Have you Ever heard your song played somewhere?

[Dread Bass]

Don't know if we've ever had this thread before and a search didn't really show anything up. The other day my band and i were out in Notts at a club night at the pub Seven and the DJ played one of our new songs. It was very weird but also felt like a great achievement. Have you experienced this? if so where? and how was it?

[wateroftyne]

One of ours cropped up on a Radio 4 documentary a few weeks ago. We didn't know (none of us are Radio 4 listeners) but someone mentioned it so we checked via 'listen again', and.. there it was.

Bizarre.

It is a nice feeling when you don't expect it.

[tombboy]

We're played about four times a day on Mod Radio UK.
Initially, it was weird but we're used to it now.

[Earbrass]

In the early nineties I composed the music for a series of one-minute films commissioned by MTV - for a few months they showed them all the time, randomly between the other programs. I never had MTV myself, but I had a mate with cable TV, and I remember the thrill of seeing them appear unexpectedly. Magic. Also the only time I've ever made any serious money out of my music.

[Ray]

Our stuff is played quite regularly on the Craig Charles Funk Show on BBC 6 Music. It's a great feeling to hear your own music on the radio.

[BigRedX]

My very first band - The Midnight Circus - first ever release on vinyl was played on John Peel's Radio One show in 1980. He announced that he would be playing us in the list of bands at the start of his show. I spent the next two hours with my fingers poised over the record button of the cassette recorder waiting for our moment of fame. Needless to say ours was the penultimate track of the evening.

[Moonstomper]

We have one of ours played at the Galpharm stadium every time Huddersfield Town win, as a Halifax fan you can imagine my prediacament

[whynot]

Have heard the odd thing on the radio over the years, but the biggest buzz I can remember was when our band had album of the week on a German national radio station. We were on tour over there at the time so hearing one of our songs every hour while cruising the autobahn was pretty exciting.

[WonderHorse]

[quote name='Moonstomper' post='605421' date='Sep 22 2009, 11:44 AM']We have one of ours played at the Galpharm stadium every time Huddersfield Town win, as a Halifax fan you can imagine my prediacament [/quote]

Up the Terriers!

What's the song now? I'm a season ticket holder but for the life of me can't remember it!

[waynepunkdude]

The Foundry in Canterbury good times.

[Zombywoof]

I get played on a Sunday afternoon funk/soul radio show quite a bit. But my brother is the DJ so does that count?

[Guest]

I have heard stuff I've played on being played at some clubs over the years, one band was on Radio one but we had no idea til people started e-mailing us and we listened to it online, and some solo stuff I did was used for a theme/intro tune for an irish culture radio show.

[wombatboter]

I've recorded a couple of solo-cd's but I never release them so there's not much exposure.
A friend of mine works for television and he had to edit a tv-show around cancer and the various initiatives which were taken by different people all across the country trying to raise money for the good cause.
Each group was given around 15 seconds of television for their actions and how much they had earned and this went on during hours and hours on one of the biggest tv-stations in our country. Between every 15 seconds there was a tiny bass sample of five seconds which was taken from my cd. It felt great and I watched the program longer than I wanted to..:-)

[Fitz666]

One of our songs is the walk on music to a guy from the Scottish wrestling Federation, not sure if that is a compliment or not!!

Edited September 22, 2009 by Fitz666

[JTUK]

Only a few sessions I did...quite a thrill, but as I took the fee at the time ( as always ) ...no royalties.

[steve-soar]

My old band Scorpio Rising did a session at Maida Vale for Mark Goodier that got played on Radio 1. I've heared our singles played in loads of indie clubs in the early 90's. It was weird hearing our album being played in Oxford Street HMV, then doing a gig in there and signing records.

[Dread Bass]

Some interesting stories there guys. I must admit i was pretty chuffed with how it went down.

[deaver]

I (dimly) remember some surprise airplay on pirate radio (KLM? KLF? KFC?) in Manchester during the early Eighties - I can remember how different we sounded through a car radio. Around the same time the guitarists next door neighbour said he'd heard us on Janice Long but, alas, this was never confirmed.

Once appeared on Granada Reports, which some Mancunian old-timers on here may remember (the programme, not me)

[RhysP]

I played bass on some stuff that John Peel played on his show in the mid 90's.

[velvetkevorkian]

I think on of our songs came on in the pub the guitarist drinks in- he handed a copy in over the bar at some point. Neat, but didn't inspire as much rapture as I'd hoped

[chris_b]

Our duo has recorded sessions for Paul Jones on R2. It's strange to see some records I played on, a long time ago, now on EBay!!

[steve-soar]

[quote name='deaver' post='606093' date='Sep 22 2009, 09:00 PM']I (dimly) remember some surprise airplay on pirate radio (KLM? KLF? KFC?) in Manchester during the early Eighties - I can remember how different we sounded through a car radio. Around the same time the guitarists next door neighbour said he'd heard us on Janice Long but, alas, this was never confirmed.

Once appeared on Granada Reports, which some Mancunian old-timers on here may remember (the programme, not me)[/quote]
Name them. Mr Burgess.

[doctor_of_the_bass]

Back around '96, Performance Bike Magazine used some of our (Urban Surf) original songs on one of their `Video Nasties' - we got paid a nice little fee for that which was cool. I went round to a mate's house and he was showing his Dad the video and it was nice to be able to say `I co- wrote that'!