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Chris is joined by CarFest coordinator Chris Hughes to release the final tickets for the 2017 festival in aid of Children In Need.

Chris is joined by CarFest's charismatic coordinator Chris Hughes to release the final tickets for the festival in aid of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Children In Need. This leads us into our top tenuous and your desperate claims to the fame of secret big bands. American football player Kyle Brady joins Vassos in the sports locker, plus discussions on dust and belly button fluff and an unheard version of the Beatles title track from their album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Thu 27 Apr 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • Kool & the Gang

    Ladies' Night

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.

  • Amy Macdonald

    Automatic

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 001.

  • Def Leppard

    Pour Some Sugar On Me

    • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Can't Get You Out Of My Head

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Kooks

    She Moves In Her Own Way

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Lips Are Movin

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 001.

  • Jack Savoretti

    We Are Bound

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • The B‐52s

    Love Shack

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
    • 3.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Galway Girl

    • Γ· Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Johnny Cash

    Ring Of Fire

    • Johnny Cash - Man In Black.
    • Columbia.

  • Texas

    Tell That Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Tom Odell

    Here I Am (Radio 1's Big Weekend 2016)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Dodgy

    Staying Out For The Summer

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

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • ELO - Out Of The Blue.
    • Jet.

  • The Jacksons

    Can You Feel It

    • Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
    • Parlophone.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now 17, Part 1 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Beatles

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition

  • Manic Street Preachers

    A Design For Life

    • Everything Must Go - 20th Anniversary Edition.
    • Columbia.
    • 16.

  • Cast

    Finetime

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Busted

    Year 3000

    • Top Of The Pops Spring 2003 (Various).
    • Universal.

  • Olly Murs

    Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida)

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Ian Dury & The Blockheads

    Sweet Gene Vincent

    • The Best Album Tracks ...Ever! (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Mud

    Tiger Feet

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Harry Styles

    Sign Of The Times

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Hungry Heart

    • Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia.

  • Dan Auerbach

    Shine On Me

    • Waiting On A Song.
    • Easy Eye Sound.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Writer and Musician, Jahnavi Harrison.

I just spent a month in Australia – got back a few days ago, so I’m still living in that weird limbo where you feel like eating a nice big lunch at 4 in the morning!

I was out there not so much for a holiday, but touring different cities from Melbourne all the way up to Brisbane playing mantra music – a type of meditation from the Hindu tradition.Μύ We played at surf clubs, yoga studios and one night we even did an outdoor event, seated on a lawn outside the Victoria state library, singing as the seagulls swooped overhead and tourists stopped to take videos and selfies. I have to say - it was great fun and has been getting me thinking more about the power of sound and singing.

I read some time back that researchers at a Swedish University proved that when people sing together their heart rates actually become synchronised – found that pretty amazing… It doesn’t have to be religious singing of course- a friend was at Glastonbury for Adele’s set last year and said that even though he’s not a great fan of her music, the experience of 150,000 people belting it out in unison moved him to tears.

In the Hindu tradition singing is considered the highest form of worship. The chants and songs that are used are called mantras – a Sanskrit word which literally means to free the mind.Μύ These days the word mantra is used pretty loosely to mean any slogan or affirmation – but a genuine mantra is an ancient sacred sound formula that is powerfully uplifting and has been passed from teacher to student for a very, very long time.

I’ve been singing mantras my whole life, but sharing more widely for about the last ten years, everywhere from mental health rehab facilities to corporates. When I was a child I never thought mantras and meditation would be something cropping up in fashion magazines and occasionally prescribed on the NHS, but these days so many people who may not be religious at all are finding joy and relief from stress in this type of practice.

Life may not be like La La Land – with traffic jams of people ready to burst into song at any moment – but I believe that it’s is better lived, with even just one sing song a day.

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