Apricity is catching the warmth of the sun in winter! Did you know Beyonce started in a band called Girls Tyme? Not good. Did Paul McCartney really die in 1967? Do you remember Pilot of the Airwaves? Stevie Wright fronting The Easybeats before ...

Interrobang! Gosh. Episode 30. And apart from interrobang, Almost a Radio Show has Neil Diamond’s first band, Neil & Jack… Santana with a cover that is better than the original… Right Said Fred with a one-hit-wonder… INXS with Australia’s g...

Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by Glabella & Philtrum. They are not lawyers or accountants but features as plain as the nose on your face… There’s a cover song performed by a group who also wrote the original (hint – the first song w...

Please don’t absquatulate from Almost a Radio Show because there are lots of goodies like trivia, fun factoids, an accidental invention, a boke called Sting before he became famous, a bloke called Eddie Cochran before he became 21 and Henry Deu...

Nothing rhymes with pint, orange, silver, bilge, month, ninth, dangerous or marathon… bit something rhymes with purple! Carly Simon sings (before she became famous), The Beatles do a cover and the late Peter Woolnough is part of Almost a Radio ...

Billingsgate is home to London’s fishmarkets and the resident fishmongers have such colourful vulgar language it is actually called Billingsgate language.  Also part of Almost a Radio Show this week – Tom Jones, the Mamas & the Papas, ...

Just what is nugacity?! What band did Shirley Strachan front before finding fame in Skyhooks? What song did Cyndi Lauper cover and make her own? What Beatles number one song has not one Beatle playing an instrument? And, as usual, there's trivi...

Almost a Radio Show podcast this week is brought to you by the word tarradiddle… and includes an occupation called luthier… Ronnie Burns in a band called The Flies… Manfred Mann covering Bruce Springsteen… The Troggs’ biggest hit… a Bob Dylan h...

Gardyloo is the word of the day in Almost a Radio Show. It’s what people yelled from upstairs windows to warm passers-by below that they were about to empty their chamber pot onto the street. There’s Rod Stewart in a band before he became famou...

In Almost a Radio Show the word ‘textpectation’ enters the language… John Paul Young enters a band called Elm Tree… there are more portmanteaus than you can poke a podcast at… a Bob Dylan cover that knocks Bob out of the park…there’s Dexys Midn...

It’s Almost a Radio Show podcast 21 and what do these have in common – buffleheads, bustards, boobies, bushtits, dickcissels, goat suckers, bog suckers and honeycreepers? Who is the famous rocker whose first band was called The Golliwogs? Which...

Brouhaha brings you Episode 20 of Almost a Radio Show… Who is that famous muso in a band called The Pink Finks? Who is that singer who loves rock and roll? Who fooled around and fell in love? Who was just a red brassiere to all the boys in town...

This Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by the word ‘bumfuzzled’. It’s an old word meaning confused, baffled or puzzled. As in “I am bumfuzzled as to why Donald Trump was voted in as President again. Was it because Joe Biden spent th...

Almost a Radio Show, podast number 18… Where would you find your acnestis? Who was in Rick and the Ravens before finding fame? What do you know about asparagus? What would be the Richie Valens cover? What was Barry McGuire’s one-hit...

This week's Almost a Radio podcast is brought to you by discombobulate... There’s Madonna's first band before found fame as Madonna... Blind Faith with a Buddy Holly cover... Remember Abigail's sexy one-hit-wonder?... Warren Zevon makes an appe...

PeterFrampton in a band before he became famous...a cover of a Jimmy Webb classic by Donna Summer... The Buggles with their One-Hit-Wonder... Glam-rocker Marc Bolan... a fabulous accidental invention, trivia, fun factoids and a surprise cover o...

This week's podcast is brought to you by the lovely smell of rain on dust, petrichor. There’s a stack of goodies including a cryptic pregnancy, jobs celebrities had before they became celebrities, a famous muso with a song before he found fame,...

Quafftide – it is a time of day, week, month or year that drinkers enjoy… there’s an Australian inland city that has a beach, that saw the first ever Chiko Roll and gave birth to The Eurythmics… John Farnham belts out a cover…  there’s som...

Just what can jentacular tittynopes be? There’s another accidental invention, fun factoids and a pot pourri of performers in Ray Charles, Herman’s Hermits, Gary Shearston, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Boys II Men and the Starland Vocal Band with a delightfu...

Pot-Valiant is a quaint term for alcohol inspired bravado or stupidity… David Bowie sings when he was still known as Davy Jones… Zager & Evans sing the only song they are known for as Zager & Evans… It’s a mad world for Gary Jules and a...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Winklepickers! We’ve got Brian May and Roger Taylor in a band before they became part of Queen… an Aussie band covering Eleanor Rigby… a one-hit-wonder from John Fred and his Playboy ...

Serendipity is the word in this week’s podcast… those wonderful parts of life that are totally unplanned but make for unforgettable memories. There’s music from 16yo Billy Field in a band called King Fox, Johnny Cash with a terrific cover, a on...

This week’s podcast is called Euphoric Phlegm because we reveal a survey’s finding of the five worst and best sounding words in the English language. There’s Neil Young in a band before he became famous, movie trivia, a great cover from Urge Ov...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by an Ultracrepidarian. There’s Phil Collins before he joined Genesis in a band called Flaming Youth… A cover of a Prince song knocks Prince out of the park, Gallery provides the one-hit-wonder,...

This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by Bumfiddling, and that may not be what you are thinking! There’s AC/DC’s Bon Scott singing bubblegum, a fabulous cover song that had its origins a century earlier, a terrific one-hit w...