"Fisting for Compliments", 10th February 2005

The first Fisting for Compliments show from the batch of six i recently found on my hard drive. This is from the first season so the shows are one hour (and as usual, we lose time at the beginning because the show before us, Family Affair, lovely as they were, were always over-running into ours.) The luscious "Curlylocks" by Baby Fox, closing the show, is also harshly truncated.

The references to FM and the question of whether people on the South side own radios seems to indicate that this is one of the four weeks of each year we were unleashed across Glasgow on a real-life FM frequency (edit: the end of the show confirms this.)

Also of note in this episode: the male newsreader's hilarious intonation of the phrase "outpost of tyranny" and his self-disgusted sigh after fluffing the line "a new police bill"; Child Pornography getting played because the inclusion of their name in a list of bands on our promotional poster got all the posters taken down; a brief argument over which Crimea song is more epic; subtle Simpsons reference; not-quite-successful Day Today reference; an abortive semi-improv feature we should have done more often; pseudo-mania; some proper inane rambling and saying "er" way too much from me.

Also on this day: North Korea publicly announces for the first time that it has nuclear weapons, which it claims to need as defence against an increasingly hostile United States; Arthur Miller dies from heart failure, aged 89.

Fisting for Compliments 10/02/2005

87.7 FM or http://www.subcity.org

Polysics – "New Wave Jacket"
Outkast – "B.O.B."
Child Pornography – "0% APR"
Weirdo/Begeirdo – "Past Present"
The Crimea – "Baby Boom"
Brainiac – "70kg Man"

*** THE IRON FIST ***
Wolf Eyes – "1" (from ''Slicer'')
Goatsnake – "Who Are You"

Scientist – "Plague of Zombies"
Mathematicians – "Not A Theme"
KRS-One – "Mortal Thought"
Baby Fox - "Curlylocks" (rudely cut)

Red: My picks

Blue: Lach's picks

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