John Connolly: Bestselling Author

R A D I O S H O W

RADIO SHOW ARCHIVE

2011

October 11th (& October 15th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Oh Yeah (Roxy Music) Flesh & Blood
Why Won't You Stay (American Music Club) Everclear
Nostalgia (David Sylvian) Brilliant Trees—Words With The Shaman
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (Hem) I'm Talking With My Mouth EP
Sleeping Rough (Paddy Mcaloon) I Trawl The Megahertz
Blood Of Eden (Peter Gabriel) Us
Courage (Sarah Polley & Mychael Danna) The Sweet Hereafter: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Love Hungry Man (Mark Kozelek) What's Next To The Moon
The Man With The Child In His Eyes (Kate Bush) The Kick Inside
Tara (Roxy Music) Avalon

October 4th (& October 8th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) (Dexy's Midnight Runners) Too-Rye-Ay
Here Comes Everybody (The Wake) Here Comes Everybody
Another Day, Another Riot (Toasted Heretic) Another Day, Another Riot
Black Contact Lenses (Toasted Heretic) Songs For Swinging Celibates
Singer's Hampstead Home (Microdisney) Big Sleeping House
Tom Hark (The Piranhas) Ska Mania
Lorraine (Bad Manners) Walking In The Sunshine

September 27th (& October 1st)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Speed Your Love To Me (Simple Minds) Sparkle in the Rain
Going Down To Liverpool (The Bangles) The Bangles
African and White (China Crisis) Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms...
(It's Not For Me) Talking (A Flock Of Seagulls) A Flock Of Seagulls
Message To My Girl (Neil Finn) Enzso
You're My Favorite Waste Of Time (Marsahll Crenshaw) The Definitive Pop Collection

September 20th (& September 24th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Don't Dictate (Penetration) single
Reasons To Be Miserable (Part 10) (Half Man Half Biscuit) Back Again in the DHSS
Sad Mona Lisa (Television Personalities) Privilege
Can't Get Through (The Tours) Album Of The Year... (That Never Was)
Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart (Patrik Fitzgerald) single
Nutted By Reality (Nick Lowe) Jesus Of Cool
I And I Survive (Bad Brains) I Against I

September 13th (& September 17th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

In Vogue (Japan) Quiet Life
Taking Islands In Africa (Japan) Gentlemen Take Polaroids
A Train on Twisted Tracks (New Musik) warp
Hide And Seek (Long Version) (Howard Jones) Humans Lib
Eldorado (Moderne) Moderne/ L'Espionne Aimait La Musique
Je T'ai Toujours Aimé (Polyphonic Size)
My Foolish Friend (Talk Talk) single

September 6th (& September 10th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

East of Eden (Big Country) Steeltown
SOS (ABC) Beauty Stab
Imagination (Belouis Some) single
Swords Of A Thousand Men (Tenpole Tudor) single
Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha) (Trio) single
Labour Of Love (12" Mix) (Hue & Cry) single

August 30th (& September 3rd)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The New World (Damon & Naomi) Damon & Naomi with Ghost
Ice (Daniel Lanois) Acadie
Theme from Southern Comfort (Ry Cooder) Music by Ry Cooder
Undecided (Strands) Magical World of the Strands
Train In The Distance (Paul Simon) Hearts and Bones
Bach Ze (The High Llamas) Sorry I Made You Cry

August 23rd (& 27th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

V. Thirteen (Big Audio Dynamite) No 10 Upping St
Like Clockwork (The Boomtown Rats) The Best of the Boomtown Rats
It's Going To Happen (The Undertones) True Confessions
Waiting For The Man (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) B-side
Underneath The Radar (12" Remix) (Underworld) Underneath the Radar
Angel Eyes (The Czars) Sorry I Made You Cry
Heroine (The Edge & Sinéad O'Connor) Collaborations
No One Knows I'm Gone (The Unthanks) Last
The Harder They Come (Joe Jackson) Tonight & Forever: The Joe Jackson Collection
Europe (Killing Joke) Night Time
911 Is A Joke (Public Enemy) Power To The People And The Beats: Public Enemy's Greatest Hits

August 16th (& 20th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Never Let Me Go (Human League) Credo
VCR (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) History Of Modern [Part I]
The Bandstand (a-Ha) Foot Of The Mountain
Saturday Sun (Crowded House) Intriguer

September 6th (& September 10th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

East of Eden (Big Country) Steeltown
SOS (ABC) Beauty Stab
Imagination (Belouis Some) single
Swords Of A Thousand Men (Tenpole Tudor) single
Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha) (Trio) single
Labour Of Love (12" Mix) (Hue & Cry) single

August 9th (& 13th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The Last Man In Europe (The Blades) The Last Man In Europe
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (Squeeze ) Argybargy
A Little Man And A House (The Magic Numbers) Leader of the Starry Skies—A Tribute to Tim Smith
Say When (Lene Lovich) single
Let's Talk About The Weather (The Radiators) Ghostown
Down By The Sea (Men at Work) Business As Usual
Someone's Looking at You (The Boomtown Rats) The Best of the Boomtown Rats
Passionate Friend (The Teardrop Explodes) The Greatest Hit
Police Car (Larry Wallis) single
Who Listens To The Radio? (The Sports) single

August 2nd (& 6th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Play To Win (Heaven 17) Penthouse And Pavement
Painted Bird (Siouxsie & The Banshees) A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Never Again (The Days Time Erased) (Classix Nouveaux) The Liberty Singles Collection
Faded Flowers (Shriekback) Oil & Gold
Going Under (Devo) single
Party Fears Two (The Associates) Sulk

July 26th (& 30th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Holiday In Disneyland (Dalek I Love You) single
Penelope Tree (Felt) Pillows & Prayers
Penelope Tree (Felt) Stains On A Decade
Unwritten Law (The Sound) Jeopardy
Nowhere Left To Run (The Outcasts) single
Oh Lucinda (Love Becomes A Habit) (The Only Ones) Best of
Quick As Rainbows (Kitchens Of Distinction Zero) (The Only Ones) A Martin Hannett Story 1977-1991

July 19th (& 23rd)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

You and Your Sister (The Mortal Coil)
Laughter and Forgetting (David Sylvian)
Before the Bullfight (David Sylvian)
Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fire (Cocteau Twins)

July 12th (& 17th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Dog Eat Dog (Adam & The Ants Antics) Kings of the Wild Frontier
E=Mc2 (Big Audio Dynamite) This is Big Audio Dynamite
Rise (PiL) Album
Cry Boy Cry (Blue Zoo) Single
Thunderstorm (Pierce Turner) Now Is Heaven

June 27th (& July 1st)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War (Paul Simon) Hearts & Bones
Waterfalls (Paul McCartney) McCartney II
Romeo Had Juliette (Lou Reed) New York
Somewhere Down The Crazy River (Robbie Robertson) Robbie Robertson

June 21st (& 25th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Love And A Molotov Cocktail (The Flys) Single
The Business Enterprise (Those Nervous Animals) (David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group) Hyperspace
Samba Do Morro (Chance) Não Wave
Lembranças (As Mercenarias) O Começo Do Fin Do Mundo
Teu Inglés (Fellini Não Wave)
You Can't Put Your Arms Round A Memory (Johnny Thunders) Single
Spanish Stroll (Mink Deville) Single
You (Au Pairs) Single
Scaremonger (Orange Juice) The Very Best Of Orange Juice

June 14th (& 18th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

To Live And Die In L.A. (Wang Chung) To Live & Die In L.A.: Original Soundtrack
This Is Not America (David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group) The Falcon And The Snowman

June 7th (& 11th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Replicas (Gary Numan & Tubeway Army) Replicas
Equality (Howard Jones) Human's Lib
Love Resurrection (Alison Moyet) Alf
Darken Her Horse (Austra) Feel It Break
Indicatif (Moderne) Moderne
The Future (Austra) Feel It Break
Alice's Song (The Passions) Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
No Ordinary Lover (China Crisis) Methods Of Dance
Love Like Blood (Icehouse) Heroes
Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls) The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls

May 31st (& June 4th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Show Me (ABC) The Lexicon Of Love
Mirror Man (The Human League) Fascination!
Stay (The Blue Nile) A Walk Across The Rooftops
My New Career (Japan) Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Rip In Heaven (Til Tuesday) Everything's Different Now
All You Pretty Girls (XTC) The Big Express

May 24 (& May 28)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Killer On The Loose (Thin Lizzy) Chinatown
The Murder Of Love (Propaganda) A Secret Wish
It Hurts—There Must Be A Taste Of Murder In It (The Lotus Eaters) No Sense Of Sin
Don't Need A Gun (Billy Idol) Whiplash Smile

May 17 (& May 21)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Musclebound (Spandau Ballet) Journeys to Glory
Private Eyes (The Bird and The Bee) Interpreting The Masters Volume
Victims (Culture Club) Colour By Numbers

May 10 (& May 14)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Nelson Mandela The Special A.K.A.
Lev Bronstein The Redskins
The Day that Margaret Thatcher Died Wah! (featuring Pete Wylie)
(Sing If You're) Glad to Be Gay Tom Robinson

May 3 (& May 7)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

So L.A. (The Motels) All Four One
Chistelle (ESG) A South Bronx Story
Titus (Split Enz) Mental Notes
This One Eats Souls (The Black Eyed Susans) Reveal Yourself
Heaven Knows (Robert Plant) Now and Zen

April 26 (& April 30)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Write Through The Night (Mirrors) Lights And Offerings
Sobre as Pernas (Akira S & As Garotas Que Erraram) The Sexual Life of the Savages
Times Change (New Order) Republic
Seed and the Sower (Ryuichi Sakamoto) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: Soundtrack From The Original Motion Picture
You Have Gone Wrong (Harry) The Sexual Life of the Savages

April 19 (& April 23)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The Nipple Erectors (The Nips) Gabrielle
The Anti-Nowhere League On the Waterfront
Ian Dury and the Blockheads There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards
The Toy Dolls The Ashbrooke Launderette
The Great Western Squares Ace of Spades
Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead
Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin It's My Party

April 12 (& April 16)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Sunspots (Bob Mould) Workbook
I Trawl The Megahertz (Paddy Mcaloon) I Trawl The Megahertz
A Walk Across The Rooftops (The Blue Nile) A Walk Across The Rooftops

April 5 (& April 9)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Dusty Pages (Icehouse) Sidewalk
I've Been Losing You (Extended Version) (a-Ha) Scoundrel Days
Sweetest Smile (Black) Wonderful Life
O Pamela (The Wake) Here Comes Everybody
Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy) (Scritti Politti) Provision
Circlesquare (The Wonder Stuff) If The Beatles Had Read Hunter

March 29 (& April 2)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Change of Heart (Change) Change of Heart
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (Magazine) Where The Power Is
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game (Grace Jones) The Taste of TG—Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions [Disc 1]

March 22 (& March 26)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

History Of Modern (Part I) (Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark) History of Modern
Bamboo Houses (David Sylvian) Everything & Nothing
Distant Dreams (Part Two) (Throbbing Gristle) The Taste of TG—A Beginner's Guide to the Music of Throbbing Gristle
In 20 Years (Void Vision) In 20 Years
The Garden (John Foxx) The Garden
Get Carter (Stephin Merritt) Reproductions

March 15 (& March 19)

This week's show featured an interview with the author and veteran rock tour manager Paul Charles.

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Million Dollar Hero (The Radiators) Ghostown
Family Life (The Blue Nile) Peace and Love
In the Neighborhood (Tom Waits) Swordfishtrombones

March 8 (& March 12)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang Heaven 17
KKK in the Jungle Steel Pulse
Radio Africa Latin Quarter
International Financial Crisis The Members
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (aka My Brain is Hanging Upside Down) The Ramones
Mideast Vacation Neil Young

March 1 (& March 5)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The Killing Moon (12" remix) Echo and the Bunnymen
Trouble Me 10,000 Maniacs
Town to Town Microdisney
The Dutchman High Llamas
You're a Rose Fatima Mansions
Obvious Aztec Camera
It's Different for Girls Joe Jackson

February 22 (& February 26)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

I Should've Known (Aimee Mann) Whatever
I'm Not The One (The Cars) Shake It Up

February 15 (& February 19)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Do You Believe In The Westworld (Theatre Of Hate) Westworld
The Stars Don't Shine As Bright As Street Lights (Vitesse) A Certain Hostility
Across The Wire (Blue State) The Soundings
Johnson's Airoplane (INXS) The Swing
Tower Of Strength (The Mission) Sum And Substance
Coming Up For Air (Grant McLennan) Horsebreaker Star

February 8 (& February 12)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her (XTC) The Big Express
7Teen (The Regents) single
Staring At The Rude Boys (The Ruts) Something That I Said

February 1 (& February 5)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Empire State Human 3:18 (Human League) Reproduction
Lament (Ultravox) Lament
Stranger Than Kindness (Fever Ray) Rough Trade Synth Wave
Dr Who (Original Theme) (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01
Etude (Theme From The Killing Fields) (Mike Oldfield) The Killing Fields soundtrack
Scissors (Led Er Est) Dust on Common
Buoy (David Sylvian) Dreams of Reason Produce Monsters
Blade Runner (End Titles) 4:39 (Vangelis) Blade Runner

January 25 (& January 29)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

They're Looting In The Town (The Radiators) Ghosttown
Graceland (The Bible) Walking the Ghost Back Home
Deep In A Dream (David McComb) Love Of Will
Indian (EG & Alice) 24 Years Of Hunger
Breakfast (The Associates) Perhaps
The Word Girl (Scritti Politti) Cupid & Psyche 84
Charlotte Street (Lloyd Cole & The Commotions) Rattlesnakes
The One I Love (Rosie Thomas) These Friends Of Mine
Dronning Maud land (Fat Lady Sings) The fat lady singles
Brilliant Mind (Furniture) The Wrong People
Love Is A Wonderful Colour (12") (Icicle Works) The Icicle Works
I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives (Television Personalities) And Don't The Kids Love It

January 18 (& January 22)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Weight Of The World (Reservoir) Pink Machine
Follow The Locust (Wire) A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck
Norman Bates (Landscape) From The Tea-Rooms Of Mars....To The Hell-Holes Of Uranus
Only Loved At Night (The Raincoats) Odyshape

January 11 (& January 15)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

It's Getting Late in the Evening (Talk Talk)
Nightporter (Japan)
Ghosts (remix from David Sylvian's Everything and Nothing) (Japan)
p:Machinery (P Polish remix) - from CD2 of the 2010 re-release of A Secret Wish (Propaganda)
Pilot (The Notwist)
Lasagna (The Knife)
Better to Have Lost in Love (Than Never to Have Loved at All) (Eurhythmics)

January 4 (& January 9)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Up The Hill Backwards (David Bowie) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Wait (Wang Chung) Points on the Curve
Lay All Your Love On Me (Susanna Wallumrød ) Flower Of Evil

2010

Christmas Special Playlist 2010

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Snowman (XTC)
You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Aimee Mann)
Angel In The Snow (a-Ha)
Winter Kills (Yazoo)
All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit (Live) (Half Man Half Biscuit)

DECEMBER 14th (& 18th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

I Spy (For The FBI) (The Untouchables) Above And Beyond The Untouchables
Lip Up Fatty (Bad Manners) can can
Sarah (Thin Lizzy) Black Rose: A Rock Legend
A Girl Called Johnny (The Waterboys) The Best Of The Waterboys
Too Experienced (The Bodysnatchers) Easy Life
In A Nutshell (Orange Juice) The Esteemed Orange Juice
Kid (The Pretenders) Pretenders

DECEMBER 7th (& 11th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Never Take Me Alive (Spear Of Destiny) Outland
Sinful (Pete Wylie and The Oedipus Wrecks) Snap, The Handy Wah! Whole : Songs From The Repertwah! : The Maverick Years 2000
The Safety Dance (Men Without Hats) Rhythm of Youth
Temptation (Heaven 17) The Luxury Gap
Lanscape - Einstein A Go-Go (Landscape) From the Tea Rooms of Mars . . .

NOVEMBER 30th (& DECEMBER 4th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The Cutter (Echo & The Bunnymen) Porcupine
Evidently Chicken Town (John Cooper Clarke) Snap, Crackle & Bop
Infected (The The) Infected
Imagination (Sad Lovers & Giants) Epic Garden Music
Include Me Out (Young Marble Giants) Colossal Youth
Ain't Bin To No Music School (The Nosebleeds) (Single only)
Saturday Night (The Blue Nile) Hats
Cry (Gayngs) Relayted
All or Nothing (Au Revoir Simone) Still night, still light

NOVEMBER 23rd (& 27th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Winning (The Sound) From The Lions Mouth
Unless (The Pale Fountains) Pacific Street Pop
The House That Jack Kerouac Built (The Go-Betweens) Tallulah
Slave To The Rhythm [Hot Blooded Version] (Grace Jones) Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions
The Pretenders/I Go To Sleep (The Pretenders) Pretenders II

NOVEMBER 16th (& 20th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Babylon's Burning (The Ruts) The Crack
Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Should't've) (The Buzzcocks) Singles Going Steady
Money (Edit) (The Flying Lizards) The Flying Lizards
A New England (Kirsty MacColl) The Essential Collection
Milk And Alcohol (2002 Digital Remaster) (Dr. Feelgood) Private Practice
Julie Ocean (The Undertones) Positive Touch
Go Wild in the Country (Bow Wow Wow) he Best of Bow Wow Wow

NOVEMBER 9th (& 13th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Some kind of fool (David Sylvian) Everything & Nothing
Never Never (The Assembly) Never Never—EP
Have You Heard The News? (Talk Talk) The Party's Over
Christian (China Crisis) Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythyms

NOVEMBER 2nd (& 6th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

The KKK Took My Baby Away (The Ramones) Hey! Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology
Fall Down (Throwing Muses) Hunkpapa
Rise (American Music Club) Everclear
Long Gone (Buddy) (Til Tuesday) Everything's Different Now Rock
The Killing Moon (Grant-Lee Phillips) Nineteen eighties Alternative & Punk

OCTOBER 26th (& 30th)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Out On Your Own (The Lotus Eaters) No Sense Of Sin [Expanded]
Sat In Your Lap (Kate Bush) The Dreaming
Downmarket (The Blades) The Last Man in Europe
Traison (C'est Juste Une Histoire) (The Teardrop Explodes) Kilimanjaro

OCTOBER 19th (& 23rd)

The following songs couldn't be added to the playlist but were part of the radio show:

Burning Car (John Foxx) Metamatic (Remaster)
Hunter And The Hunted (Simple Minds) New Gold Dream
No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts) (Eurythmics) Touch