Always a moment for tea time anthems

It's been an amusing day for me today triggered by when people ask me 'how are you?' I can genuinely respond, 'Oh I'm fine, and pissing blood'. The reason being I had a prostate biopsy yesterday and this is one of the side effects.

The procedure itself is quite intrusive and would have been thoroughly unpleasant were it not for the professionalism of the Royal Marsden staff who are very convivial, good humoured and incredibly chatty during the whole thing. So much so that we ended up having a deep conversation about the appropriateness of certain songs for events like this.

Being a BBC Radio 6 listener (I think the term is Radio 6 dad), particularly during my last few weeks of convalescence, I've picked up that there's a regular slot called 'Tea Time Anthems' hosted by the long standing indie presenter Steve Lamacq whereby an unusual story is read out and listeners have to send in song titles or bands that they think are most suitable for that tale. The winning songs are then played as the tea time anthems. Radio 6 by the way is an indie station that plays music for young people that only old people seem to listen to.

Anyhow, this was one of many topics of conversation while multiple people investigated my rectum and just goes to show that you can have a good chinwag at virtually any occasion.

I do have a malignant cancer apparently. But not a sufficiently interesting one to do anything about. Like me, it's just too lazy. So everyone's very cheerful. And I'm still pissing blood.

For completeness, it's worth putting the playlist down too:

Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash

Burnin' Love - Elvis Presley

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye

Everybody Hurts - REM

The Only Way Is Up - Yazz

What Have I Done To Deserve This? - Pet Shop Boys

Don't Leave Me This Way - The Communards

You Do Something To Me - Sinead O'Connor (I like her version best)

The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys

Unbelievable - EMF

Out Of Time - The Rolling Stones

Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie

That would have made a decent cassette tape back in the old days. My own view of the most appropriate sing-a-long tune to have a prostate biopsy to is the screaming yaaah-yah-yah-yah bit that comes after the chorus in 'Ghost Town' by the Specials.

Anyone with other suggestions is very welcome to add them in the chat.