Hello You Little Buggers.
This week one half of + The Woman of The House traveled on April 3rd to The Music Club in Bristol to meet, interview & record a live show by Red Hunter of Peter & The Wolf (from Austin TX, not that Liverpool shower).
The resultant chaos (i.e. one half of’s continuing battle with modern day technology - this time the interview mic dying the night before the trip/interview - & the interview thereafter, conducted exactly how it tells you not to do so in the Interviewing For Dummies manual, e.g. don’t fawn & coo at your subject like some lovestruck teenager with hormones to burn), & clarity/beauty (Red Hunter’s admirable ignorance of the lack of any real point in some of the more rambling *ahem* questions + Red’s astonishingly lovely 30minute+ set) is very much here for your absolute listening pleasureables.
Here, then, you, is the running order for them eyes to drink in:
Interview
1) The Owl
2) The Ivori Palms
Interview
3) The Fall* — NOT from the night, but a Daytrotter Session
4) A Hundred Days
Interview
5) Scarlet and Gray
6) Silent Movies
Interview
7) People Of The Night
8) Dear Old Robyn
Interview
*The Fall is the number Red opened with, but ½DC was pissing about with the recording equipment thinking he was simply warming up. Of course, he wasn’t & ½DC missed the opener as a result. Twat.
There’s also that titchy matter of the Peter & The Wolf competition to win an exclusive & unique hand drawn + signed version of his brand new(ish) CD Ivori Palms.
Riddle me this, then, you:
What’s the name of the war photographer** Red Hunter cites as his major influence?
Please send your answers to thewaitingroom (@) btinternet.com by Sunday 13th April 2008 & the winner shall be announced on next week’s show.
‘course, Mr. Toad, off of that there Song, By Toad, once again shares another selection of new songs by new artists, scattered amongst that foul language of his, in a celebration of the Fence Homegame Festival what he & Mrs Toad did recently attend.
Cheers a lot, then, & go listen & enter.
½DC + TWoTH
**visit Peter & The Wolf’s myspace space profile page for a large clue in the shape of the answer.
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mrs DC/2 is a treasure that makes you “look good”. Nice job, it was a very enjoyable show. Lets have Mrs DC/2 a little more often, its amazing to hear the way she interacts with you and the common thread that binds all of your cohosts to you Mr DC/2. I have never heard this effect before because most radio hosts do not have , nor do they treat their cohosts so well. Thats the wonderful thing about radio we learn to “see” with our ears. As usual, thanks for the effort, it is well worth it, Dont let fame and fortune spoil what it is that you have, you are actually pushing the boundries of entertainment with your panache.
Cheers, again, H.
People are seriously going to start questioning whether I am writing these notes of yours under a pseudonym, or whether you are in my employ. Seriously, though, thank YOU for the time spent listening to this rubbish & formulating an articulate response each week. It’s good to get the feedback because sometimes you genuinely don’t know if you’re playing to yourself & the ‘fun’ had is simply self-indulgent public masturbation.
The Woman of The House says ‘ta’, also. I don’t know: she breezes in, all half-cocked & reeking of alcohol (to mask the smell of cleaning products, no doubt), & damn well imposes her poisonality all over something so effortlessly it’s almost like she was a ‘natural’.
Frankly, she’s not too fussed about doing too many of the shows as she has a pretty busy ‘real’ life (as do I, as do I) to get that involved (i.e. she can’t be arsed). Plus, & more importantly, there’s always the vacuuming, a pile of clothes to wash/iron & picket fences to whitewash.
That said, we do have pencilled in another 3hr marathon Drunk Covers episode in the not too distant, accompanied by a slot from Mr. & Mrs Toad, so that should sate the “she’s better than you, ½DC” crowd. Bastards.
½DC
Some might say in vino veritas, although my comments may smell like paid advertisements, have no fear, sooner or later you will produce a god-awful show and I shall be there to produce a devastating review. Looking forward to the next Drunk Covers..
Did somebody mention vino?