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Young’uns Podcast, June 1 2014 (National Pervert Day
This week, we introduce you to some of the interesting people we’ve been staying with on our travels, including a radical vicar, a lady who keeps roadkill in a deep-chest freezer, a sculptor and a palm reader. And it is thanks to the palm reader that you can now discover the true identity of David…
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Young’uns Podcast, May 06 2014, with the Hut People and Mic and Susie Darling
Our final Hartlepool Headland Folk Festival podcast features music and conversation with the world folk duo the Hut People, and Mic and Susie Darling who write and sing songs about their lives as traveling people. Step this way for budgie and biscuit based banter, exotic percussion instruments, outstanding accordion playing, harrowing and heartwarming songs and…
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Young’uns Podcast, April 28 2014, with Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar
This week we bring you music and conversation with 2014 BBC Folk Award winners Greg Russell & Ciaran Algar, recorded as part of the Young’uns’ Hartlepool Headland Festival. We chat about how they met, their repertoire, songwriting, weird gigs, philosophers and biscuits. Download here https://davideagle.co.uk/wp-admin/podcasts/Young'uns%20Podcast%20-%2020140428%20-%20Greg%20Russell%20and%20Ciaran%20Algar.mp3
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The Young’uns Podcast, April 22 2014, with Polish Vocal Harmony Quintet Brasy and the Wilsons
The Young’uns return from ten days away from home, hosting their Hartlepool Headland Festival and then touring England with Polish vocal harmony quintet Brasy. In this podcast we bring you highlights from the last en days, with music and conversation from Brasy and the Wilsons. We teach Brasy Geordie in preparation for their gig in…
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The Young’uns Podcast: April 9 2014 (starring Greg Russell and Brian Blessed)
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The Young’uns Podcast: April 2 2014 (Poo Cruncher)
The Young’uns podcast is back, with a new quiz – Folked-Up Folk Song – some gargling, “highlights” from the worst gig the Young’uns have ever had the misfortune of doing. There’s a collaboration between the Young’uns and the Wilsons and a tribute to Pete Seeger. Plus we discover what’s lurking in a toilet in Stonehaven,…
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The Eagle is Candid!
On March 13 I presented a lecture at Hartlepool’s English Martyrs and Sixth Form College entitled The Eagle Is Candid,. I wasn’t intending on making this available online because I wanted to develop some of these ideas further for standup, but I’ve received quite a few comments from people asking me to put it up.…
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Take That and Fascism
The pop group Take That and fascism are two of the subjects covered in an interview I did recently for the folk website Folk Witness, which discusses the Young’uns’ new album which came out last week. You can read the interview here. I’ve decided, due to popular demand, to post a sample from my Eagle…
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Ten Years of the Young’uns
Firstly, thank you to everyone who came to my Eagle Is Candid night at English Martyrs School in Hartlepool. I was quite taken aback by how many students were in attendance, which I hadn’t really expected. I was slightly concerned that some of the subject matter might be a little risqué for such an audience,…
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Ann Widdecombe, Peter Mandelson, and me.
English Martyrs Catholic School and Sixth Form College in Hartlepool hosts an annual lecture which is now in it’s twenty-fourth year. Previous speakers include politicians Peter Mandelson and ann Widdecombe. Presumably the economic climate has caught up with the school, because this year they’ve asked me. It’s quite interesting that the invitation came just a…