Showtune on Radio Abbey

17/07/2025

Fantastic production at the RSC tonight. Ok not a musical but always worth sharing theatre. One of the best things that I have gained from doing this show is a lovely friend who is tempting me into seeing way more than I would have done before. I also ran into one of my closest friends from London, I love the theatre world.

13/07/2025

Back from my adventures and feeling very flat to be honest, so I need something to look forward to (OK, I do have more theatre trips but....)
I am thinking ahead to the 200th episode. It should be in October, we're on 189 this week. I would love to do something special but I have no idea what. I need to grow the audience before I can try anything beyond a basic show and that is proving very hard. You can't imagine how grateful I am to those of you who do tune in every week.
So, given the restrictions that I have, does anyone have any bright ideas (that I haven't done before🤣)

12/07/2025

Last show of my wonderful few days in London and what a way to finish. An absolutely stunning concert, packed to the rafters with a wonderful selection of songs from the Sondheim songbook, and anecdotes.👏👏👏❤️👏👏👏

09/07/2025

Picked up a rush ticket for The Great Gatsby. No photo of programme because they cost £15😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😭

09/07/2025

We are delighted to announce that full service has now resumed.
Thanks to a very generous donation of a high quality desk top, we are back to running our full steaming service. A Huge thank you to one of our listeners for their incredible support and to Dan and Eddie for re-setting everything!

In between out live shows you can Tune in to non-stop music 9am-10pm.
Tune in via the website or check out Radio Abbey on Mixcloud:
www.radioabbey.com
https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/

Radio Abbey Schedule:
Monday

9am - 12pm - Andy Lloyd’s Breakfast Show and National News

12pm - 7pm - Non-Stop Music

7pm - 8pm Soul Lounge with Paul Roberts

Tuesday

9am - 12pm - Andy LLoyd Breakfast Show and National News

12pm - 4pm - Non Stop Music

4pm - 5pm Barrington Minty’s Ecclectic Mix of Music

6pm - 7pm Local Mic with Jim Thomason

Wednesday

9am - 12pm - Andy LLoyd Breakfast Show and National News

12pm - 2pm - Eddie Lunchtime Live

6pm - 7pm - Shakespeare in The Alley

7pm - 10pm - Non-Stop Music

Thursday

9am - 12pm - Andy Loyd’s Breakfast Show and National News

12pm - 2pm - Eddie Lunchtime LIve

2pm - 10pm - Non-Stop Music

Friday

9am - 11.30am - Andy LLoyd Breakfast Show and National News

12pm - 1pm - Showtune - The best of Musical Theatre - Supported by The Treehouse Bookshop

1pm - 10pm - Non Stop Music

Saturday

Non Stop Music All Day

Sunday

9am - 5pm - Non Stop Music

5pm - 7pm - The King and I with Andy Smudger Smith

7pm - 9pm - Easy Sunday Evenings with Franco

04/07/2025

This week's 4th Birthday show is now online - there's nothing really birthday about it, just a load of great songs and a little bit of trivia.

A wide playlist of songs from all eras of stage and screen musicals

01/07/2025

We have a new studio computer thanks to the very kind donation of Hans (that's all that I know at the moment, hopefully we will thank him properly at some point)
So now I have to make the decision, do I try a live show this week or continue to pre-record and let the others get all the bugs out first?😂😂

In the meantime, last week's show is currently at no.3 in the chart and has had a listener in a country that hasn't featured before, so that's exciting. Thanks so much to everyone who listens and has kept it doing well in the charts each week.

It's a fun playlist this week a real mood lifter

Songs from stage and screen from all eras, this week with a carnival theme

29/06/2025

My show sponsor's new merch!

28/06/2025

Every year in this town, for the last 100 years, people have decorated floats and driven them around town in a procession to raise money for good causes. I often make a small float but this year we had a lorry. I have been working on the decor for a couple of weeks but the wind had other ideas and a lot of the decorative elements had to be modified. We nearly had a wizard of oz sitiluation with the hut at the end but thankfully we managed to grab it ( we did lose the decorative roof though and the rest of the decor was only saved by friends running down with extra sellotape)
It was a combined float for the Kenilworth Centre and Radio Abbey Kenilworth but I don't have photos of the Kenilworth Centre end without people in and I don't know if I should post them.

This week's show had a carnival and fair theme

https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioAbbey/showtune-187-270625/

27/06/2025

This week's show is a real mood lifter. Two of the people listening live were surprised that it was over, they were having such a good time, even though it's actually 8 minutes longer than it should be 😄

Songs from stage and screen from all eras, this week with a carnival theme

24/06/2025

Sharing this because my lovely friend Jonathan Kaldor is a producer on it. I Hope that it has a fabulous run. Jonathan is a musical theatre composer, I featured his show Icon in show 72 ( I think) this is a very exciting move for him. Looking forward to seeing it myself on the 17th

23/06/2025

I went to see a play for the first time in ages. (I usually see musicals because I can pretend to justify the cost as research 😆) I do miss seeing plays though and this one was well worth it
The script was very clever and the cast were fantastic. Such a good evening.