The Whole Nine Yards Ep 93 6.11.22 Lose Your Price Tag with Roy Stannard on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

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The Whole Nine Yards Episode 93

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Broadcast on Sunday November 6th 2022 3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Lose your price tag

The Greek Stoic Philosopher Epictetus said ‘Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.’

America’s Black Friday has been adopted by retailers this side of the pond in order to create a new, pre-Christmas holy day of spending, consumerism and quasi-giving. Why is it called Black Friday? Because it helps the retail industry get out of the red. Its sacred shrines are Oxford and Bond Street. Instead of Lourdes, the pilgrimage ends at Fortnum and Mason and Harrods. From its origins as the day after Thanksgiving when workers would take an additional day off, it has become a huge festival of thanks for the retail sector, lasting until the Boxing Day sales.

Not surprisingly, many penniless musicians have written about the dangers of materialism.

Playlist:

Hour One

Jessie J – Price Tag (Who You Are 2011)

Manic Street Preachers – Motorcycle Emptiness (Generation Terrorists 1992)

The Hold Steady – On With The Business (Teeth Dreams 2014)

Johnny Marr – The Right Thing Right (The Messenger 2013)

The Black Keys – Gold on the Ceiling (El Camino 2011)

New Order – Restless (Music Complete 2015)

Shawn Mullins – Lullaby (Soul’s Core 1998)

Yard Act – Payday (The Overload 2022)

The Who – Bargain (Who’s Next 1971)

The Psychedelic Furs – All That Money Wants (All Of This And Nothing 1988)

The O’Jays – For the love of Money (Ship Ahoy 1973)

Hour Two

Rod Stewart – Handbags And Gladrags (An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down 1970)

Paul Weller – Rockets (On Sunset 2020)

America – Don’t Cross the River (Homecoming 1971)

Kansas – Dust In The Wind (Point of Know Return 1977)

Courtney Barnett – Dead Fox (Sometimes I Just Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit 2015)

Paul Weller – More (On Sunset 2020)

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell – ‘Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (You’re all I Need 1967)

Neil Young – Silver and Gold (Silver and Gold 2000)

Don McLean – Castles in the Air  (Believers 1981)

The Weepies – Simple Life (Happiness 2003)

Sam Williams (featuring Dolly Parton) – Happy All The Time (Glasshouse Children 2021)

MK + Burns – Better ft Teddy Swims – Better (Original Mix) (Single 2022)

MK + Burns – Better ft Teddy Swims – Better (Acoustic Mix) (Single 2022) — Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-stannard/message

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Published by Roy Stannard

I'm someone who doesn't like parameters, barriers or fences. I'll try and climb over them, burrow under them or just pretend they don't exist - until they don't. Sometimes I'll write about the mind in a poetic way, or poetry with neural undertones, or I'll proselytise endlessly about my favourite new band - or one of the old ones. My Blog will give you the keys to the kingdom. A kingdom with no borders, no expectations and, therefore, no failure.. Because I am endlessly empathetic with people, their motivation, their behaviour,their problems and their quest for knowledge, I work with the pioneering Brighton-based homeless, vulnerable women and disempowered school students charity Off The Fence Trust that has tried to redress the equality deficit for over two decades. I produce, host and promote two radio shows a week: The Whole Nine Yards Sundays 3-5pm on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM (www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen) - and Lost Immortals on Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM on Sundays 5-7pm.

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