Reflect with Soundtracks

Tuesday 29th December brings us a special "Soundtracks" to end 2015.

Tony Carty looks back over 2015 with "Dearly Departeds"

He'll bring you memories of Nimoy, Lee, Alf Garnett, Sharif, McNee, Demis, Cilla, a couple of Kings, Horner . . . 

So many, too many . . .

UPCOMING SHOW:

5 Jan: NEW RELEASES incl. several soundtracks for TV series

12 Jan: On CLOUD NINE – celebrating a great record label

Soundtracks: 1 hour Tues 10pm, repeats Sunday midnight and Mon 11am

Catch past shows on Mixcloud

Diary of a Presenter - Christmas Cheer at the Station

The Secklow Sounds family

The Secklow Sounds family met for their Christmas Meal on Thursday 17th December. We booked Calcutta's Indian Brasserie - a lovely restaurant in Stony Stratford that is part of a converted Abbey. With a new set of presenters, the funniest thing was trying to place a face to a voice!

Audrey & Gill - LifestyleMK get into the Christmas Spirit

It was a really lovely turnout, with many of the presenters and management team in attendance, and as always a great opportunity to chat to the person behind the sound. What a varied world of people make up community radio - trainers and teachers, gardeners, conductors, administrators, managers, engineers to name but a few. That's what enables each programme to have the human touch. It's not just about knowing your subject, it's about living life too.

Many of the shows will now break for Christmas although we do have some festive live shows and specials over the Holidays:

SOUL STEPPING - The Xmas Special will go live this Sunday 20th, then repeated on the 27th Dec


HARRY AND EDNA ON THE WIRELESS - Seasonal special shows fall on 23rd & 30th Dec


EYE ON MK - now "DRIVE TIME" - Sean will be doing a live 'Getting ready for Christmas' show Monday-Thursday up to Xmas Eve. There will be a pre-recorded "Best of the guests" show for Xmas Day. ...and Sean is live on Bank Holiday Monday 4-6.


BUSINESS BRUNCH is broadcasting a "best of" compilation shows on the 23rd and the 30th Dec

Newsletter - w/c Dec 20th

TALK BACK - NEWSLETTER W/C DEC 20TH

Every Sunday we'll update you on the special shows on Secklow Sounds.



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W/C 20th Dec 2015,THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST SPECIALS ON SECKLOW SOUNDS...

MONDAY Dec 21st 10AM "THE STICKS WITH TERRY SULLIVAN" - FEATURING ANTONY COSTA and ALEX BYRNE

The Sticks is YOUR what's on & lifestyle guide for Herts Beds and Bucks

Cinderella at The Grove, Dunstable

Terry Sullivan has been chatting to the stars of the local pantos. COMING UP ON MONDAY DEC 21st, his guests are Blue’s Antony Costa, who is playing Prince Charming in Cinderella at the Grove Theatre, Dunstable and Alex Byrne, The creative director of Around The World In 80 Days the Christmas show at the Stables.

He's also got loads of Christmas music to get you in the festive mood!

The Sticks show can be heard at 10am Mondays, repeated Thursdays at noon. Tune in via the Secklow Sounds web site or via the TuneIn radio app.

www.the-sticks.co.uk
thesticks9@gmail.com
Twitter: @thesticks9
www.facebook.com/sticksmag

Contact Terry with requests, dedications, shout-outs

Twitter: @thesticks9 Email: thesticks@secklowsounds.org

TUESDAY December 22nd 10PM "SOUNDTRACKS” WITH TONY CARTY – Christmas on the Screen!

Some of the greatest film music composers have given us particularly fine music for this season.  From Korngold, Williams, Mancini, Waxman, Broughton, Tiomkin and others and a good helping of Miklos Rozsa, this edition sparkles.

UPCOMING SHOW: 29 Dec:  DEARLY DEPARTEDS of 2015

A TREASURY OF FILM MUSIC:

The stock of ALL the past SOUNDTRACKS shows (over 180!) on a variety of topics RIGHT HERE

Soundtracks: 1 hour Tues 10pm, repeats Sunday midnight and Mon 11am catch it on "mixcloud" too.

WEDNESDAY DEC 23RD - HARRY & EDNA ON THE WIRELESS - "WARTIME CHRISTMAS"

On Wed 23rd Harry & Edna on the Wireless will be broadcasting a 'Wartime Christmas'.

As well as presenting Harry & Edna on the Wireless, Edna is also a regular speaker on the British home front during WW2. One of her talks is about the wartime Christmas. During the show she will be explaining how Christmas changed over the war years, plus the show will also feature period radio clips. 

http://www.homefrontfriends.org.uk/talks/index_files/Page316.htm

Harry and Edna on the Wireless - Wednesdays 7pm Harry & Edna Vintage Sweethearts www.harryandedna.co.uk

Hedna's the Vintage Nightclub   www.hednas.co.uk

SATURDAYS, 8AM GRUMPY OLD MEN - WITH THE GRUMPY OLD MEN!

The Grumpy Old Men have decided that it would be an idea to allow a grumpy old woman to join them between 9-9.15 on Saturday mornings.

Find out more by joining their facebook group HERE

REWIND - IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!

LIFESTYLE MK  - Christmas Cheer! (Saturdays 12pm - 2pm)

Audrey & Gill as Dick Whittington
and Puss In Boots

Oh Yes It Is...it was Panto Time in the LifestyleMK studio with our last show of the year. We're back on Jan 9th 2016!

Playing only Christmas #1's we looked at what Milton Keynes is doing to spread the Christmas spirit in the community. Dave's Man Cave suggested gifts for HIM, and Personal Trainer, Robb Henderson gave some great ideas for fitness fanatics. Vet Dr Jamie took a moment to reflect on the meaning of Christmas, and Feature presenter Ashley Alymann led the good wishes for 2016. Dave was made up as a Pantomime Dame live on air, we had a taster feature from Film Critic Tremayne Miller who will be guesting in the New Year, and came to the conclusion that "Die Hard" IS a Christmas Film!

12.00 - 12.30 - Christmas facts, quizzes and what's on in MK
12.30 - 1.00 - PT Robb Henderson-Fitness Gifts, Dave's Man Cave-gifts for Him
1.00 - 1.30 - Dr Jamie reflects, MK's community spirit
1.30 - 2.00 - Tremayne Miller, Ashley's Christmas Wishes

Catch the shows on SPREAKER or MIXCLOUD

TUNE IN FROM JAN 9th 2016 FOR THE NEW SEASON OF LIFESTYLEMK!!

@draudreyt

@gili80

@davejsanderson

#lifestylemk

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Films to watch out for - the Triforce Short Film Festival

Tremayne Miller

Film Critic Tremayne Miller has given Lifestyle:MK an exclusive insight into the Triforce Short Film Festival.  Hear her reviews on some of the latest films on this week's LifestyleMK 12 - 2pm Saturday December 19th.

Tremayne has written for the 2nd Sundance London Film & Music Festival 2013, The 4th Rendez-Vous With French Cinema Film Festival 2013, BEV: Birds Eye View ('Women In Film') Film Festival 2013, The 27th bfi London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2013, The 5th Pan-Asia Film Festival 2013, The bfi London Film Festival 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012 and the Sundance London Film & Music Festival 2012.

You can read more of her work here:

HEY U GUYS

UKTHEATRE.NET

Tremayne will be on LifestyleMK on Saturday Dec 21st

LifestyleMK broadcasts live on Saturdays 12 - 2pm on Secklow Sounds.

Catch their previous shows HERE

VICCARS' ALBUM REVIEW - Appetite for Destruction (Guns 'N' Roses)

Secklow's Paul Viccars invites you to listen to his favourite albums. This week he's been listening to

Appetite for Destruction (1987)

Artist: Guns N' Roses

Label: Geffen Records

Producer: Mike Clink

Track listings:

1. Welcome to the Jungle ★★★★☆

2. It's So Easy ★★☆☆☆

3. Nighttrain ★★★☆☆

4. Out ta Get Me ★★☆☆☆

5. Mr. Brownstone ★★★☆☆

6. Paradise City ★★★★☆

7. My Michelle ★★★☆☆

8. Think About You ★★★☆☆

9. Sweet Child O' Mine ★★★★★

10. You're Crazy ★★☆☆☆

11. Anything Goes ★★☆☆☆

12. Rocket Queen ★★★☆☆

Guns N' Roses's debut album "Appetite for Destruction" is probably one of the most influential albums of my childhood, I was introduced to them by my mother who would constantly sing "Sweet Child O'Mine" to me as a child.

"Appetite for Destruction" is one of my all-time favourite albums, with such classics as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Paradise City" & "Sweet Child O' Mine" this is easily one of those masterpiece records everyone appreciates with an estimated 30 million copies sold world, making it one of the top selling records in the United States.

The original artwork for the album created by American artist Robert Williams (see below), this artwork was rejected by the studio (maybe because there is a blatant raped victim being portrayed, while the rapist looks to be confronted by some crazy creature) and replaced by the famous cross and skulls (I prefer the cross and skulls).

With the album supposedly being written whilst the band were performing in Los Angles, apparently the memorable lyrics in "Welcome to the Jungle" came from a homeless man in Seattle trying to put fear in young runaways... "You know where you're? You're in the jungle baby; you're gonna die"

Overall Verdict: ★★★★☆

by Paul Viccars

Catch the MAYO & VICCARS SHOW at 8pm on Mondays on Secklow Sounds, and hear previous shows on SPREAKER

Oh Yes It Is - THE STICKS' PANTO SEASON

Anton Costa

The Stars of Cinderella

Terry Sullivan has been chatting to the stars of the local pantos. COMING UP ON MONDAY DEC 21st, his guests are Blue’s Antony Costa, who is playing Prince Charming in Cinderella at the Grove Theatre, Dunstable and Alex Byrne, The creative director of Around The World In 80 Days the Christmas show at the Stables.

Michelle Heaton

Wayne Sleep

Last week Terry spoke with Michelle Heaton, Michelle was a member of the pop group Liberty X and is starring in Aladdin this Christmas at The Harpenden Halls and Stephen Bowman of vocal group Blake, and the week before he had the stars of the MILTON KEYNES PANTO, Aladdin - Wayne Sleep and Kev Orkian.

He's also got some great Christmas music to get you in the festive mood.

The Sticks show can be heard at 10am Mondays, repeated Thursdays at noon. Tune in via the Secklow Sounds web site or via the TuneIn radio app.

www.the-sticks.co.uk
thesticks9@gmail.com
Twitter: @thesticks9
www.facebook.com/sticksmag

Contact Terry with requests, dedications, shout-outs

Twitter: @thesticks9 Email: thesticks@secklowsounds.org

Harry and Edna's "Wartime Christmas"

On Wed 23rd Harry & Edna on the Wireless will be broadcasting a 'Wartime Christmas'.

As well as presenting Harry & Edna on the Wireless, Edna is also a regular speaker on the British home front during WW2. One of her talks is about the wartime Christmas. During the show she will be explaining how Christmas changed over the war years, plus the show will also feature period radio clips. 
http://www.homefrontfriends.org.uk/talks/index_files/Page316.htm

Harry and Edna on the Wireless - Wednesdays 7pm Harry & Edna Vintage Sweetheartswww.harryandedna.co.uk

Hedna's the Vintage Nightclubwww.hednas.co.uk