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Matinee Idle

with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien

Friday 13 January 2012

12.35pm - 1pm

Title: Rockin' Robin
Artist: Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Band

Title: Born to Be Alive
Artist: Patrick Hernandez

Title: Free Ride
Artist: The Edgar Winter Group

Title: The Eyes of Lucy Jordan
Artist: Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show

Title: I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train
Artist: Billy Joe Shaver

 

1pm - 2pm

Title: Are You Man Enough to Be a Woman?
Artist: Jayne County & The Electric Chair

Title: Don't Throw Your Love Away
Artist: The Searchers

Title: Driftin'
Artist: The Drifters (Later The Shadows)

Title: Stayin' Alive
Artist: Jonathan and Darlene Edwards

Title: Doot Doot
Artist: Freur

Title: I'm The Face
Artist: The High Numbers

Title: Can't Make U Love Me
Artist: TAFKAP

Title: Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Artist: The Wonder Who?

Title: Down Down
Artist: Status Quo

Title: Anyone for a Cha-Cha
Artist: Wally Stott

Title: I'm a Moody Guy
Artist: Shane Fenton & The Fentones

 

2pm - 3pm

Title: Jesus, The Missing Years
Artist: John Prine

Title: Only You
Artist: Ringo Starr

Title: Some Girls Will, Some Girls Won't
Artist: Racey

Title: Get Up and Go
Artist: The Rutles

Title: Gypsy
Artist: Uriah Heep

Title: Every Breath You Take
Artist: Big Daddy

Title: Rococo
Artist: The Arcade Fire

Title: (I Don't Know Why) But I Do
Artist: Clarence 'Frogman' Henry

Title: Pictures of Matchstick Men
Artist: Status Quo

Title: Rubberband Girl
Artist: Kate Bush

 

3pm - 4pm

Feature: Andrew Dubber talks to Ranking Roger about UB40's legacy, how they got started, and the 30th anniversary of 'Signing Off'.

Title: En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
Artist:Tommy Emmanuel

Title: It's a Living
Artist: Jayne Mansfield

Title: Fly Like an Eagle
Artist: Steve Miller and Les Paul

Title: Doctorin' The Tardis
Artist: The Timelords

Title: Undun
Artist: The Quess Who

 

4pm - 5pm

Title: Gravity
Artist: John Mayer

Title: The Rubberband Man
Artist: The Spinners

Title: Handlebars
Artist: Flobots

Title: Grace Kelly
Artist: The Puppini Sisters

Title: Anachie Gordon
Artist: Mary Black

Title: I Put a Spell On You
Artist: Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Title: Falling Off the Edge of the World
Artist: The Easybeats

Title: Ninety Mile Days
Artist: Hammond Gamble

Title: Through Being Cool
Artist: Devo

Title: Summertime
Artist: Big Brother & The Holding Company


 

The Team

Presenters:

Production assistant: Rosie Batt

Email: phil@radionz.co.nz

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'Matinee Idle is Radio New Zealand's Mufti Day. They let me and Simon "loose in the asylum". We get to be the guys testing the outer limits of listener patience and we benignly abuse this privilege.' says O'Brien. 'They let us play whatever we want! It's every radio presenter's dream.'

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