My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights edition #100 – The Poetry edition II has broadcasted repeats Monday 16 & 23 November, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
I love poetry. I love Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II. You can read about the programme here.
Tracklist: 01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa) 02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen) 03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem) 04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence) 05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines) 06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One 07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido 08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43 09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake 10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year 11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés) 12: Rowland S. Howard – Autoluminescent 13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51 14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock) 15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche) 16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life 17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an Haiku for Richard Oakes
You can read about Amazing Songs & Other Delights #05 The Poetry edition here and listen to it here.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition is broadcasted Monday 02 & 09 November, 3-4pm London time, on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition is a simple, cozy, gentle, seasonal programme with songs and instrumentals that mention Autumn or feel autumnal. Along with a few more upbeat ones.
As it tends to be common on my Amazing Songs & Other Delights the songs arrive from different decades and have different genres, although one could say Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition leans towards indie, indie folk, with a few dance and rock vibes. Of course a couple of orchestral presences appear too.
The Bluestones were an extremely recent re-find. My friend Wayne and his son were going to their concert in London. I was surprised, not having following the band in years. Wayne told me they had a new album, I said I will check it. And here it is Lux Interior.
A song written in homage to Lux Interior of the Cramps, that is also perfect for a time between Halloween & Samhain – the beginning of the Celt Winter – All Saints Day, All Souls Day and the New Moon in Scorpio November 9, the day Amazing Songs & Other Delights #102 An Autumn Feeling edition has its second broadcast.
A perfect season to be with our inner light.
Tracklist: 01: Laura Veirs – Little Deschutes 02: The Kinks – Autumn Almanac 03′ The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 04: A Certain Ratio – Who’s To Say (3rd Peel Session) 05: Eve Cassidy – Autumn Leaves with The London Symphony Orchestra 06: Queens of the Stone Age – Sunday 07: The Bluetones – Lux Interior 08: Vince Guaraldi – The Great Pumpkin Waltz 09: Everclear – Fire Maple Song 10: Led Zeppelin – Ramble On 11: Erica Buettner – When It Goes 12: The Adventure Babies – Camper Van 13: Prickly Pear – At The End 14: Oh Bobby – Water
The Bluetones
The Bluestones – Lux Interior lyrics
Time ran out On all that flailing about And the need to live Well something had to give It was some punchline Had the stars and planets aligned? So I played along Let the cosmos sing its song
And I knew nothing was true
And here you are In the shotgun seat of the car And it’s me at the wheel Don’t mean that seals the deal If I hold my nerve And I surf just ahead of the curve Might I hear you say You miss me when I’m away
And it proves nothing was true Until you
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine And your taste Cuts through the space Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
And it proves nothing was true Until you
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine And your taste Cuts through the space Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
And your name Cuts through the din Like a guillotine Like a tambourine
Penelope and the Ducks – Underwater Woman: Swimming In The Sea
My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #101 – Oceanic edition is broadcasted Monday 19 & 26 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
I return to ocean swimming late May and have kept it, including going to the ocean at night. At night, usually, given the conditions to walk along the shoreline, but, sometimes the water is good enough for a nightswim.
As R.E.M.’s song say that appears in the programme says “Nightswimming deserves a quiet night, deserves a quiet night”.
Preceding R.E.M. are Queens of The Stone Age with I Sat By The Ocean. Underwater Songs are Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha, a voice and piano duo that is releasing their second album Underwater Songs Vol. 2 in November.
There’s Sétimo Legião with Sete Mares, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ The Ship Song, Charles Trenet with La mer.
The Who bring Sea And Sand from Quadrophenia, The Velvet Underground, arrive with Ocean, The Shins walk with Sea Legs, Van Morrison’s Into The Mystic brings an otherworldly dimension.
Amalia Rodrigues singing Canção do Mar, and Chico Buarque with Mar e Lua bring deep emotion and longing.
Bernard Butler appears twice. The Sea (Edit), a b-side from Stay, a single from his debut album People Moved On, and Camber Sands from his third album Good Grief.
The closing is for the Beatles with the joyous Octopus’ Garden.
Tracklist:. 01: Queens of the Stone Age – I Sat By The Ocean 02: R.E.M. – Nightswimming 03: Underwater Songs (Luís Figueiredo & Manuel Rocha) – Graça 04: Sétima Legião – Sete Mares 05: Charles Trenet – La mer 06: Bernard Butler – The Sea (Edit) 07: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song 08: The Who – Sea And Sand 09: The Velvet Underground – Ocean 10: Amália Rodrigues – Canção do Mar 11: Bernard Butler – Camber Sands 12: Van Morrison – Into The Mystic 13: The Shins – Sea Legs 14: Chico Buarque – Mar e Lua 15: The Beatles – Octopus’ Garden
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.
There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song
The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.
William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.
Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.
Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.
The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro
In the cliff and the cave The House Martin nested Then, to the city it moved to
Tracklist: 01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa) 02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen) 03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem) 04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence) 05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines) 06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One 07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido 08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43 09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake 10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year 11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés) 12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent 13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51 14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock) 15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche) 16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life 17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on edition #100 – The Poetry edition II is broadcasted Monday 05 & 12 October, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
I love poetry. Two recent birthday projects/presents by The Mild Ones. one for Brett Anderson’s birthday, the other for Richard Oakes’ birthday have me reading poetry. On the second instance The House Martin purpose written haiku by me for Richard.
There have been poems of mine put to music by among others, Francisco Silva (Old Jerusalem/The June Carriers/Velho Homem) and João Diogo Zagalo (Silver & Scout, Vox Mambo, Dead Violets, The Lone Ranger) and my Poem #80 turned into the song Lucid One by Francisco Silva.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights #100 – The Poetry edition II has my own poetry sang by others, said/read my me, changed into a song
The Latin word for poem is carmen, hence Bizet’s Carmen in the voice of Maria Callas.
William Blake serves the lyrics of The Doors’ End of the Night, is named in The The’s Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake, and the inspiration subject of Patti Smith’s My Blakean Year.
Lorca comes in Leonard Cohen’s adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés, Take This Waltz. One of my favourite poems T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is on Sibylle Baier’s Says Elliott.
Eminem’s Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido, and Rowland S Howard’s Autoluminescent gives another dimension of poetry and sounds.
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau singing Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree) from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Winter Journey) a dark folk song by Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche, takes us back to the classical world.
The House Martin, and haiku for Richard Oakes by Raquel Pinheiro
In the cliff and the cave The House Martin nested Then, to the city it moved to
Tracklist: 01: Raquel Pinheiro – Autopsicografia (Fernando Pessoa) 02: Maria Callas – Carmen live (from Bizet’s Carmen) 03: Marianne Faithfull & Warren Ellis – Ozymandias (an adaptation of Shelley’s poem) 04: The Doors – End of the Night (lyrics from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence) 05: Suede – Heroine (Byron’s She Walks in Beauty 1st lines) 06: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One 07: Eminem – Stan (Long Version) ft. Dido 08: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 43 09: The The – Some Days I Drink My Coffee By The Grave of William Blake 10: Patti Smith – My Blakean Year 11: Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (an adaptation of Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés) 12: Rowland S Howard – Autoluminescent 13: João Diogo Zagalo & Raquel Pinheiro – Poem 51 14: Sibylle Baier – Says Elliott (lines from T.S. Eliot’s The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock) 15: Dietrich Fischer Dieskau sings Der Lindenbaum from Schubert’s Die Winterreise (Wilhelm Müller arranged by Friedrich Silche) 16: Johnny Marr – All in a Life 17: Raquel Pinheiro – The House Martin, an haiku for Richard Oakes
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #99 – The Luminous edition edition is broadcasted Monday 21 and 28 September, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).
After a pause and repeat shows I’m back to new editions.
As soon as I became aware Johnny Marr was having an auction of his guitars, amps, and memorabilia at Christie’s 17 September I knew how the snow begun. Spin is taken from Johnny’s upcoming album The Age of Everything.
The last song, Bernard Butler singing The Irish Goodbye – one of his new songs live from the Irish Embassy in London for RTE (the Iris national broadcaster) 100th anniversary – was also decided.
The other songs, aside from Lucinda Williams version of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps that I have played before – appeared from different sources and fitted the programme flow and imaginary.
There’s a second Johnny Marr presence. He plays the guitars on Meredith Sheldon’s Once We Were Dust album which I found through his Instagram.
The guitars, or most of them, Johnny plays on Spin and Diamonds Like are no longer his, have changed hands at the auction.
The songs vary in gente, in age, in being from lost albums, or just released. Together they form a diverse tapestry I like.
Tracklist: 01: Johnny Marr – Spin 02: Velcro Dog – The Gonzo Futurist Manifesto 03: The Pineapple Thief – God Knows 04: Susanna Hoffs – Casablanca 05: Bikini Body – Leipzig (ft. Ben Katzman) 06: Meredith Sheldon – Diamonds Like 07: Soft Science – Spinning 08: Cesária Evora – Sonsente 09: Filipe Karlsson – Rota 10: The Go – Secular Century Man 11: Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps 12: Garcia – Quando Não Estás 13: Railcard – Flannelette 14: Yoko Ono – Never Say Goodbye (2026 Remaster) 15: Ex_Re – Radio Station 16: Prince – I Am You 17: Bernard Butler – The Irish Goodbye (live at RTE 100)
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #97 – The Of Sea & Cake edition is now available on mixcloud.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs on Yé Yé Radio 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month, 3-4pm (London time) repeating 3rd and 4th Monday of the Month.
For some reason I had the programme title for a while. Probably, because of Sea and Cake, the band that opens and closes the show. Since I recently went ocean swim again and I like cake, it was a perfect match. Ideas and life catching and matching up.
Tracklist: 01: The Sea and Cake – Four Corners 02: Dhani Harrison (Live at George Fest) – Savoy Truffle 03: Air – La Femme d’Argent 04: Queens Of The Stone Age – Monsters In The Parasol 05: The Beach Boys – Catch A Wave (Stereo/Remastered 2001) 06: Deerhoof – Milk Man 07: Cake – Distance 08: Stereolab – Lo Boob Oscillator 09: Brian Eno – By This River (2004 Digital Remaster) 10: Lupe Fiasco – Cake 11: Can – Vitamin C 12: Everything But The Girl – Temperamental 13: The Sea and Cake – Parasol
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #96 – The We’re Still In Spring edition is now on mixcloud here.
Tracklist: 01: The Kiboomers – Ladybugs Fly 02: Taylor Swift – invisible string 03: The Kind Hills – Dance, Dance, Dance 04: Silly Boy Blue – Again and Again and Again 05: Saint Etienne – Who Do You Think You Are 06: Belle & Sebastian – Seeing Other People 07: The Beach Boys – Spring Vacation 08: Fleet Floxes – Sun It Rises 09: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau by sings Schubert’s Frühlingsglaube, D. 686 10: Gifthorse – Stranger Baby 11: The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Remastered 2009) 12: Dean & Britta – Eyes In My Smoke 13: The Avett Brothers – A Fathers First Spring 14: Saint Sappho – Whole Again 15: Test Department with the South Wales Striking Miners Choir – Take Me Home 16: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon 17: Rita Braga – Rua do Capelão
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights is on repeats until mid September.
Amazing Songs & Other Delights is broadcasted on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app). Each same show repeats 1st and 2nd Monday of the month, then another 3rd and 4th Monday of the month, 3-4pm (London time).
Exceptionally, this year The Anniversary Edition is in Autumn.
My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights #98 – The Of Summer & Football edition is broadcasted Monday 15 and 22 June, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com to (or on the app).
Summer is around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, the 2026 World Cup is on. The Of Summer & Football edition has nineteen songs and one instrumental that speak of both. The Summer songs aren’t all necessarily season specific.
The Wedding Present’s Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft of from their album George Best, Manchester United’s (in)famous right winger
Billy Bragg’s God’s Footballer is about Peter Knowles a forward of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., better known as Wolves.
John Travolta & Olivia Newton John – Summer Nights classic from the film Greece is a perfect Summer evening dancing song. Along with the surfy Peter Gunn by Duane Eddy.
The Smiths’ Golden Lights is a cover of English singer-songwriter Twinkle’s 1965 single, and in itself as little to do with Summer.
New Order’s World In Motionand Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds’s Three Lions where written with England’s National team in mind, while Belle and Sebastian’s It Only Takes One Lion is their 2026 song for Scotland National team.
As usual on the Summer and Winter programme there’s a cover of The Mamas & the Papas do’ California Dreamin’, this time by José Feliciano.
Tracklist: 01 – Tom Joseph – Brighton 02 – New Order – World In Motion 03 – Frank Rabeyrolles – Bossa In My Heart 04 – The Wedding Present – Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft 05: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Under A Cat 06: The Fall – Kicker Conspiracy 07: National Death Industry – The End Of All The Things We Do 08: Belle and Sebastian – It Only Takes One Lion 09: Calvin Harris – Summer 10: Animal Collective – Goalkeeper 11: Saint Etienne – Nothing Can Stop Us Now 12: The Smiths – Golden Lights 12: Waaves – King Of The Beachaaa 14: Rod Stewart – Touchline 15: Duane Eddy – Peter Gunn 16: Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds – Three Lions 17: John Travolta & Olivia Newton John Summer Nights 18: Billy Bragg – God’s Footballer 19: Weezer – Island In The Sun 20: José Feliciano – California Dreamin’
