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The Shirehorses are a spoof band made up of two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley (known collectively as Mark and Lard).As part of their radio show, they have produced pastiches of recent chart songs, such as Lardy Boy for Placebo's Nancy Boy, and Why Is It Always Dairylea for Travis's Why Does It Always Rain On Me, using the band names "Gazebo" and "Travisty" respectively. When they rewrote the Seahorses' Love is the Law as (Now) I know (where I'm going) our kid they chose the stage-name "Shirehorses", which then stuck.
The band has toured extensively, playing many university gigs because of their popularity with students. However, they have played large venues, supporting Blur on their 1997 tour of the UK, which took in several stadia, and even played Glastonbury in 1998.
Marc Riley was formerly a member of The Fall and later Creepers before embarking on his current career as a radio personality with Mark Radcliffe. Formerly a double act on BBC Radio 1, in March of 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co they went their separate ways, Radcliffe to BBC Radio 22 Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Broadcasting House. Programmes are also relayed on DAB, Sky Television, Cable TV, Freeview and the Internet. The s, Riley to BBC 6 Music6 Music BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's newest radio stations, launched on March 11, 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y''. It is only available via digital media DAB radio, the Internet and the various forms of digital television. The station plays ".
The Shirehorses have released two albums to date:
- Worst album in the world ever.....EVER!, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best (genre) Album in the world ever!.
- Our Kid Eh, a play on the name of RadioheadThom Yorke Radiohead is a British rock band formed in Oxford during the late 1980s, originally under the name On A Friday a name referring to the only time where all band members were able to practice. Their current moniker "Radiohead" was taken from the's album, 'Kid A'.
Compare with Weird Al Yankovic.
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