Next month’s Speakeasy is our longest yet, and it’s the very definition of nerdgasm–a three hour exploration of seventies SF classic Blake’s 7. Continue reading Blake’s 7 Month
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Excuses And Half Truths Presents: Rob & Clive’s Speakeasy!
All new, kind of different: Excuses And Half Truths Presents Rob & Clive’s Speakeasy!
Live from our new studio in London’s trendy Clerkenwell, The Speakeasy hits its first anniversary with a fresh coat of paint and a shoeshine.
Joining our intrepid podcastanauts on this new and exciting stage in our sonic journey are long time friend of the Speakeasy Simon Aitken, and first-timer Maria Thomas. Together, they share their hopes on the upcoming summer season at the movies, and give us their picks of the films to look out for over the next few months.
Hope you enjoy our new direction.
The April Speakeasy: Concept Album Special!
As is appropriate for a podcast about the concept album, BEHOLD our most epic Speakeasy yet. Over two hours of chat as Rob, Clive and special guest writer Stuart Wright discuss that most derided of formats and find a few gems… and yes, a couple of turkeys.
Also, our 50 Second SoundCloud Challenge covers Skweee, Moombahton and other genres you never knew existed!
Here’s the Spotify playlist of the albums we’re discussing:
and the one album not on Spotify: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway!
and a link to Stu’s site…
The Writeasy: Let’s Talk About Writing
Just the two of us this month, as Clive and Rob talk about writing. We cast an eye over the fast-changing world of self-publishing, look at some short fiction mags and answer that all important question: just what does Nanowrimo stand for?
(as I mention at the top of the ‘cast, Script Frenzy has now become open-remit challenge Camp Nanowrimo. It’s well worth a look, especially if you like the idea of a more collaborative environment. Check out www.campnanowrimo.org for more info, and to sign up for some writing fun in April!)
The February Speakeasy: We Love Documentaries!
We love documentaries, so it’s only appropriate that we take the most love-drenched time of the year to talk about them. Continue reading The February Speakeasy: We Love Documentaries!
The January Whoseasy
Now that the dust has settled post-Xmas and everyone’s yakking about Sherlock, we can take that all-important bit of critical distance and talk at length about Doctor Who. Continue reading The January Whoseasy
2013: That Were The Year, That Were.
Gosh, it doesn’t feel like 365 days since I was last here, ruminating on times past and things to come.
The X(&HT)Mas Bonus Speakeasies: Slayride
Merry Santa!
As our Xmas gift to you, dearest Listenership, here is the second of our bonus Speakeasies. Clive and I are reading each other’s stories from last year’s Zombie Christmas anthology, The Dead Files Vol. 3 (pick it up at Amazon for the zombie fan in your life). This time around, Clive is reading my story of the best Christmas Day ever: Slayride.
The X(&HT)Mas Bonus Speakeasies: The Promise
Happy Holidays!
As our Xmas gift to you, dearest Listenership, here is the first of two bonus Speakeasies. Continue reading The X(&HT)Mas Bonus Speakeasies: The Promise
The December Music Speakeasy
In a bare-faced attempt to up the ante, Rob and Clive invite The Little Unsaid, AKA John Elliott, into Studio 2A for some musical shenanigalia. John performs a new song, and covers tracks by Nick Cave and Atoms For Peace.
John also joins us for a robust discussion on the merits of and surprising facts around the world of the cover version. Rob and Clive reveal the music blogs they can heartily recommend (and the ones that they’ll cheerfully never go near again) and guest sound engineer Alex Purkiss shows us up with a radical uptick in sound quality over the bits he’s in charge of. Endearingly shambolic is the way we roll, wise guy! Stop making us look bad!
All this and the usual level of Z-grade pun-slinging and punditry from the crew that put the K in kwality.
The Music Blogs:
NME – nme.com/newmusic
Pitchfork – pitchfork.com/tracks
No Country For New Nashville – nocountryfornewnashville.com
Top House Music Blog – tophousemusicblog.com
Breaking More Waves – breakingmorewaves.blogspot.co.uk
The Von Pip Musical Express – Track of the Day – thevpme.com
Crack in the Road – crackintheroad.com
Real Horrorshow – horrorshowtunez.com
Cruel Rhythm – cruelrhythm.tumblr.com
Popjustice – popjustice.com
Here’s John recording his music for us. Note the professionalism of the studio setup. An upturned bin serves so many purposes…
and for bonus hilarity, the moment when he realised just what he’d let himself in for…
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