- Bryan Burnett
- 17 Nov 08, 05:36 PM
Kirsty from Killie has got Ricky Martin and Lemmy, while Angus in Skye has got Marvin Gaye and Keren from Bananarama! Who do you share your birthday with? That's the theme for tonight and it looks like it's going to be great fun. It's the contrasting 'birthday buddies' that are making us smile. Some great imaginary duets are possible by teaming them up. Maria Callas and Britney Spears for instance. 
I have got Prince Phillip and Judy Garland for mine but some people are way better off. If you were born on July 6th you could blow out the candles with 50 cent, Nancy Reagan, The Dalai Lama and Sly Stallone. Or what about those lucky souls born on 13th October. They get to celebrate with Margaret Thatcher, Marie Osmond, Nana Mouskouri and Lenny Bruce. What a swell party that would be...
- Bryan Burnett
- 16 Nov 08, 11:37 AM
Thanks to everyone who supported Children In Need last week and a special thank you to the regulars who came down to say hello on Friday night. I am looking forward to getting 'back to normal' this week and I think we've got some good themes lined up for you...
Monday:
Mine is 'Judy Garland', Barbara's is 'Maggie Bell' and Kirsten's is 'John Paul Jones from Led Zep...but who was born on your birthday? That's the theme for tonight as we look forward to BBC Radio Scotland's 30th. Text or call during the show or why not leave a comment on the blog and if you can't think of one tell us what day you were born on and we'll find you a celebrity to blow out the candles with...
Tuesday:
Julie in the Borders suggested 'first' and 'last' as a theme. Tonight we'll do First Kiss and First Time Ever I Saw Your Face....
Wednesday:
...which means tonight we'll do Always The Last To Know. What do you want to hear? Email your suggestions to getiton@bbc.co.uk
Thursday:
BBC Radio Scotland is 30 years old at the weekend so tonight we turn back the clock to the year we came on air. 1978 is the theme so e-mail or blog with your memories of '78.
- Bryan Burnett
- 13 Nov 08, 03:36 PM
It will not surprise you to hear that inappropriate language is a hot topic at the BBC at the moment. However CaptRamius thinks we have taken things too far with the censored version of Teenage Dirtbag that we played on last night's show.
" A bit over the top" was how he described the radio edit which left out three words in the lyrics. I'd like to tell you what they are but, "We must not include offensive language before the watershed or on radio when children are particularly likely to be in our audience, or in online content likely to appeal to a high proportion of children, unless it is justified by the context and then its frequent use must be avoided."
Capt also points out that our censorship was a bit rich particularly as one of our other shows this week talked about 'poo'.
Mind you as the subject was 'Bears' it's not surprising that the Poo(h) word came up several times...
....unless of course he is referring to my use of 'keich' on last night's show. Keich as many of you know is the Scots word for poo and as it's not included in our list of offensive words I think I'm alright.
- Bryan Burnett
- 12 Nov 08, 05:24 PM
It's Children In Need week. Tomorrow we're doing 'needy' so tonight we are doing it for the kids. I don't mind raising money for them but draw the line at playing these little horrors...
- Bryan Burnett
- 11 Nov 08, 06:27 PM
Very impressed by the list of puns submitted by Stewart and Kathleen listening online in SW France for tonight's 'bear' theme. Actually I'm equally impressed they are listening online in France. Enjoy....
Songs about bears:
bearway to heaven
bear necessities
the northern lights of old abeardeen
strawbeary field forever
livin' on a bear
Or anything by:
the bare naked ladies
koala shaker
grizzlee rascal
Robeart Palmer
MC Polaar
- Bryan Burnett
- 10 Nov 08, 04:08 PM
With Pudsey centre stage this week tonight's show will be live from 'Bears' den in Glasgow. I'll be broadcasting from a major supermarket and encouraging shoppers to part with a 'pound a play' to Get It On.
As well as doing the show and doing the shopping my plan is to get some pictures of the broadcast and of the folk requesting the tunes on to the blog. If nothing else we may get another caption competition out of a pic of me with some oddly shaped marrows from the fruit and veg section.
Update: After asking our photographer to come and take pics we discovered we couldn't get online at the supermarket. Still I am sure you will agree that traveling to the other side of the city, waiting half an hour on a chilly train station platform,getting soaked to the skin twice and then having to go all the way back to work again to get the photo online was worth the effort to get this rather fetching snap of Pudsey and I! Ahhh, the things people do for Children In Need...
Fancying himself as a bit of a songwriter, the Sheikh's plan was to get Jacko to record his demo tapes and turn them into an album. He also said he paid for and built a recording studio for him and Jackson to make records together. 