The MUSICAL BOX - 3rd March

[Alan]

Hi there!

Did you see it? Did You? That yellow orb in the sky earlier this week? A flash of sunshine to light up the lives of our fearless musicologists as they go about their task of gathering in all those fabulous sounds. Let's take a peak in The Musical Box to see what's in the show this week:

OLD SONGS

Jefferson Airplane (Back to 1969 and and a massive release from these West Coast psychedelic rockers: it's called Volunteers, it's our Archive Album Of The Week - and we have three fab songs in the show); Echo & The Bunnymen; Aimee Mann; John Cale; Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

NEW SONGS

Turin Brakes (A welcome return from this roots-rock duo: their latest album is Outbursts - it's our Album Of The Week and we've three top tunes in the show); Deer Tick; Frightened Rabbit; Archie Bronson Oufit; Eugene & The Lizards; Phoenix Williams; O'Brian George; Chumbawamba

BORROWED SONGS

The Stereophonics (Doing The Jam); Amy McDonald (Doing Bruce Springsteen); James Morrison (Doing Michael Jackson); The Noisettes (Doing Ella Fitzgerald)

BLUES/ROOTS SONGS

Deadstring Brothers; Key Largo; Joanna Newsome; Jon Dee Graham & The Fighting Cocks; The Unthanks

LABELLED WITH LOVE

This month: Elektra Records - this week - The Doors

LET THERE BE PROG (Breakthrough is taking a break in March!)

Steve Hackett

And so there we have it!

Hope you enjoy this week's fine musical sounds - all ready for your listening enjoyment: and if you'd like to make the show even better, then you know what to do - just send me an e-mail - breakthrough@forestfm.co.uk - or a text 07982-709809 - saying what you'd like to hear and I'll do the rest for you. You can also check out my website - http://www.themusicalbus.com where you'll see this week's playlist plus web links to all the artists sites: you'll also find plenty of news, reviews, pix and much more besides!

So - settle down at 10pm this Thursday with The Musical Box - and let's transport ourselves away into the musical ether for two whole hours.....

Alan Dorey
Presenter, The Musical Box, 10pm to Midnight on 92.3 Forest FM and live on-line at http://www.forestfm.co.uk