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Get lively every morning with the breakfast show. Expect lots of great music, news headlines, a look at the papers, regular sports updates and a daily Pause for Thought.

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Thu 2 Jul 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Sweet

    Ballroom Blitz

    • The Sweet - Originals.
    • RCA.

  • Nell Bryden

    Waves (feat. Tom McRae)

    • (CD Single).
    • 157 Records.

  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • The Crystals

    Da Doo Ron Ron

    • The Best Of The Crystals.
    • Phil Spector Int.

  • INXS

    Mystify

    • INXS - Kick.
    • Mercury.

  • Stealers Wheel

    Stuck In The Middle With You

    • (Single).
    • A&M.

  • Blur

    Ong Ong

    • The Magic Whip.
    • Parlophone.
    • 011.

  • Thunderclap Newman

    Something In The Air

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • X-Phonics Records.

  • Adam and the Ants

    Stand And Deliver

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Glen Campbell

    Wichita Lineman

    • Country Moods (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Leona Lewis

    Fire Under My Feet

    • I Am.
    • Island.

  • Dodgy

    Staying Out For The Summer

    • The No.1 Summer Album (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

    • Def Leppard - Hysteria.
    • Phonogram.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Whiskey In The Jar

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Mercury.
    • 10.

  • Giorgio Moroder

    Deja Vu (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • Level 42

    Running In The Family

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Imelda May

    Johnny Got A Boom Boom

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Classics & Jazz.
    • 1.

  • James

    She's a Star

    • James - Whiplash.
    • Mercury.
    • 9.

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Summertime

    • (CD Single).
    • Jive.

  • The Police

    Roxanne

    • The Very Best Of Sting & The Police.
    • A&M.

  • Joss Stone

    The Answer

    • Water For Your Soul.
    • Stone'd Records.
    • 001.

  • Haircut One Hundred

    Fantastic Day

    • Pelican West - Deluxe Edition.
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 007.

  • The Style Council

    Long Hot Summer

    • The Best Summer Ever (Various Artists.
    • Virgin.
    • 4.

  • James Taylor

    Montana

    • Before This World.
    • Concord Records.
    • 001.

  • Pink Floyd

    Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2

    • Pink Floyd.
    • Harvest.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Well I know it’s a few days ago now but I’m still riding the crest of the wave from last weekend’s Glastonbury festival. I mean I wasn’t actually there but I was able to get a flavour of the festival in my own front room especially when I rigged up the big speakers to the telly and kept our kids awake until the early hours by singing and embarrassingly, dancing along to the best of it on the red button. It was loud and if I’m honest I rather forgot myself. Wasn’t it great to see all those people young and old having such an amazing time?Ìý It reminded me of that line from Spinal Tap ‘turning it up to eleven’. Standard amplifiers go up to 10 but the phrase turning it up to eleven has come to mean living life to the max, why stop at the standard 10 volume when 11 could be so much more? There were more than a few people in that field in Somerset last weekend embodying that and turning it up to 11, living life to the max.

In my line of work I hear wonderful stories of amazing people who have done just that. Turning life up to 11. The 60 year old bloke part of the vintage motorbike club, racing bikes through the Sahara and back, the 70 year old asking for a skydive experience for Christmas and my great friend Jean who in her 80’s was disappointed when the driving instructor for her birthday treat on a race track wouldn’t let her push the beautiful Lotus past 90 on the straight, ‘Well,’ she announced, ‘What was the point if he wasn’t going to let me see just how fast it could go?’

Turning life up to eleven, stretching and squeezing the best out of the time we have, living life to the max.

Jesus was big on bounties of blessing, turning water into wine at a wedding and providing more food than was needed at the feeding of the 5 thousand, he also said ‘I have come that you might have life and have it in all its fullness’ not a green light for hedonism but an encouragement that even if life gives you lemons to squeeze every last drop out of it you can, life in all its fullness.

Can’t we do Glastonbury again this weekend?

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