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Live: Giggles Radio - H

Happily Harry Houdini hardly had hair. However at school: Harry, while Harold had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on him.*

Hanyway... Hours of Giggles Radio coming up. In each episode our host Alex Andronov hears 2 hours of songs themed around a letter. This week the letter is H.

*This is explained here.

Playlist

• The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
• Goldfrapp - Happiness
• Take That - Hold Up A Light
• The Smiths - Panic (Hang the DJ)
• Weezer - Hash Pipe
• Cat Stevens - Hard-Headed Woman
• The Divine Comedy - The Happy Goth
• Johnny Cash - Hurt
• The Housemartins - Happy Hour
• Bernard Cribbins - The Hole In the Ground
• Frank Black & Teenage Fanclub - Handyman
• Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone
• Altered Images - Happy Birthday
• Breeders - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
• The Beatles - Happiness Is A Warm Gun
• The White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
• Black Crows - Hard To Handle
• The Beach Boys - Help Me, Rhonda
• Field Music - A House Is Not A Home
• David Bowie - Heroes
• Toni Basil - Hey Micky
• Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs.. Rhymenoceros (feat. Rhymenocerous and the Hiphopopotamus)
• OutKast - Hey Ya!
• The Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains
• Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie
• Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Hunting Tigers Out In 'Indiah'
• Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
• The Beatles - Her Majesty

Live: Giggles Radio - G

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
• Frank Black & The Catholics - Goodbye Lorraine
• The Wallflowers - God Don't Make Lonely Girls
• Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway
• Just Jack - Glory Days
• Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
• Harrison, George - Got My Mind Set On You
• Duran Duran - Girls On Film
• Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

Live: Giggles Radio - F

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.

Part 1

Part 2

Playlist

• Michael, George - Faith
• Muse - Filip
• Warren Zevon - The Factory
• Lady GaGa - The Fame
• Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
• Keys, Alicia - Fallin'
• Alphabeat - Fascination
• La Roux - Fascination
• Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
• Lily Allen - The Fear
• Robbie Williams - Feel
• Ben Kweller - Falling
• Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.
• White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl
• The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
• Suede - Filmstar
• Little Angels - First Cut Is The Deepest
• Morrissey - First Of The Gang To Die
• Fine Young Cannibals - The Flame
• Eels - Flyswatter
• The Beatles - For No One
• The Yardbirds - For Your Love
• The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
• The Lemonheads - Frank Mills
• Sugar Babes - Freak Like Me
• Wham! - Freedom
• Cure - Friday I'm In Love
• Beach Boys, The - Fun, Fun, Fun
• Queen - Flash
• Skynyrd, Lynyrd - Freebird

Live: Giggles Radio - E

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

Live: Giggles Radio - D

Don't dare deviate! Get down during Giggles Radio D! Develop your docile dwelling-mates into dancing demons by dominating the den with the demerara sounds of Giggles Radio D.

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.

Playlist

• Stereophonics – Dakota
• Dizzee Rascal – Dance Wiv Me [Feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome]
• Toploader – Dancing In the Moonlight
• ABBA – Dancing Queen
• Arctic Monkeys – Dancing Shoes
• Electric Six – Danger (High Voltage)
• Gorillaz – Dare
• The Rolling Stones – Dandelion
• T.Rex – Debora
• Beck - Debra
• Beatles, The – Day Tripper
• Right Said Fred – Deeply Dippy
• Babyshambles – Deft Left Hand
• The White Stripes – The Denial Twist
• King Kurt – Destination Zululand
• Richard, Cliff – Devil Woman
• Quatro, Suzi – Devil gate drive
• Florence & The Machine – Dog Days Are Over
• The Beautiful South – Don’t Fear The Reaper
• Yazoo – Don’t Go
• The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way
• The Thrills – Don’t Steal Our Sun
• The Spinto Band – Direct to Helmet
• The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
• No Doubt – Don’t Speak
• Dylan, Bob – Don’t think twice it’s alright
• Simple Minds – Don’t You
• Nirvana – Drain You
• Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
• The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain – Dy-Na-Mi-Tee

Don't desert the comments, dog!

Sunday Afternoon Giggles

Since Christmas, we have stepped back from live streaming the podcast recordings on a Sunday night. Most of the issues are down to server and technical bits and pieces, but it also takes the pressure off us on a weekend. We want to make the live streaming as good as it can be, and putting a halt to proceedings is the easiest way to evaluate what we're doing.

To keep you all in the loop, we're not planning to bring back live streaming over the next few weeks, but it is our aim to return to the world of live before the season gets underway. Either way, we'll definitely be back for the first race.

You're not missing anything, as when we do off-line shows, it isn't half as much fun as it is when we're watching the comments. I do promise to keep finding the outtakes for you, though, because it's only fair you get to see us mess up, even if we're not streaming the process.

But wait! It's not all bad news. We do have some live streaming to bring to you. Parade Lap host Alex Andronov managed to acquire a PRS licence and began a weekend radio show, bringing a couple of hours of music, live streamed into your ears. Proper music as well! It's brilliant.

As our first ever guest broadcast, one in which we are not involved at all, we are opening up a thread for the Giggles Radio phenomenon, allowing listeners to watch and comment right here on Sidepodcast. The show isn't really F1 related, other than the fact that, erm, Giggles is an F1 fan, and sometimes he plays songs that mention cars. I think that is tenuous enough for us.

Giggles Radio takes a different letter of the alphabet each episode, and plays songs surrounding that letter. We've already seen A, B and C, and in case you missed them, we have posted the replays in a dedicated category. You can find them here:

• Giggles Radio - A
• Giggles Radio - B
• Giggles Radio - C

I've also entered the latest Giggles Radio show into the Calendar, and it just so happens it will take place today, starting at 4pm UK time. Alex is much better at sticking to a schedule than we are here at Sidepodcast, so make sure you checkout the Giggles Radio thread later this afternoon.

Live: Giggles Radio - C

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.

Part 1

Part 2

Playlist

• Ash - Girl from Mars
• Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Canyons Of Your Mind
• Mamas And The Papas, The - California Dreaming
• Carrie - California Screamin'
• Christina Aguilera - Candyman
• Gary Numan - Cars
• Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
• The Breeders - Cannonball
• T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution
• Eric Clapton - Cocaine
• J. Geils Band, The - Centerfold
• Wham! - Club Tropicana
• Charles Trénet - La Mer
• Belinda Carlisle - Circle In the Sand
• Stranglers - Peaches
• The Presidents of the United States - Peaches
• The Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
• Morrissey - Come Back To Camden
• Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
• Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
• T'Pau - China In Your Hand
• David Bowie - Changes
• Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
• Scissor Sisters - Comfortably Numb
• Pulp - Common People
• Barry Manilow - Copacabana
• Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye
• Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Cool Britannia

Sea you next time!

Live: Giggles Radio - B

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!

Live: Giggles Radio - A

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.

Friday Fun - Song Title Squeeze

Following on from last week's press release related game, something came out of that which covers today's Friday Fun as well.

All you have to do is pick a band, and then write your press release quotes, fitting in as many song titles as you can. Craft your press release well and they should fit in without anyone noticing.

Here's an example:

B*Witched

"It was not a good race out there today, a bit damp, but we can only Blame It On The Weatherman. I would have liked to win but C'est La Vie. When I crashed, it was pretty scary and I just thought oh, Jesse, Hold On.

I know you can do better.