The Gourds on The Waiting Room
Despite the fact that Akismet has unilaterally decided to filter all DC’s comments to the spam dump, we are nevertheless looking forward to the next Waiting Room here at Toad Hall.
Mrs. Toad and I featured a truly hilarious Gourds cover of Snoop Dogg’s Gin & Juice when we participated in the recent Drunk Covers show. It’s one of our favourites but I’ve never explored The Gourds any further, perhaps because the amusement of that cover version gave me the impression they were something of a novelty act. Well they’re not, apparently, and tonight DC is dedicating a whole show to them on Error FM because he is more than just a little bit of a fan it seems.
The Gourds – Gin & Juice
Most interestingly, The Gourds have recorded all sorts of little bits of silliness and some new ditties for the show itself, to go alongside DC’s usual over-excited rambling. If, like me, you know nothing about this band I can’t think of a better way to discover them.
Tonight, 9pm-Midnight (BST) on Error FM.
And here are a couple of Gourds tracks to get you in the mood.
The Gourds – All the Labor
The Gourds – I Come Up
That was a fucking belter. Kev Russell is a top, top bloke.
Nice eh. I know nothing about them, but I’m downloading the podcast episode and having a good listen because they’re playing the Pickathon Festival in August and myself and my good lady will be there.
Sorry DC, that was for Ben’s benefit. I know you are well aware of this already.
Cheers for the original Gourds songs. I remember first hearing the Gin and Juice cover about 2 years ago and being thorougly impressed. It was nigh on overplayed by my flatmates and I but we just reigned it in. Just.