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White Russian Doll, the latest single by my slight obsession and favourite independent band, Lucky Soul, has been voted Record of the Week on my favourite radio programme, Radcliffe and Maconie.

From the latest Lucky Soul email:

Thank you, thank you and thank you again to everyone who voted for ‘White Russian Doll’ for the ‘Pick ‘n’ Mix’ Single of the Week slot on Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie’s BBC Radio 2 show. We’ll be on every night this week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/the-radcliffe-and-maconie-show/

You can now hear ‘Cryin in the Morning’ the rousing b-side to ‘WRD’ on our myspace and order the digital bundle here: www.itunes.com/luckysoul/whiterussiandoll-single Why not write a review while you’re there?

And barring ill fortune or injury we’ll be in session on Absolute Radio, on the Geoff Lloyd show on Feburary 2nd.

I thought I was too old to be thrilled when ’small’ bands I love get picked up on national radio, but I’m not – I’m chuffed to pieces for the band.

(Yes, I’m aware that, at the time of writing, the video is spilling outside this post’s container. I still need to tweak the design here.) 20/1: Fixed by not relying on the WordPress auto-embed function.

Heard the most extraordinary crap on Radio 4 last Friday.  I know it’s the silly season, but somehow I expected the Today programme to be above all that.

Commenting on the fact that China had decided to start the Olympics at 8.08pm on 8/8/08, the Today programme got a numerologist, Sonia Ducie, in to spout on about various ‘characteristics’ of the number 8, and how the word ‘China’, in some stupid childlike counting game purporting to be significant, comes out as the number 8.

I have no time for mumbo jumbo nonsense¹ but a sort of morbid fascination kept me tuned in.  And then I got the money moment, when this woman described the Chinese as “superstitious” on more than one occasion, as if numerology were some kind of science and not in itself inherently absurd.

I was going to post this up earlier (probably best that I didn’t, since my incredulity would have been translated into profanity) but the sound file seems not to load properly, one hopes because the BBC is ashamed of itself for broadcasting this nonsense).

Here’s the link anyway: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7549000/7549026.stm

1. Thought for the Day is my cue to switch over to XFM to see if there’s any decent music on (the answer to which is, alas, ‘rarely’ [↩]