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Ponies and dragons

Simon Mayo|07:59 UK time, Wednesday, 14 July 2010

Firstly the equine side of things. We have live music today from new band Tired Pony and it's all very exciting. Well I'm very excited anyway. These guys know what they are doing being Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol, Troy Stewart and Iain Archer who are long time Snow patrol collaborators, Peter Buck from REM, Scott McCaughey who has been part of the REM set up since 1994 and Richard Colburn from Belle and Sebastian. Is that everyone? Good grief where are they all going to go? Once we've added our engineers and cameramen, that's a busy studio. The album is called 'The Place We Ran From' and is described in the Independent as the kind of album that sounds as though it could have been released by Asylum records in the 70's. 'Mandolin-driven folk rock' is how they see it which I'm not sure is right as its a lot darker than that. But it's a start. Find out for yourselves today.

And the dragons are back tonight on TV humiliating hapless wanna-be entrepreneurs. The new series of Dragons' Den (is that apostrophe always there? Don't think so) starts tonight so lets do dragons for the oldies today. Both real, as it were, and tv versions. And I'm not sure we'll play much Peter Paul and Mary to be honest.

Five past five then.

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