04:07:10 :::: radioShirley presents “Shirl’s Anatomy”

original pic by 60 in 3

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 kind of The Dame to put all my best features in a song! ;=) But using school for pleasure? Oh my hat and coat!

Until next time, take care and play fair!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

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04:06:10 :::: radioShirley presents “ALIVE!”

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 show. It is a thoroughly live, continuous performance of Royal Command proportions of some of our favourite live moments that could get any aged King or Queen tearing their knickers off and throwing them at the stage. From Bette Midler to Sweet to Noel Coward to Smokey Robinson to Blossom Dearie to Sergio Mendes to Quentin Crisp and many others, there is plenty in this one to send chills and thrills up your spine and back down to the toes of your collective slingbacks!

Mr. K still shivers nostalgically when the needle drops onto track one of Bette Midler’s “Live at Last” album as he recalls the thrill of being party to one of the stage entrances to end all entrances! The palpable excitement of the audience on this particular recording is so well captured that it transports the manservant back to front row centre for Miss. Midler’s first ever Brisbane show back in the 70′s. Sharing this moment with at least two known Shirleyphiles, you know who you are, Mr. K attests that it could’ve been recorded then and there as the audience reaction is just as wild!

That’s what it’s all about though isn’t it? As masterful as studio recordings can be, its the live experience, the hit and miss, the stage chatter and patter, the warts and all wonderland where the excitement and artistry are truly expressed. Mind you, it takes two to tango as they say and without an appreciative audience to feed off, a performance can easily descend into blanc mange … and we’re not talking 80′s hair bands … or are we?

So Shirleyphiles, fire up your Clap-o-Meters, put on your favourite concert merch and settle in for a cavalcade of our faves doing it for you and doing it ALIVE!

Until next time, take care and play fair.
*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

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09:11:09 :::: radioShirley presents “ENCORE!”

Greetings Shirleyphiles and welcome to another 40 minutes or so of low-fi lovliness!

Time for a second serving Shirleyphiles, of a show we posted couple of years back – “Please laShirl, Can I Have Some More?” While the manservant is twiddling around with a new show, I hope this repeat keeps your appetite for low-fi lovliness sated. Its one of our favourite dishes.

Now I’m no Margaret Fulton or Nigella Lawson when it comes to tossing it up big time in the kitchen department, but mr.Kenneth has a bit of the Jamie Oliver in him when the fancy takes him. And that certain kind of fancy takes him often … but we’ll leave that for another show, shall we?

The manservant been known to have a whole dinner party contingent on the floor squealing with delight after sampling one of his “special” desserts. Apparently he came across the recipe in “The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook”. Do I need to say anymore? I learned my lesson long ago and dare not put so much as a crumb of these after dinner treats near my lips. I just sashay over to the bar, as usual, mix myself another Harvey Wallbanger, sit back with a cigar and count the car keys as they get thrown into the fruitbowl.

Its a very mixed bag in this show, kind of like a musical stir fry with The Tubes, Herb Alpert, Terri “Cupcake” O’Mason, Vincent Price, Deee-Lite, Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan, Duran Duran, Sly Stone, Ella Mae Morse, Eydie Gormé and other tasty musical morsels more or less all ending sunnyside up in the pan!

So kids, it’s time to strap on the aprons … you don’t want too much mess in the kitchen now do you … get out the beaters and prepare yourself to wrap your luscious lips around the mixing bowl with the Sunbeam mixmasters of lurve, yours truly and mr.Kenneth!

Until next time, take absolute care, play fair and don’t forget to eat your crusts!
They’ve put hairs on Shirl’s chest … no kidding!

*be smooched*
laShirl and mr. Kenneth

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