My guest on Mearns FM this week was Sorcha Hume, an inspirational woman spearheading Charlie House, an Aberdeen based charity serving children with life limiting illnesses, their families too. I met Sorcha at a BNI breakfast meeting some weeks back, she was presenting the Charlie House story and vision to a room of business people who sat transfixed, the prospect of your children facing a life threatening ailment fair concentrates the mind. The work Charlie House currently carry out is remarkable but just wait until the new facility is completed by 2020, the provision for these kids then reaches another level. See http://www.charliehouse.org.uk/for details of the wonderful work they do and better still, get involved if you can, your time and commitment is equally as valuable as any money you feel moved to contribute.
Mercifully, after a procession of recent guests choosing music that hummed of the strongest Stilton, Sorcha selected half a dozen more than agreeable tracks so for once I was able to sit back and enjoy the music with my audience and a cup of coffee. Why was I drinking coffee given my guest and her father cracked open cans of lager? Well for the same reason as I reluctantly received Sorcha's kind gift of a bottle of wine, because I'm a recovering alcoholic of thirteen years standing and didn't fancy spoiling all that hard work despite my guest's best efforts. Charming, you invite someone on to your show out of the kindness of your heart and she attempts to lead you back onto the road to oblivion which you've worked so hard to step off.
Onto the music and we began with a pleasant easy paced Jeff Buckley number, a sublime track. The pace picked up a little with Radiohead next, though perhaps not the mood given the lyrics. A couple of obscure bands followed, very good ones mind, and conversation about Charlie House and the life of Sorcha Hume continued, she's training for a 175 mile bike run with her partner Tom, I recommended a tandem, she seemed keen.
Sorcha's father accompanied her in the studio but only intermittently since he punctuated every song with a visit to the lavatory, his bladder seemingly no stronger than Aston Villa's defence, but his company was as pleasurable as his daughter's and we ended the evening with a live Led Zeppelin track of which he approved. Well I say approved but in truth it provoked a deal of controversy, they thought I'd played a tribute band's version in error but I remain adamant that it was indeed the original band. Listen for yourselves and decide, this link to our listen again function lasts till Aug 26th, pick the Stoney Baloney show Listen Again link
Sorcha's Selections
Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind
Radiohead - Lift
Efterklang - The Soft Beating
Bibio - A tout a l'heure
GoGo Penguin - Hopopono
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
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