Adam talks with English comedian Tom Allen about music, self loathing, dreams of being a British butler and camp sci-fi movies.

Recorded remotely on January 19th, 2021.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for conversation editing. 

Podcast artwork by Helen Green https://helengreenillustration.com/

RELATED LINKS

MSF UK
https://msf.org.uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw0oCDBhCPARIsAII3C_FcaMV-LKCuOgynIsy0lZcWFtWhpgD-grRN-U9czeKuIrwluUe9-kwaAks1EALw_wcB

NO SHAME by TOM ALLEN - 2021 (GOODREADS WEBSITE)
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55207391-no-shame

ADAM ON TAPE NOTES PODCAST - 2021 (TAPE NOTES WEBSITE)
https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn66-adam-buxton

SUSAN SONTAG - NOTES ON CAMP - 1964 (PDF)
http://www.theslideprojector.com/pdffiles/ah331/notesoncamp.pdf

EP.154 - TOM ALLEN

05 February 2022
C-line:
© 2021 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Your fingertips they feel
So much in life is false
Yet all their words are real

They tap the glass for the heart
So certain that they’ll steal
Your fingertips they feel 

Your fingertips on fire
So many pent up thoughts
You gave into desire

They tap the glass for the love
So certain they’ll acquire
Your fingertips on fire

Your fingertips are cold
So slows your heart and oh yeah
You know you’re getting old

They type so fast
And yet their words don’t seem so bold
Your fingertips are cold

And they don’t know how you feel
They don’t know what to do
They can’t read what’s not written
It’s not their fault it’s true
Through the heat and cold you’re 
living, they’re waiting on a sign from you
They’re waiting for, they’re waiting for
An honest answer too 

Your fingertips they feel

Your fingertips they feel
So much in life is false
Yet all their words are real

They tap the glass for the heart
So certain that they’ll steal
Your fingertips they feel

Tell Me

Fingertips

26 February 2022
C-line:
© 2022 Joe McCullough / Your Average Joe

Sometimes it likes to to cross my mind
The fleeting smiles
The lonely trials
A hand to hold of someone kind

But sometimes is too many
And sometimes it’s too heavy

Just leave me be
Free to be, where you can’t see
Just let me go
Free to go, where I’m unknown
Just say to me, just say to me
Goodbye
And sometimes they tend to to cross my mind
Their sweetest laughs
Their photographs
Their hand to hold, oh to rewind

But sometimes is too many
And sometimes it’s too heavy

Just leave me be
Free to be, where you can’t see
Just let me go
Free to go, where I’m unknown
Just say to me, just say to me
Goodbye

Goodbye

Guitar by Jordan Humber, voice / mix by Ken Kasriel

Hollow Log (Beck cover)

Check out the Kickstarter to fund the full album being pressed to vinyl record: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctoroctoroc/c-change-a-chiptune-tribute-to-beck

An arrangement of "Paper Tiger" by Beck from the album "Sea Change", using only a Nintendo (NES) and a Gameboy.

By using both systems, extensive volume/pitch/duty changes and stereo separation were implemented to recreate the feel of the original track and fill the sound stage.

Paper Tiger by Beck (NES + DMG Arrangement)

Cover of this tune by Beck Hansen from the Mutations album. Ken Kasriel, vocal and mix; Jordan Humber, guitars; Rebecca James, vocal

Nobody's Fault But My Own

Vocal cover by Ken Kasriel of Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow"

Moonshadow (cover)

My cover (with some instrumental help) of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain". Recorded at GT Studios, Phuket

Fire And Rain (cover)

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon cover)

We Live Again - Beck cover bringing a Beck D-16BH (2002) signature guitar back to life 
Backstory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c35CXITRBLo 
Vocals, guitar, production: Joe McCullough
Vocals, guitar, production: Pamela Kilpadi
Original song: Beck Hansen

WE LIVE AGAIN (Mutations, 1998)

These withered hands have dug for a dream 
Sifted through sand and leftover nightmares 
Over the hill, a desolate wind 
Turns shit to gold and blows my soul crazy

The end, oh the end 
We live again 
Oh I grow weary of the end

Oh hungry days in the footsteps of fools 
Gazing alone through sex-painted windows 
Dredging the night, drunk libertines 
Stink like colognes from a newfangled wasteland

The end, oh the end 
We live again 
Oh I grow weary of the end

Love is a plague in a mix-match parade 
Where the castaways look so deranged 
When will children learn to let their wildernesses burn 
And love will be new, never cold and vacant

These withered hands have dug for a dream 
Sifted through sand and leftover nightmares
The end, oh the end 
We live again 
Oh I grow weary of the end

Pamela Kilpadi's Album

We Live Again (Joe, Pam, Beck guitar)

Adam enjoys a rambling conversation with Irish writer, podcaster, comedian, musician and sometime Rubberbandit, Blindboyboatclub about comedy, music, post modernism, prank phone calls, masks, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and more.

This episode was recorded remotely on October 5th, 2020.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Emma Corsham for additional editing. 

Podcast artwork by Helen Green https://helengreenillustration.com/

RELATED LINKS

60s GARAGE ROCK PLAYLIST ON SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VRoTCFjNxBiFNajNQoTeW?si=DEMyS6rwQKmow0RgICHbHw

A NIGHT IN WITH JOAN AND JERICHA (Tuesday 27th OIctober, 2020)
https://www.fane.co.uk/our-shows/a-night-in-with-joan-and-jericha/about-the-show
BLINDBOY UNDESTROYS THE WORLD (BBC iPLAYER)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p06qgq7t/blindboy-undestroys-the-world

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO BLINDBOY (2018, WATERSTONES)
https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-gospel-according-to-blindboy/blindboy-boatclub/9780717181001

HOW BLINDBOY ACCIDENTALLY BECAME MODERN IRELAND'S BIGGEST CULTURAL EXPORT (2020, ARTICLE IN THE FACE)
https://theface.com/culture/blindboy-ireland-the-rubberbandits-comedy-podcast-twitch

THE RUBBERBANDITS - HORSE OUTSIDE (2010, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

THE RUBBERBANDITS - SPASTIC HAWK (2011, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdK_TBrBGs

THE RUBBERBANDITS - BLACK MAN (2011, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaaZsBxWeiQ

THE RUBBERBANDITS  - LIAR LIAR DANNY DYER (2012, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM72WsoqVgk

THE RUBBERBANDITS - 'COSTA FORCHUN' (2012, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW8BWdIR0gs

BLINDBOY ON MENTAL HEALTH - THE TOMMY TIERNAN SHOW (2019, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2upjXGeT4M

BLINDBOY ON LATE LATE SHOW - OUR GENERATION (2016, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v1kuaWCj1U

SMOG - TEENAGE SPACESHIP (2000, from the album KNOCK KNOCK - AUDIO ON YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llaeAbTSo_k

THE KLF - THE MANUAL (HOW TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE THE EASY WAY) (1999, GOODREADS WEBSITE)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/984528.The_Manual

GUY DEBORD AND THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE ON HYPERALLERGIC WEBSITE, 2016)
https://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/

THE ADAM AND JOE SHOW ON WOW PRESENTS PLUS (SIGN UP TO STREAM ALL 4 SERIES) 
https://www.wowpresentsplus.com/

NEW ADAM BUXTON WEBSITE
Adam-buxton.co.uk

ADAM BUXTON'S RAMBLE BOOK (HARDBACK) (WATERSTONES)
https://www.waterstones.com/book/ramble-book/adam-buxton/9780008293345

ADAM BUXTON'S RAMBLE BOOK (AUDIOBOOK) (2020, AUDIBLE)
https://www.audible.co.uk/ep/title?asin=0008293368&source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH101514006S&&ipRedirectOverride=true

EP.136 - BLINDBOY

Lover (and destroyer) of all musical genres. Big on some B's, namely Beck, Beatles, and Beethoven. World citizen. Native of Lake George, NY - the land of the last of the (misnamed) Mohicans...

We Live Again (Joe, Pam, Beck guitar)

A Mohican

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