In the Seventies, not all great tracks were released as singles. So if you didn’t buy or borrow a band’s albums, there would be a lot of material that you might never get to hear. On this show, we can sometimes be guilty of playing an artists best known songs – usually single releases – and skipping over plenty of other great tracks. So we thought we would fix this and showcase some lesser known tracks that could only be found deep in the albums.  We think we’ve found some bangers.

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This weeks show is all about dreams. Day dreams, night dreams, wishful thinking and fantasies, these are things all humans experience and of course have provided the inspiration for song writers and story tellers since we first gathered around a fire.  So what better theme for a show than songs about dreams.

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On this week’s show, Marty and Venetia are getting heavy and rocking it out to explore the music of Seventies rock bands. In honour of the passing of that heavy rock icon, Ozzy Osbourne, the show features two Black Sabbath numbers as well as tracks from other heavyweights such as Aerosmith, AC/DC and Kiss.  It’s a blast of a show!

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So. Many. Great. Girl. Groups. There, enough said 🙂

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A few weeks ago we did a show featuring songs all about rural life. Well this week we’re moving to the big smoke with its  mean streets and gritty alley ways. It’s our city and we’re living that street life and it’s enough to give us the inner city blues. Taxi!

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It’s the middle of winter and feeling a bit chilly down here in the South. The woolly hats and scarfs are out and it feels like we may never see the sun again. So this week we’re featuring songs about winter and being cold. Brrr!

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On Sunday this week it was World Rural Development Day. So of course on today’s show we are playing tracks about living in or being in the country. There’s nothing quite like feeling the fresh air in your lungs, hearing the birds calling and seeing the leaves of the tress rustling in a breeze. Many songwriters in the Seventies felt the same and waxed lyrical about the charms of country life. Or, couldn’t wait to leave it to head to the big smoke. Some aspects could do with developing, after all.

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This week we are celebrating the end of the financial year by playing Seventies tracks all about money, honey.  Yes, filthy lucre, bread, dough, cash, that stuff that makes the world go round. We give little bits of metal and paper and plastic a made up value and then slave all of our lives to make sure we have enough of it. No wonder we also write songs about it. Here’s hoping that your books are balancing this week and your stocktakes are coming out even.

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This week we are revisiting a previous theme and playing more Seventies covers of Seventies songs. It wasn’t unusual in that decade for a few different artists to release the same songs not very far apart. Sometimes the same song could be a hit for different artists, but occasionally a song that languished in relative obscurity would be reinterpreted  a made into a hit by somebody new.  That’s the beauty of music – so many possible ways of creating magic.

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Last week your hosts were a bit miz. Yes, we were riddled with lurgies and as moist and watery as our theme. Not very fun. Luckily, this week we are recovered and we felt like celebrating by playing Seventies tracks that always make us feel good. You know, those tracks that always lift your mood and bring a little joy and sunshine into your life. We love them. Hopefully you do too.

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