How do.

This week’s show is something a little more than much different than the norm & will be coming at you from a slightly different angle than you’re perhaps used to from us here on that there The Waiting Room.

To that end, we have 4(!) studio guests this week, wibbling & wobbling around the idea of giving an opinion on such things as No Music Day, Musicals, TV Theme Tunes, Cartoon Music, Burlesque Nights, Rhys Ifans, & Live Music.

Them 4 shall be:

BoTWoTH, returning after a rather well received debut a few weeks back; Lou Noble, a well known Cardiff singer/songwriter & jazz guitarist; the legendary Mr. Nick Fisk, an old TWR co-host & 1990’s Baggy era / Stone Roses obsessive; &, Mr. Fisk’s current squeeze, Karen (second name never revealed), otherwise known as the devoted friend of Stephen Jenkins (we have no idea who he is, either) & she is possibly the maddest person we have ever met or had on the show.

Amongst the chatter & blather you shall get

* The Decemberists * Andrew Bird * Clem Snide * Tom Waits * Was Not Was * Jools Holland * The Divine Comedy * Spiritualized * The Smiths * Morrissey * KD Lang * Sting * Prince * Madonna * Radiohead * WASP * Dead Kennedys

& many more…

So, strap in, then, you, & make sure you go pee pee before we set off.

x DC + TWoTH

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.

Think of it as a much smaller SXSW, only less organised (yes, less organised than the contolled chaos of SXSW), but with more access to the bands (as a punter, rather than someone in the ‘biz’ - although it is indeed a boon for the likes of I, as I hope to demonstrate at the end of this sentence & beyond the forthcoming parenthesis).

We had the absolute pleasure of being joined in the studio by Tim & Sam’s Tim & The Sam Band w/Tim & Sam + Mitchell Museum, who gave us a wonderful session & interview each, as well as Slow Club who popped by & effortlessly knocked out a rugged turn despite the onset of a throat infection.

Throughout the festival, despite West Coast-flavoured jetlag & the slowburn of a viral infection, we managed to see pretty much everyone we’d highlighted in the 3day programme &, even though most were tied up being all bandy & gig-focussed, therefore studio time asides were off the radar, we managed to forward plan a number of genuinely exciting sessions for future dates. Watch this space, innit.

Anyhoo, this week’s running order (culled from bands who played at the festival) looks something a bit like this:

• Tim & Sam’s Tim & The Sam Band with Tim & Sam (Interview & Session, featuring exclusive new unreleased album tracks)
• Mitchell Museum (Interview & Session)
• Slow Club (Session)
• The Leisure Society
• Sons Of Noel & Adrian
• Sweet Baboo
• The Young Republic
• Los Campesinos! (exclusive new unreleased 2010 album track)
• Broken Family Band
• Girls
• The Drums
• Goldheart Assembly

Set your alarms to stunned, then, you spoilt little buggers & enjoy.

DC + TWoTH

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.

It looks & sounds (from his frequent girly grunts & snuffles) like a nightmare case of jetlag — his sleeping patterns are buggered, to be frank. The Doctor, however, seems to think it is a virus he may have picked up while in your care. Yes. YOUR care America. Tsk Tsk.

Of course, it could be he’s just a little run down after all the traveling & running around festivals & gigs & sessions & such. We’ll know more after the test results.

Whatever the cause, this week’s show is a loose affair (albeit high in spirit & jinks) & we are proud to bring you a superb live studio session from the brilliant Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards, recorded at the lovely Offshore Music Recording Studio in Cardiff.

There’s also the small matter of an interview I conducted with the band, but the less we dwell on that the better.

There’s also the addition of an extra studio guest (factored in to make up for DC’s potential lack of pizazz), who happens to be a veteran TV/radio broadcaster, journalist/film critic & stand up comedian. He also just so happens to be my brother. Or, BoTWoTH as we inevitably crowned him.

Finally, we will be introducing a brand new Cardiff 4-piece to the show, WOXY & you. We saw their first ever gig a few weeks back & up until then they had only been together 3 weeks.

During that period they wrote a handful of songs, ambient mic* recorded them in a live room* at the University of Wales in Cardiff (UWIC) Howard Gardens School of Art & Design, then gave them away as a CDr at the end of their (yes) headlining set.

Even though the sound engineer* did an appalling job on the night we (ok, DC) recognised the raw talent up on stage. So impressed was DC that he immediately booked them in for a studio session & interview.

For now, though, we will be playing one of the brilliant tracks off their CDr. Hopefully that will whet your appetite as much as it has ours.

That’s about it I think. I forget how DC signs these things off & I’ve probably written far too much. Oh well nevermind…

Enjoy the show.

TWoTH (+ DC in absentia)

*words & phrases, which mean little to me if I’m honest, dictated by DC from his death chair

Hello You…

Don’t be alarmed.  We have not become a blog.  This is fundamentally a simple way of getting through some hideous jetlag as well as, more importantly, one suspects, a way of letting you know how wonderfully full our schedule is for the next however many weekly broadcasts.

We’ve been as busy as chimpanzees in a shit writing contest, to be frank, & coming up we have

• an interview with Andrew Bird + some exclusive live concert audio
• an interview with Clem Snide + some exclusive & live concert audio
• an interview + session with Celebrity Chimp (R.I.P.)
• an interview + session with Jesus H. Fox

(not necessarily in that order)

but, first up we have

• the 31st of October See-Thru Holiday Special

& then

• the Sŵn Festival* Special — featuring interviews & sessions with Mitchell Museum, Tim & Sam’s Tim & the Sam Band with Tim & Sam, + Slow Club & shedloads of gossip

& finally, before the real deluge, we have

TWoTH’s (first ever) solo interview & deliriously good session with Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards

Ah do believe a *PHEW* is in odour.

Of course, this won’t mean we will be resting on our laurels. Heavens to betsy, no. We have plans taking us right up through the year — we do, afterall, have the Boxing Day** & first weekend of the New Year slots, within which we’ll more than likely be creating a couple of playlists out of the favourite tracks we’ve played, & introduced you to, on WOXY over the year.

Indeed, if you have any TWR playlisted tracks you’ve loved from our playlists & would like to hear in our end of year round up shows, then email us your choices to request@twhrq.com.

That’s about it for now. We’ll be putting the details of our 31st of October See-Thru Holiday Special up on line around Wednesday. So, you know, cross over into the light & be free children. Be free.

This ‘arse is clean.

x DC + TWoTH I knew I’d forget this…

*the now annual music festival & symposium, hosted by a string of city-wide Cardiff venues (some perfect, some inspired, some deluded), & (ahem) “curated by” (in this instance “curated by” is to be taken on the same level as Executive Producer) Huw Stephens off of the BBC Radio One. He’s Welsh, see. Plus, he went to SXSW a few times.

**Boxing Day, or St. Stephen’s Day, is, perhaps, more of a British/Commonwealth thing than an American thing — this day, the day after Christmas Day, derives from the English tradition of giving gifts (a “Christmas box”) to less fortunate members of society, in the days when people worked in rural economies such as estates or hundreds. No, I have no idea what a ‘hundred’ is, either. But, thank you Wikipedia. Your work is done.

Hey Kids.

Well, no rest for the wicked.  ½DC landed in the UK on 23rd October at stupid O’Clock AM &, when he got back to Cardiff, was immediately off to the third annual Sŵn festival.

TWR will be, amongst many other things, interviewing bands & recording sessions over the 2 days we have at our disposal. ½DC, of course, will be battling jetlag after flying over from San Diego the day before.  So, in short, it’s going to be interestink.

This week’s show was actually edited at the WOXY studio in Austin, TX, on the day ½DC crashed 3 shows (Mike’s, Shiv’s & Paige’s) & generally got under people’s feet.  In all, the visit to WOXY was very, very enjoyable - a full run down of this visit + the USof jaunt in totality will feature in the Hallowe’en Special, to be broadcast on (when else?) 31st October (officially No Music Day, but, meh, fuck ‘em).

Musically, this week, you may expect the darling delights of the following wonderments:

• Auletta
• Friskor Viljor
• The Danks
• The Duchess & The Duke
• Phil & The Osophers
• The Gentle Lurch
• SixToes
• The Essex Green
• Emily Jane White
• Niobe
• Magpie Wedding
• The Witch & The Robot
• Zero Degre
• Blue Roses
• Ah Holly Fam’ly
• Turbo Fruits
• Philadelphia Grand Jury
• Wheat
• Tap Tap
• Boy In Static
• Langhorne Slim
• The Hidden Cameras
• Eva & The Heartmaker
• The Middle East

That’s a LOT of talent in one room, people.  Show them some love & tune in, buy/download their wares, & go see their gigs.  You deserve some payback for their loyalty over the years.  You really do.

’till next time…

x ½DC + TWoTH

Hello You.

Well, we certainly have an eclectic selection of music for you this week. Highlights amongst the highlights are the warbling throated richness of Asaf Avidan & The Mojos, the deliciously Gothic folk of SixToes, the incredible vocal juxtaposition of Ah Holly Fam’ly (you heard them here first, kids), the strange but beautiful grand opera folk of The Tiny & the frenetic gypsy circus that is Blackbird Raum.

The complete line up runs a little like this:

• Tea Cozies
• Envelopes
• The Danks
• The Dimes
• Band Of Skulls
• Asaf Avidan & The Mojos
• Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin
• Califone
• One eskimO
• SixToes
• The Tiny
• Money Can’t Buy You Music
• Golden Bloom
• Alasdair Roberts
• Ah Holly Fam’ly
• Attack In Black
• The Mountains & The Trees
• Dandelion Junk Orchestra
• De Rosa
• Yourself & The Air
• Dame Satan
• Arms
• Blackbird Raum
• Blue Roses

So, put your slippers on, hug your cocoa, & get your ears cleaned out with TWR’s musical Q-Tip.

Enjoy!

DC + TWoTH

How do.

Me?  Very well, ta.  Very well indeed. Still in America.  Currently annoying Texans.  Amazingly have interweb access.  Hence this post.  But, let’s keep it brief in case it all goes breasts skywards.

Here’s what you get this week:

• SixToes – Single Siamese Soul
• Tea Cozies – Like Luca Brasi
• Thee Oh Sees – The Sun Goes All Around
• The Morning After Girls – Alone
• Pinkle – Titanic Death
• Band Of Skulls – Dull Gold Heart / Cold Fame
• The Tiny – Last Weekend
• Navvy – Navvy
• The Chatham Singers – Evil Thing
• The Deep Dark Woods – Ballad Of Frank Dupree
• Autopilot Is For Lovers – The World Is Flat
• The Ladybug Transistor – Meadowport Arch
• Dot Allison ft. Peter Doherty – I Wanna Break Your Heart
• Red Heart The Ticker – Small Sky Country (What I’ve Found Part II)
• One eskimO – Simple Day
• Hair Rocket – Come Here Be Near
• The Danks – No Radio
• The Almighty Defenders – Lay Down & Die
• Spiral Beach – Battery
• Orenda Fink – High Ground
• Oh, Atoms – This Is Not You Song
• Bad Veins - Found
• Mumford & Sons – Winter Winds
• Withered Hand – Hard On (Charles Latham cover)

Go on, then: enjoy why don’t you, eh?

½DC + TWoTH

Morning Kids.

My, what a palaver these past few days have been.  Doesn’t matter where I go in the USof the hotel interweb connectivity strength seems to be set to zilch.  Also, Podbean has been screwing up very badly over the last 2 weeks &, for reasons their non existent customer service team have yet to disclose, simply refuses to allow any files to be uploaded to the archive ready or posting.

Doesn’t matter how politely or angrily you ask them what the fuck is going on you c*nts? you never get an answer that actually resolves the issue.  If anyone can recommend an alternative provider please let us know as we’re now in the postal district of kicking Podbean into touch.

So, immediately, apologies for the delay in posting last week’s show & apologies in advance for any difficulties we have posting this weeks & subsequent shows in the next few days.

This week’s show is, genuinely for once, a little confused.  As we had so many shows to pre-record before ½DC trotted off to the USof we accidentally mixed up where he’d be when.  So, bear with the references to certain cities & events that, at the time of recording, hadn’t happened &, at time of broadcast, hadn’t happened yet either.  See? Confused.

Anyhoo, here’s this week’s clatterathon playlist.  Now sod off & enjoy the show.

½DC + TWoTH

PODCAST NOW AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.  APOLOGIES FOR THE DELAY.

Morning Kiddie Winks.

Bit late in posting this one as we’ve been right *beep* busy preparing for ½DC disappearing to the *beep* USof for 3 *beep* weeks or so.

But, anyway, suffice to *beep* say, this week’s *beep* show is a bit *beep* madcap — & we don’t *beep* use that *beep* term *beep* lightly. Or, *beep* , ever.

Musically, then, wrap your *beep* skull ports around this *beep* lot:

• Emily Wells
• Phil & The Osophers
• PRE
• Clues
• Bawn In The Mash
• Asaf Avidan & The Mojos
• Fireside Bellows
• Two White Horses
• Jesca Hoop
• Ilya
• Le Loup
• Lady & Bird
• Haruko
• Press On Randy
• Eek! Bandits
• Ambulances
• Micha P. Hinson
• Girls
• Islands
• HoneyHoney
• Tim & Sam’s Tim & The Sam Band With Tim & Sam
• Cuff The Duke
• Frank Turner
• Chet

En*beep*joy.

½ *beep* DC + *beep* TWoTH

OK, you.

Week 27.

Remember it.

Because this week’s playlist is quite a ride. We’re very smug about it.

We’re particularly pleased with our discovery of a brand new band from Austin, TX called Eek! Bandits. Don’t let the now expected quirky indie name fool you. There’s some serious talent behind that daft moniker. Hunt them down. Buy their album. Go to their shows. They have the potential to be big.

Here, then, is the rundown for the rest of your Saturday Morning trip:

• Natalia Lafourcade
• 7 Worlds Collide (Ed O’Brien + Neil Finn)
• Fake Problems
• Cohete
• Press On Randy
• A.A. Bondy
• Joshua James
• Strange Boys
• Roses Kings Castles
• A Fine Frenzy
• The Horse’s Ha
• Vic Chesnutt
• Baby Teeth
• I Am Your Autopilot
• Eek! Bandits
• The Wooden Sky
• The Soil & The Sun
• Pocketbooks
• Tim & Sam’s Tim & The Sam Band With Tim & Sam
• Hair Rocket
• Bawn In The Mash
• Lucky Dragons
• Jamie T.
• Grand Hallway

You know what to do.

½DC + TWoTH

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.

What resulted from those 2 sweaty hours in the cosy Offshore Music studio is a remarkably tight session from a truly remarkable band who, impressively, are unassuming & unaffected in the face of mounting attention that their brilliant songs & live shows are bringing their way.

The interview between the tracks is light & breezy; full of a band humbly taken aback by the spotlight &, to some degree, steadfastly ignoring it in order to concentrate on what it is they’re here to do: play music.

The session will be available for download from the Lounge Act pages over at WOXY, & eventually via TWRHQ, in a week or so.

Splashed either side of the session will be a brace of excellent new (& some old) tracks from new (& some old, yet criminally unknown) bands & artistes gleaned from the avalanche of promos dropping on the TWR mat, both physical & virtual.

Expect, then, the usual nonsense & blather from your convivials, with hints for birthday gifts & far too much information on mechanical sex toys.

Not bad for our first show broadcast from Austin, TX eh?

x ½DC + TWoTH

Hello You.

Firstly, apologies.

This week’s special one-off Nostalgiacast should have been on-line at the usual WOXY broadcast time. Unfortunately, during the recording of the show, we were visited by a tired & emotional Lloyd Robson who was, for want of a better phrase, ‘on one’.

Long story short, after moreorless single handedly contributing to one expletive strewn, wonky-arsed ramble of a 25minute single section recording later Mr. Robson wandered off in search of a fish ‘n’ chips shop. This left ½DC with a mammoth editing task to compete — that, or re-record the whole section again sans Mr. R.. The former, foolishly, was decided upon. As a result the length of time it took to stitch together a conherent (& not too offensive) narrative was far in excess of the shceduled editing time. That said, because ½DC + TWoTH reminisced in a rather ’round the houses’ fashion, the planned 3hr show overran to 3½hrs+.

Therefore, my little cherubs, we is late. By a country mile.

But, enough excuses.

This past weekend Team WOXY were busy choosing the cushions & matching pop shields for the new Austin studio-come-fun nest, therefore TWR did not air. Some, we know, will consider that a mighty relief.

For those of you who fell into a Kenneth Hutchinson-style heroin stupour as a result of our missing Saturday alarm call dulcets, fear not. Here’s something we made earlier that you can use to kick your brain awake with.

This one off so-called Nostalgiacast contains a looksee through the ‘grown up listening to’ musical history of your favourite twatmouth’s questionable ‘taste’. ½DC’s, that is.

Over 4½days 20 years of music & personal listening habit (covering late ’70s - mid ’90s) has been filtered, whittled & crunched down by ½DC into a playlist that could have realistically been at least 6hrs long. & that’s without the inane chatter in the between bits.

We’ll be honest. We missed a LOT of music & bands out that were very important in the musical appreciation by our young, strident protagonist (½DC, again; keep up). It’s just we simply couldn’t fit it all in.

Expect, then, the avant garde, goth, indie jangle, indie folk, blues, rock, psychedelic, punk, musicals, & a whole damn host of things you may have never heard of before, or, hopefully, a tone of stuff you’ve not heard for, like, ages, man. Yeh? Just don’t expect the obvious track choices associated with any of the bands.

So, then, & onwards towards naughty words, bawdy nonsense + expletive intactus lyricalisation. Oh, & a bit of Terence Trent D’arby to get your knickers steamed up.

You have been weaned.

x ½DC + TWoTH

Hello All.

This week’s show is brought to you by the letters W + O + X + Y, D + C, & (in our “special” studio guest’s case) E, & the number 3.

Come ride the fun bus with us as we travel down memory lane with a few choice music dishes served up by our guest & a whole ream of nonsense conversation.

Amongst the new music featured this week you shall hear:

• Allo, Darlin’
• Ambulances
• Charades
• Boat Beam
• Bunky
• Too Soft
• Twi The Humble Feather
• The Turkish Delights
• Bark Cat Bark
• Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers
• Tabernacle

+ the very usual many more…

As WOXY are in the throes of moving to Austin, TX we won’t have a show next week - however, as a treat ½DC + TWoTH will be recording a special one off 2hr podcast (for the weekend of 5th/6th September) for you to download &, ahem, enjoy.

This podcast will not feature any ‘new’ music, but instead will contain a playlist consisting of tunes constituting ½DC’s musical taste education from when he was a wee nipper. Reminders will be sent in advance of it going ‘live’.

Until then, enjoy this week’s show & we’ll catch you in Austin from the 12th September with a session & interview with the superb Mumford & Sons.

Ta Ta.

½DC + TWoTH

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.

Shenandoah was at the tail end of her European vacation/tour combi, having spent a wonderful weekend up at Toad Towers in Edinburgh (recording a session & podcast interview for the intrepid Mr. Toad), when she got off a train at Cardiff Central with the largest keyboard holdall you have ever seen in your life.

Somehow she survived a trip to Mr. Fisk’s place for a poetry magazine launch & number of hours imbing whiskey & coke in the company of Lloyd Robson, before collapsing onto the sleeping cot & relaxing (read: sleeping) for the first time since she stepped onto Platform 2 over 7 hours previous.

The session is quite wonderful.  Effortless, yet complex, mastery of her instrument of choice. That supernatural soar in her wobbling, yet full of grandeur, classically trained vocals. 14 songs she knocked off, just like that.  Not including 5 abandoned attempts at one particularly tricksy skittering piano piece.

The interview, such as it is, interwoven with songs Shenandoah assisted in choosing for this week’s playlist, is a joy.  As much as it would appear cliché, & it most certainly is not, Shenandoah is witty, laid back, self-deprecating, immensely talented & everything you could wish for in an interviewee-cum-house guest-cum-good egg.

Musically you can expect nothing short of Grade A variety & excellence along the very lines of:

• Big D & The Kids Table – Doped Up Dollies On A One Way Ticket To Blood
• Quintron & Miss Pussycat – Fly Like A Rat
• Swimming In Speakers – Uh Oh
• Bell X1 – One Stringed Harp
• Left Lane Cruiser – Ol’ Fashioned
• Domingo – The Naked Bunch
• Adam and Darcie – National Forest
• Dear Reader – Dearheart
• Barnaby Bright – The Stone

Shenandoah Davis — TWR Session 17.08.09

• Up & Over (TWR Session 17.08.09)
• Pellet Gun (TWR Session 17.08.09)
• We; Camera (TWR Session 17.08.09)
• Proof (TWR Session 17.08.09)
• These Rocks (TWR Session 17.08.09)
• Your Fonder Heart (Anais Mitchell cover) (TWR Session 17.08.09)

• The Films – Me + The Thief
• Eight Legs – Just So You Know
• Peggy Sue & The Pictures – The Sea The Sea
• The Hungry March Band – Bubamara
• The Cave Singers – Summer Light
• Jenn Grant – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Neil Young cover)
• Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers – Nightowl
• The Features – Whatever Gets You By
• Roses Kings Castles – Entroubled
• Clock Hands Strangle – Distaccati
• Forgetful Florence – Mindless Gibberish
• Shenandoah Davis – Milagros

So, lean in, then, at the usual time, the usual place, & catch Shenandoah talking cameltoes, false accusations of checking assault rifles onto planes, cleaning the guttering with her toothbrush, & teaching a course on drinking British-style in her native Seattle.

x ½DC + TWoTH

Bobby Robson CBE (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009)

Hallo Sie.

Willkommen, begleiteten Sie, zur anhaltenden allgemeinen Aufschlüsselung von hälfe des Betrunkenen Landes, (als immer) von Der Frau des Haus & sie zurück der Handdisziplin.

Diese Woche lässt hälfe des Betrunkenen Landes ein und seine ergeht sich von der neuen Reise nach Friedrichshafen (im Süden von Deutschland) mit einem kalten Steinidioten der Goldaktieanteile in Erinnerungen.

Der platz, die geographie, das bier - alles erstaunlich schöne (obgleich, eine vollständige woche von weissbier die Magensäfte wenig mit dem Ergebnis der unvermeidlichen Evakuierung des rückseitigen Durchganges auf einer fast zweimal täglich Basis gerann).

Musikalisch, als immer, können Sie solche Freuden genau erwarten, wie folgt:

1) The Peekers – Sweet Singin’ Birds

2) Secret Powers – Orange Trees

3) Lucky Elephant – Reverend Tilsley & His Magic Lantern

4) fun. – Be Calm

5) The Bronx – Cell Mates

6) The Low Anthem – OMGCG

7) We’ll Make It Right – Peace & Happiness

8) Charlotte & Magon – All MY Sorries

9) Archivist – Opening

10) The Films – Something Familiar

11) Sweet Baboo – If I’m Still In Love When I Get Back Home From Travelling (America)

12) DM Stith – BMB (Demo)

13) Fabián – Horas De Luz

14) Bachelorette – Where To Begin

15) Fruit Bats – Primitive Band

16) Doll & The Kicks – If You Care

17) Radioboxer – Placebo Effect

18) The Sunday Drivers – My Plan

19) Modest Mouse – Satellite Skin

20) Slow Club – When I Go

21) Taxi Taxi! - Ripest Fruit

22) The Postmarks – For Better… Or Worse?

23) Alcoholic Faith Mission – Nut In Your Eye

24) Monde Yeux – Long Gone

Aufgeregt?

Melodie innen wie üblich Samstag-Morgen @ 8am ET/USA + 1pm BST/UK.

Auf Wiedersehen.

½DC + TWoTH

p.s. übrigens wurde dieses unter verwendung des Babel Fish übersetzt, also wissen wir, dass dieses sehr schlechte Deutsche grammatik in der tat enthält

Hell Ho All.

This is the show playing the show pretending to be another show, dig?

What with WOXY’s recent announcement that they is taking them selves orf to Austin, TX & leaving old Cincinnati behind, this had a knock on effect for TWR. Despite having the show more or less good to go WOXY advised the usual tech staff at the station would not be in residence around the time we usually send over the gubbins.  Therefore we kinda had a show spare.  This wasn’t really it, though.

The playlist this week remains the same as the one we were going to play last week, but we did a little bit of fiddling here ‘n’ there just to keep it a tad fresher & up to date.  There’re a few added bits that don’t stick out like sore thumbs, ‘kay?  They don’t stick out like sore thumbs…

½DC + TWoTH

p.s. first person to state the significance of this week’s promo art wins something we pull out of our stash.

Morning, kids.

My, what a confusing few weeks, eh?  First MJ & now WOXY freaking out the loyal listening few.  By that, of course, we mean our non-appearance this week on the station.  Instead, you got to hear a repeat of a show first broadcast on 25th May 2009 what featured that cheeky little scamp Lloyd Robson.  For the sake of ease we have linked the same show to the embeddable play on demand player below, very much for your listening pleasure.

Why O Why did this happen? Well, a couple of factors, really.

1) ½DC was over in that there Germany having a ball with an idiot for a companion (tune in next week for the full, overly descriptive picture), &

2) WOXY quietly announced to us at TWR that there were major changes afoot &, therefore, the usual in-station staffer weren’t going to be available to cue our show as he were orf to Austin, TX to sort out a few nigglings - such as find a new place to live now WOXY are headed there lock stock & barrel. Say wha?

Here’s the official public notice from the website:

WOXY Fans and Friends -

We’ve been busy upgrading this year… our new broadband broadcast streams, WOXY Radio iPhone app, and great new programs like the Pampelmoose New Music Hour, Future Sounds Radio, the 1-2-3-4 More More More show and The Waiting Room. And now it’s time to step up our WOXY Lounge Acts live in-studio sessions.

Every March for the past 3 years, we’ve headed south to Austin, Texas, for the SXSW Music Festival. We set up camp at EAR Studios in East Austin, rounded up some of the best up-and-coming bands we could find, and broadcast 20+ live WOXY Lounge Act sessions over the course of the week. With such great access to the artists that make these Lounge Act sessions so special, we thought why not broadcast from “The Live Music Capital of the World” full-time?

WOXY is headed south. Come September 8th, WOXY will be broadcasting full-time from Austin, Texas. Our new digs in Austin will allow us to take things to the next level and bring you even more live Lounge Act sessions. You’ll not only get to hear the sessions, but you’ll be able to see them as well. We’ll have our own sound stage that will allow us to shoot video of all of our Lounge Acts and bring them to you in HD video.

As hard as it is for us to leave Cincinnati, we’re all pretty excited about what is to come, and we hope you are too. See ya in Texas, y’all!

- Mike, Shiv, Joe and Bryan Jay

We’re sure you’ll have some questions, so we’ve put together a little list of frequently asked questions over at www.woxy.com/austin-faq

So.  There you have.  We’re all off to Austin.  Theoretically in our case, of course, but it makes life a hell of a lot easier for us for future SXSWs, eh?

Normal service etc. etc.

x ½DC + TWoTH

We are pleased to announce that U.S. Congress has decided to coincide their 2009 4th of July celebrations with this week’s edition of The Waiting Room.

To honour this historic agreement we are going to sit down & have a nice cup of tea.

Join us, with this Tea stuff, & indulge in the likes of Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum, stellarstarr*, Winter Gloves, Nouvelle Vague, The Working Title, Pick A Piper, Petracovich, Let’s Wrestle, Those Darlins, The Fiery Furnaces, Modest Mouse, Múm, Mannequin Men, Lord Cut-Glass & many, many,many of the more

x ½DC + TWoTH

Rage.  Albeit White Aspirational Middle Class rage.  Rage allthesame.

This week Glenn Beck & Nancy Grace take you, the listening few, through the 4 levels of stifled anger:

1) She fancies him more than me

2) Cyclists in rush hour

3) Piss dance

4) Christian Bale

To help sooth those pulsing veins the following muscial treats have been laid on in order to pillow-hug your ears:

Math The Band, New Numbers, Cancel The Astronauts, Manson Family Picnic, Bombadil, The Builders & The Butchers, Meursault (USA), The Brian Jacket Letdown, Anni b Sweet, Jordaan Mason & The Horse Museum, LondonBlackMarket, One Hundred Hurricanes, Alexi Murdoch, CoCoRosie, Liz Isenberg, Revolver, The Most Serene Republic, The Wind Whistles + more.

Q-tips at the ready…

½DC + TWoTH

p.s. the podcast mp3 is tagged incorrectly; where it should read “270609″, it reads “200709″. Nope, we’re not sure how that happened either.

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.

Unfortunately, as is always the case, the choice of inteview location yadda yadda yadda.  It being too windy outside (+ the deck was full of people chattering at that point) we opted for the hull of the ship (i.e. the venue for the gig itself).  Unfortunately, the bar staff decided to try out the PA by blasting odd sea shanties, Irish ditties & bombastic/cheesy orchestra pop from the ’70s.

Sound bleed much?  Jesus.

We knew it was loud, but only realised how loud when we came to edit the thing.

Apologies, immediatley, then, to Dan — we did discuss trying to find somewhere quieter, but there really wasn’t anywhere we could go — & to you, the listening few, for some of the sound clips are ropey to say the very bloody, & you might struggle to recognise the quality.

Nonetheless, it is a very good interview; Dan is a thoroughly nice bloke, witty, self-effacing & very dry.

There is, also, the slight matter of a competition to win a hand printed/numbered/signed limited edition 7″ vinyl copy of Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards‘ song Bust. So, answer us this, kids:

Dan Michaelson’s band is called The Coastguards; if you were being rescused by the real life Coastgguard what substance would you be in?

Send your answers to (minus the parentheses & spaces): competition (@) TWRHQ.com & we’ll read out the winner in a couple of weeks.

+ if you go here you can watch the brilliant video for said brilliant song Bust.

That be it, then, for now.  Except, put some seat belts on your ears, people; we’s are going to take them for a hell of a ride.

x ½DC + TWoTH

p.s. Apologies for the lateness of posting this one (isn’t there a pattern forming here?) but Friday saw ½DC entertaining the brilliance that is Celebrity Chimp in Cardiff for the day evening/following morning & afternoon.  Following an excellent session the gang, augmented by TWoTH AND Mr. Fisk headed to a local arts centre & then to a rather nice pub, where they conducted one of the maddest interviews TWR has been involved with yet.  Following that, whiskey flowed, Fisk had us in fits, TWoTH passed out from over-consumption, & a truly fantastic time was had by all. I’m not even going to mention the 18yo girls from South Africa (yet)…

This insanity, + the session, will be aired in about 4weeks time.  Tune in, it’s seriously not to be missed

Hello You.

½DC here.  Breathing. Alive. & still a dreadful pain in the ass.

This week’s show, which makes no mention wse of the American field bug-related sucker punch, is an effing corker.  Musically it = *phew*.  Conversationally, well, erm, *meh*. But, musically…

• The Boggs (new LP track)
• Linfinity (new EP track)
• Martin Carr (ex Boo Radley’s, new LP track)
• The Extraordinaires (new LP track)
• Dangermouse & Sparklehorse (ft. Gruff Rhys from SFA) (new LP track)
• Deer Tick (new LP track)
• Slow Club (new LP track)
• Patrick Watson (new LP Track)

+ many of the small coastal village of more.

Tissues, we believe, ladies & gentlemen, are in order.

x ½DC + TWoTH