I managed to wittle this one down to just under fifty-five minutes. Which was a miracle in itself, as Howesy kept on talking absolute bollocks. I'm telling ya folks, he's worse than Jif! He blabs on about his time with The Ariels (including the infamous Basingstoke incident), and we also get to hear some more of Howesy's new stuff (including a Howesy / Depcast song exclusive!). He also mentions his psychiatric downfall completist traits as he knocks one out over Aussie band Midnight Oil. Dirty bugger! Go here, click on the relevant link and, hopefully, enjoy! NOTE: If you would like to download the Depcast to your hard-drive, go to where it says "Download here", right click on the word "here" and select 'save target as'. Read about the contoversy that this has started. Shocking it is, shocking, I say.*
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And now for the Me-Me that cat loving Llewtrah tagged me with:
1. I've worked on the railway for nearly twenty years and I'm only starting to realise what else I could've done with my life.
2. I'm an avid collector of guitars (electric and acoustic) which started off with me getting to grips with my dad's Hofner President which he bought in 1956. I currently have 12 or 13 in my collection, my favourite example being the Jackson King V Dave Mustaine model. One day, I shall buy an amplifier for my 'children'.
3. I've been estranged from my own mother for five years now, ever since she started displaying a vicious and cantankerous streak of flowing venom aimed at anyone who says the word 'no' to her. Her 'behaviour' started shortly before my dad passed away and which is on going to this day.
4. I have a passing interest in accents, dialects and indigenous languages of the British Isles but I have no desire to learn to speak any of them (except for English - I'm getting there).
5. I did my first bunjee jump for fun at the Pheonix Festival, Stratford upon Avon, in 1993 when I was (as Ron Nasty would say) "out of me head". The second jump was made adjacent to Battersea power station a few years later for 'charidee'.
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That's enough for now, so I'm passing the 'tagging' buck over to Jif, Howesy and Stray, so that they can have a go.
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16 comments:
Just listened to it! liked it very much, I was pleased to hear that Howesy actually talked you under the table (makes a change) well it was his interview wasn't it!
Howesy-Nolan, what a prospect!
It is a familiar pattern isn't it when people from musical backgrounds ie family, always end up being creative in that field one way or the other...and Howesy is no exception....his songs are good.
I like Neil Young..I have 'Rust Never Sleeps' and 'Harvest' springs to mind with tracks like "I've Seen The Needle And The Damage Done" what a song that is!
On a technical note:
You must have recorded the links in a kitchen? it sounded like it, your voice was bouncing or bleeding into the the other channel quite strongly, more so than round 'Ruxley' the more I hear that, the more an acoustic screen of some kind becomes a must have item! hmm......
Oh, what's this 'tagging' gig all about?
'Kevcast' up and running.
Hugely entertaining...good stuff. Glad to see that Howesey didn't mention anything about the West Hampstead "Gladioli incident", of which we must never speak.
Stray, my lips are sealed! (mainly because I haven't a clue what you're talking about! Ha Ha!)
Thank you gentlemen. It's certainly refreshing to hear some real Completist music again.
JDA - It was recorded in Howesy's conservatory which spookily enough, is right next to his kitchen. Full marks for spotting the ambience of the room. As for the tagging...it's not a compulsory thing, but the idea is that once you're 'tagged' you reveal something, anything about yourself on your blog that you have or have not covered before and then you go on to tag someone else that hasn't been tagged. (Howesy got it wrong again!)
Stray - West Hampstead "Gladioli incident"? Now that you've mentioned it...
Howesy - Again, many thanks for your co-operation with this particular Depcast. Please feel free to remove the thumbscrews. If I tag you AND Stray, and then you go on to tag Stray, does that mean that Mr Photon is double tagged?
DH - Cheers Mr Headley. I'm all for a bit of completi...
Trains - once every boy's dream to drive them, maintain them or work in a railway station. The romance went out of rail at the end of the era of steam.
One of my IT chums departed IT so he could become a train driver. One of my software chums now works for Transport For London. A drinking buddy works in a London Underground control room. years back, my ex-hubby helped write software to control split-flap arrivals/departures boards at Delhi (these days the software engineers in Delhi write software for us!)
Double tagged, eh? Does that mean I have to reveal ten things about me? Is reverse tagging allowed so that I can tag back?
That's the idea Mr Photon! I had no choice really as I could only think of 3 people to tag, and I reckon 10 Photon phacts are better than none!
I've now burnt all the DEPcasts to CD so I can listen at work during weekend overtime. Yay!
Llewtrah - Funny you should say that, that's what one of my supervisors has done. Hope they don't end up being distracting in a negative way.
They will certainly be less distracting than someone putting chestnuts in the microwave (a short distance from my desk) and setting light to them. We all had to evacuate. The culprit is one of our fire wardens! Had it not been for the smoke, I'd have missed the fire alarm due to being plugged into music and thrashing away at an Excel file! It's safe to say that music tends to block all other distractions.
I decided to keep the DEPcasts in the car. I got stuck in a darn great traffic jam yesterday - DEPcasts are the dog's wotsits for keeping me amused for a couple of hours in stationary traffic.
You guys really ought to be on hospital or community radio giving people a good laugh with the anecdotes. The Basra Basher tales and the tales of self-sacrificing servicing of groupies to preserve a band's integrity had me almost wetting myself (that and the fact I'd had a coffee before getting stuck in a 90 minute traffic jam).
Woo-hoo - Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom tomorrow on the Unholy Alliance tour! I haven't been to a big name gig for about 20 years (Magnum, Dio, Hawkwind etc) unless you count the Cropredy Folk festival and the last one I went to was 7 or 8 years ago. Oh and the Hamsters in Southend/Brentwood.
Glad you liked 'em. If someone gave us a spot on hospital radio I think we'd get the sack after the first gig.
I've seen The Hamsters a few times at guitar shows - they certainly get around touring wise.
Enjoy the gig tomorrow - I'm looking forward to your review.
Llewtrah, glad you enjoyed the entertainment! Meant to say that all the stories on the cast were true, only the salient facts, names, dates and places have been changed to protect the innocent.
Not sure about hospital radio, all those split stitches and beds getting wet, don't think they'd be too keen.
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