WEEKENDER
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June
After an impressive run of critically acclaimed, career-best albums in recent years, The Quireboys have gone back to the beginning. In recent weeks, they have been in the studio re-recording a brand-new version of their chart-topping debut album ‘A Bit of What You Fancy.’
We too are going back to our beginnings with The Quireboys this coming weekend. For the first and only time, the complete Great Music Stories interview archive with the band will be unleashed in one sitting this coming weekend. Too much content for a day, it’s become a 24-hour run over two days. A bit like putting on a grassroots Live Aid, but with just one band featuring!
Brave, mad, exciting, overkill – call it what you will. But The Quireboys have been at the heart of the Great Music Stories interview series, which since January 2015 has clocked up more than 1,000 interview hour specials and 3,000 shorts. The Quireboys were our first ever Band of the Year back in December 2015 and they are the only band to have had three Album of the Month reviews – four, if you include Spike’s Late Night Song Book. On the Friday radio show, the band has been one of the most requested bands for years.
Our interviews with The Quireboys chart their many successes since 2015, their albums, their new departures and much of their work outside the band. There’s a warmth and character to many of the interviews that comes from experience, knowing the band and how to make them comfortable and capture them at their natural best.
Work begins on the Great Music Stories book this autumn and listeners have already called the Quireboys to be the first chapter. So this weekend, it’s a one-time chance to hear the full Great Music Stories audio interview archive with the band before it is archived for a future project.
The weekend special will air all-day Saturday and Sunday only on greatmusicstories.com
Schedule updates during the weekend on Twitter @GuyB_rockshow – plus a weekend preview on my weekly Friday Rockshow after 5pm on Friday.
Photos by Eric Duvet
SATURDAY 26th June (Timings Approximate)
| 8am | Modern Rock Jukebox |
| 10am | Quireboys Brekkie |
| 10.20am |
First Quireboys Hour Special 2015 Guy Griffin interviews before and after Ramblin Man |
| 11.20am |
Acoustic Tour Hour special 2015 Spike interview hour |
| 12.20pm | Quireboys Jukebox |
| 12.55pm |
Griff and Lynne Jackaman Hour Special 2016 Backstage at the Borderline & Bowie tribute |
| 2.00pm |
AOR Tour Hour Special 2016 Backstage interviews - Spike, Guy, Keith, Thirteen Stars, The Texas Flood Bonafide & Hardcore Superstar |
| 2.55pm |
The Making of Twisted Love 2016
Guy Griffin interview |
| 3.15pm | Quireboys acoustic session |
| 3.30pm |
Quireboys Tribute Hour 2016
Rising band interview tributes |
| 4.25pm | Quireboys jukebox |
| 4.35pm |
Twisted Love: launch-day hour special 2016
Interviews with Spike and Griff |
| 5.40pm |
Homewreckers 10th Anniversary Hour Special 2018
Interviews with Griff and Spike |
| 6.50pm | Quireboys jukebox |
| 7.05pm |
Spike’s Late Night Song Book Hour 2021
The first take |
| 8.00pm |
Spirit of Wildfire Radio Fest 2020
Quireboys closing set |
| 9.00pm |
Spike Solo Tour, Hour Special 2021
Backstage in Brighton 2021 |
| 10.00pm | Day wrap and close |
SUNDAY 27th June (Timings Approximate)
| 8am | Modern Rock Jukebox |
| 10am | Quireboys Brekkie |
| 10.20am |
European Tour & Blues Special 2017
Spike interview |
| 11.30am | Quireboys jukebox |
| 11.45am |
Ramblin Man Blues Hour Special 2017
Spike backstage on White Trash Blues |
| 12.40pm |
Listener Choice Hour 2016
Listener interview tributes to the band |
| 1.40pm |
Griffin interview double 2016
Tribute to Malcolm & Down n Outz interview |
| 2.30pm | Quireboys jukebox |
| 2.40pm |
Homewreckers 10th birthday Hour Special 2018
Spike and Griff interviews |
| 3.50pm |
The Quireboys at Kentish Town 2018
Interviews Spike, Keith, Paul, Griff and Nick Plus Guy Bailey cameo |
| 4.50pm |
Amazing Disgrace Hour Special 2019
Griff and Spike interviews |
| 5.40pm | Quireboys in session |
| 6.00pm |
Spike in Lockdown 2020
Two-part feature interview |
| 8.00pm |
Spirit of Wildfire 2 radio fest 2020
Quireboys closing set |
| 8.50pm | Quireboys jukebox |
| 9.00pm |
Spike SongBook Hour Special 2021
Version 2 |
| 10.00pm | Day wrap and close |