Biggles FM

I played live on the radio as promised. I ended up playing / interviewing for about 90 minutes, playing 12 songs, some covers and come originals. I had pretty much lost my voice on Christmas Eve so I asked one of my daughters to understudy for me and she dutifully learned about 10 songs. Luckly for me it held out and I did the last 2 songs (Christmas ones) as duets with her. My set list was:

1. My Destiny
2. Feel (cover)
3. Know that I'm thinking of you
4. Prison
5. 59th Street Bridge Song / Homeward bound (covers)
6. This frustration
7. Every Breath You Take (cover)
8. She makes me want to cry
9. Faith (cover)
10. Out of Reach
11. Let it snow (cover)
12. Merry Christmas Everybody (cover)

Quite a few people emailed / texted in, including my sister, Grainne from Ireland, Tim and marie-Line from France, Jeff, Lynne from Warwick, Peter and Mike from work. I also said hello to Emma, Melanie, Sinead, Wayne and Debbie, Judith and family, oh and of course Jen.

And it was great fun. Alan the station manager interviewed me and Anthony sat in the studio. I had a few elementary sound problems which I should have sorted out: I couldn't reach the mixer, so when the balance was wrong I couldn't adjust it easily. I used a gate. WHY? It made the vocal sound terrible and pumpy. God I'm stupid. I had problems with leads and pedals - I had auditioned everything beforehand but they failed me on the day. And I didn't listen well enough to myself while singing - sometimes the vocal effects pedal was not engaged when it needed to be; sometimes my intonation left a bit to be desired. Shocking. But all in all, for a first radio performance I was pretty pleased with it.

Here are a few pics of me in action...and I might get a couple of sound snippets posted on the Record Label website. And sorry I didn't have a shave first, but I was feeling poorly!