We interrupt The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide posts right before the final one, just so I can tell you about this afternoon’s new music specialty shows on The AIR.

Even in the midst of the Gift Guide, we do have some radio shows to tell you about Friday on The AIR. This afternoon we serve up a new episode of MIRRORBALL and a brand-new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat! The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

MIRRORBALL

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, Mel Larch brings you classic Disco with a little bit of an international flair. There are some huge chart hits here, as well as some club classics, but don’t be shocked if you find a track or two from another country.  It’s all part of the big Disco melting pot.

Check out this very danceable playlist…

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The Dooley’s “Think I’m Gonna Fall In Love With You”
Regalado “Pinoy Funk”
Ashford & Simpson with Chaka Khan “Stuff Like That”
Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band “I’ll Play the Fool”
Patsy Gallant “From New York to L.A.”
Van McCoy “The Shuffle”
Emotions “I Should Be Dancing”
Hot Chocolate “So You Win Again”
Three Degrees “The Runner”
Moments “Jack In The Box”
Belle Epoque “Black Is Black”
David Soul “Silver Lady”
Odyssey “Use It Up and Wear It Out”
Amanda Lear “I Don’t Like Disco”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat Visits A Big Country

Also on The AIR  at 3 PM (EDT), Sydney Fileen graces us with a brand-new special mixtape-style new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat. This time Sydney looks North to the Scottish highlands as she brings you music by Big Country.

Once the pride of Scotland, Big Country was formed when Stuart Adamson, formerly the guitarist for the band, Skids, left that band and teamed up with guitarist Bruce Watson to form a new band. Once they recruited Tony Butler and Mark Brezicki–who were session musicians known as “Rhythm for Hire,” the band was complete, and they became mainstays of the New Wave scene for the remainder of the eighties.

Sydney has assembled two hours in which you will hear the best of Big Country from 1983 to the end of the decade. It’s a great way to relive those incredible bagpipe-sounding guitars.

Check out the playlist…

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Big Country

“In A Big Country”
“Harvest Home”
“Inwards”
“Chance”
“1,000 Stars”
“The Storm”
“Lost Patrol”
“Close Action”
“Fields of Fire”
“Pooroh Man”
“Wonderland”
“All Fall Together”
“Angle Park”
“East of Eden”
“Steeltown”
“Tall Ships Go”
“Just A Shadow”
“The Seer” with Kate Bush
“The Teacher”
“Look Away (12″ mix)”
“One Great Thing”
“Hold The Heart”
“Peace In Our Time”
“”King of Emotion”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

Check PopCult later today for The Master List of The 2024 PopCult Gift Guide.