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4fm is one of Ireland’s newest (and already one of Ireland’s best) radio stations. It has a multi-city license broadcasting to Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Galway cities - and, for some reason, to all of County Clare. Aimed at an older (>35) audience, they play more easy-listening and less pop/chart tracks… plus they have the excellent Peter Dickson (the voice of ‘E4′ in the UK, also known as “Voiceover Man”) providing their idents, and that lovely fellah Brian McColl presenting a very entertaining show Monday to Friday, 2 to 5pm.
Part of Brian’s show - the whole middle part, in fact - is the “Oldies Hour”, where listeners get to email in their list of favourite oldies (anything up to the early/mid-eighties) and the playlist for that whole hour is chosen from their list. I sent Brian a list of 27 songs a few weeks ago, before I went on holidays, and he held out on featuring them until I came back… until today, in fact!
Here’s a clip of the intro to the hour with a little bit of ‘banter’ between Brian and Peter Dickson:
And here’s the list of songs played:
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I really can’t sufficiently put into words the magnitude of the death of Michael Jackson - or what it means to me, the music world at large and his literally millions of fans around the planet. I really can’t properly express the shock and dismay his death has caused and how simply very very sad it is to see him go - he was a Peter Pan type character who, even at the age of 50, had stubbornly refused to leave childhood - and now, I guess, will never have to.