I was on holiday for two weeks and I went back to work on nightshift this week hoping perhaps that Heart might have freshened up the playlist. Needless to say they hadn't,it was just the usual diet of John Legend,Paloma Faith,Happy,Passenger,Ellie Goulding,Rather Be,Stay With Me,etc.
According to the website Compare My Radio, Heart plays these songs up to 130 or 140 times a month - in other words four or five times a day,every day. How any radio station can do that and have the strapline "More Music Variety" and maintain any credibility is beyond me.
As always we had the usual complement of Bruno Mars and Olly Murs as well.
The oldies were just the usual ones - Debarge,Natalie Imbruglia,Coolio,Don't You Want Me,Starship,Take On Me,and so on.
I will however say one thing in their favour: last night on the Time Tunnel at 2am it was 1993 and they played Sting's Fields Of Gold and SWV's Right Here,both brilliant records,and it was a refreshing change to hear them,I'd never heard them on the radio for ages.
Why can't they play records like that more often,instead of John Legend or Ellie Goulding yet again?