Back when it was less cold, I'd get up on my first alarm. Now that the temps dropped to testicle chilling temperatures, I hit snooze and wait the five minutes before the next one, content for that extra five minutes under the covers.
Today it was the third alarm that finally got me moving. And when it gets to
that stage, you know I've had a pretty rough night.
But hey the
(solo) show must go on!
THE BATTLE CONTINUES EVEN WITH ONE IN THE STUDIO
We're loving how popular Fight For Your Flashback has been and so I suggested to the boss that even though Lu was out of action due to a back injury, could we still get into this latest round of song smackdown/tune thunderdome. And he happily agreed, suggesting that songs with 'Back' in the title (in honor of Lu's back) should be theme.
The good news is, there's so many to choose from. In the end the battle looked a little like thus:
Tom Petty's defiant 'I won't back down' up against the Brothers Gallagher (back when they were still on speaking terms with each other) Oasis's 'Don't look back in anger.'
And even though Lu stood by the boys and even emailed a strong justification piece through for me to read, it didn't go her way. 78% of the people decided Tom needed to be played so Tom got played and it put the scores back to one hell of a fight:
Lu 6 Al 5
Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years weeks.
HEY DAVE
Speaking of awesome acts, I got to chat to Dave Gleeson from the Screaming Jets and Angels fame this morning. I've been a bit of a fan of the Jet's work from a while back (especially the songs Better and Sad Song) and a few years ago I worked with Dave on a lunchtime show for Triple M's Oztober. Not only that but when I was up in Townsville I bumped into him and some of the band at the hotel bar and ended up having a couple of beers with the legend.
So I was very glad to hear he's going well and loving his time back on stage with the band post Covid shutting the gates on the live music scene for the last couple of years. Not only that, he's also become a teacher to some of the young guns around the office where his show happens, having to point out that on one occasion that Eric Clapton:
Is in no way, shape or form related to this gent Richard Claption, aka Ralph.
Like Dave, I've also interviewed Richard a couple of times now and he's up there with the greatest musical storytellers this country has ever produced. The fact that once upon a time he bought $1 sandwiches from the lunch cart in the studios so that struggling up and coming band INXS actually had something to eat while working on their first album still makes me smile. I think it's been quite a long time indeed that any member of INXS couldn't afford a basic ham and cheese sanga.
He's still not related to Eric in anyway though apart from the spelling of their surnames and that they're both part of the music biz.
THE REBOOT WE DIDN'T NEED
I loved Iron Chef on SBS back in the day. From the colourful chefs to the
chairman chomping away on a capsicum to the mystery ingredient to the
apprentices sweating up a storm to help the challengers cook up a feast for
the three very polite Japanese judges.
You've never seen anyone so
excited about trying to get eel into any kind of foodstuff, nor the absolute
glee when the chairman yells the name Rokusaburo Michiba and the
buzz of having an aussie chef take on one of the three Japanese greats.
Buuuuuut, along comes Netflix deciding it's lacking things to put out there currently and figures a reboot of one of the best cooking shows around (anyone who knows me knows I'm not that big into most cooking shows anyway so Iron Chef was really doing something right) is what's needed to fill the void...next to the 8000 other cooking shows. And so Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend has been born.
Yeah, no. My rose tinted glasses might be firmly in place but it's a tough call to convince me that this is going to live up the quirky original. Especially since we've been flooded with a glut of food shows since the original Iron heyday. Just ask My Top Ramsey's Master Hell's Kitchen Zumbo's Safari Man Great Chef Final Versus British Table Bake Kitchen Nightmares Off Rules, or whatever that show is called.
TOMORROW, TOMORROW, I'M SOLO AGAIN, TOMORROW
Look Lu might be back but I'm not sure. If not then it's up to me to put a sizeable dent in the stations coffee supplies (which I'm pretty good at doing anyway), trying to find interesting things to talk about (so not Iron Chef reboots) and keeping us on air.
Wish me luck!
-Almigo
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