BBC Radio 2 Live in Newcastle
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BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle The nation’s most listened to radio station brings a host of star names, presenters and programmes to Newcastle from Saturday 4 October-Saturday 11 October 2003 (Pictured: Sheryl Crow, Lemar, Jools Holland and Texas) Contents BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle On-air programming . 4 Extra events . 11 Presenter biographies Richard Allinson . 12 Paul Jones . 12 Jools Holland . 13 Frank Renton . 14 Janice Long . 15 Mike Harding . 16 Ken Bruce . 17 Fringe events . 18 www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle On-air programming On-air programming for BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle All tickets are free and can be obtained special when we’re out and about, so I can by calling the Radio 2 ticket line on promise a few surprises on Saturday. It’s been a 08700 100 200. Lines are open from long time coming and I can’t wait to go back Monday 15 September, 7am-12midnight, to one of my favourite parts of the country.” seven days a week. Calls are charged at national rate. Dublin band The Thrills – Conor Deasy on vocals, Daniel Ryan on guitar/vocals and bass, Full details are listed on the Radio 2 website at Ben Carrigan on drums, Kevin Horan on www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 keyboards and Padraic McMahon on bass/vocals and guitars – played their debut London show at the Royal Albert Hall, after a Richard Allinson person invitation from Morrissey.The Thrills The Baltic get their inspiration from The Beach Boys, ESP Saturday 4 October and Burt Bacharach and are lovers of the Show: 3.30pm Doors: 2.30pm music of the West Coast of America circa the mid-Sixties and Seventies. Transmitted live on BBC Radio 2, Saturday 4 October, 3.30-6.30pm Lemar (above) sprang to the public’s attention The Thrills (pictured), Lemar, Dexys Midnight last year as a finalist on the BBC’s Fame Runners and Amy Winehouse perform Academy. His first single, Dance (With U), exclusive sets for Richard Allinson’s show this described as “a cross between Michael Jackson week, broadcast live from The Baltic. and Musiq Soulchild”, stayed true to Lemar’s R&B roots but also kept in tow the audience Richard says:“I’m really looking forward to this he built up with Fame Academy – an impressive weekend.We always try to do something balancing act. BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle 4 On-air programming Post-punk rock band Dexys Midnight Runners and worked with the likes of Lauryn Hill and have recently re-formed with a new “best of” Mary J Blige. Her single, Stronger Than Me, is due compilation album which is due for release in for release in October, ahead of her album, September.The album includes two new Frank, which records her experiences of love tracks, My Life In England and Manhood, which and life. will be showcased on an autumn tour. Dexys were formed in 1978 by singer/ Texas – Live & Exclusive songwriter/guitarist Kevin Rowland and Kevin Northumbria University “Al” Archer, both former members of the Saturday 4 October punk band The Killjoys. Having recruited Show: 9.00pm Doors: 8.00pm further members to the band, they strove to reflect their working-class image by dressing as Transmitted live on BBC Radio 2, New York dockworkers. In 1980, their debut Saturday 4 October, 9.00-10.00pm album, Searching For The Young Soul Rebels, was a huge success and spawned the No. 1 hit Geno. It wasn’t long before they were hailed as “British rock’s return to an organic, soulful sound in the post-punk/new-wave era”. The band were, perhaps, most famous for their smash-hit single Come On Eileen, which topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic in 1982. Dexys spilt up after their third album, Don’t Stand Me Down, in 1986.Their comeback album, Let’s Make This Precious, includes original members Kevin Rowland and Pete Williams. Nineteen-year-old Amy Winehouse is a singer- songwriter from Camden, London, whose voice is “cut with the same rough silk as Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald”. Her music fuses traditional jazz with a more contemorary hip- hop sound.Amy got her first guitar at the age of 13 – her mother was a fan of folk music and, as a result, she grew up listening to the likes of James Taylor and Carole King.Amy was also exposed to her father’s jazzier taste and therefore to the likes of Sarah Vaughan and Dina Washington.At the age of 16, she started singing with a Youth Jazz Orchestra and, soon Texas perform an exclusive gig live from after, became interested in R&B and hip-hop. Stage 2 of the University of Northumbria. Amy soon found a management company and began working with producers, and it wasn’t Texas formed in Glasgow in 1986 when 18- long before Island Records signed her up. year-old art student Sharleen Spiteri (pictured) Having worked with producers in London, she headed for the States to look for collaborators, met Johnny McElhone (ex-Altered Images and BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle 5 On-air programming Hipsway).Together, they formed a band, taking Paul Jones their name from the 1985 Wim Wenders film The Opera House Paris,Texas.Their debut album, Southside, Monday 6 October spawned their first UK hit single, I Don’t Want A Show: 8.00pm Doors: 7.00pm Lover, which went straight into the Top 10.Their new album, Careful What You Wish For,is Transmitted on BBC Radio 2, released in October and features the new Thursday 9 October, 8.00-9.00pm single Carnival Girl. Paul Jones introduces Johnny Mars with Paul Hart and the Barrelhouse Blues Orchestra and Listen To The Band Bad Influence in this special edition of Radio 2’s Theatre Royal weekly blues show from The Opera House. Sunday 5 October Show: 7.30pm Doors: 6.30pm Vocalist and harmonica player Johnny Mars is joined by Paul Hart on guitar and vocals Transmitted on BBC Radio 2, and the Barrelhouse Blues Orchestra – a 21- Friday 10 October, 9.30-10.00pm piece outfit of brass, strings and rhythm.The Barrelhouse Blues Orchestra was put The Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band, together by Hart in January 2003 and the conducted by Garry Cutt, and The Ever Ready players have played or written for many acts, Band, conducted by Ray Farr, feature in this including Wings, Cream,The Who, Robbie special edition of Listen To The Band, presented McIntosh, Kenny Jones Band, Roger Chapman, by Frank Renton. Clarence Big Millar, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and James Last, to To celebrate the brass tradition in Newcastle, name but a few.The whole outfit is conducted tonight’s programme includes brass by Marcus Marriot who, with Chas Dickie arrangements of traditional tunes and and Dave Burgess, is largely responsible for popular songs from the North East, including the arrangements. Blaydon Races, Blow The Wind Southerly and The Lambton Worm. Bad Influence are a five-piece band with Val Cowell on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Frank says:“I’m very much looking forward to Richard Hayes on lead and slide guitar, Harry this special edition of Listen To The Band.For James on drums and vocals, and Chris Childs many years The Ever Ready band have been on bass guitar and vocals. Bad Influence tour the pinnacle of brass banding in the North constantly, performing their own material and East. Now, with Ray Farr as their principal various rock and blues covers, ranging from conductor, they are ready to enter a new era Bonnie Raitt to Tom Petty and Janis Joplin. of innovative entertainment, on parade for the first time with Radio 2 in Newcastle.The Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal band is, Jools Holland justifiably, one of the most famous bands in the Newcastle University world, and not just because of their starring Monday 6 October role in the film Brassed Off.They have, for many Show: 8.45pm Doors: 7.45pm years, been at the cutting edge of innovative banding and have transported their brand of Transmitted live on BBC Radio 2, entertainment all over the world.” Monday 6 October, 9.00-10.00pm BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle 6 On-air programming Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra perform an exclusive concert as part of BBC Radio 2 Live In Newcastle. Over the years, Jools has performed and recorded with some of the most talented musicians and songwriters in the world, a list that extends from Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, Sting, Luther Vandross and BB King, to Dr John, Paul Weller and George Harrison. Born in London in 1958, Jools showed unusual flair for the piano from an early age. By the time he was eight, he had mastered the rudiments of boogie woogie and blues piano and, by his teens, he was playing in various clubs in South London and the East End. When he was 15, Jools met up with Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and together, they The roots of The Vessels (above) can be traced formed Squeeze.With hits including Cool For to an afternoon concert in Kingston-upon- Cats and Up The Junction, Squeeze achieved Thames, when a group featuring singer Paul spectacular success, selling millions of records Cook and drummer Neil Kerly were and breaking America. supported by another band playing West Coast psychedelia. Both Paul and Neil were Jools went on to become co-presenter of impressed by the guitarist, Gerard Gannon, The Tube and presenter of his own BBC Two and decided they needed him in their band.A show, Later With Jools Holland.