Playlist 10.10.08

Our poetry hour last Friday night was capital fun. Myself and the Late Show's Cultural Attache, Reggie Chamberlian King, running amok in the classics. Reggie even brought along the scones and jam. It was the first time that Sir John Betjeman has made the selection and I hope it won't be the last. After all, he's left his mark on The Divine Comedy and Morrissey, who pilfered a line or two for 'Every Day Is Like Sunday'.

So we referenced Lorca, Kerouac, Joyce and Dylan Thomas and weren't even remotely tempted to play one of those flatulent versions of 'Down By The Sally Gardens'. The Louis McNeice version by Andy White and Jackie Leven was properly mad, but it had to be done, really.

Playlist 10.10.08



BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

Online: www.bbc.co.uk/radioulster

Fridays, ten - midnight

First hour - music and poetry special

The Divine Comedy - Lucy (Setanta)

Sir John Betjeman - Indoor Games Near Newbury (Virgin)

Mercury Rev - Chamber Music 23 (Fire)

Ivor Cutler - My Disposition (Creation)

John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle (Hannibal)

Jackie Levin and Andy White - Come Back Early Or Never Come (Cooking Vinyl)

Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz (CBS)

The Clash - Ghetto Defendant (CBS)

Serge Gainsbourg - Baudelaire (Mercury)

Lou Reed, Willem Dafoe, The Raven (Reprise)

Patti Smith - The Last Hotel (Ryko)

Van Morrison - Rave On John Donne (Polydor)

Second Hour - Duke Special Co-Present

Duke Special - Sweet Sweet Kisses (Universal)

Randy Newman - Ragtime Theme (Warner)

Duke Special - I Never Thought This Day Would Come (Universal)

Mark P Wetch - Last Night On The Back Porch (Wilson Audio)

Duke Special - Flesh And Blood Dance (Universal)

Harry Nilsson - Subterranean Homesick Blues (RCA)

Duke Special - Digging An Early Grave (Universal)

Daniel Benjamin - Little Bird (Haldern)

Duke Special - If I Don't Feel It (Universal)

Duke Special - Nothing You Could Do Can Bring Me Around (Universal)