Get Shirty

We delve deep into the psyche of musician / writer / film-maker and funeral director, Pete "Nod" Owden. Pete loves a work poo and has a constant companion that keeps him on the straight and narrow. Roundabouts are a topic, again, along with respectfulness and music. Is John Travolta the greatest method actor of our time? Listen and find out, definitively! Episode 5 of Season 3 is a corke...

Buckle up it's Salvage Sister Charis Williams with their Get Shirtys. We delve into a little bit of politics, gender and American, can we turn arseholes into renewable energy? The answer is here in Episode 4 of Season 3. Limited area, inability to listen are amongst the talking points. Is marriage on the cards for Charis? Listen and find out.  Hosted by Stuart Hardman with the disembodied voi...

Episode 3 comes to you from the fringes of comedy. To be more precise we talk to Daniel McKeon before his stand up set at our shop, as part of Tunbridge Wells Fringe 2025, during his preparation for Edinburgh Fringe. It's a solitary affair, #stu2 and Sam Whiskers found something better to do! Although Whiskers manages to turn up near the end. Money, who would have thought that would make you...

Season 3 Episode 2 is yet another first for Get Shirty. Nigel is our first returning guest, hence the title of 2nd measure. This time we ask Nigel what gets him shirty about childhood, Teenage years and being an adult. Justice is a recurring theme in this one and we discuss the idea of a new crime vigilante show, Tailored Justice, featuring Nigel Betts, James Barriscale and Barry Aird. It's a...

It doesn't matter how you open the box, the patient information leaflet  will always be there in your way, does it exist when you close the box though? This and many other questions answered in our first episode of season 3 of Get Shirty. David Brooks, long time musician for Gary Numan and many others, get's shirty with us. What's wrong with an abacus, a connect 4 or a cape? Listen...

Episode 11, Season 2. Join us as we talk to Graham Fellows, the man behind wannabe songsmith and performer John Shuttleworth, who has hits such as "Two Margarines" and "I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now". Also famous for the hit "Jilted John", as himself, Graham is an actor, writer and musician in his own right. Why is fitness an issue and Oasis get a mention too. W...

It's 2025 and Stuart Hardman is waffling. What is he waffling about? You will have to listen to find out.  We find out about a new Get Shirty of his and a solo Hatty Cuff, Off The Cuff. Some peaks into the future of Hardman & Hemming and the Get Shirty podcast, sandwiched with a good helping of jolly waffle and a couple of impressions from the mighty James Barriscale. Hosted by Stuart Har...

We end 2024 on a high with a Special Christmas edition of Get Shirty. We have reached out to previous guests, friends and family, and asked them to send in their Christmas Get Shirtys. Some shirty regulars such as dishwashers, travel and people appear, along with some new ones. A "Frank Sinatra knock off" gets on the not so nice list and roast potatoes make their debut. There is mutiny f...

Episode 8, Season 2 features Guy Lloyd, the Toast of Brighton Nightlife, radio and Channel 4's Come Dine With Me alumni; Season 43 (2018) Episode 21. Is Guy, a person who works with a lot of people, a people person, or a person who thinks people are ok, but not when a person becomes people? Mundanity features heavily in this episode and some behind the scenes TV stuff, along with a story of r...

"Yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today.....", come on sing-a-long everyone. Join us as we talk to Cock-er-ney sing-a-long maestro, Tom Carradine, whose father did not play a mythical Shaolin monk travelling the American Old West, in a long running TV show. Instead he travels around London pushing his upright piano, Kimberly, to his gigs. Does this get him shirty? Why are rive...

English stage, screen and voice actor, Barry Aird joins us for some hot under the collar chat.  Why would anyone need a bucket of that? What's wrong with 70's swimming pools, are plantar warts always bad? Double dipping, some top tier acting tips and cartoon impressions in this episode. Tune in and chill out. Hosted by Stuart Hardman, Sam piping up, mostly laughing, in the background and...

Episode 5 kicks off the Christmas season with panto performer, musician and TV star, Stewart McCheyne, who insists it is the only way to spell Stewart. He takes us on a tour of Gaelic accents and gets shirty about a particular dairy non-dairy product! Would you like to hear about a certain famous astrophysicist married to an Eastender? What about sensitive plumbing? It's all here to enjoy. Ho...

Episode 4 has H & H visiting Paul Zenon, arguably one of the UK's first real street magicians. Listen in as we find out what Paul thinks about the corporate world, how he like his chips served and what he thinks about Hawkwind's fifteenth album. Why do we keep forgetting the hat when we do a road trip? I don't know, it's a mystery. Hosted by Stuart Hardman, no Sam this week...

Episode 3 of Season 2 gives us the opportunity to talk with, I think, our first TV broadcast Journalist, Presenter and House Renovator, Alex Beard. She calls herself a nosey bitch, why could that be? What's wrong with shell-less terrestial Gastropod Molluscs? Why should certain middle aged men have to stick to their lane? Listen in and find out the answers to these and many more questions. Ho...

Season  2, Episode 2, what a rush! This week we talk to musician Mark Morriss , lead singer of UK Indie band, The Bluetones. Why Lewis Collins, what's his packed lunch of choice and why is "Off The Cuff, Cuffy Hat" taking longer to explain each episode? These questions and more answered in this week's episode. Hosted by Stuart Hardman of Hardman & Hemming Music by DatHazza...

Welcome to Season 2 of The Get Shirty Podcast, with guest Mat Riley.  We kick this season off with a live episode, recorded as part of the Tunbridge Wells Fringe, at The Old Auction House in Tunbridge Wells, July 4th 2024. Mat appeared on Season 6 of The Great British Bake Off with Mel & Sue, is a fireman, is an author, is an artist, a public speaker, I sound like Brett Goldstein now!  But can...

Almost a year before our first podcast was released,  and before Off The Cuff Hatty Cuff, we recorded the Pilot. Here we are going for proof of concept. Did we achieve it? You decide. Wibbly wobbly playgrounds, greenfly and the weather all feature heavily in this episode. Sketchy sound, two giggly man children and Sam in the background with a cough, all add to the genesis of what would be Get Shir...

Episode 12 and the end of the first season. Stuart, the Podcast editor, makes his debut as the guest on Get Shirty, apart from the Pilot episode yet to be released. Why do the banks make him hot under the collar? And how does he manage to stay Zen when driving? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the final episode of Season 1, that also features Tailor extraordinaire Sam, in the ba...

Get Shirty host, Stuart Hardman, with a waffly chat about things to come. Why has the election been called for July 4th, find out in this mini episode. Some new music from DatHazza and a chance to find out where Sam spends her Podcast time. #Stu2 does not feature in this episode, he is too busy editing. Don't worry, though, he will be back bigger than ever very soon! Hardman & Hemming Tai...

Actor and Writer David Barry looks back at his early days acting with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh and  recounts the fun he had in Please Sir! & The Fenn Street Gang. How did he meet Walt Disney and why do ghosts annoy him?  Why is housework dull and can anyone translate what he said in Welsh?  Enjoy this week's chat with host Stuart Hardman of Hardman & Hemming Tailors, music by...

Stand Up comedian, author and Edinburgh Fringe regular is this week's guest. Phil Kay is here to tell us his little annoyances and the things that make him get his shirt out.  How can bodily functions be annoying and why malfunctioning equipment can bring Phil to the brink! Join us on a wandering improv waffle that does have some adult language and themes at times.  Hosted by Stuart Hardman o...

It must be time for a million plus selling music artist. Well here he is; Geoff Wilkinson co-founder and driving force of Us3 ,  whose single " Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) " helped the album Hand on the Torch become the first Platinum (1,000,000 in sales) album for Blue Note records. With 9 albums and over 1000 published tracks Geoff has had an incredible music career spanning over 3 decad...

"I don't get it Mr Stokes!"  Well you will if you listen to this episode featuring the  super early  Sarah Moyle. From Extras to Doctors and a whole lot more before, after and in-between. From cushion wars to the youth of today. Listen in on Sarah's little niggles and find out what makes them shirty and why they have cat walks at home!  Hosted by Stuart Hardman, of Hardman &amp...

Balloons, naked dog and  fish finger sandwiches. What more do you want from a podcast? How about a Sarah Beeny fact? Well it's all here in Episode 7, when we talk to Alex Horne, comedian, writer, musician and bandleader of The Horne Section. We learn about his difficulty in deciding about window shapes for a house and his unremarkable body. It's our first road trip and I try my hand at b...

Does anyone still do Eric Morecombe impressions? Yep, they do on this episode. What about making a memorable impression on your first day at school? Tick, covered. It's all here in Episode 6 with actor, writer,  voice actor, director and film maker; James Barriscale. A man who can make anyone look good in a Show Real and save the world from injustice!  Hardman & Hemming Tailors Get Shirty...