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The Theme Machine Saturday morning radio program with a different theme each week - from 9am to midday

28/01/2025

On Saturday February the 1st from nine through midday The Theme Machine — with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains — presents the 40-track playlist ‘Land Down Under Sequel’. As the name implies it’s a follow-on to the previous weekend’s show and also celebrates Australian music throughout the years. Featured acts include Radio Birdman, Jet, Kids In The Kitchen, Wolfmother, Madder Lake, Gurrumul, The Temper Trap and Doug Parkinson In Focus.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or use a radio app

22/01/2025

On Saturday January 25 from nine through midday The Theme Machine — with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains — presents ‘Great Southern Land’, a 43-track playlist celebrating the land down under. Featured acts include Yothu Yindi, Goanna, The Badloves, The Cruel Sea, The Dingoes, The Id, The Triffids and The Living End.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or use a radio app

15/01/2025

On Saturday January 18 from nine to noon The Theme Machine — with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains — presents the 38-track playlist ‘The Sounds of Sheffield’. This is yet another in the Theme Machine’s series of shows based on the musical output of specific British cities. Featured acts include Joe Cocker, Pulp, Thompson Twins, Arctic Monkeys, Def Leppard, Cabaret Voltaire, Moloko and ABC.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a radio app

08/01/2025

On Saturday January the 11th from nine to noon The Theme Machine — with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains — presents the playlist ‘Rock and Roll Heaven’. This list of close to 50 tracks is inspired by a short story by Stephen King called ‘You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band’. The tale is about a young couple on a weekend drive who become lost and stumble upon a town called Rock and Roll Heaven, which just happens to be inhabited by dead rock ‘n’ roll stars. The show features tracks by the (mostly young) musos who ‘live’ there, in the order in which they appear in the story itself. Artists include The Rolling Stones (for Brian Jones), The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freddie Mercury, Keith Moon, John Bonham and John Lennon.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

31/12/2024

On Saturday January the 4th from nine to noon The Theme Machine - with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains - presents a 40-track playlist of songs entitled ‘Keep The Peace’. This encompasses the import of peace, togetherness and trust. Featured acts include The Angels, The Brotherhood Of Man, The Cars, The Cure, The Korgis, The Plastic Ono Band, The Pretenders and The Youngbloods.
To tune in:
89.1FM for traditional radio, stream via rbm.org.au or use a radio app

27/12/2024

On Saturday December 28 from nine to noon The Theme Machine with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains presents the ‘Time Flies/New Year’s Special’. This is a 37-track playlist of songs about the New Year and time, its importance, its fleeting nature and the use we make of it. Tunes you’ll definitely be familiar with, and a couple of more obscure ones. Featured acts include Neil Young, Steve Winwood, Enya, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Slade and U2.
To tune in: 89.1FM via our website at rbm.org.au - or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

20/12/2024

Saturday December 21 from nine through noon, tune in to Paul Young’s The Theme Machine on Radio Blue Mountains for the playlist ‘Forever Young’. Check out forty odd (in more than one sense of the word) songs with the words ‘young’, ‘youth’ or similar in the title. It also celebrates all of the members of the Young family out there - those the host knows and those he’s yet to meet. 😁 This’ll be a revamped version of a show from over two years ago.
Featured artists include The Lambrettas, The Who, The Jam, The Animals, The Specials, Alice Cooper, Alphaville and XTC.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

02/12/2024

Saturday December the 7th from 9 to noon, tune in to The Theme Machine with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains for the 45-track playlist called ‘Mad About Music’, a reboot from about three years ago. Most people I know … are mad about music! And Paul is moving house, which is of course maddening! Hence the theme. Some of the acts that made the list are Bowie, Seal, Patsy Cline, Madness, Pink Floyd, Skyhooks and Prince.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

25/11/2024

On Saturday November 30, The Theme Machine presents the 32-track playlist entitled ‘Darkwave & Goth Special’; which is intended to take the listener on a journey from darkwave’s predominantly post-punk origins through proto-goth artistry into goth and its many manifestations. Essentially darkwave is an umbrella term which includes goth, cold wave and ethereal. Featured acts include The Cure, The Cocteau Twins, Gary Numan, Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and Dead Can Dance.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or use a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

19/11/2024

On Saturday November the 23rd, The Theme Machine presents ‘The Machine Theme’ on Radio Blue Mountains. This is a 41-track playlist of songs, most of which have the word ‘machine’ in the title, referring to machines in the physical sense, also to the use of the word as a euphemism for ‘the system’, governmental, societal or otherwise. It’s both a revamped version of a show from near on three years ago and part one in a series. Featured acts include Hawkwind, Kraftwerk, Ultravox, Pink Floyd, The Living End, The Flaming Lips, SAHB and XTC.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

14/11/2024

Saturday November the 16th, on The Theme Machine from 9 through midday, catch the 42-track playlist entitled ‘Belated Halloween — 2 Parts Scary, 1 Part Sweet’. Though a little late this year, it’s the best of the last six Theme Machine Halloween specials. It’s about ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night — and sweet stuff! So it will consist of two spooky tracks followed by one referring to lollies, sweets, candy and the like — right throughout the show!
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

05/11/2024

Saturday November the 9th from 9 to noon, tune in to The Theme Machine with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains for the 53-track playlist called ‘Sunshine Pop — 4th & Final’, which concludes the series. This will showcase several of the leading lights of the predominantly American genre, with a few quirky (hopefully hard-to-guess) inclusions on the list from across the globe. Some of the acts that made the list are The Rascals, Nancy Sinatra, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Mungo Jerry, White Plains, Billy Joe Royal, The Cowsills and Mama Cass.
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

31/10/2024

Saturday November 02 from 9 through midday, tune in to The Theme Machine with Paul Young on Radio Blue Mountains for the 57-track playlist entitled ‘Sunshine Pop 2nd Sequel’. It’s part three in a series. Sunshine pop grew out of the California Sound, notably from the mid-60s through the early 70s. This show focuses on British and Australian sunshine pop acts. Artists on the list include Marty Wilde (Kim’s dad), Paul Ryan (who wrote ‘Eloise’ for his brother Barry), Grapefruit (with Alex Young — older brother of George, Angus & Malcolm), Genesis (with a pre-prog tune), Episode Six (with Ian Gillan & Roger Glover before Deep Purple), Harmony Grass, Design and The Flower Pot Men (not Bill & Ben).
To tune in:
89.1FM; via our website at rbm.org.au — or try a streaming app such as Radio Garden.

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On March 17 Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated in more countries than any other national festival. From 9 through noon this Saturday March 23 tune in to presenter Paul Young for The Theme Machine’s rebooted St Pat’s Day playlist of 40 rock, pop and folk songs, all by Irish bands and solo acts. Belated but well worth the wait for this 5th annually revised and revamped show. How to hear it: 89.1FM, stream live via rbm.org.au, or use a radio app

On Saturday March 16 from nine to noon, The Theme Machine with Paul Young presents ‘Funkytown’, a 34-track playlist which simply consists of tracks by funk bands and solo artists. Musicians include Sly & The Family Stone, Kool & The Gang, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Tower of Power, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Prince and Bootsy. To tune in: 89.1FM, stream live via rbm.org.au, or use a radio app

Saturday December 16 from 9 to noon, tune in to The Theme Machine for the 45-track playlist ‘Name That Song – Gals, Part 2’. It’s a sequel to last Saturday’s show. They’re once again all tracks with a girl’s name in the title, and the acts range from Creedence to The Monkees to The Cure, Split Enz, Ted Mulry, Jona Lewie and oh so many more … How to hear: 89.1FM, stream live via rbm.org.au, or use a radio app

On The Theme Machine Saturday morning, September the 9th from 9 until 11 – ‘Let’s Cook’ is a 25-track playlist of songs in support of our same-day FUNDRAISER BARBECUE at Bunnings’ Katoomba store. The BBQ runs from 9 to 4 and will help your community radio station to continue providing essential alerts and valuable services — as it has for the last several decades. Artists include Blondie, Bread, Booker T. & The MG’s, The Cure, Led Zep and a host of others. To paraphrase Prince ‘We’re gonna barby like it’s 2023’. How to hear it: 89.1FM, stream live via rbm.org.au, or use a radio app

This Saturday November 26 on The Theme Machine tune in for ‘Heaven & Hell (Opposites Repel) – The 2022 Edition’. Revised and revamped! 38 tracks by The Clash, The Cure, The Who, The Darkness, The Jam, The Pogues, The Cramps, The Stranglers and The Easybeats – and several other acts not beginning with the word ‘the’! Tune in how? Like so: 89.1 FM, stream via our website at rbm.org.au (click ‘Listen Live’ button at top-right of the Home page), or use a radio app