The Waiting Room

You lucky sods. What a show.

Over 40 excellent bands & artistses from over in that there Swedenland were crammed into 3hrs of sonic bliss for your very listening pleasure during this week’s show.

one half of + The Woman of The House were nigh on knackered after such a marathon blasting of such goodness & we hope indeed you are now very much aware of just how important & vital Sweden is in the curent indie-sounding musiverse.

Huge thanks to all the bands & artiste types (Detektivbyrän, Ram Di Dam, Blue Eyed Blondes, The Second Band, The Magnificent Seven, Billie The Vision & The Dancers, Jennie Abrahamson, Salty Pirates, The Deep Dark Woods, First Aid Kit & Anna Ternheim) who cobbled together wee little shout outs & what not for us to play during the show. Very much appreciated, you lot, for the time & effort put in. We hope the show gets you some more webpage hits & purchases.

There was also the small matter of drawing the winners for The Gourds‘ competition posed a few weeks back, & we are pleased to announce we have two winners:

Graeme Anderson, from Mexico, & Jennifer Murphy, from some as of yet undisclosed location.

The prizes (when we gets ‘em) will be winging their way to both shortly (like we said, when we gets ‘em).

*phew*

one half of + assorted guests will now be hurridly putting together a brace of pre-records what will be broadcast (on that there divine ErrorFM) throughout the month of June whilst he is away off on some hush hush jaunt across all corners of the USof. Something will go wrong, we just know it. But, hell, that’s The Waiting Room all over no? Chaos on the brink of, well, more chaos.

Behave yourselves in said absence. & don’t break anything.

½DC + TWoTH

p.s. TWR was generously reviewed by some dumbfounded American youths recently on an all-encompassing ‘culture review’ website & you may listen to said review & make up your own minds as to their accuracy of understanding & analysis here.

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Lab Rats & Geneticists of The Listening Few, welcome to the rest of your listening habits.

Seriously, this show’s selection was indeed a good selection to swell in your lovely ear-based heads.

Amongst, as they say, others, we playfully shat the following in your direction: Hour of The Shipwreck, The Ting Tings, The Wave Pictures, The Cave Singers, The Submarines, Those Dancing Days, Scout Niblett & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Elvis Perkins, Andrew Bird + Noah & The Whale.

Kiss ou’sel’.

½DC + TWoTH

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Mary up a Jesus pole.

What a fab show, even if we do say our goshdarn selves. 3 whole damn hours full up to the skull cap of the superb musics what was made by that wonderful Texan outfit, The Gourds.

one half of + The Woman of The House were all knicker twisted with various imbibings & nonsense, but somehow managed not to embarrass themselves too much in the chat room presence of said Mr. Kev Russell too much. That’s right, he, from then there The Gourds, came by & said howdy & stayed for the entire show, moreorless, as we clattered our mouthy ways through his & their wonderful back catalogue. Right shy we were, too. Ne’er a mention of his sweet self in the participatory typed-style chat room during the entire show. Nervous? Well, no. Pished? Yes. Very so.

Anyhow, the meat on dem bones: Mr. Russell has extraordinarily kindly like donated with his very hands a clutch of prizes (T-Shirts, Hats, Stuff) for a two-part, multi-winner competition. Yes. You read correct. A bloody competition. With prizes.

To win some of these prizes (for there will be more than one winner) all you gots ta do is answer this question:

The Gourds are from Austin, Texas, but what phenomenon do happen, at around about 8pm, every night, to an audience of a hundred or so tourists, from underneath two bridges spanning the Colorado river?

&, also, as a tie-break, answer us this, thus:

Kev Russell & Jimmy Smith (both of said musical wonderment The Gourds) have a music publisher by the name of Bumpalong Sod Music. In no more than 10 words, please explain what a Bumpalong Sod is…

Now. This competition is open for as long as it takes Mr. Russell to send those aforementioned prizes to us. This could be one week, it could be two. So, for as long as these words remain un-struck through (i.e. there’s no strike through line through the sentences above) this competiton will remain.

Simply send your answer + definition to thewaitingroom (@) btinternet.com (minus the parenthese & spaces) & we’ll pop the correct & most amusing ones in a hat & draw the winners on a future show (in one or two weeks -depending, as we say, when said prizes materialise via the postal service). Get it? Got it? Good.

Right, then. Shoot over to the TWR Playlist page for a run down on what were playlisted during the show & listen again as we, one half of + TWoTH, make tits out of our limey asses. Mr Russell laughed. “Fuggin Hilarious” he called us. But then, there was a certain bias at play.

Go decide for yourselves. Go on. Scoot.

½DC + TWoTH

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Oh, gosh.

Drunk Country House Studios, replete with new mic rig & mixing desk, suffered some this week.

Twisted to tearing point mind melts, trying to teach Mr. Fisk the nicities of the art of staying just this side of ‘just so’, had your convivial one half of springwound like a fidgit. Nothing was real. Mr. Fisk’s universe bending mouth antics were nothing short of astonishing.

Anyways. Amazingly, atwixt said mirth were buried a handful or 20+ of gems what contained such magicians of song as: Oh No! Oh My!, Heathers, MGMT, Port O’Brien, The Submarines, Bombadil, Colorblind James Experience, Kara Keith & a shit of a lot more.

Of course, Mr. Toad joins in again with a quartet of sonic wonderment, amidst his usual chatiness & (this week, at least) a restrained potty mouthedness, to complete a new ‘direction’ for the show. i.e. warts & all. We’ll see how it fares.

Bask, then, in it, eh?

x ½DC + Mr. Fisk

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Jackanory, tell us a story, is it?

This week, then, bloody hell. Sound issues, man-based illnesses, 100mph rambling about very little in particular, a brief appearance from The Woman of The House, an even briefer appearance of Toad, & an Amy Winehouse call to arms. Welcome, then, you, to The Waiting Room.

Crammed into this week’s artist-packed show, bringing sanity to an otherwise erstwhile chaos, was, but not entirely:

Langhorne Slim, Kara Keith, Marina & The Diamonds, Noah & The Whale, Boss Hog, Addicted To Love (a Candythief side project), Bombadil, Heathers, Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle + a whole galleon of others.

Settle back, then, & plug your very ample arse in.

x ½DC

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Once again featured on this week’s perky nonsense, along with the omnipresent Mr. Toad (off of his whipsmart Song, BY Toad bloggerthon) & his equally potty-mouthed wife-type Mrs Toad, is the swoony chops of The Woman of The House imparting her limited knowledge on all things music. Not to forget, of course, the presence of the Scout Master himself one half of leading them all to their certain doom ‘cross windy hillock & dale of non-sequitorial plains.

Welcome, then, you, to this brand spanked installment of what we will be Christening Drunk Covers VI — 3 hours of cover versions playlisted as follows:

1) The Power of Love – The Pigeon Detectives / Huey Lewis & The News

14) Take A Chance - WFMU’s Tom Scharpling, Ben Gibbard, Pharmacist’s Ted Leo & Patton Oswalt / ABBA

Song, By Toad Recommends

15) Gin & Juice – The Gourds / Snoop Doggy Dogg

16) Can’t Get You Out of My Head – The Flaming Lips / Kylie Minogue

17) Untitled Melody – The Divine Comedy / Orange Juice

18) Felicity – The Wedding Present / Orange Juice

19) Next – Richard Godwin / Jacques Brel

20) Common People – William Shatner / Pulp

21) Blowin’ In The Wind – Dolly Parton + Nickel Creek / Bob Dylan

31) Top Of The World – Shonen Knife / The Carpenters

32) One Way Or Another + Teenage Kicks – CSS / Blondie + The Undertones

33) Where Is My Mind – Emmy The Great / Pixies

34) Such Great Heights – The Wrong Trousers / The Postal Service

35) This Charming Man - Bostonians / The Smiths

What with all the irreverent funtimes had in a very vocal manner, the foulmouthedness of a certain amphibious element, & the rather genius tracklist what you just done read, you, then, most blwdy certainly should wake up tomorrow & feel like perspective has taken on an out of the ordinary appearance.

Thank us for the memories another day. Right now? Just enjoy.

½DC + TWoTH + Mr. & Mrs Toad

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Hey Ho.

On this week’s The Waiting Room one half of is again joined by The Woman of The House, who (due to receiving favourable thumbs ups from Mr. Toad & in this here podpage comments) has taken to her new found ‘celebrity’ like toilet duck removes those hard to shift streak-stains.

Anyways, this week you may expose your head holes to the likes of Octoberman, Ironville, Candythief, Colorblind James Experience, Annuals, We The They, MGMT, Moonbabies, Hello Seahorse! & very many more.

Of course, as bloody per, Mr. Toad & His Amazing Mouth of Expletives pops in for another Song, By Toad Presents His Recommends.

The winner of the Peter & The Wolf competition was one Siloen Daley from Canada. A nice hand drawn + signed copy of The Ivori Palms + other goodies are on the way to her as you read.

That’s it, then. Until next we come-a-callin’.

Tuck in.

½DC + The Woman of The House

p.s. our History + Playlists sections have been updated; there’s a newly re-titled TWR Art section (previously Images), which displays all the advertising bumf we spam your pretty little heads with + a newly re-titled Xtra section, (previously Ramble) what showcases ½DC’s previous attempt at sounding like he knew what he was doing (he didn’t); there’s also a brand new TWR Team section where you will find photographs of all our very ugly faces, as well as the briefest of half-truths forming the shape of a biog; finally, there’s a brand new TWR Contact section (for bands, managers, PR, A&R, labels, fans, sycophants, stalkers, mentally deluded widows on their deathbeds with wills to bequeath, etc. to use forthwith & interact via).

Yes, that’s right. We’ve been everso fucking busy.

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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

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 + The Woman of The House

**visit Peter & The Wolf’s myspace space profile page for a large clue in the shape of the answer.

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& so, to politics.

This week Mr. Fisk, himself fanny-spat into the arms of a pre-Mugabe Zimbabwe, bumblingly musters the extreme brass orbs to wax lyrical on the relative ease of *ahem* life under the zero tolerance regime of the aforementioned murderous fucknut of a dictator (if the residents would only just ignore the politics & just get on with it - shades of Norman Tebbit, per chance?).

His counsel in such matters? The source of this blithering ignorance? A Zimbabwean, weighed down with an excess of (one can only surmise, raped, slaughtered & pillaged) money to fritter, he chatted to once via an on-line poker site.

Suffice to say, the resultant atmosphere in Drunk Country House Studios resembled that of a critical mass explosion in an exasperation factory.

& if that wasn’t bad enough, & against the flow of better judgement, one half of remarkably turned the evening’s playlist over to Mr. Fisk’s obsessional indulgence in all things early ’90s, laced heavily with a base ingredient of indie dance. Wouldn’t you know it, even Mr. Toad, (off of musi-blog deliciousness Song By, Toad), joined in with a quatrain of indie disco cuts — albeit accompanied by a contextual bewilderment the size of a white elephant.

Expect BPMs, baggyism, foul language & a giddying naïvité not seen this side of Chamberlain’s blank paper acceptance of Hitler’s half-baked pledge to not do anything silly.

May mercy Lord it up on our souls.

½DC + Mr. Fisk

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This week’s cultural misfeasance what is The Waiting Room, continues to stumble ever onwards toward a serious contravening of the Trade Descriptions Act (1968), what with persistently dashing promises of professional maturity. Such lofty notions & ambitions can, one is assured, be stuffed up The Man’s pock-marked arse.

To the Batmobile!

Mr. Fisk (& his perversely odd view of just about everything) is back, as is The Toad (off of Song, By Toad) with a particularly potty-mouthed take on the history of genre Hip Hop (viewed, daringly, via a pair of white 30-something Middle Class eyes), as well as the perennially poorly one half of (This week? A cold. Man Flu. The sniffles, with a bit of a throaty cough. The wobbling, moaning gay).

Musically, you may get your self equal parts gristle-stiff & glisten-sticky over Man Man, Cloud Cult, We The They, Fleet Foxes, Deer Tick, Port O’Brien, The Social Services, Pattern Is Movement, Forest City Lovers & the very much in evidence many more.

That, then, as we say, is all (for, as always, now. At least).

x ½DC + Mr. Fisk

p.s. the promo fliers each contain a detail from L.S. Lowry’s Father & Sons (1950. Oil on canvas). Lowry is a particular obsession of one half of’s & it has taken him until now to worm one of Lowry’s works into an advertisement for the show. Still, you won’t forget those eyes in a hurry eh?

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Flippin’ ‘ell.

What a marvelous little show we have here, topped & tailed by them there lovelies Prince Edward Island.

Mr. Toad, off of Song, By Toad, has a lovely selection section also.

What are you waiting for then? Stop reading, get clicking, start listening. It’s that ‘king easy.

Ta.

x ½DC

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Hello Drunklings.

Them there people over at that there pokey studio has got un TWR très spécial, what with a seemed like a good idea at the time appearance of Drunk Country House’s cookin’ & a-cleanin’ & a-moppin’ female sort, or The Woman Of The House as she is employed.

Indeed, one half of has graciously allowed said Woman an unpaid break from all that there ironing & grouting in order to spew forth her read in a book opinions on everything from why that there Welsh language television shathole S4C has a limited shelf life, to Broadway stage shows built around board games & Elaine Paige.

Proper drunk she were too, (said Woman, not Paige), what with every word messily slurred as if to drive that particularly wobbly nail home.

Mr. Toad, from off of that there delightful Song, By Toad musi-rant blogspace, is all smart & proper as per.

You know what to do.

x DC + Woman

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So, then, you. This particular podcast, presided over by that there one half of + Mr. Nick O’Larse Fisk O’Larse, finds drunken shambles at its zenith.

“Shit-faced to cockery” is just one of many ways you could quite reasonably put it.

Marvel, then, at Mr. Nick O’Larse Fisk O’Larse’s astonishingly mind-hurtin’ dream & mouth-gape at the Bourbon-pickled one half of’s strenuous attempt at keeping it all together.

Song, By Toad’s Mr. Toad, with his structured & positively professional section selection, unfairly gets torn a new one by the dribblingly munted co-host pair. Appalling behaviour, ’specially as Toad is the soberist element of the entire endeavour.

Tread lightly, dear listener.

x ½DC + Mr. Fisk

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This week, the wonderful Mr. Toad, off of that there even more wonderfuller Song, By Toad musi-cum-social commentary-type blog, joins in on the chaos with some foul-mouthed recommendations of musics what you, the listening few, should be buying with your hard earned pocket money.

Song, By Toad Recommends/Presents (whatever we decide to both call it) shall become a regular feature on this here show, so tuck in.

x ½DC

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Here be the show what almost broke poor ol’one half of’s noggin, what with all the mad time loops & screwball antics (laid on in an effort to present an homage to a couple of Monty Python’s Flying Circus episodes) popping up between the sheer brilliance of the musi-selections culled from the Drunk Country Archives.

What will certainly be confusing (for those listening to the podcast but didn’t listen in to the show when it went out live - let that be a lesson to you, eh?) is the fake interweb connection failures & TWR intro/theme tune re-starts/loops.

The everso cheeky inclusion of the ErrorFM technical problem/safety net music + messages, (what is normally played when there is a technical fault with the station, or the next DJ in the schedule hasn’t opened his streaming channel quick enough), to the evening’s playlist didn’t half hurt the hell out of the linear thought processes of those who did catch the show in all its what the hell’s going on live glory. It made I laugh.

Go fathom, then.

½DC

My Odeo Channel (odeo/72d4c6052b569bf8)

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