Deliver Us From Swedish Furniture

Australia - Radio Ga Ga

While I was off and about down-under, I spent an awfully long time in my car…well actually my brother’s, but he was not around to make use of it so I thought I would make sure it was kept warm….anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, radio in Australia, is it any good? Well if you like Avril Lavigne, Snow Patrol and the Foo Fighters, then it’s pretty good as these seem to be on continual rotation. To start with I wasn’t too bothered, I mean they could have picked worse people out there and besides you can always turn over. However after a while I tried to turn over, but I couldn’t.

Each time I turned over to another station I found Snow Patrol, Avril Lavigne or Snow Patrol playing, interspersed with those radio ‘personalities’ so beloved of local radio station in the UK. They have even turfed up a Police/Snow Patrol mash-up so they can get Snow Patrol on twice an hour. Occasionally, when they had decided that Snow Patrol had earned enough for their new houses, they would put on one of those derivative Talk Radio shows, where people with no brains rang in to say nothing very much while the host made suitably outraged/sympathetic/idiotic noises depending on what the topic was. How I missed BBC’s 6Music. Fortunately for me, my brother’s car has a very nice engine noise……