef. Keef's artwork looks a little something like this:

And the tracklisting reads...

Side A

Dizz Knee Land - Dada

Opposite view - Del Amitri

Purple love balloon - Cud

The only one I know - Charlatans

I can't sleep - The La's

World shut your mouth - Julian Cope

Day tripper - The Beatles

Superman - REM

Where I find my heaven - Gigolo aunts

Funny how - Airhead

David Watts - The Jam

Staying out for the summer - Dodgy

Traditional irish folk song Denis Leary

Side B

Loser - Beck

Never be the same - Crowded House

Let your hair down - Starclub

High havoc - Corduroy

Yes - McAlmont and Butler

Neil Jung - Teenage Fanclub

A taste of honey - Herb Alpert

Stuck in the middle with you - Steeler's Wheel

My lover's box - Garbage

The way I feel - The Lemon Trees

Lucky - Radiohead

Listen to Friday's show to hear the five tracks Lauren plays from the compilation.

Inspired? Email Lauren your Memory Tape.

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