We started the show with "I Just Wanna Dance" tonight. This song has been fairly popular around JOY, especially in Bridget's Campervan, in the last year. It's actually a Wayne G remix, of a song taken from the London production of "Jerry Springer:The Opera" performed by Alison Jiear. The big news is that the opera is coming to Sydney at the Sydney Opera house at the end of March, but before that, Alison Jiear will be performing live on stage at the 2009 Mardi Gras. Woot! Cam and Chris will be there!
So first the sad news. FOUR PLAY is going OFF THE AIR at the end of the JOY summer season, i.e. at the end of February. It's been a great run of 5 seasons straight, or 15 months on air every week, without fail! We'll be off for at least two seasons, as Jay and Garry are heading overseas during Winter.
It's all good. A community station such JOY94.9 is under some fairly hefty pressures to continually get the balance right between music, information and community and health oriented programming.
As well there are always new ideas for new shows by new volunteers and new ideas by some of the veteran presenters as well. In the interests of keeping things fresh, shows need to move, take a break, or re-invent on a regular basis.
We're not sure if we'll be asked back in the future with the current Four Play format, but in the intervening break, we're going to put our thinking caps on and also see if their isn't something else we might like to try and possibly propose something new in the future. We'll see how that pans out, later in the year.
To this weeks show and first up this week is the last in our series of the top 4 selling singles of a year of the 80's. So of course this week it's 1989.
Track 1: The Look - Roxette #4
Track 2: Love Shack - The B52's #3
Track 3: Eternal Flame - The Bangles #2
Track 4: Like A Prayer - Madonna #1
1989 was a TOP year for music, you'd have to agree!
Stay tuned, for our FINAL THREE SHOWS over February, we'll showcase 1990, 91 and 92. We've taken a sneak preview of the top four songs that feature in those years and there's some more great music to come.
Our guest tonight was Sven. Sven previously brought us the likes of Robyn and Goldfrapp, and tonight, showcased Ladyhawke for us.
Track 1: Magic
Track 2: Paris is BurningTrack 3: Embrace
Track 4: My Delirium
You can hear what Sven had to say about Ladyhawke at the podcast here.
Running out of time tonight, so for our third and final Four Play tonight, we brought you another icon of the eighties and nineties, R.E.M.
Track 1:Stand
Track 2: Losing My Religion
Track 3: Man on the Moon
Track 4: Everybody hurts
Finally, we took a look at both the ARIA and AIR charts for the week. We've been chatting about Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu's amazing performance in both the mainstream ARIA and independent AIR charts over a number of months and we promise we're going to showcase a bit of his work in the next week or so.
To finish the show, a couple of perennial favorites of ours. Sneaky Sound System's Kansas City and Madonna's Hung Up.
Hope you enjoyed.
Following Four Play throughout February at 11pm, Adam C brings you "Flip the Tape" with his eclectic take on Indie Pop from then and now. And "Flip the Tape" is also getting a daytime gig every Friday from 2pm. If you're a daytime listener at all, make sure you tune in and catch Adam's very different approach to music. And if you want to know more about "Flip the Tape" check out the blog at http://flipthetape949.blogspot.com/
Cheers and have a great week!
Jay and Chris
History: Season 3
Season 3 started on Tuesday 3rd June, 2008, returning to the 9pm timeslot, this time on Tuesday evenings.
We also returned to our more familiar format, which includes playing back-to-back Fourplay sets across the two hours. Most weeks we have special guests come in and present their favorite artist or genre.
And we take a quick look at what's charting in the ARIA Charts each week.
Some of the artists, genres or themes we've showcased in Season 3 include...
Maroon 5, Sneaky Sound System, Whitney Houston, Sugababes, Alcazar, K.D. Lang, Mika, ABBA, Songs of the City, The Village People (both Radiothon special sets), Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical, Scissor Sisters, Queen, M People, Danni Minogue, Roxette, KC & The Sunshine Band, Kate Pierson, Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya to the Brink, Hot Latino's, Mamma Mia - The Movie Soundtrack, Ricki-Lee, Vanessa Amorosi, Hits of Burt Bacharach, Xanadu, Hit Songs from Big Blockbuster Movies, Stevie Wonder, Anastacia, Eurovision 2006, ABBA Covers, Atomic Kitten, Kylie - X, Australian Idol Winners, Duffy, Girls Aloud, Delta Goodrem, Robyn, Meatloaf and Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill.
History: Season 2
Season 2 started Saturday March 8, 2008.
Four Play adapted and took on the Saturday Morning breakfast role for the JOY Autumn season, while the regular program and presenters took a well earned season break.
Saturday morning Four Play was a little different - taking elements of our regular Four Play format, but breaking it up with a variety of fun and light weight pop music and makiing room for a full news bulletin at the top of every hour as well as some regular information segments, such as a regular Aussie rules football correspondent, "True's", "Shut - Ups!" and "Facebook facts".
Some of the artists, genres or themes we showcased in Season 2 included..
Pink, Australian Idol Various - Season 1 & 2, Donna Summer, E-street - the music, Boney M, Post Spice Girls Hits, Blockbuster Movie Title song Hits of the eighties, Musicals with a little extra G.A.Y, U2, Eurythmics, Tina Cousins, Diana Ross and the Supremes, TV Theme Hits and Chaka Khan.
History: Season 1
Four Play first went to air for the JOY 94.9 Summer Season, on Monday 3rd December, 2007. We ran every week on Monday nights (except New Years Eve) through until the end of February, 2008.
Some of the artists, genres or themes we showcased in Season 1 included..
Kylie Minogue, Jamiroquai, Hairspray - the movie musical, Fleetwood Mac, Eurythmics, Bananarama, Anastacia, Moulin Rouge - Movie Soundtrack, Bee Gees, Phil Collins, Mika, Meatloaf, Spice Girls, Tina Turner, Robbie Williams, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Tina Arena, John Cougar Mellencamp, Female Country Singers, Bee Gees "Hits for other artists", Crowded House, Chicago - the movie musical, Backstreet Boys, Natalie Umbruglia, Pet Shop Boys, Savage Garden, Steps, Young Divas, Paul Mac, Human Nature, Rogue Traders, Grease - the movie musical, ABBA, Five, Euro Vision number 1's, James Bond Movie Title Hits, Frank Sinatra, Freemasons, Katie Underwood, George Michael, Madonna and Goldfrapp.
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