The Cowboy Junkies have a new album out at the end of next month, and are on a brief tour in the UK and Europe before heading back off to North America for a larger tour. I’m a massive Junkies fan, and one thing I was always sure of. A band like that would never show up at Virgin Radio.
How wrong was I? I was idly looking to book a room the other week when I noticed that they were booked to come into the station for Captain America.
So guess where I was at 11am this morning. Not at my desk that’s for sure.
Siblings Margo and Michael Timmins were in. Michael playing guitar, and Margot simply singing. I just sat there quietly and watched, not even getting one or more of my many Junkies CDs out for signing. They performed two songs in the Virgin zoo, The Slide and My Wild Child, both of them off their forthcoming album One Soul Now (looking forward to tracking down a pre-release copy).
I’m not sure when the session is going out, but, well, when you work for a radio station… They’re not just visiting us; yesterday they were recording for Stuart Maconie (I’m not too sure whether this is for Radio 2 or 6 Music). I suspect that they’ll be going to other places too – watch this page of the website.
Sometimes my job’s great!