Friday, April 30, 2010 by Bill Everatt.

Hello there, this is Bill Everatt, with news of the May update of the Celtica Radio Underground Edition, Receivable Worldwide, On-line, On Digital Wireless and on the Nokia Mobile Phone Network.

We start this months show with one of the bands featured in this years Gathering, The Battle of the Bands.  They are called the Venue and although they didn’t win, but we thought they were pretty good, so we’ve put them on the main playlist.

And in this programme: -

My special guest is singer and songwriter Hayley Griffiths, our Urban Legends tale features a story called What Value A Looking Glass.

Andrew John is back, with another chance to hear the Chronicles of Little Bibbling under Flossock.

And in our “who said this?”  Which was inspired by meeting a few people from another radio station here in South Wales, I’d like to know who said this; “The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”  So, who do you think said that?  Any Idea?  I’ll give you the answer at the end of the show.

Music wise, we have tracks from; The Boys From Melbourne Street, Roxanne Hall & Avenue Earth, Henry Martins Ghost, Serundal, Recoup and the Battlefield Band.

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Monday, April 26, 2010 by Moderator.

So the waiting is over…

The on-line Votes have been cast…

Four regional heats, and now we’ve arrived at the final.

Recorded throughout Saturday April 24th 2010 the programme features sessions and interviews from Gathering finalists; Innovence, Decoy, Offset, Ladies Love a Superhero, Librarians worst nightmare, The Venue, Nexus and Stars and Flights.

All here exclusively worldwide on Celtica Radio, on-line, on digital wireless and the Nokia Mobile Phone Network.  Part two, featuring the Guns will be on-line shortly.

Let the ultimate Battle Commence!

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Saturday, April 17, 2010 by Moderator.

Bill Everatt presents the Rhondda Cynon Taff Heat of the Gathering, the 2010 Battle of the Bands.  Exclusively on Celtica Radio, On-line, on Digital Wireless and the Nokia Mobile Phone Network.

This concert took place on Tuesday the 30th of March at ‘The Muni Arts Centre’ which is a beautiful converted church, situated in the centre of Pontypridd.

As well as hosting the RCT Battle of the Bands, the centre also has a programme of events which include; band nights, music, events for children and young adults, exhibitions, dance, educational workshops, puppetry, mime, comedy, and productions by community groups.  The venue also has the Footlights Café Bar & Gallery Shop.

Over the course of this programme, you can hear the original music performed live on set by The Missive, Ladies Love a Superhero, The Kix, Indi-go Modem, Lucy Saved Dave and the Special Editions.

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Monday, April 5, 2010 by Amelia Spleenwort.

Them folk at the Celticle Wireless Corporation ’as asked me again to write some words for this ’ere blog thing after my successful little piece of nonsense last month, so ’ere I am.

They’s got this programme called The Underground Ablution, see, and— [Underground Edition, Amelia. – Ed.]

There’s that bloody Ed again, pokin’ ’is nose in. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, that Underground whatever they calls it, with Bill Everard or whatever ’is name is— [Everatt, Amelia. – Ed.]

Will you kindly stop interruptin’ me, boy! It’s gettin’ on me nerves.

Anyway, like, there’s this little slot introduced by that nice Mr Ambrose Johns and— [Andrew John, Amelia. – Ed.] Whatever! An’ he reports from that nice little ’amlet called Little Bibbling under Flossock, what you can make out from the other side of the M39, if you’s sittin’ down. That’s where I lives – at number 42 Cobblers’ Cottages.

Now it can’t have escaped your notice, unless you’re a blithering idiot – and there’s a lot of them hereabouts – that there’s a new Doctor on your telly. I don’t know nothin’ about it meself, like, ’cos we only gets telly in the Ancient Bibblin’ language, see. But I hear tell it’s good.

Well, when this month’s Bibblin’ report first went out in 2008 – that’s in your calendar, o’ course, not the Bibblin’ calendar, which is altogether more logical with twenty-six and a half days per month, regular, like, none o’ this messin’ around with thirty-one days ’ere and thirty days there . . . But I’s forgotten where I was.

Oh, yes. This month’s report features an idiot Celticle Wireless Corporation reporter called Elvis Twinge, what went to our neighbouring village of Much Fondling on the Grope to report on the appointment of a new Doctor on account of ’ow the old one ’ad just resigned, like. Seems like only yesterday, dunnit?

An’ by the end of it I don’t think that nice Andrea Jones was very pleased. But you’ll ’ave to tune in – well, I thinks they calls it downloadin’ or sommat fancy – an’ listen.

You might as well listen to the whole programme while yer at it, an’ all. All a bit too jivey and loud for the likes of me, what is ninety-three, but there you goes. They didn’t feature me in this one, but that’s their loss! But I’ll be in some of ’em before the year’s out.

Oh, they ’as this thing called Easter hereabouts, and the folk at Celticle Wireless Corporation gave me a sort of brown egg. Bloody useless. Collapsed and went all melty as soon as I dropped it into a pan o’ boilin’ water, it did.

That’s modern stuff for yer!

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Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Moderator.

Andrew John has a bumper length New Music Radio Show running to nearly ninety minutes this month featuring all the recent additions to the Celtica Radio Playlist.

Playlist tracks are:
Michael Behm - It’s My Time
Guido Mayer - Mechanix
Tim Gleeson - Right Here
The Myst - Too much beauty
Marbin - Mei
Shimeon - Sweet Love
Cat Blay - I Need You
Chris Summerill - Under The Sun
Andy Crawford - All Eyes On You
Ginger Otitis & The Sedimentary Brains - Only TV on your mind
Precyse - The Rain
The Pocket Gods - Trailer Park On Mars
Wilfred N and the Grown Men - Gotta Be Great To Be Good
Auto Pilot - Deeper Space (Right Stuff Mix)

Plus Bill Everatt will shortly be broadcasting the April update of the Underground Edition.

This month Bills special guest is the singer and songwriter Amy Rachman and Bill will be linking up with her from her home studio in New York City.  The Urban Legends tale features a place a little closer to home, just outside Swansea in fact, and is called Two Lonely Travellers.

We also have another chance to hear Andrew John and the Chronicles of Little Bibbling under Flossock.  No doubt it can’t have escaped your notice that a certain Doctor has become prominent on our TV sets of late.  But the folk of Little Bibbling under Flossock remember when the old one resigned and the search was on for a new one.  As often happens, events in that strange little hamlet uncannily reflect what’s happening in our own world, as we saw when this episode was first broadcast in November 2008, and we introduced our short-lived reporter, Elvis Twinge.  It’s odd how the world of Little Bibbling under Flossock always seems bigger on the inside than on the outside…

And in our “who said this?”  I’d like to know who said this; “A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”  So, who said that?

Playlist Tracks are:
Chris Summerill - Under The Sun
Simon Star - Stellar
Andy Crawford - Shoot Me Down
Hayley Griffiths - Our Love
Slave to the Squarewave - The Last Day
Ryan Helman - Falling
Precyse - When I See You
Richard Gilpin - A Man of 33
Marbin - Abadaba
Auto Pilot - Deeper Space (Right Stuff Mix)
The Venue - Future
Blue Horses - Witch in Wedlock

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