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My guest mixer this week is David Quantick
Music journalist, novelist and comedy writer whose credits include Harry Hill’s TV Burp, On The Hour/The Day Today, Mitchell & Webb and Smack The Pony, he has even won an Emmy in 2015 for his writing for Armando Iannucci’s political satire Veep.
(YouTube & Spotify playlists at the bottom of the page)
Hit the ground running
1. Jerry Lee Lewis - Rockin' My Life Away
Something old
2. Status Quo - Down Down
Cuban Boys - The Nation Needs You
David's favourite Quo song as performed on Top Of The Pops
Something new
3. Rosé & Bruno Mars - APT.
Something borrowed
4. Aphex Twin - Nightmail
LYR is the Simon Armitage band I was struggling to remember
His poem about a panda that's also Ringo Starr is The Last Panda. I can't find it online, but it's part of Seeing Stars.
Something Blue
5. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon
Take It Down
6. REM - Wendell Gee
REM's Wire cover, and their version of King Of The Road
Around The World
7. Malcolm McClaren - Double Dutch
Left Of Centre
8. Eno Moebius Roedelius - The Belldog
Wildcard
9. Philip Larkin - Days
Larkin Revisited (Simon Armitage - BBC Sounds)
Finale
10. The Pet Shop Boys - Go West
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