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The official Christmas FM thread

Darragh · 2009-12-02 17:50:49

There's already been chatter about Christmas FM in this forum so I thought it might be nice if we invited them in to talk to us! Please welcome Ronan from Christmas FM - ChristmasFM (Ronan). Christmas FM is a charity radio station on 100.3FM in Dublin, on 106.07 in Cork and online at this link here: They're a volunteer…

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There's already been chatter about Christmas FM in this forum so I thought it might be nice if we invited them in to talk to us!

Please welcome Ronan from Christmas FM - ChristmasFM (Ronan).

Christmas FM is a charity radio station on 100.3FM in Dublin, on 106.07 in Cork and online at this link here:

They're a volunteer station - everyone is doing it for free, for the enjoyment and to raise awareness and funds for the Simon Communities in Dublin and Cork. Everyone who is working on it can be found here.

Now, d'ye know what I'd like to do? I'd like to create the definitive list of Boards.ie top Christmas songs and get the lads to do a segment on that, live on air. What do ye reckon?

Darragh

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#2 02-12-2009 7:11pm

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Fantastic idea Darragh, and welcome, Ronan so, would you like everyone to give their top 10 and take the average, or would you like for us to come to an agreement (ha!) on our top 10?

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#3 02-12-2009 7:59pm

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Darragh wrote: »

Now, d'ye know what I'd like to do? I'd like to create the definitive list of Boards.ie top Christmas songs and get the lads to do a segment on that, live on air. What do ye reckon?

Excellent idea.

I'll get the ball rolling with Dan Fogleberg - Same old Lang Syne.

Make sure and let us know when it will be on.

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#4 02-12-2009 9:43pm

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Damn you Tom you robbed mine, I'll have to go with:
Frankie goes to Hollywood- The Power of Love.

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#5 03-12-2009 12:24am

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Hey Guys and Girls,

Thanks Darragh for starting off the thread and supporting what is a great cause - Putting an end to homelessness through the Simon community (our charity partner).

First off for those that have never heard of Christmas FM, its a non profit social enterprise that plays non-stop Christmas music and broadcasts in Dublin on 100.3 and 106.7 in Cork. We also stream live on the web on ChristmasFM.ie Everyone that works there is a volunteer, giving their time free of charge.

By tuning in and spreading the word about the station you are helping raise money, so its hugely appreciate. If your in a position to, please consider helping the homeless in any way you can.

I think running down a boards.ie top ten is a great idea, lets set up a poll or something.

Currently judging from the texts coming in the top five would look something like this, in no particular order:

1. Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York
2. Wham - Last Christmas
3. Mariah Carey - All i want for Christmas
4. New Song - Christmas Shoes (this was huge on the station last year and took us totally by surprise, you either love it or hate it)
5. Band Aid - Do they know its Christmas time

Although it changes daily as the texts flood in on 57199, so text Xmas and your favorite song to get it played, texts cost €1 and all proceeds go to the Simon community (haha that reads like an on air plug).

We also are running a song contest to get a new Christmas song for 2009, Jules is sifting through applications at the moment but we'll need your help to pick the best one from the short list which will be announced on Friday.

Also wanted to publicly recognize the businesses that sponsor the station because without their support it simply wouldn't be possible to do what we do. With the floods this year, far too many many people are homeless and in need.

Ok so what's your favorite song... and why?

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#6 03-12-2009 1:15am

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Hi Ronan, 0/

Fairy Tale of New York.

Of all the Christmas songs out there, this is the only one that lets me know the Christmas season has truly begun.

It makes my heart dance everytime I hear it.

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#7 03-12-2009 10:08am

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Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You.

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#8 03-12-2009 12:57pm

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My all time favourite Christmas song is Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie! I have the trumpet bit as my ringtone

Ronan, I love ChristmasFM, couldn't wait for it to come back on this year, have been listening to it in the car since Saturday. I'm going to be all Christmassed out within a week :pac:

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#9 03-12-2009 1:14pm

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Love Christmas FM too

One of my top favourites (very hard to pick a particular favourite)

Walking in the air - Aled Jones (being played now)

It always makes me feel very Christmassy and reminds me of being young with the excitement of Santa.

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#10 03-12-2009 2:29pm

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Slade - Merry christmas Everybody

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#11 03-12-2009 3:22pm

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I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake. Makes my heart melt every time I hear it:o

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#12 03-12-2009 4:14pm

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Great choices guys,

No-ones mentioned Driving home for Christmas!! Thats one of my favorites and for some reason i can't get this song out of my head at the moment.

Hey if anyone has idea's, feedback or suggestions for the station please let me know and i'll pass it on.

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#13 03-12-2009 8:18pm

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I just came in to mention Driving Home For Christmas. I love it!

I have some feedback! Can you let the man and woman who were announcing the competition winner this morning that it's not 'bows' of holly, or 'baubs' (???) of holly, it's 'boughs'. That annoyed me!

I've been listening all week in the car and am looking forward to a long drive to tomorrow with Christmas songs the whole way.

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#14 03-12-2009 9:48pm

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I love Christmas fm! i listen to it in work, cheers up my day

my favourite christmas song is "oh holy night". im not overly religious but hearing it at mass on christmas eve always gives me goosebumps.

oh & im one of the haters of that new shoes song. wrecks my head. its ALWAYS on?!

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#15 03-12-2009 10:05pm

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Has to be the Christmas Song for me by Nat King Cole, really gets me into that snuggly,relax in the sitting room with the smell of the Christmas tree.

Then after that White Christmas by Bing Crosby and Little Drummer boy by David Bowie and Bing Crosby.

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#16 03-12-2009 10:28pm

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the darkness song from 2003 fanks

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#17 04-12-2009 12:24am

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The Darkness- "Don't let the bells ring" for me too, ridiculously brilliant. Listening right now, not sure if it's a repeat, but who cares!
EDIT: Walkin' in a winter wonderland the original, would be my favourite old school one.

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#18 04-12-2009 12:53am

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There's too many to choose from!! I'll go with Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie.

Also, not your typical christmas song but was a christmas number one, Pet Shop Boys version of Always on my mind!

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#19 04-12-2009 12:59am

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XxXciaraxXx wrote: »

There's too many to choose from!! I'll go with Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie.

Also, not your typical christmas song but was a christmas number one, Pet Shop Boys version of Always on my mind!

HOLY
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I you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMhSjDqvRs

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#20 04-12-2009 2:09am

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I've been listening since it started and love it BUT .... people keep texting asking for whatever song, the presenter reads out their text and just goes on with the scripted songs - every time - what gives?
Is there no way you will play people's text requests or do you just assume that most of the requested songs will be in the rotation anyway?
Regardless of that its a great and fun station.

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#21 04-12-2009 2:18am

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A Classic.

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'Let it Snow' is about the only Christmas-type song that doesn't make me want to strangle a DJ.

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#23 04-12-2009 12:39pm

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gary joules mad world reminds me of xmas

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#24 06-12-2009 5:55pm

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Have to say I love christmas fm, have been listening to it all week

My favourites would have to be
I wish it could be christmas every day - Wizzard
Merry Christmas Everyone - Slade
All I want for Christmas is You- Mariah Carey

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#25 07-12-2009 1:00am

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cruachan7 wrote: »

I've been listening since it started and love it BUT .... people keep texting asking for whatever song, the presenter reads out their text and just goes on with the scripted songs - every time - what gives?
Is there no way you will play people's text requests or do you just assume that most of the requested songs will be in the rotation anyway?
Regardless of that its a great and fun station.

Love the station, listened last year and iv been listening for 10+hours a day since 8am monday the 30'th of november, I agree with the poster above and I feel you have less of a selection of songs this year

I think people would be happy listening to any christmas songs,not just he most popular ones repeated.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I shal continue to donate

*oh and my fav song is: David Essex, A Winters Tale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_RoKJx1mTs

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#26 07-12-2009 1:23am

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Seems this is a fairly commonly held thought. Any word from our official rep on the matter?

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#27 07-12-2009 8:55pm

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Didn't know you were on line to cool will have it on in work tomorrow

My top xmas song is Driving Home For Christmas. Love it:D

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#28 14-12-2009 11:12pm

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Have to agree with ibarelycare, Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie has to be the best one out there!

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#29 15-12-2009 12:33am

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Love Christmas FM especially on a long journey home on Christmas eve

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#30 15-12-2009 9:59am

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Okay, I can do this. In no particular order
John Lennon
Slade
Wizzard
Elton John
Shakin' Stevens
David Essex

Im a child of the 70's I expect. Since X factor we no longer have original Christmas songs anymore so its a bit of a commentary to see that most of the songs mentioned here are over 20 years old.

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#31 15-12-2009 10:56am

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Except for the darkness of course! "Don't let the bells ring" is definitely the best Christmas song of modern times...

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#32 15-12-2009 11:12am

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What no Cliff Richard fans our there???

My favorites are Stop the Cavalry and Driving Home for Christmas:).

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#33 15-12-2009 11:28am

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The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Bruce - Santa Claus is coming to town
Slade - Merry Christmas everybody
Ronettes - I Saw Mommy kissing Santa
Wham - Last Christmas
Mel & Kim - Rocking around the Christmas Tree

But especially The Waitresses

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Fairytale of new york and let it snow by dean martin.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPfOjAw5Z0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebHVlIX_LNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cubgWvBfs24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWSDeP4k-M

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#36 21-12-2009 10:43am

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Hey, I love Christmas FM - have it on all the time in the car (and the odd sneaky time in the office too!) - my all time fave chrimbo song would be U2 Merry Xmas (Baby please come home) - the only problem is when Christmas FM tend to play this song they play the rubbish Bon Jovi version which is pants! Ronan, can you spread the word to the DJ's on Christmas FM to play the U2 version more often than pants Bon Jovi one! Other than that I love the station and especially love the morning brekie show with Keith Shanley, he's brilliant - he'd put you in good form driving into work.

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My favourites are, in no particular order:

Lonely Pup in a Christmas Shop - Adam Faith
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
Merry Christmas Everyone - Slade
In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield
Step into Christmas - Elton John
I Believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Don't Let The Bells End - The Darkness

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#38 21-12-2009 2:27pm

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Hi All,

Thanks for the input, we need to tidy this down to a top 5 or top 10 to put on air, and put in order. Definitely the Darkness, Nat king cole, Slade and Wizzard keep featuring - Anyone care to help put them in order?

With regard to the question about reading out texts but not playing the songs, we really are doing are best. The presenters try to read as many texts as possible so people know we are listening to them, but there is so many coming in we can't read or act on all of them - we do really appreciate every text though. However to stop the station being massively repetitive causing people to tune out there's a few rules stopping songs being played more than once a show so that's why there's requests for the most popular songs read out and not immediately played.

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#39 21-12-2009 2:31pm

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Ah, thanks for clearing that up Ronan. I'll go through the songs now and get you your top 10//5.

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#40 21-12-2009 3:40pm

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Ronan, what is the text line for the daily mail Christmas message thingy that is being published for this wednesday's paper? Theres a gang of us in work dying to get our messages in for that but despite sending texts into the station we still are none the wiser (Noel announced the message during his show but said he's announce it later!!! )

We wanna get the messages in soon before the closing time, but we cant access the Christmas FM website in work and the friggin Daily mail is sold out in the shop next to our office, so we're clueless! Can you send on the number and instructions asap. Thanks!

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#41 21-12-2009 3:47pm

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So, by mentions in this thread we have

Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade [IIII]
Driving Home For Christmas. [IIII]
I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake [III]
Fairy Tale of New York.[III]
Stop the Cavalry by Jona Lewie![III]
The Darkness- "Don't let the bells ring" [III]
Little Drummer boy by David Bowie and Bing Crosby. [III]
John Lennon- War is Over [II]
Let it snow-Dean Martin [II]
Walkin' in a winter wonderland [II]
David Essex, A Winters Tale [II]
I wish it could be christmas every day - Wizzard [II]
The Christmas Song- Nat King Cole [II]
Dan Fogleberg - Same old Lang Syne. [II]
Step into Christmas - Elton John [II]
U2- Baby Please come home [II]

White Christmas by Bing Crosby
All I want for Christmas is You- Mariah Carey
Merry Christmas Everyone- Shakin' Stevens
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Bruce - Santa Claus is coming to town
Ronettes - I Saw Mommy kissing Santa
Wham - Last Christmas
Mel & Kim - Rocking around the Christmas Tree
White Christmas- Bing Crosby
Leon RedBone and Zooey Deschanel (Baby Its Cold Outside)
Lonely Pup in a Christmas Shop - Adam Faith
In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield
Frankie goes to Hollywood- The Power of Love.
Walking in the air - Aled Jones oh holy night

As you can see, there are quite a lot of "joint" positions. May I suggest I trawl through our other christmas music thread and include the results from there, as that was a slightly more active thread and would give a more rounded view of boards.ie's favourite christmas songs?

EDIT: Any other posts in here will be added to the list, cause I'm awesome like that :P

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#42 21-12-2009 3:52pm

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U2 - "Baby, Please Come Home"

The version by Death Cab For Cutie isn't bad also.. certainly better than the Bon Jovi version.

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#43 22-12-2009 2:31pm

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Trixabell wrote: »

Ronan, what is the text line for the daily mail Christmas message thingy that is being published for this wednesday's paper? Theres a gang of us in work dying to get our messages in for that but despite sending texts into the station we still are none the wiser (Noel announced the message during his show but said he's announce it later!!! )

We wanna get the messages in soon before the closing time, but we cant access the Christmas FM website in work and the friggin Daily mail is sold out in the shop next to our office, so we're clueless! Can you send on the number and instructions asap. Thanks!

Hi Trixabell,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this, Internet connection at home died.

[FONT=&quot]The Irish Daily Mail textline to have your Christmas message for loved ones included in the paper on Wednesday is 57000 followed by a space and then message. Test costs 1 euro and profits in aid of Simon Communities. Network charges apply.[/FONT]

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#44 23-12-2009 2:00pm

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It's getting too close now, I'd just say run with what I have bold-ed there and make up the ten from whatever from the 2s

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#45 23-12-2009 2:27pm

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Thanks Dark Onion,

Will email that to the station manager now and post when its going to be on as soon as i know.

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#46 23-12-2009 2:33pm

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I've sent in at least 30 euro worth of texts and not once have I heard The Fairytale Of New York.

Well worth the good cause though. BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLAY IT SOON.

I could YouTube it but there's something magical about hearing it on the radio knowing that thousands more are listening to it too...... Is that a bit sad? Maybe.

I'm actually gonna send 4 or 5 texts in now saying "That Guy from boards.ie wants to hear The Fairy Tale Of New York"

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#47 24-12-2009 1:24am

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Seriously!? they play it like every 2 hours. lol actually it's on now :pac:

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#48 25-12-2009 11:45am

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CombatCow wrote: »

Seriously!? they play it like every 2 hours. lol actually it's on now :pac:

Fcuking missed it again. Grr.

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#49 26-12-2009 1:10am

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Don't worry that guy, it'll be on again. We'll have it on the boards.ie run down, haven't forgot about that. We'll do it either tomorrow evening or most likely Sunday, waiting on the program director to add it in (which now that everyone is doing the family Christmas thing is causing the delay).

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#50 27-12-2009 2:23pm

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That_Guy wrote: »

I've sent in at least 30 euro worth of texts and not once have I heard The Fairytale Of New York.

Well worth the good cause though. BUT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLAY IT SOON.

I could YouTube it but there's something magical about hearing it on the radio knowing that thousands more are listening to it too...... Is that a bit sad? Maybe.

I'm actually gonna send 4 or 5 texts in now saying "That Guy from boards.ie wants to hear The Fairy Tale Of New York"

It's being played now, esp for you

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#51 27-12-2009 8:32pm

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Hey guys,

We'll be doing the boards.ie top 5 run down tomorrow (Monday) between 4pm and 5pm, presenter will be Garv Rigby.

Tomorrow is also our last day on air so i wanted to thank you all for tuning in.

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