‘ECLECTIQUE’ Archives
Eclectique 04:09:10 »
"There's something about Spring that makes me feel, I don't know, different" says The Sheik. Well there's plenty of reasons Sheik, it's finals time in the footy, your beloved horse racing hits peak season and not to mention the weather heats up. "yeah there's all that, but the other day I picked some flowers off a tree and whacked them in a vase". [...]
Eclectique 21:08:2010 »
"I'm all for a party" says The Sheik "but really, an Election Party! Where's the fun in that?" but people do have them, and others turn up. Guests hang around the TV and chat, it's not that hard to do Sheik, "Yeah, well I tried watching the coverage, but it was too much to bear, and did they really need to take over 'Funniest Home Videos' time [...]
Eclectique 07:08:10 »
The Sheik received an interesting email during the week from a fan by the name of Jake, from Carss Park. It read- "Dear Sheik, I love your show, so much so that I went to the Eastside website and printed out a poster sized print of your picture from your homepage. Be sure to watch Packed to the Rafters on Tuesday night 8.30 on Channel 7 so you [...]
Eclectique 31:07:10 »
"I'm not sure what the request was" says The sheik, "I didn't quite hear it properly", so it's hard to confirm which Eurovision song was the one called in and requested by a dear listener on Saturday Night. "It wasn't even a request as such, it was more of a 'I would've played (insert name) after that last song". After some internet research, [...]
Eclectique 24:07:10 »
Picture a time, 70 years from now, the world will be going through the '80's again. By then everyone will have gone through their own 'Sixties' and 'Seventies'. Right now we don't have to clarify that a song was from the 1980's and not the 1880's. But in 2080 they may have to do just that. "I sure hope they play 'The Monitors, Singing in the [...]
Eclectique 17:07:10 »
After a couple of weeks stuck in other parts of the country, it was 'welcome back' to the big chair at Studio A for The Sheik. And what a welcome back it was indeed. New presenters from 8-10 p.m. (hello "Liquorice Pizza") and a brand new (old) mixer (thing) for the turntables. It was enough, or even too much, for The Sheik who went straight into [...]
Eclectique 05:06:10 »
In Van Morrison's song "It Stoned Me" he sings the lyrics "stoned me just like Jelly Roll". Is the reference to 'Jelly Roll' a reference to the great Pianist Jelly Roll Morton? Or a type of pastry with Jam in it? or is he referring to a mans genitalia? The questions was posed via regular caller John (from Leichardt) and there was [...]
Eclectique 29:05:10 »
"If you've made an instrumental track, what's the point of naming it something boring and unremarkable?" says The Sheik, "there's no lyrics to give people the chance to remember it by either". As anyone who has tried to hum a song to a disinterested music shop worker would agree, it doesn't help when you're trying to track it down for [...]
Eclectique 22:05:10 »
Life provides us all with challenges. How we react to these challenges defines who we are as people. "If someone defecates on your front step, do you step over it? or do you clean it up because it needs to be done?" and this was the very problem that faced The Sheik during the week. "Well I'm glad to say that I was man enough to pick it up.....but [...]
Eclectique 15:05:2010 »
Ever heard of the Australian film 'Heaven Tonight'? "No, nor have I" said The Sheik. Then it would be quite rare, you'd think, to find a 45 rpm Single from the movie in a bargain bin at a charity shop "or, highly likely that that's where you would find it". Add the fact that 'Guy Pearce' is the singer on the record, well then you have you have [...]