I imagine he does that a lot.





I don't like Danny Wallace.

In terms of 'things I like vs things I hate' having Danny Wallace fill in for Adam and Joe is like having Jeremy Clarkson guest presenting 'Screenwipe'.

Collings and Herrin say I!

Discovered the Iain Lee podcasts last week, and I like them very much.

Previously I'd only heard his show as part of Alex Lowe's Edinburgh show 'Let's talk to Barry', and though Barry from Watford is still a regular, if anything the legitimate callers are even funnier.

I may even start listening live.

If I could bear adverts on commercial radio.

If they're anything like our local FM station's adverts you'd go literally mad.

There's really only so many times a sane person can cope with umpteen repeats of 'economy windows' or 'kitchens & bathrooms' ads in one hour.



I might check out the Iain Lee podcasts - I used to think he was funny on The 11 O'Clock Show, despite the fact that not many other people did.

You may or may not be interested (probably the latter) to know that my former university's radio station website has been freshly updated. Open Air Radio www.openair.fm streams world music and discussion, and they are now (finally) uploading some of the episodes I made about a year ago (it's still all good though) of my Japanese music show, Tokyo Soundscape, which you can stream from the website or subscribe to podcasts of or what have you.

I finally got round to downloading an Adam & Joe podcast Friday. I do see what I've been missing out on.

I found a cassette with me doing a radio show aged about 7 or 8 but I have no way of recording it to send into Adam and Joe...plus I'm a bit embarrassed about it and I'm not sure if I would send it even if I could.

I've just downloaded my very first Ricky Gervais podcast. I only have 1 other podcast anyway, and that's Adam and Joe.

You definitely need another podcast, Lou...

I would be lost without podcasts.

I'm currently very fond of Iain Lee.

I have a similar tape, an archive recording of our radio station, "Radio Cool". It featured drum n bass, a fake chart run-down and improvised vocal tracks. Genius.

I've only just got iTunes, so I'm very new to the land of podcasts.

Oh my god, there are Hamish and Andy podcasts. I'm going to be here for a long time...

Heehee, excellent.

My brother and I used to record not so much a radio show as a 'silly hour of utter nonsensical sound' - we used to have several tapes kicking around of random bits and pieces we'd recorded from the radio, having employed rigorous use of the pause button (the old-fashioned spring mechanism allowed you to tweak the 'normal' recording speed by making the cassette cogs spin faster or slower - alternating said speed made for some hilarious end results). Editing serious talk radio into nonsense with staccato on-off-on-off use of the pause button was jolly good fun. The advent of modern hi-fi systems' clunky, noisy, one-touch pause mechanisms rendered that particular silliness impossible, sadly. I miss my old Hinari tape-to-tape/CD deck.

We occasionally mixed it up with recordings of ourselves talking gibberish, and twatting around with a Yamaha keyboard (replete with rubber drum pads) to concoct 'stoopid music' - silly little 30-second tunes of no structural or musical merit, but which had us in stitches with their discordant silliness afterwards. Again, the pause button was in regular use for these moments of terpsichorean daftness.

Halcyon days. *sigh*

Oh, please, Jimbo.... try, that would be excellent!


Li'l Joe's first clip introducing the Haircut 100 track had me guffawing on the way to work this morning. Very moody...

Oh yes please do.

I did my own radio show for a while with a friend - we were 9. We even made our own spin-off comic. The poor quality of tape meant that songs could be heard during the 'sketches'. It was a proto-Jam adventure with me and friend making remarks and doing sketches over songs. Or just giggling.

One thing I distincly remember is a Kermit the frog-voiced sing-along to "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us now!" by Starship. The show was called 'Soup Weekly' or 'Weekly Soup' for no reason. We also had various other types of 'Weekly' including 'Sausage', "Cox's Orange Pippin" and 'Twinkle'.

Other tape goodies - I later wrote a series of poems entitled "Oliver's Dress" and read them aloud in my best fake RSC actor voice. And I have the charts with Bruno Brookes from 1989.

Collings and Herrin is a decent enough listen, and there are over 50 one hour long podcasts of that.

My only gripe is that for all Mayo and Kermode have wound down the annoying interrupting, Andrew Collins has ramped it up. Silly ol' Mr Bean voice.

On tonight's nice radio show, we'll be interviewing the lovely lovely Robin Ince.

A funny and genuinely nice man to chat to.

I'll also be making some proverbs up.

I used to do a lot of such tapes with my friends back in the 80s, either long lost or completely unplayable now.

I do remember one tape I did with my friend Jo-jo when we used a plug in microphone and I whacked myself in the mouth with it. Just thinking of it now sends me into hopeless giggles. On the tape itself, all you could hear was me finishing my bit by saying, "...and now over to Jo-jo with the news,' followed by an audible tap and me going "Oof!". The next few minutes were just the sound of two 7-year girls killing themselves laughing and a scream of, "I've wet myself!"

Wow, I thought it was just me and my siblings who would make up radio shows. Ours usually involved mocking teachers from my primary school in our news reports and making up competitions with prizes chosen from whatever was lying about in the bedroom.

Ahh, the good old days.

That's my excuse.

Arturart
The High Summer of the Arturart Renaissance

Today, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4

I was listening to a radio show online last night that I helped put together during my work experience the other day. Made me happy

right now I'm listening to Mark Steele is in town. Pretty funny and informative as usual. If you haven't heard it before I recommend keeping an eye out for The Penny dreadfuls. One of the funniest and most original pieces of radio comedy in years http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/pennydr...ls_seance.shtml
some episodes are on you tube in fact so if you're bored this is a superb way of distracting you for half an hour before facing tedious responsibilities that can only be procrastinated for so long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1-uBtlSUAs...&playnext=1
Also in a similar vein Bleak expectations is pretty funny too.

Sony Radio Awards 2009

Didn't know where else to put this....

There is a funny Fantasy (mostly LOTR) parody on radio 4 at the mo called ElvenQuest. It's about 3 episodes in but easy to follow. Good cast, kevin Eldon and Stephen Mangan oh and Alistair McGowen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00k49s9

Oh YouTube I love you. So many old Mark & Lard audio clips. I've spent the evening crying with laughter

So many classic features. How can you forget

Missing Words

Downcount

Tony McCarroll`s Classical Gas

Lard's Classic Cuts

Oh Lucky You

Ooooh. Just discovered that. Thanks Sostie.

On Thursday and Friday next week I'm being handed the reins on BBC Tees again. Fischer is on holiday. Expect chat, in jokes and reading out e-mails. Probably mixed with indie pops.

Aw man, i used to love Mark and Lard on radio 1 in the afternoon, "Its winking at me", "down bitch,come by" and the fantastic cooey raspberry.
what a team

Did anyone else catch I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue Last night?

It's not quite the same without Humph's dead pan deliveries, but it is still very funny.

Lackadaisical: A bicycle made for one.

Tim Key and Tom Basden funnies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kwfbv

EDIT: Yes I did, Paul. Me and my flatmates sat and listened drinking tea while the thunder, lightning and rain poured down outside. Zoe was doing a puzzle book. Most civilised.

After a year, I finally recorded a new episode of Tokyo Soundscape last night with my good buddy Chris, and you can now listen to it here.

I made a few errors (mis-named an album! overloaded the volume on one track! cut off the end of another!), but hey, I was a little rusty. Anyway, there are tunes from Shonen Knife, Hoover's Ooover, 80kidz, Gyoko, Handsomeboy Technique, Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, and more! Yay more!

Yes, another Tokyo Soundscape! This time it's an all-female special, with tracks from Tokyo Pinsalocks, Tokyo Jihen, Super Junky Monkey, Cibo Matto and more. Plus stupid banter from me and Chris. Enjoy: http://openair.fm/tokyosoundscape/315-toky...scape-episode-6

'When Harry Met Sally' at 20

This Thursday at 11am on Radio 4

I feel we should do something to mark the occasion.

We could all fake orgasms or have sandwiches.

New series of That Mitchell and Webb Sound starts tonight

Something Milky?

Oooh, I went to one of the recordings for that. There was a bit about whales that made me laugh rather a lot...

Fake an orgasm in a restaurant.

Have a real orgasm in a restaurant.

"I'm sorry, could we just have the bill please? We've both just come."

Fancy Mildred's tonight?

It's pretty cosy in there, maybe we could get the whole restaurant involved. A big veggie orgy. How very Soho.

Best Podcasts

The Trap Sodcasts

http://www.thetrap.co.uk/

Trev and Simon

http://trevandsimon.com/

Peacock and Gamble

http://www.chortle.co.uk/about/2009/06/08/...gamble_podcasts

*glasses steam up*

That'll be the gnocchi ready then. Arf.

More Tokyo Soundscape, and this time it's an electronic special! I think it's our best show yet, playing lots of great Japanese techtronica plus all kinds of interesting wittering from myself and Chris. Tokyo Soundscape Episode 7 on Open Air

Is that picture real or 'shopped?

Ah, it's photoshopped indeed. I'm such a geek I use computers to simulate cos-play.

Sunday 1 Nov 2009
07:00–10:00
BBC Radio 1
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have Breakfast with Edith Bowman.

Mark Gatiss doing spooky stuff on BBC7 starting tonight.

Listen to the Penny Dreadfuls seasonal special starring the actor Kevin Eldon as Guy Fawkes

2:15pm Radio 4

BRILLIANTS! That and Gatiss sets me right up.

Hey - Zoe. What do you think of George Lamb being moved to the Black Squadron spot? Torn?