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The Young’uns Podcast, Feb 12 2015 (Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Young’uns Podcast returns in 2015 with a new weekly series. This week: Sean has a bit of a thing for The Fisherman’s Friends, while David is spotted holding hands with Sam Pirt from the Hut People; we once again delve into the mind’s of the Young’uns as we divulge another of our dreams; The…
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BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Nomination News
Download Audio version of this blog post https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/David%20Eagle's%20Blog%2020150205.mp3 Yesterday, Mark Radcliffe announced on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show that The Young’uns are one of the four nominations for best group in the 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The ceremony will be held on April 22nd, which gives us a good couple of months…
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King Gong Revisited, Part Two
Download or listen to the audio version of this blog post here https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/David%20Eagle's%20Blog%2020150203.mp3 This time round, I was feeling much more prepared for the King Gong competition at Manchester’s Comedy Store. This would be my fourth standup performance. I wrote about my first and second standup spots in yesterday’s blog post. My third standup gig…
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King Gong Revisited, Part One
Listen to or download the audio version of this blog post here https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/David%20Eagle's%20Blog%2020150202.mp3 Last September, I enjoyed a night with a drag queen, a horny teenager, a racist and a bitter disabled bloke. No, it wasn’t one of my legendary house parties, it was my first experience of the King Gong show at Manchester’s Comedy…
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Who The Heck Is Henrik Smit?
Download the audio version of thie blog post here https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/Blog%20David%20Eagle%2020150123.mp3 I was woken with a jolt at 3am by a staccato melodic flourish and a short vibration sequence. It was my mobile phone, although, I assume you’d probably deduced that. It was a bloody Facebook alert. At 3 O’clock in the morning, for goodness sake.…
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Why Being Disagreeable Pays
Download the audio version of this blog post https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/Blog%20David%20Eagle%2020150116.mp3 A couple of days back, I was on the HMRC website, about to make a start on my tax return. It doesn’t need to be submitted until the 31st January, but I thought it best to make a start this week, given the copious amounts of…
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Forget Going Global. The Young’uns are Going Universal!
Download the audio version of this blog post here At the back end of last year, I received an email from an airline company. They wanted to know if we were happy to have the Young’uns’ included as part of their in-flight entertainment music. This request did not particularly surprise me, given that one of…
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Twelve Podcasts of Christmas. Podcast 12
We have a bone to pick with Eliza Carthy. Find out the true identity of the Young’uns; our darkest secrets are revealed by a palm reader. We play a couple of examples of Young’uns anecdotes gone wrong. We play clips from our gig at Bamfest which had possibly the drunkest audience we’ve ever played to.…
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Twelve Podcasts of Christmas. Podcast 11
Happy new year! 2014 has been an incredible year for us, one of the highlights being our very own folk festival, on Hartlepool’s Headland. On the eleventh Podcast of Christmas we bring you music and chat from the festival, from Polish Vocal harmony quintet Brasy, Greg Russell and ciaran Algar, the Hut People, and Mic…
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Twelve Podcasts of Christmas. Podcast 10
Today is our worst Podcast of Christmas so far; not in terms of quality (which conforms to the usual exceptional standard), but because of the fact that we’ll be discussing our worst and second worst gigs in our folk career so far, as well as the worst accommodation we’ve stayed in while on tour. It…