Glorious Giggles guaranteed! Gorge yourself on gargantuan geraniums* while Giggles gives 2 hours of great music.
Welcome to Giggles Radio Episode G. Our host Alex Andronov gets you going by playing around two hours of songs themed around a letter. This week the letter is G.
*they are genuinely great (generally)
Playlist
Tina Turner - Goldeneye
The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex
T-Rex - Get It On
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
Blur - Good Song
Beck - Girl Dreams
Beck - Girl
Bellatrix - The Girl With The Sparkling Eyes
Vampire Weekend - Giving Up the Gun
Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers - Glenn Miller Midley
Frantically finding fault with financially funded radio? Fortunately the famously fearful figure Alex Andronov is, from four, broadcasting Giggles Radio.
Welcome to Giggles Radio Episode F. For each episode our host Alex Andronov faces 2 hours of songs themed around a letter. This week the letter is F.
Eventually even Eric's* ears are extremely entertained. Evidently Eric enumerated every element of an excellent experience, excluding engineering, and Giggles Radio empirically excelled - even exceeding electrolysis.
Welcome to Giggles Radio Episode E. Each episode our host Alex Andronov examines his experimental musical experience by playing around two hours of songs themed around a letter. This week the letter is E.
*Eric Boullier from Renault of course.
Playlist
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
The Beatles - Eight Days A Week
Little Boots - Earthquake
Weezer - El Scorcho
Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On
MGMT - Electric Feel
Athlete - El Salvador
U2 - Elevation
EMF - Unbelievable
Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
Paul Weller - English Rose
Jam, The - The Eton Rifles
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially for You
Keane - Everybody's Changing
Morcheeba - Everybody Loves A Loser
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Kaiser Chiefs - Everyday I Love You Less And Less
Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself
Madonna - Express Yourself
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
No Doubt - End It On This
The Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
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Welcome to Giggles Radio Episode D. Each show our host Alex Andronov demonstrates his deft handling of a mixing desk by playing around two hours of songs themed around a letter. This week the letter is D.
Can't concentrate? Caustic cacophony clogging your ears? Choose Giggles Radio.
It's Giggles Radio episode C! Each show we play 2 hours of music themed by starting letter. This week we see the letter C, but also 'cos I'd been by the Sea and Sea sounds like C there was a maritime quality to the collection.
Problems with the live show barely broadcasting between buffering? Blistering Barnacles! Listen to this repeat because B brought better quality than the rest of A-C put together.
This is the second show of Giggles Radio on the subject of the letter B. It's a two hour radio show of music, banter and beer. Not every song began with the letter B, because I'm fickle like that, but quite a lot did.
Playlist
10 C.C. - Dreadlock holiday
Beatles, The - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
Barenaked Ladies - Be My Yoko Ono
Bellatrix - Jediwannabe
Move, The - Brontosaurus
White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
Morrison, Van - Brown Eyed Girl
Take That - Back For Good
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Madness - Baggy Trousers
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Paul Anka - Black Hole Sun
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Warren Zevon - Boom Boom Mancini
New Order - Blue Monday
Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Pixie Lott - Boys and Girls
The Spinto Band - Brown Boxes
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Bug
The Wannadies - Bumble Bee Boy
CAKE - The Distance
Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine
Make sure you blast up the volume, and with the music blaring out your speakers you'll be bouncing along. Bye!
Apparently an archived article about Alex Andronov's alphabetical album almanac actually already appeared on Sidepodcast.
Oh no it hasn't and that's the point of this post!
Welcome to Giggles Radio. I have, rather rashly perhaps, agreed to create 26 radio shows which will be featured on Sidepodcast. Because I am the proud owner of a PRS broadcasting licence I can even play songs you've actually heard of.
In each show I will pick a letter of the alphabet and will aim to play around 2 hours of music. Many of the songs will start with whichever letter, this week A. Hopefully you can listen whether you are in Antarctica or on the Australian Achepelago or anywhere around the world. (Actually Antartica and Australia are adjacent, the Arctic is more appropriate.)
During this show a number of technical issues occurred causing the show to appear in three bits, but that's what happens with Archives apparently.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Playlist
Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
ABC - The Look Of Love
The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong
Blondie - Atomic
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
Green Day - American Idiot
The Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Melanie - Brand New Key
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Black, Frank & Teenage Fanclub - Handyman
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson
Auf Der Maur - I'll Be Anything You Want
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Grandaddy - A.M. 180
Barenaked Ladies - Alcohol
The Killers - All These Things That I've Done
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Blur - You're So Great
Steve Harley & The Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile
Anyway that's enough of me, so see you later Alligator.
Alex Andronov guides us through his experience at a rather swanky event in London, where two veterans of motorsport were about to meet and share their memories with a select few.
After Sidepodcast announced the once in a lifetime chance to hear Murray Walker interview Sir Stirling Moss, I girded my bank account into action and booked my ticket.
The venue was to be the RAC - a members only club - in central London. A very swanky part of London. The dress code required a tie and so I got dressed up and headed to the venue. The RAC is a pretty swanky venue steeped in car history. They even have old cars just sitting in the lobby. I would like to tell you that I made copious notes about what this car was but sadly I got distracted by something else.
As I delicately supped at my glass of Champagne, I discreetly made a few comments on Sidepodcast just to let everyone know what was going on. After a while I decided to check if I could actually see Murray or Stirling. So I had to look away from my iPhone (other mobile doohickey devices are available) and look around the room.
Suddenly there they were. People were all being very polite and not approaching, they looked like they were in conversation with friends. But of course, let's face it, they were probably just in conversation with people who were more pushy than me. I tried to very subtly snap some pictures. It would appear that clandestine reconnaissance is not in my immediate future. For me subtle = shaky!
Slowly the room started filling up and I got chatting to a number of Formula 1 fans. I recommended that they all immediately check out the website of the greatest Formula 1 podcast in the world. The general consensus was that now they were here they would check out the talk, but they would check out the site afterwards.
While I had been chatting to these people the crowd had increased in size and a line had appeared for photos with Murray.
I passed my iPhone to a young guy who looked like he could deal with the modern technology.
There we had it. The key shot, bit blurry perhaps but it was proof nevertheless. I didn't get a chance to talk to the man himself because he was being distracted by the lady in the previous shot who had switched over to his other side. It didn't matter, I was happy!
I wondered about taking a few more photos (and even some video) while I waited for dinner.
Suddenly, we were whisked into a large dining room with lots of enormous round tables and plenty more new people to meet. I was sitting between a guy who didn't like Formula 1 anymore and a guy who was one of the James Bond stunt drivers. They were both very interesting to talk to. Dinner arrived.
I wasn't sure what was going to happen next. It seemed that there was some kind of rostrum ready for them to speak on. In all of the excitement I managed to spill gravy on my tie. The main attraction of the evening began with a short film talking about Sir Stirling's career, and after that Murray and Stirling took to the stage.
They started going when the microphones weren't working properly and so it was hard to work out exactly what was being said. Murray asked him how he got started in racing and he talked about his dad. Murray asked if Stirling had been pushed by his father and Stirling said that his dad was hard but fair. Put it this way, he said, if he had done something wrong he would get his mother to talk to his dad for him.
Then, thank goodness, they fixed the microphone and I managed to record the rest of the session. There were some absolute gems in the recording, and although the quality wasn't great, it was worth it.
With that, the mingling really got going. It was a great evening so thanks to Sidepodcast for the tip off and for all of the comments through the evening.
The two men are legends, and when you get a chance to listen to legends it isn't expensive, it's priceless.
Alex has very kindly passed the audio recording to us, and we will be releasing it as special podcast all of its own very soon.
