The Young’uns Podcast 124 (live session and interview with the Hut People)

This week’s Young’uns Podcast is rather alarming; find out why. We recieve an odd interruption to our performance at Warwick Folk Festival. We meet a lady who has proclaimed herself the biggest Young’uns fan, although she’s got a strange way of showing it. The Hut People’s Sam Pirt returns to the Young’uns Podcast, but he’s not alone, nor is he featuring in a juice-related capacity. This week we have a live session and interview with the Hut People. Plus: Michael Hughes is having guitar-related issues, we heckle a priest, and there are a few dental-based puns for your delictation.

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The Young’uns session for BBC Radio 3 could have well been a session for BBC 1Xtra, as I went the wrong way and wondered into the 1Xtra studios. I’m sure we could have improvised an urban hip-hop folk ballad hybrid set if they were interested. However, I was pointed in the right direction and the session went ahead as planned on the World on 3 programme.

You can listen to it here on the IPlayer.

I’ll put a link on here to download our bit on the programme when it’s taken off the IPlayer.

I’ll be back on Tuesday with the 124th Young’uns Podcast featuring a live session and chat with the Hut People.

As soon as I heard about the appointment of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor Who, I immediately had an idea for a sketch. Annoyingly I wasn’t back at home until today and so this is the first chance I’ve had to do anything with the idea. It is likely that this idea may already be rife on Youtube by now, but I’ve recorded it anyway in the hope that no one else has thought of it.

It plays on the point that Peter Capaldi is probably most famous for playing the hard nosed, foul mouthed spin Doctor Malcolm Tucker in Armando Iannucci’s political comedy The Thick Of It. So with that in mind, here’s a little sketch which I’ve entitled Spin Doctor Who and the Daleks. I doubt this is how the new Doctor Who series will sound, but we can only hope.

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The 124th Young’uns Podcast will be released on Tuesday when I return from the weekend’s run of gigs, which starts with a live session and interview on BBC Radio 3’s World on 3 programme (Friday night from 11). It’ll be on the IPlayer if you can’t listen at the time of broadcast.

This week is a juice-fuelled Young’uns Podcast, as David Eagle is into the fifth day of his juice only detox. Sam Pirt from the Hut People offers encouragement and presents the final Juicer Minute. This week’s guest is 2012 BBC Folk Award winner Lucy Ward, who chats with us ahead of the release of her second album, Single Flame. And there are tangential flights of animal based whimsy from Sean Cooney.

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This week, Elly Lucas from Gibb and Lucas is under the spotlight in Folk in Focus as we unearth a startling revelation. Sam Pirt from the Hut People is back with the penultimate Juicer Minute ahead of David’s detox, plus we speak to him about meditation. We talk with Theatre Maker Daniel Bye who we became acquainted with through our song the Battle of Stockton which forms a part of his recent project, the Story Hunt. We’ll hear about the story Hunt project as well as his other productions. And Michael’s sexual orientation comes under scrutiny once more. Music comes from Polish shanty quintet Brasy along with some exciting Brasy related news, and there’s a collaboration with the Young’uns and Marius from Brasy recorded at Northwich Folk Club last weekend.

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As the Young’uns Podcast increases in popularity among folk music fans, we realise the importance of not only entertaining, but also educating and informing. Our new item, Folk in Focus, brings you the latest folk news, the all important stories that Mark Radcliff, Mike Harding and folk magazines just aren’t covering. Yes, The Young’uns Podcast is now your go-to home for the latest folk music news! This week, we’ve got stories about Barbara Dickson, Kit Bailey and Bellowhead’s Sam Sweeney.

Also this week, the second Juicer Minute with Sam Pirt from the Hut People. We’ve got more surreal Young’uns dreams, this time featuring Paul Gascoigne and Mike Harding, and wrestling Young’uns. Mike Wilson talks about the Wilsons’ recent collaboration with Sting and their performance at the BBC Proms. There’s music and talking bits from the Young’uns and the Wilsons, collaborating as part of the Festival of the North East, and Sean Cooney introduces us to a song about the Suffragette movement written and performed by primary school children in Manchester.

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This week is one half of a worm. That won’t make any sense unless you listen. Haha, now you’ll have to listen to find out, I’ve hooked you – just like a worm in fact. We feature two YOUNG’UNS and Wilsons collaborations (Young Banker and country life). We speak once again to John Hilsen, creator of the sport John Ball, as we reveal the Young’uns John Ball recruitment anthem. Sam Pirt from the Hut People introduces us to his Purple Pulse juice in the first Juicer minute. A couple of weeks ago it was Sean Cooney’s sexual orientation that was in question, this week its Michael Hughes under the spotlight. Plus there are clips from a Meet the Young’uns event at this year’s Bristol Folk festival.

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It’s a decidedly healthy Young’uns Podcast this week, as we talk nutrition with Sam Pirt from the Hut People, and there’s live sporting action with commentary and interviews from a John Ball event in Minneapolis USA. Sadly, it’s not such a healthy picture for a certain cat who sullied last week’s Young’uns gig at the Hardraw Folk Festival. Music comes from the Hut People and Gilmore & Roberts.

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This week is a Bob Fox themed Young’uns Podcast, with two live songs and an interview with the man himself. We talk to him about the Radio Folk Ballads, playing the part of Songman in the award winning, critically acclaimed theatrical interpretation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel War Horse, and we also chew the cud about TV comedy. Plus we’ve a selection of Bob Fox themed clips from Young’uns gigs, taken from this year’s Chippenham Folk Festival and Bedale Acoustic Music Festival. Other subjects include Cats with Parkinson’s disease, the Pope and the sexuality of Sean Cooney.

This week’s special guest is nineteen year old, BBC Radio 2 folk award nominated singer and guitarist Sunjay Brayne who joins us live to chat and play us a couple of songs.

The Young’uns form an unexpected connection with American students. Never mind Sing John Ball, how about Play John Ball? We speak with John Hilsen from Minnesota as we reveal the circumstances that united us.

Plus we discuss eccentric amateur radio operators and who the Young’uns physically resemble.

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