Hurrah!



MTF.xx

I'd rather have the whole of Rick Wakeman's "Six Wives..." Steve, if you can?



But instead. and I may be the only one who gets here today, how about:



KID - The Pretenders



FAVOURITE GAME - The Cardigans (favourite game at the moment is finding this blog!)



FRIDAY ON MY MIND - David Bowie



FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet



See you later!

Ah - MTF - welcome to Galifree!

Enidn't have bothered! We can suggest much better toons than that..

Morning Simon, team and fellow Blogpoppets!



It worked! Jem you're a gem!



Busy day today, and a busy weekend ahead. Lots of birthdays this month, and lots of celebratory meals! so to start the weekend off on the right note, Simon (or Enid if you prefer!!......)please would you consider:



VIRGINIA PLAIN by ROXY MUSIC





Have a lovely weekend everyone whatever you are doing,

Mcw x

Morning Simon, team, NNYM, most helpful technical support operatives, and dextrous bloggers,



My suggestion for today:



HEART OF GLASS - BLONDIE



Thanks, and be good.

As I've already posted, this is as exciting as life gets at the moment, so may I request:



RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM by TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS



I am about to google to find out where I can find a life! :-)



Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Morning All,



Has everyone made it then?



Head feeling a bit fuzzy this morning. I think I may be coming down with the lurg I'd thought I managed to escape.



Laters



A.

Simon, Nice Young Man and indeed all the Drivetime team....



If this post does happen to appear, it would be wonderful, just the once, to hear....



*** Twilight ***



By ELO.



I know you mentioned that ELO are one of the most requested groups, so why not give your listeners ( and myself!) a treat and play this track.



Oh and the small matter of it being 18 months now that I have been trying, yes very trying.



I have got about 350 miles to drive today and it would make my journey that much more bearable.



Happy Days.



MTF.xx

9 is my lucky number.



Yeehaaaa!



MTF.xx

Morning all again



I made one of my rare forays into Twitter world earlier to request an ARFO, so I will just repeat:



UPTIGHT (EVERYTHING'S ALLRIGHT) by STEVIE WONDER



Please Simon (or Steve if you prefer)!



Back later



Tortie x

#7 - Steady on Harry, but if you find the answer please share. Now concentrate... you may have a customer a hundred yards up the street!

WooHoo we are a bit of a whizz it seems ;-)



Good morning Simon, Team, NYM and fellow whizz blogpoppets. My choice for today, because I am, is



I'M SO EXCITED - POINTER SISTERS



Because, if you aren't aware Simon, I am coming along to see Act Your Age on Monday with 2 gawjus fellow blogpoppets.



But if you can't/won't play this then I second MCW's choice above cos I'm still swooning over Bryan Ferry (I've met him and he's gawjus, for his age).



X

B&B, I had to google galifree and am still uncertain?



Help??



MTF.xx

Morning All,



Timing is everything, wondered if the new blog would appear before I had to go out which is now, thanks for the link B&B:



My suggestion for ARF



'Fields of Fire' Big Country



Hope it is a good day for everybody

I found the new blog as standard, by the 'next' button above!



MTF.xx

#14 MTF it's Doctor Who's home planet!

Good Morning Steve...



I can't possibly top Mo's suggestion, but I'm still going to suggest



SEE MY BABY JIVE by Wizzard



Failing that, I s'pose there's no chance of playing



SOMETHING ABOUT YOU by Level 42



Deebee X

That would explain it then Tortie.



I was the one always behind the sofa!!



MTF.xx

Right, I really must away.



Have a good day all.



MTF.xx

Morning all Whizpoppets!



Everything does seem to be back in its proper place now.



#15 Cracking choice BB. Mr Adamson - sorely missed.





A

Good Morning All again



Simon Please may I request that the ARFO is



THE BEAT by The Look ?



It would be MARVELOUS!



Love



BP

Have to say that I couldn't object to any of the choons above being selected. Please nobody come up with Bruce and spoil it ;-)



X

Hi Steve



Could I have



ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC - CHUCK BERRY



- it's got a back beat so you can't lose it



Thanks. Love the show

Enid

#23



Ha. The Springsteen backlash. lol.

Seem to recall some blogpoppets startin' all that about this time last year



Actually Mo - there is evidence to suggest that if you request a track with the word 'Rock' or the phrase 'Rock and Roll' in the title ...

#24 - I misread that KatyMac - I thought you wrote "It's got a back seat"...

#14 - MTF - Galifree as an alternate universe that we may be stuck in again! But it seems this is happening in th ereal world today after all.



Great choices above.... but may just add (as I was going to include STAY WITH ME by The Faces, but have changed my mind to)...



THE POACHER - Ronni Lane & Slim Chance



... lovely old song, ragged and reminiscent of those Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, who probably stole the blog yesterday to prop up a car.

#25 Really? You are the queen of stats. In that case, howzabout the loud proud and rebel-rousing rockabillytastic



ROCK THIS TOWN - STRAY CATS

Chas and Dave 'Ossie's Dream'.

Good Morning All :)



It is rather damp and grey here in Sheffield... And the weather's not too clever either! I thank yow!!



Anyway I would like...



WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH - BILLY OCEAN for today's ARFO :)



I have been finding the going has been tough this week, but the tough (as always!) have kept going (Just about, and fuelled by energy drinks, chocolate and the occasional burst of Louis Armstrong!)



Hope everyone has a lovely Friday xxxx

Googled, bing'ed and yahoo'd (I even dogpiled!), and it's as I suspected, FUN finished in 1981 :-)



But, the sun just winked at me so it seems I may yet find my way out of this slough of despond.



B&B – when discussing Hardy women yesterday, I forgot all about the best of them all: Anne Garland from The Trumpet Major:



“Anne was fair, very fair, in a poetic sense; but in complexion she was that particular tint between blonde and brunette which is inconveniently left without a name. Her eyes were honest and inquiring, her mouth cleanly cut and yet not classical, the middle point of her upper lip scarcely descending so far as it should have done by rights, so that at the merest pleasant thought, not to mention a smile, portions of two or three white teeth were uncovered whether she would or not. Some people said this was very attractive.”

#25 I don't mind Springsteen, Katy, just would prefer to hear something different on ARF ;-)



X

Good morning Simon, Team, NNYM and fellow whizzpoppets!



Laughed out loud at the "Live the show Steve" comment. Embarrassing as I am on a train en route to Cardiff for a 1 hour meeting. Good use of time?



To the mighty matter of the ARF. As I will shortly be crossing the border into Wales, how about:



SHE'S A LADY - Tom Jones



And I am SO excited about spending Monday evening with two lovely ladies!



Laters



Alex-Girl

Morning.



Its Friday and its time for the Five O'clock request and may I suggest Alan Jackson's 'It's Five O'clock Somewhere'.



Its an anthem stateside and its time we brought it to our shores.



The song's about the popular expression used to justify drinking at any time of day because its always five o'clock somewhere, especially on a friday!



To the drivetime team - tremendous show. Keep it up.



Theo, Birmingham

Blue sky in Wales!

I have to confess, I find Springsteen quite depressing! I didn't mind the last single as that was quite jolly, but generally he doesn't do much for me.



Mr T really likes him and said that I would change my mind if I saw him live, so I duly went to a concert .. and was bored!

Then again, I would also live to hear:



LOVE CATS - The Cure



You choose.

#32 & #36. Please replace live with love.

Morning Simon.



This is my first response to any blog ever and to mark this auspicious occasion I would love you to play on ARF the wonderful



WORLD WHERE YOU LIVE by Crowded House



Now I know you like 'em cos I remember you had Neil and Tim on your show back in the day snd they played a top version Of weather with you.



Love the show.. Keep on rockin fella



Jonny Bevan

Sunny Tamworth

Which is somewhere in the middle

#32/36 Have you lost your "o" AlexG?



X

Nice to see some new bloggers here today. Especially after having to play "hunt the blog". Welcome all. Hope you'll come back again. Once you have posted approx 5 times you're posts will appear in a more timely manner.



X

You're? Your!



Have already spilt 2 cups of coffee. I think it's called not having your mind on the job.



X

Cakes to cheer - for any blogpoppets who are feeling a bit low ..

.. no artificial flavourings or colourings were injured in the making of these.



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.......\♫*♫*♫/

............()

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..\°º¤ø„ø♥ø„ø¤º°/

....\°º¤ø„♥„ø¤º°/

......\°º¤„♥„¤º°/

.......\♫*♫*♫/

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....\°º¤ø„♥„ø¤º°/

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.......\♫*♫*♫/

Moooooooooooooooooooooooorning friends!



Alone in the office today, so quite happy for a change.



Work stuff to do today - bind 4 x leases, send out 1 x enquiry. Think I might manage that by 5pm.



Tons of personal stuff to do today so will crack on regardless!



Currently listening to Bob Geldof's new album, so I'm a bit melty floaty wishy whoooooshy ..... :-)



Also just spent the last hour and a bit on the phone to my very best friend in the entire universe (including Gallafray!) so I feel all happy now. We've been mates since we were 14 but I've not seen her since I relocated to ChezNic. It's blimmin' good to talk!



Dinner party tonight - hit the ground running when I get home just after 5 to concoct 3 courses to wow the palette (not to mention the neighbours!)



ARF:



JUST LIKE HEAVEN - THE CURE



because that's what a weekend with my man feels like!



Muchos, muchos amore!



Deevs

x

#30 - Ah, Harry - you find me out, as I have never read The Trumpet Major, so will put that aside for later reading. But, and here's a shocker for all Harry Potter fans, I found this in the Mayor of Casterbridge last night... two references, so read the whole paragraph for full effect!:



"The sharp reprimand was not lost upon her, and in time it

came to pass that for "fay" she said "succeed"; that she no

longer spoke of "dumbledores" but of "humble bees"; no

longer said of young men and women that they "walked

together," but that they were "engaged"; that she grew to

talk of "greggles" as "wild hyacinths"; that when she had

not slept she did not quaintly tell the servants next

morning that she had been "hagrid," but that she had

"suffered from indigestion."



I think this must be one of JKR's sources - more than just coincidence?

*♫ ... any old way you choose it

#42 LOL Thanks Enid ;) Virtual cakes are good for my waistline!

#37 - Alex - a sentiment all we old hippies would concur with!!

*♫ ... it's gotta be rock and roll music

Wondering if any of those (above0 cakes are available?

Probably not!!

*♫...if you wanna dance with me

But maybe after all - I'll help myself thanks!

Thanks Enid. I am not feeling low but happy to imbibe calorie free goodies regardless x

BaxterandBertie - here's one just for you - for yesterday's magnificent feat of sherlockian proportions ..

............()

★°★°★┃★°★°★

..\°º¤ø„ø♥ø„ø¤º°/

....\°º¤ø„♥„ø¤º°/

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.......\♫*♫*♫/

#44 B&B - only goes to show there is nothing new under the sun!

#54 - Aww - thanks Enid. What is the cost of changing one's name by deed poll these days?

#30 Harry/B&B



In another life when I was Katy, I thought The Trumpet Major was a tune by Purcell, but that, as I now realise, was in fact The Trumpet Voluntary. Same difference.

#56



£75/19s/6d



I've forgotten how to write that in old money

New blogger... Patiently waiting.

Howdoo



Top choice #43, any Cure song would be excellent, how about...



CATCH by THE CURE



Avoiding the Friday I'm in Love cliché (but should be played every Friday).



Laters

If anyone here can access it, this is a very beautiful morning tune:



ELGAR - CHANSON DE MATIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Zdl4D0a1o

Enjoying a coffee break, and what d'you know - the sun's come out in Cambridge. Woo and indeed hoo! Thanks for the cakes, Enid - going very nicely with my coffee.



Alex - good to 'see' you. I'm guessing you're blogging on your phone. I have REAL problems trying to type on mine - I blame my age, I'm sure if I was 14 it would be a doddle...



#57 LOL!



X

#60



"I used to somehow try to catch her

But never even caught her name..."

#61 I can't access it at work, but I know that piece very well Enid. It is lovely. Elgar is my favourite composer - he really knew how to write a tune!

Dear Simon and new NYM



Do you think you ought to start today's ARF with The Cure ..... they seem jolly popular!



Yours hopefully



Deevs

x

#60



And sometimes we would spend the night

Just rolling about on the floor

And even though it felt soft at the time

I always used to wake up sore







Pure Poetry!



Deevs

x

#64



Deebee - I've grown to love Elgar more and more the older I become.



[Does that make sense? I'm sure Katy would never construct such a clumsy sentence]



;^)

Morning all (and a special good morning to the Intergalactic President of Drive Music Selection).



Misread Simon's blog entry - I thought he was suggesting playing something by "The Enid" as the ARF for a minute or two :-)



My suggestion is for the ARF today is some jangly guitar heaven



"Caught by the River" by Doves please.

#61 Enid, thanks for the link. I haven't heard that in a very long time. May I reciprocate?



SIBELIUS - PASTORALE



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QTXhfxiMhw

#67 Enid - will you give Katy our regards?



#60/63/66 and earlier.... tries to find small font capability to whisper this quietly, but (shhh!) I wrote the published biography of Robert Smith called "Robert Smith: The Cure and Wishful Thinking". To be honest... it wasn't very good! Have done better!

Hi Simon and co,



I'd rather like to hear a spot of Steely Dan today, if that would at all be possible, please?

Ricky Don't Lose That Number would be particularly nice - I admire the advise in this song that instructs you to remember things by putting them in a letter addressed to yourself (and then sending it of course).

Ever since I first heard this song I've always followed that tip - it's cost me a fortune in stamps, but I've never have trouble remembering things!

#70 Well at least one person seems to like it



This review is from: Robert Smith: "The Cure" and Wishful Thinking: "The Cure" and Wishful Thinking (Paperback)

"Unofficial and unauthorised", this is very much a labour of love. It's written by a fan rather than a journalist or a biographer - but is none the worse for that. he is a contemporary of Cure frontman Robert Smith; like the man himself, he was born in the dog days of the 1950s. Like him, his first album purchase was David Bowie's iconoclastic Ziggy Stardust, the album that rescued so many "weird" kids from outsiderhood and redeemed them for art.



The author may not have the kind of interview access to his subject that would be afforded an official biographer - but he makes up for that with lively writing, endless enthusiasm and encyclopaedic knowledge."



Names removed to protect the innoent and all that!

MrBaxterandBertie - you're a published writer!?!? How impressed am I at that nugget of knowledge?!



Have you written anyfink else?



As for the review by Bobcat himself, they jolly well should have given you access to them!



I think after Bob Geldof's finished (no, its not a really long album but I had to take a couple of phone calls so switched the music off( I may well be having a Cure hour or two!



Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ......



:-)



Deevs

x

ps: I'd have thought a biog called Wishful Thinking would have been based around those chirpy Scousers, China Crisis ......



x

#72 - thanks Andy!! Yup - that's me. It still trickles a few royalties this way once a year, and I've done other stuff over the years much better, but I love the Cure almost as much as I love Tunnocks Snowballs (though have had a longer relationship with the latter). And I was probably rescued from "outsiderhood" by a certain 1972 album, such that I do try and suggest a DB song on every blog!

#75 Tunnocks Snowballs! Messy but delish!



X

Track on Bob Geldof album called Here's To You - utterly utterly brilliant - has really made me smile!



x

#73 - I'm afraid so DD - though nothing on Duran Duran! Under a variety of nom de plumes, I've done a few and contributed to a lot of others - everything from The Dixie Chicks to Korn, Shaun Ryder to Take That. I've only done rock biographies, but there are a couple of half-writ, half-wit novels hidden away for a rainy day.

#76 - it's a toss-up though isn't it Mo, especially in the car, between the snowball or the teacake? Snowball leaves cocunut crumbs all over the car seat and gooey stuff all over your face, while teacakes crumble biscuit everywhere and the chocolate flakes go down the side of the nadbrake never to be seen again. But given those or 5-a-day, give me Tunnocks any time!

Jaffa Cakes are the future ....!



x

#79 "nadbrake"??? That would be that long brakey thing down by the left hand then. Unless that's what they call the "handbrake"?

Hello all,

Nearly the end of the Uni Hilary term, so getting nice and quiet on the Western Front.

Hence the time to read and enjoy the Blog - YAY!

Nice to hear from Enid, I personally think SM would make a nice old lady..



Anyway, back to ARF: in honour of the strange yellow glow in the sky that some of us in the South are sqinting at in surpise..howsabout Elbow,'One day like this' for the line "drinkin' in the mornin' sun"

Strange how a bit of sunshine lifts everyone's mood, especially mine after a 50hr week!

Keep up the good work Enid, LOVE the show.



Happy Friday everybody.



x

Hi all,



Apologoes for tardiness this week. Busy, busy, busy!



ARF Opener from e;



BALLROOM BLITZ - SWEET



Cheers!



Kev

...and have the M I was hoarding for myself...

#83 - great minds almost think alike Kev - I suggested Fox on the Run earlier. Must be a Sweet Friday.

*tumbles back into the blog after being LOCKED OUT of blog for half an hour*





That'll teach me to faff around with me moniker ...

#86 Monika? I'm only just getting to know Enid!

#79 BaxterandBertie I will join you in your enthusiasm for Tunnocks biscuits :)



I do love the Snowballs and the Teacakes, but I am a fan of the caramel wafer myself. I like to nibble at the layers!



My unsuccessful sampling of a Mr Kipling's Trifle Bakewell yesterday evening, led to a chat about custard based pastries with Mr Moog. I have now whetted his appetite with talk of Manchester Tarts, which he swears he's never had, but which I think he has. To wit, we will probably spend the weekend scouring the bakeries of Sheffield in hopes of locating some!! I haven't had a Manchester Tart for years, so if any Sheffield based bloggers can point me in the direction of a place where they can be purchased I would be very much obliged :)

Meetings from 1-3 then hoping to sneak home and finish packing my bag.



Hope to be back here at 5.05.



Mo x

Afternoon Simon, poppets, NYM, new bloggers and all



It's been a bit easier to find you today .. I wonder if all the jumping has shifted the blog's location?



Please may I request LOVE IS IN THE AIR by John Paul Young .. I nearly suggested it in the spring blog earlier in the week .. a feel-good choon from one of my favourite movies, Strictly Ballroom ..



I hope the sun is shining wherever you are xx

MrBaxterandBertie



You're not Stuart Maconie in disguise are you!?!?



Deevs

x

#91 - Deevs, sadly not, but I do have Mr Radcliffe as a near neighbour!

Queen Sweepy



How about a sweepstakes on when in the request order a Queen track will be played?



Nothing against Queen, I quite like a bit of Freddie's wassailing every now and again, but, seeing as they are the most frequently requested band their opens the opportunity of a bit of fun.



ARF normally has about 15 tracks during the 2 hours, so reply with your track number claim. No prizes, just kudos and a warm smug feeling for the weekend if you win - no Queen request, and I feel a bit of a numpty for this post.



Ta

Happy Friday to you all.



A good way to start ARF ... Play that Funky Music, Wild Cherry.

Mumbly - that's really made me chuckle! And you are SOOOOOOO right about Queen (same could be said of Brucey Stringbean too, as much as I love him ...!)



I'll go for Track Number 11 on today's ARF being by Queen.



And the other 15 from The Boss!



Deevs

x

#78 I've got an 'unofficial' biography of Level 42 - that wasn't you too, was it B&B?



#93 Good idea. I'll go for Track 4.



Deebee X

#88 -Mrs M - well, different Tunnocks all require different eating patterns don't they, and I do like the wafers, but prefer the implosive charm of the snowball myself.



Love the idea of the Queenstake! I'm going for track 8, and late in the day for the Springsteen - track 18! This means we all have to count the flipping tracks played now.....



And please Enid (or is it Simon?) - NO Michael Jackson tonight please, and no Tina Turner or Foreigner!

#96 - Debee - no, that wasn't me. I did Level 26 - much less of a hit band!

I could do with one of those lovely cup cakes though...

Tasty!