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King Gong, Part Three
Listen to the badly read, unedited audio version of this blog, with additional swearing and mistakes, here Last Sunday night I did one of my first standup comedy performances. It was my first appearance at the King Gong comedy competition at Manchester’s Comedy Store. In fact, it was my first experience of such an event.…
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King Gong, Part Two
Listen to the audio version of this blog post (with additional content) here. Last Sunday night I did one of my first standup comedy performances. It was my first appearance at the King Gong comedy competition at Manchester’s Comedy Store. In fact, it was my first experience of such an event. It is likely that…
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King Gong, Part One
Listen to the audio version of this blog post here. The absence of a new Young’uns Podcast and Pick and Mix is mainly down to an issue with the computer I use for audio work. I mentioned this in my last blog post, and I’m sure many of you have been on tenterhooks (what ever…
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The Young’uns, BBC Radio Two Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe Session
At five minutes to seven I was a little worried that our session on BBC Radio Two’s Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe wasn’t going to happen, given that the show was due to start in five minutes and I had managed to get stuck in a lift. I stepped into the lift, and the doors…
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I’ve Been ON Mark Radcliffe (Not Like That, You Dirty Animals!)
A few minutes of our MainStage performance at last week’s Cambridge Folk Festival were aired on BBC Radio 2’s Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe. As well as playing one of our songs they also featured one of our talky bits, where I was imparting a dream I’d had about Mark Radcliffe. It’s available on the…
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Young’uns Podcast, July 19 2014 (Caustic Bird)
Just when you thought your Saturday night was all planned, a new Young’uns Podcast is released, which changes everything! The award winning folk performer and qualified medical doctor James Fagan is back to dispense more testicle trivia in James Fagan’s Talking Bollocks. The Young’uns seem to be malfunctioning, possibly due to the heat. We introduce…
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Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Mini Me
Hear the audio version of this blog post here I wanted to find an old document on my computer, but I had no recollection as to what the file was actually called. So I ended up having to trawl through all the files on the drive alphabetically until I eventually located it. It transpired that…
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Pop Goes The Eagle
Hear the audio version of this blog post with additional content here As I write this blog post, the Emeli Sandé song Next To Me is playing. I quite like the song, but for me it’s severely marred by the almost constant sound of a man shouting “hey hey hey hey hey hey” while Emeli…
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Young’uns Podcast, June 13 2014 (James Fagan’s Talking Bollocks)
James Fagan returns once more to the Young’uns Podcast, joining us on the phone to talk testicles. It’s the first in our new series in which the award winning folk musician and qualified medical doctor dispenses testicle-based trivia. Plus we’ve got clips from our recent appearance at North Yorkshire’s Bamfest, which takes the prize for…
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I’m playing with Billy Bragg at this year’s Glastonbury festival
This year we (as in the Young’uns) will be playing at Glastonbury Festival at an event hosted by Billy Bragg. You can read more about it as well as a festival camping anecdote in this Folk Radio article. Maybe see you there, otherwise you can check it out on the Young’uns Podcast.