Wherein a Tart runs away and leaves you with a nostalgic maniac…

Darlings!! It’s been a whirlwind of a few days here at Chez Tart! Adventures in abundance of both the odd (sports bars and cowboy hat wearing Northern UK Twee bands) and mundane (laundry genies) have kept me away from the internet and in the company of lovely, musical people. So apologies for the neglectful state of this blog, I hope you’ve been popping over to some friends on the blogroll, there’s some real fine folk over there.

Now, while I catch my breath, my ever-faithful friendly, miscreant Drunk Country has sent over his podcast for our listening ears. Usually it runs on WOXY.com but as he explains below, they’re moving house this weekend and so it’s a more private affair, just on his own personal site. And that has given him liberty to go a bit wild and wooly … and darlings, I’m afraid that is exactly what he’s done! Here’s his own introduction, buckle yourselves in, listen up to the likes of ”Plants and Rags” and please DO tell me what you think. DC is a good friend, his musical upbringing is quite close to mine which is so very odd considering we were raised 3,000 miles and about 10 years apart (!) and I’m actually very interested in your reactions to this! Don’t let that stop you from being critical, however, he can take it, hahah! xoxo

From the Man himself:
Hello again, hello.

This past weekend Team WOXY were busy choosing the cushions & matching pop shields for the new Austin studio-come-fun nest, therefore TWR did not air. Some, we know, will consider that a mighty relief.

For those of you who fell into a Kenneth Hutchinson-style heroin stupour as a result of our missing Saturday alarm call dulcets, fear not. Here’s something we made earlier that you can use to kick your brain awake with.

This one off so-called Nostalgiacast contain a looksee through the ‘grown up listening to’ musical history of your favourite twatmouth’s questionable ‘taste’. ½DC’s, that is.

Over 4½days 20 years of music & personal listening habit (covering late ’70s – mid ’90s) has been filtered, whittled & crunched down by ½DC into a playlIst that could have realistically been at least 6hrs long. & that’s without the inane chatter in the between bits.

We’ll be honest. We missed a LOT of music & bands out that were very important in the musical appreciation by our young, strident protagonist (½DC, again; keep up). It’s just we simply couldn’t fit it all in.

Expect, then, the avant garde, goth, indie jangle, indie folk, blues, rock, psychedelic, punk, musicals, & a whole damn host of things you may have never heard of before, or, hopefully, a tone of stuff you’ve not heard for, like, ages, man. Yeh? Just don’t expect the obvious track choices associated with any of the bands.

So, then, & onwards towards naughty words, bawdy nonsense + expletive intactus lyricalisation. Oh, & a bit of Terence Trent D’arby to get your knickers steamed up.

You have been weaned.
x ½DC + TWoTH

this week’s show:

The Waiting Room