ScouseVeg On The Radio

Just before the start of National Vegetarian Week (which ran from May 18th – 24th, 2009) the O’Leary clan [Ray, Jane and Niki, below in photo's taken by Matt] guested on Simon O’Brien’s radio show to promote the week and to cook him a vegan breakfast.

Why a vegan breakfast when it was vegetarian week ? Take a listen to the both segments of the show to find out:

» Part 1
(64k mono mp3 – 10min:36secs / 4.85MB)

» Part 2
(12min:35secs / 5.75MB)

Thanks, as always to Brian Rogers for the files.

This isn’t the first time an O’Leary has been on the radio, in fact I think it is the third 4th time for Niki ! – Previous appearances here.

AND… ! Ray and Jane went a bit upmarket a while ago when they appeared on BBC Radio Merseyside.

Give them their own show, that’s what I say.

Happy Mozza Day, Birthday !

Nearing the end of this National Vegetarian Week which by fortuitous timing occurred during the celebration of Steven Patrick’s 50th birthday today. (Although I’m not sure the man himself will be looking forward to this milestone.)

We here at ScouseVeg want to extend our best to Mozza and wish him many happy returns with some music by him and about him:

- This is the B Side from Morrissey’s single I Want To Throw My Arms Around Paris and it features fellow famous musical veggie Chrissy Hynde on backing vocals:

Shame Is The Name:

…and one from Sandie Shaw, who you will remember Morrissey and Marr assisted back in 1986 on her attempted comeback.
- This is a track from a Janice Long session which Sandie sings…

Steven (You Don’t Eat Meat):

Vegan Freak Radio

Get your (vegan) freak on the (online) radio:

Vegan Freak – The website.

Is run by…

Bob & Jenna Torres

“We’re Bob and Jenna Torres, two long-time vegans who like to use our skills and talents to provide vegans and aspiring vegans with support, community, and entertainment. We do this in a few ways:

- We wrote a book to help you go vegan, stay vegan, and deal with life around non-vegans.

- We host an online radio show that currently gets thousands of downloads each week at Vegan Freak Radio.

- We blog about living as a vegan in a world of omnivores at Vegan Freak Blog.

Vegan Freak Radio – The podcasts.

One of the Vegan Freak Radio Podcast shows is below:

: Download (48megs/1 & half hour long pod. Only available on here for a limited time. Longer on the original site.)

*Heads up* Lots of the use of the word beginning with F and ending with uck used in the podcast.

YNWA

Weekend Challenge – Songs About (Veggie) Food

Throwing down the challenge hat with something that will keep you thinking over the weekend (and Monday). – Post in the comments below any songs that mentioned – vegetarian and/or vegan food obviously – in the song. Either the title or in the lyrics. And again obviously – anything with meat is not allowed.

I’ll get things started off with a song I spotted which inspired the post – From the Smashing Pumpkins:

Yet again, obviously… not vegan friendly, but Plamil sell Egg Free Mayonnaise – and there’s a recipe for Vegan Mayonnaise if you want to make it yourself.

– Next up is a very young Paul Young from 1978, with the band Streetband (just rollin’ out the clichés) on Top Of The Pops singing about Toast:

So now I’ve got it started. Post a suggestion in the comments below and if I can find the song to embed I’ll add it here.

Here are some places to start your searching:

- YouTube
- Beemp3.com
- Blip.fm
- The Hype Machine

Daltrey vs PETA

It’s on !

Via ContactMusic:

PETA Fires Back At Daltrey’s Animal Rights Rant

Animal rights advocates have hit back at THE WHO rocker ROGER DALTREY after he criticised the public for donating money to animal charities instead of young cancer patients.

The singer claims he is struggling to raise cash for his Teenage Cancer Trust Foundation, because so much charity cash goes to animal causes.

He recently accused the British public of turning their backs on stricken kids, saying, “It is a blot on our society when, if these teenagers had four legs and fur or feathers we would raise the money in a year. It’s tragic and it makes me want to fight even harder.”

But campaigners at animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are shocked by Daltrey’s outburst – insisting humans and animals’ lives could be saved, if people became vegetarian.

PETA boss Ingrid Newkirk tells WENN, “Daltrey’s heart seems closed not only to the idea of the importance of kindness to animals but the common sense realisation that helping animals avoid the slaughterhouse by going vegetarian greatly reduces the chance of colon, breast and other forms of cancer, as well as heart disease.

“Of course, we have the capacity to care for more than one species and one problem at a time, but if people want to put all their money into cancer research PETA has a list of cancer charities which use 21st Century research methods instead of clinging to old fashioned animal tests.”

» Original article

	The Who – Baba O’Riley
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Happy Birthday…

… to Charles Darwin, who was born on February 12th, 1809.

Dawkins on Darwin | A Peek into the Life of Darwin with Jon Amiel, Director of Creation | Six scientific hot spots for modern Darwins | ‘Why Evolution Is True,’ by Jerry A. Coyne

- Also, don’t forget the great In Our Time Special (4 episodes) with Melvyn Bragg.

- Previously.

… Happy Birthday as well to Abraham Lincoln, also born on February 12th, 1809.

» Google News Items

Now you’ve read all that go and take the BBC – Today quiz.

The Beatles – Happy Birthday:

The Future’s So Bright…

…gotta wear shades…

That first video has been flying round the ‘web. The second one I tacked on because I thought of the song as soon as I saw the first.

Neither Scouse or Veg I know, just found it funny

Happy Birthday GingerAFOS !

A musical interlude….

With a song from Saint Etienne (featuring the Charlatans lead singer Tim Burgess) called “I Was Born On Christmas Day”.

This is for our Niki who was !

Happy B’Day luv !

- You can find this and more Chrimbo related songs over at my day job on Football and Music.

Do One Thing…

This is from the Beeb:

Make this the year you do one thing for nature.

Simple, easy to do things really can make a big difference. And if we all did just one simple thing, we’d be making a big difference together.

You can…

Look to buy peat-free – Make your garden truly green.

Get an allotment – It will benefit you and the wildlife.

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