Rick Simmonds

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Premium podcast, audiobook, radio producer. Dad of two. Unapologetic eighties music fan. Soft spot for politics, comedy and running.

We can paint the planet red. Or black and blue instead.

@ricksimmonds

PodcastScripts/Production/Promotion
RadioProducer/Presenter/Voiceover
Music80s/Ambient/Jazz/Classical/Dance
HobbiesRunning/Comedy/Reading
Rick SimmondsDec 29, 2022
David BissetDec 27, 2022
When I started my freelancing business with #PHP and #WordPress I hung this up on my office wall too.
Rick SimmondsDec 29, 2022
Thrilled to see my lack of football knowledge is genetic. My son right now: "at least Manchester has a football team, you never hear of the London football team winning any matches". Couldn't be prouder.
Rick SimmondsDec 15, 2022

🎄The best Cliff Richard Christmas song is not “Mistletoe & Wine”, it’s “Little Town”.

🎄The best Paul McCartney Xmas song is not “Wonderful Christmastime”, it is “Once Upon A Long Ago”.

🎄And the double A Side of Wham’s “Last Christmas” is “Everything She Wants” which is, head and shoulders, the superior track.

Oh - and best Xmas song of all time is the Waitresses and Xmas Wrapping which wasn’t even a hit 🎅

Rick SimmondsDec 13, 2022

“Shouldn’t we at least put a photo of a mug with steam coming out of it on the box?”

“Nah mate. If they’re too cheap to buy Lemsip, they can take what they’re given. Dust off that old copy of Lotus Word Pro, stick in some clip art and just type it up”

“Can I use lower case at least?”

“No. Caps lock is all they deserve. Oh and one other thing?”

“Yes?”

“Make sure it tastes like crap”.

Rick SimmondsNov 30, 2022
Corrie CorfieldNov 30, 2022
Such sad news about Christine McVie. Remembering being 16 again and wearing out my "Rumours" album I played it so much. Here's her #DesertIslandDiscs from 2017. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09jby2m
Desert Island Discs - Christine McVie - BBC Sounds

Christine McVie, musician, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

bbc
Rick SimmondsNov 28, 2022

One of the first songs I* played on the radio. Wonderful.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/nov/28/voice-of-the-beehive-how-we-made-dont-call-me-baby

* I was only 13 and had no idea how the kit worked, so somebody else actually 'played' it.

‘I wrote it about an ex who borrowed my car to take out another girl’: Voice of the Beehive on Don’t Call Me Baby

‘We wanted a Phil Spector kind of feeling. The studio we recorded it in was so hi-tech we couldn’t even work the salt shakers.’

The Guardian
Rick SimmondsNov 24, 2022
SirEviscerate Nov 23, 2022

*my eyes open wide, a glass slips from my hand and shatters on the floor*

What if Jolene was Death?

Rick SimmondsNov 24, 2022
Today I discovered a man called John Fashanu (can you tell I’m not a football expert). Anyways, I wish I hadn’t. Blimey.
Rick SimmondsNov 22, 2022

Another year, remembering that my wife hates tinsel.

What drives such a level of Christmas decoration vitriol?

#ChristmasRuined

Rick SimmondsNov 20, 2022

This might be a bit niche but doesn't Jan Hammer's 'Candy' sound like a ZX Spectrum rendition of Ryan Paris' 'Dolce Vita'?

It's 11.45 on a Sunday evening. And this is my life.