Guests: Matt Black and Jonathan More from Coldcut.
Strange things happened when Matt and Jon visited On The Wire. On playing out "Smoke 1" from the newly-released "What's That Noise" album, the fire alarm went off and the studio had to be evacuated.
Standard procedure for the on-air presenter is to insert the emergency cart and switch over to it immediately, which is what you hear between about 9:35 and 13:44. The cart is a 5½min loop of two tunes with announcements from veteran BBC broadcaster Gerald Jackson, and was actually broadcast for most of half an hour - I have removed most of it as there is only so much "Swinging Safari" by Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra or "Music Box Dancer" by Frank Mills one can listen to.
This is the only occasion on which Steve has needed to play the emergency cart.
While a playlist for this show exists, it appears to be rather brief. Below is a reconstruction based on what is listed and the extant audio.
Intro
Tubby's
Joe Hall and the Corvettes - Bongo Beatin' Beatnik - Global
Lynn Tait
Barbara Lynn
Latifah
Coldcut - Smoke 1 - Ahead Of Our Time
Fire alarm interlude: Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra - Swinging Safari - Polydor
Fire alarm interlude: Frank Mills - Music Box Dancer - Polydor T K Hulin & Smoke - Smoke It - Booray
Coldcut - Which Doctor? - Ahead Of Our Time
Black Radical Mk II - Monsoon - 2 The Bone Mr. Modo Records
Public Enemy - mix white label
Tackhead - Stealin' - SBK
Coldcut - Stop This Crazy Thing (Hedmaster mix) - Ahead Of Our Time
Cornell Campbell - I Will Never Change - Attack
Suns Of Arqa - Jaggunath - Antler
Wilfredo
