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Someone 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...

A 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 ....

Someone 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 playi...

Inspired 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/

an occasional series - a handful of songs - of no consequence - that have been hopping around in the brain's top paddock of recent days

A 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 th...

A 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 prev...

A 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.

In 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 develop...

A 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 secon...

A 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)

A 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!

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Greetings 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...

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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 y...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ” Official IKEA...

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...

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...

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 l...

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...