Mike's Mad4these w/c 23 Mar 09
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 2 IN THIS MOMENT Forever new single 6 April
2 1 ROBIN S / STEVE ANGELLO & LAIDBACK LUKE Show Me Love new single 23 March video
3 - MARMADUKE DUKE Rubber Lover new single
4 12 VINNY PECULIAR Welfare State / Uniform from the 'Sometimes I Feel Like A King' album 26 May
5 5 YEAH YEAH YEAHS Zero new single 6 April
6 9 STAR PILOTS In The Heat Of The Night new single 20 April video
7 - BRAKES Don't Take Me To Space (Man) new single from the 'Touchdown' album 20 April
9 - KEVIN RUDOLPH & KID CUDI Welcome To The World new single
9 4 MAXIMO PARK Wraithlike from their new album 'Quicken The Heart'
10 6 DEPECHE MODE Wrong new single 6 April
11 7 FREELAND Under Control new single 30 March
12 - PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH Black Hearted Love new single 6 April
12 8 ASHER ROTH I Love College new single 20 April
12 10 THE KING BLUES I Got Love new single 4 May
ohell anagram Welcome to the internet home for Mike TreVelyan and Mad4it - a weekly and sometimes mobile club night. We like to raise the roof with the biggest indie & alternative hits ever and take in some mainstream & some unusual requests - click here for a recent setlist. Here's Cardiff Barfly's upcoming Friday live line-up :- on Friday 27th March it's Stone Gods + Black Spiders + Hate Gallery

This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 22 Mar 09

Wow.. for a second single available on an album and as a download Lady GaGa is number one.. and this is weeks before the excellent Space Cowboy remix is out. It goes to prove the strength of the song and the way the singles chart is reflecting the popularity of a hit more so than it has for fifteen years.

20 year old Elly Jackson aka La Roux leads the charge of the new tunes at 11. Pet Shop Boys are back at 14, the Slumdog Millionaire Oscar winning song 'Jai Ho' is in at 20, Franz Ferdinand at 27 and Enrique & Ciara from his Greatest Hits CD at 30.

5 new entries – 6 up, 27 down, 2 non-movers

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 4 10 LADY GAGA Poker Face

2 2 3 FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

3 1 2 ROB & RUTH Islands In The Stream

4 3 3 SATURDAYS Just Can't Get Enough

5 5 5 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

6 7 6 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

7 6 3 KELLY CLARKSON Life Would Suck Without You

8 9 4 AKON Beautiful

9 20 3 BEYONCE Halo

10 8 24 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

11 new LA ROUX In For The Kill

12 11 12 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance

13 18 16 JAMES MORRISON & NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings

14 new PET SHOP BOYS Love Etc

15 16 6 PRODIGY Omen

16 14 2 SEPTEMBER Can't Get Over

17 12 8 LILY ALLEN The Fear

18 15 11 ALESHA DIXON Breathe Slow

19 17 5 TAKE THAT Up All Night

20 new AR RAHMAN & THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS Jai Ho

21 13 8 SHONTELLE T-Shirt

22 37 2 METRO STATION Shake It

23 21 7 EMINEM, Dr DRE & 50 CENT Crack A Bottle

24 22 16 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)

25 10 2 OASIS Falling Down

26 19 8 PUSSYCAT DOLLS Whatcha Think About That

27 new FRANZ FERDINAND No You Girls

28 24 10 KID CUDI & CROOKERS Day N Nite

29 23 28 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

30 new ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & CIARA Takin' Back My Love

31 26 3 CHIPMUNK Chip Diddy Chip

32 25 10 TINCHY STRYDER & TAIO CRUZ Take Me Back

33 27 2 KATIE PERRY Thinking Of You

34 29 8 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

35 28 19 KILLERS Human

36 30 11 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

37 31 3 KINGS OF LEON Revelry

38 33 7 N-DUBZ Strong Again

39 35 13 SATURDAYS Issues

Valleys Radio RIP?
UTV says it's asked Ofcom on four occasions to move Ebbw Vale to Swansea. Seemingly unable to understand why this is not possible they've decided to give Ofcom their licence back if no-one wants to buy it ... so Valleys Radio may exit the radio world ... more from South Wales Argus

GWR RIP
Not the great pre British Rail railway company, but a radio company many radio professionals looked on as the nadir of creative radio, GWR bites the dust this week. For much of its time it was led by former social worker Steve Orchard and then Australian demagogue Dirk Anthony. With it's three links an hour, ten second maximum cue card fayre that eventually swallowed up Capital Radio Group it's probably no great loss really. However it does emphasise a new chapter where Heart will be rolled out from London to many former local radio stations. Independent Local Radio having died a death some may feel entirely due to a lack of creative management. There are plenty of talented presenter types who deserve the opportunity to entertain their locality, all too often it doesn't happen because the boss is shagging an irrelevant - literally and figuratively.
Now we've arrived in Boxticker Land it seems increasingly obvious that the best people are not getting the jobs... Sir Fred.

Hey Hey
No exemption to the crunch, except Sir Fred of The Prince's Trust & RBS that is, even Asda are cutting staff hours. Uncut magazine, an excellent publication in difficulty? The April 2009 edition has twenty pages less than previous months. Now a special offer 12% discount if subscribers gift a friend. Grim in Hayward's Heath too.

We're The Monkees
Congratulations to Cardiff University on a successful tender to the BBC for a £20,000 project to research Dr Who's benefit to humanity ... on that alone I we must be due a refund of something

BBC Police
Unlucky Apprentice applicants who are fired by Alan Sugar will then face an inquisition from Adrian Chiles. Contestants should beware of making idle banter, Chiles who has a holiday cottage in South Wales is closely connected with the thought police - ask Carol Thatcher.

Mr Lennon
'Revolution' or 'Power To The People', a couple of John Lennon songs in conflict or are they? Revolutionary is not a word you'll hear connected with our Government too often but there cannot be an area of our lives they've felt it unnecessary to tamper with. Why? Yes, there was a landslide majority for New Labour in 1997, it wasn't a vote to sex up war-mongering. It wasn't a vote to put Herr Brown in charge of The Ministry Of Truth. Gordon content to magic carpet to power on Tony Blair's reflected glory, such that it was, has not yet allowed himself to be put in a position where public approval seems to matter. Why even mention it? The history of mass popular music and art is inextricably entwined with the politic of the day, from Chaplin to Brecht to Public Enemy, from Lennon to Weller and stop .... where to now?

America's Hot 100
Billboard Hot Top 4 stay the same for a third week...

This Week ... Last Week ... Artist ... Title

1 1 FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

2 2 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

3 3 LADY GAGA Poker Face

4 4 SOULJA BOY TELL'EM & SAMMIE Kiss Me Thru The Phone

5 9 KELLY CLARKSON My Life Would Suck Without You

6 5 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

7 8 KANYE WEST Heartless

8 10 JAMIE FOXX & T-PAIN Blame It

9 6 MILEY CYRUS The Climb

10 7 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance