Love is in the air! Or is that just BO?

Hello you and welcome to a brand new week of my blog!

Hope you had a lovely weekend. If like me you live relatively central in Brighton, you probably missed out on the snow and instead were treated with a brown slushy mess. Seeing photos of people North of the Dyke building snowmen has almost made me long for snow. Almost.

And as snow constantly threatens to hit Brighton, Valentines Day creeps ever closer. For single pringles its a depressing time of year. We have 12 months of loved-up couples bragging about their gooey affection on facebook, so Valentines is frankly just rubbing salt in the wounds. Well fear not desperately lonely people - I could find YOU love this year. Yes you!

I could be match-making you with your soul mate on the big day and then sending you to the gorgeous Gars Chinese Restaurant for a meal on us. To enter, just head over to our website to play "Be My Juicy Valentine". Just call me Cilla. No, go on...


Loz popped in for Sporting Briefs.Once again I predicted the Albion's result incorrectly (intentionally) thus forcing them to win. It's a bizarre logic but when the stars align, my anti-predictions have always proved true. Just ask Gus. No, go on...

I attempted to get Loz to enter Be My Juicy Valentine with no joy. A happily married man for many years, he's also got a shortage of single friends, instead choosing to socialise with other couples. I've got no idea what they get up to, but Loz does regularly lose his keys after these 'get togethers'...

Loz was always more of a Mercedes girl

 And my brand new Record of the Week is by Stooshe (rhymes with Tooshee). They're a new girl band with attitude innit. Watch out Little Mix - these girls are as vanilla as strawberry ice cream. i.e. not very.

Their song "Love Me" is the radio friendly version (think Cee-Lo's "Forget Me" and you won't be far off), and features the man who loves to... feature - Travie McCoy. Here's the song below:



If you think you could be a Stooshe fan, they're playing at the main event of National Student Pride at the Brighton Dome on 25th February which yours truly will also be DJing at. Last year I had the 'privilege' of standing behind Joe McElderry for his 20 minute set. Let's hope the views better this time.

Adele whips the crowd up into a frenzy

Hello you!

And welcome to another week of blog fun.

So this weekend, I had my much-anticipated birthday celebrations, which I'd stupidly themed "hats & glasses". To be fair, people made quite an effort, with the good ol' animal winter hat proving incredibly popular. I, on the other hand, cobbled together the most bizarre outfit in my long history of fancy dress. Imagine if Lancelot and Lady Gaga had a weird love-child. And here he is:

What was I thinking???

The chain mail head piece (authentic) proved a particular focus, as people took it in turns stabbing me in the head to see if it REALLY worked. I did explain that if it didn't work, I doubt they'd have used it for hundreds of years. I think people just enjoy attacking me. Despite this, I was far from best-dressed of the night. That award goes to my faithful pooch, Alfie, who pulled off his hat with some style:

What a pimp

So, onto the show!...

Pussycat Dolls? Cat Stevens?

Today we discovered that Adele songs were the most popular karaoke choices of 2011. Don't get me wrong, I love her, but I don't really want to hear someone warble their way, badly, through "Someone Like You" when I'm trying to have fun. It's a complete buzz kill when I've just whipped the crowd into a frenzy with my latest 11-minute Meat Loaf rendition. The first 2 minutes go down quite well, after that people tend to switch off. Here at Juice Towers, attempts at singing ballads do NOT go down well, and people tend to get booed till they put the mic down, or cry, or in my case both.

Loz popped in for Sporting Briefs, which frankly are never brief enough (love you Loz). The highlight today was one darts player's excuse for losing a semi-final... turning the air-conditioning on halfway through a match. He forgot to pack his jumper. Truth be told, the Juice air-con in the studio is temperamental at best - it can transport you from Antarctica to the Sahara desert and back again within a few seconds but rarely that perfect middle ground (Barcelona?).

Record of the week is an artist called Youngman and his song "Who Knows?" I feel like they've booked themselves into a corner with that name - after turning 40, "Oldman" just doesn't sound as cool no? I guess Paul Young is still doing alright. Isn't he!?

See you tomorrow for the Film Forum with James Tully.

Jonesy x

"Organised chaos"

Happy Monday!

For the record, I hate Mondays, with an indescribable passion. But United did win yesterday so at least I avoided the standard post-loss ribbing in the Juice office. It was a dark day after THAT 6-1 result...

This past weekend I mostly walked the dog - Waterhall and Wild Park if you fancy a cheeky stalk. Also DJ'd at Charles Street Saturday night - big hello to the 60 year old couple who were loving the electro-house. I'm changing the playlist for my nan's 80th...

So today on the show we were joined once again by Loz for his Sporting Briefs. I realised today that I have never, in a good 6 months of the feature, EVER got a football prediction correct. Not even the score, but the RESULT. The Albion had a tricky 1-1 draw in the FA Cup 3rd round, which means a tense replay away at Wrexham. Can think of nicer places to go... Skegness is a treat at this time of year. Listen again here:

Sporting Briefs 09/01/12 by Officialjonesy on Mixcloud

My new Record of the Week is David Guetta. Now before you cringe/sigh/dance, let me tell you he's teamed up with Sia who has the voice of an angel - an ANGEL I tell ya. 'Titanium' is brilliant, and any texts we had claiming otherwise were deleted immediately.

That monkey never fails to terrify me.

Today is also National Tidy Your Desk Day. My desk is far and away the most disgusting desk at Juice towers, but it's a mess I'm strangely proud of. When Linda the cleaner tries to 'organise' (which she does, regularly) I'm like a dog protecting my most beloved bone. We asked that the honorable citizens of Brighton choose the most random and pointless item on their desk, remove it and donate it to charity.

Incapable of parting with anything on my desk, I left it up to producer Jonno to find my item. He found 3 - an orange crystal ball object, some coco pops and my Juice award circue 2009 for Best Interview. Twas' Alan Carr talking about how to find him in a nightclub (hanging round the toilets smelling of poppers apparently).

Listener charity donations included a photo of a cheating ex girlfriend, a pigs-head clock from a butchers, and an A4 poster of David Dickinson, complete with orange coloring in. Oxfam will be happy.


Tomorrow I'll be popping into the Breakfast Show just after 9 for some film-related news and gossip before James Tully from the Odeon cinema joins me on Juice Daytime for the Film Forum, giving us a rundown of the big movies out at the moment and new releases this week.

See you then!
Jonesy x