Work has a quarterly newsletter and last year started a desert islands disks feature with staff members – same thing as radio 4 but no Kirsty Young 🙁

I’ve been asked to do the next one. So 8 tracks, one book, one luxury.

Luxury is easy – a sand bike! Just trying to sort the music. What would you have?

So far on the island is the chief exec and the H&S manager so not sure it’ll be a holiday.

Book = The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

luxury, big ktm enduro bike
book, lord of the rings trilogy
tunes,
dignity, deacon blue
rock n roll suicide, bowie
summer wind, sinatra
hurt, johnny cash
days of pearly spencer, marc almond
perfect day, the compilation one
all along the watchtower, hendrix
if i can dream, elvis

Can the disks be DVDs? Box set of Lost 🙂

Music? Off the top of my head:

Iron Maiden – The Clairvoyant
Neurosis – Stones from the Sky
The Allman Brothers – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
Crippled Black Phoenix – Burnt Reynolds
Metallica – Master of Puppets
CCR – Lodi
Down – Bury me in Smoke
Mastodon – The Last Baron

Book: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (or possibly Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy)

Luxury: A boat

This Charming Man: The Smiths

Lay lady lay: Bob Dylan

Blue Monday: New Order

Firestarter: The Prodigy

Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd

Jerusalem: Dob Cross Silver Band

Wednesday morning 3am: Simon and Garfunkel

Teenage Kicks: The Undertones

Book: of mice and men

Luxury: Gaggia Classic and a ruck of coffee (and electric and fresh water)

Ahh we were supposed to do all of it ….. in which case

Luxury – Fender Stratocaster Master Build with a maple fret board and a soft v neck profile

Book – The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Tunes

Wish you were Here – Pink Floyd
Wonderwall – Oasis
Mama We’re all crazy now – Slade
Lucky Man – The verve
Oh Mio Babbino Caro – Puccini
Lady of the Sea – Seth Lakeman
Tocatta and Fuge in D Minor – J. S. Bach
Babylons Burning – The Ruts

Book – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Luxury – DAB radio

Music-

Polaroid – Richmond Fontaine

Country Honk – Rolling Stones

South Central Rain – REM

Find the River – REM

The Revolution Starts Now – Steve Earle

Celebrated Summer – Husker Du

Judas Cradle – Sugar

Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin

Luxury – 59′ Les paul

Book – Ender’s Game

Tunes

Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd

Jeff wayne’s the war of the worlds – Pt1
” – Pt2

Welcome to the jungle – G’n’R

Stairway – Led Zeppelin (C’mon people how did you forget?)

Rush – 2112

Hotel california – the eagles (See stairway)

Sharp dressed man – ZZ top

my choices:

1. Van Morrison – Sweet thing – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QzDWIOUnM0&feature=related

2. Calexico – Two Silver Trees – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCA0_bNXAao

3. Laurent Garnier – The man with the red face – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkoBH68njQ (NSFW?) or alternatively: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UDzAv-twYA

4. Croft no 5 – Party in the arc – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ni7r0X7M-o&feature=relmfu

5. Max Romeo – One step forward – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWGxeLLvkCk&feature=related

6. Dawn Penn – You don’t love me – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_LKYyXFFrU

7. David Bowie – Heroes – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZlTrFcoHn0

8. Johnny Cash – Boy named Sue (Folsom prison version) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcQKtl3MGCE&feature=related

Laurent Garnier man with the red face might be a bit nsfw – parisian ravers having had one too many pastis

Luxury- my Ragley. Since presumably I wouldn’t be allowed a computer with a copy of Civ 4 on it.

Book- there was a collected Mars Trilogy (Kim Stanley Robinson) in a single mighty tome, I’ll have that even though it’s clearly cheating.

Music-
Stravinsky’s Finale from the Firebird Suite- the Minnesota Orchestra/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski recording with the distortion, sounds incredible.
****ed Up- One More Night
Mogwai- New Paths To Helicon
Regina Spektor- Us
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
And So I Watch You From Afar- Set Guitars To Kill
Frank Turner- The District Sleeps Tonight (yes it’s a cover)
Counting Crows- Round Here (the live version from Across A Wire)