A Touch of Pink

15 Dec 2021

Riding High BLOG + PODCAST 751

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7 Sleeps ’till Christmas …… and a new seasonal song from TIN

Welcome to another episode of A Touch Of Pink, your one-stop shop for rainbow pop. As usual, all tracks tonight have rainbow content. Tune in this Saturday on JOY 94.9 from 5-6 pm for a whole hour of wonderful explorative listening plus a few seasonal tracks.

14 new or recent tracks tonight featuring rainbow content/artists from the USA, England, Sweden and Australia. Wonderful new tracks from aussies Bambibrains, Ray Isaac, Chelsea Manor, KOOLZ and Madam & The Mafia, plus a Billy Porter remix, a Soft Cell remix and an ABBA remix from Dutch rainbow remixer Matt Pop from everywhere else.

Playlist for Show 751 to be broadcast on 18th December 2021

RuPaul + Cast Of DragRace UK Season 3	Hey Sis, it’s Christmas
Big Words. **	Lipstick
Bambibrains. **	Paradise I know
Todrik Hall	Boys in the ocean
Ray Isaac. **	Fired up (Freejak radio edit)
Chelsea Manor. **	Round the twist
Billy Porter	Children (Mele radio edit)
Dead Or Alive	Blue Christmas (PKG remix)
Nick Jay	Break the chain ft Silke (7th Heaven radio edit)
KOOLZ. **	Remade
Madam and the Mafia. **	Riding High
Louis La Roche	Cold to me ft Darren Hayes
ABBA	Little Things (Matt Pop mix)
Soft Cell	Tainted Love (Jamie Jones 4Z remix)

Aussie content ** All tracks have Rainbow content

Podcast Of The Week : A Journey Through Stock Aitken Waterman

A wonderful podcast that I have only discovered recently (they are up to Episode 18), this explores the phenomenon of producers Stock Aitken Waterman, and their artists from Kylie to Jason, Dead Or Alive, Bananarama etc etc etc. Their mission is to go through every SAW single released, starting with ‘The Upstroke’ in Episode 1, and a thorough, and I mean thorough, exploration of Pepsi and Shirley’s ‘Heartbreak’ in Episode 18. Hosted by Matthew Debby and Gavin Scott, they really know their SAW, the anecdotes are wonderful, particularly for fans (the rest of you may wonder what the fuss is about), but the SAW influence on music in the 80’s was remarkable. Mike Stock’s book The Hit Factory (The SAW Story) is also a good read, but podcasts are so much easier to digest, so I suggest you search them out.

Single Of The Week : Madam & The Mafia with ‘Riding High’. Pulsating song from Alice Springs with a video you have to see to believe, it seems to cover about 90% of the fetishes I know about. And it’s very Australian, which is nice to see. Shout outs to Bambibrains for another great new single, Paradise I Know, plus Chelsea Manor for doing an amazing punky cover of the 1989 kids TV show theme from Round The Twist.