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Random Play will be off the air from Saturday 10th May until Thursday 15th May.

The programme is introduced by Diana Luke. (Want to know more about Diana? Go to the bottom of the page!!)

What's that tune? For many programmes, we run a rolling text display, visible on your Winamp or Real Player, showing the name of the current track. But if you want more information on what you've been listening to, go to "Logfile" in our "Listen" index.

We are always delighted to receive submissions of music to be considered for addition to our playlist, but you must ensure that your are the owner of mechanical and performance copyrights in any material submitted to us. Tracks that you may have recorded which are by other composers will probably require licences, both for your release and for performance on radio six international. We regret that unless as a one-off illustration for review purposes (under the fair use rules) we cannot consider such tracks for the playlist.

for week beginning Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

1 LIKE I CAN - Ashley Lennon Thomas (USA)
2 CAN YOU HEAR ME? - Roselyn Brunn (France/Ireland)
3 BOTTOM OF A HILL - Terri Hendrix (USA)
4 ORAN AN T-SEASGANAICH - Margaret Stewart (Scotland)
5 LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD - Lily Holbrook (USA)
6 COUNTRY GIRLS ROCK - Heather Marie Harrison (USA)
7 IT SHOWS - Lucy Webster (USA)
8 MARLENE IN A MOVIE - Krista Detor (USA)
9 ALL I'LL EVER NEED - Lidija Bacic (Croatia)
10 ONLY ONE GOES ON AND ON - Heidi (USA)

1 FRAGILE - 21 Against (Wales)
2 TWICE AS MEAN - Tim Scott (USA)
3 WAKE UP WAKE UP - Ben Stewart (Australia)
4 WASHING DAY - Adam Levy (USA)
5 HUNTER - House of Games (Estonia)
6 GOT MY MODEM WORKING - Fit & The Conniptions (England)
7 GET OVER YOURSELF - Luke (England)
8 TODAY - Dave Dill (USA)
9 SHE'S SO SHY - Peter Parker (England)
10 SOOMA - Jackdaw4 (England)

1 KING OF THE CLOUDS - Cavedoll (USA)
2 I WONDER - Jamie Strange (New Zealand)
3 NUCLEAR SUN - Neon 08 (England)
4 LUCKY YOU - The Believers (USA)
5 GET WELL SOON - Admiral Twin (USA)
6 THE HALLS OF STOCKDALE - Analog Moon (USA)
7 DO SOMETHING STUPID - Hamfatter (England)
8 FLY TODAY - Ufosa Sound (South Africa)
9 I'D LIKE TO TRAVEL - Tim Jones Band (England)
10 LUCY - Pam & Teri (USA)

1 PROMENADE - Fishel (Russia)
2 HE SUFFERED IN SILENCE - Peace Junkee (England)
3 SCARLATTI POTION No.5 - Johnny Pearson (England)
4 SOME KIND OF A CELLO SONATA IN E MAJOR - Frank Gingeleit (Germany)
5 SHUFFLER - Fishel (Russia)
6 CHARLESTON - Steve Smith (Australia)
7 3 x 3, no.2 - Giancarlo Vulcano (USA)
8 LOVE WILL STAY - Somebody Famous (England)
9 TIGH NA TRUISH - raymy (Scotland)
10 HOT HOUSE - Soniq Theater (Germany)

1 ANADA PA GAEL - Duncan Chisholm, Xose Manuel Tejedor and the Concert Band (Scotland/Asturias)
2 READY TO RELEASE - Lemuel Hardy (England)
3 DANCING ON THE SHORE - Andrzej Rejman (Poland)
4 EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK - Presenter (Japan)
5 KINGDOM OF JONES - Cristian Amigo (USA)
6 BIG AL'S - Stuart Cassells (Scotland)
7 GABBY - Ronnie Rae Quintet (Scotland)
8 UMFAAN - Ricardo Bornman (South Africa)
9 THE LUURVE JAM - Heidi's Band (USA)
10 MOJ ANDJELE (MY ANGEL) Blaz (Hungary)

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First of all, what the playlist isn't. It's not a chart showing anything objective, like sales, number of plays, or anything like that. The playlist is simply a selection of 50 tracks that we at Radio Six International think you'll enjoy listening to.
Random Play is broadcast through what in western Europe are the night hours, although of course for many of our listeners the programme can be heard in daytime.
There are fifty tracks each week, ten of which are by female vocalists, ten by male vocalists, ten by groups, and twenty instrumentals, reflecting the station's bias towards instrumental music. And each week we eliminate one track in each category (usually the one that's been around the longest - but not always so) and add in a new one. Tracks that survive for the full ten weeks (or sometimes longer) are then nominated for the Record of the Year awards in December. Tracks which receive less than ten weeks on the playlist are not nominated; neither are recordings which have been released by major commercial record labels and supplied to us under agreement for promotional or review purposes. We will, however, generally include tracks which have been commercially released on small independent labels. The decision on which tracks qualify and which don't remains solely with radio six international. The tracks in the "oldies" category obviously won't be nominated for Record of the Year.

Do you want our listeners to hear your music? We're always happy to receive new music for possible inclusion on the playlist. But for copyright reasons there are strict rules about what we are able to play. If you're a musician, band or record producer, you may send us material, but it must first of all be unpublished - that is to say, the musical composition must not have been signed to a publisher registered officially with the local performing rights organisation. And you must also hold the rights to the recording itself, which must not have been released on a commercial record label. Commercial recordings registered with national industry societies like Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) in the UK are subject to very strict copyright requirements which prevent us from playing them. Recordings produced by bands themselves and pressed in limited quantities to sell to fans or as demos are usually okay to send us, as long as they have not been registered with the mechanical copyright bodies like MCPS, GEMA, STEMRA, AUSTRO-MECHANA, BMI, ASCAP,etc. We are not licenced to play music published through these organisations. And because we're a not-for-profit experimental station, we don't pay copyright when we play your music, so please be clear that if you send us anything, we're happy to give you exposure to a world audience but that's all. If you want to send us your demos, please email us first so that we can ensure that the recordings are cleared for our use. If you send us unsolicited recordings with a request to play them, we will assume that you have read and understood these terms and conditions. It is a condition of use that you will be held liable for rights payments on any material that you send us for webcasting for which you have not cleared the rights.

We accept music as MP3 or Ogg-Vorbis files emailed to us: letters@radiosix.com, but because of the likelihood of obvious transcoding artefacts we prefer music sent by snail-mail. We can accept your recordings on any format - CD, DAT, Minidisk, Cassette, Quarter inch half track mono or stereo tape at 3.75, 7.5 or 19ips, or vinyl. Our mailing address is:-

Radio Six International
PO Box 600
GLASGOW
G41 5SH
Scotland

Diana Luke, whose voice is heard daily introducing RANDOM PLAY is a Canadian who has been living in Britain for over 25 years. She still gets asked on a regular basis:

a) Are you over on holiday?
b) What part of the States are you from?
c) Are you Irish?

She thinks that some of her ancestors from County Cork join her when she has a drink, as the Irish intonation seems to be more prevalent then! Her eclectic career began in health when she studied Nursing but left when she realised that bed pans and injections were considered more important than saying, " How ya doin?'" She then went on to train as a Health and Fitness Adviser, then left for England. She worked in Adult Education as a Lecturer in Health Education and also ran groups and saw patients in three general practices. Her innovative work was filmed for Channel Four's Wellbeing Series and Yorkshire TV. She also had her first acting role in BBC 2 WSH, playing herself as a TV show host. She then had the lucky fluke of being in the right place at the right time. She was asked to take part in a round the table discussion on "love and sex" at Hallam FM and her provocative statements got her her first radio job at Viking Radio in Hull as their first female presenter. Her career then took her down to London for many new beginnings including the Beeb and Jazz FM.

But now she has come full circle for "quality of life" back to Sheffield. She trained a few years ago as a professional Hypno-Psychotherapist and works with clients on self-confidence issues, relationship problems, stress management etc. Diana now works from home in her digital recording studio doing voice work internationally. This includes radio station imaging, automated shows, Inflight programmes, narrative work and voiceovers for TV and radio. She is the mother of four grown up children who are great friends and lives with her youngest daughter, her radio star dog Brandy and Tia her cat. In her spare time, she enjoys walking in the beautiful countryside surrounding Sheffield, visiting country pubs, reading a good novel or a self-awareness book, chatting with friends and listening to music, loudly! She has begun two novels and hopes to finish them one day! And for those in the know, she is a Cancerian Water Snake with a Life Path of 4!

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