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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 118 – Dolloping From The Royal Albert Hall
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop118.mp3 This is going to have to be a very hastily written Dollop, as the Folk Awards are about to commence in the next hour, and I doubt I’d get away with typing up a Dollop while sitting in the ceremony. However, if you see me on the TV typing on my…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 117 – And Thus The Lord Said: Man Shall Not Live On Bread Alone; Unless He’s A Touring Musician, In Which Case He More Or Less Will
Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop117.mp3 The amount of bread we have eaten on this tour is ridiculous. We get up and leave first thing in the morning, and there isn’t really time to sit down and eat anywhere, and so we just grab a sandwich. Getting a salad would be more preferable and healthier, but…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 116 – Nigel And Boris Are Out Of Line, Back Of The Queue Boys
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop116.mp3 A few days ago, Boris Johnson made some risible remarks in the Sun Newspaper about Obama getting rid of the bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. “Something mysterious happened when Barack Obama entered the Oval Office in 2009. Something vanished from that room, and no one could quite…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 115 – Cold Things Come To Those Who Wait
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop115.mp3 Another really enjoyable and very long day yesterday. We were in the van by 8am to drive to Bristol in time for a BBC Radio Bristol interview with Doctor and comedian Phil Hammond. It was great to meet him, as I am a big fan of his work; I’m not too…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 114 – As You Mic It
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop114.mp3 So today marks 400 years since the death of Shakespeare. The radio was talking about Shakespeare none-stop on our car journey from Hampshire to Bristol. There were lots of interviews with school children and teachers who were all passionately talking about Shakespeare’s work. It’s amazing that Shakespeare’s plays are still being…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 113 – Breakfast Of Champions
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop113.mp3 The Bridgwater Arts Centre joins The Edinburgh Pleasance Theatre in being responsible for thwarting the uploading of the audio Dollop. Their WIFI connection was working perfectly in the afternoon, but by the time I’d finished editing the audio version at 720, the WIFI connection had disappeared and didn’t return. I should…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 112 – Time Off In Loo
Download audio version http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop112.mp3 As regular Dollop listeners will know, during this tour I have frequently been recording from the toilet. This is not because I’ve got a weird fetish that involves people listening to me in toilets; or at least that’s not the only reason anyway. It’s often difficult to find a space where…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 111 – When He Was Down He Was Down (The Story Of A Harassed And Misunderstood Elivator Music Composer)
Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop111.mp3 The lift in our hotel in Cardiff has music playing in it. It’s not the radio or actual commercial music, but the kind of stuff that’s referred to as elevator music. I’ve not heard music in a lift for a long time. When I was a child I remember music…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 110 – Folk vs Smoke
Download the audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/Dollop110.mp3 We walked onto the stage at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury, and as the applause died down I could hear what sounded like a jet engine from behind us. I was momentarily thrown into panic. Had the last three weeks been a dream? Was I about to wake up and…
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David’s Daily Digital Dollop: Dollop 109 – Tying The Knot, With spaghetti
Download audio version here http://media.blubrry.com/dollop/davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/dollops/dollop109.mp3 As well as stories from on tour, hilarious anecdotes about domestic appliances, and campaigns to impregnate eighteen-year-old Hartlepool-based girls, David’s Daily Digital Dollop is also your portal for news relating to the Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, a new brand of religion that is growing in popularity. This week…