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Cheers Fletch, really appreciate it!

Yeah really cool watching my friend's band start to get big, they're on the Do The Dog compilation now - I remember them when they first started!

I think for the next show I'll do some kind of special thing, like the Eurotrip I did last year where I play ska from as many different European countries as I can - or something similar. Any ideas?

Hey all!
My show is back on today at 5:00pm after 2 weeks of not doing the show!
Would love some requests

Hey all, I've got a few gigs coming up that I need bands for, maybe you know of a band that fancies touring the wild west? I've got two gigs booked for the Parrot, nice little new venue in Carmarthen, if they go well it'll be a ~monthly live ska night, and I'm also in charge of live events for bay radio in Aberystwyth

August 6th - Carmarthen
~end of September - Aberystwyth (Date undecided)
October 8th - Carmarthen

Spread the word if you know anyone who might be interested!

iamemmao wrote:InDesign is the devil.

Cap'n Lee wrote:the argument is more about how others treat a baby based simply on whether it's a girl or a boy
http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/03/09/baby-boy-baby-girl-baby-x/

if a toddler girl wears a pink dress, adults will compliment her on it. It doesn't take long before that's all she wants to wear.

I appreciate the effort that the parents are making, but they're definitely going about it the wrong way. I'd have just told family that we wouldn't accept any gifts with a strong gender identity for the baby. What they're doing is just plain weird

It is however back on tonight!

It's been so long! Expect a few mistakes. Lots of new music to compensate though.

The Union was locked because of the May Ball, which took place on Friday, 10 miles away from the union... No idea what that's about, but they didn't let us know it would be closed either, so very annoying on the whole.

I'll be into my exams next week but I'll still be doing the show as long as the union is actually open!

If you didn't see it from my facebook spamturbation there's 4 long hours of ska show today from 12 to 4pm, should be a LAFFFFF.

Check it out if you have no job/ have an awesome job that lets you listen to ska radio in work

The Amazing Fletch wrote:It's embarrassing to be classed as the same nationality as people like that.

Thanks Memma

I might set up a skype account for the show, no one really uses msn anymore right? Plus I'd be able to do call-ins on skype which is super cool.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:I really need to get MSN for those intros. I've had a song that was on your show a few weeks back stuck in my head for ages. It's the one with the high pitched voice every now and then and the main lyrics are "too much too much [something or other]"

Obviously by this post I have no idea what it is.

The Amazing Fletch wrote:Thanks for the show tonight. The Bosstones song at the beginning has confirmed my love for that band.

I won't be able to listen next week if you have a show because I'm at work.

BAD TIMES!

Thanks for doing the intros round Fletch, sorry I didn't see your messages until the end, but a well earned 4 points and joint 2nd place!

Next 4 or so shows should be pretty interesting, a few of my friends from home as special guests and a live-lounge style performace, good times.

Check out any shows you missed here as usual: http://www.bay-radio.co.uk/index.php?section=shows&show=29
Except for the 13th March show, someone has uploaded 2 hours of auto-pilot music instead of my show for some reason (for the second time >_<)

I think that's all from me for now

lightowler wrote:

so feltch knows what we are on about

Spoiler:

Seven a.m., waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein’ everything, the time is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)

Ms. Black is making a statement about the monotonous schedule of life that teenagers long to escape. Cereal symbolizes the childhood she has left behind for this more structured existence. She must have her cereal, because it is one of the last bastions of a childhood coming closer and closer to an end as adulthood looms. This is proven by the next two lines, in which she cries out for the world to slow down. However, this monotonous day is broken by a surprise encounter with her friends. She is so surprised and overjoyed by the event that she repeats (My friends) for further emphasis on the change.

Kickin’ in the front seat
Sittin’ in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

This short verse is a metaphor for the social anxiety most ever teen feels; it’s alternately a comment on the terrifyingly vast unknown of ones role in society after school. The double meaning is ingenious. Her friends wait expectantly for her decision, but she feels nervous. Who should I associate myself with? Would they be mad if I sat in the back or front? Ms. Black clearly feels uncomfortable in social situations. By asking what seat she can take, Ms. Black contemplates what her place in society will be when she grows up. Will there even be a place for her? Will she be in the front seat mainly with one group or in the back with another? The possibilities are open and it scares her.

It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin’ down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend

Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Partyin’, partyin’ (Yeah)
Fun, fun, fun, fun
Lookin’ forward to the weekend

Here Ms. Black confronts the fears of the future in a negative and possibly self-destructive way. She looks forward to the weekend, as there is no structure and one is able to do what one wants to do. However, to forget the agony of the train of adulthood barreling towards her, she spends her time partying (what kind of party we are not told) until she forgets her troubles. She looks forward to the weekend as an escape from the troubles and fear that permeate her young life.

7:45, we’re drivin’ on the highway
Cruisin’ so fast, I want time to fly
Fun, fun, think about fun
You know what it is
I got this, you got this
My friend is by my right, ay
I got this, you got this
Now you know it

“Cruisin’ so fast” is more evidence for dealing with the pressures of the future in a negative way. One believes she almost wants the car to crash as to release her from the prison of her future. Instead of dwelling on this, however, she thinks about fun; maybe if she thinks of fun these fears will vanish. She tries to tell herself things will be alright. She has got it, Ms. Black reassures herself, I have friends by my side who can help me through this fear. And thus she believes it for a while.

Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday
Today i-is Friday, Friday (Partyin’)
We-we-we so excited
We so excited
We gonna have a ball today

Tomorrow is Saturday
And Sunday comes after … wards
I don’t want this weekend to end

Yesterday was oppression, today is freedom. Who wouldn’t be excited about that? Society can no longer restrain her from following her own path, whatever that may be. The weekend may also symbolize retirement, after years of work she would be able to settle down and do what she wants with her life. Tomorrow is Saturday, the complete release from structure. She does not want to live the time of hard work between school and retirement, she just wants to go from having few responsibilities to having even fewer at the end of life. She doesn’t want this period of freedom to end.

R-B, Rebecca Black
So chillin’ in the front seat (In the front seat)
In the back seat (In the back seat)
I’m drivin’, cruisin’ (Yeah, yeah)
Fast lanes, switchin’ lanes
Wit’ a car up on my side (Woo!)
(C’mon) Passin’ by is a school bus in front of me
Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream
Check my time, it’s Friday, it’s a weekend
We gonna have fun, c’mon, c’mon, y’all

This rapper, whose name is currently unavailable to me, represents a voice of reason trying to help Ms. Black through her fears. By saying she is in both the front AND back seats, he suggests that Ms. Black can reconcile her social anxiety by not choosing one side alone, embracing both and not letting any become her favorite. However, he feels angered about the pressures society puts on its teens to achieve everything. He sees a school bus in front of him and, like a bomb, wants to explode into screams. It should be Friday already, so those poor kids can have some of that ever-lasting pressure taken off!

It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend
Friday, Friday
Gettin’ down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend

With the repetition of this chorus, one realizes the emphasis she is putting on how everyone is looking forward to the end of the pressures and structures that society imposes. Her final point is that no one enjoys the structure, not fully. We all look forward to the weekends. Many people also look forward to the end of work, when life’s Saturday comes around and death awaits.

Reading these lyrics one may think it is a simple song about a girl having fun on Friday, but with all genius that is not the case. Rebecca Black has created a form of manifesto stating that everyone dislikes the pressures of society and long for the time of freedom and lack of responsibilities at the Saturday and Sunday of life: retirement and childhood respectively. Between them is the vast majority of life, work that doesn’t end until the metaphorical weekend.

The point Rebecca Black is trying to make is not that life will be horrible, but that life is hard, but it’s worth staying around till the end, because then you are allowed to finally have some fun. This is an admirable work that should be further analyzed from other viewpoints; I’m sure there is more hidden information below the surface, crawling to escape is prison like the enigmatic Ms. Black herself.

- Dr. Doakes




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Yeah it's not the greatest of times but I don't go out on many Friday's unless there's a specific gig or something I'm going to.

Did manage to catch last night's show though, much more ska than the name suggests.

Listening to the punk rock show on bailrigg.fm right now (10pm - 12 Fridays)

www.bailriggfm.co.uk