Saturday 31 March 2012

Playlist:
Corries - Peggy Gordon
Anna Massie - An Cluinne Mi Mo Nighean Donn
Wee Toon Tellers - Miss Monaghan + Teetotallers + Kerry McAllister's
Owen Hand - Keishmul's Gallery
Emile Benoit - Christina's Dream + Tootsie Wootsie
Chloe Hall - Love Songs, Dedications And Requests
Sarah McQuaid - Ode To Billie Joe
Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter - Pennan Den
Black Country Three - Dudley Canal Tunnel Song
Steeleye Span - Orfeo + Nathan's Reel
John Williamson - Wrinkles
Norman Mackay - Highland Hippie Reels

Thursday 29 March 2012

Playlist:
Human League - Mirror Man
UB40 - Cherry Oh Baby
Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again
Go West - The King Of Wishful Thinking
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Sam Brown - Valentine Moon
Communards - Don't leave Me This Way
ABC - When Smokey Sings
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
Hue & Cry - Looking For Linda

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Playlist:
Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Randy Newman - Mama Told Me Not To Come
O'Jays - Use Ta Be My Girl
Beyonce feat. Jay Z - Crazy In Love
Manfred Mann - Hi Lili Hi Lo
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Lady GaGa - Poker Face
Turtles - Happy Together
Jethro Tull - The Witches Promise
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - You're The One That I Want
Cilla Black - Step Inside Love
Toni Basil - Mickey

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Playlist:
Gibson Brothers - Que Sera Mi Vida
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
B*Witched - Blame It On The Weatherman
Hollies - Just One Look
Rolling Stones - I Can't Be Satisfied
Belinda Carlisle - Leave A Light On For Me
Yazoo - Only You
Genesis - Mama
Mariah Carey - Without You
Dina Carroll - The Perfect Year
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Falling In Love Again
Cliff Richard - Gee Whiz It's You

Monday 26 March 2012

Playlist:
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
Bette Midler - This Ole House
Boney M - Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
Carpenters - I Need To Be In Love
Drifters - There Goes My Baby
Robbie Williams - The Road To Mandalay
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
Electric Light Orchestra - Rockaria
Madonna - Vogue
Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough (The Tough Get Going)

Saturday 24 March 2012

Playlist:
Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley - The Dingeshow Dancers
Dala - Horses
James Keelaghan - Twister
Emile Benoit - The Land We're Walking On
Dave Swarbrick - Teribus + Farewell To Aberdeen
Spinners - Old Johnny Booker
Jim Reynolds - On The Way Home
Sarah McQuaid - New Oysters New
Alex Campbell - Love Is Teasing
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Ngotholazo Njalo (I'll Keep On Looking)
Runrig - Harvest Moon
Catherine Howe & Vo Fletcher - In The Blue
Norman Mackay - Dargai

Thursday 22 March 2012

Playlist:
David Bowie - Modern Love
Kenny Rogers - Don't Take Your Love To Town
Jimmy Ruffin - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
UB40 - I Got You Babe
Sam Brown - Valentine Moon
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Vatersay Boys - Shed Lot CDB
Ramones - Baby I Love You
Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet - Everlasting Love
Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues
Dave Edmunds - I Knew The Bride
Pink - Get The Party Started

Wednesday 21 March 2012

Playlist:
Sailor - Girls Girls Girls
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
Ralph McTell - Streets Of London
Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday
Supertramp - The Logical Song
Ash - Girl From Mars
Nolans - I'm In The Mood For Dancing
Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade
Robbie Williams - Millennium

Tuesday 20 March 2012

Playlist:
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - Woolly Bully
Enrique Iglesias - Hero
Elvis Costello - Alison
Madness - Wings Of A Dove
Sammy Davis Jr. - Mr. Bojangles
Samantha Mumba - Lately
Vera Lynn - My Son My Son
Go West - We Close Our Eyes
Madonna - Don't Tell Me
OMD - Locomotion
Blondie - (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence Dear
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby

Monday 19 March 2012

Playlist:
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia
Glen Madieros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You
Pilot - Magic
Primitives - Crash
Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
Carpenters - Solitaire
Status Quo - Caroline
Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
Bay City Rollers - Give A Little Love
B 52s - Love Shack
Oleta Adams - Get Here
New Seekers - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing

Saturday 17 March 2012

Playlist:
Barbara Dymock - The Beefcan Close
Tommy Sands - Bessbrook Lament
Karen Matheson - Calbharaigh
Malinky - The Lang Road Doon
Canterach - Strathspeys & Jigs
Catherine Howe & Vo Fletcher - Trees
Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
Jeremy Taylor - Pot Song
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream
Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller - Familiar Faces
Moishes Bagel - Nicholson's Dilemma
Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter - Time Wears Awa

Thursday 15 March 2012

Playlist:
Four Tops - Reach Out, I'll Be There
Alan Price - Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear
Derek & The Dominos - Layla
Monkees - Daydream Believer
Busted - What I Go To School For
Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
Bee Gees - I Started A Joke
Abba - Dance
Wild Sarachs - Carradale Glen
Sam Brown - Valentine Moon
Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles
Sweet - Blockbuster
Darts - The Boy From New York City
Bad Manners - Woolly Bully
Kinks - You Really Got Me

Humpty Dumpty or Nasty Numpty?

How times and terms have changed. Twenty years ago, the term "partner" almost invariably referred to a business partner. If one meant, say, dancing partner, it had to be said explicitly.

Now, life partners have to become civil partners for their relationship and committment to be legally recognised, but only if they are gay (another word whose meaning has changed out of all recognition in most people's lifetimes). This is sexual discrimination as well as discrimination based on sexual orientation. Such discrimination should be illegal if it is not already so. Employers cannot use such discrimination towards their staff, so why should the state towards its citizens (or the monarchy towards its subjects)?

One corollary of this is that the two undertakings of Marriage and Civil Partnership should be synonymous together with their certificates, and state so. Anything else is a form of sexual discrimination.

The government can choose to be Humpty Dumpty, rather than a Nasty Numpty, on this ("Words mean exactly what I want them to mean" - Lewis Carrol), so why have they chosen in favour of discrimination?

Wednesday 14 March 2012

Playlist:
Carpenters - Top Of The World
Manfred Mann - My Name Is Jack
Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss
Showaddywaddy - A Little Bit Of Soap
Bachelors - Diane
Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Dr Feelgood - Milk And Alcohol
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties
Hanson - Mmmbop
Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies
Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Them - Baby Please Don't Go

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Playlist:
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours
Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn
Elvis Presley - (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
Trammps - Hold Back The Night
Bing Crosby - As Time Goes By
911 - More Than A Woman
Patsy Cline - Your Cheatin' Heart
Avons - Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat
Elvis Presley - Hound Dog
Neil Sedaka - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
U2 - Discotheque
Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everything
Paul Anka - Diana
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares For Me
Brotherhood Of Man - Angelo

Monday 12 March 2012

Playlist:
Who - Substitute
Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Young Ones
James Taylor - Country Road
Steps - Last Thing On My Mind
Ricky Nelson - Hello Mary Lou
Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her
Strawbs - Part Of The Union
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Nolan Sisters - I'm In The Mood For Dancing
Blur - Country House
Eternal - Don't You Love Me
McFly - Star Girl
Suzi Quatro - She's In Love With You

The third time it's enemy action (Twitter Phishing attacks)

Scots Trad Singer @BarbaraDymock has had her Twitter account hacked more than once recently, and I'm reminded of what Goldfinger said to James Bond: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action".

Then I received a notification on my mobile phone, purportedly coming from @BarbaraDymock and directing me to a web page at "iitvvitter dot com". The page was a forgery of a real Twitter page which reads "Your session has timed out, please re-login".

That is a phishing attack. The forged page includes Username and Password fields, and of course a Sign-in button which would forward those details to persons unknown.

The enemy perpetrating this attack relies on the fact that the mis-spelling of "Twitter" as "Tvvitter" will not be readily noticed. In small fonts, you almost have to use the cursor to discover that two V's have been substituted for a "W".

The best thing to do when presented with "time-out" and "re-login" types of messages is to close the browser window completely, then start again, typing the correct URL into the web address field. This of course applies to any on-line service, not just Twitter.com.

If you think your account has been compromised, immediately change its password and those of any associated programmes and services. Follow the guidance at https://support.twitter.com/groups/33-report-a-violation/topics/122-reporting-violations/articles/31796-my-account-has-been-compromised#

Rhythmic Radio

Tune in for a sneak preview of Big Fat Party Anthems tonight at midnight on Argyll FM (106.5, 107.1 and 107.7).

The show's presenter Tommy Martin says:

"Big Fat Party Anthems is the richest, danciest, most rhythmic programme on community/commercial/online radio across the world. End to end music and a breathless bangin’ beat make this a non-stop supercharged high energy batter through the late night hours. With feature tracks from British and Euro Dance and Old Skool, and with the famous megamixes, remixes & mash-ups, you’d have to be brain dead not to be moved by this beat. Experience the phenomenon that is Big Fat Party Anthems. Music will never be quite the same again."

The three-hour show is scheduled to go out on Friday evenings at 2100, starting 16 March.

Saturday 10 March 2012

Playlist:
Emile Benoit - Jerry's Red Mountain Jig + Le Papier 'Le Gaboteur'
Breabach - Shoals Of Herring
Fairport Convention - Close To You
Jeremy Taylor - Capitalist Dream
Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson - Delboys + Woods Of Old Limerick [Delboy]
John Williamson - Truckie's Wife
Eliza Carthy & The Ratcatchers - Mohair
Spinners - Coal, Coal For Manchester
Pipedown - The Silver Mower
Po Girl - Deer In The Night
McCalmans - Highlands Tomorrow

Thursday 08 March 2012

Playlist:
Status Quo - Rockin' All Over The World
Korgis - Everybody's Got To Learn Something
Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely
Human League - Don't You Want Me
Love Affair - Bringing On Back The Good Time
Billy Fury - Wondrous Place
Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do
Kirsty MacColl - Don't Come The Cowboy With Me
Simon And Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence
Nanci Griffith - Tecumseh Valley
Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade

Wednesday 07 March 2012

Playlist:
Everly Brothers - Walk Right Back
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John - Summers Nights
Del Shannon - Runaway
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Odyssey - Native New Yorker
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes - Up Where We Belong
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
S Club 7 - Have You Ever
Spice Girls - Too Much
Elvis Presley - You're The Devil In Disguise
Rod Stewart - You're In My Heart

Tuesday 06 March 2012

Playlist:
Tom Jones - What's New, Pussycat?
Wilson Phillips - California
Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side
Kylie Minogue - The Locomotion
Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart
Will Young - The Long And Winding Road
Supremes - Baby Love
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Elton John & Kiki Dee - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby
Toy Dolls - Nellie The Elephant
Wham! - I'm Your Man
Proclaimers feat. Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin - (I'm Gonna Be) 500 Miles

Monday 05 March 2012

Playlist:
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock
John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise
Robson & Jerome - What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
R. Kelly - If I Could Turn Back The Hands Of Time
Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin' On
Dr. Hook - If Not You
Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance
Barbara Dickson & Elaine Paige - I Know Him So Well
Bee Gees - Night Fever
Patsy Cline - Heartaches
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By The Way
Mika - Grace Kelly

Saturday 03 March 2012

Playlist:
Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley - Orcadia + Orkneyites
Hamish Imlach - The McGreggors
Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
Kayulta - Once A Week
Jim Reynolds - If Only
Outside Track - Cailin Rua
Sarah McQuaid - Hardwick's Lofty Towers
Po Girl - Bloom
Karen Matheson - The Dreaming Sea
Tommy Sands with Moya and Fionan Sands - A Stor Mo Chroi
Donovan - Do You Hear Me Now

Thursday 01 March 2012

Playlist:
Rosemary Clooney - This Ole House
Ralf McTell - Streets Of London
Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
Mud - Oh Boy
Monkees - I'm A Believer
Alexander Brothers - Rothesay Bay
Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer
Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
Laura Branigan - Laura
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
James Last & His Orchestra - Mexican Hat Dance
Abba - Waterloo