The Waiting Room 10.12.08
Evenin’ all.
Once again we, over at the ever-grateful TWR, are taking advantage of Toad’s generous offer to host our nonsense on the hallowed pages of S,bT while we negotiate a permanent home for the radio show.
For those of you who give even the slightest hint of a toss, we’re currently talking to a number of very interesting (& interested) proper professional radio stations, here in the UK & the US. We should be in a position to make an informed decision early part of January ‘09. Until then we’re taking a bit of a break from the ‘on air’ chaos & are instead just podcasting each week’s outing. Essentially it’s a busman’s holiday.
This week we have the pleasure of introducing to you, the Listening Few, the following sweetness: Mother Mother, The Duchess & The Duke, Arthur Adams, Blitzen Trapper, Tom Williams & The Boat, Michael Bach, Rags & Feathers, The Tallest Man on Earth, Jay Jay Pistolet, Fredrik, Eagleowl, Francis + the now expected many much so more.
The Theme Tune Competition is still running, as are competitions for the Sŵn bundle of goodies, the Ida Maria/V.V. Brown bundle, as well as the The Kabeedies/Tim & Sam’s the Tim & Sam Band with Tim & Sam/Pelle Carlberg/Lucky Delucci bundle. Free stuff, effectively, for the sake of an email.
Tune in, then, you.
The Waiting Room: 10th December 2008
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Wow, that Hayloft is a fucking romper stomper. Worth the price of admission right there.
Hey, that Pia & Tora track is gorgeous! Damn, DC. Damn, TWoTH. That’s some nice work.
I tell ya, man, Mother Mother are superb. Hayloft is just then snowflake on the tip of an extremely bulky iceberg. Their album Oh My Heart is a corker. Their debut, Touch Up is also a thing of mad-capped beauty. Expect very much more of them on t’show soonest.
As for Pia & Tora, they have some stunning little songs in their repertoire. As I said last week, I think, they remind me of a piano-based version of Sweden’s amazing First Aid Kit & Ireland’s Heathers. Great harmonies, amazing finger dexterity on their instruments (steady, Dylan), & a surprisingly tangible way with words given their very young ages all.
Eagleowl? Who the fuck are that bunch of chancers?
I was exceptionally complimentary to them, actually.
The new website is looking really snappy, isn’t it. I love the great big list of flyers. And ME! I’m on there – cheers!
Can I make a suggestion? If you run so many songs together it’s hard to put the chatter and, more importantly, the song names together with the right tunes – more, shorter breaks might help. Just my tuppence worth though. And given you actually post the playlists now, probably not worth paying attention to.
Jazz Singer was dead nice, and I like Fredrik too. Top stuff DC.
Christ, mate. She’s called Clarissa and she’s as nice as she is capable, and very pretty indeed as well, but she might appreciate it if you’d stop humping her leg.
You do know that’s Bart’s band, don’t you? I never know how obvious these things are if no-one specifically tells you.
Cheers, Toad.
I spent quite a bit of time getting the logo sorted because I really wasn’t sure how best to represent the show. As it happens I was inspired by the green & the grey in last week’s flyer image. Then I saw a logo for a German radio station which has a slightly different shade of green & grey to the one I used, & ba-da-bing I had the basis of an idea.
It will all get spiffier. I wasn’t going to unveil it until New Year, but I am an impatient fuck & was excited by the new stuff. So up it went at stupid o’clock. There’ll be a new bits & pieces on the site + the myspace & facebook pages in the next few days.
All this, as I said, wasn’t supposed to happen until next year: new web design, new logo, new myspace/facebook, new theme tune + new format for the show. Instead, the visual stuff will slowly appear & the audio stuff will happen next year.
Take your point on the chatter per song/tune ratio, but this one was a little looser than normal. We recorded it on Wednesday Eve before publishing, so it was a little unstructured (on purpose, of course). What I want to make sure I don’t do is turn into Fab FM or equivalent — I don’t like the whole track/banter/track/banter/track/track/banter/track bollocks. It seems very engineered & staged. I do like it when we get carried away & rabbit on, but I am also aware there develops a gulf between music recognition & self indulgence (albethey both accidental).
We’ll get there, though.
As for Clarissa, well (best Anthony Hopkins impersonation ahoy!), send her over to my tent with a newborn lamb & a bottle of Chianti *slaver* *slaver* *drool*
Seriously, though, I really like her voice (& I did know it was Bart’s little baby) & it would be interesting (for me) to bash something out with them (fnarr),
Well they haven’t done more than small tours here and there, but if there’s someone around who might be able to nudge them in the direction of a friendly promoter, that would help a lot. Under those circumstances I would have thought an interview would be the very least you’d get out of it, and quite probably a session too, depending on travel and time.
Do I really have to email in my answer to the Sŵn competition?
What, have you got, like, independent adjudicators or something?
Well, yes, Dylan, so’s we can get your address & everything. Otherwise, should you win, it’s unlikely ‘Dylan, Edinburgh’ is going to get to you. See?
Oh right.
Well, I’m back down over Christmas. When I win I’ll just pop round and pick the stuff up.
Cheers!
Dates? We’re off on travels for some of the time, but are around after the general hoohah. You’re welcome to crash agani if you want to spend some nights on the lash.
On the lash? Dylan? Naah, he’s just not like that, DC.
Digging up 7 month old posts is what the internet is for.
Just stumbled upon The Tallest Man On Earth – ‘Shallow Grave’, this album’s a bit good.