Hello 2022 from The English Show

As the title of our kick-off banger from this new year's first English Show suggests: "Hello" to 2022! After a short hiatus, The English Show is back for another year of music, culture, news, interviews and letting you "know what's on the go" in Basel. Cultural events are somewhat curtailed by the resurgence of the coronavirus, but we are far from a lockdown as the year kicks off.

Be sure to familiarize yourself, if you haven't already, with the 2G and 2G+ rules, get a vaccination and the certificate app, and you're good to go for most social and cultural activities still on offer. Travel abroad is also still possible and guidance can be found at the Swiss Federal Health Authority's website. These rules are especially relevant to Baselers living in proximity to French and German borders, where getting to and from work, shopping across borders, visiting friends and family, or making deliveries are a recurring part of daily life.

The music theme this week was a grab bag of songs that didn't quite fit into our shows from last year. Each week, we curate a healthy inventory of songs to share in a theme, but we rarely get to play all of them. Tonight, we emptied the grab-bag, playing songs from a variety of genres:

Martin Solveig & Dragonette - Hello

Christine and the Queens - Narcissus Is Back

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

Halsey - You Should Be Sad

INNA - Not My Baby

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

Rina Sawayama - Cherry

Fiona Apple - Heavy Balloon

Nova Twins - Play Fair