Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:32:55 +0200 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/ en-EN radioshirley@gmail.com radioshirley@gmail.com https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/ https://img.hearthis.at/7/0/6/_/uploads/10526392/image_user/w1400_h1400_q70_ptrue_v2_----cropped_1710652887607.jpg no no https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/sideonesvol4/ 14092637 no no Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:56:30 +0200 2026-04-04T15:56:30+02:00 47:25 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mrks-difficult-pleasures-4/ 13944023 no no Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:47:47 +0100 2026-03-04T10:47:47+01:00 47:51 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/21kennethlyonsthecolonisationoflanguage/
In much of my sound work, I’m drawn to the spoken word and was immediately drawn to the characteristics within the vocal utterances contained in the 1962 original field recording as assigned by Cities and Memory from the Pitt Rivers Museum Ethnographic Sound Archive by Raymond Clausen of a Navel-Miel performance accompanied by shaken rattles and seed pods from Malekula, Vanuatu.

Selecting snippets of these utterances with some of the percussive elements, I created a speculative language to run alongside the opening paragraph of the Brothers Grimm tale, Rapunzel (1812). I assigned an utterance to each word in the story and developed a version of this story ‘spoken’ in this speculative language. Distinct phrases contained within the original narration are repeated and ‘corrupted’ through unlikely juxtapositions of these set phrases over the length of the work.

I chose Rapunzel as my source tale due to its allusion to industry and exploitation, especially within its opening paragraphs, as both key activities of colonial intervention. Although the tale of Rapunzel can be read through many lenses, this selection, I felt was critical to situate the conceptual approach of the composition more solidly within this framework of intention. Further to this, I included the familiar Western story-telling trope, “Once upon time”, which doesn’t appear in Rapunzel’s original form, to open each of the five parts. The voice which narrates the opening of Rapunzel in English, is an AI-generated voice.

All instrumentation, apart from the AI-generated narration, is sourced directly from the original 1962 field recording and modified through extensive processing and effects. No DAW stock beats or sounds were used in the composition.

On reflection, incorporating AI into this work, also adds another layer of critique to ‘The Colonisation of Language : A Phraseology in Five Parts’. Using the opening paragraphs and set phrases of Rapunzel as my language model, also interrogates AI’s compilation process and the corruption of meaning when AI is forced to draw on a singular set language model for its output. It raises the question of How many iterations from a set model, does it take AI to output only diabolical errors in sense and meaning, thereby compromising the integrity of heritage?

The whole ‘A Century of Sounds’ project (original source material and re-imagined compositions) can be accessed here : https://citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds/

Kenneth Lyons 
December, 2025]]>
In much of my sound work, I’m drawn to the spoken word and was immediately drawn to the characteristics within the vocal utterances contained in the 1962 original field recording as assigned by Cities and Memory from the Pitt Rivers Museum Ethnographic Sound Archive by Raymond Clausen of a Navel-Miel performance accompanied by shaken rattles and seed pods from Malekula, Vanuatu.

Selecting snippets of these utterances with some of the percussive elements, I created a speculative language to run alongside the opening paragraph of the Brothers Grimm tale, Rapunzel (1812). I assigned an utterance to each word in the story and developed a version of this story ‘spoken’ in this speculative language. Distinct phrases contained within the original narration are repeated and ‘corrupted’ through unlikely juxtapositions of these set phrases over the length of the work.

I chose Rapunzel as my source tale due to its allusion to industry and exploitation, especially within its opening paragraphs, as both key activities of colonial intervention. Although the tale of Rapunzel can be read through many lenses, this selection, I felt was critical to situate the conceptual approach of the composition more solidly within this framework of intention. Further to this, I included the familiar Western story-telling trope, “Once upon time”, which doesn’t appear in Rapunzel’s original form, to open each of the five parts. The voice which narrates the opening of Rapunzel in English, is an AI-generated voice.

All instrumentation, apart from the AI-generated narration, is sourced directly from the original 1962 field recording and modified through extensive processing and effects. No DAW stock beats or sounds were used in the composition.

On reflection, incorporating AI into this work, also adds another layer of critique to ‘The Colonisation of Language : A Phraseology in Five Parts’. Using the opening paragraphs and set phrases of Rapunzel as my language model, also interrogates AI’s compilation process and the corruption of meaning when AI is forced to draw on a singular set language model for its output. It raises the question of How many iterations from a set model, does it take AI to output only diabolical errors in sense and meaning, thereby compromising the integrity of heritage?

The whole ‘A Century of Sounds’ project (original source material and re-imagined compositions) can be accessed here : https://citiesandmemory.com/century-sounds/

Kenneth Lyons 
December, 2025]]> 13932164 no no Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:37:51 +0100 2026-03-01T13:37:51+01:00 9:24 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kenneth-lyons-60secs-of-life-and-death/
In response to an international call out for the 60 Secondes 2018 sound art competition, 60 seconds of #life and #death maps the frequency the hashtags #life and #death are used in the Twitter stream via recording the attendant default notification sounds from the app over a period of sixty minutes and reducing it to sixty seconds. The resulting sound art work gives rise to a folksonomy of binary thought and expression through the use of these oppositional hashtags within the Twitter community and re-presents sonically, a snapshot of the social signification each of the tags used have to users in this community.

The significance of this research is that it engages innovatively with mobile media to seek out and demonstrate polarities of online communication and commentary in a social media community. Its value is attested by: its selection for international competition hosted by an organization supported by Canadian Commission for UNESCO / Phonurgia Nova (France) / Avatar (Canada) / MoPA – Computer Graphics Animation School (France) / Wapikoni (Canada) and its selection for programming in multiple on/offline radio art/sound festivals across Europe, Canada, South America and Australia during 2018.

Works cited Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9

Submitted for : 60 Secondes Radio project (2018) : https://60secondesradio.com/]]>
In response to an international call out for the 60 Secondes 2018 sound art competition, 60 seconds of #life and #death maps the frequency the hashtags #life and #death are used in the Twitter stream via recording the attendant default notification sounds from the app over a period of sixty minutes and reducing it to sixty seconds. The resulting sound art work gives rise to a folksonomy of binary thought and expression through the use of these oppositional hashtags within the Twitter community and re-presents sonically, a snapshot of the social signification each of the tags used have to users in this community.

The significance of this research is that it engages innovatively with mobile media to seek out and demonstrate polarities of online communication and commentary in a social media community. Its value is attested by: its selection for international competition hosted by an organization supported by Canadian Commission for UNESCO / Phonurgia Nova (France) / Avatar (Canada) / MoPA – Computer Graphics Animation School (France) / Wapikoni (Canada) and its selection for programming in multiple on/offline radio art/sound festivals across Europe, Canada, South America and Australia during 2018.

Works cited Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9

Submitted for : 60 Secondes Radio project (2018) : https://60secondesradio.com/]]> 13894698 no no Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:17:46 +0100 2026-02-20T05:17:46+01:00 1:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/are-you-receiving-mekenneth-lyons60secs/
In this sound work, Are You Receiving Me? I have imagined a scenario inspired by the film, The War of The Worlds (1953) where a radio reporter utters the line, “All radio is dead” during a live television cross. Using an online morse code generator, I converted this text to morse code and then converted the code to the sound of a morse code transmission. This transmission is repeated multiple times. I also employed an online translator, to record the phrase, “all radio is dead”, being spoken in thirty-one languages from around the globe. Someone, somewhere is scanning the radio dial searching for a clear signal in their language. Rather than the sound work ending in radio silence, I have chosen to extend the sound of radio frequency scanning to the end of the piece. In doing so, it suggests a sense of hope, that all radio is in fact, not dead.

Submitted for 60 Secondes Radio 2025 project : https://60secondesradio.com/

Video : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5sAgJXCC_Gg

Kenneth Lyons 
March 2025]]>
In this sound work, Are You Receiving Me? I have imagined a scenario inspired by the film, The War of The Worlds (1953) where a radio reporter utters the line, “All radio is dead” during a live television cross. Using an online morse code generator, I converted this text to morse code and then converted the code to the sound of a morse code transmission. This transmission is repeated multiple times. I also employed an online translator, to record the phrase, “all radio is dead”, being spoken in thirty-one languages from around the globe. Someone, somewhere is scanning the radio dial searching for a clear signal in their language. Rather than the sound work ending in radio silence, I have chosen to extend the sound of radio frequency scanning to the end of the piece. In doing so, it suggests a sense of hope, that all radio is in fact, not dead.

Submitted for 60 Secondes Radio 2025 project : https://60secondesradio.com/

Video : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5sAgJXCC_Gg

Kenneth Lyons 
March 2025]]> 13894639 no no Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:40:02 +0100 2026-02-20T04:40:02+01:00 1:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/057the-messagekenneth-lyons/ The project presents the sounds of 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage – all reimagined by artists from around the world to create a brand new way of experiencing these spaces.
Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

**The Message** is built upon a popular urban legend which has circulated for years about what was recorded when Russian scientists drilled a nine mile hole into the ground in Siberia, lowered microphones into it and recorded what they heard. This legend is known as the Siberian Hell Sounds or Well to Hell.


Art Bell, an American broadcaster who hosted a show called Coast to Coast AM about the paranormal and other phenomena during the 1980’s to the early 2000’s, popularised this myth by replaying a tape many times on his show. This tape was the alleged recording captured by the Russian scientists - a cacophony of wild human-like screams. The recording is now in the public domain via the Internet Archive.

In the late 90’s, a friend of mine in the United States, knowing that I was a collector of aural oddities, sent me a cassette tape he recorded of one of Art Bell’s radio shows in which Bell introduces the so-called Siberian Hell Sounds recording to a talk back caller to the radio station.

In approaching **The Message**, I listened closely to the selected field recording of the Am Markt Hole of Bremen and researched available information about the history and background of this heritage site. The Am Markt Hole of Bremen, is marked by a manhole cover outside the Bremen Parliament in the market square. When a coin is dropped into it, various animal noises (The Bremen Town Musicians based on a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm) are triggered and played back with the sound of the animals rising up out the hole. It sounds as though the animals; a cat, a dog, a rooster and a goat are trapped deep in the ground, distressed and trying to get out.

Thinking about this site, a hole in the ground and the character of the animal sounds within the original field recording, the legend of the Siberian Hell Sounds came to mind. Apart from the sounds of the animals, two other sounds from the field recording attracted my attention and were used in **The Message**; the metallic, machine-like sound of a coin dropping into the manhole slot and a short, excited yet eerie scream or whistle from what sounds like a child or bird in the surrounding market square.

What you hear in the original Siberian Hell Sounds recording are only the human-like screams. There is no other aural context, before or after to the alleged sound recording provided. I wanted to extend this urban legend into a sonic narrative by imagining and providing some context around it. In **The Message**, the listener eavesdrops on an expedition of Russian-speaking men, talking and walking through the snow to the site of the hole. They start up heavy machinery to continue the digging, break through the rock and then lower a microphone down into the hole. When the microphone reaches its length, it picks up the sounds of horror, in this case the animals of the Am Markt Hole of Bremen and other voices buried deep below.

I incorporated a number of royalty-free sound samples to flesh out the sound narrative such as the sound of walking through snow, Russian voices, wind, heavy machinery, falling rocks, etc. 
To provide an extra twist, I imagined this recording being left on someone’s answering machine to pick up later, anticipating their horror at what they had just listened to coming from the machine’s speaker.

HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED

Kenneth Lyons 
March 2025]]> The project presents the sounds of 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage – all reimagined by artists from around the world to create a brand new way of experiencing these spaces.
Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

**The Message** is built upon a popular urban legend which has circulated for years about what was recorded when Russian scientists drilled a nine mile hole into the ground in Siberia, lowered microphones into it and recorded what they heard. This legend is known as the Siberian Hell Sounds or Well to Hell.


Art Bell, an American broadcaster who hosted a show called Coast to Coast AM about the paranormal and other phenomena during the 1980’s to the early 2000’s, popularised this myth by replaying a tape many times on his show. This tape was the alleged recording captured by the Russian scientists - a cacophony of wild human-like screams. The recording is now in the public domain via the Internet Archive.

In the late 90’s, a friend of mine in the United States, knowing that I was a collector of aural oddities, sent me a cassette tape he recorded of one of Art Bell’s radio shows in which Bell introduces the so-called Siberian Hell Sounds recording to a talk back caller to the radio station.

In approaching **The Message**, I listened closely to the selected field recording of the Am Markt Hole of Bremen and researched available information about the history and background of this heritage site. The Am Markt Hole of Bremen, is marked by a manhole cover outside the Bremen Parliament in the market square. When a coin is dropped into it, various animal noises (The Bremen Town Musicians based on a fairytale by the Brothers Grimm) are triggered and played back with the sound of the animals rising up out the hole. It sounds as though the animals; a cat, a dog, a rooster and a goat are trapped deep in the ground, distressed and trying to get out.

Thinking about this site, a hole in the ground and the character of the animal sounds within the original field recording, the legend of the Siberian Hell Sounds came to mind. Apart from the sounds of the animals, two other sounds from the field recording attracted my attention and were used in **The Message**; the metallic, machine-like sound of a coin dropping into the manhole slot and a short, excited yet eerie scream or whistle from what sounds like a child or bird in the surrounding market square.

What you hear in the original Siberian Hell Sounds recording are only the human-like screams. There is no other aural context, before or after to the alleged sound recording provided. I wanted to extend this urban legend into a sonic narrative by imagining and providing some context around it. In **The Message**, the listener eavesdrops on an expedition of Russian-speaking men, talking and walking through the snow to the site of the hole. They start up heavy machinery to continue the digging, break through the rock and then lower a microphone down into the hole. When the microphone reaches its length, it picks up the sounds of horror, in this case the animals of the Am Markt Hole of Bremen and other voices buried deep below.

I incorporated a number of royalty-free sound samples to flesh out the sound narrative such as the sound of walking through snow, Russian voices, wind, heavy machinery, falling rocks, etc. 
To provide an extra twist, I imagined this recording being left on someone’s answering machine to pick up later, anticipating their horror at what they had just listened to coming from the machine’s speaker.

HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED

Kenneth Lyons 
March 2025]]> 12016219 no no Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:18:38 +0200 2025-04-19T11:18:38+02:00 5:20 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mrks-openers3/ 11895290 no no Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:04:14 +0100 2025-03-18T14:04:14+01:00 48:58 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kenneth-lyons003cambodiacambodiments/ https://citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/

The file selected for me was chosen at random (003 CAMBODIA SiemReap_NightSound_AnimalSound_Locust recorded by Marcel Gnauk). When Stuart sent me title/file number, I was very keen to hear the recording though I was not at all expecting to hear the sounds I was to hear in it.

Having developed tinnitus over the past year, I have often described the sound I hear to folk when the tinnitus is peaking as ‘like having a plague of locusts buzzing and panning around in my head”. Oh the irony … and the challenge!
The original sound recording I was allocated to work with is predominately 5 mins of locusts making a racket of static with only three moments of a clearly discernible human presence in the landscape : a car passing, a plane passing overhead and a short burst of male voices. Those three human/mechanical sound elements, distinct as they are from the hiss of the locusts was where I began this composition.

My first attempt to develop a sound piece for this project was firmly in the realm of ‘ambient’ with an intention to smooth out and sweeten the locust static to counter the ever present sound of my tinnitus by using a range of effects in my DAW. It worked. However, in the last few seconds of the original file, there is a sound of what may be a cart going over a wooden bridge. The ‘clunkiness’ of this moment inspired me to bring some beats into the piece. I cut up these ‘clunks’ and constructed some intricate rhythmic patterns which form the drum patterning and some of the, what I call, ‘blip phrases’ which are peppered throughout this final mix of ‘CAMBODIMENTS’.

All the sounds heard, including the beats are sourced from the original sound recording and put through a myriad of effects. No external or proprietary sounds or beats are employed.

Kenneth Lyons (2018)]]> https://citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/

The file selected for me was chosen at random (003 CAMBODIA SiemReap_NightSound_AnimalSound_Locust recorded by Marcel Gnauk). When Stuart sent me title/file number, I was very keen to hear the recording though I was not at all expecting to hear the sounds I was to hear in it.

Having developed tinnitus over the past year, I have often described the sound I hear to folk when the tinnitus is peaking as ‘like having a plague of locusts buzzing and panning around in my head”. Oh the irony … and the challenge!
The original sound recording I was allocated to work with is predominately 5 mins of locusts making a racket of static with only three moments of a clearly discernible human presence in the landscape : a car passing, a plane passing overhead and a short burst of male voices. Those three human/mechanical sound elements, distinct as they are from the hiss of the locusts was where I began this composition.

My first attempt to develop a sound piece for this project was firmly in the realm of ‘ambient’ with an intention to smooth out and sweeten the locust static to counter the ever present sound of my tinnitus by using a range of effects in my DAW. It worked. However, in the last few seconds of the original file, there is a sound of what may be a cart going over a wooden bridge. The ‘clunkiness’ of this moment inspired me to bring some beats into the piece. I cut up these ‘clunks’ and constructed some intricate rhythmic patterns which form the drum patterning and some of the, what I call, ‘blip phrases’ which are peppered throughout this final mix of ‘CAMBODIMENTS’.

All the sounds heard, including the beats are sourced from the original sound recording and put through a myriad of effects. No external or proprietary sounds or beats are employed.

Kenneth Lyons (2018)]]> 11411679 no no Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:55:14 +0200 2024-10-03T05:55:14+02:00 7:52 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/50valentinopale-hands-where-are-you-now-kenneth-lyons/ https://citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian/

**Valentino : Pale Hands, Where Are You Now? **

The sepia-toned, high contrast 1925 photo portrait of silent movie star, Rudolph Valentino by renowned studio glamour photographer, Russell Ball, depicts a mid-shot Valentino, in profile, in a suit of the day looking beyond the frame in a fixed gaze. In his right hand, he holds a pipe, posed and in pause. The high contrast lighting employed throws a silhouette of the pipe in his hand onto his suit and casts a solid shadow behind him providing contrast and foregrounding to his light coloured suit. The jawline of the actor is strengthened and heightened by this attention to light and shadow. With this fixed gaze, carefully positioned posture and the elegant but firm manner in which his hand holds the pipe, this is portrait of contrasts - not only in studio technique but also in perception.

The photographer’s approach to the portrait convey a masculine strength in the sitter; a quality that wasn’t afforded him by many of his critics of the day (mostly white American males) who found Valentino’s dandy-like style in his attention to dress, his performance style as a romantic lead on the screen and perhaps, his Italo heritage cast as the Latin Lover, somewhat of a threat to notions of the all-American male. An actor like Wallace Reid or Douglas Fairbanks in style and public persona, both screen contemporaries of Valentino’s, he was not!

In 1923, while on strike from his studio and out of work, Valentino delved into the occult and Spiritualism, a fashion for the time and penned and published a slim volume of poems called, ‘DayDreams’. It was claimed by his ex-wife, costume designer, Natasha Rambova shortly after Valentino’s sudden death in 1926, that he wrote those ‘psychic’ poems while in a state of trance, communicating with his spirit guides and other writers who had passed. Also in 1923, Valentino recorded and released a popular song of the day, ‘Kashmiri Song’ backed by ‘El Relicario’. The lyrics of ‘Kashmiri Song’ were based on a 1901 poem, ‘The Garden of Kama’ by Adela Florence Nicolson aka Laurence Hope. These are the only two known recordings of the silent screen star’s voice. Both recordings have now entered the public domain. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rudolph-valentino-1923

My creative response to the Russell Ball portrait of Valentino, is to explore its contrasts as outlined above; the shadows, the light, the ambiguous personification of its sitter. I was also particularly drawn to the strength projected in, yet elegant handling of the pipe. In thinking about sonic textures and contrasts and curious as to whether any voice recordings of Valentino existed, I chanced upon ‘Kashmiri Song’. Listening to it and looking at the portrait, one lyric, “pale hands I loved” resonated immediately. Familiar with the story of Valentino and his ‘psychic poems’, I was inspired to create an invocation, a sonic seance of sorts calling on the spirit of Rudolph Valentino. The line, “where are you now” felt like the missing piece of a creative puzzle and the right fit for the medium of this sonic seance. With ‘Kashmiri Song’ now in the public domain, I decided to use only elements of this recording as the source for all of the sounds in my response, “Valentino : Pale Hands, Where Are You Now?”. The sound piece needed to respond to the idea of contrasts perceived in the original photograph. To this end, I maintained some of the grit and scratch contained in the original recording and employed extensive processing and sampling of the source recording to construct a lush, romantic and nostalgic reverie of tones and beats with which to play against its raw and scratchy artifacts; its light and dark.

Kenneth Lyons 2020]]> https://citiesandmemory.com/smithsonian/

**Valentino : Pale Hands, Where Are You Now? **

The sepia-toned, high contrast 1925 photo portrait of silent movie star, Rudolph Valentino by renowned studio glamour photographer, Russell Ball, depicts a mid-shot Valentino, in profile, in a suit of the day looking beyond the frame in a fixed gaze. In his right hand, he holds a pipe, posed and in pause. The high contrast lighting employed throws a silhouette of the pipe in his hand onto his suit and casts a solid shadow behind him providing contrast and foregrounding to his light coloured suit. The jawline of the actor is strengthened and heightened by this attention to light and shadow. With this fixed gaze, carefully positioned posture and the elegant but firm manner in which his hand holds the pipe, this is portrait of contrasts - not only in studio technique but also in perception.

The photographer’s approach to the portrait convey a masculine strength in the sitter; a quality that wasn’t afforded him by many of his critics of the day (mostly white American males) who found Valentino’s dandy-like style in his attention to dress, his performance style as a romantic lead on the screen and perhaps, his Italo heritage cast as the Latin Lover, somewhat of a threat to notions of the all-American male. An actor like Wallace Reid or Douglas Fairbanks in style and public persona, both screen contemporaries of Valentino’s, he was not!

In 1923, while on strike from his studio and out of work, Valentino delved into the occult and Spiritualism, a fashion for the time and penned and published a slim volume of poems called, ‘DayDreams’. It was claimed by his ex-wife, costume designer, Natasha Rambova shortly after Valentino’s sudden death in 1926, that he wrote those ‘psychic’ poems while in a state of trance, communicating with his spirit guides and other writers who had passed. Also in 1923, Valentino recorded and released a popular song of the day, ‘Kashmiri Song’ backed by ‘El Relicario’. The lyrics of ‘Kashmiri Song’ were based on a 1901 poem, ‘The Garden of Kama’ by Adela Florence Nicolson aka Laurence Hope. These are the only two known recordings of the silent screen star’s voice. Both recordings have now entered the public domain. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rudolph-valentino-1923

My creative response to the Russell Ball portrait of Valentino, is to explore its contrasts as outlined above; the shadows, the light, the ambiguous personification of its sitter. I was also particularly drawn to the strength projected in, yet elegant handling of the pipe. In thinking about sonic textures and contrasts and curious as to whether any voice recordings of Valentino existed, I chanced upon ‘Kashmiri Song’. Listening to it and looking at the portrait, one lyric, “pale hands I loved” resonated immediately. Familiar with the story of Valentino and his ‘psychic poems’, I was inspired to create an invocation, a sonic seance of sorts calling on the spirit of Rudolph Valentino. The line, “where are you now” felt like the missing piece of a creative puzzle and the right fit for the medium of this sonic seance. With ‘Kashmiri Song’ now in the public domain, I decided to use only elements of this recording as the source for all of the sounds in my response, “Valentino : Pale Hands, Where Are You Now?”. The sound piece needed to respond to the idea of contrasts perceived in the original photograph. To this end, I maintained some of the grit and scratch contained in the original recording and employed extensive processing and sampling of the source recording to construct a lush, romantic and nostalgic reverie of tones and beats with which to play against its raw and scratchy artifacts; its light and dark.

Kenneth Lyons 2020]]> 11411660 no no Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:45:25 +0200 2024-10-03T05:45:25+02:00 6:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/citiesmemoryhellfinal/
**A Slow Hot Kiss of Wind** addresses the elemental environment in the zone of the Lustful into which Dante enters early into his journey. It is an environment where classical figures, “those dames and knights of antique days” such as Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris and others are tossed back and forth in a violent wind as a form of punishment for giving over to the sin of Lust and their base transgressions. Three beasts block Dante’s path before he enters deeper into the the circles of Hell with a leopard, the leopard of Lust being the first he encounters. Once past the leopard, Dante witnesses these classical figures of Lust tossed in the winds yet encounters one, Francesca da Rimini whose story of a chaste and pure love bewitches him. A kiss between them according to one interpretation, is an act of innocent passion and desire which moves Dante along deeper into the circles and propels his journey.

My interpretation uses sound samples of latter day and contemporary sirens/studs such as Madonna, Britney, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Mae West, Michael Douglas, Barry White, Barbra Stanwyck and others as the lustful and classical figures from antiquity and sets them in the mix, swirling, appearing and disappearing in the winds, teasing and taunting Dante. Eartha Kitt’s signature purr turns into a growl as the leopard of Lust in the beginning of the work and Marilyn Monroe appears as Francesca da Rimini relating a tale of innocence and desire before bestowing the “kiss” from her song, ‘I Wanna be Loved By You’ upon Dante in the final moments of the piece.

This work was included on the Bandcamp compilation Inferno : https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/inferno

Kenneth Lyons (2020)]]>
**A Slow Hot Kiss of Wind** addresses the elemental environment in the zone of the Lustful into which Dante enters early into his journey. It is an environment where classical figures, “those dames and knights of antique days” such as Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Paris and others are tossed back and forth in a violent wind as a form of punishment for giving over to the sin of Lust and their base transgressions. Three beasts block Dante’s path before he enters deeper into the the circles of Hell with a leopard, the leopard of Lust being the first he encounters. Once past the leopard, Dante witnesses these classical figures of Lust tossed in the winds yet encounters one, Francesca da Rimini whose story of a chaste and pure love bewitches him. A kiss between them according to one interpretation, is an act of innocent passion and desire which moves Dante along deeper into the circles and propels his journey.

My interpretation uses sound samples of latter day and contemporary sirens/studs such as Madonna, Britney, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Mae West, Michael Douglas, Barry White, Barbra Stanwyck and others as the lustful and classical figures from antiquity and sets them in the mix, swirling, appearing and disappearing in the winds, teasing and taunting Dante. Eartha Kitt’s signature purr turns into a growl as the leopard of Lust in the beginning of the work and Marilyn Monroe appears as Francesca da Rimini relating a tale of innocence and desire before bestowing the “kiss” from her song, ‘I Wanna be Loved By You’ upon Dante in the final moments of the piece.

This work was included on the Bandcamp compilation Inferno : https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/inferno

Kenneth Lyons (2020)]]> 11411648 no no Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:35:16 +0200 2024-10-03T05:35:16+02:00 10:58 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kenneth-lyons-egyptian-market-nightmoves/
The original field recording : Old Souks Night Market, Aswan, Egypt recorded by Rafael Diogo : is the the sound of a busy and chaotic market with traders calling out, pedestrian and vehicle sounds punctuated by either a radio or live performance of traditional song which is captured as the recordist moves through the space. On listening, there seems to be eight or nine distinct ‘zones’ or areas of particular sound which are blended as the recordist travels : at first the sound is in the distance, then as the recordist moves closer into the area it takes focus then as they leave, its traces fall away as the next sound area or zone comes closer into focus and so on. My intention behind this reworking is to maintain this sense of movement/travelling through the space and to remain faithful to the duration of the original recording using only sounds found in the original file within the finished rework.

I identified the eight/nine key areas and put each through some extensive processing to obliterate as much as I could the chaos : rendering them as distinct ambient washes and repetitive drones. In a sense, flipping the script on this chaos and turning it into a different sonic experience for the finished rework, Egyptian Market / Nightmoves. I kept the order of these ‘zones’ as they are in the original sound file and overlapped each top and tail to create the effect of moving through the ambient space. Three distinct voices; a male voice of a trader calling out, a boys voice and a female vocalist singing are clearly heard in the original file. These voices are processed and multi-tracked as a choir that appears and disappears throughout the duration of the rework. As the piece moves to the end, some of the processing falls away to reveal some of the original source material. **Egyptian Market : Nightmoves** begins and ends with a call, its source being the call identified as one of the male traders from the original sound file.

Kenneth Lyons
June 2024]]>
The original field recording : Old Souks Night Market, Aswan, Egypt recorded by Rafael Diogo : is the the sound of a busy and chaotic market with traders calling out, pedestrian and vehicle sounds punctuated by either a radio or live performance of traditional song which is captured as the recordist moves through the space. On listening, there seems to be eight or nine distinct ‘zones’ or areas of particular sound which are blended as the recordist travels : at first the sound is in the distance, then as the recordist moves closer into the area it takes focus then as they leave, its traces fall away as the next sound area or zone comes closer into focus and so on. My intention behind this reworking is to maintain this sense of movement/travelling through the space and to remain faithful to the duration of the original recording using only sounds found in the original file within the finished rework.

I identified the eight/nine key areas and put each through some extensive processing to obliterate as much as I could the chaos : rendering them as distinct ambient washes and repetitive drones. In a sense, flipping the script on this chaos and turning it into a different sonic experience for the finished rework, Egyptian Market / Nightmoves. I kept the order of these ‘zones’ as they are in the original sound file and overlapped each top and tail to create the effect of moving through the ambient space. Three distinct voices; a male voice of a trader calling out, a boys voice and a female vocalist singing are clearly heard in the original file. These voices are processed and multi-tracked as a choir that appears and disappears throughout the duration of the rework. As the piece moves to the end, some of the processing falls away to reveal some of the original source material. **Egyptian Market : Nightmoves** begins and ends with a call, its source being the call identified as one of the male traders from the original sound file.

Kenneth Lyons
June 2024]]> 11411634 no no Thu, 03 Oct 2024 05:28:29 +0200 2024-10-03T05:28:29+02:00 9:32 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mulholland-di-lammermoordemo/ 11411566 no no Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:38:42 +0200 2024-10-03T04:38:42+02:00 6:29 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe6/
SOUNDSTRIPE Vol. 6 features tracks/dialogue from : #TouchOfEvil #RoboCop #MulhollandDrive #AmericanBeauty #TheDevils #Harlots #LesGarçonSauvages #Dark #AmericanHorrorStoryCoven #FellinisCasanova #DieGlasharmonika #Poison #TheAndromedaStrain #FunnyLady #TheRevenant #TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo #TheShapeOfWater #ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri #Joanna #TheMotorcycleDiaries #Blue #BramStokersDracula

Composers : #HenryMancini #PedroBromfman #ThomasNewman #RaelJones #HeklaMagnúsdóttir #BenFrost #BenJaffe #AlfredSchnittke #GilMelle #HarryAkst #GrantClarke #BryceDessner #TrentReznor #AtticusRoss #AlexandreDesplat #CarterBurwell #GustavoSantaolalla #SimonFisherTurner #WojciechKilar

Dialogue/Voices by : #NaomiWatts #LauraHarring #VanessaRedgrave #AlanBates #JamesDean #NatalieWood #NigelTerry #MichaelCooke #PatrickFischler #DonaldSutherland #CicelyBrowne #LarryMaxwell #EdithMeeks #GenevieveWaite #BarbraStreisand

#soundtrack #cinema #theatre #stage #musicals #film]]>
SOUNDSTRIPE Vol. 6 features tracks/dialogue from : #TouchOfEvil #RoboCop #MulhollandDrive #AmericanBeauty #TheDevils #Harlots #LesGarçonSauvages #Dark #AmericanHorrorStoryCoven #FellinisCasanova #DieGlasharmonika #Poison #TheAndromedaStrain #FunnyLady #TheRevenant #TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo #TheShapeOfWater #ThreeBillboardsOutsideEbbingMissouri #Joanna #TheMotorcycleDiaries #Blue #BramStokersDracula

Composers : #HenryMancini #PedroBromfman #ThomasNewman #RaelJones #HeklaMagnúsdóttir #BenFrost #BenJaffe #AlfredSchnittke #GilMelle #HarryAkst #GrantClarke #BryceDessner #TrentReznor #AtticusRoss #AlexandreDesplat #CarterBurwell #GustavoSantaolalla #SimonFisherTurner #WojciechKilar

Dialogue/Voices by : #NaomiWatts #LauraHarring #VanessaRedgrave #AlanBates #JamesDean #NatalieWood #NigelTerry #MichaelCooke #PatrickFischler #DonaldSutherland #CicelyBrowne #LarryMaxwell #EdithMeeks #GenevieveWaite #BarbraStreisand

#soundtrack #cinema #theatre #stage #musicals #film]]> 11357186 no no Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:08:22 +0200 2024-09-02T10:08:22+02:00 42:48 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/crjune27leveledforhearthis/ 11200843 no no Fri, 28 Jun 2024 05:39:04 +0200 2024-06-28T05:39:04+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/curvedradioforplaythu13june24/ 11170882 no no Fri, 14 Jun 2024 05:33:39 +0200 2024-06-14T05:33:39+02:00 2:00:01 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/crjudynylonsnatchrecutredit/
From 24:30, mr.K also addresses the matter of Judy Nylon’s key influence on Eno’s appropriation of ‘ambient music’, how her HERstory has been written out of its HIStory and the influence Nylon & Palladin had on Eno’s development of the collage technique used extensively in his later collaboration with David Byrne (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) via the SNATCH composition, RAF, the b-side to Eno’s 45rpm of ‘King’s Lead Hat’.

[Interview with Judy Nylon by Bart Plantenga](http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/oct2001/interview_judy_nylon.html)

[A Conversation with Judy Nylon. Hosted by Melissa Unger](http://www.seymourprojects.com/superhero-sessions-a-conversation-with-judy-nylon/)

[RAF - Brian Eno featuring SNATCH](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jmVzNPiIY&ab_channel=DV8TheOriginalMartinVogelman)]]>
From 24:30, mr.K also addresses the matter of Judy Nylon’s key influence on Eno’s appropriation of ‘ambient music’, how her HERstory has been written out of its HIStory and the influence Nylon & Palladin had on Eno’s development of the collage technique used extensively in his later collaboration with David Byrne (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) via the SNATCH composition, RAF, the b-side to Eno’s 45rpm of ‘King’s Lead Hat’.

[Interview with Judy Nylon by Bart Plantenga](http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/oct2001/interview_judy_nylon.html)

[A Conversation with Judy Nylon. Hosted by Melissa Unger](http://www.seymourprojects.com/superhero-sessions-a-conversation-with-judy-nylon/)

[RAF - Brian Eno featuring SNATCH](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5jmVzNPiIY&ab_channel=DV8TheOriginalMartinVogelman)]]> 10996429 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:55:13 +0100 2024-03-22T09:55:13+01:00 31:04 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/whitney-death-throttledtweetstream/
Social media networks have become key systems for commentary on celebrity culture as well as sites for creative practitioners to generate new forms of aesthetic language and experience (Berry & Schleser eds 2014). Fan and news outlet commentary around the death of a high profile person is known to generate an upsurge of activity in the Twitter community (den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. 2017 and Döveling, K., Harju, A.A. and Sommer, D. 2018). The use of selected hashtags in Twitter by fans and news outlets posting or retweeting to signify a high profile death often perpetuates and expands the discourse around such events.

Studies on Twitter measuring the impact of audience engagement around a social, cultural or political ‘event’ have chiefly employed quantitative data collection methods or qualitative evaluations of textual or visual content in posted tweets. ‘#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream’ is a sound art response to the social media flood of postings on Twitter captured within hours of the announcement of the death of celebrity, Whitney Houston. Using the hashtags, #whitney and #death as search markers, only three minutes and forty seconds of the default notification sounds from the Tweetdeck application were able to be recorded before the application froze and an in-app message displayed, “Your tweetstream is being throttled”.

Using my alt performance moniker of radioShirley, this work was selected for inclusion in the Adhocrasound 2012 program, a micro-survey of Australian experimental sound artists and presented within an installation context curated by sound artist, Jason Sweeney. Adhocrasound is a side project of the annual Adhocracy Festival in Adelaide presented by arts organisation, Vitalstatistix. Also included in the selection were noted Australian sound artist, Lawrence English and broadcaster Paul Gough aka pimmon.

References:
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9
den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. (2017) ‘‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter’, Convergence. doi:10.1177/1354856517709670.
Döveling, K., Harju, A. A. and Sommer, D. (2018) ‘From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures: New Technologies and Global Flows of Emotion’, Social Media + Society. doi:10.1177/2056305117743141.]]>
Social media networks have become key systems for commentary on celebrity culture as well as sites for creative practitioners to generate new forms of aesthetic language and experience (Berry & Schleser eds 2014). Fan and news outlet commentary around the death of a high profile person is known to generate an upsurge of activity in the Twitter community (den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. 2017 and Döveling, K., Harju, A.A. and Sommer, D. 2018). The use of selected hashtags in Twitter by fans and news outlets posting or retweeting to signify a high profile death often perpetuates and expands the discourse around such events.

Studies on Twitter measuring the impact of audience engagement around a social, cultural or political ‘event’ have chiefly employed quantitative data collection methods or qualitative evaluations of textual or visual content in posted tweets. ‘#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream’ is a sound art response to the social media flood of postings on Twitter captured within hours of the announcement of the death of celebrity, Whitney Houston. Using the hashtags, #whitney and #death as search markers, only three minutes and forty seconds of the default notification sounds from the Tweetdeck application were able to be recorded before the application froze and an in-app message displayed, “Your tweetstream is being throttled”.

Using my alt performance moniker of radioShirley, this work was selected for inclusion in the Adhocrasound 2012 program, a micro-survey of Australian experimental sound artists and presented within an installation context curated by sound artist, Jason Sweeney. Adhocrasound is a side project of the annual Adhocracy Festival in Adelaide presented by arts organisation, Vitalstatistix. Also included in the selection were noted Australian sound artist, Lawrence English and broadcaster Paul Gough aka pimmon.

References:
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9
den Bulck, H. V. and Larsson, A. O. (2017) ‘‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter’, Convergence. doi:10.1177/1354856517709670.
Döveling, K., Harju, A. A. and Sommer, D. (2018) ‘From Mediatized Emotion to Digital Affect Cultures: New Technologies and Global Flows of Emotion’, Social Media + Society. doi:10.1177/2056305117743141.]]> 10995953 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:15:03 +0100 2024-03-22T07:15:03+01:00 3:39 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/line3comp180911v1/ 10995923 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 07:00:41 +0100 2024-03-22T07:00:41+01:00 2:50 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/60secs-of-life-deathvers2/
In response to an international call out for the 60 Secondes 2018 sound art competition, 60 seconds of #life and #death maps the frequency the hashtags #life and #death are used in the Twitter stream via recording the attendant default notification sounds from the app over a period of sixty minutes and reducing it to sixty seconds: mentions of #life appear in the left channel - mentions of #death appear in the right channel. The resulting sound art work gives rise to a folksonomy of binary thought and expression through the use of these oppositional hashtags within the Twitter community and re-presents sonically, a snapshot of the social signification each of the tags used have to users in this community.

The significance of this research is that it engages innovatively with mobile media to seek out and demonstrate polarities of online communication and commentary in a social media community. Its value is attested by: its selection for international competition hosted by an organization supported by Canadian Commission for UNESCO / Phonurgia Nova (France) / Avatar (Canada) / MoPA – Computer Graphics Animation School (France) / Wapikoni (Canada) and its selection for programming in multiple on/offline radio art/sound festivals across Europe, Canada, South America and Australia during 2018.

Works cited
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age ofSmartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9]]>
In response to an international call out for the 60 Secondes 2018 sound art competition, 60 seconds of #life and #death maps the frequency the hashtags #life and #death are used in the Twitter stream via recording the attendant default notification sounds from the app over a period of sixty minutes and reducing it to sixty seconds: mentions of #life appear in the left channel - mentions of #death appear in the right channel. The resulting sound art work gives rise to a folksonomy of binary thought and expression through the use of these oppositional hashtags within the Twitter community and re-presents sonically, a snapshot of the social signification each of the tags used have to users in this community.

The significance of this research is that it engages innovatively with mobile media to seek out and demonstrate polarities of online communication and commentary in a social media community. Its value is attested by: its selection for international competition hosted by an organization supported by Canadian Commission for UNESCO / Phonurgia Nova (France) / Avatar (Canada) / MoPA – Computer Graphics Animation School (France) / Wapikoni (Canada) and its selection for programming in multiple on/offline radio art/sound festivals across Europe, Canada, South America and Australia during 2018.

Works cited
Berry, M & Schleser, M 2014, ‘Creative Mobile Media: The State of Play’, in M Berry & M Schleser (eds), Mobile Media Making in an Age ofSmartphones, Palgrave Macmillan, US, pp.1-9]]> 10995889 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:45:24 +0100 2024-03-22T06:45:24+01:00 1:02 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/various-drops/ 10995848 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:27:43 +0100 2024-03-22T06:27:43+01:00 3:28 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/straitjackethow-do-i-look/ 10995813 no no Fri, 22 Mar 2024 06:13:12 +0100 2024-03-22T06:13:12+01:00 3:58 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/windmillsstring-sectionatmosroundonkey1/ 10988803 no no Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:17:56 +0100 2024-03-18T06:17:56+01:00 1:29 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/out-of-my-head-on-windmills-and-hypnotismdemo/ 10988775 no no Mon, 18 Mar 2024 06:04:11 +0100 2024-03-18T06:04:11+01:00 5:09 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe5/
**mr.K's Soundstripe Vol. 5** features tracks/dialogue from :
Company, Alien, The Horse Whisperer, Walk On The WildSide, Witchfinder General, Revolutionary Road, The Conversation, Carrie, Let's Make Love, Fried Green Tomatoes, La Planete Sauvage, In Fabric, My Fair Lady, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Auntie Mame, The Revenant, If Beale Street Could Talk, The River, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Lost Weekend, Ordeal By Innocence, The Other Boleyn Girl, RoboCop, Applause, Lady In A Cage, All About Eve, Valley Of The Dolls, Desperate Living, Sunset Boulevard, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Rosemary's Baby, Imitation Of Life, Frances, The Women.

**Composers :**
Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Goldsmith, Thomas Newman, Elmer Bernstein, David Shire, Pino Donaggio, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Alain Goraguer, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Alex North, Bronislaw Kaper, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryce Dessner, Nicholas Britell, John Williams, Michel Legrand, Miklos Rozsa, Paul Cantelon, Pedro Bromfman, Lee Adams, Charles Strouse

**Dialogue/Voices by** :
Elaine Stritch, Olivia De Havilland, Bette Davis, Patty Duke, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Divine, Audrey Hepburn, Marni Nixon, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Jessica Chastain, Anna Chancellor, Morven Christie, Mia Farrow, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, Jessica Lange, Lauren Bacall, MaryBoland

#soundtrack #cinema #theatre #stage #musicals #film]]>
**mr.K's Soundstripe Vol. 5** features tracks/dialogue from :
Company, Alien, The Horse Whisperer, Walk On The WildSide, Witchfinder General, Revolutionary Road, The Conversation, Carrie, Let's Make Love, Fried Green Tomatoes, La Planete Sauvage, In Fabric, My Fair Lady, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Auntie Mame, The Revenant, If Beale Street Could Talk, The River, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Lost Weekend, Ordeal By Innocence, The Other Boleyn Girl, RoboCop, Applause, Lady In A Cage, All About Eve, Valley Of The Dolls, Desperate Living, Sunset Boulevard, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, Rosemary's Baby, Imitation Of Life, Frances, The Women.

**Composers :**
Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Goldsmith, Thomas Newman, Elmer Bernstein, David Shire, Pino Donaggio, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Alain Goraguer, Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Alex North, Bronislaw Kaper, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bryce Dessner, Nicholas Britell, John Williams, Michel Legrand, Miklos Rozsa, Paul Cantelon, Pedro Bromfman, Lee Adams, Charles Strouse

**Dialogue/Voices by** :
Elaine Stritch, Olivia De Havilland, Bette Davis, Patty Duke, Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Swanson, Mink Stole, Liz Renay, Divine, Audrey Hepburn, Marni Nixon, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Jessica Chastain, Anna Chancellor, Morven Christie, Mia Farrow, Juanita Moore, Susan Kohner, Jessica Lange, Lauren Bacall, MaryBoland

#soundtrack #cinema #theatre #stage #musicals #film]]> 10205891 no no Sun, 01 Oct 2023 09:47:06 +0200 2023-10-01T09:47:06+02:00 54:20 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/track-ones-vol-2/ 10166913 no no Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:31:04 +0200 2023-09-26T10:31:04+02:00 1:00:36 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/difficultpleasures3-AO1/ 9015218 no no Sat, 13 May 2023 09:38:34 +0200 2023-05-13T09:38:34+02:00 45:59 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mrks-openers1/ 8909909 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 07:07:18 +0200 2023-05-01T07:07:18+02:00 56:04 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/scratchiesvol1/
DustySevens' fab mix : https://www.mixcloud.com/dustysevens/play-it-as-it-lays-vol-1/]]>
DustySevens' fab mix : https://www.mixcloud.com/dustysevens/play-it-as-it-lays-vol-1/]]> 8909894 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 07:04:32 +0200 2023-05-01T07:04:32+02:00 29:04 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/of-no-consequence-1/ 8909882 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 07:02:28 +0200 2023-05-01T07:02:28+02:00 27:34 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/cmixessweet-sixteen/
Sweet Sixteen.
We posed 16 questions, you submitted 16 answers.
The result? An eclectic hour mix, in this case, supplied by radioShirley.

Tracklist:
1. A song written by a woman but sung by a man
*Billy Paul - Its Too Late*
2. A song from an album that features a photo of the artist on the cover
*Jean Wells - After Loving You*
3. A song that mentions a number/or numbers
*The Swingers - Counting the Beat*
4. A song from the past that you’ve only recently discovered
*Fenwyck - Mindrocker*
5. A song on the Island Records label
*Kevin Ayers - Guru Banana*
6. A song that names a city
*Malcolm McLaren - Jazz is Paris*
7. An instrumental version of a well known song
*California Dreaming - Enoch Light*
8. A song from a great writer/performer relationship (example Glen
Campbell/Jimmy Webb)
*Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way to San José*
9. The opening song from any album released between 80-84
*Asylums in Jerusalem - Scritti Politti*
10. A country song
*Minnie Pearl - How To Catch a Man*
11. A song that you wish you could - but never did - see performed in
concert
*Joe Cocker - Cry me a River*
12. A song sung in english by a foreign language artist
*Nina Hagen - I Love Paul*
13. A British jazz record
*Dudley Moore Trio - Song for Suzy*
14. A song about the weather
*John Martyn - Bless The Weather*
15. A song from a vocal group that contains at least 3 male or 3 female
vocalists
*Edwin Hawkins Singers with Melanie - Lay Down*
16. A song for late night car journeys
*Its Immaterial - Driving Away From Home *]]>
Sweet Sixteen.
We posed 16 questions, you submitted 16 answers.
The result? An eclectic hour mix, in this case, supplied by radioShirley.

Tracklist:
1. A song written by a woman but sung by a man
*Billy Paul - Its Too Late*
2. A song from an album that features a photo of the artist on the cover
*Jean Wells - After Loving You*
3. A song that mentions a number/or numbers
*The Swingers - Counting the Beat*
4. A song from the past that you’ve only recently discovered
*Fenwyck - Mindrocker*
5. A song on the Island Records label
*Kevin Ayers - Guru Banana*
6. A song that names a city
*Malcolm McLaren - Jazz is Paris*
7. An instrumental version of a well known song
*California Dreaming - Enoch Light*
8. A song from a great writer/performer relationship (example Glen
Campbell/Jimmy Webb)
*Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way to San José*
9. The opening song from any album released between 80-84
*Asylums in Jerusalem - Scritti Politti*
10. A country song
*Minnie Pearl - How To Catch a Man*
11. A song that you wish you could - but never did - see performed in
concert
*Joe Cocker - Cry me a River*
12. A song sung in english by a foreign language artist
*Nina Hagen - I Love Paul*
13. A British jazz record
*Dudley Moore Trio - Song for Suzy*
14. A song about the weather
*John Martyn - Bless The Weather*
15. A song from a vocal group that contains at least 3 male or 3 female
vocalists
*Edwin Hawkins Singers with Melanie - Lay Down*
16. A song for late night car journeys
*Its Immaterial - Driving Away From Home *]]> 8909865 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:58:25 +0200 2023-05-01T06:58:25+02:00 57:26 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/cmixes2020aussiesisters/
Turntable Tales is a regular vinyl night where guests bring along records and share a story in response to a monthly theme. Totally unprescribed, people can (and more often than not do) veer off in whichever direction their imagination takes flight. We thought we’d offer up 20 of our previous themes and see what the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm family might assemble.

For your pleasure sound designer mr. K offers the radioShirley take on 'Sisters Doin' It For Themselves'.]]>
Turntable Tales is a regular vinyl night where guests bring along records and share a story in response to a monthly theme. Totally unprescribed, people can (and more often than not do) veer off in whichever direction their imagination takes flight. We thought we’d offer up 20 of our previous themes and see what the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm family might assemble.

For your pleasure sound designer mr. K offers the radioShirley take on 'Sisters Doin' It For Themselves'.]]> 8909855 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:56:35 +0200 2023-05-01T06:56:35+02:00 1:11:11 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/radioshirleyruleofsixablelabel/
The Rule Of Six is here.
Presenting six songs with a connection.
Solve the puzzle minus a tracklist.]]>
The Rule Of Six is here.
Presenting six songs with a connection.
Solve the puzzle minus a tracklist.]]> 8909839 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:53:48 +0200 2023-05-01T06:53:48+02:00 20:02 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/one-words/
A mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/]]>
A mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/]]> 8909820 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:51:46 +0200 2023-05-01T06:51:46+02:00 56:59 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/cooking-mixes-all-the-twos-radioshirley-mrk/
A series of short and sweet playlists based around the number 2 -

1. Song with a two word title
2. Song by an act categorised by the second letter of the alphabet
3. Song by a songwriting duo
4. Song with Two, To or Too in the title
5. Song 2 from side 2 of an album
6. Song from the second year of any decade (62, 72, 82, 92 etc.)
7. Song featuring two siblings
8. Song made up of two chords
9. Song that was a success second time around
10. Song that was the second single from an act of choice
11. Song that repeats a word at least twice in the title]]>
A series of short and sweet playlists based around the number 2 -

1. Song with a two word title
2. Song by an act categorised by the second letter of the alphabet
3. Song by a songwriting duo
4. Song with Two, To or Too in the title
5. Song 2 from side 2 of an album
6. Song from the second year of any decade (62, 72, 82, 92 etc.)
7. Song featuring two siblings
8. Song made up of two chords
9. Song that was a success second time around
10. Song that was the second single from an act of choice
11. Song that repeats a word at least twice in the title]]> 8909804 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:47:22 +0200 2023-05-01T06:47:22+02:00 40:05 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mrks-difficult-pleasures-2/ cover image : Andy Warhol's Torso - Richard Avedon (detail)]]> cover image : Andy Warhol's Torso - Richard Avedon (detail)]]> 8909671 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:15:58 +0200 2023-05-01T06:15:58+02:00 42:31 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/mrksdifficultpleasures1/ 8909664 no no Mon, 01 May 2023 06:14:21 +0200 2023-05-01T06:14:21+02:00 41:18 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/460curvedradio/ 8546567 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:38:30 +0200 2023-03-26T12:38:30+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/456curvedradio456forplaythu9jfeb23/ 8546670 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:45:25 +0200 2023-03-26T12:45:25+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/452curvedradio452forplaythu12jan23/ 8546823 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:55:17 +0200 2023-03-26T12:55:17+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/444curvedradio/ 8546906 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:04:02 +0200 2023-03-26T13:04:02+02:00 2:00:01 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/433curvedradioep433for-playsun-june-6/ 8547009 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:09:03 +0200 2023-03-26T13:09:03+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/429crep429forplaysun-may-8/ 8547070 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:14:09 +0200 2023-03-26T13:14:09+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/425curvedradio/ 8547128 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:19:52 +0200 2023-03-26T13:19:52+02:00 2:00:01 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/420curvedradioplay26-december2021/ 8547220 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:24:56 +0200 2023-03-26T13:24:56+02:00 2:00:01 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/416curvedradioplay28-november2021/ 8547279 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:30:11 +0200 2023-03-26T13:30:11+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/405curvedradio/ 8547325 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:33:54 +0200 2023-03-26T13:33:54+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/399curvedradio/ 8547375 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:39:37 +0200 2023-03-26T13:39:37+02:00 1:59:57 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/395curvedradio/ 8547459 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:46:07 +0200 2023-03-26T13:46:07+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/391curvedradio/ 8547522 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:53:20 +0200 2023-03-26T13:53:20+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/387curvedradio/ 8547622 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 13:57:51 +0200 2023-03-26T13:57:51+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/378curvedradio/ 8547836 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:12:55 +0200 2023-03-26T14:12:55+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/375curvedradio/ 8547887 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:19:53 +0200 2023-03-26T14:19:53+02:00 1:59:59 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/366ep366-curved-radio-for-06-dec-play/ 8547943 no no Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:21:10 +0200 2023-03-26T14:21:10+02:00 2:00:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/378peggyleemirrors/ 8561077 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:18:59 +0200 2023-03-27T07:18:59+02:00 34:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/387paulfrees/
Selections of Paul Frees as Clark Gable + Paul Frees as W.C. Fields + Paul Frees as Boris Karloff + Paul Frees as Humphrey Bogart sing hits of the day in this little feature about Paul Frees I put together for Gayle Austin's Curved Radio program some many moons back.]]>
Selections of Paul Frees as Clark Gable + Paul Frees as W.C. Fields + Paul Frees as Boris Karloff + Paul Frees as Humphrey Bogart sing hits of the day in this little feature about Paul Frees I put together for Gayle Austin's Curved Radio program some many moons back.]]> 8561119 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:20:40 +0200 2023-03-27T07:20:40+02:00 21:46 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/406conetproject/ 8561158 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:23:23 +0200 2023-03-27T07:23:23+02:00 13:06 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/433casselliot/ 8561216 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:27:27 +0200 2023-03-27T07:27:27+02:00 34:16 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/218joquailint/ 8561314 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:35:27 +0200 2023-03-27T07:35:27+02:00 29:48 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/253annabel-leeintcurved/ 8561376 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:41:28 +0200 2023-03-27T07:41:28+02:00 47:10 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/199susan-welchnepal/ 8561444 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:46:55 +0200 2023-03-27T07:46:55+02:00 24:26 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/210wendyandreaorient/ 8561494 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:50:52 +0200 2023-03-27T07:50:52+02:00 26:17 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/244tinytim-musical/ More info : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2054684566/tiny-a-new-musical-based-on-the-life-of-tiny-tim]]> More info : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2054684566/tiny-a-new-musical-based-on-the-life-of-tiny-tim]]> 8561559 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:55:47 +0200 2023-03-27T07:55:47+02:00 29:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/352mitchelljonesint/ 8561682 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:05:23 +0200 2023-03-27T08:05:23+02:00 55:48 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/366markmordueint/ 8561746 no no Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:10:11 +0200 2023-03-27T08:10:11+02:00 37:56 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/tinytimjustinmartellcurvedradio/
To call Justin an afficianado of all things Tiny Tim is something of an understatement, as you'll hear in this interview. TT has been a life long obsession of Justin's.

The book, so brilliantly researched and structured, draws on more than one hundred interviews with family, friends and associates, plus access to Tiny's diaries, which have never before been made public.* Eternal Troubadour* tells the incredible true story of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in the history of popular music.
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To call Justin an afficianado of all things Tiny Tim is something of an understatement, as you'll hear in this interview. TT has been a life long obsession of Justin's.

The book, so brilliantly researched and structured, draws on more than one hundred interviews with family, friends and associates, plus access to Tiny's diaries, which have never before been made public.* Eternal Troubadour* tells the incredible true story of one of the most fascinating yet misunderstood figures in the history of popular music.
]]> 8593048 no no Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:39:22 +0200 2023-03-29T08:39:22+02:00 33:10 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/silver-sircus-curved-radio-interview090614/ 8593131 no no Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:54:44 +0200 2023-03-29T08:54:44+02:00 28:36 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/bneprojectdennisremmerinterview220914/ 8593160 no no Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:59:47 +0200 2023-03-29T08:59:47+02:00 22:08 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe1/ 8599838 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:46:13 +0200 2023-03-30T04:46:13+02:00 37:51 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe2/ 8599850 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:48:26 +0200 2023-03-30T04:48:26+02:00 42:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe3/ 8599860 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:50:46 +0200 2023-03-30T04:50:46+02:00 42:51 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/soundstripe4/ 8599874 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:53:06 +0200 2023-03-30T04:53:06+02:00 40:48 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix1/ 8599898 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:57:11 +0200 2023-03-30T04:57:11+02:00 49:58 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix2/ 8599912 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:58:37 +0200 2023-03-30T04:58:37+02:00 52:13 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix3/ 8599921 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:01:14 +0200 2023-03-30T05:01:14+02:00 50:35 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix4/ 8599932 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:02:57 +0200 2023-03-30T05:02:57+02:00 43:27 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix5/ 8599942 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:04:54 +0200 2023-03-30T05:04:54+02:00 47:50 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix6/ 8599951 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:06:35 +0200 2023-03-30T05:06:35+02:00 49:51 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix7/ 8599958 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:08:13 +0200 2023-03-30T05:08:13+02:00 52:07 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix8/ 8599967 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:09:58 +0200 2023-03-30T05:09:58+02:00 49:53 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix9/ 8599976 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:11:37 +0200 2023-03-30T05:11:37+02:00 50:49 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix10/ 8599986 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:13:09 +0200 2023-03-30T05:13:09+02:00 44:28 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/socialmediamix11/ 8599996 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:15:00 +0200 2023-03-30T05:15:00+02:00 1:01:29 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kookykutsvol1/ 8600037 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:24:19 +0200 2023-03-30T05:24:19+02:00 1:00:29 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kookykutsvol2/ 8600051 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:27:09 +0200 2023-03-30T05:27:09+02:00 1:07:06 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kookykutsvol3/ 8600063 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:29:42 +0200 2023-03-30T05:29:42+02:00 57:47 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/kookykutsvol4/ 8600077 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:32:23 +0200 2023-03-30T05:32:23+02:00 56:26 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/262lieselmikethestance/ 8600186 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:53:36 +0200 2023-03-30T05:53:36+02:00 36:00 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/polk-salad-shirley/ Well it has been a while between drinks what with this and that but rest assured, yours truly and the manservant have not gone anywhere! We’re still here and we’d like to direct you over to a fabulous new blog called [Cooking Up a Storm](https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/stream/) to check out a very special mix that we’ve laid down on those pages.

We were rather chuffed to be invited to contribute to the March edition of said blog and boy oh boy, did we lay all the musical morsels on the table in our Polk Salad Shirley mix. Its a smorgasbord of aural delights! So do troll on over … have a listen to what we dished up and lend an ear to some of the other fabulous mixes on the site! You’ll be going back for seconds, trust me!

Until next time,
as always, take care and play fair!
mr.K & radioShirl x]]> Well it has been a while between drinks what with this and that but rest assured, yours truly and the manservant have not gone anywhere! We’re still here and we’d like to direct you over to a fabulous new blog called [Cooking Up a Storm](https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/stream/) to check out a very special mix that we’ve laid down on those pages.

We were rather chuffed to be invited to contribute to the March edition of said blog and boy oh boy, did we lay all the musical morsels on the table in our Polk Salad Shirley mix. Its a smorgasbord of aural delights! So do troll on over … have a listen to what we dished up and lend an ear to some of the other fabulous mixes on the site! You’ll be going back for seconds, trust me!

Until next time,
as always, take care and play fair!
mr.K & radioShirl x]]> 8602968 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:19:52 +0200 2023-03-30T13:19:52+02:00 43:41 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/151113radioshirleypresentsfruity/
Why? Well, I love fruit. There I’ve said it. When all is said and done, if you put a zucchini alongside a banana you know which one I’ll be wrapping my paws around don’t you? As for mr.Kenneth, he doesn’t think I’m onto his late night
excursions into the kitchen, but I am! At first I thought he was just being conscientious prepping my breakfast Bloody Mary a few hours early, but oh no. The whiff of dirty roadhouse melon on his breath in the morning always gives it away! And if he thinks I’m going to believe that old lemon of a line about lipstick on his collar when I know damn well its a sly raspberry stain, he’s got another thing coming. I shouldn’t be too harsh really … at least our love of fruit is something we both can share if only he’d learn to.

And share we will! From Barbra Streisand rubbing ‘it’ – whatever ‘it’ is – on her belly like Guava Jelly to peeling a grape with the delightful Blossom Dearie to Josephine Baker imploring us not to touch her tomatoes to Tiny Tim drinking some Strawberry Tea, we can guarantee that you’ll find it difficult to find those car keys you’ve tossed into our collective fruit bowl of love whilst smoothying yourself in some random act of tropicalism!

So until next time kids, take care, play fair and don’t forget to spit out the pips that life may serve up!
*be smooched*
radioShirl & mr.K

Banana Splits, Barbra Streisand, Blossom Dearie, Bobbie Gentry, Brothers Johnson, Carry On, Della Reese, Erykah Badu, Glen Campbell, Go Home Productions, Josephine Baker, Kenneth Williams, Kevin Ayers, Manu Dibango, Nina Simone, Robert Helpmann, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Incredible Shrinking Dickies, The Slits, Tiny Tim]]>
Why? Well, I love fruit. There I’ve said it. When all is said and done, if you put a zucchini alongside a banana you know which one I’ll be wrapping my paws around don’t you? As for mr.Kenneth, he doesn’t think I’m onto his late night
excursions into the kitchen, but I am! At first I thought he was just being conscientious prepping my breakfast Bloody Mary a few hours early, but oh no. The whiff of dirty roadhouse melon on his breath in the morning always gives it away! And if he thinks I’m going to believe that old lemon of a line about lipstick on his collar when I know damn well its a sly raspberry stain, he’s got another thing coming. I shouldn’t be too harsh really … at least our love of fruit is something we both can share if only he’d learn to.

And share we will! From Barbra Streisand rubbing ‘it’ – whatever ‘it’ is – on her belly like Guava Jelly to peeling a grape with the delightful Blossom Dearie to Josephine Baker imploring us not to touch her tomatoes to Tiny Tim drinking some Strawberry Tea, we can guarantee that you’ll find it difficult to find those car keys you’ve tossed into our collective fruit bowl of love whilst smoothying yourself in some random act of tropicalism!

So until next time kids, take care, play fair and don’t forget to spit out the pips that life may serve up!
*be smooched*
radioShirl & mr.K

Banana Splits, Barbra Streisand, Blossom Dearie, Bobbie Gentry, Brothers Johnson, Carry On, Della Reese, Erykah Badu, Glen Campbell, Go Home Productions, Josephine Baker, Kenneth Williams, Kevin Ayers, Manu Dibango, Nina Simone, Robert Helpmann, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, The Incredible Shrinking Dickies, The Slits, Tiny Tim]]> 8603008 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:23:47 +0200 2023-03-30T13:23:47+02:00 46:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/290913-radioshirley-presents-john-im-only-dancing/
This show is for all the ‘Johns’ out there. Now don’t get the wrong idea listeners. I’m talking about the “Johns” who possess that moniker as their first name and also those, though not necessarily mutually related, ‘Johns’ in the Jane Fonda “Klute” kind of way. Certainly not ‘Johns’ in the bathroom sense. Heaven forbid that we should stoop to toilet humour on radioShirl!

John is a name that positively oozes melodrama don’t you think? We’re thinking of “Dear John” letters and those teenage heartbreak songs about quiffed, leather jacketed two timing hunks to songs that describe a certain kind of man with a dark brown voice and slightly dangerous demeanour. Yes, where tears and torment are involved in the culture of pop my dears, there is usually a ‘John’ or ‘Johnny’ involved in the sordid tale! Mark my words!

So, in this spirit, Mr.Kenneth and I have compiled a show chock a block full of Johns! There’s a ‘John’ of some shape and size mentioned in each and every song. A word of warning though, if you have ever had an, how should we say, “encounter” with a John, you may want to tune out here or on the other hand, pour a large drink, pick up and pummel the nearest pillow for a little Gestalt therapy courtesy of us! Yes, we at radioShirley pride ourselves in performing such a public service.

The artists featured in this show singing about their ‘Johns’ are Steeleye Span, Chas Jankel, Small Faces, John and Yoko, Jimmy Dean, Joannie Sommers, The Waterboys, David Bowie, Josie Cotton, The Andrew Sisters, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Suicide, Bryan Ferry, Ask the Dust, Bette Midler, Odetta, Hank Williams Snr. and the fabulous Frances Faye! Only one certified ‘John’ amongst them! And no, Jack Klugman doesn’t count so don’t even think of going there!

till next time, take care and play fair.

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.K

Ask the Dust, Bette Midler, Bryan Ferry, Chas Jankel, David Bowie, Frances Faye, Hank Williams, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Dean, Joannie Sommers, John and Yoko, Josie Cotton, Odetta, Small Faces, Steeleye Span, Suicide, The Andrew Sisters, The Waterboys, Tony Randall]]>
This show is for all the ‘Johns’ out there. Now don’t get the wrong idea listeners. I’m talking about the “Johns” who possess that moniker as their first name and also those, though not necessarily mutually related, ‘Johns’ in the Jane Fonda “Klute” kind of way. Certainly not ‘Johns’ in the bathroom sense. Heaven forbid that we should stoop to toilet humour on radioShirl!

John is a name that positively oozes melodrama don’t you think? We’re thinking of “Dear John” letters and those teenage heartbreak songs about quiffed, leather jacketed two timing hunks to songs that describe a certain kind of man with a dark brown voice and slightly dangerous demeanour. Yes, where tears and torment are involved in the culture of pop my dears, there is usually a ‘John’ or ‘Johnny’ involved in the sordid tale! Mark my words!

So, in this spirit, Mr.Kenneth and I have compiled a show chock a block full of Johns! There’s a ‘John’ of some shape and size mentioned in each and every song. A word of warning though, if you have ever had an, how should we say, “encounter” with a John, you may want to tune out here or on the other hand, pour a large drink, pick up and pummel the nearest pillow for a little Gestalt therapy courtesy of us! Yes, we at radioShirley pride ourselves in performing such a public service.

The artists featured in this show singing about their ‘Johns’ are Steeleye Span, Chas Jankel, Small Faces, John and Yoko, Jimmy Dean, Joannie Sommers, The Waterboys, David Bowie, Josie Cotton, The Andrew Sisters, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Suicide, Bryan Ferry, Ask the Dust, Bette Midler, Odetta, Hank Williams Snr. and the fabulous Frances Faye! Only one certified ‘John’ amongst them! And no, Jack Klugman doesn’t count so don’t even think of going there!

till next time, take care and play fair.

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.K

Ask the Dust, Bette Midler, Bryan Ferry, Chas Jankel, David Bowie, Frances Faye, Hank Williams, Jack Klugman, Jimmy Dean, Joannie Sommers, John and Yoko, Josie Cotton, Odetta, Small Faces, Steeleye Span, Suicide, The Andrew Sisters, The Waterboys, Tony Randall]]> 8603055 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:28:49 +0200 2023-03-30T13:28:49+02:00 48:55 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/140913-radioshirley-presents-rosscoe-shirls-glitter-roller-disco/
A few weeks ago on a particularly sunny Saturday afternoon, the manservant was chatting on Facebook with long time radioShirleyphile and production designer extraordinaire, the fabulous Ross Wallace. In response to a video Ross posted, they started rapping about those teenage salad days in the 70’s at the roller skating rink … or at the ice rink in the manservant’s case. Unlike Rosscoe who apparently could, “Go backwards and everything!” in high heels even at that tender age, mr.K spent most of the time flat on his backside on the ice, squealing in horror with his hands clasped to his chest as everyone else sped on round and around him like a teenage rampage on blades!

Naturally, both boys being big music fans and both a little bit disco and a little bit rock’n’roll, the chat turned to the music that used to accompany them while they channeled their inner Torville and Deans at said circular pleasure domes! And then, in the spirit of Mickey & Judy’s “Let’s put on a show?!”, crowdsourcing and co-curation, mr.K & Rosscoe put down a wishlist on that Facebook thread of roller disco faves and … wham bam thank you ma’am!, Rosscoe & Shirl’s Glitter Roller Disco was hatched!

Its a veritable cavalcade of 70’s disco and glam fabulousness mr.K and myself with our very special guest presenter, Rosscoe have put together for you this time around! For goodness sakes, this show even features Linda Blair in a classic of the roller skating film genre, ‘Roller Boogie’. If its not a genre, it certainly will be considered as such by the end of this show.

So Shirleyphiles, as Sir Monti Rock III proclaims in the Disco Tex & The Sex-o-Lettes hit, ‘Get Dancin’, “Nobody cares how you wear your hair, darling!” when you hit the play button below and tippy toe tappy your toe stops at Rosscoe & Shirl’s Glitter Roller Disco!

Until next time, take care and remember, play fair!
be smooched
radioShirl & mr.K

Andrea True Connection, David Essex, disco, Disco Tex and The Sex-o-Lettes, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Gary Glitter, glam, glitter, KC & The Sunshine Band, Linda Blair, Marc Bolan, roller boogie, roller skating, Sherbet, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, T-Rex, The Hues Corporation, Van McCoy]]>
A few weeks ago on a particularly sunny Saturday afternoon, the manservant was chatting on Facebook with long time radioShirleyphile and production designer extraordinaire, the fabulous Ross Wallace. In response to a video Ross posted, they started rapping about those teenage salad days in the 70’s at the roller skating rink … or at the ice rink in the manservant’s case. Unlike Rosscoe who apparently could, “Go backwards and everything!” in high heels even at that tender age, mr.K spent most of the time flat on his backside on the ice, squealing in horror with his hands clasped to his chest as everyone else sped on round and around him like a teenage rampage on blades!

Naturally, both boys being big music fans and both a little bit disco and a little bit rock’n’roll, the chat turned to the music that used to accompany them while they channeled their inner Torville and Deans at said circular pleasure domes! And then, in the spirit of Mickey & Judy’s “Let’s put on a show?!”, crowdsourcing and co-curation, mr.K & Rosscoe put down a wishlist on that Facebook thread of roller disco faves and … wham bam thank you ma’am!, Rosscoe & Shirl’s Glitter Roller Disco was hatched!

Its a veritable cavalcade of 70’s disco and glam fabulousness mr.K and myself with our very special guest presenter, Rosscoe have put together for you this time around! For goodness sakes, this show even features Linda Blair in a classic of the roller skating film genre, ‘Roller Boogie’. If its not a genre, it certainly will be considered as such by the end of this show.

So Shirleyphiles, as Sir Monti Rock III proclaims in the Disco Tex & The Sex-o-Lettes hit, ‘Get Dancin’, “Nobody cares how you wear your hair, darling!” when you hit the play button below and tippy toe tappy your toe stops at Rosscoe & Shirl’s Glitter Roller Disco!

Until next time, take care and remember, play fair!
be smooched
radioShirl & mr.K

Andrea True Connection, David Essex, disco, Disco Tex and The Sex-o-Lettes, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Gary Glitter, glam, glitter, KC & The Sunshine Band, Linda Blair, Marc Bolan, roller boogie, roller skating, Sherbet, Suzi Quatro, Sweet, T-Rex, The Hues Corporation, Van McCoy]]> 8603101 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:31:18 +0200 2023-03-30T13:31:18+02:00 44:47 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/140713-radioshirley-presents-the-attack-of-the-50-foot-francophile/
Its that time of year again when mr.K & yours truly, madly and deeply pay homage to those purveyors of fromage, the French!

As explained last year, this is a tradition here at Chez Shirl but we really have no idea why except to say we love a good accent that curls our toes and nothing tangles my tootsies like mr.K, ma cherie, when he gets all Gomez Adams with me. Ooh la la!

This is quite the trés mix eclectic, as you regular radioShirleyphiles have come to expect. With a lineup including Brigette Fontaine, Grace Jones, Charles Aznavour, France Gall, Eartha Kitt, Les Negresses Vertes, Phonoboy, Nouvelle Vague and far too many more to mention, we hope this show will have you swinging from the chandelier!

We also have a special treat from long time Shirleyphile and authentic Frenchman, Pierre Veinante with his band, Les Mygales détendues (their Facebook page lists their interests as ‘Neurosciences and Rock’) – who perform a fabulous cover version LIVE in the science lab of the ‘Téléphone’ hit, ‪Ça (C’est Vraiment Toi)‬.
This my friends, is what happens when French Neuroscientists get down! Magnifique!
A special mention must also go out to Crispin for getting Shirl back on the horse like the Lady Godiva she is, and inspiring my manservant, mr.K, to cook up a new edition for the 2013 Bastille Day celebrations. Merci, mr.C!

Until next time Shirleyphiles, take absolute care and play fair!

*smooches*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Fontaine, Charles Aznavour, Eartha Kitt, France Gall, Grace Jones, Kevin Ayers, Lee Hazlewood, Les Negresses Vertes, MC Solaar, Nancy Sinatra, Nouvelle Vague, Phonoboy, Shoes for Industry, Steve Martin, Tina
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Its that time of year again when mr.K & yours truly, madly and deeply pay homage to those purveyors of fromage, the French!

As explained last year, this is a tradition here at Chez Shirl but we really have no idea why except to say we love a good accent that curls our toes and nothing tangles my tootsies like mr.K, ma cherie, when he gets all Gomez Adams with me. Ooh la la!

This is quite the trés mix eclectic, as you regular radioShirleyphiles have come to expect. With a lineup including Brigette Fontaine, Grace Jones, Charles Aznavour, France Gall, Eartha Kitt, Les Negresses Vertes, Phonoboy, Nouvelle Vague and far too many more to mention, we hope this show will have you swinging from the chandelier!

We also have a special treat from long time Shirleyphile and authentic Frenchman, Pierre Veinante with his band, Les Mygales détendues (their Facebook page lists their interests as ‘Neurosciences and Rock’) – who perform a fabulous cover version LIVE in the science lab of the ‘Téléphone’ hit, ‪Ça (C’est Vraiment Toi)‬.
This my friends, is what happens when French Neuroscientists get down! Magnifique!
A special mention must also go out to Crispin for getting Shirl back on the horse like the Lady Godiva she is, and inspiring my manservant, mr.K, to cook up a new edition for the 2013 Bastille Day celebrations. Merci, mr.C!

Until next time Shirleyphiles, take absolute care and play fair!

*smooches*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Fontaine, Charles Aznavour, Eartha Kitt, France Gall, Grace Jones, Kevin Ayers, Lee Hazlewood, Les Negresses Vertes, MC Solaar, Nancy Sinatra, Nouvelle Vague, Phonoboy, Shoes for Industry, Steve Martin, Tina
]]> 8603121 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:33:58 +0200 2023-03-30T13:33:58+02:00 47:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/190613underthecoverswithradioshirl/
As they say down at my local, its getting a little chilly downunder so I’m hunkering down under the doona with hot Toddy while mr.Kenneth blows up a storm out in the garden with a leaf blower. So while the manservant is all en plein air, and I’m one with the spirit, I thought I’d rustle up from under the bedsheets a few favourite cover songs that have been keeping my tootsies all toasty of late.

I’m fortunate that my bed is an extra large queen size because with the likes of Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Mae West, Human League, Bryan Ferry (stop it, Bryan), Paul Revere & The Raiders, Tim Curry, Blossom Dearie, the gorgeous boys from Suede, The Residents and a host of others rolling around at my feet, there is hardly any room left for me to finish this sentence!

Until next time lovelies, get rosy and cosy with yours truly & mr.K
as we explore just what this lot are doing to … and under the covers!

*be smooched*
mr.K & radioShirl

Blossom Dearie, Bryan Ferry, Doris Day, Ella Mae Morse, Mae West, Merry Clayton, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Rock Hudson, Suede, The Human League, The Residents, Tim Curry, Yvonne Fair

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As they say down at my local, its getting a little chilly downunder so I’m hunkering down under the doona with hot Toddy while mr.Kenneth blows up a storm out in the garden with a leaf blower. So while the manservant is all en plein air, and I’m one with the spirit, I thought I’d rustle up from under the bedsheets a few favourite cover songs that have been keeping my tootsies all toasty of late.

I’m fortunate that my bed is an extra large queen size because with the likes of Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Mae West, Human League, Bryan Ferry (stop it, Bryan), Paul Revere & The Raiders, Tim Curry, Blossom Dearie, the gorgeous boys from Suede, The Residents and a host of others rolling around at my feet, there is hardly any room left for me to finish this sentence!

Until next time lovelies, get rosy and cosy with yours truly & mr.K
as we explore just what this lot are doing to … and under the covers!

*be smooched*
mr.K & radioShirl

Blossom Dearie, Bryan Ferry, Doris Day, Ella Mae Morse, Mae West, Merry Clayton, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Rock Hudson, Suede, The Human League, The Residents, Tim Curry, Yvonne Fair

]]> 8603181 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:39:23 +0200 2023-03-30T13:39:23+02:00 45:46 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/280706-carry-on-shirley/
This show has a rather large ooo-er factor and is dedicated to all those who enjoy a little something of the double entendre. That is all of you cheeky blighters, right? We suspect it will have each and every one of you slapping your thighs and pursing your lips in a collective nirvana of “Carry On” proportions.

Its a rather saucy little selection this time around with Julian and Sandy aka Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, John Inman, Rita Hayworth, Bette Midler, Rambling Syd Rumpo aka Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Blossom Dearie, Barbara Stanwyck, Benny Hill, Anthony Newley and Noel Coward all doing their very best to make you raise one eyebrow and cross your legs at the same time!
Fantabulosa!

Until next time, take absolute care and play fair!
*smooches*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Anthony Newley, Barbara Stanwyck, Benny Hill, Bette Midler, Blossom Dearie, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims, John Inman, Kenneth Wiliams, Noel Coward, Rita Hayworth]]>
This show has a rather large ooo-er factor and is dedicated to all those who enjoy a little something of the double entendre. That is all of you cheeky blighters, right? We suspect it will have each and every one of you slapping your thighs and pursing your lips in a collective nirvana of “Carry On” proportions.

Its a rather saucy little selection this time around with Julian and Sandy aka Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, John Inman, Rita Hayworth, Bette Midler, Rambling Syd Rumpo aka Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Blossom Dearie, Barbara Stanwyck, Benny Hill, Anthony Newley and Noel Coward all doing their very best to make you raise one eyebrow and cross your legs at the same time!
Fantabulosa!

Until next time, take absolute care and play fair!
*smooches*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Anthony Newley, Barbara Stanwyck, Benny Hill, Bette Midler, Blossom Dearie, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims, John Inman, Kenneth Wiliams, Noel Coward, Rita Hayworth]]> 8603205 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:42:17 +0200 2023-03-30T13:42:17+02:00 41:27 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/020709radioshirley-presents-time/
Here’s a favourite from a few years ago which has been itching for a ENCORE re-post in higher quality! So, like sands through the proverbial, set your clocks for a collection of sounds and segues around “time” …

until next time, take care and play fair
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Edd Byrnes, Gene Pitney, Martha Raye, Petula Clark, Rachel Sweet, Roger Miller, Scott Walker, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, The Doors, TISM, Tony Schwartz, XTC]]>
Here’s a favourite from a few years ago which has been itching for a ENCORE re-post in higher quality! So, like sands through the proverbial, set your clocks for a collection of sounds and segues around “time” …

until next time, take care and play fair
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Edd Byrnes, Gene Pitney, Martha Raye, Petula Clark, Rachel Sweet, Roger Miller, Scott Walker, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, The Doors, TISM, Tony Schwartz, XTC]]> 8603232 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:45:11 +0200 2023-03-30T13:45:11+02:00 42:38 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/270506-in-a-sentimental-mood-with-lashirl/
It may be due to the rather gloomy rainy weather we’re experiencing here in the environs of Casa Shirl, but in this show, radioShirl gets down to a few deep and meaningfuls via a few tunes that have, at one time or another, had her dissolve into a puddle of tears. After all this time and repeated listens, some of them still hold a transformative power that has her well up and mop up an absolute torrent of mascara!

Now, I hear you guffaw as you look down the list of artists in this episode, “Burl Ives!?” Yes indeed! The particular Burl Ives track in this show once drove Shirl to tears … though maybe not for the same reason as it may drive yourselves. To each their own and the significance of that song to radioShirl is her little secret. Mind you, the manservant just put it down to me being … “overtired”.

Whether its catharsis, melancholy, a healthy dose of solipsism, a momentary-charged lyric or just a gorgeous string arrangement that sets me off, your favourite sob sister, radioShirl likes nothing more than have a good howl once in a while. Its healthy, right? Just like a Carrot Dacquiri!

So, tissues at the ready my low-fi luvverlies and do … take a moment once in a while to wonder where the time goes ..

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.K

Burl Ives, Died Pretty, Elvis Presley, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Glen Campbell, Janet Jackson, Lulu, Nina Simone, Split Enz, The Lemonheads, The Sandpipers]]>
It may be due to the rather gloomy rainy weather we’re experiencing here in the environs of Casa Shirl, but in this show, radioShirl gets down to a few deep and meaningfuls via a few tunes that have, at one time or another, had her dissolve into a puddle of tears. After all this time and repeated listens, some of them still hold a transformative power that has her well up and mop up an absolute torrent of mascara!

Now, I hear you guffaw as you look down the list of artists in this episode, “Burl Ives!?” Yes indeed! The particular Burl Ives track in this show once drove Shirl to tears … though maybe not for the same reason as it may drive yourselves. To each their own and the significance of that song to radioShirl is her little secret. Mind you, the manservant just put it down to me being … “overtired”.

Whether its catharsis, melancholy, a healthy dose of solipsism, a momentary-charged lyric or just a gorgeous string arrangement that sets me off, your favourite sob sister, radioShirl likes nothing more than have a good howl once in a while. Its healthy, right? Just like a Carrot Dacquiri!

So, tissues at the ready my low-fi luvverlies and do … take a moment once in a while to wonder where the time goes ..

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.K

Burl Ives, Died Pretty, Elvis Presley, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Glen Campbell, Janet Jackson, Lulu, Nina Simone, Split Enz, The Lemonheads, The Sandpipers]]> 8603255 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:48:06 +0200 2023-03-30T13:48:06+02:00 42:03 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/121006-sonny-shirl-sing-a-duet-for-you/
Settle back for 45 minutes of low-fi lovliness as yours truly & mr.K, madly and deeply celebrate the power of two with a collection jam packed with other terrific twosomes!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Bert and Ernie, Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews, Connie Francis & Hank Williams Jr., Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt, Elvis Presley & Ann Margret, Esther & Abi Ofarim, Ethel Merman & Nelson Eddy, Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry, LGBTQI+, Max&Maya, Miss Pamela & Miss Sparky, Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence, Peter Sellars & Sophia Loren, Proud2Be, Sam & Dave, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Teddy & Darryl]]>
Settle back for 45 minutes of low-fi lovliness as yours truly & mr.K, madly and deeply celebrate the power of two with a collection jam packed with other terrific twosomes!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Bert and Ernie, Carol Burnett & Julie Andrews, Connie Francis & Hank Williams Jr., Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner, Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt, Elvis Presley & Ann Margret, Esther & Abi Ofarim, Ethel Merman & Nelson Eddy, Iggy Pop & Debbie Harry, LGBTQI+, Max&Maya, Miss Pamela & Miss Sparky, Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence, Peter Sellars & Sophia Loren, Proud2Be, Sam & Dave, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Teddy & Darryl]]> 8603283 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:51:01 +0200 2023-03-30T13:51:01+02:00 45:34 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/110113-radioshirley-presents-slumber-landhq/
Well this show, which is a headphone privileged aural adventure may not induce sleep as such – at least keep those toothpicks under the eyelids until the very very end if you must – but it is guaranteed to take you down and along some surreal twisting and turning pathways not unlike those experienced when we traverse the landscape of Nod. Choose your footwear weapon of choice ; ruby slippers, bare feet, thigh high leather lovelies, hooves or magic carpet flip flops, the choice is yours.

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So Shirleyphiles, its time to wrap your troubles in dreams and drift off into the arms of Morpheus with mr.K & moi. Tagging along for the sleepwalk among a cast of many dropping in from Under Milk Wood, will be the deee-liteful Lady Miss Kier Kirby, the stunning Silver Sircus, mister Ambien himself, Brian Eno, Shirl’s favourite lovers of the underworld, Underground Lovers, the Sonny & Cher of my dreams, Lou & Laurie and simmering away in their dream kitchen, the gone but not forgotten, Frazier Chorus.

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Bauhaus, Bonnie Tyler, Brian Eno, Deee-Lite, Dylan Thomas, Frazier Chorus, Hush Arbors, Lady Miss Kier Kirby, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Max von Sydow, Scott Walker, Silver Sircus, Tipsy, Tony Schwartz, Under Milk Wood, Underground Lovers, Virginia Astley]]>
Well this show, which is a headphone privileged aural adventure may not induce sleep as such – at least keep those toothpicks under the eyelids until the very very end if you must – but it is guaranteed to take you down and along some surreal twisting and turning pathways not unlike those experienced when we traverse the landscape of Nod. Choose your footwear weapon of choice ; ruby slippers, bare feet, thigh high leather lovelies, hooves or magic carpet flip flops, the choice is yours.

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So Shirleyphiles, its time to wrap your troubles in dreams and drift off into the arms of Morpheus with mr.K & moi. Tagging along for the sleepwalk among a cast of many dropping in from Under Milk Wood, will be the deee-liteful Lady Miss Kier Kirby, the stunning Silver Sircus, mister Ambien himself, Brian Eno, Shirl’s favourite lovers of the underworld, Underground Lovers, the Sonny & Cher of my dreams, Lou & Laurie and simmering away in their dream kitchen, the gone but not forgotten, Frazier Chorus.

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Bauhaus, Bonnie Tyler, Brian Eno, Deee-Lite, Dylan Thomas, Frazier Chorus, Hush Arbors, Lady Miss Kier Kirby, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Max von Sydow, Scott Walker, Silver Sircus, Tipsy, Tony Schwartz, Under Milk Wood, Underground Lovers, Virginia Astley]]> 8603312 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:54:38 +0200 2023-03-30T13:54:38+02:00 43:03 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/141212-radioshirley-presents-tongue-tied/
As the previous show was all about being struck mute and rather mental in the instrumental department, I decided to un-gag the manservant (despite his protestations to the contrary) and request … no … demand … that he get working on a show that was the polar opposite. Yes. I want talk. Yes. I want to hear words. Yes. I want to delight in the jeux avec la langue that some of the more intrepid daredevils of the musical and poetry world have gifted us. Oh, don’t worry. Don’t worry. Don’t worry as Yoko shrieks. This episode is no unrelenting highbrow literary POESIA SONORA that will have you chewing your tongue off and throwing it to the dogs of onomatopoeia. Especially when there are the likes of radioShirl’s favourite local nautical naughties like THE GOOD SHIP thrown into the aural soup just to bring it down and pepper it up to your taste.

So Shirleyphiles, its time to lubricate your collective glotti, and practice your best mannered Laurie Anderson “Are you talking to me or are you just practicing for one of those performances of yours?” vocal stylings with a toothbrush in hand while Laurie, Patti, Yoko, Gertrude, Lucky, Brian, Diane, Hank, Morphine, Andy, the fabulous Wierdos and a cast of many throw a hatful of syllables into your ear canals!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Andy Warhol, Brian Eno, CoEx, Diane Ray, Gertrude Stein, Hank Williams, Lauire Anderson, Lucky Starr, Mama Cass Elliot, Marie Osmond, Molly Roth, Morphine, Patti Smith, Shiela Hancock, The Good Ship, The Wierdos, Yoko Ono]]>
As the previous show was all about being struck mute and rather mental in the instrumental department, I decided to un-gag the manservant (despite his protestations to the contrary) and request … no … demand … that he get working on a show that was the polar opposite. Yes. I want talk. Yes. I want to hear words. Yes. I want to delight in the jeux avec la langue that some of the more intrepid daredevils of the musical and poetry world have gifted us. Oh, don’t worry. Don’t worry. Don’t worry as Yoko shrieks. This episode is no unrelenting highbrow literary POESIA SONORA that will have you chewing your tongue off and throwing it to the dogs of onomatopoeia. Especially when there are the likes of radioShirl’s favourite local nautical naughties like THE GOOD SHIP thrown into the aural soup just to bring it down and pepper it up to your taste.

So Shirleyphiles, its time to lubricate your collective glotti, and practice your best mannered Laurie Anderson “Are you talking to me or are you just practicing for one of those performances of yours?” vocal stylings with a toothbrush in hand while Laurie, Patti, Yoko, Gertrude, Lucky, Brian, Diane, Hank, Morphine, Andy, the fabulous Wierdos and a cast of many throw a hatful of syllables into your ear canals!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr.Kenneth

Andy Warhol, Brian Eno, CoEx, Diane Ray, Gertrude Stein, Hank Williams, Lauire Anderson, Lucky Starr, Mama Cass Elliot, Marie Osmond, Molly Roth, Morphine, Patti Smith, Shiela Hancock, The Good Ship, The Wierdos, Yoko Ono]]> 8603350 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:57:53 +0200 2023-03-30T13:57:53+02:00 46:16 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/200912-radioshirley-is-speechless/
For once, I was struck speechless! The audacity! The complete disregard for my own private Idaho. I mean to say, couldn’t the manservant see from the way I was sitting on the cushion, legs so crossedly crossed, pearl necklace so artfully arranged with my eyelids all a flutter inhaling the heady aroma of patchouli and aloofness that I, she with the curse of the gab was soaking in? Couldn’t he hear the sounds of silence? Sounds of silence? Sounds. Of. Silence. wtf? What were those two folkies smoking? That hardly computes!

Zen moment gone and here we are doing a first for radioShirl. A show with no happy talk. That’s correct. Not a lyric to be heard in this episode.

So Shirleyphiles, its time to get your mental instrumental on and join us on the big cushion as we oscillate wildly to a veritable smorgasbord of speechless tuneage from the fabulous pizzazz of Nelson Riddle to the artful Penguin Café
Orchestra to the bucolic Virginia Astley to the pulsing minimal wonder that is the Young Marble Giants to the bubbling up funk of The Commodores to the downright hot and dirty sex of Barry Adamson punctuated by a whole bunch of aural incidentals, we’ve got it all going on … but without a word to be heard.

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

American Radio Warblers, Barry Adamson, Daryl Hall, Dean & Britta, Flintstones, Hal Mooney & His Orchestra, Hanna-Barbera, Jetsons, John Hartford, Kingsley, Nelson Riddle, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Perrey, Robert Fripp, The Pixies, The Ventures, Virgina Astley, Young Marble Giants]]>
For once, I was struck speechless! The audacity! The complete disregard for my own private Idaho. I mean to say, couldn’t the manservant see from the way I was sitting on the cushion, legs so crossedly crossed, pearl necklace so artfully arranged with my eyelids all a flutter inhaling the heady aroma of patchouli and aloofness that I, she with the curse of the gab was soaking in? Couldn’t he hear the sounds of silence? Sounds of silence? Sounds. Of. Silence. wtf? What were those two folkies smoking? That hardly computes!

Zen moment gone and here we are doing a first for radioShirl. A show with no happy talk. That’s correct. Not a lyric to be heard in this episode.

So Shirleyphiles, its time to get your mental instrumental on and join us on the big cushion as we oscillate wildly to a veritable smorgasbord of speechless tuneage from the fabulous pizzazz of Nelson Riddle to the artful Penguin Café
Orchestra to the bucolic Virginia Astley to the pulsing minimal wonder that is the Young Marble Giants to the bubbling up funk of The Commodores to the downright hot and dirty sex of Barry Adamson punctuated by a whole bunch of aural incidentals, we’ve got it all going on … but without a word to be heard.

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

American Radio Warblers, Barry Adamson, Daryl Hall, Dean & Britta, Flintstones, Hal Mooney & His Orchestra, Hanna-Barbera, Jetsons, John Hartford, Kingsley, Nelson Riddle, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Perrey, Robert Fripp, The Pixies, The Ventures, Virgina Astley, Young Marble Giants]]> 8603372 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:00:54 +0200 2023-03-30T14:00:54+02:00 39:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/140706-the-return-of-the-50-foot-francophile-4/
Tragic isn’t it?

My manservant mr.Kenneth, tasked with prepping the graphic for this show, catches me in a private moment in the back room at Chez Shirley clutching my Francoise Hardy whilst in contact with my muse, Cocteau, then throws it up on the net! If he wasn’t so good around the house, I’d be hunting the personals for a replacement for sure!

As long time listeners know, its a tradition (though somewhat lapsed) for us to celebrate Bastille Day. Why? I really have no idea. Neither of us have any French in us, well at least not with the lights on, and neither of us can utter a single word without tripping over a syllable or ten. Mind you, after a couple of glasses of champers, I’m channeling Simone de Beauvoir with the best of them. After a bottle or two, well, I’m shaking my bananas like Josephine Baker!

So for now Shirleyphiles, its time to Coco yourself silly, splish splash a little Chanel No.5 here there and *everywhere* and go ye-ye with mr.K and yours truly as we storm our private Bastille listening to some French people singing in French, some English speakers singing in French and some French people singing in English. Kooky huh? But that’s how we roll here in Chez Shirl … like a Provencal sausage wedged between a split baguette! C’est magnifique!

Until next time, take care and remember … play fair

*be trés smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth]]>
Tragic isn’t it?

My manservant mr.Kenneth, tasked with prepping the graphic for this show, catches me in a private moment in the back room at Chez Shirley clutching my Francoise Hardy whilst in contact with my muse, Cocteau, then throws it up on the net! If he wasn’t so good around the house, I’d be hunting the personals for a replacement for sure!

As long time listeners know, its a tradition (though somewhat lapsed) for us to celebrate Bastille Day. Why? I really have no idea. Neither of us have any French in us, well at least not with the lights on, and neither of us can utter a single word without tripping over a syllable or ten. Mind you, after a couple of glasses of champers, I’m channeling Simone de Beauvoir with the best of them. After a bottle or two, well, I’m shaking my bananas like Josephine Baker!

So for now Shirleyphiles, its time to Coco yourself silly, splish splash a little Chanel No.5 here there and *everywhere* and go ye-ye with mr.K and yours truly as we storm our private Bastille listening to some French people singing in French, some English speakers singing in French and some French people singing in English. Kooky huh? But that’s how we roll here in Chez Shirl … like a Provencal sausage wedged between a split baguette! C’est magnifique!

Until next time, take care and remember … play fair

*be trés smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth]]> 8603399 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:03:17 +0200 2023-03-30T14:03:17+02:00 39:52 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/250612-radioshirley-presents-smoochyaif/
This show is all about celebrating the wedding of a couple of crazy love cats in mr.Kenneth’s charmed circle, the lovely Lauren & Sky! Congratulations you squiggly kids!

mr.Kenneth is one very excited manservant and has had a ball putting this one together. Its chock-a-block full of upbeat Shirley-philed beats extolling the virtues of smoochiness!

Naturally, mr.K’s kind of smoochiness has a few quirks to it and quirky is the selection he’s pulled together for this uber cute kooky couple. Wrap your love chops ’round this lot : Syreeta, Bette Midler, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Eddie Bo & Inez Cheetham, Rose Royce, Brigitte Bardot,The Cure, The Partridge Family, Cilla Black, Diana Dors, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Dianne & Annita, Mrs Miller, Ethel Merman & Howard Keel, The Passions & the piece de resistance, The O’Jays.

So Shirleyphiles, everybody join hands and hop on board the love train with Shirl & mr.K and join us in wishing Lauren & Sky big hearts and even bigger flowers for a beautiful life together!

Until next time, take care and remember … play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth]]>
This show is all about celebrating the wedding of a couple of crazy love cats in mr.Kenneth’s charmed circle, the lovely Lauren & Sky! Congratulations you squiggly kids!

mr.Kenneth is one very excited manservant and has had a ball putting this one together. Its chock-a-block full of upbeat Shirley-philed beats extolling the virtues of smoochiness!

Naturally, mr.K’s kind of smoochiness has a few quirks to it and quirky is the selection he’s pulled together for this uber cute kooky couple. Wrap your love chops ’round this lot : Syreeta, Bette Midler, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Eddie Bo & Inez Cheetham, Rose Royce, Brigitte Bardot,The Cure, The Partridge Family, Cilla Black, Diana Dors, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Dianne & Annita, Mrs Miller, Ethel Merman & Howard Keel, The Passions & the piece de resistance, The O’Jays.

So Shirleyphiles, everybody join hands and hop on board the love train with Shirl & mr.K and join us in wishing Lauren & Sky big hearts and even bigger flowers for a beautiful life together!

Until next time, take care and remember … play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth]]> 8603461 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:10:27 +0200 2023-03-30T14:10:27+02:00 47:37 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/140209radioshirley-presents-shirleys-little-helpers/
Oh the world seems to be going to Hell in a handbasket doesn’t it? Honestly, there’s just so much “fiscal stimulus” one can bear, don’t you agree? So how are yours truly and her manservant coping with the current global climate of chaos and turmoil?

Well, I’ve been behaving like a classic 50’s hausfrau: tearing through my own little Valley of the Dolls wearing a taffeta gown, shot silk throw, sporting frilly aprons whenever the fancy takes me and washing down fistfuls of candy that’d make Susan Hayward proud and Patty Duke Astin choke! mr.Kenneth on the other hand has been his usual flatline self ,sensible shoes, three meals a day and positively Yin to my Yang. How we’ve co-existed so long, is a complete mystery!

So this episode is a little inside take on what I’ve been indulging in : a confessional of sorts, without the broom cupboard drama, detailing just a few of the favourite things which have been helping me wake up to the day, put one foot after the other and then lay the head back down on the pillow or plonk it forehead first into the oven. But no, this never happens on a Sunday! Only a few of my wicked wicked ways are name checked here. If I named everything which puts the tiger in my tank, the zazz in my piz or the wind up my kaftan, then we’d end up with show called “Shirley’s Ring Cycle” wouldn’t we? I mean, in these tough times, there are just far too many indulgences to mention!

mr.Kenneth has been a patient love as usual, risen to the occasion and helped me select this soundtrack to the current shape I’m in. Yes Shirleyphiles, its messy. Yes, its all over the shop but we love it that way. Opening up this aural cabinet of curiousities chock a block with tasty soundbites are the Rolling Stones followed by The Champs, Regurgitator, Brenda Lee, Flying Lizards, Vincent Price, Sailor, Fischer-Z, Dean Martin, Kevin Ayers, The Pineapples From The Dawn of Time, Queens of the Stone Age, Terri “Cupcake” O’Mason and if that last track doesn’t get you doing the “Vitamin Mambo” then the fabulous B-52’s are bound to!

So Shirleyphiles, like the 52’s, gather together whatever deviant ingredients you have on hand, head on down that Martini mile and elevate yourselves to a very fine state of mind with mr.K and moi!

Until next time, take Absolut care and remember … play fair]]>
Oh the world seems to be going to Hell in a handbasket doesn’t it? Honestly, there’s just so much “fiscal stimulus” one can bear, don’t you agree? So how are yours truly and her manservant coping with the current global climate of chaos and turmoil?

Well, I’ve been behaving like a classic 50’s hausfrau: tearing through my own little Valley of the Dolls wearing a taffeta gown, shot silk throw, sporting frilly aprons whenever the fancy takes me and washing down fistfuls of candy that’d make Susan Hayward proud and Patty Duke Astin choke! mr.Kenneth on the other hand has been his usual flatline self ,sensible shoes, three meals a day and positively Yin to my Yang. How we’ve co-existed so long, is a complete mystery!

So this episode is a little inside take on what I’ve been indulging in : a confessional of sorts, without the broom cupboard drama, detailing just a few of the favourite things which have been helping me wake up to the day, put one foot after the other and then lay the head back down on the pillow or plonk it forehead first into the oven. But no, this never happens on a Sunday! Only a few of my wicked wicked ways are name checked here. If I named everything which puts the tiger in my tank, the zazz in my piz or the wind up my kaftan, then we’d end up with show called “Shirley’s Ring Cycle” wouldn’t we? I mean, in these tough times, there are just far too many indulgences to mention!

mr.Kenneth has been a patient love as usual, risen to the occasion and helped me select this soundtrack to the current shape I’m in. Yes Shirleyphiles, its messy. Yes, its all over the shop but we love it that way. Opening up this aural cabinet of curiousities chock a block with tasty soundbites are the Rolling Stones followed by The Champs, Regurgitator, Brenda Lee, Flying Lizards, Vincent Price, Sailor, Fischer-Z, Dean Martin, Kevin Ayers, The Pineapples From The Dawn of Time, Queens of the Stone Age, Terri “Cupcake” O’Mason and if that last track doesn’t get you doing the “Vitamin Mambo” then the fabulous B-52’s are bound to!

So Shirleyphiles, like the 52’s, gather together whatever deviant ingredients you have on hand, head on down that Martini mile and elevate yourselves to a very fine state of mind with mr.K and moi!

Until next time, take Absolut care and remember … play fair]]> 8603491 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:13:23 +0200 2023-03-30T14:13:23+02:00 44:48 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/081211radioshirleypresentsmoody/
moody … that is all

Until next time, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Barry Adamson, Bill Amesbury, Brian Eno, David Byrne, HTRK, Human League, Julee Cruise, Julian Cope, Marsha Hunt, Rickie Lee Jones, Snatch, XL Capris]]>
moody … that is all

Until next time, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Barry Adamson, Bill Amesbury, Brian Eno, David Byrne, HTRK, Human League, Julee Cruise, Julian Cope, Marsha Hunt, Rickie Lee Jones, Snatch, XL Capris]]> 8603542 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:18:38 +0200 2023-03-30T14:18:38+02:00 44:39 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/191011-radioshirley-presents-a-very-gay-birthday/
Gloria Swanson as her character, Norma Desmond purred in ‘Sunset Boulevard’, “the stars are ageless”. Some old system Hollywood stars, not that many are left, more’s the pity, also evoke a delicious sense of nostalgia and embody the glamour and style of a bygone era. None though of the current crop of fizzbombs, come close in matching the timelessness, grace and style of the focus of this radioShirley outing :- Ladies and Gentlemen, the fabulous Gay Carrington!

mr.Kenneth has become somewhat obsessed with all things Gay after he stumbled upon her comeback trail on the internet some time ago. I still, have not dared to ask what he was searching for via google in the first place. Thrilled to find that one his favourite Hollywood starlets was once again making movies and re-presenting herself to an adoring Gay hungry audience via blogdom, he watches very closely and pounces on anything Gay related which crops up via facebook or twitter.

His level of Gay devotion seriously knows no bounds. Some weeks back, while I was stirring from a golden slumber, I hear a squeal from the kitchen. “Shirl! Shirl! We’re having Gay toast this morning!” Well, nothing would surprise me. mr.K can really dish up the oddest things for breakfast. I then look up to find mr.K thrusting a slice of rye dripping with butter and honey into my face and shrieking,
“Look! Look! Its Gay! Its Gay! Gay Carrington has appeared to me in a piece of toast! Isn’t this marvellous, Shirl?! I must share this with Gay immediately!”
Not quite knowing what to say and wondering whether mr.K had taken up his Bloody Mary breakfast regime once again, I let him run away without question to photograph our breakfast and post it to Gay’s facebook page.

Its been quite some time since we’ve had a special birthday tribute show on radioShirley but mr.K insisted that he put a brand new show together to honour Gay Carrington’s birthday. And I must say, though I had no hand nor glove in this one, he’s done a fabulous job in bringing together a gorgeous selection of tunes that, like Gay, evoke Gay days gone by. Classics like Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Phyllis Diller, Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin, Ella Mae Morse, Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews and many other top shelf, cream of of the crop stars feature in the following 40 or so minutes.

So Gay, mr.K and myself wish you the happiest of days and we’re both so glad to have you back in our collective orbit darling, you star of stars!! XX

Shirleyphiles, click stream or download below and please do join us in raising a Martini in salute to the stunning, edgy, creative and timeless beauty that is ::: Gay Carrington!!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

ann margret, Bing Crosby, carol burnett, Carol Channing, clark gable, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Ella Mae Morse, Eydie Gormé, gay carrington, Jim Backus, julie andrews, Lisa Stansfield, Nancy Sinatra, Phyllis Diller, Roberta Lee, sarah vaughan, Thurl Ravenscroft]]>
Gloria Swanson as her character, Norma Desmond purred in ‘Sunset Boulevard’, “the stars are ageless”. Some old system Hollywood stars, not that many are left, more’s the pity, also evoke a delicious sense of nostalgia and embody the glamour and style of a bygone era. None though of the current crop of fizzbombs, come close in matching the timelessness, grace and style of the focus of this radioShirley outing :- Ladies and Gentlemen, the fabulous Gay Carrington!

mr.Kenneth has become somewhat obsessed with all things Gay after he stumbled upon her comeback trail on the internet some time ago. I still, have not dared to ask what he was searching for via google in the first place. Thrilled to find that one his favourite Hollywood starlets was once again making movies and re-presenting herself to an adoring Gay hungry audience via blogdom, he watches very closely and pounces on anything Gay related which crops up via facebook or twitter.

His level of Gay devotion seriously knows no bounds. Some weeks back, while I was stirring from a golden slumber, I hear a squeal from the kitchen. “Shirl! Shirl! We’re having Gay toast this morning!” Well, nothing would surprise me. mr.K can really dish up the oddest things for breakfast. I then look up to find mr.K thrusting a slice of rye dripping with butter and honey into my face and shrieking,
“Look! Look! Its Gay! Its Gay! Gay Carrington has appeared to me in a piece of toast! Isn’t this marvellous, Shirl?! I must share this with Gay immediately!”
Not quite knowing what to say and wondering whether mr.K had taken up his Bloody Mary breakfast regime once again, I let him run away without question to photograph our breakfast and post it to Gay’s facebook page.

Its been quite some time since we’ve had a special birthday tribute show on radioShirley but mr.K insisted that he put a brand new show together to honour Gay Carrington’s birthday. And I must say, though I had no hand nor glove in this one, he’s done a fabulous job in bringing together a gorgeous selection of tunes that, like Gay, evoke Gay days gone by. Classics like Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Phyllis Diller, Rita Hayworth, Dean Martin, Ella Mae Morse, Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews and many other top shelf, cream of of the crop stars feature in the following 40 or so minutes.

So Gay, mr.K and myself wish you the happiest of days and we’re both so glad to have you back in our collective orbit darling, you star of stars!! XX

Shirleyphiles, click stream or download below and please do join us in raising a Martini in salute to the stunning, edgy, creative and timeless beauty that is ::: Gay Carrington!!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

ann margret, Bing Crosby, carol burnett, Carol Channing, clark gable, Dean Martin, Eartha Kitt, Ella Mae Morse, Eydie Gormé, gay carrington, Jim Backus, julie andrews, Lisa Stansfield, Nancy Sinatra, Phyllis Diller, Roberta Lee, sarah vaughan, Thurl Ravenscroft]]> 8603563 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:21:33 +0200 2023-03-30T14:21:33+02:00 48:31 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/210607-radioshirley-up-up-and-away-in-a-shirley-way/
Here’s a personal favourite from the radioShirl archives from 2007 especially re-uploaded to mark Fee Plumley’s reallybigroadtrip

Join radioShirl & mr.K as they follow the techno evangelist’s adventures in documenting creative digital culture.

Until next time, play fair and … don’t forget your mittens!

*be smooched*
radioShirl & mr.Kenneth

Chris Spedding, Edd Byrnes, Fats Domino, Laurie Anderson, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Marvin Pontiac, Masters Apprentices, Paul Kelly, Spizzenergi, Stan Ridgway, Susan Raye, T-Rex, Taylor Mead, The Pixies, Ultravox, Wreckless Eric]]>
Here’s a personal favourite from the radioShirl archives from 2007 especially re-uploaded to mark Fee Plumley’s reallybigroadtrip

Join radioShirl & mr.K as they follow the techno evangelist’s adventures in documenting creative digital culture.

Until next time, play fair and … don’t forget your mittens!

*be smooched*
radioShirl & mr.Kenneth

Chris Spedding, Edd Byrnes, Fats Domino, Laurie Anderson, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Marvin Pontiac, Masters Apprentices, Paul Kelly, Spizzenergi, Stan Ridgway, Susan Raye, T-Rex, Taylor Mead, The Pixies, Ultravox, Wreckless Eric]]> 8603590 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:24:16 +0200 2023-03-30T14:24:16+02:00 47:13 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/180509-radioshirley-presents-shirls-pole-dancing-favourites/
Here goes another twirl around a greasy pole for this show. Jam packed with samples and some slippery tuneage, Shirl’s Pole Dancing Favourites will have you taking it off the e-string and playing it on the g-string!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Betty Wright, Chris Clark, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Go Home Productions, Johnny Burnette, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, L-7, Nancy Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Phyllis Diller]]>
Here goes another twirl around a greasy pole for this show. Jam packed with samples and some slippery tuneage, Shirl’s Pole Dancing Favourites will have you taking it off the e-string and playing it on the g-string!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Betty Wright, Chris Clark, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Go Home Productions, Johnny Burnette, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion, L-7, Nancy Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Phyllis Diller]]> 8603612 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:27:00 +0200 2023-03-30T14:27:00+02:00 38:57 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/310711-radioshirley-presents-art/
When in doubt, I usually turn to UrbanDictionary.com much to mr.K’s horror for definitions around life, the universe and all the rest. So it goes that when I posed the question to my manservant “mr.K, what is art?” his speech degenerated into a miasma of metaphor and analogy that made no sense to my post-cocktail hour addled brain whatsoever. Notice I said “post-cocktail” … not “post-colonial”. Mind you, the pretentious wankery that fell from his lips after I posed the big question to him certainly had a whiff of the post-colon about it. Frustrated that the hired help couldn’t answer a simple question in terms that I could comprehend I fled to the laptop and fired up UrbanDictionary.com in need something more meaty and erm, real. As usual, what came up didn’t fail. Straight to the point. No nonsense.

11. Art : “A guy with a really large nose. He usually knocks people over with it, and generally gets in the way. If he has a runny nose, it causes landslides. Oh my god, its art! Dive to the left before he steamrolls you with his nose!“

So there you have it, Shirleyphiles. When someone at an opening gets a bit sniffy and chin-strokingly self important with you, stick a finger up your nose and ask him or her if their name is “Art”. Guaranteed to elicit more chin stroking, an expression of mock horror and result in them moving away rather quickly giving you more space to breathe. And yes, sometimes you need that space more than you know.

mr.K wasn’t entirely convinced though and decided to compile this selection of tuneage and assorted yummy sound bites from Dory Previn, Rufus Wainwright, Orange Juice, The Residents, Kaye Starr, John Cale, Joyce Grenfell, The Breeders, Salavador Dali, 10CC, David Essex, Bryon Gysin and many others to support his porridge-like argument.

I like it. But I like “the guy with a really large nose” explanation much better. You decide m’dears.

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

10CC, Andy Warhol, Brett Whiteley, Bryon Gysin, Chet Atkins, David Bowie, Dory Previn, John Berger, John Cale, Joni Mitchell, Joyce Grenfell, Kaye Starr, Orange Juice, Ringo Starr, Rufus Wainwright, Salvador Dali, The Breeders, The Residents]]>
When in doubt, I usually turn to UrbanDictionary.com much to mr.K’s horror for definitions around life, the universe and all the rest. So it goes that when I posed the question to my manservant “mr.K, what is art?” his speech degenerated into a miasma of metaphor and analogy that made no sense to my post-cocktail hour addled brain whatsoever. Notice I said “post-cocktail” … not “post-colonial”. Mind you, the pretentious wankery that fell from his lips after I posed the big question to him certainly had a whiff of the post-colon about it. Frustrated that the hired help couldn’t answer a simple question in terms that I could comprehend I fled to the laptop and fired up UrbanDictionary.com in need something more meaty and erm, real. As usual, what came up didn’t fail. Straight to the point. No nonsense.

11. Art : “A guy with a really large nose. He usually knocks people over with it, and generally gets in the way. If he has a runny nose, it causes landslides. Oh my god, its art! Dive to the left before he steamrolls you with his nose!“

So there you have it, Shirleyphiles. When someone at an opening gets a bit sniffy and chin-strokingly self important with you, stick a finger up your nose and ask him or her if their name is “Art”. Guaranteed to elicit more chin stroking, an expression of mock horror and result in them moving away rather quickly giving you more space to breathe. And yes, sometimes you need that space more than you know.

mr.K wasn’t entirely convinced though and decided to compile this selection of tuneage and assorted yummy sound bites from Dory Previn, Rufus Wainwright, Orange Juice, The Residents, Kaye Starr, John Cale, Joyce Grenfell, The Breeders, Salavador Dali, 10CC, David Essex, Bryon Gysin and many others to support his porridge-like argument.

I like it. But I like “the guy with a really large nose” explanation much better. You decide m’dears.

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

10CC, Andy Warhol, Brett Whiteley, Bryon Gysin, Chet Atkins, David Bowie, Dory Previn, John Berger, John Cale, Joni Mitchell, Joyce Grenfell, Kaye Starr, Orange Juice, Ringo Starr, Rufus Wainwright, Salvador Dali, The Breeders, The Residents]]> 8603637 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:30:08 +0200 2023-03-30T14:30:08+02:00 45:53 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/160711-radioshirley-presents-whats-a-matter-baby/
That four-letter word ‘baby’ is much maligned as a throw away, trite and glib addition to a lyric. mr.K and I have heard too many times someone say, “If I hear ‘baby’ in a song one more time, well I’ll … ” But here at radioShirl HQ, we intend to elevate the status of ‘baby’ with a show where it features, not necessarily as a substitute for “I can’t think of anything else to call you, darling, sweety pie, hot lips, gorgeous, honeybun etc. etc” but as the integral textual ingredient to any worthwhile pop lyric this side of, well, the Brill Building!

So Shirleyphiles, drop an extra lump of that extra sweet ‘baby’ goodness into your organic double-strength chai soy latte frappacino and tempt your aural earworm alarms as Brigitte Bardot, Mama Cass, Marc Almond, Timi Yuro, The Vibrators, Erma Franklin, Dave Graney and other popular song stylists deliver up a damp nappy full of ‘baby’ tuneage!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Bardot, Carol Channing, Dave Graney, Erma Franklin, Helena Hollins, Mama Cass Elliot, Marc Almond, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Rachel Sweet, Sherbet, Shirley Bassey, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Kinks, The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Vibrators, Timi Yuro, Voice of The Beehive]]>
That four-letter word ‘baby’ is much maligned as a throw away, trite and glib addition to a lyric. mr.K and I have heard too many times someone say, “If I hear ‘baby’ in a song one more time, well I’ll … ” But here at radioShirl HQ, we intend to elevate the status of ‘baby’ with a show where it features, not necessarily as a substitute for “I can’t think of anything else to call you, darling, sweety pie, hot lips, gorgeous, honeybun etc. etc” but as the integral textual ingredient to any worthwhile pop lyric this side of, well, the Brill Building!

So Shirleyphiles, drop an extra lump of that extra sweet ‘baby’ goodness into your organic double-strength chai soy latte frappacino and tempt your aural earworm alarms as Brigitte Bardot, Mama Cass, Marc Almond, Timi Yuro, The Vibrators, Erma Franklin, Dave Graney and other popular song stylists deliver up a damp nappy full of ‘baby’ tuneage!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Bardot, Carol Channing, Dave Graney, Erma Franklin, Helena Hollins, Mama Cass Elliot, Marc Almond, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Rachel Sweet, Sherbet, Shirley Bassey, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Kinks, The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain, The Vibrators, Timi Yuro, Voice of The Beehive]]> 8603672 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:33:28 +0200 2023-03-30T14:33:28+02:00 50:55 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/10111106-workin-on-a-groovy-thing-with-lashirl/
This show is an ENCORE! presentation of a fabulous little thing my manservant and I put together way back in the dark ages of 2006. Stumbling across it a few days ago, my arm was twisted to air it again like my favourite pair of well worn cha-cha heels …

Its 47 minutes and 25 seconds of not so low-fi lovliness featuring far out, mind blowing beats and tripped out exaltations that’ll sure have you diggin‘ and divin’ for that black light switch above your collective bedheads just so you can once again tune in and turn on to the luxurious precious vibes of that soft and furry felt “what’s so funny bout peace love and understanding” poster you’ve had hiding in the closet all this time.

“That was a long sentence, Shirl. Breathe dear, breathe.”
“Well, I’d breathe easier mr.Kenneth if you could just lower the patchouli factor in the air just a smidge, darling.”

Hipsters, its an outta sight selection I had the manservant combing the archives for this time. Each song and sound byte contains something of the vernacular that is so last century that its become fashionable again. Well, it has around Chez Shirley of late as I’ve recently dug out the Alice B.Toklas Cookbook! Enough said!

Its time to let it all hang out and get super cool with Lana Cantrell, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mitch Ryder, The Fifth Dimension, Simon and Garfunkel, Friends of Distinction, Mel Torme, Henry Gibson and many other selected groovy groupies who really know how to sock it to you!

Now, don’t forget to throw those car keys into the fruit bowl m’dears. There are no uptight observers in our brick veneer den of love and lava lamps … only participants!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth]]>
This show is an ENCORE! presentation of a fabulous little thing my manservant and I put together way back in the dark ages of 2006. Stumbling across it a few days ago, my arm was twisted to air it again like my favourite pair of well worn cha-cha heels …

Its 47 minutes and 25 seconds of not so low-fi lovliness featuring far out, mind blowing beats and tripped out exaltations that’ll sure have you diggin‘ and divin’ for that black light switch above your collective bedheads just so you can once again tune in and turn on to the luxurious precious vibes of that soft and furry felt “what’s so funny bout peace love and understanding” poster you’ve had hiding in the closet all this time.

“That was a long sentence, Shirl. Breathe dear, breathe.”
“Well, I’d breathe easier mr.Kenneth if you could just lower the patchouli factor in the air just a smidge, darling.”

Hipsters, its an outta sight selection I had the manservant combing the archives for this time. Each song and sound byte contains something of the vernacular that is so last century that its become fashionable again. Well, it has around Chez Shirley of late as I’ve recently dug out the Alice B.Toklas Cookbook! Enough said!

Its time to let it all hang out and get super cool with Lana Cantrell, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mitch Ryder, The Fifth Dimension, Simon and Garfunkel, Friends of Distinction, Mel Torme, Henry Gibson and many other selected groovy groupies who really know how to sock it to you!

Now, don’t forget to throw those car keys into the fruit bowl m’dears. There are no uptight observers in our brick veneer den of love and lava lamps … only participants!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth]]> 8603715 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:38:49 +0200 2023-03-30T14:38:49+02:00 47:25 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/010411radioshirley-presents-shirls-out-of-her-toybox/
The manservant and I suspected that we had very wide appeal, but a hit with children? mr.K and I had some email correspondence a while back informing us that there is one gorgeous Shirleyphilette out there by the name of Sophia who loves listening to her mother’s collection of radioShirley shows while she’s having a bath! And months ago, Shirleyphile Ben sent through a fabulous snap of his young son Morris flipping through a record collection choosing tunes for radioShirl. Such excellent taste!

So for little Sophia and all the little and not so little Shirleyphiles out there on the interwebs, the manservant dug into my dress-up box and pulled out, besides his thumb, some shiny happy tuneage! Oh, and a few favourite childhood things I had forgotten all about! After we dusted them and wiped the remains of chocolate fingers off, we laid them all over the floor putting together something we hope will bring a big smile to your collective dials.

Goodness, this show may even have you re-arranging the furniture to build a cubby house under the kitchen table! That is exactly where I found mr.K when he had finally finished this show. He was swaying under the table, thumb in mouth and tightly gripping his comfort blanket. No surprises there really. That kind of behaviour has lately become an
all too frequent pastime of his!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Betty Johnson, Billy Vaughan & His Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Bozo the Clown, Dorothy Collins, Joyce Grenfell, Mama Cass Elliot, Mel Blanc, Melanie, Paul Frees & The Poster People, REM, Ru Paul, Sonovox, The Great Gildersleeve, The Nutty Squirrels, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans]]>
The manservant and I suspected that we had very wide appeal, but a hit with children? mr.K and I had some email correspondence a while back informing us that there is one gorgeous Shirleyphilette out there by the name of Sophia who loves listening to her mother’s collection of radioShirley shows while she’s having a bath! And months ago, Shirleyphile Ben sent through a fabulous snap of his young son Morris flipping through a record collection choosing tunes for radioShirl. Such excellent taste!

So for little Sophia and all the little and not so little Shirleyphiles out there on the interwebs, the manservant dug into my dress-up box and pulled out, besides his thumb, some shiny happy tuneage! Oh, and a few favourite childhood things I had forgotten all about! After we dusted them and wiped the remains of chocolate fingers off, we laid them all over the floor putting together something we hope will bring a big smile to your collective dials.

Goodness, this show may even have you re-arranging the furniture to build a cubby house under the kitchen table! That is exactly where I found mr.K when he had finally finished this show. He was swaying under the table, thumb in mouth and tightly gripping his comfort blanket. No surprises there really. That kind of behaviour has lately become an
all too frequent pastime of his!

Until next time kids, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Betty Johnson, Billy Vaughan & His Orchestra, Bing Crosby, Bozo the Clown, Dorothy Collins, Joyce Grenfell, Mama Cass Elliot, Mel Blanc, Melanie, Paul Frees & The Poster People, REM, Ru Paul, Sonovox, The Great Gildersleeve, The Nutty Squirrels, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans]]> 8603747 no no Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:41:55 +0200 2023-03-30T14:41:55+02:00 45:21 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/120910radioshirleypresentsbetterthedevilyouknowv2/
Sometime back I put a call out to Shirleyphiles via facebook for some inspiration regarding future themes and did you all come up with the goods!? Yes you did! Like Old Mr. Grace, you’ve all done very well!

This show is an amalgam of a couple of those ideas which I threw into the cauldron and double bubble toiled and troubled, mr.K conjured a rockin’ outrageous playlist of artists and soundbytes which delve into “the other side”. Trés spooky!

So Shirleyphiles, its time to light a few candles, put the black cat out of harms way, throw some salt over your shoulder, stop pushing that upturned glass around so it spells out the word : F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. , hold hands with the nearest and dearest and settle into “better the devil you know”.

Oh and like all great gatherings, don’t forget to put on your dancin’ hooves!

Until, next time, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Aleister Crowley, Aunt Clara, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brian Eno, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, David Byrne, Diamanda Galas, Doris Stokes, Elizabeth Montgomery, How to Have an Orgy, Japan, Kate Bush, Kris Kristofferson, Kylie Minogue, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, magick, magik, Nina Simone, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Siberian Hell Sound, The Revillos, Timi Yuro, Tiny Tim]]>
Sometime back I put a call out to Shirleyphiles via facebook for some inspiration regarding future themes and did you all come up with the goods!? Yes you did! Like Old Mr. Grace, you’ve all done very well!

This show is an amalgam of a couple of those ideas which I threw into the cauldron and double bubble toiled and troubled, mr.K conjured a rockin’ outrageous playlist of artists and soundbytes which delve into “the other side”. Trés spooky!

So Shirleyphiles, its time to light a few candles, put the black cat out of harms way, throw some salt over your shoulder, stop pushing that upturned glass around so it spells out the word : F.A.B.U.L.O.U.S. , hold hands with the nearest and dearest and settle into “better the devil you know”.

Oh and like all great gatherings, don’t forget to put on your dancin’ hooves!

Until, next time, take care and play fair!
*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Aleister Crowley, Aunt Clara, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brian Eno, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, David Byrne, Diamanda Galas, Doris Stokes, Elizabeth Montgomery, How to Have an Orgy, Japan, Kate Bush, Kris Kristofferson, Kylie Minogue, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, magick, magik, Nina Simone, Peggy Lee, Shirley Bassey, Siberian Hell Sound, The Revillos, Timi Yuro, Tiny Tim]]> 8610059 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:16:38 +0200 2023-03-31T09:16:38+02:00 50:11 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/080810-radioshirley-presents-cry/
“Ain’t there one damn song, that can make me break down and cry?” exclaimed David Bowie in ‘Young Americans’.

Well there are a whole bunch that can make me do that, but don’t be fooled by the title. This show is not a collection of maudlin, morose tearjerkers but more a snotty hanky full of tunes which take as their theme that sacred act of
crying and the associated rivers of salt that pour down our song stylists’ faces and out of their noses. Now before you go running for the Kleenex and the key to the liquor cabinet, I must tell you that this is strictly an Eric Clapton-free zone! Oh yes it is. No ‘Tears from Heaven’ fingers down my throat nonsense here!

Oh no! The manservant and I can get into a mutual sob-sister act at the drop of a Gladys Knight and The Pips, but my brief to mr.K for knob twiddling this time around was to steer well clear of turning you devoted Shirleyphiles into a blither blather of heaving sooks. I know how much time many of you spend on the application of eyeliner, lippy and such and I did not want to turn you into an audience of sad raccoons!

Lawdy clawdy, you can even dance your heartaches away while listening to some of this show! Now that is the way to do it! Maintain that air of cool detachment while your world is falling apart, your top lip is quivering and dance on! Yes, radioShirl girls and radioShirl boys, throw those arms up in a Diana Ross diva-esque stylee! By the way, I’ve been teaching mr.K that move and he’s just loving throwing it in mid-conversation with absolutely everybody we meet. Mind you, it took the counter staff at our local Chinese take-away rather by surprise last night while he was ordering our dinner.
“Beef in Black arms up/face to the follow spot! Bean Sauce, please!”
Happy face, tears of a clown and all that jazz!

That said, how can you possibly escape the high drama of such emotion when you have such a cry baby and our poster boy of the month like the gorgeous Johnnie Ray in the mix? You just can’t. You need to let the young man, off his noggin as he is, sing sorrowfully about little white clouds that cry and get it out of his system.

Until, next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brenda Lee, Diana Ross, Gary Wilson, Godley & Creme, Jackie Wilson, Joe Cocker, Johnnie Ray, Kaye Starr, Nancy Sinatra, Rebekah del Rio, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beat, The Birthday Party, Womack & Womack]]>
“Ain’t there one damn song, that can make me break down and cry?” exclaimed David Bowie in ‘Young Americans’.

Well there are a whole bunch that can make me do that, but don’t be fooled by the title. This show is not a collection of maudlin, morose tearjerkers but more a snotty hanky full of tunes which take as their theme that sacred act of
crying and the associated rivers of salt that pour down our song stylists’ faces and out of their noses. Now before you go running for the Kleenex and the key to the liquor cabinet, I must tell you that this is strictly an Eric Clapton-free zone! Oh yes it is. No ‘Tears from Heaven’ fingers down my throat nonsense here!

Oh no! The manservant and I can get into a mutual sob-sister act at the drop of a Gladys Knight and The Pips, but my brief to mr.K for knob twiddling this time around was to steer well clear of turning you devoted Shirleyphiles into a blither blather of heaving sooks. I know how much time many of you spend on the application of eyeliner, lippy and such and I did not want to turn you into an audience of sad raccoons!

Lawdy clawdy, you can even dance your heartaches away while listening to some of this show! Now that is the way to do it! Maintain that air of cool detachment while your world is falling apart, your top lip is quivering and dance on! Yes, radioShirl girls and radioShirl boys, throw those arms up in a Diana Ross diva-esque stylee! By the way, I’ve been teaching mr.K that move and he’s just loving throwing it in mid-conversation with absolutely everybody we meet. Mind you, it took the counter staff at our local Chinese take-away rather by surprise last night while he was ordering our dinner.
“Beef in Black arms up/face to the follow spot! Bean Sauce, please!”
Happy face, tears of a clown and all that jazz!

That said, how can you possibly escape the high drama of such emotion when you have such a cry baby and our poster boy of the month like the gorgeous Johnnie Ray in the mix? You just can’t. You need to let the young man, off his noggin as he is, sing sorrowfully about little white clouds that cry and get it out of his system.

Until, next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brenda Lee, Diana Ross, Gary Wilson, Godley & Creme, Jackie Wilson, Joe Cocker, Johnnie Ray, Kaye Starr, Nancy Sinatra, Rebekah del Rio, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beat, The Birthday Party, Womack & Womack]]> 8610076 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:19:10 +0200 2023-03-31T09:19:10+02:00 46:34 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/040710radioshirley-presents-shirls-anatomy/
“You got crazy legs, you got amazin’ head
You got rings on your fingers and your hair’s hot red
You got the width of my tongue name on the sun
I clutch you close to my breast
Cause you’re the only one, who uses school to pleasure”
Velvet Goldmine – David Bowie

I think that sums it all up rather nicely really. How kind of The Dame to put all my best features in a song! ;=) But using school for pleasure? Oh my hat and coat!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Bea Arthur, David Bowie, Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians, Georgia Satellites, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Irma Franklin, Loreena Bobbitt, Michael Franks, Miss Piggy, Poly Styrene, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, Rolf Harris, Ronnie Spector, South Pacific, The Four Skins, The Partridge Family, The Rezillos, The Tubes]]>
“You got crazy legs, you got amazin’ head
You got rings on your fingers and your hair’s hot red
You got the width of my tongue name on the sun
I clutch you close to my breast
Cause you’re the only one, who uses school to pleasure”
Velvet Goldmine – David Bowie

I think that sums it all up rather nicely really. How kind of The Dame to put all my best features in a song! ;=) But using school for pleasure? Oh my hat and coat!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Bea Arthur, David Bowie, Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians, Georgia Satellites, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Irma Franklin, Loreena Bobbitt, Michael Franks, Miss Piggy, Poly Styrene, Richard Hell and The Voidoids, Rolf Harris, Ronnie Spector, South Pacific, The Four Skins, The Partridge Family, The Rezillos, The Tubes]]> 8610088 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:21:39 +0200 2023-03-31T09:21:39+02:00 44:15 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/040610radioshirley-presents-alive/
Well, in the words of The Divine Miss M herself, Bette Midler who kicks off this show “Oh honey, we spared no expense for you this time. We did it all. We washed. We showered. We shaved. We FPS’d ourselves into a stupor!” And we have! mr. K and yours truly have had a blast and clapped their paws raw putting together this show. It is a thoroughly live, continuous performance of Royal Command proportions of some of our favourite live moments that could get any aged King or Queen tearing their knickers off and throwing them at the stage. From Bette Midler to Sweet to Noel Coward to Smokey Robinson to Blossom Dearie to Sergio Mendes to Quentin Crisp and many others, there is plenty in this one to send chills and thrills up your spine and back down to the toes of your collective slingbacks!

mr. K still shivers nostalgically when the needle drops onto track one of Bette Midler’s “Live at Last” album as he recalls the thrill of being party to one of the stage entrances to end all entrances! The palpable excitement of the audience on this particular recording is so well captured that it transports the manservant back to front row centre for Miss. Midler’s first ever Brisbane show back in the 70’s. Sharing this moment with at least two known Shirleyphiles, you know who you are, Mr. K attests that it could’ve been recorded then and there as the audience reaction is just as wild!

That’s what it’s all about though isn’t it? As masterful as studio recordings can be, its the live experience, the hit and miss, the stage chatter and patter, the warts and all wonderland where the excitement and artistry are truly expressed.
Mind you, it takes two to tango as they say and without an appreciative audience to feed off, a performance can easily descend into blanc mange … and we’re not talking 80’s hair bands … or are we?

So Shirleyphiles, fire up your Clap-o-Meters, put on your favourite concert merch and settle in for a cavalcade of our faves doing it for you and doing it ALIVE!

Until next time, take care and play fair.
*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Bette Midler, Blossom Dearie, David Bowie, Erykah Badu, Judy Garland, Kate Bush, Nico, Noel Coward, Peggy Lee, Quentin Crisp, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Sweet, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, The Tubes]]>
Well, in the words of The Divine Miss M herself, Bette Midler who kicks off this show “Oh honey, we spared no expense for you this time. We did it all. We washed. We showered. We shaved. We FPS’d ourselves into a stupor!” And we have! mr. K and yours truly have had a blast and clapped their paws raw putting together this show. It is a thoroughly live, continuous performance of Royal Command proportions of some of our favourite live moments that could get any aged King or Queen tearing their knickers off and throwing them at the stage. From Bette Midler to Sweet to Noel Coward to Smokey Robinson to Blossom Dearie to Sergio Mendes to Quentin Crisp and many others, there is plenty in this one to send chills and thrills up your spine and back down to the toes of your collective slingbacks!

mr. K still shivers nostalgically when the needle drops onto track one of Bette Midler’s “Live at Last” album as he recalls the thrill of being party to one of the stage entrances to end all entrances! The palpable excitement of the audience on this particular recording is so well captured that it transports the manservant back to front row centre for Miss. Midler’s first ever Brisbane show back in the 70’s. Sharing this moment with at least two known Shirleyphiles, you know who you are, Mr. K attests that it could’ve been recorded then and there as the audience reaction is just as wild!

That’s what it’s all about though isn’t it? As masterful as studio recordings can be, its the live experience, the hit and miss, the stage chatter and patter, the warts and all wonderland where the excitement and artistry are truly expressed.
Mind you, it takes two to tango as they say and without an appreciative audience to feed off, a performance can easily descend into blanc mange … and we’re not talking 80’s hair bands … or are we?

So Shirleyphiles, fire up your Clap-o-Meters, put on your favourite concert merch and settle in for a cavalcade of our faves doing it for you and doing it ALIVE!

Until next time, take care and play fair.
*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Bette Midler, Blossom Dearie, David Bowie, Erykah Badu, Judy Garland, Kate Bush, Nico, Noel Coward, Peggy Lee, Quentin Crisp, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Sweet, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, The Tubes]]> 8610107 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:24:44 +0200 2023-03-31T09:24:44+02:00 1:02:45 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/300410radioshirleypresentscolourmeshirley/
VIOLET
INDIGO
BLUE
GREEN
YELLOW
ORANGE
RED

plus … throw in a dash of black and white and all those gorgeous shades in between and what do you have?

Yes! The colours of Shirl’s revolutionary costume for the day!
Now if only I could get mr.Kenneth out of those blue jeans and monochromatic
business shirts … *sigh*

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

American Breed, Ann Sexton, Betty Johnson, Curtis Mayfield, Dinah Lee, Donovan, Dorothy Collins, Everlast, Freda Payne, Judy Garland, Paul Mauriat, Petula Clark, Rotary Connection, Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs, The Standells]]>
VIOLET
INDIGO
BLUE
GREEN
YELLOW
ORANGE
RED

plus … throw in a dash of black and white and all those gorgeous shades in between and what do you have?

Yes! The colours of Shirl’s revolutionary costume for the day!
Now if only I could get mr.Kenneth out of those blue jeans and monochromatic
business shirts … *sigh*

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

American Breed, Ann Sexton, Betty Johnson, Curtis Mayfield, Dinah Lee, Donovan, Dorothy Collins, Everlast, Freda Payne, Judy Garland, Paul Mauriat, Petula Clark, Rotary Connection, Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs, The Standells]]> 8610125 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:27:05 +0200 2023-03-31T09:27:05+02:00 42:03 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/060310-radioshirley-presents-big/
Big cars, big hands, big dreams, big hair, big people and big mistakes. Ah yes, we’ve all crossed paths with some of these big things once, twice or thrice in our lifetimes. But what do you do when faced with the enormous or the oversized? Do you gawk? Do you recoil and shrink into a tinier state of mind or do you take a giant leap into the towering mass of whatever and embrace the difference? I mean, size. Its all relative isn’t it?

mr.K and yours truly have been pondering about “size” ever since he brought home the largest aubergine I have ever seen in my life last week and plonked it on the kitchen bench with a flourish of pride as if he was some kind of big game hunter presenting a trophy vegetable.

“What are we going to do with that … that … thing?” I exclaimed.
“Well Shirl, we could cook it. We could put a funny hat on it and lay it in the hammock.
We could spend this evening playing Mr. Potato Head games with it. Whatever takes your fancy, my dear!”
“But its so … so … large mr.K! I doubt that it will even fit into the crisper!”

Three days have passed and it is still on the bench. I’m not sure whether he expects me to feed it or what. I’ll tell you this though, if it hasn’t disappeared tomorrow I’m going to demand that it starts to pay rent!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Blue Mink, C.W. McCall, Fred Neil, George Duning, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Hoagy Carmichael, Ivor Cutler, Lydia Lunch & Jim Foetus, Mae West, Sparks, Suzi Quatro, The B-52's, The Human League, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans, Yma Sumac]]>
Big cars, big hands, big dreams, big hair, big people and big mistakes. Ah yes, we’ve all crossed paths with some of these big things once, twice or thrice in our lifetimes. But what do you do when faced with the enormous or the oversized? Do you gawk? Do you recoil and shrink into a tinier state of mind or do you take a giant leap into the towering mass of whatever and embrace the difference? I mean, size. Its all relative isn’t it?

mr.K and yours truly have been pondering about “size” ever since he brought home the largest aubergine I have ever seen in my life last week and plonked it on the kitchen bench with a flourish of pride as if he was some kind of big game hunter presenting a trophy vegetable.

“What are we going to do with that … that … thing?” I exclaimed.
“Well Shirl, we could cook it. We could put a funny hat on it and lay it in the hammock.
We could spend this evening playing Mr. Potato Head games with it. Whatever takes your fancy, my dear!”
“But its so … so … large mr.K! I doubt that it will even fit into the crisper!”

Three days have passed and it is still on the bench. I’m not sure whether he expects me to feed it or what. I’ll tell you this though, if it hasn’t disappeared tomorrow I’m going to demand that it starts to pay rent!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Blue Mink, C.W. McCall, Fred Neil, George Duning, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, Hoagy Carmichael, Ivor Cutler, Lydia Lunch & Jim Foetus, Mae West, Sparks, Suzi Quatro, The B-52's, The Human League, Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans, Yma Sumac]]> 8610140 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:29:31 +0200 2023-03-31T09:29:31+02:00 45:17 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/021209radioshirley-presents-going-over-the-top-for-wiggie/
Its been some time since we put together a “birthday show” and how the gorgeous sun-kissed subject of this one has escaped “Being Shirled” for so long is beyond me! But better late than never! mr.K and I befriended the lovely wiggie aka “Vicki of the ever changing haircut” via BowieAudio.com some years back and like many of that long gone community, we “clicked” and have stayed in touch ever since.

wiggie loves her music. All sorts. The exception is a certain Australian diva who happens to be one of the manservant’s favourites. But is that about to sour a friendship … ahem … heading in the right direction? Oh no! ;=)

One may think the “wigster” would be a little bit country given her current location in country Australia but from what I know, she’s a true blue Rock and Roll outlaw! Oh yes. We’re going places we’ve never been to before as mr.K and yours truly have put together an entire show of Aussie artists and commercials! It’s an unabashed Aussie-centric selection of a certain vintage … well mostly – mr.K just had to throw in a more recent cut from his beloved TISM didn’t he!

So kids, as Doc Neeson from The Angels announces at the start of the show, “This is it folks. Over the top!” – put your hands together, mix up a large GnT in a tall glass, go over the top and join mr.K and moi in toasting “The Darling of Daylesford”, la wiggie! Happy Birthday darling! *MWAH*

until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Daddy Cool, Dame Edna Everage, Dragon, Jeff Duff & Kush, Jeff St. John & Copperwine, Madder Lake, Masters Apprentices, Rose Tattoo, Ted Mulry Gang, The Angels, TISM]]>
Its been some time since we put together a “birthday show” and how the gorgeous sun-kissed subject of this one has escaped “Being Shirled” for so long is beyond me! But better late than never! mr.K and I befriended the lovely wiggie aka “Vicki of the ever changing haircut” via BowieAudio.com some years back and like many of that long gone community, we “clicked” and have stayed in touch ever since.

wiggie loves her music. All sorts. The exception is a certain Australian diva who happens to be one of the manservant’s favourites. But is that about to sour a friendship … ahem … heading in the right direction? Oh no! ;=)

One may think the “wigster” would be a little bit country given her current location in country Australia but from what I know, she’s a true blue Rock and Roll outlaw! Oh yes. We’re going places we’ve never been to before as mr.K and yours truly have put together an entire show of Aussie artists and commercials! It’s an unabashed Aussie-centric selection of a certain vintage … well mostly – mr.K just had to throw in a more recent cut from his beloved TISM didn’t he!

So kids, as Doc Neeson from The Angels announces at the start of the show, “This is it folks. Over the top!” – put your hands together, mix up a large GnT in a tall glass, go over the top and join mr.K and moi in toasting “The Darling of Daylesford”, la wiggie! Happy Birthday darling! *MWAH*

until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs, Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, Daddy Cool, Dame Edna Everage, Dragon, Jeff Duff & Kush, Jeff St. John & Copperwine, Madder Lake, Masters Apprentices, Rose Tattoo, Ted Mulry Gang, The Angels, TISM]]> 8610154 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:32:10 +0200 2023-03-31T09:32:10+02:00 45:22 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/180909radiosshirleypresentsengaged/
Well I just bet the title of this show made a few of the regular Shirleyphiles spit the pins out, hey? Alarmed internal voices throughout the cybersphere crying out “What??!! Shirl engaged!! Did mr.K finally go down on his knees before
our Shirl with a proposition she couldn’t refuse? Or vice versa??!! Heavens to betsy!! Where’s the party? What will I wear? Who’s doing the catering?” No. No. No.No. Put the knives and smelling salts down, dears. Its none of the above.

I know its been sometime between Pimms, but the engagement of two of our faves, D and L (DT – musician, Francophile and possessor of an encyclopedic, enviable brain crammed with all manner of musical detritus & the gorgeous LB – extraordinary artist and the human heart behind Drawing Girl) requires special acknowledgment round these parts! Lacking any real idea for a suitable gift, mr.K and I decided to do what we know best and lovingly craft a celebratory show in honour of this fabulous news. We’re sure they have just about everything they need.
After all, they have each other and as the song goes, who could ask for anything more, right? Wrong! These two love birds deserve to be “Shirled” and Shirled they shall be!

Well, who have been gathered together to join the hijinx? For starters, Yoko Ono, The Nerves, The Shangri-Las, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Lily Tomlin, Paul Mauriat, Joe Youngblood, Eartha Kitt, Normie Rowe, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Shower Scene from Psycho, John Prine and Iris Dement, Orange Juice, Brigitte Bardot, Rachel Sweet, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ivor Cutler, Cilla Black, Sherbet and wrapping it all up are The Passions with slice of delicious pop and wise words, “Love is Essential”.

So Shirleyphiles, join us in raising your collective fruitcups to D & L! mr.K will be joining DT & LB tonight ahem – next week – with a bunch of their wild and crazy Scooby gang and I expect a full report of the high brow goings on that will no doubt occur in an outer Brisbane suburb. I do hope mr.K can remember his name and address if he needs to ask a friendly policeman for directions home!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Bardot, Cilla Black, Eartha Kitt, Ivor Cutler, Joe Youngblood, John Prine and Iris Dement, Lily Tomlin, Normie Rowe, Orange Juice, Paul Mauriat, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Rachel Sweet, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sherbet, Shower Scene from Psycho, The Nerves, The Passions, The Shangri-Las, Yoko Ono]]>
Well I just bet the title of this show made a few of the regular Shirleyphiles spit the pins out, hey? Alarmed internal voices throughout the cybersphere crying out “What??!! Shirl engaged!! Did mr.K finally go down on his knees before
our Shirl with a proposition she couldn’t refuse? Or vice versa??!! Heavens to betsy!! Where’s the party? What will I wear? Who’s doing the catering?” No. No. No.No. Put the knives and smelling salts down, dears. Its none of the above.

I know its been sometime between Pimms, but the engagement of two of our faves, D and L (DT – musician, Francophile and possessor of an encyclopedic, enviable brain crammed with all manner of musical detritus & the gorgeous LB – extraordinary artist and the human heart behind Drawing Girl) requires special acknowledgment round these parts! Lacking any real idea for a suitable gift, mr.K and I decided to do what we know best and lovingly craft a celebratory show in honour of this fabulous news. We’re sure they have just about everything they need.
After all, they have each other and as the song goes, who could ask for anything more, right? Wrong! These two love birds deserve to be “Shirled” and Shirled they shall be!

Well, who have been gathered together to join the hijinx? For starters, Yoko Ono, The Nerves, The Shangri-Las, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Lily Tomlin, Paul Mauriat, Joe Youngblood, Eartha Kitt, Normie Rowe, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Shower Scene from Psycho, John Prine and Iris Dement, Orange Juice, Brigitte Bardot, Rachel Sweet, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Ivor Cutler, Cilla Black, Sherbet and wrapping it all up are The Passions with slice of delicious pop and wise words, “Love is Essential”.

So Shirleyphiles, join us in raising your collective fruitcups to D & L! mr.K will be joining DT & LB tonight ahem – next week – with a bunch of their wild and crazy Scooby gang and I expect a full report of the high brow goings on that will no doubt occur in an outer Brisbane suburb. I do hope mr.K can remember his name and address if he needs to ask a friendly policeman for directions home!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Brigitte Bardot, Cilla Black, Eartha Kitt, Ivor Cutler, Joe Youngblood, John Prine and Iris Dement, Lily Tomlin, Normie Rowe, Orange Juice, Paul Mauriat, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Question Mark & The Mysterians, Rachel Sweet, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Sherbet, Shower Scene from Psycho, The Nerves, The Passions, The Shangri-Las, Yoko Ono]]> 8610169 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:34:37 +0200 2023-03-31T09:34:37+02:00 48:39 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/100509-radioshirley-presents-animal-crackers/
Well its getting a little chilly round these parts and when Shirl’s parts get a little chilly, yours truly reaches for her favourite fur coat. Now before you start throwing cream pies and planning how to knee cap me next time we meet in the carpark, the fur in question is 100% endorsed by the late Linda McCartney herself! No, its not woven from Sir Paul’s
pubic shedding – heaven forbid – but is a fabulous faux little number which fits me to a tee and fools just about everyone! Even mr.K looked twice when I swished in wearing said fur for the first time. Always the thoughtful one, for the first two weeks he would leave it a bowl of water as it lay languid across the lounge.

That’s more than Heather did for Sir Paul I bet!

So for all the Shirleyphiles feeling the chill, this show is for you! Unhinged as we are, we’ve thrown open the cages with Pavlovian technique and released our animal instincts along with Tom Jones, The Trashmen, Slim Whitman, Mama Cass, Iggy Pop, Dusty Springfield, Mrs Miller, Ivor Cutler, Wire, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Rex Harrison, Kate Bush, Benzell Graham, Brigette Bardot, The Nutty Squirrels, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Tiny Tim, Ella Mae Morse & The Kinks. How’s that for a musical menagerie!

Until next time listeners, move the cat out of harms way, feed the birds tuppence a bag and give the next furry friend you come across a little scratch behind the ear. You should see mr.K roll over each time I do that to him! It’s positively canine!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Benzell Graham, Brigette Bardot, Dusty Springfield, Ella Mae Morse, Iggy Pop, Ivor Cutler, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Josie & The Pussycats, Kate Bush, Mama Cass, Mrs Miller, Nick Cave, Rex Harrison, Slim Whitman, The Birthday Party, The Kinks, The Nutty Squirrels, The Trashmen, Tiny Tim, Tom Jones, Wire]]>
Well its getting a little chilly round these parts and when Shirl’s parts get a little chilly, yours truly reaches for her favourite fur coat. Now before you start throwing cream pies and planning how to knee cap me next time we meet in the carpark, the fur in question is 100% endorsed by the late Linda McCartney herself! No, its not woven from Sir Paul’s
pubic shedding – heaven forbid – but is a fabulous faux little number which fits me to a tee and fools just about everyone! Even mr.K looked twice when I swished in wearing said fur for the first time. Always the thoughtful one, for the first two weeks he would leave it a bowl of water as it lay languid across the lounge.

That’s more than Heather did for Sir Paul I bet!

So for all the Shirleyphiles feeling the chill, this show is for you! Unhinged as we are, we’ve thrown open the cages with Pavlovian technique and released our animal instincts along with Tom Jones, The Trashmen, Slim Whitman, Mama Cass, Iggy Pop, Dusty Springfield, Mrs Miller, Ivor Cutler, Wire, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Rex Harrison, Kate Bush, Benzell Graham, Brigette Bardot, The Nutty Squirrels, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Tiny Tim, Ella Mae Morse & The Kinks. How’s that for a musical menagerie!

Until next time listeners, move the cat out of harms way, feed the birds tuppence a bag and give the next furry friend you come across a little scratch behind the ear. You should see mr.K roll over each time I do that to him! It’s positively canine!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Benzell Graham, Brigette Bardot, Dusty Springfield, Ella Mae Morse, Iggy Pop, Ivor Cutler, Jonathon Richman & The Modern Lovers, Josie & The Pussycats, Kate Bush, Mama Cass, Mrs Miller, Nick Cave, Rex Harrison, Slim Whitman, The Birthday Party, The Kinks, The Nutty Squirrels, The Trashmen, Tiny Tim, Tom Jones, Wire]]> 8610196 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:39:30 +0200 2023-03-31T09:39:30+02:00 45:31 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/060409-radioshirley-presents-open-house/
Inspired by a post which appeared a few weeks back over on one of Shirl’s favourite blogs, this show is all about, you guessed it, houses and the assorted items of everyday living which inhabit them.

from Jockohomo :
“Homosexuality is one of the essential elements of living in contemporary society.
”
Official IKEA spokesperson’s response to pressure from grumpy Polish Catholics (namely a letter writing campaign) who had a hoo haa because they wanted queer couples removed from the IKEA catalog.

Hoo Haa indeed! And bouquets to IKEA’s spokesperson for such an eloquent t-shirt/bumper sticker one liner!

I wonder what those same grumps would say if XTC, Jody Miller, Carol Channing, Marc Almond, Lou Reed, John Cale, Denise laSalle, Vivian Stanshall, Buzzcocks, Tiny Tim, Herman’s Hermits, Dionne Warwick, Leona Anderson, Split Enz who feature in this show, featured in the next catalog? MMMmmm?

Regular Shirleyphiles shouldn’t be at all surprised to know that I for one, would be out there buying up any chair, table, bedlamp or drink coaster which was being endorsed by that ultimate Jazz Baby, Carol Channing!

Goodness, I know the manservant, mr.Kenneth could be sorely tempted with a Marc Almond leather recliner rocking chair!

Until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and remember … play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Buzzcocks, Carol Channing, Denise laSalle, Dionne Warwick, Hermans Hermits, Jody Miller, John Cale, Leona Anderson, Lou Reed, Marc Almond, Split Enz, Tiny Tim, Vivian Stanshall, XTC]]>
Inspired by a post which appeared a few weeks back over on one of Shirl’s favourite blogs, this show is all about, you guessed it, houses and the assorted items of everyday living which inhabit them.

from Jockohomo :
“Homosexuality is one of the essential elements of living in contemporary society.
”
Official IKEA spokesperson’s response to pressure from grumpy Polish Catholics (namely a letter writing campaign) who had a hoo haa because they wanted queer couples removed from the IKEA catalog.

Hoo Haa indeed! And bouquets to IKEA’s spokesperson for such an eloquent t-shirt/bumper sticker one liner!

I wonder what those same grumps would say if XTC, Jody Miller, Carol Channing, Marc Almond, Lou Reed, John Cale, Denise laSalle, Vivian Stanshall, Buzzcocks, Tiny Tim, Herman’s Hermits, Dionne Warwick, Leona Anderson, Split Enz who feature in this show, featured in the next catalog? MMMmmm?

Regular Shirleyphiles shouldn’t be at all surprised to know that I for one, would be out there buying up any chair, table, bedlamp or drink coaster which was being endorsed by that ultimate Jazz Baby, Carol Channing!

Goodness, I know the manservant, mr.Kenneth could be sorely tempted with a Marc Almond leather recliner rocking chair!

Until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and remember … play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Buzzcocks, Carol Channing, Denise laSalle, Dionne Warwick, Hermans Hermits, Jody Miller, John Cale, Leona Anderson, Lou Reed, Marc Almond, Split Enz, Tiny Tim, Vivian Stanshall, XTC]]> 8610211 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:42:08 +0200 2023-03-31T09:42:08+02:00 45:17 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/010109radioshirley-presents-lashirls-all-male-revue/
Its been a long time between drinks I must say and what better way to greet some old friends than getting mr.Kenneth back to doing what he should be doing and working his fingers to the bone for yours truly! Yes … not unlike Katherine Hepburn, laShirl wears the proverbial pant suit in this family.

We’ve lined up a very talented bunch of menfolk, all possessing suspicious levels of testosterone, all circumspect about their gender and lets face it … with those personality traits, I’d have them all over for dinner in a flash. Wouldn’t you? I just wouldn’t let Vincent Price near the kitchen that’s all. If you listen to the show, you’ll understand why.

So who’s sitting round the table you ask?

Starting at the head of the table and holding court is the legendary Quentin Crisp. To his left are the boys from Sweet, a real rock and roll disgrace. Next to them, the man who really started the whole bling thing, Liberace is telling tales to the ever funky but chic, David Johansen. Fess Parker without the raccoon on his head, it’s one of the courses actually, decides that Jimmy and The Boys are really not like everybody else. The TuneTwisters bring up the tone of the evening with a touch of four part popcorn. The Spencer Davis Group explore the definition of a “man” with John Wayne. Speaking of definition, my favourite bare chested boys, Rammstein provide a little table cooking entertainment with the help of Vincent Price, a fork, a few boys and a flamethrower. Tokyo Baby keep the table cooking action going while Jim Croce tells some story about a cat called Leroy Brown. Definitely not on the menu!

Neil Diamond sings of brotherly love and salvation until that upstart Arthur Comix, a right snivelling shit, decides a little reality check is in order by asking the eternal question “Is God a Man?” Pulchritude is indeed a big word, Arthur. The Television Personalities decide to lighten the mood with a ditty about Geoffrey Ingram and to end the night on a high note, the dessert in a torn pantsuit himself, P.J. Proby leads us all in a cutlery waving rendition of “Que Sera Sera”.

Whatever will be, will be … indeed … but who is looking after the washing up?
*smooches*
la Shirl and mr. Kenneth

Arthur Comix, David Johansen, Fess Parker, Jim Croce, Jimmy and The Boys, John Wayne, Liberace, Neil Diamond, P.J. Proby, Quentin Crisp, Rammstein, Sweet, The Spencer Davis Group, The Television Personalities, The TuneTwisters, Tokyo Baby, Vincent Price]]>
Its been a long time between drinks I must say and what better way to greet some old friends than getting mr.Kenneth back to doing what he should be doing and working his fingers to the bone for yours truly! Yes … not unlike Katherine Hepburn, laShirl wears the proverbial pant suit in this family.

We’ve lined up a very talented bunch of menfolk, all possessing suspicious levels of testosterone, all circumspect about their gender and lets face it … with those personality traits, I’d have them all over for dinner in a flash. Wouldn’t you? I just wouldn’t let Vincent Price near the kitchen that’s all. If you listen to the show, you’ll understand why.

So who’s sitting round the table you ask?

Starting at the head of the table and holding court is the legendary Quentin Crisp. To his left are the boys from Sweet, a real rock and roll disgrace. Next to them, the man who really started the whole bling thing, Liberace is telling tales to the ever funky but chic, David Johansen. Fess Parker without the raccoon on his head, it’s one of the courses actually, decides that Jimmy and The Boys are really not like everybody else. The TuneTwisters bring up the tone of the evening with a touch of four part popcorn. The Spencer Davis Group explore the definition of a “man” with John Wayne. Speaking of definition, my favourite bare chested boys, Rammstein provide a little table cooking entertainment with the help of Vincent Price, a fork, a few boys and a flamethrower. Tokyo Baby keep the table cooking action going while Jim Croce tells some story about a cat called Leroy Brown. Definitely not on the menu!

Neil Diamond sings of brotherly love and salvation until that upstart Arthur Comix, a right snivelling shit, decides a little reality check is in order by asking the eternal question “Is God a Man?” Pulchritude is indeed a big word, Arthur. The Television Personalities decide to lighten the mood with a ditty about Geoffrey Ingram and to end the night on a high note, the dessert in a torn pantsuit himself, P.J. Proby leads us all in a cutlery waving rendition of “Que Sera Sera”.

Whatever will be, will be … indeed … but who is looking after the washing up?
*smooches*
la Shirl and mr. Kenneth

Arthur Comix, David Johansen, Fess Parker, Jim Croce, Jimmy and The Boys, John Wayne, Liberace, Neil Diamond, P.J. Proby, Quentin Crisp, Rammstein, Sweet, The Spencer Davis Group, The Television Personalities, The TuneTwisters, Tokyo Baby, Vincent Price]]> 8610229 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:44:44 +0200 2023-03-31T09:44:44+02:00 40:13 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/231108radioshirley-presents-whats-in-a-name/
So gang … what IS in a name? How much does your moniker reflect your personality? Are you a Glen or a Glenda? A Joseph or a Josephine. Or perhaps you’re one of those fluid folk?

You know its said that animals sometimes resemble their owners. I’m not so sure about that. I know of some very ugly dogs out there with very attractive keepers and vice versa. Why only last week I spied a rather posh and manicured to with an inch of her cuticles matron who had a definite air of the Shitsu about her. She was a morphed wonder! A two in one! I was so surprised I had to do a double take.

Best in show? And didn’t she know it … darling!

Musing on the topic of names, mr.K has muddled through the library and put together a wonderful selection from the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Shirley Ellis, The Everly Brothers, This Is Serious Mum, Tina Britt, Department S, Pink Floyd, Dudley Moore Trio, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Steve Fisk, Yusef Islam, Dory Previn, Tiny Tim with Brave Combo, Georgie Fame and The Kinks wrapping it all up with Ray Davies’ rather perceptive tale based on the relationship with his band brother, Dave. Apparently, Dave is Sybilla and Ray, Priscilla. I can relate to that!

Enjoy!
So until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and play fair.

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Blood Sweat and Tears, Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Cat Stevens, Department S, Dory Previn, Dudley Moore Trio, Georgie Fame, Pink Floyd, Shirley Ellis, Steve Fisk, Sweat & Tears, T.I.S.M, The Everly Brothers, The Kinks, Tina Britt, Tiny Tim, Yusef Islam]]>
So gang … what IS in a name? How much does your moniker reflect your personality? Are you a Glen or a Glenda? A Joseph or a Josephine. Or perhaps you’re one of those fluid folk?

You know its said that animals sometimes resemble their owners. I’m not so sure about that. I know of some very ugly dogs out there with very attractive keepers and vice versa. Why only last week I spied a rather posh and manicured to with an inch of her cuticles matron who had a definite air of the Shitsu about her. She was a morphed wonder! A two in one! I was so surprised I had to do a double take.

Best in show? And didn’t she know it … darling!

Musing on the topic of names, mr.K has muddled through the library and put together a wonderful selection from the Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Shirley Ellis, The Everly Brothers, This Is Serious Mum, Tina Britt, Department S, Pink Floyd, Dudley Moore Trio, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Steve Fisk, Yusef Islam, Dory Previn, Tiny Tim with Brave Combo, Georgie Fame and The Kinks wrapping it all up with Ray Davies’ rather perceptive tale based on the relationship with his band brother, Dave. Apparently, Dave is Sybilla and Ray, Priscilla. I can relate to that!

Enjoy!
So until next time Shirleyphiles, take care and play fair.

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Blood Sweat and Tears, Bonzo Dog DooDah Band, Cat Stevens, Department S, Dory Previn, Dudley Moore Trio, Georgie Fame, Pink Floyd, Shirley Ellis, Steve Fisk, Sweat & Tears, T.I.S.M, The Everly Brothers, The Kinks, Tina Britt, Tiny Tim, Yusef Islam]]> 8610247 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:47:05 +0200 2023-03-31T09:47:05+02:00 42:07 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/281007encorestand-and-deliverits-janes-birthday/
Three years ago, we originally dedicated this show to our favourite space brigand and radioShirley fan, Jane, on her 50th birthday! And because her birthday has bubbled to the surface like sumo wrestlers in a mathmos hot tub, we’ve decided to spin it once more for all the new visitors passing through radioShirley for the first time …… passing through … now that sounds personal!

But its especially for the birthday gal, Jane! Monster smooches to you my pretty!

Though a re-up, we’ve made a few cosmetic changes, as you do when you reach our vintage. We’ve kicked off the show with a brand new old tune “A String of Trumpets” by The Trumpeteers which was sent through via Crispy over at his fabulous soundtrack blog, reelcool. Crispy suggested that this track was the perfect music for me to hoover to. All I can say to that is, “Crispy, if I had something to hoover, we might be getting somewhere.”

Fresh!

Adam & The Ants stamp their tiny ant feet with “Stand and Deliver”, which the manservant thought suitably brigandish and neuro-dandy. This sort of carry on sets the pace to the bitter sweet end of the show which concludes with one of the most outrageously “Delicious” pieces by Phyllis Diller and Jim Backus. In this track, Phyllis loses it completely to the point where you can clearly hear her laughing from her own gut, not the character’s! Extraordinarily contagious and hysterical! I’m Learning to Share has a fantastic piece about Phyllis written by Alex Haley of “Roots” fame way back in the early 1960’s. So if your a Phyllis fan like moi, then get on over and have a read and grab some more Killer Diller audio!

Until next time, it’s that moment when we like to throw on a kaftan, move the furniture out of harms way, and pour something fizzy so we can “Stand and Deliver!” with Jane and laShirl for the next 30 minutes or so!

Enjoy!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Adam Ant, Bob Marley, Dusty Springfield, Grace Slick, Jim Backus, John Otway, Malcolm McLaren, Missa Luba, Phyllis Diller, Silicon Teens, The Great Society, The Rascals, The Trumpeteers, Tito Puente, Wild Willy Barrett, Yazoo]]>
Three years ago, we originally dedicated this show to our favourite space brigand and radioShirley fan, Jane, on her 50th birthday! And because her birthday has bubbled to the surface like sumo wrestlers in a mathmos hot tub, we’ve decided to spin it once more for all the new visitors passing through radioShirley for the first time …… passing through … now that sounds personal!

But its especially for the birthday gal, Jane! Monster smooches to you my pretty!

Though a re-up, we’ve made a few cosmetic changes, as you do when you reach our vintage. We’ve kicked off the show with a brand new old tune “A String of Trumpets” by The Trumpeteers which was sent through via Crispy over at his fabulous soundtrack blog, reelcool. Crispy suggested that this track was the perfect music for me to hoover to. All I can say to that is, “Crispy, if I had something to hoover, we might be getting somewhere.”

Fresh!

Adam & The Ants stamp their tiny ant feet with “Stand and Deliver”, which the manservant thought suitably brigandish and neuro-dandy. This sort of carry on sets the pace to the bitter sweet end of the show which concludes with one of the most outrageously “Delicious” pieces by Phyllis Diller and Jim Backus. In this track, Phyllis loses it completely to the point where you can clearly hear her laughing from her own gut, not the character’s! Extraordinarily contagious and hysterical! I’m Learning to Share has a fantastic piece about Phyllis written by Alex Haley of “Roots” fame way back in the early 1960’s. So if your a Phyllis fan like moi, then get on over and have a read and grab some more Killer Diller audio!

Until next time, it’s that moment when we like to throw on a kaftan, move the furniture out of harms way, and pour something fizzy so we can “Stand and Deliver!” with Jane and laShirl for the next 30 minutes or so!

Enjoy!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

Adam Ant, Bob Marley, Dusty Springfield, Grace Slick, Jim Backus, John Otway, Malcolm McLaren, Missa Luba, Phyllis Diller, Silicon Teens, The Great Society, The Rascals, The Trumpeteers, Tito Puente, Wild Willy Barrett, Yazoo]]> 8610262 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:49:47 +0200 2023-03-31T09:49:47+02:00 37:38 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/211008-radioshirley-presents-hooked-vol-1/
Isn’t music grand? Its pretty much a constant ’round these parts. Seldom does a day go by without mr.Kenneth or myself slappin’ on a platter and shakin our bits and pieces to some musical artiste or another.

But from time to time, there are certain songs that no matter how many times you hear them, you just can’t help yourself from having a Linda Blair moment ….

:::: cue 30 seconds of think music ::::

We’ll stop right there and leave that moment to your imaginations shall we?

Let me give you an example. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 singing “Batucada” always does it for me. Right from the opening maracas, I become a complete ensemble of joyous Latin abandon! Mind you, I have absolutely no idea what
the girls are warbling about but in the privacy of Chez Shirley I can warble along with the best of them! But I digress because for once, this post is not about moi.

I’ve been watching my faithful manservant rather carefully over the past few weeks and have noticed that a number of songs in particular have had mr.Kenneth itchin’, bitchin’ and twitchin’ like a maggot on a hot chop! The usually quiet, reserved and sometimes petulant dear just loses himself with funny hand dancing, feet shuffling and derriere wriggling that I swear would make Margaret Thatcher think twice! Why only last night he dropped a plate when Lisa Stansfield singing “Down in the Depths” popped up on shuffle mode as he needed two hands to do all the requisite diva actions! I was aghast! I’ve never seen him quite like that before … and hope I never do again. I mean, we’re running out of plates!

So I’ve given mr.K the day off to clean up the crockery and have been hard at work twiddling the knobs to put together a show just to indulge him and you. Its a selection of some of those sure fire tracks that are known to get the manservant’s man juices flowing. In the mix are Ohio Express, Herman’s Hermits, Jean Wells, Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra, Lydia Lunch, Thurl Ravenscroft and Roberta Lee, KC & The Sunshine Band, Honeycone, Josef K, Russell Morris, Lisa Stansfield, Boomtown Rats, Cilla Black, The American Breed and to top it off, the white queen of Motown, the superb Miss Chris Clark!

Yes. 15 Fabulous hits from 15 Fabulous artists!

We’d love to hear which tracks get you itchin’ bitchin’ and twitchin, so please let us know in the comments below! Your suggestions will go into Hooked! Vol 3.

Until next time, take care and play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra, Boomtown Rats, Chris Clark, Cilla Black, Hermans Hermits, Honeycone, Jean Wells, Josef K, KC & The Sunshine Band, Lisa Stansfield, Lydia Lunch, Ohio Express, Roberta Lee, Russell Morris, The American Breed, Thurl Ravenscroft]]>
Isn’t music grand? Its pretty much a constant ’round these parts. Seldom does a day go by without mr.Kenneth or myself slappin’ on a platter and shakin our bits and pieces to some musical artiste or another.

But from time to time, there are certain songs that no matter how many times you hear them, you just can’t help yourself from having a Linda Blair moment ….

:::: cue 30 seconds of think music ::::

We’ll stop right there and leave that moment to your imaginations shall we?

Let me give you an example. Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 singing “Batucada” always does it for me. Right from the opening maracas, I become a complete ensemble of joyous Latin abandon! Mind you, I have absolutely no idea what
the girls are warbling about but in the privacy of Chez Shirley I can warble along with the best of them! But I digress because for once, this post is not about moi.

I’ve been watching my faithful manservant rather carefully over the past few weeks and have noticed that a number of songs in particular have had mr.Kenneth itchin’, bitchin’ and twitchin’ like a maggot on a hot chop! The usually quiet, reserved and sometimes petulant dear just loses himself with funny hand dancing, feet shuffling and derriere wriggling that I swear would make Margaret Thatcher think twice! Why only last night he dropped a plate when Lisa Stansfield singing “Down in the Depths” popped up on shuffle mode as he needed two hands to do all the requisite diva actions! I was aghast! I’ve never seen him quite like that before … and hope I never do again. I mean, we’re running out of plates!

So I’ve given mr.K the day off to clean up the crockery and have been hard at work twiddling the knobs to put together a show just to indulge him and you. Its a selection of some of those sure fire tracks that are known to get the manservant’s man juices flowing. In the mix are Ohio Express, Herman’s Hermits, Jean Wells, Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra, Lydia Lunch, Thurl Ravenscroft and Roberta Lee, KC & The Sunshine Band, Honeycone, Josef K, Russell Morris, Lisa Stansfield, Boomtown Rats, Cilla Black, The American Breed and to top it off, the white queen of Motown, the superb Miss Chris Clark!

Yes. 15 Fabulous hits from 15 Fabulous artists!

We’d love to hear which tracks get you itchin’ bitchin’ and twitchin, so please let us know in the comments below! Your suggestions will go into Hooked! Vol 3.

Until next time, take care and play fair

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.Kenneth

Billy Vaughn and his Orchestra, Boomtown Rats, Chris Clark, Cilla Black, Hermans Hermits, Honeycone, Jean Wells, Josef K, KC & The Sunshine Band, Lisa Stansfield, Lydia Lunch, Ohio Express, Roberta Lee, Russell Morris, The American Breed, Thurl Ravenscroft]]> 8610281 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:52:17 +0200 2023-03-31T09:52:17+02:00 43:46 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/031008radioshirley-presents-drag/
Regular Shirleyphiles … now there’s a contradiction in terms … will probably be gagging over our decision to move the old site to a blog format, but my faithful manservant mr.Kenneth was getting rather tired of managing all that pesky code. So after talking it over a few shandies we decided to grow up after six years of bringing you these twisted little shows and join ‘blogdom’. Besides, I also felt radioShirley was begging for a new coat of war paint, so here it is!!! And to celebrate the new look, we’ve put together a brand new show all about … ahem … makeovers!

Inspired by the fabulous photo above of laShirl spotted in the workplace sent to me by our favourite “rabid Aussie chick” and devoted Shirleyphile, laCass of Melbourne Australia, mr.K has put together a splendid mix of tunes and sound bytes that all revolve around the theme of DRAG.

Hiding in this musical make-up kit among other aural delights are Frank Sinatra, Blondie, Bobbie Gentry, Marc Almond, Taboo, Hermans Hermits, Miss Piggy, David Rose, New York Dolls, Lorrae Desmond and The Raincoats. Like a makeup powder made from crushed pearls …. sounds fascinating, doesn’t it?

and as a parting tip, remember … “any up line, is a young line”

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.K]]>
Regular Shirleyphiles … now there’s a contradiction in terms … will probably be gagging over our decision to move the old site to a blog format, but my faithful manservant mr.Kenneth was getting rather tired of managing all that pesky code. So after talking it over a few shandies we decided to grow up after six years of bringing you these twisted little shows and join ‘blogdom’. Besides, I also felt radioShirley was begging for a new coat of war paint, so here it is!!! And to celebrate the new look, we’ve put together a brand new show all about … ahem … makeovers!

Inspired by the fabulous photo above of laShirl spotted in the workplace sent to me by our favourite “rabid Aussie chick” and devoted Shirleyphile, laCass of Melbourne Australia, mr.K has put together a splendid mix of tunes and sound bytes that all revolve around the theme of DRAG.

Hiding in this musical make-up kit among other aural delights are Frank Sinatra, Blondie, Bobbie Gentry, Marc Almond, Taboo, Hermans Hermits, Miss Piggy, David Rose, New York Dolls, Lorrae Desmond and The Raincoats. Like a makeup powder made from crushed pearls …. sounds fascinating, doesn’t it?

and as a parting tip, remember … “any up line, is a young line”

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr.K]]> 8610292 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:54:24 +0200 2023-03-31T09:54:24+02:00 39:45 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/011207its-elemental-my-dear-shirley/ 8610315 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:56:59 +0200 2023-03-31T09:56:59+02:00 44:45 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/031010radioshirley-presents-hooked-vol-2/
Here we go again dipping into some tunes which have been getting a recent beating from mr.K. These are some of the high rotation sounds my faithful manservant has been torturing me with mornin’ noon and night over the past month!
You know, I cut a deal with mr.K that if I let him take over the playlist this time, that he’d spare me from the aural pain that is Elton John for at least six months! Done! Reg Dwight is one of our major points of musical difference and the source of many minor irritations. I blame the sounds of little Reg which float through the halls of Casa Shirley at the most inappropriate times – read cocktail hour – entirely for the nasty rash that has erupted on my legs. mr.K adores the 70’s Elton. Any period of Elton sends yours truly running for the calamine lotion and fumbling for the ON switch of the leaf blower!

Almost two years ago to the day, we launched HOOKED VOL 1 and this is, apart from an appearance from la Elton, a rockin’ extravaganza to equal if not better VOL 1! mr.K has pieced together a truly marvvy selection from Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Nina Hagen, Connie Francis, Sweet, Yello, Gene McDaniels, X-Ray Spex, Elton – ahem – John, CCS, and just for Chaiscout because we couldn’t lay our paws on Johnny Cash’s ‘Cocaine Blues’ as requested – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, The Creatures, Brenton Woods, Bunker Hill (I LOVE that one), Angelic Upstarts (the ultimate aural itcher, twitcher and bitcher in my opinion) and wrapping it all up, Hawkwind with a long time favourite, ‘Quark, Strangeness and Charm’.

So Shirleyphiles, tear open that box of Cadbury’s Roses, fumble for your favourites (I bagsy the Turkish Delights 😉 and chew slowly as we present HOOKED VOL 2!

Until, next time, take care, play fair and please dispose of the wrappers thoughtfully!!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Angelic Upstarts, Brenton Woods, Bunker Hill, CCS, Connie Francis, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Elton John, Gene McDaniels, Hawkwind, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Mae West, Nina Hagen, Sweet, The Creatures, X-Ray Spex, Yello]]>
Here we go again dipping into some tunes which have been getting a recent beating from mr.K. These are some of the high rotation sounds my faithful manservant has been torturing me with mornin’ noon and night over the past month!
You know, I cut a deal with mr.K that if I let him take over the playlist this time, that he’d spare me from the aural pain that is Elton John for at least six months! Done! Reg Dwight is one of our major points of musical difference and the source of many minor irritations. I blame the sounds of little Reg which float through the halls of Casa Shirley at the most inappropriate times – read cocktail hour – entirely for the nasty rash that has erupted on my legs. mr.K adores the 70’s Elton. Any period of Elton sends yours truly running for the calamine lotion and fumbling for the ON switch of the leaf blower!

Almost two years ago to the day, we launched HOOKED VOL 1 and this is, apart from an appearance from la Elton, a rockin’ extravaganza to equal if not better VOL 1! mr.K has pieced together a truly marvvy selection from Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Nina Hagen, Connie Francis, Sweet, Yello, Gene McDaniels, X-Ray Spex, Elton – ahem – John, CCS, and just for Chaiscout because we couldn’t lay our paws on Johnny Cash’s ‘Cocaine Blues’ as requested – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band, The Creatures, Brenton Woods, Bunker Hill (I LOVE that one), Angelic Upstarts (the ultimate aural itcher, twitcher and bitcher in my opinion) and wrapping it all up, Hawkwind with a long time favourite, ‘Quark, Strangeness and Charm’.

So Shirleyphiles, tear open that box of Cadbury’s Roses, fumble for your favourites (I bagsy the Turkish Delights 😉 and chew slowly as we present HOOKED VOL 2!

Until, next time, take care, play fair and please dispose of the wrappers thoughtfully!!

*be smooched*
radioShirl and mr. Kenneth

Angelic Upstarts, Brenton Woods, Bunker Hill, CCS, Connie Francis, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Elton John, Gene McDaniels, Hawkwind, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Mae West, Nina Hagen, Sweet, The Creatures, X-Ray Spex, Yello]]> 8610334 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:00:17 +0200 2023-03-31T10:00:17+02:00 45:10 https://hearthis.at/mrk-radioshirley/230906-in-a-carnival-mode-with-noel-ogden-and-andre/ 8610360 no no Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:02:52 +0200 2023-03-31T10:02:52+02:00 26:21