About Us
About the show
This is what the future of radio looks like. Tough break radio.
Get Jazzical isn’t just a podcast. It’s a lifestyle choice… No, it’s not. It’s just a podcast. A very good podcast, but a podcast none the less. Our mission is very simple: To bring you the very best of the contemporary classical and jazz scene from all around this wide world of ours.
And there is a contemporary classical scene and a matching jazz sibling, despite what certain national broadcasters would have you believe. But there are and we just self-appointed ourselves as their champions with a mission to share and promote them to the world! Or just South London maybe, we don’t want to rush ourselves.
We believe in simplicity, we believe in doing one thing well and we believe that music should be shared, because, well it’s one of the good things in life isn’t it? To that end we promise that’ll we’ll always strive to give you a polished and considered piece of broadcasting and we rely on you to tell us if we’re not fulfilling that remit.
So enjoy the podcast, click on all the links you see dotted about, they take you to different parts of the Jazzical world, we appreciate that in this fast moving world of wireless-lattés you have more choice than ever before and we honestly and sincerely thank you for choosing us.
About Olly & Alasdair
Olly doing his 'Heathcliff' face
Way back when the economy existed and you had to be white to be President two young men went to university. They came from very different backgrounds: One was a cheeky little Glaswegian with a rougish smile and a jaunty gait (Alasdair), the other was a willowy Australian with red-hair and sad grey eyes (Olly). Alasdair spent his nights locked away in the library reading with a torch and hoping the security guards wouldn’t hear his hushed breaths as he delved into the machinery of his very trendy degree. Olly, on the other hand, was far too busy living life to the MAX to dedicate much time to his very frumpy degree.
However their disparate lives collided when they both became involved in the recently founded student radio station ‘STAR FM‘. Olly had been the founding secretary and had presented a variety of shows which found him uttering breathless excitable comments to bookend his pick of his iTunes collection.
Look how HAPPY he is!
Alasdair had some sort of ‘hilarious’ chat show where he was ‘hilarious’ for hours on end like a monkey with a symbol or something. But then they became incredibly powerful and began to run the station like kids from a sink estate that become the CEOs of Google. It was so intense people would stop in the street and just admire them, nodding rhythmically in stunned adulation. They eventually combined forces and began to do a weekly show called ‘Jazzical’ that melded Classical and Jazz music together in a delicious almost sexual way. Within months its listenership was well into the double figures and they never looked back… Well actually they graduated, realized that some greedy banker-types had screwed the job market for them and so they made this website. True story.
