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Matinee Idle

with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien

Tuesday 17 January 2012

12.35pm - 1pm

Title: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Artist: Vince Gill and Gladys Knight

Title: Wicked as it Seems
Artist: Keith Richards

Title: You've Got Your Troubles
Artist: Lou Christie

Title: Hip Shake Jerk
Artist: The Quick

Title: Nothing Rhymed
Artist: Burton Cummings

 

1pm - 2pm

Title: Riding My Thumb to Mexico
Artist: Johnny Rodriguez

Title Journey of the Sorcerer
Artist: The Eagles

Title: Hitch Hike
Artist: Marvin Gaye

Title: Hitching A Ride
Artist: Vanity Fare

Title: Hitchhike to Heartbreak Road
Artist: Bobo Mr. Soul

Title: Hitchin' a Ride
Artist: Green Day

Title: Hitch Hiker
Artist: Bobby & Laurie

Title: Bow Hitch Hiker
Artist: Rollerskate Skinny

Title: The Ride
Artist: David Allan Coe

Title: Hitch Hiker's Hero
Artist: The Atlanta Rhythm Section

Title: Hitch Hike Part 1
Artist: Russell Bird

Title: Hobo's Lullaby
Artist: Woody Guthrie

Title: Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival

Title: Hitch Hike
Artist: The Rolling Stones

 

2pm - 3pm

Title: (I Always Kill) The Things I Love
Artist: The Real Tuesday Weld

Title: The Film of My Love
Artist: 10cc

Title: Stop
Artist: Sam Brown

Title: Helplessness Blues
Artist: Fleet Foxes

Title: The Final Countdown
Artist: Unknown Cambodian Lady

Title: A Lady of A Certain Age
Artist: The Divine Comedy

Title: Where You Going?
Artist: Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Title: Wups
Aritst: Dr. Hook

Title: Laura
Artist: Scissor Sisters

Title: Cluck Old Hen
Artist: Alison Krauss and Uniion Station (Ft. Sierra Hull)

Title: Honest Work
Artist: Todd Rundgren

 

3pm - 4pm

Feature: Bob Dylan, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Part II

Title: Love Has Left the Room
Artist: A Camp

Title: Funky Broadway
Artist: Wilson Pickett

Title: Love is the Drug
Artist: Kylie Minogue

Title: Modern Man
Artist: Arcade Fire

Title: Me and My Life
Artist: The Tremeloes

 

4pm - 5pm

Title: My Generation
Artist: The Bards

Title: Neptune City
Artist: Nicole Atkins

Title: When I Get Home
Artist: The Beatles

Title: Skinny Love
Artist: Bon Iver

Title: Nut Rocker
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Title: Paper Cup
Artist: The 5th Dimension

Title: I Love You
Artist: The Zombies

Title: Rope Ladder to The Moon
Artist: Jack Bruce

Title: How Great Thou Art
Artist: Eilert Pilarm

Title: Wise Up
Artist: Aimee Mann

Title: Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
Artist: The Light Crust Doughboys

Title: Summertime
Artist: MFSB


 

The Team

Presenters:

Production assistant: Rosie Batt

Email: phil@radionz.co.nz

Text: 2101 (texts cost 20c)

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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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