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first show of the new year!

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 14.01.10 // Shut Up and Eat Your Music

Wow, feels like ages since we did a show. That's because it is! And i say we, but we were without the company of Nick today. In his place we had a musical guest in the form of Pamela Quinn, a local chanteuse who performed a lovely rendition of her song "Fairytale" and provided some nice chat and banter too.

So we've got a new format, with the focus on highlighting the local live music scene, gigs coming up in the next week, and having live performances in the studio. I think I coped well without my trusty technician, who needs a techie anyway?

Methinks the format worked well, feel free to email me at oanadid@googlemail.com (the email address for the PivoPivo/Bluesbunny record label, see www.myspace.com/oanadid for details) with your thoughts.

Cheers

Gary McKenna Pivo Pivo 0141 564 8100

EDIT - Apologies to Pamela for giving her song the wrong name first time round in the playlist and here too. That's what i get for doing this with a hangover.

Posted at 17:19, 14th January 2010

that was the show that wasn't

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 10.12.09

Ok, you were promised a feat of unsigned Glasgow bands, but once again, twas but a calculated ruse!!! Instead, you can hear tracks by bands playing Glasgow this week, both big and small, including the Phantom Band, Dillinger Four and Porcupine Tree. Also, Nick offered up some random selections including one to represent his concept of a "reggae xmas" this year, Tito and Tarantulas wonderful "After Dark" and some more than welcome Canned Heat.

As i said, we are actively working on our reboot, but meantime i will strive to compile a "best of" for next week, then get ready for an epic 2 hour show on xmas eve. Lovely.

CHAFINCH, ALBATROSS!! You'll have to listen to find out why i say that, and also to not hear the origin of the term POPPYCOCK!

Yeah, we're weird. Deal with it.

Team shut up and eat your music.

Posted at 18:03, 10th December 2009

shut up and eat your best of year part 1

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 10.12.09

Howdy! So this week and next week we will be doing our "best of year", playing and talking about the best bands Nick and I have seen at Pivo Pivo and elsewhere. I'd started out making a top 10 and ended up with a top 24, there really is so much quality out there, and even a commited gig goer and venue booker like myself can only see and hear a fraction of what's out there in Scotland. But i think the songs we intend playing are representative of the variety of genres that are out there, and the quality of Scottish music. This is part 1, next week we'll have part 2, then after our xmas break we'll be back with a "rebooted" format that will be more focused on local unsigned bands and live studio sets.

Now Shut up and Eat Your Music

Gary

Posted at 11:50, 9th December 2009

shut up and drink your booze

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 19.11.09 // Shut Up and Drink Your Booze

Hello! So a couple of weeks back we got drunk and did a show, this week we decided to do a show dedicated to booze wonderful booze. There's some absolutely cracking tracks this week from artists such as Gil Scott Heron, Norah Jones, Dean Martin, Nouveaux Vague, The National and lesser known performers like Stick McGhee and an absolutely brilliant cover of Snoop Dogg's Gin n' Juice by a country band called The Gourds.

Pour yourself a nice big glass of wine, get comfortably sozzled, and enjoy!

Gary and Nick

Posted at 18:45, 19th November 2009

shut up and eat your prog

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 05.11.09

Ok, so i've negelected my show news a little. It happens. What didn't happen was our proposed radio play last week, what can I say, we're overly ambitious sometimes.

This week we had Shut Up and Eat Your Prog. Surprisingly, none of the songs we're over half an hour in length, though we certainly didn't manage to play as many as usual. Nor were we drunk this week. I wonder if you can tell the difference.

So there's some Jethro Tull on there, some Rush, Pink Floyd, The Who, and best of all, Stonehenge by Spinal Tap, which frankly is the best song of the bunch by miles!!!

So listen, enjoy, and prepare for some surprises in coming weeks as we're not going to be constrained by the theme of Thursday gigs at Pivo Pivo due to changes to bookings.

Gary McKenna Pivo Pivo 0141 564 8100

Posted at 12:33, 6th November 2009

shut up and eat your horror part ii

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 29.10.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Highs and Lows

Ok, so if you read the last news item, you'll remember me mentioning we may be trying something a bit different this week. I'm not going into too much detail, all i can say is there probably won't be much music, if there is it will be more instrumental or mood setting. I also have about 4 days to put together what we need for our idea, then it will require some kind of rehearsal. It could be we've been too ambitious, and it won't come off, but i work best under pressure, and give that day is also my birthday, it would be a great start to the day.

To give you a clue, there may be zombies loose at Glasgow University, and to find out how to survive their attack, you'll have to tune into Shut Up and Eat Your Horror Part II. Meugghhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ...

Thursday 29th October at 3pm. Listen!!!

ha.

Gary

Posted at 18:26, 22nd October 2009

shut up and eat your horror part 1

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 22.10.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Horror

Yes that's right, this was only the first installment in a 2 parter, and twas a pleasant enough show. I started with saying that Nick was dead and would have to be contacted by seance (he was out getting us coffees, if we talk too much gibberish it's the caffeine talking), and from there we meandered through a "Facts massacre" about ghosts and ghouls, halloween costume ideas and music from the likes of the damned, zombina and the skeletones and even a little Billie Holliday. Spooky, ghoulish and demented, but enough about Nicks mum ...

For information on next weeks show, go to the news about Shut Up and Eat Your Horror Part II.

Gary McKenna

Posted at 18:02, 22nd October 2009

shut up and eat your pianist

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 15.10.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Pianist

Never ones to shy away from a bad pun, this weeks show is titled "Shut Up and Eat Your Pianist", and if you have no plans, or even if you do have plans, you should change them and come along to Pivo Pivo on Thursday 15th October for the gig of the same name. Featuring that night will be ...

The Dirty Demographic - www.myspace.com/thedirtydemographic Jonathan Carr - www.myspace.com/jonathan.carr Penny Black - www.myspace.com/therealpennyblack AcidDICA - www.myspace.com/aciddica

All use piano prominently in their performances, but their styles are very different.

For the show itself we'll be looking at the history of piano based music from classical, to rock and roll, via dance music, and up to performers utilising it now in an interesting way. Or we'll do what we usually do and put together a playlist in a panic on the day, then if it goes ok pretend that was our intention all along. This is the cutting edge of broadcasting folks.

So the show is at 3pm on Thursday 15th October, be sure to listen. And you'd be silly not to come along on Thursday night at 8pm for the gig. It's only 3 quid in, and you'll get to meet me n Nick too, cos you know you want to having heard our sexy radio voices ...

Gary and Nick

Posted at 21:54, 9th October 2009

shut up and eat your frontman

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 08.10.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Frontman

This week, for both radio show and gig at Pivo Pivo we're celebrating bands with compelling frontmen, a bit of showmanship, a bit of "what the hell was that"? At Pivo Pivo on Thursday from 8pm we have Zener Diode, Mickey 9's and Foxgang. Zener Diode are some kind of mad german electro pop experiment gone wrong. Mickey 9's have funk and soul, and do a kick ass daft punk cover. Foxgang are one of the best bands in Glasgow. On the show we'll have songs by ... ooh, all sorts of bands with good frontmen. And the usual nonsense banter from myself and Nick, possibly done in the style of 2 northern men commentating on some kind of farming contest (stay tuned for when this might actually happen, we're evolving the idea of the show cos frankly the more documentary style is boring us! Informative, yes, allowing us to get into characters and talk gibberish, no!) So for all you listeners we must have accumulated thus far, expect some changes at SHUT UP HQ. That is all.

3pm on Thursday, listen!!!

Posted at 22:51, 4th October 2009

shut up and eat your math rock

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 01.10.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Math Rock

From Wikipedia - Math rock is a rhythmically complex, guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1980s. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords.

Math rock shares its place of origin in the late 80s underground music scene of the American Midwest and surroundings with post-rock. Some earlier bands have characteristics of both math rock and post-rock, using instruments for textures rather than melodies and riffs, featuring atypical rhythms and some dissonance. The genres soon diverged: math rock concentrated on angular melodies, atypical time signatures, start-stop rhythms, and dissonance, while staying closer to rock music in sound and instrumentation. Post-rock, on the other hand, concentrated on heavy use of dynamics, creating sound-scapes, and expanded the variety of instruments used, used a jazzier drumming style, and incorporated elements of shoe-gaze music.

There, that's us telt. Now tune into the show at 3pm on Thursday 1st October and come along to the gig at Pivo Pivo featuring Oslow, The Chinaskis and Albino Monk, it's only 3 quid in and math rock-tastic!

Posted at 17:47, 28th September 2009

shut up and eat your rave

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 24.09.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Rave

This weeks show will be a real nostalgia trip for me and anyone who grew up in the 80's when rave was at it's peak, and bands like The Prodigy first entered public consciousness. I'll admit, i've decided on this as a bit of a multi-task as I have to research a 5 year period of music history for my HND Music Business, and i chose Rave. Killing two birds with one stone. So expect a musical journey taking rave from it's underground roots to some of the hideous sights witnessed on mainstream tv and radio as it began to slowly die or at least evolve, and also a little history of the Britain that spawned the phenomenon, and erosions in our civil liberties that raves influence were used to justify. Or i'll just get mad wi it and spin some banging tunes. Whatever.

The question is, what do i do to immerse myself in "rave" culture, obviously "raves" still go on tho not always by that name, and many dj's still play the music (i'm sure if i trawled the subcity shows i'll find some crossover with what someone else is doing ...) My first thought was to try and organise an "illegal rave" which is guess would have to take place no later than wednesday to be relevant to the show. Or, is there something going on this weekend where people will be listening to such "old skool" music and if i were to go to it, would i possibly get stabbed? Oh, the questions. Or, and i hate myself for just thinking of this, should i go to some standard club night, but fully dressed in late 80s raved up gear ie boiler suit, dust mask filled with vix, glow sticks ... again, would i possibly get stabbed if i did this?

If you have any suggestions, or REALLY want me to do one of the following suggestions, then get in touch. And most of all, listen in at 3pm on Thursday 24th September use the listen again function as and when suits you.

Giez it!

Gary McKenna

Posted at 18:16, 18th September 2009

shut up and eat your ehhh's

Shut Up and Eat Your Music // 17.09.09 // Shut Up and Eat Your Chanteuse

Not sure if this if this is the right place to blog about my first show, but if not, so be it, wouldn't be the first problem i've had with it! First things first, it's a little bizarre to listen back to the show and realise I have what almost amounts to a speech impediment. I sound like a guy with a stutter at the dentists, "say ahh" ... "ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhh". Well, it's actually more like Ehhh but that sounded funnier in my head.

Wasn't Julia Doogans performance brilliant tho? If even one person got to hear that and gets into her music then it was worth it.

I should admit the setlist was pretty much decided on the day, I hope anyone who listened or will listen enjoys it though. Julia said she found the show informative, which is nice! It remains to be seen whether people will be able to cope with my continued guttural pauses to listen the whole way through, or can actually still listen while laughing their asses off. Suffice to say, i'll be working on getting rid of that particular quirk. If all else fails, we'll try aversion therapy, i'll get Nick to smack me with a hammer every time i do it (starting with a small hammer perhaps up to sledgehammer depending on the effectiveness, tho that would probably also make me go AHHHHHH!)

After all that, the gig at night with Emma Curran, Julia Doogan, Gillian Christie and Kat Healy was immense. About 80 people came along, whether any of those people had heard the show or not, we all had a bloody great time! Putting like with like together is definitely the best idea when it comes to the gigs, and in doing so if it exposes me and you to new music, all the better.

Finally, i'd say i've learnt from the experience. Not to leave show preparation to the last minute, not to assume that just because Nick is a qualified engineer that he'd find working the desk easy peasy (tho I was just getting in his way sometimes), to not wear any clothing that will make it obvious i'm a sweaty mess (the studio is a furnace) and finally, I should maybe have listened to some kind of a recording of myself before deciding to host a radio show.

Now tune in next week to hear if i've eliminated my speech impediment. Same bat time, same bat channel.

Gary McKenna

Posted at 17:52, 18th September 2009