United! a Go! Go! C is for Collie Weed 'n' ting. Playlist Three.

Here are The Challengers, who featured on tonight's show performing their version of The Tornado's Telstar, living it up in the United! a Go! Go! studios. It's a swinging hangout every Friday and Sunday. Don't touch that dial!

Playlist.

The Space Alphabet – C is for Comets
Culture – Lion Rock
The Congos – Open Up The Gates
John Cooper Clarke – Kung Fu International
Tony Clarke – Landslide
The Kittens – Ain’t No More Room
The Clouds – Get Out Of My Dream
Chicory Tip – Son Of My Father
The Cramps - Faster Pussycat
The Clash - 48 Hours
The Capitols – Cool Jerk
Rod McKuen – The Celebrity Twist
Century 21 sting
Captain Scarlet theme (Pilot)
Frank Sidebottom – Sci-Fi Medley
The Spectrum - Captain Scarlet
The Specials – Stereotype
Lieutenant Pigeon – Mouldy Old Dough
Al Casey  - Caravan
The Brimstones – Squad Car
The Challengers – Telstar
The Four Wheels – Central High Playmate

STOP PRESS.... Please note, this week's episode is repeated on Saturday rather than Sunday as there's some football match going on on Sunday.

United! a Go! Go! B is for Belligerent Blurting. Playlist Two.

Here's the video for the Batman advert featured on the show. It's political correctness GONE BAT MAD!

Playlist B

The Space Alphabet – Big Dipper
Big Flame – Sargasso
Big In Japan – Society for Cutting Up Men
Big Star – September Gurls
Bourgie Bourgie – Breaking Point
Belle and Sebastian – Is It Wicked Not To Care?
Solomon Burke – He’ll Have To Go
Bob Willis and his Texas Playboys – Buffalo Twist
Kenny - The Bump
Los Vincent Price – Batman
The Shapes – Batman In The Launderette
Frank Gorshin – The Riddler
Whirl – In A Dream
14 Iced Bears – Cut
Blow-Up – When You Smile
Count Basie – The Kid From Red Banks
The Belairs – Squad Car
Booker T and The MGs – Mo’ Onions
Frank Black – Dirty Old Town.

Hope you all enjoyed it. C you next week.

The Londonairs - Dearest Emma.

For those of you who asked, here's a video of The Londonairs performing Dearest Emma (as featured on United! A Go! Go! episode one) on Thank Your Lucky Stars in the 60s.

There's a new show ready to go at 11am tomorrow, repeated at 15.00; then same times on Sunday. A perfect post-lunch listen. The first band you will hear is bIG fLAME.

United! a Go! Go! A is for Arriviste. Playlist One.

Before I get any grief from Surf Nerds. Here's a clip of the original US-based Astronauts band playing their tune 'Firewater' (later covered by The Sid Presley Experience) for a swinging crowd in the motion picture Surf Party. It's like Course You Can Malcolm on an Earley Estate Cider kind of day.

Playlist - A

The Space Alphabet – Introduction and A is for Astronomy and Astronomer
Roy Acuff – The Great Speckled Bird
Davie Allan and The Arrows – Blue’s Theme
Angry Samoans – Stupid Jerk
Angry Samoans – Stupid Jerk

Armitage Shanks with Wild Billy Childish – Bernard Manning

The A-Lines – More
Alice Cooper – School’s Out
AC/DC – Dirty Deeds

The Kaisers – Alligator Twist

The US Four – The Alligator
The Untamed Youth – KAPO
Johnny Dankworth – Avengers Theme (Series Three)

The Londonairs – Dearest Emma
Honor Blackman – Men Will Decieve You

The Triffids – Red Pony (Live)

The Go-Betweens – Quiet Heart (Live)
The Dirty Lovers – All I Want

The Astronauts – Rocking Goose

The Apemen – Squad Car
The Avengers VI – Timebomb

Once in a lifetime.

This is not my beautiful house and this is not my beautiful wife.

Not sure what's happened here, but the first show has not appeared on FCUM Radio. Watch this space.

The Old Seekers

You're going to laugh. I can smell it. But, bad comedy aside, I love this. Judith Durham has a fine set of lungs and 'the lads' use the chops of a well-disciplined travelling band to offset their alt*comedy-mocked specky four eyes, pre-Fab Four demeanour.

Where fun is our speciality.

 

I'm doing a show for FCUM Radio called United! a Go! Go! and I thought I know, I'll start a blog so that I can post up setlists and links to videos and teasers and that sort of stuff. So here's a picture of Frankies Night Club, Raphoe where all the 'action' happens and you can 'disco' the night away.

The show will be broadcast on Fridays and Sundays for twenty six weeks from Friday the 17th of August. It will be available to listen to twice each day, initially at 11am, with a repeat at 3pm.

After each show has been broadcast I'll post up the setlists. Just in case, you never know, somebody wants to find out more about a particular tune.

See side bar for links to FCUM Radio, which broadcasts 24 hours a day on internet radio through appropriately enabled devices (Internet Radios, Mobile Phones, Laptops, Tablets, PCs, Smart TVs, Space Clogs etc etc). Give it a listen; you may just like it.