This is Radio Shangri La, broadcasting to you from the Bermuda tri-point area, where time and geography is the stuff of fools. Each week we shall be playing selections from the third dimension as well as featuring some of London’s movers and shakers to play and discuss four tracks of their choice: something old, something new, something borrowed (a cover), and something blue (their final choice on
life’s jukebox). At the controls is Gram Friday: vocalist, instrumentalist, DJ, promoter, long-term resident of Shangri La, and founder of this unique station. A singular hip unit that makes for a cavalcade of rum gone dissected rock ‘n’ roll, but spiced by the calypso, the rumba, the mojo hoodoo of Africa in exile … of the Now but informed by the Then, the Zen, not in league with the Dollar, the Pound or the Yen….music that expands on life's experiences with tunes born to make you move, and lyrics that demand a knowing smile, like reading Marquez with a Roger And The Gypsies soundtrack…a marriage made in heaven… or Shangri La. The soundtrack for a lost generation, in a time when beer is not enough and common decency is out of the question.
