Was that too political?

Like I said at the end of the show, I couldn't let the sad events of the last week pass without paying tribute to Drummer Lee Rigby and indeed everyone who has ever served (or is currently serving) in the UK armed forces. I know quite a few people who have served in the UK army and navy, thankfully they are still here to tell their tales but too many others aren't as lucky.

Here's tonight's playlist:

Non-stop dancing	The Jam
Another brick in the wall Pt II	Pink Floyd
All along the watchtower	Jimi Hendrix
On the road again	Canned Heat
Bad	U2
Don't let me be understood	Joe Cocker
I Wonder	Robert Cray
My head's in Mississippi	ZZ Top
Hold my hand	Hootie and the blowfish
Cocaine	JJ Cale
White Room	Cream
Still in love with you	Thin Lizzy
Messin with the kid	Rory Gallagher
Too many puppies	Primus
Show me a reason	Luther Alison
Kayleigh	Marillion
Harvest	Niel Young
One I love	REM
Since you've been gone	Rainbow
Winds of change	The Scorpions
20th Century boy	T-Rex
Every breath you take	The Police
Brothers in arms	Dire Straits

It really doesn't get any better than this!

Please! Someone tell me where you can hear the type of music we're playing here on The Flash because I don't know.

I'm lucky. I get to play the tracks that I love and that I know you, the listener are going to love. See tonight's track listing below to prove that.

Tell me again where you can here a better selection of music?

1. Eye of the tiger - Survivor
2. Down under - Men at work
3. The flame - Cheap Trick
4. Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
5. The man who sold the world - David Bowie
6. Still got the blues for you - Gary Moore
7. Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
8. Kayleigh - Marillion
9. I fall apart - Rory Galagher
10. You stole the sun from my heart - Manic Street Preachers
11. Get down, make love - Queen
12. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
13. Absolute beginners - David Bowie
14. Tommy the cat - Primus
15. Roll over lay down - Status Quo
16. Tunnel of love - Dire Straits
17. Citizen Erased - Muse
18. Ride on - AC/DC
19. Against the wind - Bob Seger

You ain't gonna here this music anywhere else!!

I really do believe that The Flash is the only radio station that dares to play the music people REALLY want to hear and not the drivvle most other stations pump out.

As proof, here's tonight's playlist:

1. One of these days - Pink Floyd
2. Brass in pocket - The Pretenders
3. Hold your head up - Argent
4. Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
5. Fire in the sky - Saxon
6. Love like a man - Ten Years After
7. Groundhog Day - Primus
8. Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
9. Are you gonna go my way - Lenny Kravitz
10. All day and all of the night - The Kinks
11. Won't get fooled again - The Who
12. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
13. Shine on you crazy diamond (parts 1 to 9) - Pink Floyd
14. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

More rock than Brighton!!

I decided to go for on of those "more music, less chat" shows tonight which meant I was able to get loads of top quality tracks in.

Here's what I played:

1. The Finest Worksong - REM
2. Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
3. Look at yourself - Uriah Heep
4. In the crowd - The Jam
5. In for the kill - Budgie
6. Baba O'Riley - The Who
7. Waiting For An Alibi - Thin Lizzy
8. Be My Lover - Alice Cooper
9. Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin
10. Stay Frosty - Van Halen
11. Ready for love - Bad Company
12. Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash
13. Harold of the rocks - Primus
14. Call me the breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd
15. I just want to make love to you - Foghat
16. Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
17. Turn to stone - Joe Walsh
18. Sluming Angel - Rory Gallagher
19. The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
20. Ride with me - Steppenwolf
21. One Vision- Queen
22. Layla - Derek and the Dominos
23. Find the river - R.E.M.

Loads of local bands tonight

Well I must say that I really enjoyed putting tonight's show together. There's a lot of local talent out there and being able to play some of the music from local bands is a real privilege.

I'm often asked how hard is it put a two hour show together.In all honesty it's not that difficult. The planning is ongoing and if a song pops in to my head during the week that I think my listeners on The Flash will enjoy then I make a note and try and include it. There's always the listener requests to and I try and do a bulk of those every couple of weeks or so.

Here's the playlist from tonight's show:


Livin' on a prayer - Bon Jovi
You shook me all night long - AC/DC
Walk this way - Areosmith
Bitter end - The Butterfly Collective
Heart shaped happy meal - Hold Me Down
Heartbreaker who's fast - The Ray Jones Band
Wasted Youth - Kodiak Jack
Sometimes - Stash
With or without you - U2
Never in my life - Mountain
Nobody but you - Luther Alison
Daytona - Chris Rea
Love hurts - Nazareth
Head of dreams - The Crush
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Still alive and well - Jonny Winter
Industrial disease -Dire Straits
John the fisherman - Primus
Have you ever loved a woman - Derek and the Dominoes
Still got the blues for you - Gary Moore
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Always with me, always with you - Joe Satriani
On the turning away - Pink Floyd
Fall on me - R.E.M.

Gotta love a bit of Flash

Well, I don't know about you but I really enjoyed that show tonight. Another great mix of tracks from the 60's right up to 1990.

The joy of being a DJ on The Flash is that there is virtually no restriction on what I can play. This really opens the scope up as to what I can bring you, the listener.

Have a look at tonight's playlist to see what I mean:

1. Chinatown - Thin Lizzy
2. Sleepwalker - The Knks
3. Don't misunderstand me - Rossington Collins Band
4. Playing with Fire - The Ray Jones Band
5. Flrtin' with Disaster - Molly Hatchet
6. Don't tell them you're sane - The Jam
7. Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd
8. Brown sugar - ZZ Top
9. Rock 'n' roll - Detroit (with Mitch Ryder)
10. Midnight man - The James Band
11. Mississipi Queen - Mountain
12. Can't you see - The Ray Jones Band
13. Gudby T'Jane - Slade
14. Groundhog day - Primus
15. Oh Well Pt1 - Fleetwood Mac
16. Sitting on top of the world - Cream
17. Silver and gold - U2
18. Angel of mercy - Dire Straits
19. Parents - Budgie
20. Change - Blind Melon
21. Highway Song - Blackfoot
22. New kid in town - The Eagles

What a cracking show!!

Dead chuffed with tonight's effort if I do say so myself. I hope ya'll agree with that, let me know if you don't.

Great mix of tracks covering a lot of bases.

Here's the playlist:

1. The sweetest thing - U2
2. Only you can rock me - UFO
3. Shot by both sides -Magazine
4. Love walked in - Thunder
5. Leaf and stream - Wishbone Ash
6. Down the tube station at midnight - The Jam
7. Starman - David Bowie
8. Without you - The Doobie Brothers
9. The wanton song - Led Zeppelin
10. Just because - Jane's Addiction
11. Urban Guerilla - Hawkwind
12. Lady Writer - Dire Straits
13. Same old story - Blodwyn Pig
14. Long cool woman (in a black dress) - The Hollies
15. Inside looking out - Grand Funk Railroad
16. Blue jean blues - ZZ Top
17. 5150 - Van Halen
18. 7 O'Clock - The Quireboys
19. White Room - Cream
20. Looking for a rainbow - Chris Rea
21. Get it right next time - Gerry Rafferty
22. Do ya - The Move
23. Hotel California - The Eagles

Good songs + good requests = great show

Happy with that one. I'd had some great requests come in over the last week so it seemed daft not to play them. As per usual there was a good mix of stuff for the listeners of The Flash (note the new name, news about that will be coming very soon).

Here's tonight's playlist:

1. Non-stop Dancing - The Jam
2. Message in a bottle - The Police
3. Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
4. Breadfan - Budgie
5. Fat old sun - Pink Floyd
6. I just want to be with you - Chris Rea
7. Rock me tonight - Billy Squire
8. Dreadlock holiday - 10cc
9. The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
10. Free bird - Lynrd Skynyrd
11. Kids wanna rock - Bryan Adams
12. Sweet emotion - Aerosmith
13. Private investigations - Dire Straits
14. I'd love to change the world - Ten Years After
15. Roudabout - Yes
16. Rocky mountain way - Joe Walsh
17. Surrender - Cheap Trick
18. Peace of mind - Boston
19. Bd to the bone - George Thorogood
20. Tie your mother down - Queen
21. Life in the fast lane - The Eagles
22. Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

Catch you next time. Until then, rock on!!

Back after a little bit of a break

It's been a couple of weeks since I put out a new programme on Flash for one reason or another but it was great to be back in the saddle tonight.

I decided to play the cream of the crop tonight, the best songs I played from when I first started on Flash. It was great looking back over what I'd done previously and putting the very best together in to a new show.

Hope you all enjoyed the live Dire Straits track, Money For Nothing. It's an absolute stonker of a song.

Here's the playlist from tonight's show:

1. Rock 'n' Roll - Led Zeppelin
2. David Watts - The Jam
3. Road to hell PtII - Chris Rea
4. Back in black - AC/DC
5. Legs - ZZ Tops
6. Poison - Alice Cooper
7. Smoke on the water - Deep Purple
8. Money for nothing - Dire Straits
9. Superstition - Stevie Ray Vaughan
10. Bell Bottom Blues - Eric Clapton
11. John the fisherman - Primus
12. Teenage kicks - The Undertones
13. Misirlou - Dick Dale and his Dale-tones
14. Welcome to the jungle - Guns 'n' Roses
15. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
16. Passenger - Iggy Pop
17. In a broken dream - Python Lee Jackson
18. All right now - Free
19. Harold of the rocks - Primus
20. I wonder - Robert Cray
21. Please don't let me be misunderstood - Joe Cocker
22. I'd rather go blind - Chicken Shack
23. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
24. Solid rock - Dire Straits
25. Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

Another fun-packed two hours

Well it was for me anyway ;o)

Loads of great tunes tonight and quite a lot of stuff that I think/hope would have been new to a lot of the listeners. As I mentioned in the show, that's exactly what Flash 1512 is all about in that we play you the music you wouldn't normally get to hear on the radio.

Here's the playlist from tonight's show:

1. News of the world - The Jam
2. I'm bad, I'm nationwide - ZZ Top
3. Highway star - Deep Purple
4. Trampled under foot - Led Zeppelin
5. Southern Man - Neil Young
6. Whipping post - The Allman Brothers
7. Tunnel of love - Bruce Springsteen
8. Sheep - Pink Floyd
9. Peace of mind - Boston
10. Twilight zone - Golden Earring
11. The future's so bright (I gotta wear shades) - Status Quo
12. Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
13. Spread your wings - Queen
14. There she goes again - Velvet Underground
15. Ain't talkin' 'bout love - Van Halen
16. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
17. Dangerous - The Doobie Brothers
18. Ride on - AC/DC
19. Cradle rock - Rory Gallagher
20. Mignight blues - Gary More
21. So far away - Dire Straits
22. Turn the page - Bob Segar

Sunday 3rd March 2013

Hi guys,

This week's show a repeat of last weeks. This was because of some technical hitches that we experienced last Sunday which we felt would have impacted on your enjoyment.

I'll be back next Sunday evening with a brand new show.

Keep on rocking!!

Without doubt, the best show yet - Requests galore!!

That show was so much fun to produce I don't know how I'm going to top it. I really don't!

Why?

Firstly, the requests. The first hour of the show was dedicated to requests and in never ceases to amaze me the quality of music that the listeners to Flash 1512 ask for. Keep those requests coming in guys, it's what makes the station so unique.

Secondly, the tunes I played in the second hour of the show were so good it kinda leaves me worried that I've peaked too early. Thankfully I don't think that's the case ;o)

Getting in contact with us is easy, simply pick one of the following below:

Twitter

Facebook

Email

Website

Here's tonight's playlist. The first twelve songs were listener requests, after that it's music hand-picked by me:

1. Dead on time - Queen
2. Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin
3. Every little things she does is magic - The Police
4. Brain damage - Pink Floyd
5. Eclipse - Pink Floyd
6. The Noonward Race - John McLaughlin – The Mahuvishu Orchestra
7. Dancing in the dark - Bruce Springsteen
8. Something 'bout you I like - Status Quo
9. Golden Brown - The Stranglers
10. Tunnel of love - Dire Straits
11. Rosalie - Thin Lizzy
12. Layla - Derek and The Dominos
13. Still in love with you - Thin Lizzy
14. I heard it through the grapvine - Credance Clearwater Revival
15. Stranglehold - Ted Nuggent
16. Hey Jude - The Beatles
17. Lyin' eyes - The Eagles
18. Like a rolling stone - Bob Dylan
19. Against the wind - Bob Segar
20. Rocking in a free world - Neil Young

Have a great week guys :o)

'The Crush' on Flash

My band, The Crush, were honoured to be asked in to the Flash 1512 studios to record a one-off show dedicated to us, our music and our influences. The show went out at 7pm on 10th February 2013 and was repeated at 9pm on Tuesday 12th February 2013.

Here are the tracks that were played during the show and who picked them:

Show opens with:
Slam the Door - Original number by The Crush

Rich:
Romeo & Juliet - Dire Straits
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
Still got the blues for you - Gary Moore
Hey You - Pink Floyd

Duncan:
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
The Beatles - Help!
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
The Who - Who Are You? 

Pete:
Kid - The Pretenders
Look over yonder - Jimi Hendrix
The Hunter - Free
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan 

Show No.18 done and dusted

Woo hoo!! Show No.18 is possibly my favourite show so far. Why? The music. Pure and simple. There was so much top quality music crammed in to this show that I almost didn't know where to start. Thankfully I did start and was allowed to finish too.

Working on www.flash1512.co.uk is such a fantastic experience. Being allowed to play the tunes that I know people are going to appreciate really is an honour. Long may it continue.

Here's tonight's playlist:

1. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
2. Don't ask me - Lynard Skynyrd
3. Never in my life - Mountain
4. Rock n Roll - Detroit
5. Be my lover - Alice Cooper
6. Turn to stone - Joe Walsh
7. Still alive and well - Johnny Winter
8. Queen of torture - Wishbone Ash
9. Hit me with your best shot - Pat Benatar
10. Rock me tonight - Billy Squire
11. Middle of the road - The Pretenders
12. Arrested for drivin while blind - ZZ Top
13. Caledonia - Robin Trower
14. Drivin Wheel - Foghat
15. 5150 - Van Halen
16. Starman - David Bowie
17. I just wanna be with you - Chris Rea
18. It never rain - Dire Straits
19. Where do you think you're going - Dire Straits
20. The Fletcher Memorial Home - Pink Floyd
21. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
22. Save me - Queen
23. Nude disintergrating Parachutis - Budgie
24. Rain - Status Quo
25. Wonderful tonight - Eric Clapton

Have a great week everyone. See ya next Sunday :o)

Result!!

Yes! Happy with that one. Managed to fit in a good mix of music this week (not that I don't always manage to if you know what I mean) and even played possibly the longest song ever recorded; well it felt like it anyway that being Echoes by Pink Floyd.

I've got to keep this blog short and sweet this week as time is against me. I'll try and make up for it next week though.

Here's the playlist from tonight's show:

1. Gimme some lovin - Spencer Davis Group
2. Wild Thing - The Troggs
3. Sympathy for the devil - The Rolling Stones
4. Band on the run - Wings
5. Echoes - Pink Floyd
6. Walking by myself - Gary Moore
7. Show me a reason - Luther Alison
8. Who's that coming - Rory Gallagher
9. Roll over lay down - Status Quo
10. Denim and leather - Saxon
11. Good times bad times - Led Zeppelin
12. Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
13. Ready for love - Bad Company
14. Closer to home - Grand Funk Railroad
15. The heart of rock and roll - Huey Lewis and The News
16. Edge of seventeen - Stevie Nicks
17. I can't drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
18. Promises in the dark - Pat Benetar
19. Hard days night - The Beatles

More music than you can shake a stick at!!

Wow!! Record set this evening (well a personal best at least). 28 songs played in two hours!! How did that happen?!?!

Actually, who cares? At the end of the day I played 28 tracks of, what I consider to be, high quality rock and blues music over on www.flash1512.co.uk and I loved every minute of it.

And as I mentioned in the show, hugest happy birthday wishes to my pal and fellow band mate Pete Gosling. Hope you had a good'un mate.

Ok, here's the playlist from tonight's show:

1. We will rock you - Queen
2. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
3. Can't Explain - The Who
4. Badge - Cream
5. Blood of the sun - Mountain
6. Call me - Blondie
7. Hold the line - Toto
8. Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
9. China Grove - The Doobie Brothers
10. Cum on feel the noize - Slade
11. Don't cry - Asia
12. Sweet home alabama - Lynard Skynard
13. Iron man - Black Sabbeth
14. Candy's gone bad - Golden Earring
15. Hey baby - Ted Nugent
16. Angel of mercy - Dire Straits
17. Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
18. Little bit of sympathy - Robin Trower
19. Dance the night away - Van Halen
20. I won't back down - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
21. Fire in the sky - Saxon
22. Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
23. Tin Pan Ally - Stevie Ray Vaughan
24. Something in the air - Thunderclap Newman
25. One of these nights - The Eagles
26. Baby Jane - Rod Stewart
27. Get back - The Beatles
28. Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

Have a great week, guys! Keep it real.

Rich

Quality!!!

Well there's no doubt in my mind that this week's show contained nothing but top quality rock music. It was a slight departure for me from what I'd normally play on Flash 1512 but still incredibly enjoyable to put together.

Tonight also see me play my 300th song on radio that being the last one of the evening. I couldn't think of a better song to choose.

Make sure you check out www.flash1512.co.uk where you'll find loads of info about the station and also a form you can fill in to request songs to be played on the various presenters shows.

So here's to the next three hundred songs. And then the three hundred after that!! Have a great week y'all :o)

Here's tonight's playlist:

1. Whiskey Train - Procol Harum
2. Tie your monther down - Queen
3. Lust for life - Iggy Pop
4. Jessica - The Allman Brothers
5. House of the rising sun - The Animals
6. Running on empty - Jackson Browne
7. Take me in your arms (rock me) - The Doobie Brothers
8. Love hurts - Nazareth
9. Take my breath away - Berlin
10. Knockin on heavens door - Bob Dylan
11. Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum
12. Crazy horses - The Osmonds
13. Paranoid - Black Sabbeth
14. My kind of lover - Billy Squire
15. Stone cold - Rainbow
16. All the young dude - Mott the Hoople
17. Keep the fire burning - REO Speedwagon
18. Takin care of business - Bachman Turner Overdrive
19. Rock the night - Europe
20. I want to know what love is - Foriegner
21. You keep me hanging on - Vanilla Fudge
22. My generation - The Who
23. Brown eyed girl - Van Morrison
24. Dancing in the dark - Bruce Springsteen
25. Break on through - The Doors
26. Home by the sea - Genesis
27. Imagine - John Lennon

Chuffed with that one :o)

Yeah, I'll go with that. I really enjoyed putting tonight's show together. It's great being able to get a great range of music together in a two hour package.

It's also really good to get listener's requests coming in. There's loads of ways people can send requests in. Flash 1512 is on Twitter, Facebook or requests can be emailed in.

So despite all the snow and ice the show still went ahead. That's the joy of modern technology, we can broadcast from almost anywhere at any time.

I hope you enjoyed tonight's show. If you missed it then you can catch a repeat during the week over on www.flash1512.co.uk

Here's tonight's playlist:

1. Crazy crazy - nights Kiss
2. Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band
3. The way it is - Bruce Hornsby and The Range
4. Private dancer - Tina Turner
5. Black Betty - Ram Jam
6. Can't stand losing you - The Police
7. Some guys have all the luck - Robert Palmer
8. Dazed and confused - Led Zeppelin
9. One of these days - Pink Floyd
10. Never tear us apart - INXS
11. Bell bottom blues - Eric Clapton
12. Down down - Status Quo
13. You ain't seen nothing yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive
14. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
15. Red hill mining town - U2
16. Rockin' on down the highway - The Doobie Brothers
17. Sweet Lorraine - Uriah Heap
18. Rhasberry Beret - Prince
19. New York Connection - The Sweet
20. Solid Rock - Dire Straits
21. Wild thing - The Troggs
22. Don't bring me down - The Animals
23. Eight miles high - The Byrds
24. Cheap sunglasses - ZZ Top
25. Tom Sawyer - Rush
26. All night long - Joe Walsh
27. Reeling in the years - Steely Dan

Even I'd listen to that one

Well, I'm chuffed with how that one went. Strictly between you and me, the first few shows I did for Flash 1512 were deliberately set up to be crowd pleasers, not that that's a bad thing but I was still finding my way a bit and also to build a rapport with those listening. I guess I felt I had to gain peoples trust and at the same time find my feet. Because I'm still being asked back each week to do more it must be going okay.

The show has changed quite a bit over the months. I'm getting a little self indulgent in what I play whilst at the same time trying to ensure that you, the listener will be entertained. Let me know if you think I'm not getting that balance right. Ultimately it's about what the listener wants, not me but I'd certainly listen to my show if I was listening in for the first time.

If you haven't been over there yet, Flash 1512 has a new website reflecting the recent upgrade to the station's logo as seen below:

The new Flash 1512 logo 

Here's tonight's playlist:

1. Bad - U2
2. Steamy Windows - Tony Joe White
3. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
4. Winds of change - The Scorpions
5. Total Eclipse of the heart - Bonnie Tylor
6. Sorrow - Pink Floyd
7. Message in a bottle - The Police
8. Non-stop dancing - The Jam
9. Communication breakdown - Led Zeppelin
10. So far away - Dire Straits
11. The Wizard - Uriah Heap
12. Rough and ready- Saxon
13. Middle of the road - Luther Allison
14. Red House - Jimi Hendrix
15. The Great Train Robbery - Mountain
16. Have you ever loved a woman - Derek and the Dominos
17. A million miles away - Rory Gallagher
18. It's late - Queen
19. Pale Blue eyes - Velvet Underground
20. Turn you inside out - R.E.M.
21. Run to you - Bryan Adams

Catch you next week folks

First show of 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2013 is going to be an amazing year, I have a good feeling about it. Flash 1512 is really taking off now and there's loads of stuff we've got in the pipeline that's going to see us go from strength to strength. It's exciting times for everyone involved.

I'm really proud of tonight's show. There's a real diversity of music and a nice relaxed feel to it all. I kinda like exploring different moods each week. Who knows what next week will bring ;o)

In the meantime, here's tonight's playlist:

1. Listen to the music - The Doobie Brothers
2. Owner of a lonely heart - Yes
3. The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
4. Drop dead legs - Van Halen
5. Easy Livin' - Uriah Heap
6. Purple Rain - Prince
7. Nights in white satin - The Moody Blues
8. Riders on the storm - The Doors
9. Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
10. White room - Cream
11. Oh! You pretty thing - David Bowie
12. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
13. Dogs - Pink Floyd
14. Midnight rider - Saxon
15. Fool if you think it's over - Chris Rea
16. Lie - Swerve
17. Eagle - Abba
18. Walk this way - Aerosmith
19. Head of dreams - The Crush
20. Angel of Harlem - U2

Have a great week guys, catch you next Sunday.