The MUSICAL BOX - 11th March

[Alan]

Hi there!

Spring's around the corner and the evenings are getting lighter - which means more time for our fearless musicologists to 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

Paul Weller (Back to 1992 and the Modfather's solo debut - a real departure from The Jam and The Style Council: it's simply called Paul Weller, it's our Archive Album Of The Week - and we have three fab songs in the show); Mott The Hoople; The Moody Blues; Boomtown Rats

NEW SONGS

Broken Bells (The second release from this fine indie band - self-titled Broken Bells, it's our Album Of The Week and we've three top tunes in the show); The Whigs; Goldfrapp; Danny Gokey; Rogue Wave; Dawn Landes; Cable 35; Radney Foster & The Confessions; Adam Green; Madison Violet

BORROWED SONGS

Echo & The Bunnymen (Doing The Doors); The Christians (Doing Cat Stevens); Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (Doing Jefferson Airplane); Amy MacDonald (Doing The Jam)

BLUES/ROOTS SONGS

Jimi Hendrix; Black Bart; Anais Mitchell; Sarah Williams; Patsy Cline

LABELLED WITH LOVE

This month: Elektra Records - this week - Earth Opera

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

The Strawbs

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