This week we’re in Manchester with Jennifer Reid, singer of 19th century Industrial Revolution broadside ballads and Lancashire dialect work song. She’ll be doing some of that for us on this week’s podcast, as well as recounting her experience on TV with the Hairy Bikers. There’s a Lancashire dialect quiz, and a surprise appearance from Bob The Builder.
this Week: Michael is a man of action; David is abused by Australians; there’s an anecdote regarding Mike Harding’s genitals. Gary Hammond of The Hut People and formally The Beautiful South returns to showcase another of his exotic percussion instruments. And there’s a smattering of duck puns.
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The Young’uns Podcast returns for a new weekly run, as we catchup on the backlog of Young’uns gig clips. In the spirit of Halloween there’s a graveyard-based anecdote, some spectral voices, and a bit of blood. Also, we have a rather spooky introduction to our new feature, Gary Hammond’s Percussion Instrument Of The Week, in which the percussionist from The Hut People and Beautiful South showcases the fascinating array of percussion instruments in his vast collection. Plus, David flirts with a flasher, there’s an appearance from Elvis, The Young’uns experience a rather unusual burglary, and find out what happened when we gigged in Belgium just two weeks after the Brexit Referendum.
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We’ve just left one of the worst hotels that we’ve ever stayed at, and The Young’uns have been gigging for nearly fifteen years and in that time we’ve certainly stayed in some dire places. We once stayed somewhere in Norwich that had a communal toilet which also doubled up as the smoking room. By this I don’t mean that the people staying there chose to flaunt the rules and smoke in the toilet; there was actually a sign on the door saying, “toilet and smoking room.” This toilet/smoking room was stiflingly hot with a rotating fan that blew out heat, meaning that as soon as you opened the door you were assaulted by an overpowering cocktail of smoke and shit being blown in your face and around the room at speed. It’s one of the only times I can claim to have taken a crap which had a positive influence on the ambient smell.
Today I was potentially going to be taking part in the final of the BBC Radio 4 New Comedy Award, but as we established in my last blog post,I didn’t make it through. So instead I am now on a plane heading out to spend two weeks touring in the US. Oh, woe is me!
However, I have now worked out what actually happened at the BBC Radio 4 New Comedy Awards and I understand why I didn’t get through. I’ve received a few comments of recent from people saying that they were slightly glad that I didn’t proceed to the next stage of the competition. They were worried that a victory might mean I’d dedicate more time to comedy, resulting in the break up of the Young’uns.
On 3rd July I took part in heat 3 of the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Award. In this podcast I impart my experience of the competition, I report on how I fared, and we compare my broadcast set from the actual set on the night.
Well what a few weeks it’s been. I’ve had the honour of opening for the amazing comedians Tom Wrigglesworth and Boothby Graffoe. I’ve been chosen to take part in the BBC Radio 4 New Comedy Award. Plus – and this is the big one – I’ve been groped by The Young’uns”> very own Sean Cooney.
We return to Suffolk’s Folk East Festival for another live podcast. Join us in a packed marquee as we host an hour of music, chat, games and a mix of spontaneous and semi-planned features with Philip Henry and Hannah Martin (AKA Edgelarks), Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Luke Daniels. We get a lesson in beat boxing, there’s a music quiz, we play a game of kerplunk, and Herbal Tea Of The Week is back but with an extreme sports twist. Plus we introduce you to the newest member of The Young’uns family.
Join The Young’uns with top UK banjo player Dan Walsh live from 2018’s Young’uns weekend in Suffolk. Music, chat and spontaneously generated “features.” David gets a banjo lesson, Dan creates an improvised song and tells stories of surreal gig experiences, plus there’s a brief appearance from Shaggy.
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For those of you who are too busy or too sensible to listen to me rambling at you for minutes on end, here is a brief written summation of the salient points.
Firstly, my attempts to restart David’s Daily Digital Dollop lasted for all of sixteen days. For those of you who followed that short-lived project I hope you enjoyed getting lost with me in piss filled underpasses, rifling through bags of sex toys, and groping sleeping men. I imagine that those of you who didn’t follow these adventures are now, after reading that last sentence, desperate to do so. You can subscribe to the David Eagle Podcast in all the usual podcast places.
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