The last time I attempted to ride a bike was about ten years ago in Holland. It lasted for all of twenty seconds before I narrowly missed a dog and hurtled into a wall. How did it go so wrong? Well, most people reckon it’s to do with me being blind, whereas I blame it on the fact that it was a Dutch bike. Ten years later and I think it’s high time I gave it another go. This month The Young’uns played a festival on the remote Scottish island of Colonsay. The festival organisers supplied us with bikes to get around the island. Join me and fellow Young’un Sean Cooney as I endeavour to better my previous attempt and cycle for longer than twenty seconds without killing any animals or colliding into walls. Listen to discover whether I succeed.
David Eagle
New Comedian Of The Year (Leicester Square Theatre 2019, Bath Comedy Festival 2019, Nottingham Comedy Festival 2018) and member of three-time BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning band The Young'uns
What better way to celebrate #InternationalPodcastDay by listening to an audio blog of David Eagle do a spot of blind cycling! Wish it had been filmed!
So, when will the new piece featuring samples of the noises made by the bike be coming out then? 🙂 It was quite musical in a weird way.
Well maybe. I suppose the sound of me falling off was quite percussive.
Yes but I was thinking of the squeaking. It seems to be in C sharp mostly🙂
Useful to know. I wonder if I happened to fall off in the same key. That would be handy.
So if the folk music and comedy stuff fails will we be seeing you representing Great Britain in the 2020 Paralympics?