Shows
Daily ChioftaPieris Pierettis legend of CyprusWhen Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.2020-09-0605 minDaily ChioftaFrom Eve to GusHow a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.2020-08-2604 minDaily ChioftaCenturian ChioftaA reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...2020-08-1106 minDaily ChioftaPolitics - the open sewerPolitics with a big p is like an open sewer.2020-08-1006 minDaily ChioftaMonoux - High SchoolMemories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.2020-08-0905 minDaily ChioftaMIDEM late 1990sI went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.2020-08-0805 minDaily ChioftaNana & Kojak2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...2020-08-0705 minDaily ChioftaBitter DurrellA few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.2020-08-0605 minDaily ChioftaA Diblokambino called SotiroullaMy truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.2020-08-0504 minDaily ChioftaReggae...My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...2020-08-0406 minDaily ChioftaXaratsiA place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.2020-08-0304 minDaily ChioftaRadio...One of my life long passions...Radio...2020-08-0207 minDaily ChioftaVal's PlaceA very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.2020-08-0104 minDaily ChioftaThe day Bob Marley died...11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.2020-07-3105 minDaily ChioftaTo Skodomeno - a first encounter with a Skoda CoupeAround 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...2020-07-3006 minDaily ChioftaChippy Riot in LiverpoolLiving through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.2020-07-2906 minDaily ChioftaJeff Trump and RidersRiders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!2020-07-2805 minDaily ChioftaNames...such important things...Names mean so much to us...we carry them for life...2020-07-2703 minDaily ChioftaInterviewing ShaggyEarly 90s I interviewed Shaggy 3 times. Entertaining, clever and a total prankster!2020-07-2604 minDaily ChioftaThe man who called me John...Collecting records from age 14 I encountered a man in a shop who constantly called me John.2020-07-2505 minDaily ChioftaDon't DJ when intoxicated on TsipouroA powerful drink from Greece once taught me a simple lesson in life...Don't DJ when drunk!2020-07-2404 minDaily ChioftaSurrealistic gigsMy take on gigs that might go wrong...2020-07-2306 minDaily ChioftaGreek SchoolMy Saturdays....Greek School2020-07-2205 minDaily ChioftaSean Connery IthakaTeaching Ithaka by Kavafy as told by Sean Connery...2020-07-2105 minDaily Chiofta20th July 1974 InvasionThe sirens wail again...2020-07-2003 minDaily ChioftaThings that make you go mmmm during gigsA collection of mini chioftes on things that happened during gigs in Cyprus.2020-07-1905 minDaily ChioftaPiracy in CyprusThe illegal industry in Cyprus that affected many musical careers.2020-07-1806 minDaily ChioftaImiz & The HajiOn matters and encounters of the Imiskoumbrian kind...2020-07-1707 minDaily ChioftaZorbas & PunishmentMy first case of inclass punishment - the crime - knowing how to dance Zorbas!2020-07-1605 minDaily Chiofta15th July 1974 Military CoupThe Military Coup in Cyprus 15th July 1974 changed the course of history.2020-07-1505 minDaily ChioftaThe case of the alleged "stolen" VrajesKantonas ,Vrajes and a close shave with the law in Chingford.2020-07-1406 minDaily ChioftaSugar on Radio in CyprusSugar's only live radio interview in Cyprus in 1997 started off with an eruption of laughter...2020-07-1305 minDaily ChioftaDo Good...Good deeds always bring good vibes...2020-07-1204 minDaily ChioftaZebekikoThe notorious 9/8 rhythm that some cannot grasp.2020-07-1104 minDaily ChioftaSociological ChioftesMy love for Sociology goes back to school and accidentally misprounouncing the word in Greek has become a Poumbouris family urban folk myth.2020-07-1005 minDaily ChioftaMaro-Maria BANNEDA painful story of infidelity, Maro-Maria, a song from my 2nd LP Aphrodite's Dream' and how the video clip got banned.2020-07-0905 minDaily ChioftaDJ Marios Avraam...Vintaaage ChakkosA great friend, DJ and supporter of my work since 1988.2020-07-0804 minDaily ChioftaA man called Skev - coincidences galoreI have known him since I was 12. Our friendship is like duracel batteries, it just goes on and on....2020-07-0704 minDaily ChioftaLearning things the hard wayLondon was very different from Marathovouno and some things had to be learned the hard way...2020-07-0606 minDaily ChioftaThe first day at schoolThe first day at school in Walthamstow was all about eyes...2020-07-0504 minDaily ChioftaMr and Mrs MeadeThe neighbours who took care of me and taught me so much.2020-07-0404 minDaily ChioftaThe journey and arriving in LondonThe flight from Cyprus to London via Athens, at the age of 4 was traumatic.2020-07-0305 minDaily ChioftaThe letter, Shenkou and the swallowsThe letter that changed the entire course of my life.2020-07-0204 minDaily ChioftaMy grandfather Poumbouris and my love for travelTravel is a very important part of my life which is thanks to my grandfather Poumbouris.2020-07-0104 minDaily ChioftaA day in PeladousaA visit to film maker Panicos Chrysanthou in Peladousa turned out to be a real cliffhanger.2020-06-3004 minDaily ChioftaI love PaphosPaphos is where it all began for me in Cyprus. I had an amazing time there in the summer of 1993. Lesson 1 was also learned...never cross a Paphian...2020-06-2906 minDaily ChioftaChris The Black RembetiAn encounter on a 29 bus with a Haringey Urban Legend.2020-06-2804 minDaily ChioftaWeddings UK Part 3 - Bands, the legends, the lame and the lousyBands played a big role in the Wedding business in the UK.2020-06-2705 minDaily ChioftaWeddings UK Part 2 - Brox On The BoxBrox Broxenia the archaic practice of matchmaking caught on camera.2020-06-2605 minDaily ChioftaWeddings UK - part 1 videos and bloumishaThe arrival of video cameras as weddings meant everyone had a recird about bloumisha2020-06-2504 minDaily ChioftaVote with your moneyjudging people by how they talk or look has consequences2020-06-2405 minDaily ChioftaKochinis Walthamstow MarketEvery Saturday my mum had a routine, shopping the length of Walthamstow Market.2020-06-2305 minDaily ChioftaCyBC Radio 2 - what's that smell?My lowest experience in Radio...2020-06-2206 minDaily ChioftaPapoutsosiko - The Prickly Pear Jerk DanceA customer picks the wrong fruit to steal from a Bakaliko in Dalston 1977.2020-06-2104 minDaily ChioftaCyprus Cyprus everywhereTraveling the world you come across places and people with a Cyprus connection.2020-06-2004 minDaily ChioftaWho is Stavroulla?A true and harrowing chiofta on the writing of 'Stavroulla'.2020-06-1904 minDaily ChioftaWrestling - Big Daddy versus MilosMy mum loved wrestling and my dad's cousin Milos, became a wrestler from the 1930s in England.2020-06-1805 minDaily ChioftaToppouzos & KantonasToppouzos & Kantonas - friends for life. Early experiences of improvisation on stage...2020-06-1704 minDaily ChioftaSugar's Uncle Paroutis ChioftaCypriots have some characteristic names and ways of reacting when they are innocent in a car crash.2020-06-1603 minDaily ChioftaThe Constantia Brothers and Maria - breaking glassAn escapadecon teaching traditional Cypriot dancing.2020-06-1506 minDaily ChioftaChico Gig 2006A gig in the middle of nowhere in Chico - what goes around comes around.2020-06-1408 minDaily ChioftaMiki - The ZonesThe dread task of doing the zones.2020-06-1304 minDaily ChioftaI was a waiter...once..for just 1 night..My 'Fawlty Towers' moment as a waiter in 1982.2020-06-1205 minDaily ChioftaA concerned Standout Selector in NapaA tale of mispronounciation that could have led to an international incident!2020-06-1104 minDaily ChioftaThe 'solution' - wise insights from my fatherA ten year old in a shoe factory in London Lane, Hackney E.82020-06-1005 minDaily ChioftaMinas the 'bald' bouzouki playerWhen hair or lack of it becomes a criteria for playing bouzouki.2020-06-0904 minDaily ChioftaHaji Perry orders a coffeeHaji can order a coffee at a wedding...but can Perry, his older brother, do the same?2020-06-0805 minDaily ChioftaI never wanted to be a star...Kataklysmos, Larnaca 1993/4 and being chased by 500 screaming teenagers.2020-06-0706 minDaily ChioftaJimmys PanousisJimmys Panousis, Jimmys, Jimmako, legend!2020-06-0605 minDaily ChioftaFrank a Taxi Driver in JamaicaFrank, a Jamaican Taxi Driver aka the Dancehall Reggae Wikipedia on 4 wheels.2020-06-0505 minDaily ChioftaUniversity BarsDiscovering you are from another planet by entering the wrong bar at University2020-06-0405 minDaily ChioftaZanetos ChioftaMy old Greek teacher at college told a good chiofta or two each week in class. This his most famous encounter is about misunderstanding everyday language.2020-06-0305 minDaily ChioftaThe hard chick pea Bluesa tale of the hard chick pea Blues...2020-06-0205 minDaily ChioftaDisco ChioftesDiscos in Cyprus 1970s2020-06-0103 minDaily ChioftaSingers of The CoffeeshopYou are what you declare - a self appointed singer from The Coffeeshop.2020-05-3105 minDaily ChioftaTrehantiri ChioftesSet in the heart of Green Lanes, Haringey, Trehantiri Music, was the Chiofta centre of the community. It also had the largest Greek music selection in the world.2020-05-3005 minDaily ChioftaMy grandmother ShenkouMy grandmother Shenkou was a wise woman from Marathovouno, Mesaoria, Cyprus.2020-05-2905 minDaily ChioftaSugar at the BBCWe arrive at the BBC on a cold snowy winter and file in one by one filling out name tags. Sugar is last...the rest is history.2020-05-2803 minDaily ChioftaThe Golden LarynxA tale of one of the greatest singers of all time, Stelios Kazantzidis.2020-05-2705 minDaily ChioftaAccent...such a funny thingMy first experience of teaching taught students and me how to connect in a better way.. Accents, don't you just love them...2020-05-2604 minDaily ChioftaThe King of the ChioftesGeorges der Parthogh my dear friend taught me two key things...never judge a book by its cover and a chiofta a day keeps the doctor away.2020-05-2506 minDaily ChioftaPissy Pissy Meaow MeaowA tale about the cat statues outside the Carera building in Mornington Crescent.2020-05-2403 minDaily ChioftaA Gringlish Encounter Famagusta 1968My first encounter with Gringlish as spoken by my mum to my aunt in Famagusta 19682020-05-2304 minDaily ChioftaAmeoba Ameoba my Kingdom for an AmeobaA true confession from a surviving vinyl addict2020-05-2205 minDaily ChioftaThe Origins of "Charlie"Where does the term "Charlie" come from2020-05-2105 minDaily ChioftaWagdi a taxi driver in EgyptThe day a taxi driver called Wagdi saved our lives in Port Said, Egypt.2020-05-2005 minDaily ChioftaI got 1 of those - laptop DJsThe art of DJing in the digital age.2020-05-1903 minDaily ChioftaNikos Papazoglou live in London 1986Nikos Papazoglou's first live performance in London - a landmark concert organised by Trehantiri Music with no tables and chairs!2020-05-1804 minDaily ChioftaHaji Mike Eurovizion Urban MythHaji Mike has never done Eurovizion yet many people think he has...2020-05-1704 minDaily ChioftaFate....is a very powerful thingFate, the way things just happen sometimes is such a powerful thing...2020-05-1604 minDaily ChioftaStevie Wonder at the door!Imagine you turn around, and Stevie Wonder's at the door...2020-05-1502 minDaily ChioftaJamaica Jamaica 1996Performing 'Mousiki' live in Jamaica 19962020-05-1407 minDaily ChioftaChampaigne Nights at MalibuMalibu the biggest disco in Cyprus - 1994 - when the champaigne flowed like a river2020-05-1303 minDaily ChioftaVoulez VousThe one and only time I got slapped in a disco2020-05-1202 minDaily ChioftaPorn, Masticating, DetentionMy first ever detention...2020-05-1106 minDaily ChioftaVragaman O VragamanA tale in memory of Sugar who fine tuned a song that changed my life...2020-05-1003 minDaily ChioftaZorba The GreekThe night when not playing Zorba the Greek saved our lives2020-05-0905 minDaily ChioftaThe Masa - The FoodFood is more important than disco lights!2020-05-0804 minDaily ChioftaGo to the GoodIntroducing the Daily Chiofta with Haji Mike2020-05-0501 minDaily ChioftaThe Daily ChioftaDaily stories with Haji Mike a modern day Homer, who lived in Green Lanes...2020-05-0500 min