I'm back from holidaying in heat wave Portugal to three days of torrential rain in Glasgow! Never mind, I'm raring to serve you up a mix of UK alternative and mainstream pop - and a bit of inane chatter as well no doubt. Tune in to the UK Alternative Thursday, 12th August at 19:00 UTC. Incidentally, traditionally the 12 August is open season on Grouse here in Scotland, but the only one I'm likely to get near is in a bottle... You can send me an email during the show at this address: request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I'm on ACB Radio every Thursday for two hours at 19:00 gmt which in the US translates to: 12 PM Pacific, 1 PM Mountain, 2 PM Central, and 3 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Go to the ACB Radio webpage below and launch your favourite player from there): - http://interactive.acbradio.org John Gurd ** Going on holiday and want to halt messages? Send a message to:- ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** vacation ## d ** where ## is the number of days followed by d for days. ** For other things like digest mode, send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq