32 comments

1. 

   Nate - April 2, 2008 3:13 PM

   That’s great!
   You will suit the Sunday evening I feel 🙂

2. 

   Thomas Robinson - April 2, 2008 4:24 PM

   That’s great news. When does this take effect? Will the next show be on Friday or Sunday? At last i’ll be able to e‑mail in to the show. You prob­a­bly won’t want to read my emails but at least i’ll be able to send em in 😆

3. 

   Phoenix - April 2, 2008 5:42 PM

   Curse Planet Rock for mak­ing me have to choose between a proper dose of sleep­ing in on my day off or my favorite DJ!

   Oh well, I can get a leg up on my day’s worth of World of Warcraft gam­ing.

   (evil grin)

   Nix.

4. 

   Caroline - April 2, 2008 5:53 PM

   Fantastic news!! I might be able to actu­ally lis­ten to the show when it’s live more now than I was when it was on Friday nights…Sunday after­noons work out a whole lot bet­ter for me than early Friday evenings.

   As Thomas asked, when will this sched­ule change start? This week or next?

   - Caroline

5. 

   Phoenix - April 2, 2008 6:00 PM

   I pre­sume this week, Thomas, Caroline, since it’s already listed that way on their sched­ule…?

   I’ll still of course keep an ear out the pre­vi­ous time just in case.

6. 

   Caroline - April 2, 2008 6:27 PM

   Well, well, well…there it is indeed! Thanks Nix. 🙂 I never know when to take a peek at Planet Rock’s site ’cause they seem to be funny about updat­ing parts of it…*cough*Guy’s pre­sen­ter page*cough*, as we know from the “My Hometown” seg­ment (And “Best and Worst Jobs” too? Just real­ize that there has hardly been any entries for that lately…) try­ing to be defunct…

7. 

   Thomas Robinson - April 2, 2008 6:40 PM

   Carrying on from Caroline, i take it that if you want to sub­mit a bank of pratt request we just send you an e‑mail? There isn’t yet a spe­cific bit on the web­site for it. To be fair to planet rock, they are prob­a­bly busy with poten­tial takeovers at the minute. What this change does mean is that i’ll have to tape top gear when it comes back later in the year. Talking of which i saw the clip from top gear that Guy was in, and at one point you actu­ally said that the car engine carry a tune bet­ter than most pop­stars. Did you use the ticket to see the show being filmed? You should be one of the stars in a rea­son­ably priced car.

8. 

   Karen - April 3, 2008 12:07 AM

   7pm on Sunday, that’s 4am Monday in Sydney, that’s not a more socia­ble time.

   Suppose I can take up World of Warcraft to maybe try to stay up till that time.

9. 

   Rafal - April 4, 2008 4:43 PM

   Guy, are you going to play with Bryan Ferry in Poland (Cracow Screen Festival, 4^th May 2008)? Any chance for your own lit­tle show? 🙂

10. 

    Elina - April 7, 2008 12:25 AM

    guy: when are you going to como to Argentina???
    i love you since i was 13 years old (now i am 31)

11. 

    Paul Sexton - April 8, 2008 10:33 PM

    I was going to ask you to come to Belfast or Larne but i think i might need to join the que.

12. 

    Karen - April 10, 2008 6:17 AM

    quick ques­tion – was mr pratt’s show on last Sunday night ?

    noth­ing has been posted on Planet Rock web site yet.

13. 

    Phoenix - April 10, 2008 7:20 AM

    Yep, it aired as promised, devoid of any ref­er­ences to World of Warcraft, boo. I seem to remem­ber it tak­ing a few days the last time I wanted to re-lis­ten to one of the episodes (guess which one? 😀 ) for it to be posted.

    Ironically, the actual media player said it was to be a Jethro Tull spe­cial on, but it really was him­self.

    Accept no sub­sti­tutes!

    Nix.

14. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 10, 2008 2:41 PM

    It just does­n’t seem the same lis­ten­ing to Guy on a sun­day. After all those fri­day nights spent sit­ting in bed lis­ten­ing to the radio until 1 in the morn­ing it feels wierd to now be doing it on a sun­day evening. It will be even stranger when Top Gear starts again.

    It was still a great show though and i was able to e‑mail in whilst Guy was in the stu­dio for the first time. I think i clogged his email up a bit to be hon­est, i got a bit car­ried away. Sorry about that Guy, i’ll make sure i don’t do it again next time.

15. 

    Karen - April 11, 2008 6:58 AM

    Mr Pratt, just lis­tened to your show from Sunday. The last few min­utes were cut off.

    However did I hear cor­rectly, did you say ‘ strewth ‘ ?

16. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 14, 2008 5:18 PM

    Another great show Guy. It did­n’t feel as strange lis­ten­ing to the show on a sun­day as it did the week before. There can’t be many radio shows that suit both fri­day nights and sun­day evenings!

    I nearly died of shock when you read my email out. It was­n’t quite as shock­ing as the PULSE mir­ror­ball but it was close, although for­tu­natly nei­ther shock proved fatal.

    I was also pleas­antly sur­prised when you played the stran­glers. I was actu­ally telling a friend on sat­ur­day that my only com­plaint about Planet Rock was that it played too much extremely-heavy metal and not enough stran­glers but you must have heard me!

    What was with the stiggy-stig thing? The wolf and moon in your head thing was a bit strange. What accent were you try­ing to do?

    Thomas

17. 

    Phoenix - April 14, 2008 9:27 PM

    Probably a Top Gear ref­er­ence. I orig­i­nally thought it was a ref­er­ence to This is Spinal Tap, thus prov­ing it’s been /​far/​ too long since I’ve seen that par­tic­u­lar film.

    However, to actu­ally get back to the orig­i­nal topic of the post, I have to say Planet Rock’s tim­ing on the sched­ule switch could not have been more per­fect. Normally, I’d be at work, doing over­time dur­ing the old times­lot. A lit­tle bit dif­fi­cult to lis­ten and work at the same time, but it was okay, always great to have a per­sonal lap­top at the salt mines to help keep in touch with friends (and occa­sion­ally play World of Warcraft when it got slow or bor­ing). Then a cou­ple of ding­bats just hap­pened to get caught surf­ing… shall we say… ‘inap­pro­pri­ate’… web­sites by some VIP who then com­plained to our man­ager, who then banned per­sonal lap­tops in the office. So now, no more stream­ing audio for me at work. And no World of Warcraft.

    But I have an iPhone now, so I can still read this thing and keep in touch with my mates. And just to be a geek, I had the phone log into my lap­top at home and had the lap­top log into WoW. 😉 Can’t prop­erly play it, but yeah. 🙂

18. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 14, 2008 9:41 PM

    I thought it might be a top gear ref­er­ence too but i could­n’t work out the accent. I did a bit of googling and it might have been Stig Anderson, ABBA’s old man­ager that Guy was pre­tend­ing to be, it would at least account for the accent.

19. 

    Guy Pratt - April 15, 2008 12:24 AM

    You mean you don’t know Stig Stiggson of Mindwolf???? Super crazy Swedish Rock group???
    I just made him up and I like him, don’t you?

20. 

    Phoenix - April 15, 2008 2:15 AM

    I really like the name Mindwolf, Guy. Sounds like a name one of my geek friends would use for gam­ing pur­poses… or a char­ac­ter from a comic book.

    And it’s four points off for mis­use of punc­tu­a­tion. No need for mul­ti­ple ques­tion marks unless one is Doctor Who. 😉

    Nix,
    Grammar Police.

21. 

    Caroline - April 15, 2008 10:19 AM

    I like Mindwolf too…if such a band existed, they could beat up on ABBA* and Europe** any day of the week, month, and year!

    There ought to be a ‘my band is bet­ter than your band’ sort of TV show…if there can be a ‘my dad is bet­ter than your dad’ show (at least here in the States…and I nearly groaned when I hap­pened upon it one evening not long ago) on the telly, then there should def­i­nitely be such a thing for bands/​artists.

    Anyway, I three am really enjoy­ing the new timeslot…nothing goes bet­ter with Sunday after­noons, green tea, Doritos, and straw­berry Newtons (for­ever!) like your show, Guy. That said, I was work­ing on my Randall and Hopkirk site as this week’s show began…and there was quite a coinky­dink: You played “The Jean Genie” as I was work­ing on get­ting my Annette Andre auto­graph pics uploaded and set up on their page. Needless to say, I could­n’t help let­ting out a nice lit­tle chuckle when I real­ized what was going on…about a minute or two into the song.

    I’ve ram­bled on enough as it is, but I have to also chime in with Thomas and say that get­ting to hear the Stranglers was too awe­some.

    - Caroline

    * — At the risk of get­ting killed here, I have to admit that I can’t help actu­ally lik­ing ABBA’s “Eagle”…the clos­est to ‘pro­gres­sive rock’ they ever got to being. Well, I can’t help lik­ing that and “SOS”…and now I got the lat­ter stuck in my head again. Bang goes any chance of get­ting any sleep now…

    ** — Yeah, I know…Europe is/​was a Norweigian band. But hey, Norway is part of Scandinavia, and what bet­ter band to be in a ‘beat up’ deal with Mindwolf than the ones behind “The Final Countdown”?

    Great, now I got a mashup of that and “SOS” mean­der­ing through my poor mind…arrrrrrgggghh!!

22. 

    Caroline - April 15, 2008 10:59 AM

    Correction: Europe is/​was Swedish. I just remem­bered that…grrr, arrrrgh.

    (sighs) That’s what I get for respond­ing to this thing at four in the morn­ing.

23. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 15, 2008 4:42 PM

    The stig stig­g­son appear­ance was good, it was just a bit of a sur­prise! As for the names Jeremy Clarkson has pre­vi­ously ref­ered to the Stig as stig stig­g­son and mind­wolf is a mar­vel comic­book super­hero accord­ing to google (i’d like to point out that i’m not a comic­book expert). Maybe when Guy got the ticket to see Top Gear being filmed he met the man behind the mask? We saw Jeremy, James and Richard play­ing on the ToTP spe­cial, maybe the Stig is plan­ning an album too? Or maybe Guy is the Stig?

    But what­ever the answers, thanks Guy for both the radio show and expand­ing my musi­cal hori­zons (or at least they would have been expanded had Mindwolf had some mate­r­ial of any kind avail­able :lol:)

    And Caroline, not every­thing ABBA did was bland euro-pop, some of the stuff on their albums was­n’t too bad actu­ally. It’s just their sin­gles that you prob­a­bly should­n’t admit to lik­ing!

24. 

    Karen - April 16, 2008 8:23 AM

    Why does it take sooooo long for Guy’s show to be posted ?

    And why do other shows seem to have week’s worth ?

    Guy, I think you are funny, but enough to get me up at 4am.

25. 

    Caroline - April 16, 2008 5:37 PM

    You may want to look under “Jethro Tull Special”, if there is such an entry on the player, this time around again, Karen…when Guy’s show was on this past Sunday, the player flashed “JTS” as the show then on for the times­lot again. *sighs*

    Thomas, I cer­tainly don’t dis­agree about ABBA being not com­pletely being Euro-Pop…“Eagle” is a GREAT song. And I would have never known about it if it had­n’t been for my read­ing this site’s ABBA page one evening almost seven or so years ago. “Eagle” is every bit as enthralling, at least to me, as it is to the author of that site…to this day, I can’t get over how majestic/​mystical it sounds AND that such a song comes from ABBA, of all out­fits.

    “Eagle” was one of the five best music col­lec­tion deci­sions I’ve ever made based on that site…the other four being Genesis’ “Selling England By The Pound”, Roxy Music’s “For Your Pleasure”, Can’s “Soundtracks”, and King Crimson’s “Absent Lovers: Live In Montréal 1984”.

26. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 21, 2008 8:31 PM

    Hi Guy,

    I think you should def­i­nitely play more Frank Zappa, like the Stranglers I think he is under-rep­re­sented on Planet Rock except for on your show. Which reminds me, thanks for play­ing the Stranglers again. Two tracks in two weeks, i don’t think i’ve ever heard them on the radio so much!
    Cheers,

    Thomas

    (Oh and i was only kid­ding when i emailed ask­ing for an auto­graph Guy.)

27. 

    Phoenix - April 21, 2008 10:20 PM

    I liked the new show as well, but was kinda miffed they never posted last week’s show on the lis­ten again fea­ture… Good thing the hotel had halfway decent free wire­less at PenguiCon or I would have /​really/​ been miffed to have missed one entirely. Any idea if they’re gonna post any more ‘episodes’?

    Nix

28. 

    Karen - April 22, 2008 12:36 AM

    I have been hav­ing a bit of a chat with some­one from Planet Rock, re: lack of post­ing Guy’s show, ( he’s prob­a­bly so get­ting over me ) but will let you know what hap­pens.

    As I have now missed two shows 🙁

29. 

    Caroline - April 22, 2008 9:00 AM

    Hearing the Stranglers and Frank Zappa has been quite a treat to me as well…I had never ever heard any of the Stranglers’ songs until Guy started play­ing them! Always nice to know of more songs to add to my ever grow­ing, and ecelec­tic dig­i­tal music reper­toire…

    As for Zappa…“Overnite Sensation” was indeed an awe­some album, and I remem­ber get­ting a copy of that for “Camarillo Brillo” like it was yes­ter­day. As a mat­ter of fact, I’d cite “Camarillo” as quite pos­si­bly my most favorite Zappa song, when “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow”, “You Are What You Is”, “Fine Girl”, and “Valley Girl” aren’t doing their best to rival it.

    I three hope that some­thing gets done about get­ting ‘episodes’ up soon on the Planet Rock archive player…I was a lit­tle wor­ried when I saw that for the third week in a row, the show was listed as “Jethro Tull Special” as it played… *sighs*

    - Caroline

30. 

    Phoenix - April 22, 2008 6:34 PM

    I pulled out the head­phone plug and let ‘my peo­ple’ lis­ten to Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow… it suits that crowd very well. I have a feel­ing some­one will be spin­ning it on my sta­tion at some point in the near future.

31. 

    Thomas Robinson - April 22, 2008 7:51 PM

    I’ve just checked and Guy’s show from Sunday has been put on the lis­ten again fea­ture at long last!

    I think that Frank Zappa’s best song is Muffin Man. The gui­tar work is amaz­ing and on the ver­sion i have Frank actu­ally has to repeat part of the open­ing dia­logue because he starts laugh­ing him­self. Didn’t he record about 50 albums before he dies, mak­ing him the most recorded musi­cian ever?

32. 

    Karen - April 23, 2008 12:02 AM

    Fixed, response from Planet Rock

    Hi Karen

    You’re quite right. I have rec­ti­fied this now. Due to music rights I can only send you a link to Sunday’s show just gone (20^th April)
    which will be active until Sunday 27^th April to lis­ten to either on the player or on this link below:

    http://www.planetrock.co.uk//Article.asp?id=535977