Radio Active 89FM NZ Music Show Playlist
23 December, 2003

The RadioActive PC decided it didn't like IE last night, so my carefully constructed playlist got wiped out in a horrible 'this program has performed a fatal error' moment about 5 minutes from the end. I'll see if I can reconstruct it from memory (and the pile of CDs sitting in my bag), but first, the 'hippy van'.

I've been off air for a few weeks, what with flu and the roster system, so it took me more than the usual 5 minutes to get my act together at the start and begin to remember what the plethora of knobs and switches on the desk actually do. Having fired off a couple of tracks successfully, I went to my first voice break only moderately nervous, but then, typical, just as I hit the 'live' button, the studio phone starts ringing! Where the hell is the 'hold' key on that thing! (there's about 8 function buttons at the bottom of the phone - none of them looked the business). After discussing my phone problems on air for about 15 seconds, the phone ringing in the background the whole time, I finally just picked up the receiver and dropped it back into its cradle. Problem solved. Or delayed, at least. The moment the next track got under way, the phone went again, and I was able to take it...

"Kia ora, RadioActive."
"Uhhh, hullo? I 'ave lost my [indecipherable]?"
It was vaguely European sounding girl (dutch/danish?).
"You've lost your...?"
"Ummm, cat?"
"You've lost a cat?"
"I think I have lost my cap?"
"I'm sorry, I'm having problems hearing what you're saying, have you lost your cat, or a cap, or something else?"
"Ummm, it is lost. Shall I tell you about it?"
I thought someone might be winding me up, but bugger it, you never know...I persevered.
"Yep, fire away."
"Sorry?"
"Ah, yes, tell me about your cat. Where did you lose it?"
"Wellington?"
"Ooookay. And what colour is it?"
"Hippy."
"Sorry. Happy?"
"Hippy coloured."
"You have a hippy coloured cat?"
"Ah, no, van! We have lost our van!"
Click! Van. They'd lost it? Or had it been stolen? Mine was not to wonder...
"Ah, sorry, VAN! My mistake, you've lost your van. And you say it's what colour?"
"Hippy coloured."
Given the level of mis-communication that had gone on so far, I couldn't really deal with this, so I just plunged on for the denouement.
"And what's the license plate?"
"Sorry?"
"The registration?"
"Ummmm?"
"The numbers on the plates at the front and back of the car."
"Oh! It is..."
And she told me. Actually, from there, we actually seemed to be talking the same language, and I also figured out the make, her name & contact number without too many more false starts. So, at the next voice break...
"Just a quick headsup: Maggie has lost her hippy-coloured Toyota van somewhere around central Wellington. If you spot the van, license plate [whatever], please call the police and let them know, and give us a buzz here at the station as well - perhaps we can co-ordinate a city-wide van-hunt. Just to repeat, a hippy-coloured Toyota van. Shouldn't be too hard to spot."

It also transpired that there was no un-chart-ed show this week, so my normal 20 minute rest halfway through the show was out of the question, and I had to actually play a reasonably solid two hours of music without pause. Of course, I made it harder on myself by deciding to play a lot of 2 and 3 minute long pop songs - it was only in the latter stages of the second half of the show that I really started to flag, and dropped in a couple of dub and electronica epics.

Anyway, from memory (and thus with probably omissions aplenty) here's the playlist...

* Conray - Space Dub Jazz
* Sleepers Union - Giant Spheres
* Debris - Stuck in the Middle
* Nouveau Riche - Autumn Girl
* Dead Pan Rangers - Dwarfism
* Blue Set - Hospital Sex
* Shocking Pink - [?]
* Flash Harry - Alright
* P-Bass Expressway - Chester Creeps In
* Verse Two - Gold
* Pitch Black - Speech (White Amolitude Mix)
* 50hz - Longitude Zero
* Trinity Roots - Just Like You
* Age Pryor - Eyes Rarely Meet
* Phoenix Foundation - Sally
* Grusome - Groove is in the Hutt
* Disasteradio - Sparky Chair
* Phelps & Munro - Bounceback
* Twinset - They Call it Chicago Pt. 1
* Poultice - Cotton Wool
* Scattergram - Little Indians
* Aspen - [?]
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