Hiya, BBC Radio One, you're listening to Andy Kershaw - for the final time because after 15 years on air this will be my last programme, I'm sorry to say. Last Friday the Radio One Controller offered me a new contract for just three months but said that there would be nothing after that, and that this programme would be then replaced by a dance music show with celebrated DJs.
Well, I didn't want to sit here for 12 weeks under those terms, so I'm afraid this is the last one. But hey - we're going out in style, are we not, listeners? Last week we had Lou Reed playing live, and after this by Smith & Mighty from the CD "King Sized Dub Chapter 6" on the Echo Beach label, we'll be joined by another mighty rock 'n' roll legend, the mighty Warren Zevon.
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Well, next weekend we're off as usual to the Isle of Man for the annual TT motorcycle races, our holidays. In fact, do you call it a holiday when you're out of work? I'm not quite sure what you would call it. I can't think of any better way of getting over the shock of not being a Radio One DJ than sitting on a dry-stone wall with a packet of sandwiches and a six-pack in me hand as some daft bugger goes at 170mph past me down a country lane.
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Trish Murphy: She was going to be doing a session for us as well, and obviously she won't be doing now. And my apologies to her and to all other artists who were booked for Kershaw sessions before this turned out to be my last programme for Radio One.
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Hey, let's face it, I was never gonna do a last programme without a bit of Bob, was I? [...] Nor was I gonna do a final programme without playing you a bit of James Carr, the greatest soul singer of all time.
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In the middle The Hot Club Of Cowtown. [...] Playing at the Cambridge Folk Festival over the weekend of the 27-30th July, and they would've been doing a session for us, but again apologies to them.
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And it is just about All Over Now. I'd like to thank me producers over the years: Richard Masters, Mike Hawkes and John Walters. I'm grateful to all the engineers, particularly our Ralph, Ralph Jordan. But most of all I want to thank you the listeners. I couldn't have dreamed of a more supportive and enthusiastic audience, and you saved this programme more than once. And we had some good fun and some good music, di'nt we? I'm going to miss ya.
And I'll leave you with these. In a moment a band whose music came to define what this programme was about, but first let's do it one more time with Gram Parsons and Emmylou. Let's go!
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Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys with Hupenyu Hwangu. Thanks very much for listening and goodnight.