Shows
mr.K & radioShirley presentTHE MESSAGEThis sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world’s most famous sights.
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, lowe...
2025-04-1905 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's Side One Track Ones Vol 3Someone mentioned to me once that they thought ‘the money track’ on albums was usually Track 3. A cursory glance over some albums suggest that that may be the case. But there is something about the thrill of dropping the stylus and having Track 1 jump out the gates with all its bluster and swag. A great opening track has always done wonders to get me itchin’, twitchin’, jumpin’ and howling at the moon! For those playing at home, here is Volume 3 of some of my favourite Side 1 Track1’s. From The Cars to Bobbie Gentry to The Fall to Pavlov's Dog, a great open...
2025-03-1848 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCAMBODIMENTS (2018)For the : Cities and Memory Sounding Nature project is the biggest ever global exploration of the beautiful sounds of nature, covering 55 countries with almost 500 sounds. The sounds have been reimagined by 250 artists to reflect upon the damage being done to our natural world by human-generated sounds.
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 he...
2024-10-0307 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentValentino_Pale Hands, Where Are You Now? (2020)The Smithsonian Treasures project sees sound artists and musicians all over the world producing a series of compositions inspired by individual works from the Smithsonian collection, the world’s largest museum complex – reimagining images and scenes of history, art, science and culture through sound.
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 r...
2024-10-0306 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentA Slow Hot Kiss of Wind (2020)Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno
**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...
2024-10-0310 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentEgyptian Market : Nightmoves (2024)for Cities and Memory Spring project : https://citiesandmemory.com/sound-map/
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 move...
2024-10-0309 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentMulholland di Lammermoor_demoDame Joan Sutherland goes to Mulholland Drive
2024-10-0306 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's SOUNDSTRIPE Vol. 6Another instalment in an ongoing series of some favourite selections from various tv/movie/stage soundtracks and dialogue - remixed and reimagined.
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 #cin...
2024-09-0242 min
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio : 27 Jan. 2014 : Feature : mr.K presents Judy Nylon & Patti Palladin - SNATCHIn this show deep from the archives, mr.K speaks with Gayle Austin of [Curved Radio](http://www.curvedradio.com/) about the work of Judy Nylon & Patti Palladin aka SNATCH, their significance as collaborators and their enduring influence as movers and shakers in the London / NY music arts scene of the mid 1970s / early 1980's. Tracks from SNATCH, Judy Nylon (solo) and Brian Eno with SNATCH are played. The opening track is Andrea Schroeder's version of 'Helden' (Heroes).
From 24:30, mr.K also addresses the matter of Judy Nylon’s key influence on Eno’s appropriation of ‘ambient music’, how her...
2024-03-2231 min
mr.K & radioShirley present#whitney #death #throttledtweetstream (2012)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 d...
2024-03-2203 min
mr.K & radioShirley present"When the pellets drop, count to 10 ..."_demosampling Susan Hayward from *I Want To Live* (1958)
2024-03-2202 min
mr.K & radioShirley present60 seconds of #life and #death (2018)Creative practitioners are increasingly engaged in exploring the opportunities that mobile media technologies afford them to generate new forms of language and aesthetic experiences (Berry & Schleser eds 2014, p 2). Most commonly, this type of practice is in the realm of digital storytelling, image-based collaboration and re-presenting metadata visually. The work, 60 seconds of #life and #death continues my exploration of repurposing default notification sounds from various mobile apps with an intention to elevate them from being functional sonic outputs and reimagine them into poetic and meaningful sonic contexts.
In response to an international call out for the 60 Secondes 2018 sound art...
2024-03-2201 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentDrops_Do You Think Psychiatry Will Help?_demovarious movies samples on top of a sound bed of tap drips effected with a little haunting reverb
2024-03-2203 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentStraitJacket_How do I look?_demosampling Joan Crawford from "Strait-Jacket" (1964)
2024-03-2203 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentWindmills (string section_atmos_round_onkey1) demoexperimenting with samples drawn from the string section and vocal in Barbra Streisand's version of 'Windmills of Your Mind'
2024-03-1801 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentOut of My Head on Windmills and Hypnotism_demosampling and editing Barbra Streisand, Renee Geyer & Pat Collins - The Hip Hypnotist
2024-03-1805 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's SOUNDSTRIPE Vol. 5**Another instalment in an ongoing series of some favourite selections from various tv/movie/stage soundtracks and dialogue - remixed and mashed. **
**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...
2023-10-0154 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's Side One Track Ones Vol 2Someone mentioned to me once that they thought ‘the money track’ on albums was usually Track 3. A cursory glance over some albums suggest that that may be the case. But there is something about the thrill of dropping the stylus and having Track 1 jump out the gates with all its bluster and swag. A great opening track has always done wonders to set the scene and get me itchin’, twitchin’ and jumpin’! For those playing at home, here is Volume 2 of some of my favourite Side 1 Track1’s. From Ian Hunter to Supertramp to Nina Simone to the New York Dolls, a gre...
2023-09-261h 00
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's difficult pleasures Vol. 3A mix of some challenging to some, to others less so, musics and sounds from WIRE, William Burroughs, George Crumb, Suicide, PsychikTV, Gloria Balsam, Karen Finley, Severed Heads, Current 93, Tiny Tim, Robert Fripp, SQÜRL, Leona Anderson & various sound bytes ....
2023-05-1345 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's Side One Track Ones Vol 1Someone mentioned to me once that they thought ‘the money track’ on albums was usually Track 3. A cursory glance over some albums suggest that that may be the case. But there is something about the thrill of dropping the stylus and having Track 1 jump out the gates with all its bluster and swag. A great opening track has always done wonders to set me itchin’, twitchin’ and jumpin’! For those playing at home, here are some of my favourite Side 1 Track1’s. From Phoebe Snow to Pere Ubu to The Cars to Rose Royce, a great opening song doesn’t discriminate i
2023-05-0156 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's Big Sister's Scratchy Singles Vol. 1Inspired by DustySevens' fab 'Play It As It Lays Vol 1' mix, I dipped into a box of scratchy old singles with no covers that belonged to one of my elder sisters and randomly chose 12 of them. These are formative sides. I grew up with these and loved them now as I did as a wee lad.
DustySevens' fab mix : https://www.mixcloud.com/dustysevens/play-it-as-it-lays-vol-1/
2023-05-0129 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's of no consequence #1an occasional series - a handful of songs - of no consequence - that have been hopping around in the brain's top paddock of recent days
2023-05-0127 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCooking Mixes - Sweet Sixteen by radioShirley & mr.KA mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
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...
2023-05-0157 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCooking Mixes - 20/20 Aussie Sisters by radioShirley & mr.KA mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
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...
2023-05-011h 11
mr.K & radioShirley presentCooking Mixes - Rule of Six by radioShirley & mr.KA mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
The Rule Of Six is here.
Presenting six songs with a connection.
Solve the puzzle minus a tracklist.
2023-05-0120 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCooking Mixes - Toujours & Other One Word Titles by radioShirley & mr.KIn response to the Cooking Mixes callout and invitation on Twitter to redress a gender and genre diversity balance in their last mix, ‘Skipping. And other one word titles.’ : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/skipping-and-other-one-word-song-titles/ : mr.K & radioShirley hastily curated a mix of one word titles performed by a bevy of fabulous women! Lets hear it for the girls!!
A mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
2023-05-0156 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCooking Mixes - All The Twos - radioShirley & mr.KA mix developed for the Cooking Up A Quiet Storm crew online project : https://www.mixcloud.com/cooking_mixes/
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...
2023-05-0140 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's difficult pleasures Vol. 2A mix of some challenging to some, to others less so, experimental ballads and toe tappers from Alfred Hitchcock, D.A.F., Laughing Clowns, Stereolab, Psychic TV, Shower Scene From Psycho, Primitive Calculators, The Residents/Art Bears, Jac Berrocal, Ruth White & Anita Lane.
cover image : Andy Warhol's Torso - Richard Avedon (detail)
2023-05-0142 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K's difficult pleasures Vol. 1A mix of some challenging to some, to others less so, musics and sounds from Mars, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nurse with Wound, Diamanda Galas, Sainkho Namtchylak, Chrome Hoof, Ergo Phizmiz & His Orchestra, Leona Anderson, Coil & various sound bytes ... Ergo Phizmiz's interpretation of the Velvet Underground classic, 'Sister Ray' is worth the price of admission alone!
2023-05-0141 min
mr.K & radioShirley present03:10:10 :::: radioShirley presents HOOKED! Vol 2Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 o...
2023-03-3145 min
mr.K & radioShirley present03:10:08 ::: radioShirley presents “DRAG”!Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 celebra...
2023-03-3139 min
mr.K & radioShirley present21:10:08 ::: radioShirley presents “HOOKED! Vol 1”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 m...
2023-03-3143 min
mr.K & radioShirley present28:10:08 ::: radioShirley re-presents “Stand and Deliver!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 30 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3137 min
mr.K & radioShirley present23:11:08 :::: radioShirley presents “What’s in a Name?”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3142 min
mr.K & radioShirley present01:01:2009 :::: radioShirley presents “laShirl’s All Male Revue”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes of low-fi luvliness!
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 the...
2023-03-3140 min
mr.K & radioShirley present06:04:09 :::: radioShirley presents “Open House”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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.
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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...
2023-03-3145 min
mr.K & radioShirley present08:05:09 :::: radioShirley presents “Animal Crackers!Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 ju...
2023-03-3145 min
mr.K & radioShirley present18:09:09 :::: radioShirley presents “ENGAGED!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3148 min
mr.K & radioShirley present02:12:09 :::: radioShirley presents “Going over the top for Wiggie!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3145 min
mr.K & radioShirley present06:03:10 :::: radioShirley presents “BIG!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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?
2023-03-3145 min
mr.K & radioShirley present03/09/12 :::: radioShirley presents “Colour Me Shirley”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3142 min
mr.K & radioShirley present04:06:10 :::: radioShirley presents “ALIVE!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to 60 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 K...
2023-03-311h 02
mr.K & radioShirley present04:07:10 :::: radioShirley presents “Shirl’s Anatomy”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
“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 p...
2023-03-3144 min
mr.K & radioShirley present08:08:10 :::: radioShirley presents “CRY!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
“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...
2023-03-3146 min
mr.K & radioShirley present12:09:10 ::: radioShirley presents “Better The Devil You Know”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 Shirle...
2023-03-3150 min
mr.K & radioShirley present01:04:11 ::: radioShirley presents “Shirl’s out of her Toybox!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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!
2023-03-3045 min
mr.K & radioShirley present14:04:11 ::: radioShirley presents “Workin’ on a Groovy Thing with Shirl”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3047 min
mr.K & radioShirley present16:07:11 ::: radioShirley presents “What’s a Matter, Baby?”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 textua...
2023-03-3050 min
mr.K & radioShirley present31:07:11 ::: radioShirley presents “ART”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 ha...
2023-03-3045 min
mr.K & radioShirley present27:08:11 ::: radioShirley presents Shirl’s Pole Dancing Favourites!Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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
2023-03-3038 min
mr.K & radioShirley present03:09:11 ::: Up Up and Away in a radioShirl Kinda Way!Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3047 min
mr.K & radioShirley present19:10:11 :::: radioShirley presents “A Very Gay Carrington Birthday!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 t...
2023-03-3048 min
mr.K & radioShirley present08:12:11 :::: radioShirley presents MOODYGreetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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
2023-03-3044 min
mr.K & radioShirley present14:0:209 :::: radioShirley presents “Shirl’s Little Helpers”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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...
2023-03-3044 min
mr.K & radioShirley present24:06:12 :::: radioShirley presents “SMOOCHY!”Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 k...
2023-03-3047 min
mr.K & radioShirley present14:07:12 :::: radioShirley presents 'The Return of the 50 ft Francophile!'Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!
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 Bastil...
2023-03-3039 min
mr.K & radioShirley present20:09:12 :::: radioShirley is SPEECHLESS!“Cat got your tongue, Shirl?” enquired mr.K.
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 har...
2023-03-3039 min
mr.K & radioShirley present14:12:12 :::: radioShirley presents TONGUE TIED!Greetings radioShirleyphiles and welcome to another 45 minutes of aural hijinx!
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...
2023-03-3046 min
mr.K & radioShirley present11:01:13 :::: radioShirley presents Slumber LandGreetings radioShirleyphiles and welcome to 40 minutes or so of soporific sounds!
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 fa...
2023-03-3043 min
mr.K & radioShirley present11:02:2013 ::: radioShirley presents 'Sonny & Shirl sing a Duet for You!'Greetings radioShirleyphiles and welcome to 40 minutes or so of double trouble!
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...
2023-03-3045 min
mr.K & radioShirley present05:03:13 :::: radioShirley presents TIMEGreetings radioShirleyphiles and welcome to yet another 40 minutes or so of knob twiddling aural deliciousness!
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
2023-03-3042 min
mr.K & radioShirley present11:05:13 ::: radioShirley presents Carry On Shirley!Greetings Shirleyphiles!
Welcome to another 40 minutes of lo-fi lovliness and how bona to varda your dolly old eeks!!
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 H...
2023-03-3041 min
mr.K & radioShirley present19:06:13 :::: Under the Covers with radioShirl!Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 45 minutes of low-fi lovliness!
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 ex...
2023-03-3045 min
mr.K & radioShirley present14:07:13 ::: radioShirley presents ‘The Attack of the 50 Foot Francophile!'Greetings Shirleyphiles! Welcome to another 45 minutes of lo-fi loveliness!
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 r...
2023-03-3047 min
mr.K & radioShirley present29:09:13 :::: radioShirley presents ‘John, I’m Only Dancing!’Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi luvliness!
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 heartb...
2023-03-3048 min
mr.K & radioShirley present12:11:13 :::: radioShirley presents FRUITY!In the words of the thoroughly fruity Phyllis Diller, “Are you ready for this?” because radioShirleyphiles, the manservant and I have dished up a fruit salad of a show of smorgasbord proportions for you this time around! That WAS a mouthful wasn’t it?
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...
2023-03-3046 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Justin Martell (author) - 'Tiny Tim - The Eternal Troubadour' - 14 Oct. 2014In this show, mr.K speaks with Justin Martell, co-author with Alanna Wray MacDonald of the critically acclaimed biography of performer, Tiny Tim called : *Eternal Troubadour : The Improbable Life of Tiny Tim*.
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...
2023-03-2933 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #366 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Mark Mordue (Author - Nick Cave 'Boy on Fire') - 06 Dec. 2020music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #352 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Mitchell Jones of Scattered Order - 30 Aug. 2020music2bubble'n'squeak2
2023-03-2755 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #244 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Justin Martell & Jay Wollin - 'Tiny Tim - The Musical' - 19 June. 2016Based on the acclaimed biography 'Eternal Troubadour: The Improbable Life Of Tiny Tim' by Justin Martell with Alanna Wray McDonald, 'TINY' was a musical theater production fusing together extracts from Tiny's diary entries with the extraordinary fantasy lens through which he saw life and art. Tiny Tim was a natural-born romantic and it not only shaped his music, it also shaped his life. An extremely versatile singer and style mimic with a complex and fascinating life story, Tiny Tim is the perfect foundation for musical theater, boosted by the absolute love and passion of J. Michael Landis and Jay Wollin...
2023-03-2729 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #210 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Wendy Seary & Andrea Smith (Oriental Rock) - 23 Aug. 2015music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #199 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Susan Welch (Nepal Fundraiser) - 30 May. 2015music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #253 : Interview : mr.K & Gayle Austin interview ... Annabel (lee) - 21 Aug. 2016music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #218 : Interview : mr.K interviews ... Jo Quail (cellist) - 14 Feb. 2016music2bubble'n'squeak2
2023-03-2729 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #433 : Feature : mr.K presents ... Cass ElliotThis feature is a deep dive into the career of one of my favourite artists and voices, Cass Elliot. It explores why musician, Graham Nash once called this influential woman "the Gertrude Stein of Laurel Canyon". We hear some her fabulous material before becoming a founding member of The Mamas & The Papas, some of her solo work after and memories from contemporaries. Cass Elliot achieved much in an extraordinary, albeit short life and career.
2023-03-2734 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #406 : Feature : mr.K presents ... 'The Conet Project'music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #387 : Feature : mr.K presents ... 'Paul Frees & The Poster People'Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920 – November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and vaudevillian. He is known for his work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter Lantz, Rankin/Bass and Walt Disney theatrical cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation, and for providing the voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.[1] Frees was sometimes known as "The Man of a Thousand Voices", an appellation more commonly bestowed on Mel Blanc. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees
Selections of Paul Frees as Clark Gable + Paul Frees as W.C. Fields + Paul Frees as Boris Ka...
2023-03-2721 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentCurved Radio #378 : Feature : mr.K presents ... Peggy Lee's 'Mirrors'music2bubble'n'squeak2
2023-03-2734 min
mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #366 of Curved Radio : 6 Dec. 2020music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #375 of Curved Radio : 7 Feb. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #387 of Curved Radio : 9 May 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #391 of Curved Radio : 6 Jun. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #395 of Curved Radio : 4 Jul. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #399 of Curved Radio : 1 Aug. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #416 of Curved Radio : 28 Nov. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #420 of Curved Radio : 26 Dec. 2021music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #425 of Curved Radio : 10 April. 2022music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #429 of Curved Radio : 8 May. 2022music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #444 of Curved Radio : 21 Aug. 2022music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #452 of Curved Radio : 12 Jan. 2023music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #456 of Curved Radio : 9 Feb. 2023music2bubble'n'squeak2
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mr.K & radioShirley presentmr.K presents ... Episode #460 of Curved Radio : 9 Mar. 2023music2bubble'n'squeak2
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Pregnancy, Alcohol and FASD: The Surprising Reality#27 Past, Present and Future with Dr Kenneth Lyons Jones & Dr Christina ChambersIn this very special September International Awareness Day episode, Kurt is joined by Dr Kenneth Lyons Jones and Dr Christina Chambers. Dr Jones chats about his identification of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, or FAS as it was first termed back in 1970. Dr Chambers chats about recent medical discoveries that are likely to make the process of FASD diagnosis significantly easier. They both talk about attitudes towards FASD and knowledge about this disability in the community as a whole – and also the need to improve the standard of medical knowledge when it comes to both FASD prevention and supporting people wit...
2022-09-0839 min
Filmed Live MusicalsKenneth FerroneHost Luisa Lyons chats with Emmy-Nominated producer and director Kenneth Ferrone. In this epic episode, Luisa and Kenneth discuss multiple filmed live musicals including Sistas: The Musical, Grease Live!, RENT Live on Fox , and SpongeBob the Musical! Learn about the role of Riverside’s Children Theatre in Kenneth’s theatre development and the importance of arts education, how the TV show Smash was Kenneth’s gateway to television and what happened when it was cancelled, the decision behind airing the dress rehearsal of RENT, how digital theatre can compliment live theatre, and so much more! Kenneth F...
2021-10-181h 35
ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth JonesBe Healthy with Lesley Evans LyonsLesley Lyons is a Certified Holistic Health Coach, an entrepreneur, and a professional singer. She maintained a lucrative cleaning business for 15 years while she traveled the country performing on stage as a backup singer. Lesley made several live television appearances and provided background vocals on several hit albums for country music artist, her sister, Sara Evans. Lesley is a graduate of The Institute of Integrative Nutrition and is currently enrolled in the Advanced Gut Health Course to be completed in November 2020. She completed her Health Coaching Certification in November 2019. Following her certification, she started her own successful...
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