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MSing About
Ian is an award-winning comedy writer with MS and in the current series, Almost a Radio Show, he teams up with his singer/comedian mate, Dave Prior, for a weekly half-hour of great music, trivia, fun factoids and spontaneous silliness.
Episodes
150 episodes
Looseleft!
In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast, Russell Morris in his first band with Molly Meldrum producing… the cover is Dedicated to the One I Love… Exile has the one-hit-wonder, Kiss You All Over, Dave and Ian find a new toy in AI, and Tori Am...
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Poggled!
Almost a Radio Show this week has teenager, Leonard Cohen, in his first band, The Buckskin Boys… Alan O’Day swings his one-hit-wonder, Undercover Angel, AI does a cover of a Dave Prior original (Scary!), there is a great Cream song rom 1968, Ot...
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Almost a Radio Show - Sonder!
In this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast there’s Brian May and Roger Taylor’s first band, before Freddie Mercury took them to rock-god status in Queen… There’s Louden Wainwright’s son, Rufus, with a great cover…The Dynamic Hepnotics have the ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Kickdrop!
Almost a Radio Show’s word of the week is kickdrop, a recently invented word to describe that moment you jolt awake from a vivid dream and have to recalibrate to the real world. There’s a song from Artie Garr before he owned up to being Art Gar...
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Almost a Radio Show - Lilo!
This week’s special word is lilo – not the blow-up bed but it’s a recently invented word to describe a friendship that can lie dormant for years only to pick right back up instantly, as if you’d seen each other last week. There’s some terrific ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Vellichor!
Who did the best Woodstock – Joni Mitchell or Crosby Stills Nash & Young? Who did The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia? Which rock guitarist did Nessun Dorma? Who did a great cover of The Beatles’ Lady Madonna? Plus whack facts, a Darwi...
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Almost a Radio Show - Lickspittle!
There’s Ian Dury in his first band… Somethin’ Stupid is the cover… Concrete and Clay is the one-hit-wonder… There’s The Band with The Weight and Aretha Franklin does The Beatles cover… plus the Darwin Award, whack facts and a dud invention call...
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Almost a Radio Show - Borborygmus!
Borborygmus is the medical term for tummy rumbles… There’s Chris Isaak in his first band… a cover that beats the original – Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood… There’s Hans Poulsen with a one-hit-wonder… Chicago with the meaning of 25 or 6 to 4… the...
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Almost a Radio Show - Verjuice!
Trivia, whack facts, dud inventions, a Darwin Award and a song that has been covered 212 times – Ralph McTell’s Streets of London… Doug Parkinson formed a band that had Tommy Emmanuel on guitar… Daddy Cool is the one-hit-wonder and Diana Ross a...
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Almost a Radio Show - Cingulomania!
Cingulomania is a strong desire to hold someone in your arms… 10CC’s Graham Gouldman in his first band… multiple Darwin Awards in the one moment of idiocy… Leo Sayer’s show must go on… Where Do You Go to My Lovely is the one-hit-wonder… plus wh...
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Almost a Radio Show - Clinomania!
Do you know anyone who is addicted to bed? Do you know which female artist was responsible for giving Mick Jagger his ‘moves’? Do you know how ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman became his own son's ex-son-in-law, the father-in-law of his ex-mot...
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Almost a Radio Show - Penultimatum!
Penultimate means second to last and a penultimatum is almost the final offer. It is like a bluff. Donald (TACO) Trump is good at it… “Your 10% tariff is now 67%. And that’s final! Um… what about 20%? That’s final. No??? Would you like...
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Almost a Radio Show - Penknife!
Can you guess why the penknife was invented? We have Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett before Pink Floyd… Another worthy idiot wins a Darwin Award…Another Number One hit that took 300 years to chart… and another one-hit-wonder from Roger Voudourus. More...
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Almost a Radio Show - Lollapalooza!
Lollapalooza… an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event…. Another idiot gets a Darwin Award for removing himself from the gene pool… More whack facts and life hacks along with a dud invention – the wine dispensing bra… There’s Graham ...
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Almost a Radio Show - Hireath!
Hiraeth is a curious Welsh word to kick-start this week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast… there is a song called My Jellybean… another deserving winner of a Darwin Award… a cover of a 300-year-old song… Lucky Starr with his biggest hit… Starbuck d...
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Almost a Radio Show - Cherophobia!
This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by a fear of happiness – yes, there is such a phobia… There’s Annie Lennox in a band before the Eurhythmics… Another winner of the coveted Darwin Award who improved our gene pool by remo...
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Almost a Radio Show - Mensch!
In Yiddish, would you rather be a mensch or a schmuck? Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Roy Orbison in his first band, The Wink Westerners… Luke Combs covering Tracy Chapman… Electric Avenue is the one-hit-wonder… we dig up the terrifi...
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Almost a Radio Show - Snollygoster!
Clever but unscrupulous – that’s a ‘snollygoster’… Also in this Almost a Radio Show podcast, Mama Cass in a band before she became famous… Eva Cassidy covering a Fleetwood Mac song… Nicolette Larson with a Lotta Love for the one-hit-wonder… Leo...
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Almost a Radio Show - Deipnosophists!
Almost a Radio Show is brought to you by deipnosophists. Where would we be without them?! There is Olivia Newton John in a band before she became famous… but, if you are in Sweden you can’t dance to it in public without a permit… Soft Cell does...
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Almost a Radio Show - Dunderheads!
This week’s Almost a Radio Show podcast is brought to you by dunderheads and other old-time fools. Eric Carmen started out in a band called The Raspberries. How many paper straws can you stick and hold in a beard? (Hint: More than 100, less tha...
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Almost a Radio Show - Defenestration!
In this Almost a Radio Show, the recent Russian fad of defenestration... Carole King is in a band before becoming a solo sensation... Sting covers Elton John... Jonathan Edwards has his one-hit-wonder... We remember the late George Michael... T...
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Almost a Radio Show - Pluviophile!
In this Almost a Radio Show we discover that Dave is a pluviophile... Debbie Harry is in a band before Blondie... George Michael performs a sensational cover... The Lemon Pipers have a one-hit-wonder from 1968... We remember Ace Frehley from KI...
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Vale. Musicians in Memorium 2025!
A look back at some 40 musicians who died in 2025 but who will live on through their music... including Peter, Paul & Mary, Roberta Flack, Marianne Faithful, Col Joye, Tom Lehrer, Ted Egan, The Beach Boys, Mungo Jerry, The Youngbloods, Badf...
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