
Right then.
This week is our report(ish) on our recent foray into the wonder that was the Sŵn Festival — held in city-wide venues across Cardiff, Wales, UK between 22nd - 24th October.
Quite smart it were too.
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Hello TLF.
TWoTH here. It’s been quite a slow-paced week here at DCHQ following DC’s return to our version of civilisation after culture-swapping with yours for over 3 weeks. This is chiefly due to some strange, lingering malaise that has befallen him.
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Way back on May 12th at Cardiff’s Offshore Music Recording Studios, after being near thwarted by the city’s maze-like one way systems, Mumford & Sons turned up with a cheeky sparkle in their collective eye. A sparkle that hinted at the bite & barely muted fury they’d inject into a damn near perfect session, recorded in lightning quick time & impressing the studio engineers to exclaim it the best session they’d had the pleasure of to date.
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This week, in your ever expanding musi-verse, ½DC + TWoTH had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Seattleite singer/songwriter Shenandoah Davis into the TWR studio to chat & also to record a mammoth session over at Offshore Music, Cardiff.
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What, as ‘they’ say, Ho!
About a month ago ½DC + TWoTH trundled over to Bristol, England, for the weekend to see live & interview Dan Michaelson (of The Coastguards + Absentee). We set ourselves up in a swanky river facing hotel, spent the afternoon boozing it up on the deck of the Thekla ship venue, before catching up with a very tour-knackered Dan to knock off said interview for t’show.
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On this week’s nonsense-o-gram from across the ocean we are very pleased to bring to you a fantastic session from the equally & moreso fantastic Sons Of Noel & Adrian. They are part of the Brighton, England, Willkommen Collective, which includes such sonic excellence as The Miserable Rich & The Leisure Society.
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Hello You.
Apologies for the delay in posting this one - I’m currently ensconced in Fredericksburg, VA & the internet connection at the (ahem) Quality Inn, where I am parking my arse for the next week or so, is, in a word, shite. It’s taken me 3 days to upload this week’s show (not to mention transferring next week’s brilliant show to WOXY, which includes a proper proper guest in the studio taking flak from our verbal nonsense). Still, it is genuinely worth the damn bastard wait.
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Hello You.
This week’s show sees us recounting our very recent sojourn to the Fence Collective’s Homegame 6 alt.folk Festival in Anstruther, Fife, via a series of interviews & sessions captured on the hoof & in between our gallant quaffing of vast amounts of alcohol & boxes of famous fush n’ chups.
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A few months back ½DC + TWoTH bussed up to Birmingham, England to interview 2 of TWR’s very favourite Swedish(-based) lady singer/songwriters: Ane Brun & Jennie Abrahamson.
Both interviews were carried out in not exactly perfect conditions — as soon as the record button was pressed the air conditioning system kicked in, producing this low, moaning background hum, & the off switch was elusive to even the venue owners.
Here we go again…
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Greetings WOXY-lings.
As you all know by now this week’sTWR was taken over by the very fine The Kazoo Funk Orchestra, a beat combo from Scotlandland (with hithers & thithers scattered in faraway lands such as Canadia).
With minimum interruption from your usual convivials, ½DC + TWoTH, the delightfully silly show spat out darling introductions, specially recorded TWR songs, + a delightfully eccentric playlist, all hand-crafted & picked by members of The Kazoo Funk Orchestra (i.e. Big Beard, Little Beard, Boyce, Smalls, Part-Time Dave, Mechanical & Herbal).
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