mr.K & radioShirley present

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* *...

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...

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...

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 the...

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...

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 havin...

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 fea...

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 nece...

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-cocktai...

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 Ho...

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 smooch...

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, c...

Greetings 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

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 th...

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 e...

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 p...

“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 curs...

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...

Greetings 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...

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 &...

Greetings radioShirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of 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 ho...

Greetings 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. Ke...

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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 nir...

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 fe...

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 ch...