A long conversation with Frankie Connor – BBC Radio Merseyside – Radio Interview
Chatting with Frankie Connor!
A lot of you will probably know about our weekly performances on BBC Radio Merseyside with radio DJ Billy Butler every Saturday for a good part of 2014. Well, Billy wasn’t the only DJ there that had us on his show at the BBC station in Liverpool.
In preparation for an upcoming concert we had a pleasant, long chat with Frankie Connor who was going to be the compère for that event. Frankie is such a bubbly, friendly character making us feel at ease from the get go. He even let us choose the tracklist for the programme … what a brave soul 😉
We hope you enjoy the mixture of music and banter! For copyright reasons and to keep these playback files at a reasonable length we unfortunately had to cut out all songs (except our own of course :-))
LISTEN: 2015/07/05 BBC Radio Merseyside – Frankie Connor
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To all the non-Scousers (Scouser = Liverpudlian) listening … how are you getting on with the local accent? Do you have any troubles understanding Frankie? We know we did when we first moved here! 😉
Stay groovy and have a great day,
Mona & Lisa
“Some of them sound the same”! Now which evil twin is responsible for this statement? Ray Davies was one of the great social commentators when it came to the pop scene in swinging London in the sixties. He has a very diversified catalogue of songs. As well as the ones mentioned by Frankie, there’s ‘A Well Respected Man’ and ‘Sunny Afternoon’ from this period. Now there’s a good one for you to cover, ‘Sunny Afternoon’ with a video in your ‘Daydream’ style would be just fab!
I do get where you are coming from with your hesitant ‘the same’ comment though. ‘You Really Got Me’ and ‘All Day and All Of the Night’ are quite similar, as are ‘A Well Respected Man’ and ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’. I think you could do a wonderful cover of ‘Dedicated Follower of Fashion’ – ‘He thinks he is a flower to be looked at, And when he pulls his frilly nylon panties right up tight, He feels a dedicated follower of fashion’. Now I’m sure Mona could do justice to that line in her ‘Bus Stop’ acting style!
It is a fun interview and sustains multiple listenings. You seem very relaxed and comfortable. So Mona could have been Anton, or Toni. Wow! just as well she was a sister as ToniLisa doesn’t have the same cachet.
I really enjoyed that! It was such a fun and insightful radio interview. Great original and cover song selections, and the last Nat King Cole song was a nice touch! Hearing your mention of the Kinks, one day would love to pick your brains on your insights, preferences, and opinions on the different great bands. Being song writers and musicians yourselves, I think you would provide some really valuable and insightful point of view. Thanks so much for this!
Really nice to hear this radio interview again. I’m also glad you selected “Waterloo Sunset” to be played as It’s my favourite Kinks song. I live in hope that one day you will do your own cover. Frankie is a good interviewer and I think he brought the best out in you. Glad we got to hear your ‘Thats Life’, and ‘June’ and also your cover of ‘Friday On My Mind’. And Nat King Cole, wow! what a brilliant and appropriate number to finish on. Thank you for sharing this program again. Stay Groovy!