The AIR FRIDAY!

Friday afternoon both of our Friday music specialty shows devote themselves to special themes to close out PopCult’s anniversary week.. Mel Larch’s MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen’s Sydney’s Big Electric Cat return with new episodes.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a new episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch presents Disco songs about travelling, or rather, transportation.  It’s trains, planes and automobiles…not necessarily in that order…making their way to the danceflor.

Don’t believe us? Check out the playlist.,,

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Rose Royce “Car Wash”
Hemnlock “Drive Me Crazy”
JBs “Hot Pants Road”
Hot Chocolate “Heaven Is In the Back Seat of my Cadillac”
Donna Summer “Highway Runner”
Celi Bee “Fly Me On The Wings of Love”
A. Chrome “Fly On UFO”
Rhythm Heritage “Gonna Fly Now”
ELO “Last Train To London”
Gap Band “Party Train”
The O’Jays “Love Train”

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

At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a terrific new episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat that salutes Echo and The Bunnymen, one of the major bands to come out of Liverpool’s New Wave scene in the late 1970s.

The dominant band in Mersey was The Crucial Three. Its three members would all go on to become major figures in British New Wave in the 1980s:  Julian Cope formed The Teardrop Explodes; Pete Wylie became the leader of various bands with “WAH” in the name; And Ian McCulloch joined up with Will Sergeant Les Pattinson and later, Peter DeFrietas to form Echo and The Bunnymen.

Over the course of this week’s show, sydney brings you the highlights of the band’s output from their beginning up to their self-titled 1987 album, which was the last with their drummer, Peter, before his tragic death in 1989.

Check out the playlist..

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Echo and The Bunnymen

“Pictures On My Wall”
“All That Jazz”
“Going Up”
“Monkeys”
“Rescue”
“Crocodiles”
“Read It In Books”
“The Puppet”
“A Promise”
“Broke My Neck”
“Heaven Up Here:”
“Over The Wall”
“The Subject”
“The Killing Moon (All Night Version)”
“Silver”
“Crystal Days”
“Ocean Rain”
“Nocturnal Me”
“The Cutter”
“The Back of Love”
“Bring On The Dancing Horses”
“Bedbugs and Ballyhoo”
“Porcupine”
“People Are Strange”
“The Disease”
“Seven Seas”
“Lips Like Sugar”
“The Killing Moon”

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

Saturday at Noon The AIR will present 36 hours of Radio Free Charleston to celebrate the 36 years since RFC debuted on WVNS radio over Labor Day Weekend in 1989.  Because this will wipe out many of the regular replays of our musical specialty shows, next week we will encore all of them in their regular timeslots.