October 25, 2016

 

 

Tune in to

Tony’s Time Machine

Wednesday 26th October  & Wednesday 2nd November

11 am – 1pm

for a great mixture of Music & Chat.

featuring

Ramsbottom Festival artists

(Gorilla Riot and The Sound Of Sirens).

and also

Tony’s exclusive Interview with

Steve Howe of ‘Yes’ fame.

 

Tony will also be chatting to

Sam Priestly (Director of Creative Support)

with trusted  Station Manager – Vikki Snowden

at the Helm. 

and

there will be a reading

of ‘Fruit Rap’

written by Poet

Harriet Blackbury.

October 22, 2016

 

 

and two or three

or maybe four,

passed by this way

in days of yore.

 

Some stopping off

as travellers do.

To re-fuel tanks

before saying adieu.

 

and five or six

or seven more,

in intervals

knocked at the door.

 

Some getting in

as travellers do,

unless ‘No vacancy’

sign on view.

 

and eight or nine

or even ten;

all sad and lonely

weary men.

 

Some spinning yarns

as travellers do,

whilst selling wares-

rest overdue.

 

and eleven or twelve

or memorable thirteen,

down on his luck,

without a bean.

 

Some sob story given

as travellers do –

A bed in the shed

where rhubarb grew.

 

and fourteen or fifteen

and sixteen, I recall.

Arriving with two trunks

dropped in the hall.

 

Some magician of sorts,

he said, was he,

with an able assistant –

as fit as a flee.

 

and seventeen or eighteen

or nineteen, I did greet,

feeling it was time,

to put up my feet.

 

Some rest needed

from the hotel lark.

Time had taken it’s toll –

I was losing my spark.

 

Good job that twenty’s key,

fitted like it should:

Home Sweet Home, a blessing;

returning back for good.

 

Some loving comfort needed;

his timing spot on.

The door firmly bolted

now we two back as one.

 

 

 

 

and the bid for drunkenness exalted,

with a bag of crisps, so lightly salted,

 

and then before we say adieu,

we make a move on a sweet cashew.

 

Then, down the street, in the next bar,

we raise ‘good health’ with another jar,

 

and wash it down, with some pork scratchings,

as fat in arteries forms new attachings.

 

Then ‘one for the road’, the road to hell,

when ‘Last orders’ heard from that demon bell.

 

As steps retraced, are now updated,

and centuries of gold nectar, still appreciated.

 

 

 

 

It’s a clause

in the contract;

a codicil

of love.

A passage

to freedom,

and ultimately

a deal breaker.

Sign on the

dotted line –

I don’t think so!

 

 

 

 

Let’s meet and talk mumbo-jumbo,

and put the world to rights.

Let’s yap until our throats dry,

about nothing until dawn lights.

 

Let’s skate around the houses,

and up and down the alleyways,

without revealing anything obvious,

that on our cautious tongue stays.

 

Let’s have a drink, then another,

and one more to make memory flee,

until we forget if we’ve done what we came for,

so another guilt trip, there won’t be.

 

 

 

 

Please wait for me, I will be there.

T’is my intention – take a chair.

 

and rest your legs – relieve the strain.

Do take a brolly, in case there’s rain.

 

Please wait for me, I’m seldom early.

Don’t lose your rag, or act quite surly.

 

The wait, I promise, worth your while.

I’m eager for your welcoming smile.

 

Please wait for me – my timing crap.

So don’t you worry, or get in a flap.

 

or think the date, you have misread,

or my words misheard – all is not dead.

 

Please wait for me, a minute more.

Your strongest feeling’s, please ignore.

 

Don’t teach me a lesson, or curse and swear.

I’m trying my damnedest, to be right there.

 

 

October 18, 2016

 

Tune in to 

Tonys Time Machine

Wednesday 19th October

11 am – 1pm

to hear great Music & Sound clips,

and Interviews from

Ramsbottom Festival,

 

Tony’s right hand – Vikki

will be at the helm, as usual.

 

Tony will also be chatting with

Sam Priestly  (Director) 

who will be reading the poem

‘For The Love Of Manchester’

written by

Harriet Blackbury

 

October 15, 2016

 

 

In 86, on time, at the station,

arrived A-Ha with ‘Train Of Thought’,

and Randy Crawford’s moving 81 hit –

‘A Rainy Night In Georgia’, our imagination caught.

 

At No.13 with ‘Steamy Windows’,

in 90, was Tina Turner,

and ‘Wheels Of Steel’ sang Saxon in 80,

stoking this all night burner.

 

In 69, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

with ‘Tracks Of My Tears’, in a Top10 place.

And in 76, Linda Ronstadt also,

‘Tracks Of My Tears’ – did embrace.

 

In 93 came Peter Gabriel,

at No.10 with his hit song ‘Steam’.

Also covering this track in 94

were Brian Harvey and East 17.

 

Charles McDevitt’s Skiffle Group & Nancy Whiskey

came thundering through at speed.

Reaching No5 in 57 with their

‘Freight Train’ – a hit indeed.

 

In 95, ‘Train Of Thought’ by Escrima,

also came into view,

And in 03, ‘Train On The Track’

gave Kelly Rowland, a Top 20 pew.

 

In 82, Colin Blunstone, with his version of,

‘Tracks Of My Tears’ –  was at his best.

And in 93, ‘Tracks Of My Tears’, again,

arrived at Platform16  for Go West.

 

‘The Train Is Coming’ sang Shaggy,

featuring Wayne Wonder in 96,

and ‘Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye’, in 70,

at No.9, by Steam, in this final carriage mix.

 

Wherever your destination

Whatever your reason for going;

be it business or pleasure, be sure,

your route, the railway track is knowing.

 

No matter how fast new developments

appear in this mad-cap technical dream,

There is no better way to reach your destination

than to arrive, relaxed, having got there by STEAM.

 

Written by Harriet Blackbury

 

 

 

October 11, 2016

 

 

 

 

Something for everyone on

Tonys Time Machine

Wednesday  12th October

11 am – 1pm

Hear Tony’s Interviews with

Ramsbottom Cricket Club Legends –

Jon Fielding  and Brian Fielding.

 

also on todays Show is

Tony’s visit in 22 hour time

to meet & listen to

Steve Howe.

and  Rock Music by

Gorilla Riot and The Travelling Man.

 

Gill Harris will be reading For The Love Of Motown 2

written by Harriet Blackbury

and

Denise Fielding will be reading For The Love Of Dancing

written by Harriet Blackbury.

 

 

 

October 4, 2016

 

Tune in to 

Tonys Time Machine

Wednesday  5th October

11am – 1pm

for

The Italian Job – Part 2

with Tony’s ‘live’ Interviews from Palermo,

and great music. 

Also,

Vikki will be reading

For The Love Of Italy and Beyond

written by

Harriet Blackbury

(Blackbury-poems.com)

 

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