A Perth radio station called 6UVS-FM played alternative music, and had this request show. People who grew up in the age of music-on-tap won’t be able to fully appreciate the lure of those erstwhile request shows – back then, you were so much at the mercy of what people happened to play on the radio, and what you could afford to buy with your meagre kid budget. So request shows gave you a chance to hear again what you couldn’t afford. But 6UVS-FM also had a twist to their request show: You could call in and request that they destroy a particular record on air. This was in the dying days of vinyl, which makes such a pleasing, visceral crunch when destroyed. CDs just can’t compete here! There were a lot of requests for the destruction of Wham! records…
Déjà vu
Is anyone else here who lived through the 80s (or earlier relevant epochs) experiencing a sense of history repeating itself, with the invasion of Ukraine and all that entails, and the consciousness that there’s nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen? When I was a teenager, there was a painful awareness of this. Here’s a …