Please note that this is a show recorded on the 27th December 2024, and posted here.The bear is not well and needs to rest a little. Merry Christmas and very Happy New year to you all.
Friday, 27th December 2024 (In order of appearance)...
01. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers02. Black Sabbath - Paranoid03. Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love04. The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection (Vinyl Version)05. The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris06. The Courettes - Shake!07. Pearl Jam - Dark Matter08. Billy F Gibbons - Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’09. The Clash - Guns On the Roof10. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (Live)11. David Bowie - Five Years (Live)12. Peter Frampton - Show Me the Way......
Doing Porridge is once again over (back on New Year's Day...) and in a show littered with technical issues we played mostly Christmas songs, as it is after all still Christmas.
Unusually for Porridge it should hopefully be available as a podcast to help you through 'Twixtmas...
Here's the playlist:
1. Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra – The Dick van Dyke Show Theme (Intro)
2. George Michael – December Song
3. Stephen Wilson (& AI) – December Skies
4. Fra Lippo Lippi – Stay This Time
5. Badly Drawn Boy – Merry Xmas (War Is Over)
6. Greg Lake, Ian Anderson, Florian Opale, Dave Arch – I Believe In Father Christmas
7. Thea Gilmore –......
Playlist from Wednesday 24th December 2025
Slade / Merry Xmas Everybody
Ray Charles / Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
The Ronettes / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
Six Days In Total / I Like Mondays
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas / Jimmy Mack
Red Hot Chili Peppers / Californication
Chris Rea / The Road to Hell,Pts.I & II - Live at Wembley
Cardiacs / Fiery Gun Hand
The Dandy Warhols / Get Off
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit / When We Were Close
U2 / Hawkmoon 269
Big Top Heartbreak / Christmas In The Asylum
John Prine / Christmas In Prison
Stevie Wonder / Someday At Christmas
Otis Redding / Merry Christmas, Baby
Paul Carrack / When You Walk In The Room
Ren / Bittersweet......
It's full-on carols and midwinter songs in this year's Christmas Special podcast - ready to stream or download for one week from 23/12/25, where you can sing lustily along to:
1. Symondsbury Mummers - Intro
2. John Clough - Mari Llwyd
3. Morris Folk Choir - Good King Wenceslas
4. Bob And Ron Copper - Shepards Arise
5. Gwen Màiri - Oi Betleem!
6. Kirsty Hannah - In the Bleak Midwinter
7. Marit and Rona - Puirt Nollaig
8. Pearl in the Egg - Gaudete
9. The Bethlehem Village Band - Lo How a Rose E`er Blooming
10. The Foxglove Trio - Christ Child......
Playlist from Sunday 21st December 2025
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas / Love Is Like A Heatwave
Randy Crawford & The Crusaders / Streetlife
David Bowie / Valentine’s Day
Marcia Ball / Louella
Miranda Lambert / Fooled Around And Fell In Love
Joe Ely / Dublin Blues
Fun Lovin' Criminals / The Grave And The Constant
Neil Young & Crazy Horse / My My,Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)
Pretenders / Lie To Me
Guns N' Roses / Sweet Child Of Mine
Pixies / There Goes My Gun
Primal Scream / Loaded
Billy Paul / Only The Strong Survive
Margo Price (Feat.Billy Strings) / Too Stoned To Cry
Fairport Convention (with Sandy Denny) / Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
John & Yoko &......
The last Sunday Brunch before Christmas is now over as a live broadcast, but if you fancy listening to it again instead of subjecting yourself to hours of what's laughingly called 'light entertainment' on the telly you can hear it all over again courtesy of our free podcast, available for a whole week - link below.Here's this week's playlist:1. Dixie Dregs – Take it Off the Top (excerpt) (Intro)2. IQ – the Dark Christmas Suite (Prog Prologue)3. Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden – Winter Grace (Featured Album)4. Joni Mitchell – River5. The Divine Comedy – All The Pretty Lights6. Alberto Bravin – Have Yourself A Proggy Little Christmas7. Focus –......
The Mixed Bag returns after an extended absence catching up on 2025 releases while trying to reverse engineer them into an exploration of societal divides amongst our youth, the sexes, urban and rural and haves and have-nots
Disappearing Man-- Hayley WilliamsObsolete-- Tame Impala
23's a Baby-- BlondshellLoser-- Alien Boy
Fairchild-- DaveSafe in the World-- Wolf Alice
Straight Line Was A Lie-- The BethsPinstack-- Tunde Adembimpe
Townies-- WednesdayMy Old Street-- Momma
Woes of the World-- Saba & No IDCrossing Fingers-- Rocket
Crop Circles-- Liquid MikeSinking Kind of Feeling-- NewDad
The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)-- Car Seat HeadrestExploding Trees-- Patterson......
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