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regular vernacular insights with Haji Mike

Mike Hajimichael


    • Feb 5, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 5m AVG DURATION
    • 105 EPISODES


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    Dentistry and the violin - Yiannis Pipis - A Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2021 4:21


    In days of old when dentists lacked medical qualifications - violins and pliers can in handy. The tale of Yiannis Pipis a Cyprus Legend and World Record Breaker

    A long rant at SNWMF

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2021 5:59


    Touring the USA in 2004 and playing at The Sierra Nevada World Music Festival - a long rant means a short set...

    'Strange' Foods

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 4:28


    The things that make you go...yuuuuck....

    Pieris Pierettis legend of Cyprus

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2020 5:10


    When Pierettis met The Vragaman by the beach.

    From Eve to Gus

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2020 4:32


    How a kitten changes names following revelations by modern veterinary science.

    Centurian Chiofta

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 6:56


    A reflection on The Daily Chiofta journey and spontaneity - the rat, the cat and the dog...go to the good...

    Politics - the open sewer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 6:21


    Politics with a big p is like an open sewer.

    Monoux - High School

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2020 5:46


    Memories of an oppressive school going through its own schizophrenic identity phase.

    MIDEM late 1990s

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2020 5:40


    I went to MIDEM once in the late 1990s. This is the annual music gathering in Cannes, France and was full of coincidences for me.

    Nana & Kojak

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 5:33


    2 important parts of our ethnic 60s and 70s TV diet...

    Bitter Durrell

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 5:42


    A few thoughts on the most famous book on Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell.

    A Diblokambino called Sotiroulla

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 4:56


    My truck Sotiroulla is a double cabin and a saviour.

    Reggae...

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2020 6:51


    My life long love for a worldwide music that started in Jamaica...

    Xaratsi

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 4:56


    A place deep in the heart of Nicosia old that I love to play at and some thoughts on people and places that just don't understand Reggae.

    Radio...

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2020 7:53


    One of my life long passions...Radio...

    Val's Place

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2020 4:46


    A very special place in Gialia. A musician's utopia.

    The day Bob Marley died...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 5:17


    11th May 1981 is a sad day for music worldwide. The day Bob Marley died, I heard the news on a sound system at Essex University.

    To Skodomeno - a first encounter with a Skoda Coupe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2020 6:08


    Around 1975 my brother George got a Skoda Coupe. Taking it for a first spin, excuse the pun, the rest as they say is history...

    Chippy Riot in Liverpool

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 6:35


    Living through a riot in a chippy, Liverpool 1981.

    Jeff Trump and Riders

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 28, 2020 5:37


    Riders are those things bands get before gigs. The more famous a band is the more elaborate the rider. Jeff Trump my drummer brother from San Francisco is an imaginative rider architect!

    Names...such important things...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 3:09


    Names mean so much to us...we carry them for life...

    Interviewing Shaggy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2020 4:41


    Early 90s I interviewed Shaggy 3 times. Entertaining, clever and a total prankster!

    The man who called me John...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2020 5:02


    Collecting records from age 14 I encountered a man in a shop who constantly called me John.

    Don't DJ when intoxicated on Tsipouro

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 4:43


    A powerful drink from Greece once taught me a simple lesson in life...Don't DJ when drunk!

    Surrealistic gigs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 6:51


    My take on gigs that might go wrong...

    Greek School

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2020 5:44


    My Saturdays....Greek School

    Sean Connery Ithaka

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 5:28


    Teaching Ithaka by Kavafy as told by Sean Connery...

    20th July 1974 Invasion

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 3:55


    The sirens wail again...

    Things that make you go mmmm during gigs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2020 5:57


    A collection of mini chioftes on things that happened during gigs in Cyprus.

    Piracy in Cyprus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2020 6:39


    The illegal industry in Cyprus that affected many musical careers.

    Imiz & The Haji

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 7:02


    On matters and encounters of the Imiskoumbrian kind...

    Zorbas & Punishment

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 5:18


    My first case of inclass punishment - the crime - knowing how to dance Zorbas!

    15th July 1974 Military Coup

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2020 5:59


    The Military Coup in Cyprus 15th July 1974 changed the course of history.

    The case of the alleged "stolen" Vrajes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2020 6:22


    Kantonas ,Vrajes and a close shave with the law in Chingford.

    Sugar on Radio in Cyprus

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020 5:23


    Sugar's only live radio interview in Cyprus in 1997 started off with an eruption of laughter...

    Do Good...

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2020 4:22


    Good deeds always bring good vibes...

    Zebekiko

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2020 4:48


    The notorious 9/8 rhythm that some cannot grasp.

    Sociological Chioftes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2020 5:41


    My love for Sociology goes back to school and accidentally misprounouncing the word in Greek has become a Poumbouris family urban folk myth.

    Maro-Maria BANNED

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2020 5:35


    A painful story of infidelity, Maro-Maria, a song from my 2nd LP Aphrodite's Dream' and how the video clip got banned.

    DJ Marios Avraam...Vintaaage Chakkos

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2020 4:15


    A great friend, DJ and supporter of my work since 1988.

    A man called Skev - coincidences galore

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2020 4:42


    I have known him since I was 12. Our friendship is like duracel batteries, it just goes on and on....

    Learning things the hard way

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 6:21


    London was very different from Marathovouno and some things had to be learned the hard way...

    The first day at school

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2020 4:59


    The first day at school in Walthamstow was all about eyes...

    Mr and Mrs Meade

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2020 4:56


    The neighbours who took care of me and taught me so much.

    The journey and arriving in London

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 5:24


    The flight from Cyprus to London via Athens, at the age of 4 was traumatic.

    The letter, Shenkou and the swallows

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2020 4:51


    The letter that changed the entire course of my life.

    My grandfather Poumbouris and my love for travel

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2020 4:53


    Travel is a very important part of my life which is thanks to my grandfather Poumbouris.

    A day in Peladousa

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 4:35


    A visit to film maker Panicos Chrysanthou in Peladousa turned out to be a real cliffhanger.

    I love Paphos

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 6:08


    Paphos is where it all began for me in Cyprus. I had an amazing time there in the summer of 1993. Lesson 1 was also learned...never cross a Paphian...

    Chris The Black Rembeti

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2020 4:13


    An encounter on a 29 bus with a Haringey Urban Legend.

    Weddings UK Part 3 - Bands, the legends, the lame and the lousy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2020 5:25


    Bands played a big role in the Wedding business in the UK.

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