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All Entries in the "ECLECTIQUE" Category
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Eclectique 08:05:10
It’s pretty rare that The Sheik plays song dedications to animals, in fact it has only happened once before. “I dedicated Nina Simone’s ‘Trouble in Mind’ for a dog named ‘Trouble’ that had inherited a S#%tload of money when some rich bird died”. It wasn’t money The Sheik was after when he made this nights [...]
Eclectique 01:05:2010
“Going into the show I was incredibly confident” said The Sheik, and why wouldn’t he be, considering in the kit bag he had some massive names. Robert Harvey, Chelsea Brown, Nat Stuckey and Hurricane Smith to name but a few. There was one song in particular that had him brimming with confidence, that was from [...]
Eclectique 24:04:2010
“Some girls are bigger than others” is a title of a song by The Smiths. “Some weeks are better than others” is how The Sheik described the week that had just passed for himself. The mood was mellow and the songs followed suit….. Here’s the playlist. Gallagher & Lyle- ’15 Summers’ Grady Martin- ‘Tennessee Waltz’ [...]
Eclectique 17:04:2010
When Stevie Wonder suggests that someone does the “best version” of one of his songs (“it’s written on the back of the album, so I know it’s true”), well you sure as hell want to hear it. Opening this evenings program was one of those songs, namely ‘You Are The Sunshine of My Life’. “Stevie did [...]
Eclectique 10:04:2010
Yet ‘another’ pre record from The Sheik which may have lacked the same lustre of his normal broadcast “and my read out of the time, which you could set your watch too” but what could he do? Wedding number three for the year and that’s that. “People before people”….which must mean that The Sheik had [...]
Eclectique 06:03:10
Only a keen ear would have been able to pick that The Sheik wasn’t behind the wheel at Studio A at the weekend, but he sure as hell knew it. “In the Gold Coast, grown adults drink Passion Pop, at restaurants” he saw it with his own eyes. But he was quick to pay up [...]
