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Jenna's New Year: Part 1

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025


Saint Michael's Church has a new First Lady, named Jenna.A Series in 17 parts, By Blacksheep. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Candlemas RompThis Sunday had brought the heaviest rain so far of 2023. The weather had caused a notable drop in the number of people attending this morning's church service, Reverend Morris noticed.Today was Candlemas, which commemorated the ritual purification of Mary, forty days after the birth of her son Jesus. This day also marked the ritual presentation of the baby Jesus to God in the Temple at Jerusalem. It reminded Jenna of her own sacred ritual of fertility, Mentula Cōleī Baptism'. She's thankful to be so blessed by God, to have such devoted church elders guiding her spiritual development.After the service, and the usual tea, biscuits and chit chat in the church hall, Reverend Morris was eager to return to the vicarage. His wife had given him "that look"; and he knew what that meant. It had been a week since they'd made love, and as he had a feeling Jenna would be more than up for "a little afternoon delight," as she termed it.Outside, the late January winter rain was still lashing down. Despite the vicarage being a five minute walk from the church, the vicar and his wife had neglected to bring an umbrella with them. By the time they arrived home, they were both soaked to the bone.Reverend Morris' hair was wet, and the legs of his trousers clung damply to him, and the back of his black shirt was also soaked. He figured he was going to come down with a nasty cold if he didn't get into some dry clothes right away. Jenna evidently had the same thought, and they went straight upstairs to the master bedroom.She opened the wardrobe doors, and he switched on a bedside lamp. Shivering, they stripped out of their wet clothes.When they were nearly undressed, they glanced at each other. Their eyes locked.Still, they didn't speak. They didn't need to.He took her in his arms, and they kissed lightly at first, tenderly. Her mouth was warm and soft and vaguely flavored with communion wine.She clutched him, pulled him closer, her fingertips digging into the muscles of his back. She pushed her mouth hard against his, scraped his lip with her teeth, thrust her tongue deep, and abruptly their kisses grew hot, demanding.Something seemed to snap in him, and in her, too, for their desire was suddenly marked by animal urgency. They responded to each other in a hungry, almost frenzied fashion, hastily casting off the last of their clothes, pawing at each other's wet bodies, squeezing, stroking. She nipped his shoulder with her teeth. He gripped her pert buttocks and kneaded them with uncharacteristic crudity, but she didn't wince or try to pull away; indeed, she pressed even more insistently against him, rubbing her breasts over his chest and grinding her hips against his. Their wet, tussled hair and slippery bodies wrestled to seduce each other into submission. The soft whimpers that escaped from her were not sounds of pain; they clearly expressed her eagerness and need.In bed, his energy was manic, and his staying power amazed him. He was insatiable, and so was she. They thrust and thrashed and flexed and tensed in perfect harmony, as if they were not only joined but fused, as if they were a single organism, shaken by only one set of stimuli instead of two. Every vestige of civilization slipped from them, and for a long while the only noises they made were animal sounds: panting; groaning; throaty grunts of pleasure; short, sharp cries of excitement. At last Jenna uttered the first word to pass between them since they had left the church:"Oh my God!"And again, arching her slender, graceful body, tossing her head from side to side on the pillow: "Yes, yes!" It was not merely an orgasm to which she was saying yes, for she'd already had a couple of those and had announced them with only ragged breathing and soft mewling. She was saying yes to life.The vicar repeated the word as if chanting a sacred incantation,"Yes, yes, yes!"as he emptied his cum into her a second time.Spent, they stretched out on their backs, side by side on the disheveled bed. For a long time they listened to the rain on the roof and to the persistent thunder, which was no longer loud enough to rattle the windows. Wind howled around the side of the house.Jenna lay with her eyes closed, her face completely relaxed."Lovely service this morning, Simon!" She said at last. "Great choice of hymns.""It certainly was. I think my sermon went down well. Shame about the weather.""Hmm, I don't know - I think the rainy weather makes me much hornier than normal!" It isn't even February, but my winter ‘cabin fever' has already set in. Get ready for more of this ravishing sex, my stud!"Happy Candlemas, Jenna," Reverend Morris replied.Jenna & the Church Trip: Part 1“Thine be the glory hole!”More light-hearted goings-on with vicar's wife Jenna. New year, new naughtiness, and a dull coach trip organized by the church might turn out to be more fun than expected! God works in mysterious ways. For Jenna's husband, it was relief from a nymph wife who had few other ways to occupy herself, besides sexual romps, at all hours of the day and night."I'm so pleased that Alpha and Omega coach holidays have re-started their short breaks," Reverend Simon Morris excitedly exclaimed. "I've just booked us on the three-day trip to Epworth!"His wife Jenna looked up from her phone. "Epworth? Where's that?""It's in Lincolnshire. Now I know what you're thinking, it's January, the excitement of Christmas and the New Year is over and it's such a dull time of year. The weather is awful and what I really should be doing is booking us a fortnight in the Maldives or Barbados to escape the British winter blues. But instead I've booked us a coach trip to Lincolnshire,"Jenna tried to look interested. "Well, I've never been to Lincolnshire. Always nice to see somewhere new.""The reason I booked this trip is that Epworth is the birthplace of John and Charles Wesley. I thought you'd like to see it. After all, you are a big fan of them, yes?" He winked at her. "Oakwood Road Methodist Church are forever grateful to you for what you did last year."Jenna grinned. "I'd love to see their birthplace. So, when is this trip?""Next Monday. I think it'll be a fun little getaway. Gordon's coming along too. Oh and so is Barry, his cousin."That made Jenna perk up. Ooh, she thought to herself. I wonder if he's as hot? "He's recovered from his broken ankle then?""As far as I know, he's made a full recovery. His daughter Lisa came over from Florida to stay with him, so Gordon was relieved at that.""Thank goodness for that," Jenna replied. She'd really missed seeing her favorite organist. Oakwood's organist Raymond Wilson had done a superb job standing in for Gordon, thanks to some "gentle persuasion" from Jenna on Christmas Eve. "What sort of hotel are we staying at?"Reverend Morris looked at the Alpha and Omega brochure. "Hmm. We're staying at a hotel just outside Epworth that was originally a 17th century coaching inn. It's called The Parson's Knob, "Jenna almost spat out the coffee she was drinking. "Seriously?""I'm sure there is an innocent explanation for that name! Then again, maybe not! According to the travel agent, all twenty rooms of the hotel had been booked up for a group of Albanian asylum seekers. However for some bizarre reason, after a few days, the Albanians all begged to be transferred to a Travelodge a few miles away.""That is weird," Jenna replied. "I'd much rather stay in a lovely old historical inn than some crappy Travelodge. Oh well. Maybe they wanted somewhere a bit more modern?""Perhaps?"The day of the trip arrived. The British weather was true to form, and it had been raining hard since dawn. "When's the coach due again?" Jenna asked as she and Reverend Morris shivered at the bus stop opposite the railway station."Should be here now," her husband replied. "Oh look, there's Gordon and Barry!""Hmm, maybe this trip won't be so dull after all!" She smirked. Barry was basically a clone of Gordon. "Looks more like his identical twin brother than his cousin!" The only difference being that Barry was wearing glasses. The resemblance was uncanny."I don't know why I let you talk me into coming with you on this trip," Barry moaned as he and Gordon approached the bus stop. "You know I'm not a member of the God Squad, ""You haven't met the vicar's wife yet," Gordon whispered."Oh, this the lass you've got the hots for?" His skeptical cousin rolled his eyes."I think you'll find quite a lot of the fellas at St. Michael's Church have the hots for her," Gordon replied. "Oh God, there she is!"Barry adjusted his glasses. "Bloody hell. You weren't kidding when you said she was a bit of a fox, were you? Dream on! She's way too young for you, Gordy! I'd say she's way too young for the vicar too, but she must have a thing for older men if she's ended up marrying him,"Gordon chuckled. "If only you knew half of the things that go on at St. Michael's, dear cousin. If you did, wild horses wouldn't be able to drag you away from the Sunday Eucharist!""Hello!" Jenna said. "Oh Gordon, is this your cousin?""Hiya, and yes, this is Barry. He's not been won over by St. Michael's yet,""I see. Nice to meet you! Maybe you'll think differently about our church after you've been on this trip?""Perhaps," Barry interrupted, ogling Jenna, until Gordon gave him a nudge.Ten minutes later, a white minibus pulled up at the bus stop."Oh, I was expecting a coach," said Jenna. Further along the street, came Josh the curate and Norman the churchwarden."Not as many people booked as was expected," Reverend Morris replied. "I blame the weather. Afraid there's only six of us!"The group boarded the bus. Barry turned to Gordon. "She's not the typical vicar's wife is she?""Oh not at all," Gordon smiled.Barely half an hour into the journey and as always tended to happen on road trips, someone needed the toilet.Reverend Morris rolled his eyes. "Oh for goodness sake, we've only just set off. We're not due to stop for another hour, when we have our lunch at Cusworth Hall in Doncaster!"This does tend to happen when you have elderly passengers," the bus driver remarked. "I know. I've been doing this job for thirty years. The stories I could tell you!""We haven't got any elderly passengers," the vicar replied. "It's our organist who needs to go. As usual!""Oi, it's not my fault my bloody prostate makes me pee more!" Gordon yelled from the back of the bus. "You're not being very Christian today, Vicar! How about some compassion for your fellow man?""Yes, yes, alright. I'm sorry Gordon. Alright, we'll find somewhere to pull in for a quick comfort break. Is that okay with you, Ahmed?""No worries," the bus driver replied, checking the sat nav. "There's a coach stop a couple of miles away. I'll just come off at the next junction and it's right there. I've stopped at it a few times. It's a bit down at heel, but,""That'll do. As long as there are toilets.""Oh yeah. They're unisex though, and a bit, grimy. Is that a problem?""Not at all," Reverend Morris smirked. "Any port in a storm, as the old saying goes!"The minibus exited the motorway. A short time later, it pulled onto the car park of Jed's Butty Hut, a sandwich restaurant in a 1960s prefab that had seen better days."Right," Reverend Morris said, checking his watch. "We'll have a fifteen minute stop here. Can everyone be back on the bus by ten o'clock please?"The toilets were at the back of the main building. Gordon hurried in first. There were five cubicles, each with its own nauseating odor. He entered the first one. The toilet was missing a seat and the bowl was overflowing with vomit."Ugh. No thanks." He hurried out and entered the next one. A dead crow was sticking out of the toilet, beak wide open and wings spread, reminiscent of a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds."Fuck," he muttered, rushing out and into the third one. This toilet seemed clean enough, only a few cigarette ends and crack pipes floating in it.A few minutes later, Jenna decided to relieve herself, even though she could've held on until Doncaster. It was always the same on a trip. You got the urge to go even though you didn't actually need to go.The pretty redhead went into the end cubicle, which was the cleanest of the lot. Graffiti was daubed all over the walls, the usual expletives, plus crude drawings of cocks done in black marker pen. An urban art gallery for the times, she remarked to herself as she did her thing. It was then that she noticed a neat, circular hole on the lower right side of the partition wall."Ooh, a glory hole," she said to herself. "I wonder if it's well-used?""Why don't we try it out?" A muffled voice in the next cubicle muttered. Seconds later, a cock poked through it!"Gordon, is that you?" Jenna whispered. The shaft was thick just like his."No," the mystery man replied. She didn't recognize his voice, so he had to be someone from the restaurant. Jenna gasped. A burst of excitement ran through her, at the thought of touching this stranger's cock. At the same time, the danger associated with doing this seemed to add to the thrill.With her right hand, she reached down, slowly tracing up and down the length of the engorged cock with her palm. The man let out a groan. The size and hardness of his member increased Jenna's excitement. Her cunt was getting increasingly wet in anticipation, and she quickly knelt down in front of the generous offering.She rolled her tongue around its circumference and sucked on it as she would a piece of fruit, trying to get every drop of pre-cum. Not content with just a portion, she began to slowly venture down the shaft. With every thrust forward, she took more of it down her throat."Oh!" The mystery man exclaimed. He moaned in pleasure and bestowed every compliment he could think of on her.Jenna withdrew in order to say something. "What a gentleman you are!""Well you're damned good," came his reply.With every bobbing of her head, Jenna made progress toward the base. Above the slurping sounds she made as she wetted the shaft with her saliva, she could hear the stranger gently moaning with approval at her technique. She began to vary her speed; one moment erupting with a robust attack, then at an instant slowing her pace to relish the feast.Feeling the end would arrive soon, Jenna quickened her speed. She too, felt the rising heat from her crotch swelling to an orgasmic crescendo. Then, at the apex of pleasure, there erupted from deep within her cunt a spasm, which rapidly spread a pleasing warmth all over her body.The man's body stiffened as he released his full load into Jenna's mouth with a mighty groan. When every drop had been expelled, he slowly withdrew his rod from the glory hole."Mmm, delicious," Jenna said, swallowing all the cum. There was the sound of a zipper being fastened. Suddenly she heard the main door of the toilets open and a group of people enter. She stood up and flushed the toilet. The mystery man exited the cubicle before Jenna was able to peek through the glory hole to see who he was."Oh shit," Jenna muttered, checking her smartphone. It was ten o'clock. "Simon's not going to be too happy."Hurrying out of the toilet, she washed her hands and dashed out."Sorry I'm last guys," she said, getting back on the bus. "Those toilets were gross. I wasted time putting loads of paper on the seat.""Don't blame you," Reverend Morris replied. "I confess, I couldn't bring myself to go in! I'm squeamish about public loos, especially filthy ones. I'll just cross my legs until we get to Doncaster!"The minibus pulled out of the car park.Gordon glanced at his cousin, who appeared to be in a daze. "What's the matter with you? The sight of that dead bird in the bog?""Uh, what?" Barry replied, staring straight ahead."Never mind. You mustn't have seen it.""I've seen the light," said Barry."Are you hammered or something?"Barry smiled and turned to Gordon. "You were right! She isn't the typical vicar's wife!"As the minibus exited the M180 motorway and drew near to its destination, tall pines crowded the sides of a long main road. They formed a grey-green tunnel, casting long shadows in the late-afternoon light. The day was cloudless yet strangely forbidding, Reverend Morris mused."Well the weather's a lot better than it was this morning!" Jenna said, knocking her husband out of his thoughts. "The land sure is flat round here. No hills anywhere.""I think some parts of the Fens are below sea level," Reverend Morris said. "The highest point is World's Top. Lots of beautiful areas for walking and such, shame we haven't the time to explore the Wolds. Oh well, there'll be other times. I'm looking forward to getting off this bus and stretching my legs, though!"A road sign appeared. Epworth, 2 miles.A few houses were tucked in the purple gloom among the trees on both sides of the road; their windows glowed with soft yellow light even an hour before nightfall. Most were Georgian-era red brick cottages with terracotta roof tiles.The Parson's Knob was a 3 story building dating back to the 1690s. Once a coaching inn, it had gone through various occupations before being converted into a hotel. As the minibus pulled onto the car park, a peculiar sense of wrongness immediately overcame Reverend Morris. He could not identify the reasons for his instant negative reaction to the place, though perhaps it was related to the somber interplay of light and shadow caused by the tall conifers encircling the car park. At this dying end of the January day, in the cheerless sunlight, the white painted exterior of the building gleamed as if built from time-bleached bones. The shadows cast by the trees were stark, spiky, razor-edged.Exiting the minibus, the small group made their way into the hotel. There was no-one at the reception desk."Ah, typical British service," Gordon muttered to Barry. "Non-existent."As the group waited for a member of staff to arrive, Reverend Morris paused to study the other guests in the lounge. Not many were there, four or five people, mostly middle-aged. They also struck him as wrong, though his reasons for thinking ill of them were less definable than those that fanned his impression of the hotel itself. They looked uneasy, one man wandering around with peculiar air of urgency that seemed unsuited to an old-fashioned hotel such as this.Reverend Morris sighed and headed back to the reception desk, telling himself that his imagination was running wild.Gordon, not known for patience, pressed the bell on the reception desk again."Does anyone work at this place? We've been stood here for ten minutes!"Moments a later, an overworked-looking Eastern European woman came hurrying behind the desk."I'm so sorry for your wait! We're really short-staffed at the moment. Many workers have gone on strike.""Makes a change from being absent due to testing positive I suppose," Gordon replied and the vicar pulled a face at him."We've only four rooms available, the receptionist replied. "A lot of rooms are, being redecorated. Mr. and Mrs. Morris, you're in Room 13, which has a double bed." She turned to the others. "Which leaves three rooms, all with two single beds. Someone will have a room of their own, but the other four of you will have to share. Are you gentleman okay with sharing?"Josh looked at Norman. "That's fine by me."Gordon looked horrified. "I'm not sharing a room with my cousin. He snores!""What? No I don't!" Barry shouted."You do. When I was seeing to you over Christmas when you had that broken ankle, you nodded off on the couch and your snoring was that bad, doors were opening and closing."Ahmed the bus driver attempted to calm the situation. "I don't mind sharing. My wife snores. They can hear her snores in Bradford. I'm used to it though. I just put my wireless earbuds in.""Okay, thanks, that's sorted then. Mr. Leesmith, you get the room of your own then, yes?""Suits me!" Gordon smiled. "I prefer a room all to myself."Jenna smirked. "Unless you have to share a room with a woman, or a pipe organ, right?"He winked back at her. "You know me so well!"Barry raised an eyebrow. "Hmm, "Reverend Morris and Jenna trudged up three flights of stairs to get to the room, seeing as the lift was out of order."Good thing we've just got overnight bags instead of heavy suitcases," he said. "I'm not too enamored with this place so far.""What do you expect for such a low price though? It could be so much worse. It's dated and badly in need of re-decorating, but it seems clean enough. Cheer up Simon!" Jenna said. Already she was thinking of Gordon, all alone in his room. Maybe I could read him a bedtime story,"Yep, you're right. Sorry for being such a misery guts today. Not very Christian is it?"The vicar had arrived with the knowledge that something was rotten there, so of course he saw ominous signs in a perfectly innocent scene.At least that was what he told himself. But he knew better.During the wait at the reception desk, he'd overheard two of the guests discussing the hotel. Why had the Albanians left in such a hurry? What was the real reason for the workers going on strike? Reverend Morris had a hunch that the truth, once uncovered, would be unusually disturbing.Room 13, despite the bad luck associated with such a number, was decent enough, clean, double bed and a view overlooking the River Torne."Ooh comfy!" Jenna flopped on the bed. Reverend Morris peered out of the window. To the west, the sun sank through a sky that was slowly turning muddy red. Serpentine tendrils of fog began to rise off the water."There's a bit of a disagreeable chill in this room. I suppose it's because this window isn't double glazed." He sat down on the bed, still feeling a dim but persistent sense of unease.Jenna bit her lip. "Why don't we have some, fun?" She whispered something in her husband's ear and his eyes widened."My dear, are you sure?"She stood up and began loosening her clothing. "Long journeys make me so horny. What do you think John Wesley would do after a long journey?"He blinked. "Well, usually, he'd sit reading his Bible,""Hmm. In that case, let me lead you into temptation." She removed the last of her clothes.Reverend Morris immediately had a raging boner. "What a good idea!" The negative thoughts vanished from his mind as his wife began pleasuring herself.Jenna's eyes were heavy-lidded as she stared at the outline of the reverend's cock, which was presently tenting his black trousers. She lay back on the bed, and her bare foot slowly stroked up the inside of his thigh caressing the bulge of his manhood. Reverend Morris moaned at her sensual touch and thrust his hips instinctively against her foot. He raised her leg, ran his tongue lightly along the sole of her other foot, making her giggle. A low laugh rumbled in his throat as he went back to her toes, kissing each one before working his way up her smooth leg."Oh Simon,"She murmured his name in a needy whine, spreading her milky thighs further apart as his mouth slowly kissed and licked closer to her core. Unable to resist such an invitation, he settled on his stomach between her legs. He drew his tongue along her hot slit then closed his mouth over it to suck up her sweet juices. Jenna gasped, arching her back. Her husband began to worship her eagerly, her taste inflaming his want. She cried out then, rocking her hips and coming in his mouth. After savoring her juices, Reverend Morris stood up, unzipped his trousers, pulled out his cock and began lazily stroking it. She purred at the sight, sitting up in front of him and wrapping her hand around the base of the shaft."Let me bless you."He moved his hand and allowed her to stroke him. "Mmm, I am blessed in many ways, and eternally thankful!""Seeing as this hotel hasn't impressed you, it's up to me to make our stay here memorable." Jenna smiled and crawled in his lap, straddling him. The feeling of having her so close in his arms as she jacked him with her hand was intense because her cunt hovered so close to the head of his cock. Growling, Reverend Morris grasped her arse cheeks. Jenna closed her eyes in joy.At that point, an unseen presence in the room grew tired of being a mere spectator and decided to join in.He knelt behind Jenna so that she was sandwiched between the two of them, and began stroking her lower back.Reverend Morris began caressing her breasts. She let out a little moan at his touch.Enjoying her reaction, the invisible one moved his right hand down and he very gently used his index finger to massage her arsehole."Ooh Simon. That's new, but I like it!""What is?""Huh?" Jenna opened her eyes and realized both his hands were still on her tits. "I just felt something finger my butthole, ah!"Arching her back and squeezing her husband's cock with her hand, she uttered a breathy scream."Simon, I think there's a ghost in here!" Jenna whimpered in response as the unseen presence put firm pressure on her rosebud. "Ahh, he's fingering my arse!""I can't see anyone," Reverend Morris moaned, desperate to feel the tight walls of Jenna's sex engulf him. "Maybe John Wesley's come looking for you?" He shifted his hips so the head of his aching shaft was nestled at her entrance."I'm being serious here!"Someone continued to stroke her arsehole, gradually putting more pressure until the tip of his finger was inside."Mmm yes," Reverend Morris sighed, too under the spell of arousal to care.Jenna sighed in pleasure, steadily lowering herself onto her husband's cock. The unseen one pushed his finger a little bit further inside her tight anal passage. Jenna let out a surprised squeak of pleasure and wiggled her hips until he was fully embedded inside of her, .his finger and her husband's cock now filling her sweet holes.Reverend Morris moaned as he intensified his strokes, plunging his cock in and out of her cunt. Jenna cried out in delight at this and then the unseen one's finger pressed deeper still and suddenly she was coming again. Her clenching walls coupled with an invisible finger embedded in her arse created a tightness around Reverend Morris' cock beyond anything he thought possible and with the first compression of her orgasm around his cock, a low whine escaped his throat and he came, filling her with his seed.The unknown entity carefully withdrew his finger from Jenna's arse. There was no time for her to catch her breath.She murmured, as her husband moved away, stroking his softening cock. Suddenly, something slid up her arse, thrusting gently to begin with. She was surprised that it didn't hurt at all. She'd never experienced anal before but had read it could be extremely painful. And without lube, well that didn't bear thinking about!"Ahha, ha, who are you, what are you?" Jenna panted.The invisible presence shot a massive load of cum deep inside her arse and she closed her eyes tight. He pulled out, and Jenna panted, sweat running off her and cum oozing out of both orifices,"Oh," Jenna gasped, flopping forward. A yell of terror from her husband finally brought her to her senses."Oh my God!""What's wrong, Simon?""There! There!" His eyes were wide with fright and he was pointing. "Behind you! Who, what is that? He's got no head!"Jenna looked round. He was dressed in black. A white collar. The unmistakable clothing of a Cromwellian-era preacher. And was completely without a head."A headless ghost has just had anal sex with me," Jenna blinked. "I'm, kind of okay with this. I had a threesome with my vicar husband and a ghost. Is that a holy trinity or an unholy one?"Reverend Morris twitched and fainted."What a shame you can't talk," Jenna said, standing before him. "I wonder who you are? Did I please you? If I did, maybe you could bow?"The headless ghost bowed and vanished."Aww. Well he seemed satisfied." She rushed over to her husband, who was staggering to his feet. "It's alright Simon. He's gone.""I didn't just imagine all that did I?" Reverend Morris groaned, sitting on the bed. "We just, encountered a headless ghost?""Oh he was real alright. He came in my arse!""Are you sure you okay? Did he; it hurt you?""I'm fine! Was a bit of a surprise, but a pleasant one.""Hmm, I think we should say a prayer for that lost soul," Reverend Morris replied. "I wouldn't like to think he'll return later tonight.""Oh I don't think he will," Jenna smiled. "He was just horny and he is satisfied now. He bowed at me before he disappeared.""I guess that explains why those Albanians begged to be transferred to the Travelodge! The travel agent never said anything about this place being haunted. No wonder its half-empty!"LaterIt was around five minutes after midnight. In Room 11, Gordon was tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep. Despite wearing nothing but his vest and y-fronts, he was boiling hot, and sweat was running down his brow."God, this room's like a furnace!" He groaned, throwing the duvet off and switching the bedside lamp on. He staggered over to the radiator. It was as cold as ice."Why's it so hot in here? Hope I'm not coming down with flu or something."Gordon made his way into the bathroom and fumbled around for the light pull cord. Intending to splash his face with cold water, he hurriedly turned the washbasin tap, but instead of water, black powder shot out of it."What the fuck?" He squinted at the stuff. "Looks like soil. A right dump this place is.A curious smoky smell met his nose. There was something familiar about the smell, it reminded him of fireworks. Hearing faint laughter, Gordon looked in the mirror."Bloody hell!"Ahmed and Barry were rudely awakened by a furious banging on the bedroom door."What the?" Barry groaned, getting out of bed. "Who can that be? Almost knocking the door down!""Might be a drunk or a crackhead," Ahmed said. "Don't open the door. They usually get bored and go bother someone else."Barry! Barry! Let me in!" Gordon yelled.Barry opened the door and was almost knocked over as Gordon dashed in."Can I sleep here? I have to sleep in here!""Whoa, whoa, calm down. What's happened?" Barry said."Can I sleep here?" Gordon prattled. The color had drained from his face."There's no spare bed.""Do you think I care about that?" Gordon yelled, grabbing his cousin by the front of his pajamas. "I'll sleep on the floor! I can't go back to that room! Oh my God. I've just had the shock of my life!""Did someone break into your room?" Ahmed asked."Break in? Not much chance of stopping a ghost from breaking in is there? My bloody room is haunted!"To be continued.By Blacksheep for Literotica.

Steamy Stories Podcast
Jenna's New Year: Part 1

Steamy Stories Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024


Saint Michael's Church has a new First Lady, named Jenna.A Series in 17 parts, By Blacksheep. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Candlemas RompThis Sunday had brought the heaviest rain so far of 2023. The weather had caused a notable drop in the number of people attending this morning's church service, Reverend Morris noticed.Today was Candlemas, which commemorated the ritual purification of Mary, forty days after the birth of her son Jesus. This day also marked the ritual presentation of the baby Jesus to God in the Temple at Jerusalem. It reminded Jenna of her own sacred ritual of fertility, Mentula Cōleī Baptism'. She's thankful to be so blessed by God, to have such devoted church elders guiding her spiritual development.After the service, and the usual tea, biscuits and chit chat in the church hall, Reverend Morris was eager to return to the vicarage. His wife had given him "that look"; and he knew what that meant. It had been a week since they'd made love, and as he had a feeling Jenna would be more than up for "a little afternoon delight," as she termed it.Outside, the late January winter rain was still lashing down. Despite the vicarage being a five minute walk from the church, the vicar and his wife had neglected to bring an umbrella with them. By the time they arrived home, they were both soaked to the bone.Reverend Morris' hair was wet, and the legs of his trousers clung damply to him, and the back of his black shirt was also soaked. He figured he was going to come down with a nasty cold if he didn't get into some dry clothes right away. Jenna evidently had the same thought, and they went straight upstairs to the master bedroom.She opened the wardrobe doors, and he switched on a bedside lamp. Shivering, they stripped out of their wet clothes.When they were nearly undressed, they glanced at each other. Their eyes locked.Still, they didn't speak. They didn't need to.He took her in his arms, and they kissed lightly at first, tenderly. Her mouth was warm and soft and vaguely flavored with communion wine.She clutched him, pulled him closer, her fingertips digging into the muscles of his back. She pushed her mouth hard against his, scraped his lip with her teeth, thrust her tongue deep, and abruptly their kisses grew hot, demanding.Something seemed to snap in him, and in her, too, for their desire was suddenly marked by animal urgency. They responded to each other in a hungry, almost frenzied fashion, hastily casting off the last of their clothes, pawing at each other's wet bodies, squeezing, stroking. She nipped his shoulder with her teeth. He gripped her pert buttocks and kneaded them with uncharacteristic crudity, but she didn't wince or try to pull away; indeed, she pressed even more insistently against him, rubbing her breasts over his chest and grinding her hips against his. Their wet, tussled hair and slippery bodies wrestled to seduce each other into submission. The soft whimpers that escaped from her were not sounds of pain; they clearly expressed her eagerness and need.In bed, his energy was manic, and his staying power amazed him. He was insatiable, and so was she. They thrust and thrashed and flexed and tensed in perfect harmony, as if they were not only joined but fused, as if they were a single organism, shaken by only one set of stimuli instead of two. Every vestige of civilization slipped from them, and for a long while the only noises they made were animal sounds: panting; groaning; throaty grunts of pleasure; short, sharp cries of excitement. At last Jenna uttered the first word to pass between them since they had left the church:"Oh my God!"And again, arching her slender, graceful body, tossing her head from side to side on the pillow: "Yes, yes!" It was not merely an orgasm to which she was saying yes, for she'd already had a couple of those and had announced them with only ragged breathing and soft mewling. She was saying yes to life.The vicar repeated the word as if chanting a sacred incantation,"Yes, yes, yes!"as he emptied his cum into her a second time.Spent, they stretched out on their backs, side by side on the disheveled bed. For a long time they listened to the rain on the roof and to the persistent thunder, which was no longer loud enough to rattle the windows. Wind howled around the side of the house.Jenna lay with her eyes closed, her face completely relaxed."Lovely service this morning, Simon!" She said at last. "Great choice of hymns.""It certainly was. I think my sermon went down well. Shame about the weather.""Hmm, I don't know - I think the rainy weather makes me much hornier than normal!" It isn't even February, but my winter ‘cabin fever' has already set in. Get ready for more of this ravishing sex, my stud!"Happy Candlemas, Jenna," Reverend Morris replied.Jenna & the Church Trip: Part 1“Thine be the glory hole!”More light-hearted goings-on with vicar's wife Jenna. New year, new naughtiness, and a dull coach trip organized by the church might turn out to be more fun than expected! God works in mysterious ways. For Jenna's husband, it was relief from a nymph wife who had few other ways to occupy herself, besides sexual romps, at all hours of the day and night."I'm so pleased that Alpha and Omega coach holidays have re-started their short breaks," Reverend Simon Morris excitedly exclaimed. "I've just booked us on the three-day trip to Epworth!"His wife Jenna looked up from her phone. "Epworth? Where's that?""It's in Lincolnshire. Now I know what you're thinking, it's January, the excitement of Christmas and the New Year is over and it's such a dull time of year. The weather is awful and what I really should be doing is booking us a fortnight in the Maldives or Barbados to escape the British winter blues. But instead I've booked us a coach trip to Lincolnshire,"Jenna tried to look interested. "Well, I've never been to Lincolnshire. Always nice to see somewhere new.""The reason I booked this trip is that Epworth is the birthplace of John and Charles Wesley. I thought you'd like to see it. After all, you are a big fan of them, yes?" He winked at her. "Oakwood Road Methodist Church are forever grateful to you for what you did last year."Jenna grinned. "I'd love to see their birthplace. So, when is this trip?""Next Monday. I think it'll be a fun little getaway. Gordon's coming along too. Oh and so is Barry, his cousin."That made Jenna perk up. Ooh, she thought to herself. I wonder if he's as hot? "He's recovered from his broken ankle then?""As far as I know, he's made a full recovery. His daughter Lisa came over from Florida to stay with him, so Gordon was relieved at that.""Thank goodness for that," Jenna replied. She'd really missed seeing her favorite organist. Oakwood's organist Raymond Wilson had done a superb job standing in for Gordon, thanks to some "gentle persuasion" from Jenna on Christmas Eve. "What sort of hotel are we staying at?"Reverend Morris looked at the Alpha and Omega brochure. "Hmm. We're staying at a hotel just outside Epworth that was originally a 17th century coaching inn. It's called The Parson's Knob, "Jenna almost spat out the coffee she was drinking. "Seriously?""I'm sure there is an innocent explanation for that name! Then again, maybe not! According to the travel agent, all twenty rooms of the hotel had been booked up for a group of Albanian asylum seekers. However for some bizarre reason, after a few days, the Albanians all begged to be transferred to a Travelodge a few miles away.""That is weird," Jenna replied. "I'd much rather stay in a lovely old historical inn than some crappy Travelodge. Oh well. Maybe they wanted somewhere a bit more modern?""Perhaps?"The day of the trip arrived. The British weather was true to form, and it had been raining hard since dawn. "When's the coach due again?" Jenna asked as she and Reverend Morris shivered at the bus stop opposite the railway station."Should be here now," her husband replied. "Oh look, there's Gordon and Barry!""Hmm, maybe this trip won't be so dull after all!" She smirked. Barry was basically a clone of Gordon. "Looks more like his identical twin brother than his cousin!" The only difference being that Barry was wearing glasses. The resemblance was uncanny."I don't know why I let you talk me into coming with you on this trip," Barry moaned as he and Gordon approached the bus stop. "You know I'm not a member of the God Squad, ""You haven't met the vicar's wife yet," Gordon whispered."Oh, this the lass you've got the hots for?" His skeptical cousin rolled his eyes."I think you'll find quite a lot of the fellas at St. Michael's Church have the hots for her," Gordon replied. "Oh God, there she is!"Barry adjusted his glasses. "Bloody hell. You weren't kidding when you said she was a bit of a fox, were you? Dream on! She's way too young for you, Gordy! I'd say she's way too young for the vicar too, but she must have a thing for older men if she's ended up marrying him,"Gordon chuckled. "If only you knew half of the things that go on at St. Michael's, dear cousin. If you did, wild horses wouldn't be able to drag you away from the Sunday Eucharist!""Hello!" Jenna said. "Oh Gordon, is this your cousin?""Hiya, and yes, this is Barry. He's not been won over by St. Michael's yet,""I see. Nice to meet you! Maybe you'll think differently about our church after you've been on this trip?""Perhaps," Barry interrupted, ogling Jenna, until Gordon gave him a nudge.Ten minutes later, a white minibus pulled up at the bus stop."Oh, I was expecting a coach," said Jenna. Further along the street, came Josh the curate and Norman the churchwarden."Not as many people booked as was expected," Reverend Morris replied. "I blame the weather. Afraid there's only six of us!"The group boarded the bus. Barry turned to Gordon. "She's not the typical vicar's wife is she?""Oh not at all," Gordon smiled.Barely half an hour into the journey and as always tended to happen on road trips, someone needed the toilet.Reverend Morris rolled his eyes. "Oh for goodness sake, we've only just set off. We're not due to stop for another hour, when we have our lunch at Cusworth Hall in Doncaster!"This does tend to happen when you have elderly passengers," the bus driver remarked. "I know. I've been doing this job for thirty years. The stories I could tell you!""We haven't got any elderly passengers," the vicar replied. "It's our organist who needs to go. As usual!""Oi, it's not my fault my bloody prostate makes me pee more!" Gordon yelled from the back of the bus. "You're not being very Christian today, Vicar! How about some compassion for your fellow man?""Yes, yes, alright. I'm sorry Gordon. Alright, we'll find somewhere to pull in for a quick comfort break. Is that okay with you, Ahmed?""No worries," the bus driver replied, checking the sat nav. "There's a coach stop a couple of miles away. I'll just come off at the next junction and it's right there. I've stopped at it a few times. It's a bit down at heel, but,""That'll do. As long as there are toilets.""Oh yeah. They're unisex though, and a bit, grimy. Is that a problem?""Not at all," Reverend Morris smirked. "Any port in a storm, as the old saying goes!"The minibus exited the motorway. A short time later, it pulled onto the car park of Jed's Butty Hut, a sandwich restaurant in a 1960s prefab that had seen better days."Right," Reverend Morris said, checking his watch. "We'll have a fifteen minute stop here. Can everyone be back on the bus by ten o'clock please?"The toilets were at the back of the main building. Gordon hurried in first. There were five cubicles, each with its own nauseating odor. He entered the first one. The toilet was missing a seat and the bowl was overflowing with vomit."Ugh. No thanks." He hurried out and entered the next one. A dead crow was sticking out of the toilet, beak wide open and wings spread, reminiscent of a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds."Fuck," he muttered, rushing out and into the third one. This toilet seemed clean enough, only a few cigarette ends and crack pipes floating in it.A few minutes later, Jenna decided to relieve herself, even though she could've held on until Doncaster. It was always the same on a trip. You got the urge to go even though you didn't actually need to go.The pretty redhead went into the end cubicle, which was the cleanest of the lot. Graffiti was daubed all over the walls, the usual expletives, plus crude drawings of cocks done in black marker pen. An urban art gallery for the times, she remarked to herself as she did her thing. It was then that she noticed a neat, circular hole on the lower right side of the partition wall."Ooh, a glory hole," she said to herself. "I wonder if it's well-used?""Why don't we try it out?" A muffled voice in the next cubicle muttered. Seconds later, a cock poked through it!"Gordon, is that you?" Jenna whispered. The shaft was thick just like his."No," the mystery man replied. She didn't recognize his voice, so he had to be someone from the restaurant. Jenna gasped. A burst of excitement ran through her, at the thought of touching this stranger's cock. At the same time, the danger associated with doing this seemed to add to the thrill.With her right hand, she reached down, slowly tracing up and down the length of the engorged cock with her palm. The man let out a groan. The size and hardness of his member increased Jenna's excitement. Her cunt was getting increasingly wet in anticipation, and she quickly knelt down in front of the generous offering.She rolled her tongue around its circumference and sucked on it as she would a piece of fruit, trying to get every drop of pre-cum. Not content with just a portion, she began to slowly venture down the shaft. With every thrust forward, she took more of it down her throat."Oh!" The mystery man exclaimed. He moaned in pleasure and bestowed every compliment he could think of on her.Jenna withdrew in order to say something. "What a gentleman you are!""Well you're damned good," came his reply.With every bobbing of her head, Jenna made progress toward the base. Above the slurping sounds she made as she wetted the shaft with her saliva, she could hear the stranger gently moaning with approval at her technique. She began to vary her speed; one moment erupting with a robust attack, then at an instant slowing her pace to relish the feast.Feeling the end would arrive soon, Jenna quickened her speed. She too, felt the rising heat from her crotch swelling to an orgasmic crescendo. Then, at the apex of pleasure, there erupted from deep within her cunt a spasm, which rapidly spread a pleasing warmth all over her body.The man's body stiffened as he released his full load into Jenna's mouth with a mighty groan. When every drop had been expelled, he slowly withdrew his rod fr

Steamy Stories
Jenna's New Year: Part 1

Steamy Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024


Saint Michael's Church has a new First Lady, named Jenna.A Series in 17 parts, By Blacksheep. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Candlemas RompThis Sunday had brought the heaviest rain so far of 2023. The weather had caused a notable drop in the number of people attending this morning's church service, Reverend Morris noticed.Today was Candlemas, which commemorated the ritual purification of Mary, forty days after the birth of her son Jesus. This day also marked the ritual presentation of the baby Jesus to God in the Temple at Jerusalem. It reminded Jenna of her own sacred ritual of fertility, Mentula Cōleī Baptism'. She's thankful to be so blessed by God, to have such devoted church elders guiding her spiritual development.After the service, and the usual tea, biscuits and chit chat in the church hall, Reverend Morris was eager to return to the vicarage. His wife had given him "that look"; and he knew what that meant. It had been a week since they'd made love, and as he had a feeling Jenna would be more than up for "a little afternoon delight," as she termed it.Outside, the late January winter rain was still lashing down. Despite the vicarage being a five minute walk from the church, the vicar and his wife had neglected to bring an umbrella with them. By the time they arrived home, they were both soaked to the bone.Reverend Morris' hair was wet, and the legs of his trousers clung damply to him, and the back of his black shirt was also soaked. He figured he was going to come down with a nasty cold if he didn't get into some dry clothes right away. Jenna evidently had the same thought, and they went straight upstairs to the master bedroom.She opened the wardrobe doors, and he switched on a bedside lamp. Shivering, they stripped out of their wet clothes.When they were nearly undressed, they glanced at each other. Their eyes locked.Still, they didn't speak. They didn't need to.He took her in his arms, and they kissed lightly at first, tenderly. Her mouth was warm and soft and vaguely flavored with communion wine.She clutched him, pulled him closer, her fingertips digging into the muscles of his back. She pushed her mouth hard against his, scraped his lip with her teeth, thrust her tongue deep, and abruptly their kisses grew hot, demanding.Something seemed to snap in him, and in her, too, for their desire was suddenly marked by animal urgency. They responded to each other in a hungry, almost frenzied fashion, hastily casting off the last of their clothes, pawing at each other's wet bodies, squeezing, stroking. She nipped his shoulder with her teeth. He gripped her pert buttocks and kneaded them with uncharacteristic crudity, but she didn't wince or try to pull away; indeed, she pressed even more insistently against him, rubbing her breasts over his chest and grinding her hips against his. Their wet, tussled hair and slippery bodies wrestled to seduce each other into submission. The soft whimpers that escaped from her were not sounds of pain; they clearly expressed her eagerness and need.In bed, his energy was manic, and his staying power amazed him. He was insatiable, and so was she. They thrust and thrashed and flexed and tensed in perfect harmony, as if they were not only joined but fused, as if they were a single organism, shaken by only one set of stimuli instead of two. Every vestige of civilization slipped from them, and for a long while the only noises they made were animal sounds: panting; groaning; throaty grunts of pleasure; short, sharp cries of excitement. At last Jenna uttered the first word to pass between them since they had left the church:"Oh my God!"And again, arching her slender, graceful body, tossing her head from side to side on the pillow: "Yes, yes!" It was not merely an orgasm to which she was saying yes, for she'd already had a couple of those and had announced them with only ragged breathing and soft mewling. She was saying yes to life.The vicar repeated the word as if chanting a sacred incantation,"Yes, yes, yes!"as he emptied his cum into her a second time.Spent, they stretched out on their backs, side by side on the disheveled bed. For a long time they listened to the rain on the roof and to the persistent thunder, which was no longer loud enough to rattle the windows. Wind howled around the side of the house.Jenna lay with her eyes closed, her face completely relaxed."Lovely service this morning, Simon!" She said at last. "Great choice of hymns.""It certainly was. I think my sermon went down well. Shame about the weather.""Hmm, I don't know - I think the rainy weather makes me much hornier than normal!" It isn't even February, but my winter ‘cabin fever' has already set in. Get ready for more of this ravishing sex, my stud!"Happy Candlemas, Jenna," Reverend Morris replied.Jenna & the Church Trip: Part 1“Thine be the glory hole!”More light-hearted goings-on with vicar's wife Jenna. New year, new naughtiness, and a dull coach trip organized by the church might turn out to be more fun than expected! God works in mysterious ways. For Jenna's husband, it was relief from a nymph wife who had few other ways to occupy herself, besides sexual romps, at all hours of the day and night."I'm so pleased that Alpha and Omega coach holidays have re-started their short breaks," Reverend Simon Morris excitedly exclaimed. "I've just booked us on the three-day trip to Epworth!"His wife Jenna looked up from her phone. "Epworth? Where's that?""It's in Lincolnshire. Now I know what you're thinking, it's January, the excitement of Christmas and the New Year is over and it's such a dull time of year. The weather is awful and what I really should be doing is booking us a fortnight in the Maldives or Barbados to escape the British winter blues. But instead I've booked us a coach trip to Lincolnshire,"Jenna tried to look interested. "Well, I've never been to Lincolnshire. Always nice to see somewhere new.""The reason I booked this trip is that Epworth is the birthplace of John and Charles Wesley. I thought you'd like to see it. After all, you are a big fan of them, yes?" He winked at her. "Oakwood Road Methodist Church are forever grateful to you for what you did last year."Jenna grinned. "I'd love to see their birthplace. So, when is this trip?""Next Monday. I think it'll be a fun little getaway. Gordon's coming along too. Oh and so is Barry, his cousin."That made Jenna perk up. Ooh, she thought to herself. I wonder if he's as hot? "He's recovered from his broken ankle then?""As far as I know, he's made a full recovery. His daughter Lisa came over from Florida to stay with him, so Gordon was relieved at that.""Thank goodness for that," Jenna replied. She'd really missed seeing her favorite organist. Oakwood's organist Raymond Wilson had done a superb job standing in for Gordon, thanks to some "gentle persuasion" from Jenna on Christmas Eve. "What sort of hotel are we staying at?"Reverend Morris looked at the Alpha and Omega brochure. "Hmm. We're staying at a hotel just outside Epworth that was originally a 17th century coaching inn. It's called The Parson's Knob, "Jenna almost spat out the coffee she was drinking. "Seriously?""I'm sure there is an innocent explanation for that name! Then again, maybe not! According to the travel agent, all twenty rooms of the hotel had been booked up for a group of Albanian asylum seekers. However for some bizarre reason, after a few days, the Albanians all begged to be transferred to a Travelodge a few miles away.""That is weird," Jenna replied. "I'd much rather stay in a lovely old historical inn than some crappy Travelodge. Oh well. Maybe they wanted somewhere a bit more modern?""Perhaps?"The day of the trip arrived. The British weather was true to form, and it had been raining hard since dawn. "When's the coach due again?" Jenna asked as she and Reverend Morris shivered at the bus stop opposite the railway station."Should be here now," her husband replied. "Oh look, there's Gordon and Barry!""Hmm, maybe this trip won't be so dull after all!" She smirked. Barry was basically a clone of Gordon. "Looks more like his identical twin brother than his cousin!" The only difference being that Barry was wearing glasses. The resemblance was uncanny."I don't know why I let you talk me into coming with you on this trip," Barry moaned as he and Gordon approached the bus stop. "You know I'm not a member of the God Squad, ""You haven't met the vicar's wife yet," Gordon whispered."Oh, this the lass you've got the hots for?" His skeptical cousin rolled his eyes."I think you'll find quite a lot of the fellas at St. Michael's Church have the hots for her," Gordon replied. "Oh God, there she is!"Barry adjusted his glasses. "Bloody hell. You weren't kidding when you said she was a bit of a fox, were you? Dream on! She's way too young for you, Gordy! I'd say she's way too young for the vicar too, but she must have a thing for older men if she's ended up marrying him,"Gordon chuckled. "If only you knew half of the things that go on at St. Michael's, dear cousin. If you did, wild horses wouldn't be able to drag you away from the Sunday Eucharist!""Hello!" Jenna said. "Oh Gordon, is this your cousin?""Hiya, and yes, this is Barry. He's not been won over by St. Michael's yet,""I see. Nice to meet you! Maybe you'll think differently about our church after you've been on this trip?""Perhaps," Barry interrupted, ogling Jenna, until Gordon gave him a nudge.Ten minutes later, a white minibus pulled up at the bus stop."Oh, I was expecting a coach," said Jenna. Further along the street, came Josh the curate and Norman the churchwarden."Not as many people booked as was expected," Reverend Morris replied. "I blame the weather. Afraid there's only six of us!"The group boarded the bus. Barry turned to Gordon. "She's not the typical vicar's wife is she?""Oh not at all," Gordon smiled.Barely half an hour into the journey and as always tended to happen on road trips, someone needed the toilet.Reverend Morris rolled his eyes. "Oh for goodness sake, we've only just set off. We're not due to stop for another hour, when we have our lunch at Cusworth Hall in Doncaster!"This does tend to happen when you have elderly passengers," the bus driver remarked. "I know. I've been doing this job for thirty years. The stories I could tell you!""We haven't got any elderly passengers," the vicar replied. "It's our organist who needs to go. As usual!""Oi, it's not my fault my bloody prostate makes me pee more!" Gordon yelled from the back of the bus. "You're not being very Christian today, Vicar! How about some compassion for your fellow man?""Yes, yes, alright. I'm sorry Gordon. Alright, we'll find somewhere to pull in for a quick comfort break. Is that okay with you, Ahmed?""No worries," the bus driver replied, checking the sat nav. "There's a coach stop a couple of miles away. I'll just come off at the next junction and it's right there. I've stopped at it a few times. It's a bit down at heel, but,""That'll do. As long as there are toilets.""Oh yeah. They're unisex though, and a bit, grimy. Is that a problem?""Not at all," Reverend Morris smirked. "Any port in a storm, as the old saying goes!"The minibus exited the motorway. A short time later, it pulled onto the car park of Jed's Butty Hut, a sandwich restaurant in a 1960s prefab that had seen better days."Right," Reverend Morris said, checking his watch. "We'll have a fifteen minute stop here. Can everyone be back on the bus by ten o'clock please?"The toilets were at the back of the main building. Gordon hurried in first. There were five cubicles, each with its own nauseating odor. He entered the first one. The toilet was missing a seat and the bowl was overflowing with vomit."Ugh. No thanks." He hurried out and entered the next one. A dead crow was sticking out of the toilet, beak wide open and wings spread, reminiscent of a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds."Fuck," he muttered, rushing out and into the third one. This toilet seemed clean enough, only a few cigarette ends and crack pipes floating in it.A few minutes later, Jenna decided to relieve herself, even though she could've held on until Doncaster. It was always the same on a trip. You got the urge to go even though you didn't actually need to go.The pretty redhead went into the end cubicle, which was the cleanest of the lot. Graffiti was daubed all over the walls, the usual expletives, plus crude drawings of cocks done in black marker pen. An urban art gallery for the times, she remarked to herself as she did her thing. It was then that she noticed a neat, circular hole on the lower right side of the partition wall."Ooh, a glory hole," she said to herself. "I wonder if it's well-used?""Why don't we try it out?" A muffled voice in the next cubicle muttered. Seconds later, a cock poked through it!"Gordon, is that you?" Jenna whispered. The shaft was thick just like his."No," the mystery man replied. She didn't recognize his voice, so he had to be someone from the restaurant. Jenna gasped. A burst of excitement ran through her, at the thought of touching this stranger's cock. At the same time, the danger associated with doing this seemed to add to the thrill.With her right hand, she reached down, slowly tracing up and down the length of the engorged cock with her palm. The man let out a groan. The size and hardness of his member increased Jenna's excitement. Her cunt was getting increasingly wet in anticipation, and she quickly knelt down in front of the generous offering.She rolled her tongue around its circumference and sucked on it as she would a piece of fruit, trying to get every drop of pre-cum. Not content with just a portion, she began to slowly venture down the shaft. With every thrust forward, she took more of it down her throat."Oh!" The mystery man exclaimed. He moaned in pleasure and bestowed every compliment he could think of on her.Jenna withdrew in order to say something. "What a gentleman you are!""Well you're damned good," came his reply.With every bobbing of her head, Jenna made progress toward the base. Above the slurping sounds she made as she wetted the shaft with her saliva, she could hear the stranger gently moaning with approval at her technique. She began to vary her speed; one moment erupting with a robust attack, then at an instant slowing her pace to relish the feast.Feeling the end would arrive soon, Jenna quickened her speed. She too, felt the rising heat from her crotch swelling to an orgasmic crescendo. Then, at the apex of pleasure, there erupted from deep within her cunt a spasm, which rapidly spread a pleasing warmth all over her body.The man's body stiffened as he released his full load into Jenna's mouth with a mighty groan. When every drop had been expelled, he slowly withdrew his rod fr

The Well Told Tale
1984 - Part 23 (of 23)

The Well Told Tale

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 23:59


In Room 101, Winston Smith was broken and he betrayed Julia. Now that he has been set free from the Ministry of Love, what will life be like for Winston Smith?This novel contains adult themes: younger listeners, please proceed with caution.You can support the channel via our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thewelltoldtaleBooks - (buying books from our Bookshop.org shop helps support this channel while also supporting local bookshops, at no cost to you):Books by our favourite authors - https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-well-told-taleBuy 1984: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9780008322069 https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9781847498571Other Books by George Orwell:Animal Farm: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9781398816534Down and out in Paris and London: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9780008442651Politics and the English Language: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9522/9781913724306I would like to thank my patrons: Maura Lee, Jane, John Bowles, Cade Norman, Matt Woodward, Cho Jinn and  Douglas HarleySupport the Show.

California Haunts Radio
What lurks During the Night in Arizona with Author Daryl F. Mallett

California Haunts Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2024 62:35


According to Amazon: "The benign, candle-carrying ghost of Mayor Levi Manning is reported to roam the halls of Manning House, while a frightening presence is said to lurk in the projectionist room at the Fox Theatre. In Room 242 of the Hotel Congress, guests have described a woman in white sitting at the end of the bed, while other spirits have been spotted in the halls. From the Mission San Xavier del Bac, built in 1700, to the grounds of the University of Arizona, stories of paranormal encounters abound." Join Charlotte and Filmaker Mallett as they talk about these haunted locations and more.Book Haunted TucsonHelp support California Haunts Radio by becoming a member of The Booo Crew visit... patreon.com/CaliforniaHauntsRadio

Mysterious Radio
S9: Haunted Tucson

Mysterious Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 48:02


My special guest is author Daryl Mallet, who is here to discuss the paranormal haunts in the city of Tucson, Arizona. You can pick up his book to add to your collection from Amazon. Wandering spirits, vengeful ghosts, and unexplained sightings in Tucson, Arizona. The benign, candle-carrying ghost of Mayor Levi Manning is reported to roam the halls of Manning House, while a frightening presence is said to lurk in the projectionist room at the Fox Theatre. In Room 242 of the Hotel Congress, guests have described a woman in white sitting at the end of the bed, while other spirits have been spotted in the halls. From the Mission San Xavier del Bac, built in 1700, to the grounds of the University of Arizona, stories of paranormal encounters abound. Join author Daryl F. Mallett and discover the thrilling and bone-chilling history of the Old Pueblo.Follow Our Other ShowsFollow UFO WitnessesFollow Crime Watch WeeklyFollow Paranormal FearsFollow Seven: Disturbing Chronicle StoriesJoin our Patreon for ad-free listening and more bonus content.Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradioFollow us on TikTok mysteriousradioTikTok Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio

KJ & Caldwell Podcast
Copa America makes it's draw, and Argentina will meet Canada… maybe!

KJ & Caldwell Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 31:07


In Room 442 this Friday, the crew talk Copa America and the very real possibility that Canada might kick things off vs Argentina (4:30) .  We rank the upcoming Premier League matches with some biggies and perhaps a pre-season surprise at #1 (18:00), and of course talk all things 442picks.ca (28:38) Play 4-4-2 Picks for the chance to win $250,000 + weekly & monthly prizes. Enter NOW https://www.442picks.ca Follow James on socials: X -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JamesSharman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sharms1974⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Sara on socials: X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Albert on socials: X -https://twitter.com/albertvartanian Insta - https://www.instagram.com/_therealbertv/ Follow Room 442 on socials X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/theroom442⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/room442official⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more content visit www.homestandsports.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/room-4-4-2/message

KJ & Caldwell Podcast
Big Ange winning new fans, Rashford losing old fans?

KJ & Caldwell Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 32:25


In Room 442 this Tuesday, Sara, Albert and James break down another stupendous week in the Premier League, and look ahead to a full slate of midweek action. - Postecoglou impresses Pep (5:41) - Euro 2024 draw shenanigans (11:41) - Rashford's struggles continue (20:40) Remember to play https://www.442picks.ca FOR FREE and win weekly and monthly prizes! Follow James on socials: X -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JamesSharman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sharms1974⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Sara on socials: X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Albert on socials: X -https://twitter.com/albertvartanian Insta - https://www.instagram.com/_therealbertv/ Follow Room 442 on socials X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/theroom442⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/room442official⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more content visit www.homestandsports.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/room-4-4-2/message

KJ & Caldwell Podcast
Arsenal top of the table, 15-year-old Camarda debuts for Milan & Villa stump Spurs!

KJ & Caldwell Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2023 40:11


In Room 442 this Friday, Sara and James discuss their love and hates of football over the weekend, and this weekend there was a lot more to love!  Loves of the weekend (1:00) Garnacho hits the bicycle (6:40) Newcastle smashes Chelsea (10:30) Camarda debuts for Milan (19:30) Hates of the weekend (21:15) Trent shushes the crowd (26:40) Poor Ramsdale (30:00) And of course, break down this weeks 442picks.ca (37:43)  Which is still free to play, with lots of great prizes available Follow James on socials: X -⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JamesSharman⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sharms1974⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Sara on socials: X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Albert on socials: X -https://twitter.com/albertvartanian Insta - https://www.instagram.com/_therealbertv/ Follow Room 442 on socials X - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/theroom442⁠⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/room442official⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more content visit www.homestandsports.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/room-4-4-2/message

KJ & Caldwell Podcast
Canada, injury crisis, Premier League and preferred digits

KJ & Caldwell Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 45:11


In Room 442 this Friday, Sara, James and Albert break down: Canada's search for a new coach Can Tottenham handle all their injuries (10:07) They rank the weekend Premier League matches (23:50) Talk all things finger and toe amputations And of course, break down this weeks 442picks.ca (43:02) Which is still free to play, with lots of great prizes available Follow James on socials: X -⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JamesSharman⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/sharms1974⁠⁠⁠ Follow Sara on socials: X - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/saraporaria⁠⁠⁠ Follow Albert on socials: X -https://twitter.com/albertvartanian Insta - https://www.instagram.com/_therealbertv/ Follow Room 442 on socials X - ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/theroom442⁠⁠⁠ Insta - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/room442official⁠⁠⁠ For more content visit www.homestandsports.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/room-4-4-2/message

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs
Episode 165: “Dark Star” by the Grateful Dead

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs

Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2023


Episode 165 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Dark Stat” and the career of the Grateful Dead. This is a long one, even longer than the previous episode, but don't worry, that won't be the norm. There's a reason these two were much longer than average. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Codine" by the Charlatans. Errata I mispronounce Brent Mydland's name as Myland a couple of times, and in the introduction I say "Touch of Grey" came out in 1988 -- I later, correctly, say 1987. (I seem to have had a real problem with dates in the intro -- I also originally talked about "Blue Suede Shoes" being in 1954 before fixing it in the edit to be 1956) Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Grateful Dead, and Grayfolded runs to two hours. I referred to a lot of books for this episode, partly because almost everything about the Grateful Dead is written from a fannish perspective that already assumes background knowledge, rather than to provide that background knowledge. Of the various books I used, Dennis McNally's biography of the band and This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans are probably most useful for the casually interested. Other books on the Dead I used included McNally's Jerry on Jerry, a collection of interviews with Garcia; Deal, Bill Kreutzmann's autobiography; The Grateful Dead FAQ by Tony Sclafani; So Many Roads by David Browne; Deadology by Howard F. Weiner; Fare Thee Well by Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley; and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads by David Shenk and Steve Silberman. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the classic account of the Pranksters, though not always reliable. I reference Slaughterhouse Five a lot. As well as the novel itself, which everyone should read, I also read this rather excellent graphic novel adaptation, and The Writer's Crusade, a book about the writing of the novel. I also reference Ted Sturgeon's More Than Human. For background on the scene around Astounding Science Fiction which included Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, and many other science fiction writers, I recommend Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding. 1,000 True Fans can be read online, as can the essay on the Californian ideology, and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". The best collection of Grateful Dead material is the box set The Golden Road, which contains all the albums released in Pigpen's lifetime along with a lot of bonus material, but which appears currently out of print. Live/Dead contains both the live version of "Dark Star" which made it well known and, as a CD bonus track, the original single version. And archive.org has more live recordings of the group than you can possibly ever listen to. Grayfolded can be bought from John Oswald's Bandcamp Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Excerpt: Tuning from "Grayfolded", under the warnings Before we begin -- as we're tuning up, as it were, I should mention that this episode contains discussions of alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, nonconsensual drugging of other people, and deaths from drug abuse, suicide, and car accidents. As always, I try to deal with these subjects as carefully as possible, but if you find any of those things upsetting you may wish to read the transcript rather than listen to this episode, or skip it altogether. Also, I should note that the members of the Grateful Dead were much freer with their use of swearing in interviews than any other band we've covered so far, and that makes using quotes from them rather more difficult than with other bands, given the limitations of the rules imposed to stop the podcast being marked as adult. If I quote anything with a word I can't use here, I'll give a brief pause in the audio, and in the transcript I'll have the word in square brackets. [tuning ends] All this happened, more or less. In 1910, T. S. Eliot started work on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which at the time was deemed barely poetry, with one reviewer imagining Eliot saying "I'll just put down the first thing that comes into my head, and call it 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature. In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", a book in which the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, comes unstuck in time, and starts living a nonlinear life, hopping around between times reliving his experiences in the Second World War, and future experiences up to 1976 after being kidnapped by beings from the planet Tralfamadore. Or perhaps he has flashbacks and hallucinations after having a breakdown from PTSD. It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature or of science fiction, depending on how you look at it. In 1953, Theodore Sturgeon wrote More Than Human. It is now considered one of the great classics of science fiction. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is now considered either a bad piece of science fiction or one of the great revelatory works of religious history, depending on how you look at it. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 the composer John Oswald released, first as two individual CDs and then as a double-CD, an album called Grayfolded, which the composer says in the liner notes he thinks of as existing in Tralfamadorian time. The Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's novels don't see time as a linear thing with a beginning and end, but as a continuum that they can move between at will. When someone dies, they just think that at this particular point in time they're not doing so good, but at other points in time they're fine, so why focus on the bad time? In the book, when told of someone dying, the Tralfamadorians just say "so it goes". In between the first CD's release and the release of the double-CD version, Jerry Garcia died. From August 1942 through August 1995, Jerry Garcia was alive. So it goes. Shall we go, you and I? [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Dark Star (Omni 3/30/94)"] "One principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, indeed, that the task of going through them thoroughly has become too great for the unassisted student. It cannot be too strongly urged that a single theme in its various types and compounds must be made predominant in any useful comparative study. This is true when the sources and analogues of any literary work are treated; it is even truer when the bare motive is discussed. The Grateful Dead furnishes an apt illustration of the necessity of such handling. It appears in a variety of different combinations, almost never alone. Indeed, it is so widespread a tale, and its combinations are so various, that there is the utmost difficulty in determining just what may properly be regarded the original kernel of it, the simple theme to which other motives were joined. Various opinions, as we shall see, have been held with reference to this matter, most of them justified perhaps by the materials in the hands of the scholars holding them, but none quite adequate in view of later evidence." That's a quote from The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, by Gordon Hall Gerould, published in 1908. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five opens with a chapter about the process of writing the novel itself, and how difficult it was. He says "I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big." This is an episode several of my listeners have been looking forward to, but it's one I've been dreading writing, because this is an episode -- I think the only one in the series -- where the format of the podcast simply *will not* work. Were the Grateful Dead not such an important band, I would skip this episode altogether, but they're a band that simply can't be ignored, and that's a real problem here. Because my intent, always, with this podcast, is to present the recordings of the artists in question, put them in context, and explain why they were important, what their music meant to its listeners. To put, as far as is possible, the positive case for why the music mattered *in the context of its time*. Not why it matters now, or why it matters to me, but why it matters *in its historical context*. Whether I like the music or not isn't the point. Whether it stands up now isn't the point. I play the music, explain what it was they were doing, why they were doing it, what people saw in it. If I do my job well, you come away listening to "Blue Suede Shoes" the way people heard it in 1956, or "Good Vibrations" the way people heard it in 1966, and understanding why people were so impressed by those records. That is simply *not possible* for the Grateful Dead. I can present a case for them as musicians, and hope to do so. I can explain the appeal as best I understand it, and talk about things I like in their music, and things I've noticed. But what I can't do is present their recordings the way they were received in the sixties and explain why they were popular. Because every other act I have covered or will cover in this podcast has been a *recording* act, and their success was based on records. They may also have been exceptional live performers, but James Brown or Ike and Tina Turner are remembered for great *records*, like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "River Deep, Mountain High". Their great moments were captured on vinyl, to be listened back to, and susceptible of analysis. That is not the case for the Grateful Dead, and what is worse *they explicitly said, publicly, on multiple occasions* that it is not possible for me to understand their art, and thus that it is not possible for me to explain it. The Grateful Dead did make studio records, some of them very good. But they always said, consistently, over a thirty year period, that their records didn't capture what they did, and that the only way -- the *only* way, they were very clear about this -- that one could actually understand and appreciate their music, was to see them live, and furthermore to see them live while on psychedelic drugs. [Excerpt: Grateful Dead crowd noise] I never saw the Grateful Dead live -- their last UK performance was a couple of years before I went to my first ever gig -- and I have never taken a psychedelic substance. So by the Grateful Dead's own criteria, it is literally impossible for me to understand or explain their music the way that it should be understood or explained. In a way I'm in a similar position to the one I was in with La Monte Young in the last episode, whose music it's mostly impossible to experience without being in his presence. This is one reason of several why I placed these two episodes back to back. Of course, there is a difference between Young and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead allowed -- even encouraged -- the recording of their live performances. There are literally thousands of concert recordings in circulation, many of them of professional quality. I have listened to many of those, and I can hear what they were doing. I can tell you what *I* think is interesting about their music, and about their musicianship. And I think I can build up a good case for why they were important, and why they're interesting, and why those recordings are worth listening to. And I can certainly explain the cultural phenomenon that was the Grateful Dead. But just know that while I may have found *a* point, *an* explanation for why the Grateful Dead were important, by the band's own lights and those of their fans, no matter how good a job I do in this episode, I *cannot* get it right. And that is, in itself, enough of a reason for this episode to exist, and for me to try, even harder than I normally do, to get it right *anyway*. Because no matter how well I do my job this episode will stand as an example of why this series is called "*A* History", not *the* history. Because parts of the past are ephemeral. There are things about which it's true to say "You had to be there". I cannot know what it was like to have been an American the day Kennedy was shot, I cannot know what it was like to be alive when a man walked on the Moon. Those are things nobody my age or younger can ever experience. And since August the ninth, 1995, the experience of hearing the Grateful Dead's music the way they wanted it heard has been in that category. And that is by design. Jerry Garcia once said "if you work really hard as an artist, you may be able to build something they can't tear down, you know, after you're gone... What I want to do is I want it here. I want it now, in this lifetime. I want what I enjoy to last as long as I do and not last any longer. You know, I don't want something that ends up being as much a nuisance as it is a work of art, you know?" And there's another difficulty. There are only two points in time where it makes sense to do a podcast episode on the Grateful Dead -- late 1967 and early 1968, when the San Francisco scene they were part of was at its most culturally relevant, and 1988 when they had their only top ten hit and gained their largest audience. I can't realistically leave them out of the story until 1988, so it has to be 1968. But the songs they are most remembered for are those they wrote between 1970 and 1972, and those songs are influenced by artists and events we haven't yet covered in the podcast, who will be getting their own episodes in the future. I can't explain those things in this episode, because they need whole episodes of their own. I can't not explain them without leaving out important context for the Grateful Dead. So the best I can do is treat the story I'm telling as if it were in Tralfamadorian time. All of it's happening all at once, and some of it is happening in different episodes that haven't been recorded yet. The podcast as a whole travels linearly from 1938 through to 1999, but this episode is happening in 1968 and 1972 and 1988 and 1995 and other times, all at once. Sometimes I'll talk about things as if you're already familiar with them, but they haven't happened yet in the story. Feel free to come unstuck in time and revisit this time after episode 167, and 172, and 176, and 192, and experience it again. So this has to be an experimental episode. It may well be an experiment that you think fails. If so, the next episode is likely to be far more to your taste, and much shorter than this or the last episode, two episodes that between them have to create a scaffolding on which will hang much of the rest of this podcast's narrative. I've finished my Grateful Dead script now. The next one I write is going to be fun: [Excerpt: Grateful Dead, "Dark Star"] Infrastructure means everything. How we get from place to place, how we transport goods, information, and ourselves, makes a big difference in how society is structured, and in the music we hear. For many centuries, the prime means of long-distance transport was by water -- sailing ships on the ocean, canal boats and steamboats for inland navigation -- and so folk songs talked about the ship as both means of escape, means of making a living, and in some senses as a trap. You'd go out to sea for adventure, or to escape your problems, but you'd find that the sea itself brought its own problems. Because of this we have a long, long tradition of sea shanties which are known throughout the world: [Excerpt: A. L. Lloyd, "Off to Sea Once More"] But in the nineteenth century, the railway was invented and, at least as far as travel within a landmass goes, it replaced the steamboat in the popular imaginary. Now the railway was how you got from place to place, and how you moved freight from one place to another. The railway brought freedom, and was an opportunity for outlaws, whether train robbers or a romanticised version of the hobo hopping onto a freight train and making his way to new lands and new opportunity. It was the train that brought soldiers home from wars, and the train that allowed the Great Migration of Black people from the South to the industrial North. There would still be songs about the riverboats, about how ol' man river keeps rolling along and about the big river Johnny Cash sang about, but increasingly they would be songs of the past, not the present. The train quickly replaced the steamboat in the iconography of what we now think of as roots music -- blues, country, folk, and early jazz music. Sometimes this was very literal. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" -- about a legendary train driver who would break the rules to make sure his train made the station on time, but who ended up sacrificing his own life to save his passengers in a train crash -- is based on "Alabamy Bound", which as we heard in the episode on "Stagger Lee", was about steamboats: [Excerpt: Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones"] In the early episodes of this podcast we heard many, many, songs about the railway. Louis Jordan saying "take me right back to the track, Jack", Rosetta Tharpe singing about how "this train don't carry no gamblers", the trickster freight train driver driving on the "Rock Island Line", the mystery train sixteen coaches long, the train that kept-a-rollin' all night long, the Midnight Special which the prisoners wished would shine its ever-loving light on them, and the train coming past Folsom Prison whose whistle makes Johnny Cash hang his head and cry. But by the 1960s, that kind of song had started to dry up. It would happen on occasion -- "People Get Ready" by the Impressions is the most obvious example of the train metaphor in an important sixties record -- but by the late sixties the train was no longer a symbol of freedom but of the past. In 1969 Harry Nilsson sang about how "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Any More", and in 1968 the Kinks sang about "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". When in 1968 Merle Haggard sang about a freight train, it was as a memory, of a child with hopes that ended up thwarted by reality and his own nature: [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"] And the reason for this was that there had been another shift, a shift that had started in the forties and accelerated in the late fifties but had taken a little time to ripple through the culture. Now the train had been replaced in the popular imaginary by motorised transport. Instead of hopping on a train without paying, if you had no money in your pocket you'd have to hitch-hike all the way. Freedom now meant individuality. The ultimate in freedom was the biker -- the Hell's Angels who could go anywhere, unburdened by anything -- and instead of goods being moved by freight train, increasingly they were being moved by truck drivers. By the mid-seventies, truck drivers took a central place in American life, and the most romantic way to live life was to live it on the road. On The Road was also the title of a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac, which was one of the first major signs of this cultural shift in America. Kerouac was writing about events in the late forties and early fifties, but his book was also a precursor of the sixties counterculture. He wrote the book on one continuous sheet of paper, as a stream of consciousness. Kerouac died in 1969 of an internal haemmorage brought on by too much alcohol consumption. So it goes. But the big key to this cultural shift was caused by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure spending bill that led to the construction of the modern American Interstate Highway system. This accelerated a program that had already started, of building much bigger, safer, faster roads. It also, as anyone who has read Robert Caro's The Power Broker knows, reinforced segregation and white flight. It did this both by making commuting into major cities from the suburbs easier -- thus allowing white people with more money to move further away from the cities and still work there -- and by bulldozing community spaces where Black people lived. More than a million people lost their homes and were forcibly moved, and orders of magnitude more lost their communities' parks and green spaces. And both as a result of deliberate actions and unconscious bigotry, the bulk of those affected were Black people -- who often found themselves, if they weren't forced to move, on one side of a ten-lane highway where the park used to be, with white people on the other side of the highway. The Federal-Aid Highway Act gave even more power to the unaccountable central planners like Robert Moses, the urban planner in New York who managed to become arguably the most powerful man in the city without ever getting elected, partly by slowly compromising away his early progressive ideals in the service of gaining more power. Of course, not every new highway was built through areas where poor Black people lived. Some were planned to go through richer areas for white people, just because you can't completely do away with geographical realities. For example one was planned to be built through part of San Francisco, a rich, white part. But the people who owned properties in that area had enough political power and clout to fight the development, and after nearly a decade of fighting it, the development was called off in late 1966. But over that time, many of the owners of the impressive buildings in the area had moved out, and they had no incentive to improve or maintain their properties while they were under threat of demolition, so many of them were rented out very cheaply. And when the beat community that Kerouac wrote about, many of whom had settled in San Francisco, grew too large and notorious for the area of the city they were in, North Beach, many of them moved to these cheap homes in a previously-exclusive area. The area known as Haight-Ashbury. [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Grayfolded"] Stories all have their starts, even stories told in Tralfamadorian time, although sometimes those starts are shrouded in legend. For example, the story of Scientology's start has been told many times, with different people claiming to have heard L. Ron Hubbard talk about how writing was a mug's game, and if you wanted to make real money, you needed to get followers, start a religion. Either he said this over and over and over again, to many different science fiction writers, or most science fiction writers of his generation were liars. Of course, the definition of a writer is someone who tells lies for money, so who knows? One of the more plausible accounts of him saying that is given by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon's account is more believable than most, because Sturgeon went on to be a supporter of Dianetics, the "new science" that Hubbard turned into his religion, for decades, even while telling the story. The story of the Grateful Dead probably starts as it ends, with Jerry Garcia. There are three things that everyone writing about the Dead says about Garcia's childhood, so we might as well say them here too. The first is that he was named by a music-loving father after Jerome Kern, the songwriter responsible for songs like "Ol' Man River" (though as Oscar Hammerstein's widow liked to point out, "Jerome Kern wrote dum-dum-dum-dum, *my husband* wrote 'Ol' Man River'" -- an important distinction we need to bear in mind when talking about songwriters who write music but not lyrics). The second is that when he was five years old that music-loving father drowned -- and Garcia would always say he had seen his father dying, though some sources claim this was a false memory. So it goes. And the third fact, which for some reason is always told after the second even though it comes before it chronologically, is that when he was four he lost two joints from his right middle finger. Garcia grew up a troubled teen, and in turn caused trouble for other people, but he also developed a few interests that would follow him through his life. He loved the fantastical, especially the fantastical macabre, and became an avid fan of horror and science fiction -- and through his love of old monster films he became enamoured with cinema more generally. Indeed, in 1983 he bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan, the first story in which the Tralfamadorians appear, and wrote a script based on it. He wanted to produce the film himself, with Francis Ford Coppola directing and Bill Murray starring, but most importantly for him he wanted to prevent anyone who didn't care about it from doing it badly. And in that he succeeded. As of 2023 there is no film of The Sirens of Titan. He loved to paint, and would continue that for the rest of his life, with one of his favourite subjects being Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. And when he was eleven or twelve, he heard for the first time a record that was hugely influential to a whole generation of Californian musicians, even though it was a New York record -- "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Garcia would say later "That was an important song. That was the first kind of, like where the voices had that kind of not-trained-singer voices, but tough-guy-on-the-street voice." That record introduced him to R&B, and soon he was listening to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to Ray Charles, and to a record we've not talked about in the podcast but which was one of the great early doo-wop records, "WPLJ" by the Four Deuces: [Excerpt: The Four Deuces, "WPLJ"] Garcia said of that record "That was one of my anthem songs when I was in junior high school and high school and around there. That was one of those songs everybody knew. And that everybody sang. Everybody sang that street-corner favorite." Garcia moved around a lot as a child, and didn't have much time for school by his own account, but one of the few teachers he did respect was an art teacher when he was in North Beach, Walter Hedrick. Hedrick was also one of the earliest of the conceptual artists, and one of the most important figures in the San Francisco arts scene that would become known as the Beat Generation (or the Beatniks, which was originally a disparaging term). Hedrick was a painter and sculptor, but also organised happenings, and he had also been one of the prime movers in starting a series of poetry readings in San Francisco, the first one of which had involved Allen Ginsberg giving the first ever reading of "Howl" -- one of a small number of poems, along with Eliot's "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" and possibly Pound's Cantos, which can be said to have changed twentieth-century literature. Garcia was fifteen when he got to know Hedrick, in 1957, and by then the Beat scene had already become almost a parody of itself, having become known to the public because of the publication of works like On the Road, and the major artists in the scene were already rejecting the label. By this point tourists were flocking to North Beach to see these beatniks they'd heard about on TV, and Hedrick was actually employed by one cafe to sit in the window wearing a beret, turtleneck, sandals, and beard, and draw and paint, to attract the tourists who flocked by the busload because they could see that there was a "genuine beatnik" in the cafe. Hedrick was, as well as a visual artist, a guitarist and banjo player who played in traditional jazz bands, and he would bring records in to class for his students to listen to, and Garcia particularly remembered him bringing in records by Big Bill Broonzy: [Excerpt: Big Bill Broonzy, "When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)"] Garcia was already an avid fan of rock and roll music, but it was being inspired by Hedrick that led him to get his first guitar. Like his contemporary Paul McCartney around the same time, he was initially given the wrong instrument as a birthday present -- in Garcia's case his mother gave him an accordion -- but he soon persuaded her to swap it for an electric guitar he saw in a pawn shop. And like his other contemporary, John Lennon, Garcia initially tuned his instrument incorrectly. He said later "When I started playing the guitar, believe me, I didn't know anybody that played. I mean, I didn't know anybody that played the guitar. Nobody. They weren't around. There were no guitar teachers. You couldn't take lessons. There was nothing like that, you know? When I was a kid and I had my first electric guitar, I had it tuned wrong and learned how to play on it with it tuned wrong for about a year. And I was getting somewhere on it, you know… Finally, I met a guy that knew how to tune it right and showed me three chords, and it was like a revelation. You know what I mean? It was like somebody gave me the key to heaven." He joined a band, the Chords, which mostly played big band music, and his friend Gary Foster taught him some of the rudiments of playing the guitar -- things like how to use a capo to change keys. But he was always a rebellious kid, and soon found himself faced with a choice between joining the military or going to prison. He chose the former, and it was during his time in the Army that a friend, Ron Stevenson, introduced him to the music of Merle Travis, and to Travis-style guitar picking: [Excerpt: Merle Travis, "Nine-Pound Hammer"] Garcia had never encountered playing like that before, but he instantly recognised that Travis, and Chet Atkins who Stevenson also played for him, had been an influence on Scotty Moore. He started to realise that the music he'd listened to as a teenager was influenced by music that went further back. But Stevenson, as well as teaching Garcia some of the rudiments of Travis-picking, also indirectly led to Garcia getting discharged from the Army. Stevenson was not a well man, and became suicidal. Garcia decided it was more important to keep his friend company and make sure he didn't kill himself than it was to turn up for roll call, and as a result he got discharged himself on psychiatric grounds -- according to Garcia he told the Army psychiatrist "I was involved in stuff that was more important to me in the moment than the army was and that was the reason I was late" and the psychiatrist thought it was neurotic of Garcia to have his own set of values separate from that of the Army. After discharge, Garcia did various jobs, including working as a transcriptionist for Lenny Bruce, the comedian who was a huge influence on the counterculture. In one of the various attacks over the years by authoritarians on language, Bruce was repeatedly arrested for obscenity, and in 1961 he was arrested at a jazz club in North Beach. Sixty years ago, the parts of speech that were being criminalised weren't pronouns, but prepositions and verbs: [Excerpt: Lenny Bruce, "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb"] That piece, indeed, was so controversial that when Frank Zappa quoted part of it in a song in 1968, the record label insisted on the relevant passage being played backwards so people couldn't hear such disgusting filth: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Harry You're a Beast"] (Anyone familiar with that song will understand that the censored portion is possibly the least offensive part of the whole thing). Bruce was facing trial, and he needed transcripts of what he had said in his recordings to present in court. Incidentally, there seems to be some confusion over exactly which of Bruce's many obscenity trials Garcia became a transcriptionist for. Dennis McNally says in his biography of the band, published in 2002, that it was the most famous of them, in autumn 1964, but in a later book, Jerry on Jerry, a book of interviews of Garcia edited by McNally, McNally talks about it being when Garcia was nineteen, which would mean it was Bruce's first trial, in 1961. We can put this down to the fact that many of the people involved, not least Garcia, lived in Tralfamadorian time, and were rather hazy on dates, but I'm placing the story here rather than in 1964 because it seems to make more sense that Garcia would be involved in a trial based on an incident in San Francisco than one in New York. Garcia got the job, even though he couldn't type, because by this point he'd spent so long listening to recordings of old folk and country music that he was used to transcribing indecipherable accents, and often, as Garcia would tell it, Bruce would mumble very fast and condense multiple syllables into one. Garcia was particularly impressed by Bruce's ability to improvise but talk in entire paragraphs, and he compared his use of language to bebop. Another thing that was starting to impress Garcia, and which he also compared to bebop, was bluegrass: [Excerpt: Bill Monroe, "Fire on the Mountain"] Bluegrass is a music that is often considered very traditional, because it's based on traditional songs and uses acoustic instruments, but in fact it was a terribly *modern* music, and largely a postwar creation of a single band -- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. And Garcia was right when he said it was "white bebop" -- though he did say "The only thing it doesn't have is the harmonic richness of bebop. You know what I mean? That's what it's missing, but it has everything else." Both bebop and bluegrass evolved after the second world war, though they were informed by music from before it, and both prized the ability to improvise, and technical excellence. Both are musics that involved playing *fast*, in an ensemble, and being able to respond quickly to the other musicians. Both musics were also intensely rhythmic, a response to a faster paced, more stressful world. They were both part of the general change in the arts towards immediacy that we looked at in the last episode with the creation first of expressionism and then of pop art. Bluegrass didn't go into the harmonic explorations that modern jazz did, but it was absolutely as modern as anything Charlie Parker was doing, and came from the same impulses. It was tradition and innovation, the past and the future simultaneously. Bill Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce were all in their own ways responding to the same cultural moment, and it was that which Garcia was responding to. But he didn't become able to play bluegrass until after a tragedy which shaped his life even more than his father's death had. Garcia had been to a party and was in a car with his friends Lee Adams, Paul Speegle, and Alan Trist. Adams was driving at ninety miles an hour when they hit a tight curve and crashed. Garcia, Adams, and Trist were all severely injured but survived. Speegle died. So it goes. This tragedy changed Garcia's attitudes totally. Of all his friends, Speegle was the one who was most serious about his art, and who treated it as something to work on. Garcia had always been someone who fundamentally didn't want to work or take any responsibility for anything. And he remained that way -- except for his music. Speegle's death changed Garcia's attitude to that, totally. If his friend wasn't going to be able to practice his own art any more, Garcia would practice his, in tribute to him. He resolved to become a virtuoso on guitar and banjo. His girlfriend of the time later said “I don't know if you've spent time with someone rehearsing ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown' on a banjo for eight hours, but Jerry practiced endlessly. He really wanted to excel and be the best. He had tremendous personal ambition in the musical arena, and he wanted to master whatever he set out to explore. Then he would set another sight for himself. And practice another eight hours a day of new licks.” But of course, you can't make ensemble music on your own: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia and Bob Hunter, "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (including end)] "Evelyn said, “What is it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?” Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. “Love,” she said at length." That's from More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, a book I'll be quoting a few more times as the story goes on. Robert Hunter, like Garcia, was just out of the military -- in his case, the National Guard -- and he came into Garcia's life just after Paul Speegle had left it. Garcia and Alan Trist met Hunter ten days after the accident, and the three men started hanging out together, Trist and Hunter writing while Garcia played music. Garcia and Hunter both bonded over their shared love for the beats, and for traditional music, and the two formed a duo, Bob and Jerry, which performed together a handful of times. They started playing together, in fact, after Hunter picked up a guitar and started playing a song and halfway through Garcia took it off him and finished the song himself. The two of them learned songs from the Harry Smith Anthology -- Garcia was completely apolitical, and only once voted in his life, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to keep Goldwater out, and regretted even doing that, and so he didn't learn any of the more political material people like Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan were doing at the time -- but their duo only lasted a short time because Hunter wasn't an especially good guitarist. Hunter would, though, continue to jam with Garcia and other friends, sometimes playing mandolin, while Garcia played solo gigs and with other musicians as well, playing and moving round the Bay Area and performing with whoever he could: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia, "Railroad Bill"] "Bleshing, that was Janie's word. She said Baby told it to her. She said it meant everyone all together being something, even if they all did different things. Two arms, two legs, one body, one head, all working together, although a head can't walk and arms can't think. Lone said maybe it was a mixture of “blending” and “meshing,” but I don't think he believed that himself. It was a lot more than that." That's from More Than Human In 1961, Garcia and Hunter met another young musician, but one who was interested in a very different type of music. Phil Lesh was a serious student of modern classical music, a classically-trained violinist and trumpeter whose interest was solidly in the experimental and whose attitude can be summed up by a story that's always told about him meeting his close friend Tom Constanten for the first time. Lesh had been talking with someone about serialism, and Constanten had interrupted, saying "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950". Lesh just stuck out his hand, recognising a kindred spirit. Lesh and Constanten were both students of Luciano Berio, the experimental composer who created compositions for magnetic tape: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti"] Berio had been one of the founders of the Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano, a studio for producing contemporary electronic music where John Cage had worked for a time, and he had also worked with the electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lesh would later remember being very impressed when Berio brought a tape into the classroom -- the actual multitrack tape for Stockhausen's revolutionary piece Gesang Der Juenglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang Der Juenglinge"] Lesh at first had been distrustful of Garcia -- Garcia was charismatic and had followers, and Lesh never liked people like that. But he was impressed by Garcia's playing, and soon realised that the two men, despite their very different musical interests, had a lot in common. Lesh was interested in the technology of music as well as in performing and composing it, and so when he wasn't studying he helped out by engineering at the university's radio station. Lesh was impressed by Garcia's playing, and suggested to the presenter of the station's folk show, the Midnight Special, that Garcia be a guest. Garcia was so good that he ended up getting an entire solo show to himself, where normally the show would feature multiple acts. Lesh and Constanten soon moved away from the Bay Area to Las Vegas, but both would be back -- in Constanten's case he would form an experimental group in San Francisco with their fellow student Steve Reich, and that group (though not with Constanten performing) would later premiere Terry Riley's In C, a piece influenced by La Monte Young and often considered one of the great masterpieces of minimalist music. By early 1962 Garcia and Hunter had formed a bluegrass band, with Garcia on guitar and banjo and Hunter on mandolin, and a rotating cast of other musicians including Ken Frankel, who played banjo and fiddle. They performed under different names, including the Tub Thumpers, the Hart Valley Drifters, and the Sleepy Valley Hog Stompers, and played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time music -- and were very careful about the distinction: [Excerpt: The Hart Valley Drifters, "Cripple Creek"] In 1993, the Republican political activist John Perry Barlow was invited to talk to the CIA about the possibilities open to them with what was then called the Information Superhighway. He later wrote, in part "They told me they'd brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site... We told them that information exchange was a barter system, and that to receive, one must also be willing to share. This was an alien notion to them. They weren't even willing to share information among themselves, much less the world." 1962 brought a new experience for Robert Hunter. Hunter had been recruited into taking part in psychological tests at Stanford University, which in the sixties and seventies was one of the preeminent universities for psychological experiments. As part of this, Hunter was given $140 to attend the VA hospital (where a janitor named Ken Kesey, who had himself taken part in a similar set of experiments a couple of years earlier, worked a day job while he was working on his first novel) for four weeks on the run, and take different psychedelic drugs each time, starting with LSD, so his reactions could be observed. (It was later revealed that these experiments were part of a CIA project called MKUltra, designed to investigate the possibility of using psychedelic drugs for mind control, blackmail, and torture. Hunter was quite lucky in that he was told what was going to happen to him and paid for his time. Other subjects included the unlucky customers of brothels the CIA set up as fronts -- they dosed the customers' drinks and observed them through two-way mirrors. Some of their experimental subjects died by suicide as a result of their experiences. So it goes. ) Hunter was interested in taking LSD after reading Aldous Huxley's writings about psychedelic substances, and he brought his typewriter along to the experiment. During the first test, he wrote a six-page text, a short excerpt from which is now widely quoted, reading in part "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells" Hunter's experience led to everyone in their social circle wanting to try LSD, and soon they'd all come to the same conclusion -- this was something special. But Garcia needed money -- he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, and they'd married (this would be the first of several marriages in Garcia's life, and I won't be covering them all -- at Garcia's funeral, his second wife, Carolyn, said Garcia always called her the love of his life, and his first wife and his early-sixties girlfriend who he proposed to again in the nineties both simultaneously said "He said that to me!"). So he started teaching guitar at a music shop in Palo Alto. Hunter had no time for Garcia's incipient domesticity and thought that his wife was trying to make him live a conventional life, and the two drifted apart somewhat, though they'd still play together occasionally. Through working at the music store, Garcia got to know the manager, Troy Weidenheimer, who had a rock and roll band called the Zodiacs. Garcia joined the band on bass, despite that not being his instrument. He later said "Troy was a lot of fun, but I wasn't good enough a musician then to have been able to deal with it. I was out of my idiom, really, 'cause when I played with Troy I was playing electric bass, you know. I never was a good bass player. Sometimes I was playing in the wrong key and didn't even [fuckin'] know it. I couldn't hear that low, after playing banjo, you know, and going to electric...But Troy taught me the principle of, hey, you know, just stomp your foot and get on it. He was great. A great one for the instant arrangement, you know. And he was also fearless for that thing of get your friends to do it." Garcia's tenure in the Zodiacs didn't last long, nor did this experiment with rock and roll, but two other members of the Zodiacs will be notable later in the story -- the harmonica player, an old friend of Garcia's named Ron McKernan, who would soon gain the nickname Pig Pen after the Peanuts character, and the drummer, Bill Kreutzmann: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Drums/Space (Skull & Bones version)"] Kreutzmann said of the Zodiacs "Jerry was the hired bass player and I was the hired drummer. I only remember playing that one gig with them, but I was in way over my head. I always did that. I always played things that were really hard and it didn't matter. I just went for it." Garcia and Kreutzmann didn't really get to know each other then, but Garcia did get to know someone else who would soon be very important in his life. Bob Weir was from a very different background than Garcia, though both had the shared experience of long bouts of chronic illness as children. He had grown up in a very wealthy family, and had always been well-liked, but he was what we would now call neurodivergent -- reading books about the band he talks about being dyslexic but clearly has other undiagnosed neurodivergences, which often go along with dyslexia -- and as a result he was deemed to have behavioural problems which led to him getting expelled from pre-school and kicked out of the cub scouts. He was never academically gifted, thanks to his dyslexia, but he was always enthusiastic about music -- to a fault. He learned to play boogie piano but played so loudly and so often his parents sold the piano. He had a trumpet, but the neighbours complained about him playing it outside. Finally he switched to the guitar, an instrument with which it is of course impossible to make too loud a noise. The first song he learned was the Kingston Trio's version of an old sea shanty, "The Wreck of the John B": [Excerpt: The Kingston Trio, "The Wreck of the John B"] He was sent off to a private school in Colorado for teenagers with behavioural issues, and there he met the boy who would become his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow. Unfortunately the two troublemakers got on with each other *so* well that after their first year they were told that it was too disruptive having both of them at the school, and only one could stay there the next year. Barlow stayed and Weir moved back to the Bay Area. By this point, Weir was getting more interested in folk music that went beyond the commercial folk of the Kingston Trio. As he said later "There was something in there that was ringing my bells. What I had grown up thinking of as hillbilly music, it started to have some depth for me, and I could start to hear the music in it. Suddenly, it wasn't just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies playing what they could. There was some depth and expertise and stuff like that to aspire to.” He moved from school to school but one thing that stayed with him was his love of playing guitar, and he started taking lessons from Troy Weidenheimer, but he got most of his education going to folk clubs and hootenannies. He regularly went to the Tangent, a club where Garcia played, but Garcia's bluegrass banjo playing was far too rigorous for a free spirit like Weir to emulate, and instead he started trying to copy one of the guitarists who was a regular there, Jorma Kaukonnen. On New Year's Eve 1963 Weir was out walking with his friends Bob Matthews and Rich Macauley, and they passed the music shop where Garcia was a teacher, and heard him playing his banjo. They knocked and asked if they could come in -- they all knew Garcia a little, and Bob Matthews was one of his students, having become interested in playing banjo after hearing the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies, played by the bluegrass greats Flatt and Scruggs: [Excerpt: Flatt and Scruggs, "The Beverly Hillbillies"] Garcia at first told these kids, several years younger than him, that they couldn't come in -- he was waiting for his students to show up. But Weir said “Jerry, listen, it's seven-thirty on New Year's Eve, and I don't think you're going to be seeing your students tonight.” Garcia realised the wisdom of this, and invited the teenagers in to jam with him. At the time, there was a bit of a renaissance in jug bands, as we talked about back in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful. This was a form of music that had grown up in the 1920s, and was similar and related to skiffle and coffee-pot bands -- jug bands would tend to have a mixture of portable string instruments like guitars and banjos, harmonicas, and people using improvised instruments, particularly blowing into a jug. The most popular of these bands had been Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, led by banjo player Gus Cannon and with harmonica player Noah Lewis: [Excerpt: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Viola Lee Blues"] With the folk revival, Cannon's work had become well-known again. The Rooftop Singers, a Kingston Trio style folk group, had had a hit with his song "Walk Right In" in 1963, and as a result of that success Cannon had even signed a record contract with Stax -- Stax's first album ever, a month before Booker T and the MGs' first album, was in fact the eighty-year-old Cannon playing his banjo and singing his old songs. The rediscovery of Cannon had started a craze for jug bands, and the most popular of the new jug bands was Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, which did a mixture of old songs like "You're a Viper" and more recent material redone in the old style. Weir, Matthews, and Macauley had been to see the Kweskin band the night before, and had been very impressed, especially by their singer Maria D'Amato -- who would later marry her bandmate Geoff Muldaur and take his name -- and her performance of Leiber and Stoller's "I'm a Woman": [Excerpt: Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, "I'm a Woman"] Matthews suggested that they form their own jug band, and Garcia eagerly agreed -- though Matthews found himself rapidly moving from banjo to washboard to kazoo to second kazoo before realising he was surplus to requirements. Robert Hunter was similarly an early member but claimed he "didn't have the embouchure" to play the jug, and was soon also out. He moved to LA and started studying Scientology -- later claiming that he wanted science-fictional magic powers, which L. Ron Hubbard's new religion certainly offered. The group took the name Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions -- apparently they varied the spelling every time they played -- and had a rotating membership that at one time or another included about twenty different people, but tended always to have Garcia on banjo, Weir on jug and later guitar, and Garcia's friend Pig Pen on harmonica: [Excerpt: Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions, "On the Road Again"] The group played quite regularly in early 1964, but Garcia's first love was still bluegrass, and he was trying to build an audience with his bluegrass band, The Black Mountain Boys. But bluegrass was very unpopular in the Bay Area, where it was simultaneously thought of as unsophisticated -- as "hillbilly music" -- and as elitist, because it required actual instrumental ability, which wasn't in any great supply in the amateur folk scene. But instrumental ability was something Garcia definitely had, as at this point he was still practising eight hours a day, every day, and it shows on the recordings of the Black Mountain Boys: [Excerpt: The Black Mountain Boys, "Rosa Lee McFall"] By the summer, Bob Weir was also working at the music shop, and so Garcia let Weir take over his students while he and the Black Mountain Boys' guitarist Sandy Rothman went on a road trip to see as many bluegrass musicians as they could and to audition for Bill Monroe himself. As it happened, Garcia found himself too shy to audition for Monroe, but Rothman later ended up playing with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. On his return to the Bay Area, Garcia resumed playing with the Uptown Jug Champions, but Pig Pen started pestering him to do something different. While both men had overlapping tastes in music and a love for the blues, Garcia's tastes had always been towards the country end of the spectrum while Pig Pen's were towards R&B. And while the Uptown Jug Champions were all a bit disdainful of the Beatles at first -- apart from Bob Weir, the youngest of the group, who thought they were interesting -- Pig Pen had become enamoured of another British band who were just starting to make it big: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Not Fade Away"] 29) Garcia liked the first Rolling Stones album too, and he eventually took Pig Pen's point -- the stuff that the Rolling Stones were doing, covers of Slim Harpo and Buddy Holly, was not a million miles away from the material they were doing as Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions. Pig Pen could play a little electric organ, Bob had been fooling around with the electric guitars in the music shop. Why not give it a go? The stuff bands like the Rolling Stones were doing wasn't that different from the electric blues that Pig Pen liked, and they'd all seen A Hard Day's Night -- they could carry on playing with banjos, jugs, and kazoos and have the respect of a handful of folkies, or they could get electric instruments and potentially have screaming girls and millions of dollars, while playing the same songs. This was a convincing argument, especially when Dana Morgan Jr, the son of the owner of the music shop, told them they could have free electric instruments if they let him join on bass. Morgan wasn't that great on bass, but what the hell, free instruments. Pig Pen had the best voice and stage presence, so he became the frontman of the new group, singing most of the leads, though Jerry and Bob would both sing a few songs, and playing harmonica and organ. Weir was on rhythm guitar, and Garcia was the lead guitarist and obvious leader of the group. They just needed a drummer, and handily Bill Kreutzmann, who had played with Garcia and Pig Pen in the Zodiacs, was also now teaching music at the music shop. Not only that, but about three weeks before they decided to go electric, Kreutzmann had seen the Uptown Jug Champions performing and been astonished by Garcia's musicianship and charisma, and said to himself "Man, I'm gonna follow that guy forever!" The new group named themselves the Warlocks, and started rehearsing in earnest. Around this time, Garcia also finally managed to get some of the LSD that his friend Robert Hunter had been so enthusiastic about three years earlier, and it was a life-changing experience for him. In particular, he credited LSD with making him comfortable being a less disciplined player -- as a bluegrass player he'd had to be frighteningly precise, but now he was playing rock and needed to loosen up. A few days after taking LSD for the first time, Garcia also heard some of Bob Dylan's new material, and realised that the folk singer he'd had little time for with his preachy politics was now making electric music that owed a lot more to the Beat culture Garcia considered himself part of: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"] Another person who was hugely affected by hearing that was Phil Lesh, who later said "I couldn't believe that was Bob Dylan on AM radio, with an electric band. It changed my whole consciousness: if something like that could happen, the sky was the limit." Up to that point, Lesh had been focused entirely on his avant-garde music, working with friends like Steve Reich to push music forward, inspired by people like John Cage and La Monte Young, but now he realised there was music of value in the rock world. He'd quickly started going to rock gigs, seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds, and then he took acid and went to see his friend Garcia's new electric band play their third ever gig. He was blown away, and very quickly it was decided that Lesh would be the group's new bass player -- though everyone involved tells a different story as to who made the decision and how it came about, and accounts also vary as to whether Dana Morgan took his sacking gracefully and let his erstwhile bandmates keep their instruments, or whether they had to scrounge up some new ones. Lesh had never played bass before, but he was a talented multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of music and an ability to compose and improvise, and the repertoire the Warlocks were playing in the early days was mostly three-chord material that doesn't take much rehearsal -- though it was apparently beyond the abilities of poor Dana Morgan, who apparently had to be told note-by-note what to play by Garcia, and learn it by rote. Garcia told Lesh what notes the strings of a bass were tuned to, told him to borrow a guitar and practice, and within two weeks he was on stage with the Warlocks: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, “Grayfolded"] In September 1995, just weeks after Jerry Garcia's death, an article was published in Mute magazine identifying a cultural trend that had shaped the nineties, and would as it turned out shape at least the next thirty years. It's titled "The Californian Ideology", though it may be better titled "The Bay Area Ideology", and it identifies a worldview that had grown up in Silicon Valley, based around the ideas of the hippie movement, of right-wing libertarianism, of science fiction authors, and of Marshall McLuhan. It starts "There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless. The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete." [Excerpt: Grayfolded] The Warlocks' first gig with Phil Lesh on bass was on June the 18th 1965, at a club called Frenchy's with a teenage clientele. Lesh thought his playing had been wooden and it wasn't a good gig, and apparently the management of Frenchy's agreed -- they were meant to play a second night there, but turned up to be told they'd been replaced by a band with an accordion and clarinet. But by September the group had managed to get themselves a residency at a small bar named the In Room, and playing there every night made them cohere. They were at this point playing the kind of sets that bar bands everywhere play to this day, though at the time the songs they were playing, like "Gloria" by Them and "In the Midnight Hour", were the most contemporary of hits. Another song that they introduced into their repertoire was "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, another band which had grown up out of former jug band musicians. As well as playing their own sets, they were also the house band at The In Room and as such had to back various touring artists who were the headline acts. The first act they had to back up was Cornell Gunter's version of the Coasters. Gunter had brought his own guitarist along as musical director, and for the first show Weir sat in the audience watching the show and learning the parts, staring intently at this musical director's playing. After seeing that, Weir's playing was changed, because he also picked up how the guitarist was guiding the band while playing, the small cues that a musical director will use to steer the musicians in the right direction. Weir started doing these things himself when he was singing lead -- Pig Pen was the frontman but everyone except Bill sang sometimes -- and the group soon found that rather than Garcia being the sole leader, now whoever was the lead singer for the song was the de facto conductor as well. By this point, the Bay Area was getting almost overrun with people forming electric guitar bands, as every major urban area in America was. Some of the bands were even having hits already -- We Five had had a number three hit with "You Were On My Mind", a song which had originally been performed by the folk duo Ian and Sylvia: [Excerpt: We Five, "You Were On My Mind"] Although the band that was most highly regarded on the scene, the Charlatans, was having problems with the various record companies they tried to get signed to, and didn't end up making a record until 1969. If tracks like "Number One" had been released in 1965 when they were recorded, the history of the San Francisco music scene may have taken a very different turn: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "Number One"] Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were also forming, and Autumn Records was having a run of success with records by the Beau Brummels, whose records were produced by Autumn's in-house A&R man, Sly Stone: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Warlocks were somewhat cut off from this, playing in a dive bar whose clientele was mostly depressed alcoholics. But the fact that they were playing every night for an audience that didn't care much gave them freedom, and they used that freedom to improvise. Both Lesh and Garcia were big fans of John Coltrane, and they started to take lessons from his style of playing. When the group played "Gloria" or "Midnight Hour" or whatever, they started to extend the songs and give themselves long instrumental passages for soloing. Garcia's playing wasn't influenced *harmonically* by Coltrane -- in fact Garcia was always a rather harmonically simple player. He'd tend to play lead lines either in Mixolydian mode, which is one of the most standard modes in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, or he'd play the notes of the chord that was being played, so if the band were playing a G chord his lead would emphasise the notes G, B, and D. But what he was influenced by was Coltrane's tendency to improvise in long, complex, phrases that made up a single thought -- Coltrane was thinking musically in paragraphs, rather than sentences, and Garcia started to try the same kind of th

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Room 5
5: Gavanndra

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 28:53


‘When I wasn't high, I felt very sad and very scared.' Twenty years on, Gavanndra is struggling to make sense of a childhood trauma. Then she meets a psychologist who has an idea. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
8. Helena

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:41


‘It's like being trapped in a room with a terrifying creature.' A few months after her son was born, Helena realises something is wrong. Her search for answers leads to a difficult decision. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
7. Andrea

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:38


‘My inbox on instagram was full of women saying thank you so much.' The pain began when Andrea was a teenager. When she was given a diagnosis, she wanted to find a way of explaining it to the world. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal

Room 5
6. Jordan

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:15


‘A light breeze can quickly turn into a desert storm.' On his last day of the school year, 17-year-old Jordan starts seeing and hearing the world differently. Hours later, he's in a police station, struggling to hold onto himself before his mind unravels. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
2: Jon

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:13


‘It was unbelievably painful - I probably used a few Anglo-Saxon words.' Jon is at Peppa Pig World with his family when he notices something very unusual about his body. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Additional research: Ruby Gregory Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
4: Joel

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 28:53


‘I stare at my own reflection, trying to remind myself that I'm not dead.' Joel never understood why he felt different to other people. Then a revelation in India sets him on a journey to find answers. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
3: Serena

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:06


‘I wiped my tears away and had to carry on with the party.' When Serena is given an unexpected diagnosis, she has to make a life-changing decision. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
1: Bex

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:51


‘He was interested in why I was so attached to this penguin' Bex is at university when she starts feeling anxious and overwhelmed. As Bex deteriorates, doctors are in a race against time to diagnose her. And that's where the penguin comes in. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 With special thanks to Rachel Roberts, principal viola with the LSO End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
8. Helena

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:41


‘It's like being trapped in a room with a terrifying creature.' A few months after her son was born, Helena realises something is wrong. Her search for answers leads to a difficult decision. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
2: Jon

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:13


‘It was unbelievably painful - I probably used a few Anglo-Saxon words.' Jon is at Peppa Pig World with his family when he notices something very unusual about his body. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Additional research: Ruby Gregory Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
3: Serena

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:06


‘I wiped my tears away and had to carry on with the party.' When Serena is given an unexpected diagnosis, she has to make a life-changing decision. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
4: Joel

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 28:53


‘I stare at my own reflection, trying to remind myself that I'm not dead.' Joel never understood why he felt different to other people. Then a revelation in India sets him on a journey to find answers. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
5: Gavanndra

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 28:53


‘When I wasn't high, I felt very sad and very scared.' Twenty years on, Gavanndra is struggling to make sense of a childhood trauma. Then she meets a psychologist who has an idea. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
6. Jordan

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:15


‘A light breeze can quickly turn into a desert storm.' On his last day of the school year, 17-year-old Jordan starts seeing and hearing the world differently. Hours later, he's in a police station, struggling to hold onto himself before his mind unravels. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Room 5
7. Andrea

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:38


‘My inbox on instagram was full of women saying thank you so much.' The pain began when Andrea was a teenager. When she was given a diagnosis, she wanted to find a way of explaining it to the world. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Steve Bond Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal

Room 5
1: Bex

Room 5

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 29:51


‘He was interested in why I was so attached to this penguin' Bex is at university when she starts feeling anxious and overwhelmed. As Bex deteriorates, doctors are in a race against time to diagnose her. And that's where the penguin comes in. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 With special thanks to Rachel Roberts, principal viola with the LSO End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

Seriously…
Room 5 - Episode 1

Seriously…

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2022 30:11


‘He was interested in why I was so attached to this penguin' Bex is at university when she starts feeling anxious and overwhelmed. As Bex deteriorates, doctors are in a race against time to diagnose her. And that's where the penguin comes in. In Room 5, Helena Merriman interviews people who - like her - were changed by a diagnosis. Written, presented and produced by Helena Merriman Composer: Jeremy Warmsley Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Emma Rippon Commissioning Editor: Richard Knight #Room5 With special thanks to Rachel Roberts, principal viola with the LSO End song: Miffed by Tom Rosenthal If you have a story you'd like to share you can email: room5@bbc.co.uk

The Backrooms Podcast
Room 3 - How to Get Lost in a Game's Atmosphere

The Backrooms Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2021 91:27


Video Games have the unique ability to provide an experience that other forms of media cannot. In Room 3, the boys discuss the different and unique avenues that game developers take to share their story and help a player not only follow that story, but truly experience it. Every game and every developer has a story to tell, and how that story is portrayed can either build on, or detract from the experience. But with so many different types of games, between open world adventure games, to linear First-person Shooters, what is the best way to tell that story to the player? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Anerzählt
Room 237 =^_^=

Anerzählt

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2021 12:57


"The shining" ist ein Roman von Steven King und der vielleicht erfolgreichste Film in der Folmografie von Jack Nicholson. Dabei hat die Verfilmung von Stanley Kubrick manches anders gemacht als der berühmte Thrillerautor gerne gehabt hätte. In Room 237 spielten sich jedenfalls in Buch wie Film manche gruselige Szenen ab...

The Misadventures of Rugged Fox

In Room 2, Rugged's feet dangle over the hospital bed as he waits to see a Doctor who may or may not become his first husband. Spoiler alert: He does not.

Today's Episode
Room 104 (S04E03)

Today's Episode

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2020 20:46


In Room 104, Dave Bautista guest stars as Raw Dog Avalanche, a weathered ex-WWE fighter who comes to grips with a past trauma. We review the story, give our thoughts on the show, and talk about some other known Duplass projects.

Room 42
Scalable Localization and the Psychology of Usability and Design

Room 42

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2020 50:48


Kirk St.Amant is a Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair of Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University, and he is also the Director of Louisiana Tech’s newly formed Center for Health and Medical Communication. His research focuses on the psychology of usability and applying cognitive models to understand audience expectations and user preferences in different settings. In Room 42, he’ll be discussing prior work he has done in examining psychology, usability, and design and talk about a new approach he’s been working with, called “scalable usability,” in which he combines ideas from intercultural communication with concepts from cognitive psychology to identify usability expectations in different contexts.

Room 42
Why Audience Contexts Matter to Content Creators

Room 42

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 47:29


Lisa Melonçon is a Professor of Technical and Professional Communication at the University of South Florida and incoming interim department chair in English. Her research focuses on programmatic issues in technical and professional communication as well as in user experience specific to health and medical settings. In Room 42, she'll be discussing a longitudinal research project (Patient Experience Design) on information design and patient education materials that has led to new insights into how technical communicators can understand foundational concepts of audience and contexts.

Fix CPTSD Podcast | Psychology and Philosophy in Narcissistic Times with Richard Grannon

Self-love affected by abuse, what is going on in the abusive parent's child's head and how that shapes the idea of love? (00:02) Getting Started (00:16) What's In Room 101? (04:33) If Your Parents Didn't Love You, Then You Have No Model For Self-love (08:33) How Childhood Abuse Works (12:35) What Does It Mean That God Is Dead? (17:13) Nietzsche's Quote Q&A (20:25) "What's in room 101 for you, Richard? part 1 (25:19) "What's in room 101 for you, Richard? part 2 (30:32) "You're still doing the same job, but it's emotional instead of physical, don't you agree? (36:24) "My sister and I were tight, but now she has completely turned like my narc mom. How do I deal with this? (38:39) "I'm still struggling with a definition of self-compassion and all that entails. Can you more clearly define what that means? (43:16) "I accept my bad choices in men come from upbringing. Where do I go now? (46:57) "How do I differentiate between intuition and emotional flashbacks? part 1 (52:30) "How do I differentiate between intuition and emotional flashbacks? part 2 (57:42) "How do I differentiate between intuition and emotional flashbacks? part 3 (1:00:17) "Do you have any advice for how to interview a counselor? part 1 (1:06:16) "Do you have any advice for how to interview a counselor? part 2 (1:11:32) "Is dreaming memories the same thing as an emotional flashback? (1:14:40) "I've stopped thinking about my ex 24/7, but he pops up in my dreams. Do you think this is a good thing like my subconscious is filtering the crap in my brain? (1:18:22) "I feel like I really love people. Honestly it would not be a big shocker if they just suddenly tried to hurt me or walked out of my life. Is that me really loving them? How can I love them if I have to expect them to betray me?

Golden Classics Great OTR Shows
Room to Let (Margery Allingham) (British Drama)

Golden Classics Great OTR Shows

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 53:50


In "Room to Let," Margery Allingham's only radio play, a new lodger who behaves strangely unsettles a widow and her daughter, and the outcome of the case baffles seasoned investigators.

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Amplevoicepod
Frumpy Dumpster (Part 1 of 4) 'Old Bruiser'

Amplevoicepod

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2020 17:57


(Daytime TV channel hopping) “Before she’d get depressed…” “…exciting episode of…” “Leo! Leo the Lion, and Leo, he makes it safe here. Lion Productions provides quality cinematic products that inspire, innovate and entertain… It’s Leo the Lion…” (Advert) “Have you been burned alive and need compensation? Well phone us now on nought-nought-nought-two-six-four-eight-thousand, that’s right; nought-nought-nought-two-six-four-eight-thousand! Terms and conditions apply.” Hi yaaa! All men are wankers. You know that? Well as a wife, a mother, a worker, and a lover. I know. My name’s Lindor. And I am a frumpy dumpster. And I’m going to my school reunion if it’s the last thing I do. But this bottle of Pimms and this box of Solpadine… don’t want me to leave the house!               I hadn’t spoken to anyone in ages. I’d become a bit of a recluse. So when I got an email from old flame Leo Hancock, from St. Saville’s vocational school, the years disappeared and I was right back in 1991. In Room 4 upstairs, at the blackboard. Fooling around with long-haired Mr Heavy Metal himself, Floyd Taylor. The natural light shone in as I pulled the duster away from him. I was laughing. He blew chalk dust from the shelf at me.  I wasn’t messing you know, I wasn’t messing. It wasn’t the duster, I said. “Ahm… What?” Floyd replied, confused, tugging at his ruby-coloured jumper. It wasn’t the duster why I came here… you don’t believe me do you? You don’t believe me do you? I repeated. “Ok-aay” he answered. When I was trying to get the duster off you, I wasn’t sure of what was going to happen next. “Same here”, he said, “I felt like doing something, but was afraid of the reaction”. I looked at Floyd. Oh, so did I, I wanted to, but…. “Oh, don’t do this to me” he said. I know…, I answered. “You’re being cruel now. I could’ve… jus’ cruel…” he said. I looked him in the eyes and said: It’s not cruel. And stared. I think Floyd was aroused. “What about now”? he asked. Yep, I replied. Then we kissed. It was so electric. Even more so when I opened my eyes to see Leo watching us at the door. Me knickers were in floods.  “You don’t know how long I’ve wanted this” Floyd said. I’ve wanted it too, I answered. There were so many boys in St. Saville’s back then. Floyd Taylor. Leo Hancock at Looseholes disco, Zuberi Jelani because his Dad ran a chip shop and he had a car an’, an’ many more since, that I don’t want to count. Never mind the other admirers, like Payter Mayhem and Sean Wrigley. But they were much older and they should’ve known better! I mean I was only 25 at the time when I was still working out at the ‘Charry Marry’ Fun park. I was crying because my husband Michael dropped me off at the entrance, taunting my weight as usual. “Fuckin’ fat cunt! If ya actually ran around lookin’ after the children ya might lose some kilos, ya lazy thick cunt!” The ‘Old Bruiser’ himself, up to his usual put downs and insults. I slammed the car door and got the keys from the reception to open up the park toilets. But janey mack! You wouldn’t believe this! The fun park owner Payter Mayhem was wanking over a huge photocopy of my Charry Marry application picture. A big A3 colour picture of me! Well, holy god now! I was so shocked, the buckles on my dungarees blew off! Now I thought I was a decent looking girl at 25 then, but to find my boss tossing off to a huge picture of me when I applied to the park aged 12, was well, a bit sick. I didn’t wait for the apology. No sir-ee! I ran out of the toilet with Payter falling over his cords halfway down! I ran up to my parent’s home across the road from the park and phoned my husband. But he was at his anger management. “Don’t fuckin’ interrupt me you stupid bitch, you know this drives me mental! (farts)” So I found solace in my old Jane Fonda videos in my bedroom. They helped reduce the love-handles after my babies: Rooster… Jarvis… and Leona... I switched Jane on, tried to work out but I nearly tore the neck off meself! “Come on girl, burn those calories!” After a good cry I switched off Jane, changed out of my denim dungarees and put on my favourite green floral dress with frilly cuffs… Strapped on the black heels and cycled into Ratchly, “Get out of the way ya fat bitch!” … to buy some comfort food off Sorcha at the Hungry Hippo. I chained the bike outside. In I went. Bottle of Bordeaux, Jaffa Cakes. Tub of Haagen-Dazs. £8.91, yeah I know exactly how much it costs Sorcha, thanks love, here’s a tenner, put the rest in the St. Saville’s Fundraiser box. Bye yaaa hun! But that reminded me. I hadn’t been in to see the old place since we graduated 7 years ago! Frumpy Dumpster is an Amplevoicepod feature-length Ear-film. A podcast with bite. The fateful story of Lindor Lamb, a middle-aged woman who has just about had enough of men. As a young woman, those were naive care-free days for Lindor, until that is when she encountered Payter Mayhem at Charry Marry Fun Park and school headmaster Sean Wrigley. Further anguish was caused by her husband, the 'Old Bruiser' himself. Frumpy Dumpster is a feature-length explicit and sometime farcical story from Amplevoicepod. We create original, scripted, character & plot-driven comedy dramas. We construct fully immersive HD audio adventures. More than just a podcast, we are the Voice of Pod.

Amplevoicepod
UCLS I - (Part 5 of 5) - 'The Virgin Cometh'

Amplevoicepod

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2019 25:27


George: Cash was paid. The lurid Tash is to be laid. Or so he believes as the 'science building annex 3 room 2' is the deflowering destination. Come the morrow, UCLS provost Broadleaf O’Hara sits fretfully in Crawton Hall, awaiting the town council vote on Al-Fajar’s rezone-er-ing. (Crowd murmur in hall) Broadleaf: Healthy turn out Mr Tash don’t you think? Tash: …ehm what Broadleaf? Broadleaf: I know, I know, I’m so nervous too truth be told. Tash: Nervous? Broadleaf: The town council votes will be in and we will soon hear if Mehfooz Alfajar won the tender for the Parnell Park site. Tash: Oh yis that… yis, yis of course. Broadleaf: Are you with me Norman? Tash: I’m sorry? Mnnn? What? Broadleaf: What’s with you Norman? You seem miles away, I’m beginning to wonder where your allegiances are these days. Tash: You think I’m trying to stab you in the back? Broadleaf: What? No, no! I never said that. Tash: I’m not trying to stab you in the back, in fact I am right behind you. Broadleaf: Glad to hear it Norman. We’ve a lot to lose if Mehfooz gets his way and the boundary change is upheld. Keith: Quite the gathering Provost O’Hara. I hope we have good news to offer the hordes. Broadleaf: What did you say? Ace: A drink sirs? We have some green tea, water, or if you wish, some wine? Keith: Oh, it’s the prince of neck accessories. I’ll have a white wine. Tash: I hope you learn something from tonight Ace… Ace: I hope so sir. Water for you? Tash: Thank you. Where’s Floyd and Raymond? Ace: Eh, Floyd is taking in the coats and Raymond is sorting out the left handed jackets from the right handed ones. Tash: I see. Good. Keith: (Snigger) Bastard… Broadleaf: Ok, let’s begin. (Switch on microphone) Broadleaf: Testing, testing, 1,2,3… George: At that very samely time, at the very largely big entrance gates. Floyd: You ready Bubbles. Brian: I think so. I hope she comes. Dick: Jesus, well I hope so too, you paid enough for her… I bet she bucks ya straight off her! Floyd: You got your cassette player? Brian: Yep. Dick: Wassat for? Brian: Candy girl. Dick: Is that her name? Very strange name that is. Floyd: No, he wants to have sex with the earphones on and listen to some Brian: ♫ Candy Girl♫ You rock my world! ♫ Do-do-do-doo-do-do-do-do! Dick: Oh well, it’s his show… Floyd: Psst, Dick, ok, I got to get back to the Admin Hall, ring me and let me know when the Eagle has landed and I’ll let you know when the old Buzzard is on his way. Dick: 10-4, 8.30, Legs at 10 and 2, all boosters primed my friend. Floyd: And remember what we spoke about at lunchtime today? Later boys. Hey, nice new jacket by the way Dick… Dick: Cheers matey… Brian: Uhuh, bye… Dick: A few Lego men short of a town is this lad. Brian: Whatcha say? (Sneeze) George: Candy Girl? Doesn’t rock my world. Nevermind, back to the nervous hands of Broadleaf at the com-mit-tee meeting! Broadleaf: So what can we do as the formal minds of education to get more involved in the University Council’s decision making process? Heckler # 1 (Bali): What about the town council vote?? When do we hear? Broadleaf: Ahem… Yes, yes, quite soon. In the next while there should be representatives arriving. Heckler # 1 (Bali): What will you do if you must hand over the arts building to the new developers of Parnell Park?! Broadleaf: Yeah, yeah, well allow me to break off from this topic for a moment… Ace: Where were you? Floyd: Out with Dick and Bubbles at the gate. She should be here soon. Dick’s gonna open the room for ‘em. How’s Tash lookin’? Ace: Like he’s just about to calve it. Sitting up there like a prize tulip man you wanna- Floyd: Tallyho so brother! Broadleaf: …robberies, yes robberies, it’s a sad state of affairs when your University is home to thieves and wickedness. Yesterday €5000 Euro was stolen from my office when someone found their little way into the office and interfered with the petty cash box. Ace: Wait a second… Broadleaf: It breaks my heart to think that people will stoop so low… Ace: You didn’t… Floyd: Mmm? Keith: Another wine Ace please…. Ace: …eh, here sir… You! Floyd: Sssh, listen to the man… Ace: Yeah, you, ya fuc- George: Well! Broadleaf O’Hara starts the fight against literally losing his plot. While Ace’s suspicions become aroused. But wait! Mr. Dick is hard and stiff at the front gates. Dick: Stand to attention young chubbler, Brian: It’s Bubbles. Dick: Time to brace the main sail, coz there be a bitch ahoy! Brian: Hi Brenda. Brenda: Hey Bubbles. Solicitor: Ah Brian, good to see you. And you must be? Dick: Eh, the ‘overseer’… N-not like I’ll be lookin’ or anythin’, unf, I’m the man with the keys and makin’ sure all is eh, like, eh, heh it runs smoothly for the safety of the two young… eh… (whistles). Solicitor: Very well. I wish you all good night. Brenda, it was an experience working for you. Best of luck then. Dick: Ok then young Cupids, follow me to the science building where you shall start your experiments… Follow me! Together: Follow, follow, follow, follow- Dick: Follow the yellow toof road! Follow, follow, follow, foll- Baldy: ‘Ere Dick, you talkin’ about me are ya? Dick: What? Eh? Must have been the wind…          George: And good luck to them! With arms outstretched, Broadleaf waits to welcome the Loughfeg Town Councillors. Broadleaf: Well yes, should we get the decision on our side, then we will move forward with our plan for further development of University grounds and essential departmental procurement. Heckler # 2 (Hefese): And will Long Term Loan Credit bank give you funding if such an outcome is not forthcoming Mr O’Hara? Nigel: Busher! Busher! Busher! You tell ‘em Busher! Broadleaf: No! No! No! Listen! Listen! Nigel: You go up there and tell them how it’s fuckin’… Yeah! Shlioler: I’m livin’ in a small house with six-and-a-half children! And I can’t move, I can’t swing a cat in it, and we’ve been on to the council for ages for a bigger house. We can’t get out of it! What are you going to do about it?! Broadleaf: Listen! Shlioler: What are you gonna do about it?! My Larry went off and left me. He left me. Heckler #1 (Bali): Parnell Park! Keith: Look at him, like a second hand Jesus on the cross ready for the end… Tash: What? Keith: Worried that your watch might stop if you stop looking at it Norman? Tash: Sorry Mr Keith, you must excuse me… Keith: Of course… but looks like you’ll miss the action, here come the town council cavalry. Floyd: (On phone) Hey, Dick, Dick? Tash is on his way. Ace: You are a fucking thief! Floyd: What? I didn’t take the money… don’t be stupid, I was in class with you remember? (Floyd’s mobile rings) Floyd: Aw shit… Yeah? Dick: The Eagle has landed, echo-fella-one, Roger Daltry, Wilco… Floyd: Yeah, let ‘em settle in Dick, Tash is on his way to spruce up the sprouts. ETA: 10 minutes. Dick: Eh over and around again… (phone clicks off) Broadleaf: Councillors, councillors, please, here, yes, please sit down… Keith: Waiting for Godot… god save me… What’s this? Little man moves to the front… Mehfooz: Please, please, Ladies and Gentlemen, Councillors and Provost O’Hara, may I take the podium? Broadleaf: Well, em… Mehfooz: Thank you sir. George: Meantimewhile, at the science block; Brian: (Coughs) Dick: Right! Here yis go… I’ll keep the hall lights on okay? Brian:  (Wheeze, inhale), Thanks Dick. Dick: Pleasure’s mine, enjoooooy! (Closes door) Brian: (Breathes heavily) Brenda: I’m here Bubbles… Brian:  I-I-I… Brenda: Shhh, come here… Brian: Okay… Brenda: You want to take all my clothes off? Brian: (Gulp)… Tes… Brenda: I’m yours… Brian: (Tokes on inhaler) George: Yuck! Pyeah! I need to wash out my ears back at Finny’s bar; (Finny’s Bar, incessant gaming noises) Finny: Are you speaking to me yet? Pavla: No. Finny: That’s better, here Baldy, will you shut up that shite! Baldy: I’m winnin’! I’m winnin’! Highest score comin’ up, can’t me stop now. Historical milestone. Finny: I’m standing here seriously toying with the idea of killing you. Baldy: Well I’m killin’ thousands here! It’s a massacre! I can’t believe I’m winnin’! George: No time to lose, what’s the news with Mehfooz?! Mehfooz: Thank you ladies and gentlemen and members of the town council. We sit here today on the edge of a new era of change in Loughfeg State. The old is cast aside replaced by the new…. When two new spheres of influence come together it promotes teamwork and intense bonding! (Science building) Brenda: That’s it Bubbles… take them down… Bubbles: Awww, hih, ushff, fffssh, hoh hoh hoh! Aww, ffhshs, aw, I’ve got a stalker… Brenda: My god! Bubbles: Awwwwffssshih. George: Dear God! Where then, is Norman Tash? (Office toilet) Tash: Why do I sweat so much? This is appalling. Pull my socks up. Good. Armani looks good. Right… Breathe in Norman! To the Science block. Claim virgin territory! (Door slams) Mehfooz: Let me be the first one to announce the news from the town council that my consortium for the tender of the development of Parnell Park and Loughfeg boundary change has been SUCCESSFUL!!! Nigel: Busher! Broadleaf: No!!!!! (Uproar) Keith: Oh crap. Mehfooz: Thank you, thank you, yes, very much, ah thank you. Thank you, not at all, not at all, thank you. Heckler # 3: It’s a sham! Floyd: Sounds heavy. Ace: I hope it doesn’t disturb young Ying and Yang across the block. Floyd: He won’t hear a thing. Ace: Why? Aaawh yeah…. (Science building) Brenda: You look masterful mighty standing there! Brian: I am the WWF Inseminator! Brenda: Eh, Bubbles, what are you doing? Brian: It’s my cassette player. Brenda: …and? Brian: It’s my fantasy, I want to go inside you with Candy girl. (echo of Dick’s sick laughing and coughing) Brenda: Eh, ok… if it’s your fantasy… Brian: Yes! It is! CANDY GIRL! Brenda: Oh my god! Brian: Errrffffmmmargh! C-aaaiiindy guuurrllluu-uh-uhh… (Back in Committee) Floyd: I mean if it was my thing I’d want to hear her scream, yeah, but hey, earphones or not, it’s not my money! Ace: Because you STOLE it! Floyd: You are over-reacting. Broadleaf: This is crazy, you can’t make this decision. Mehfooz: Leave it be Broadleaf. Broadleaf: You want to ruin this town, isn’t that right Mr Keith? Keith: What? Me? Ehm? Heckler #4: What about the fucking football team hah? What about the team? What about my young lad, what about young Tighe hah? He needs to play ball. Heckler # 5: What now for the funding Mr Keith?? What will happen to the football team funding? Keith: How should I know? That’s Mr. Tash’s area of expertise, I-I… Heckler # 6: Answer the question Chiselton come on! Heckler # 7: Yeah, anser the question! You’re the outings co-ordinator which covers the away day expenses!!! Mehfooz: Calm down Broadleaf, it is done. It is done sir. That is it. Broadleaf: Done you say? DONE? I’ll do YOU! Right, funding cut backs start here! Keith: Listen, it’s not a question of rash answers, we need to focus. Heckler # 3: You can focus on my fat lad! My son depends on that team Mr Keith… Keith: Of course… I understand, but… Broadleaf: Cut backs so! Cut the WATER! Cut the GAS! Cut the SALARIES mmmggfff, CUT THE ELECTRICITYYY!!!! (Pull of the main switch in the hall…) Floyd: Darkness has descended. Hecklers: Hey! Hey! Ya bollocks! Come back here! Hey! Keith: Mmm, get out of here… Ace: Let’s do the same… Floyd: I’m right with you Captain… (Science block) Tash: Typical! Blackout! I can’t see where I am… ok… annex two is that way so annex three is this way…. (On the way to science block) Keith: Get in the car, drive away, go home, have some Chablis and start applying to colleges in the morning… yes… Ace: Floyd… he’s heading to the annex… Floyd: Follow that nutty Professor. (In Room 2)    Brenda: Oh Bubbles! This feels so wonderful! And you can’t hear me! (Giggles) Brian: ♫ ooh yeah ♫ Candy! ♫ Girl! Uhhh. Brenda: (Giggles) (Back in committee) Mehfooz: Don’t panic! Do not panic! We will have order restored as soon as I find the switch. (In the hallway)           Tash: Hellooooo? Come out young lady Brendaaaaa? Pssst it’s me! Mr. Tash, Meeester Taaash… (Hears giggling) Tash: Ah-ha! Yis yis, I will take her by surprise, and naked too. Take her! Rrraaarrr! Off with everything Mr Tash! Yis yis! Oh yes, hoo hoo! She will be not ready for me! Keith: …eh? What is that? Norman? Is that you? Ace: Oh shit… he’s goin’ straight for the… (Door lashes open) Tash: SURPRISE! I have you now…. (sound of bodies jumping on top) Brenda: AAAAGGGHH! Brian: OOOFFFF! Tash: YIS! You fleshy fuckbucket, mmm, your soft downy skin! Brenda: HELP! Tash: Don’t fight it Brenda! Brian: Get off me! Tash: Don’t fight it! Brian: Get off! Keith: NORMAN? Tash: KEITH! Brenda: DADDY? Keith: SINEAD? Mehfooz: Power back on! (sound of electricity mains) Brenda/Sinead: Daddy! Tash: Jesus- Ace: Christ. Brian:  Get off me ya sick pervert! Sinead / Brenda: Daddy! I, Oh my god! Keith: YOU BAAAASTARDS!!!! Floyd: Woah! It’s Keith’s daughter?! Dick: (Jumps out of a cupboard) Hargh! It’s pure fuckin’ gold, gold I tells ya! Fuckin’ faces on the lot of yis!! And I have it all recorded on me new camcorder!!! Big triple decker sandwich with teachers ridin’ pupils n’ daughters,I tell ya, it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen! (Note: 8 minutes of outtakes follow credits) U.C.L.S. I - An ear-film adventure by Amplevoicepod. The story of Floyd Frisbane, Accursis 'Ace' Byrne and Brian 'Bubbles' Waterbury, after meeting each other on the first day at University College Loughfeg State. It's a time for moral advancement as they bond when trying to procure a virgin for Brian over the internet. They must be careful not to rouse the attention of teacher Norman Tash who himself is intent on straightening this trio out. Science professor Keith, meanwhile, is annually dismayed at the sheer stupidity of the year's intake and is contemptuous of Provost Broadleaf O'Hara as he struggles to keep Loughfeg State University afloat. Janitor Dick Soupe is barely holding the buildings and himself together as he tries to help the new enrollees integrate. On Loughfeg's main street, Finny and Pavla trade insults as they helm Finny's bar while attempting to avoid catching the red eyes of resident comic-lover barfly Baldy Kendall and U.C.L.S computer teacher Ciaran Brennan. Amplevoicepod creates original explicit storytelling. We make HD audio podcasts to sternly tongue your earhole. We try not to follow others, don't cross the easy fields and have lived in blissful ignorance across millennia. We make ear-film adventures. Full effects-laden audio productions with plots, characters and immersive sounds. It takes about 80 hours of production in writing, recording and editing to make 1 hour of output. We take lumps out of each other as we sculpt our latest mutation. To relax we switch on the mics, open our lungs and bellow out a 2-hour rock show playing the best music dug up on a Friday. Tautologically titled 'The Friday Rock Show' it's just us and a few listener letters, which we lovingly read out on air. It's DJ Adgeen Byrne and producer Tony Wilson spitting and sparring to send you into sonic convulsions. Started in 1987, this saga has continued down through the ages with over 500 stories read out on air, from a wide variety of intriguingly demented souls. Our feature-length stories now streaming: Timefiddler, Mount Pheasant I, Mount Pheasant II, The Adrian & Tony Radio Show I & II, University College Loughfeg State (UCLS I) and coming soon: UCLS II & III, Mental Holmes I, II & III, United Mutations I, II & III and Panspermia I, II & III. 100s of hours of explicit storytelling await you. Streaming our oddcast now on all good audiophilic emporia.

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 80's Boogie, Rare Grooves, Caister Main Room, Big Beats - 4th May 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2019 114:49


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 4th May 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 80's boogie . In Room 2, it's all about those rare groove gemsl. Room 3 plays some of those main room grooves we loved to dance at the Caister Soul Weekenders in the UK. Room 4 there's some big beat selections to uplift your soul and get your foot flinging ! Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210103372288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210172212288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210222527288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 80's Boogie, Rare Grooves, Caister Main Room, Big Beats - 4th May 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2019 114:49


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 4th May 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 80's boogie . In Room 2, it's all about those rare groove gemsl. Room 3 plays some of those main room grooves we loved to dance at the Caister Soul Weekenders in the UK. Room 4 there's some big beat selections to uplift your soul and get your foot flinging ! Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210103372288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210172212288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157210222527288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 80's Boogie, 21st Century Soul, Piano House, Jazz Funk - 23rd March 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2019 115:08


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 9th March 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 80's boogie . In Room 2, it's all about the 21st Century Soul. Room 3 plays some of those piano house grooves we loved to dance to back in the day , and Room 4 there's some supercharged jazzy dancing selections. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live video by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157110759707288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 80's Boogie, 21st Century Soul, Piano House, Jazz Funk - 23rd March 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2019 115:08


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 9th March 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 80's boogie . In Room 2, it's all about the 21st Century Soul. Room 3 plays some of those piano house grooves we loved to dance to back in the day , and Room 4 there's some supercharged jazzy dancing selections. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live video by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157110759707288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 21st Century Soul, 80's Boogie, 90's Grooves, Jazz Funk - 9th March 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 115:45


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 9th March 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 21st Century Soul. In Room 2, it's all about the 80's boogie. Room 3 plays some of those 90's grooves we loved to dance to back in the day , and Room 4 there's some supercharged jazzy dancing selections. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157081385327288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 21st Century Soul, 80's Boogie, 90's Grooves, Jazz Funk - 9th March 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 115:45


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 9th March 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy some 21st Century Soul. In Room 2, it's all about the 80's boogie. Room 3 plays some of those 90's grooves we loved to dance to back in the day , and Room 4 there's some supercharged jazzy dancing selections. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10157081385327288/ Thanks for listening people !

The New Jersey Connection Radio Show
The New Jersey Connection on Starpoint Radio - The Seriously Soulful Podcast (2/9/19)

The New Jersey Connection Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2019 117:47


First Hour: Dennis Winston - Rocket Love (Louie Vega Remix), Tracy Hamlin - Isn't It A Shame (Extended Mix), Change - Make Me (Go Crazy) (Opolopo Long Version Remix), Spencer Morales feat. Tasha Larae - I Need Your Lovin' (John Morales M&M Main Mix), Opolopo and Hubert Laws feat. Gregory Porter - I Tell The Story (Extended Version), Ed The Red - I'm There Girl (Samba House Mix), Brian Power feat. His St. Soul - Music (Wipe The Needle Remix), Kathy Rosins and Opolopo - Voodoo (Winter in Miami Mix), Stevie Wonder - Always (Bosq of Whiskey Barons Edit), Second Hour: Dexter Wansel - (I Will Never Forget) My Favorite Disco (Alex De Cio Remix), Mark Di Meo - Alehawo, Joe Valentin - Intrusion, Timmy Regisford feat. Tiger Wilson - Falling in Love, Joe T. Vannelli and Silvano Del Gado - Djembe House (Joe T. Vannelli Mix), Paul Trouble Anderson feat. John Redmond -Oh Happy Day, Wanda Ray Willis feat. Felton Pilate - I Got To Be Strong, Durand Jones and The Indications - Morning In America, Ernest Ernie and The Sincerities - Do Something (It's Soul Time! Records 45), Seville - Show Me The Way (previously unreleased version, Federal 45), Dennis Taylor - SomethingBoutCha (Soul Townie 45), www.starpointradio.com Back In The Old Country! Friday March 29, 2019 - GoldSoul Last Friday of The Month Soul Night, Westgate Suites, Long Eaton, Notts. In Room 3 with resident DJ ANDY JACKSON playing 80's, 90's, Boogie, Jazz-Funk and More! Saturday March 30th 2019 - @ Colours, Basildon, Essex. In the main room, DAVID MORALES, plus GARRY DENNIS, COSMIC and yours truly in the Bar Room playing Soul, Jazz-Funk and New Yorker Classics! Sunday March 31st, 2019 - TBA (call me!)

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club 4 Rooms of Music - 26th January 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2019 115:17


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 26th January 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy the dulcet tones of Mr Luther Vandross, such a great vocalist. In Room 2, there's some jazzy dancing selections, and few in the bossa nova style too. Room 3 is all about the new jack swing, and Room 4 we take up the tempo with some 90's piano house bumpy tuneage. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156981023272288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156981271917288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club 4 Rooms of Music - 26th January 2019

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2019 115:17


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 26th January 2019. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 you'll enjoy the dulcet tones of Mr Luther Vandross, such a great vocalist. In Room 2, there's some jazzy dancing selections, and few in the bossa nova style too. Room 3 is all about the new jack swing, and Room 4 we take up the tempo with some 90's piano house bumpy tuneage. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out the fb live videos by clicking below https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156981023272288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156981271917288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club 3 Rooms of Music - 3rd November 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2018 114:44


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 3rd November 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 it's all about the 70's "modern" soul, in Room 2 digging in the crates for some tunes from the 70's in a disco stylee. Room 3 is "anything goes" - some quality soulful dance. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking these links https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156783152427288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156783193742288/ Thanks for listening people !

Get Out
Episode 009 - Here & There | Room #1

Get Out

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2018 29:53


Here & There is a recurring series on Get Out podcast where we feature remote and isolated accommodations from my own travels. In Room #1, we look at five such experiences from across Nepal. ******* Annapurna Eco Village - Astam, Nepal 28°17'38.0"N 83°54'33.0"E Australian Camp - Dhampus, Nepal 28°18'19.7"N 83°49'48.2"E Gurung Cottage - Ghandruk, Nepal 28°22'33.3"N 83°48'27.9"E Mystique Highland Resort - Astam, Nepal 28°17'38.9"N 83°54'27.2"E Nubri Four Season Resort - Prok, Nepal 28°32'41.1"N 84°46'07.0"E ******* Show cover jingle courtesy of Icons8 Music by Nordgroove from Fugue Episode background tunes courtesy of Icons8 Music by Bimbotronic and Nordgroove, all from Fugue

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club 3 Rooms of Music - 3rd November 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2018 114:44


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 3rd November 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 it's all about the 70's "modern" soul, in Room 2 digging in the crates for some tunes from the 70's in a disco stylee. Room 3 is "anything goes" - some quality soulful dance. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking these links https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156783152427288/ https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156783193742288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 21st Century Soul, DISCO, Soulful House - 13th October 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2018 117:48


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 13th October 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 we play some up to date 21st Century soul vibes. In Room 2 digging really dig into the crates for some 70's & 80's DISCO that you just don't hear anymore. Finally in Room 3 some finest quality soulful house gets dropped on your ears. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156733218677288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion Super Club - 21st Century Soul, DISCO, Soulful House - 13th October 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2018 117:48


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 13th October 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 we play some up to date 21st Century soul vibes. In Room 2 digging really dig into the crates for some 70's & 80's DISCO that you just don't hear anymore. Finally in Room 3 some finest quality soulful house gets dropped on your ears. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156733218677288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - 4 Rooms of Music - 4th August 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2018 115:19


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 4th August 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 it's all about the 80's boogie, in Room 2 tunes from the 70's in a disco stylee. Room 3 is some quality soulful dance. Finally in Room 4 we go with some great 21st Century Soul. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156563869707288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - 4 Rooms of Music - 4th August 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2018 115:19


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 4th August 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 it's all about the 80's boogie, in Room 2 tunes from the 70's in a disco stylee. Room 3 is some quality soulful dance. Finally in Room 4 we go with some great 21st Century Soul. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156563869707288/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - 4 Rooms of Music - 14th July 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2018 118:03


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 14th July 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 we dig deep in the crates for some of those rare grooves, in Room 2 tunes from the 70's & 80's that you just don't hear anymore. Room 3 is some quality piano house (with quality vocals). Finally in Room 4 we go with some big beat funky groovers. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156511236532288/UzpfSTIwNjg2OTk2MjgzNDY2Mzo4ODkzNjc0MzQ1ODQ5MDk/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - 4 Rooms of Music - 14th July 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2018 118:03


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 14th July 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 4 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. In Room 1 we dig deep in the crates for some of those rare grooves, in Room 2 tunes from the 70's & 80's that you just don't hear anymore. Room 3 is some quality piano house (with quality vocals). Finally in Room 4 we go with some big beat funky groovers. Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter twitter.com/ph5soul You can also check out a video of the last hour of the show, via facebook live by clicking this link https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156511236532288/UzpfSTIwNjg2OTk2MjgzNDY2Mzo4ODkzNjc0MzQ1ODQ5MDk/ Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club Well Known, Jazzy Grooves, New Jack & RnB - 10th February 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2018 115:31


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on www.icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 10th February 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. Room 1 is well known and well done, familiar 70's & 80's soul tunes that would grace any dancefloor. In Room 2 it's the jazz room, perfect for those shined up dancing shoes. Room 3 goes new jack swing and RnB stylee, the live listening crew were certainly feeling these vibes ! You can also check the soul explosion facebook live video, and get interactive with the show. https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156109489657288/ Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter http://twitter.com/ph5soul Thanks for listening people !

Soul Explosion Podcast
Soul Explosion - Super Club Well Known, Jazzy Grooves, New Jack & RnB - 10th February 2018

Soul Explosion Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2018 115:31


Welcome to the latest edition of the Soul Explosion, first broadcast worldwide on www.icrfm.com and 105.7FM in Ipswich, UK and the surrounding areas on 10th February 2018. Welcome to the Soul Explosion "Super Club" ! 3 rooms of music, all in different styles, all wicked to listen, get down to and enjoy. Room 1 is well known and well done, familiar 70's & 80's soul tunes that would grace any dancefloor. In Room 2 it's the jazz room, perfect for those shined up dancing shoes. Room 3 goes new jack swing and RnB stylee, the live listening crew were certainly feeling these vibes ! You can also check the soul explosion facebook live video, and get interactive with the show. https://www.facebook.com/ph5ph5/videos/10156109489657288/ Your feedback is always very welcome, here's how you can get involved: Mixcloud mixcloud.com/ph5ph5 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/soulexplosionPH5 Twitter http://twitter.com/ph5soul Thanks for listening people !

Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli
Tin Foil Hat #42: The Clinton Body Count Swapcast With The Tully Show

Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2017 53:12


Welcome to another episode of Tin Foil Hat with Sam Tripoli. On this episode, Ryan and Sam swapcast with Sirius Radio's Mike Tully of the Tully Show podcast! On this episode Sam yells and screams at everyone about...1) The 2016 Election2) Cocaine and the Governor of Arkansas3) NAFTA, DOMA and The Crime Bill of 19944) Dead Body Guards Walking5) The Lolita Express and the Children of Haiti6) Wikileaks7) Bernie SandersAgain we want to thank DJ Buddy for everything he does for the show. You my friend are a G!Thank you for listening. We are also proud to announce Tin Foil Hat Comedy Night and Swapcast. That's right, one night with two insane conspiracy shows live at the Ice house Comedy Club on Oct 10th! In the Main Room: it's the first ever Tim Foil Hat stand up comedy night w/ Eddie Bravo, Brendan Walsh, Gareth Reynolds, John Tole, Vanessa Johnston and Shaan Joshi!In Room 2: It's the first ever live Tin Foil Hat Podcast! It's our first live podcart and we're going big! That's right we're proud to announce that we're doing a swapcast with the one and only The Higherside Chats with Greg Carlwood! We're going deep homeboy!

Anerzählt Archiv 1-300

"The shining" ist ein Roman von Steven King und der vielleicht erfolgreichste Film in der Folmografie von Jack Nicholson. Dabei hat die Verfilmung von Stanley Kubrick manches anders gemacht als der berühmte Thrillerautor gerne gehabt hätte. In Room 237 spielten sich jedenfalls in Buch wie Film manche gruselige Szenen ab...

Pengcast!
Pengcast 91: Spotlight, Room, Unsere Oscar-Tipps

Pengcast!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2016 69:21


Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:57:35 +0000 https://pengcast.podigee.io/83-pengcast-91-spotlight-room-unsere-oscar-tipps cee56d7be411d7045c1d7e6010b8736b In dieser Ausgabe sprechen wir über die beiden Oscar FIlme, die uns noch fehlen: In "Spotlight" wird die Geschichte, wie der Boston Globe 2001 einen Vergewaltigungsskandal aufdeckt, erzählt. In "Room" ist Brie Larson zusammen mit ihrem Sohn für sieben Jahre eingesperrt und gaukelt ihm eine heile Welt vor. Außerdem geben wir unsere Tipps für die Oscar-Verleihung heute Abend ab! Musik: Private Island – Drugs 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:10 Spotlight 00:22:15 Room 00:40:25 Unsere Oscar-Tipps 00:41:39 Bester Kurzfilm (animiert) 00:45:36 Bester Kurzfilm (Live Action) 00:50:34 Bester Regisseur 00:53:22 Beste Nebendarstellerin 00:55:44 Bester Nebendarsteller 00:58:10 Beste Hauptdarstellerin 00:59:03 Bester Hauptdarsteller 01:02:05 Bester Film 01:04:50 Abschlussrunde: Moderation & Online-Dating Meinungen? Film-Tipps? Liebe oder Hass? Schreibt uns: podcast@doktorpeng.de 83 full no Filme, Film, Filmpodcast, aktuell, aktuelle, Comedy, deutsch, Rezensionen, Reviews, Pengcast, Christian Eichler, Lukas Diestel, Malte Springer, Max von Raison, Off Duty, witzig, lustig, intelligent, Hintergrund Christian Eichler, Lukas Diestel, Malte Springer, Max-Ole von Raison

Room for Relations: Sex and Relationship Podcast

In Room 134, Keila, Rory, and Eboni talk about personal grooming habits. They discuss different types of grooming and which they prefer.

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY presents THE OLI IN THE MIX

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2014 76:20


In 2002 London's after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D'Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. Special warm up set by Chris Brogan.In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds!Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest!Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music.Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever.Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico.Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss!The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers.To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!!TO RECAPTURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOORGONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set)D'JOHNNYPAUL HERONMIKE DOWERCHRIS BROGANFUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOWTHE OLI b2b TERRY BRYANHOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESSDANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCESPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUSPRODUCTION: EDNAAdmission:£7 with ad/flyer/concession£12 on the doorFIRESouth Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT1 Minute walk from Vauxhall StationDirect buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY presents THE OLI IN THE MIX

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2014 76:20


In 2002 London’s after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D’Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. Special warm up set by Chris Brogan. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds! Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest! Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music. Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever. Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico. Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss! The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers. To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!! TO RECAP TURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOOR GONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set) D'JOHNNY PAUL HERON MIKE DOWER CHRIS BROGAN FUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOW THE OLI b2b TERRY BRYAN HOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESS DANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCE SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUS PRODUCTION: EDNA Admission: £7 with ad/flyer/concession £12 on the door FIRE South Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT 1 Minute walk from Vauxhall Station Direct buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY: GONZALO SUPERSESSION CLASSICS PODCAST

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2014 113:18


In 2002 London's after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D'Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. Special warm up set by Chris Brogan.In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds!Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest!Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music.Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever.Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico.Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss!The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers.To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!!TO RECAPTURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOORGONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set)D'JOHNNYPAUL HERONMIKE DOWERCHRIS BROGANFUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOWTHE OLI b2b TERRY BRYANHOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESSDANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCESPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUSPRODUCTION: EDNAAdmission:£7 with ad/flyer/concession£12 on the doorFIRESouth Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT1 Minute walk from Vauxhall StationDirect buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY: GONZALO SUPERSESSION CLASSICS PODCAST

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2014 113:18


In 2002 London’s after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D’Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. Special warm up set by Chris Brogan. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds! Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest! Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music. Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever. Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico. Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss! The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers. To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!! TO RECAP TURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOOR GONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set) D'JOHNNY PAUL HERON MIKE DOWER CHRIS BROGAN FUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOW THE OLI b2b TERRY BRYAN HOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESS DANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCE SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUS PRODUCTION: EDNA Admission: £7 with ad/flyer/concession £12 on the door FIRE South Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT 1 Minute walk from Vauxhall Station Direct buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY: DAMIAN DELUXE A:M 2003

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2014 70:13


In 2002 London's after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D'Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds!Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest!Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music.Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever.Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico.Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss!The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers.To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!!TO RECAPTURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOORGONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set)D'JOHNNYPAUL HERONMIKE DOWERFUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOWTHE OLI b2b TERRY BRYANHOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESSDANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCESPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUSPRODUCTION: EDNAAdmission:£7 with ad/flyer/concession£12 on the doorFIRESouth Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT1 Minute walk from Vauxhall StationDirect buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
A:M HISTORY: DAMIAN DELUXE A:M 2003

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2014 70:13


In 2002 London’s after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D’Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds! Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest! Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music. Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever. Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico. Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss! The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers. To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!! TO RECAP TURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOOR GONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set) D'JOHNNY PAUL HERON MIKE DOWER FUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOW THE OLI b2b TERRY BRYAN HOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESS DANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCE SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY ANDROMEDA CIRCUS PRODUCTION: EDNA Admission: £7 with ad/flyer/concession £12 on the door FIRE South Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT 1 Minute walk from Vauxhall Station Direct buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
MIKE DOWER A:M 2008 PODCAST!

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2014 74:58


In 2003 London's after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D'Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds!Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest!Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music.Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever.Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico.Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss!The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers.To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!!TO RECAPTURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOORGONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set)D'JOHNNYPAUL HERONMIKE DOWERFUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOWTHE OLI b2b TERRY BRYANHOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESSDANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCEPRODUCTION: EDNAAdmission:£7 with ad/flyer/concession£12 on the doorFIRESouth Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT1 Minute walk from Vauxhall StationDirect buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88

Orange Nation
MIKE DOWER A:M 2008 PODCAST!

Orange Nation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2014 74:58


In 2003 London’s after hours landscape was altered forever, the boundaries of clubbing were pushed where no one else had been before, the Saturday morning after hours sensation A:M was born. The now world wide renowned sound of the A:M Main Room has been affectionately renamed Turbocharged House, and the unquestioned biggest exponents of this genre are D’Johnny, Gonzalo Rivas (VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY SET), Paul Heron and Mike Dower, who will bring us down memory lane playing only the A:M Classics from 2003 until now. In Room 2, Funky sounds of the present and future by the unusual suspects, The Oli back to back Terry Bryan is set to amaze and wow the crowds! Craig Elder, the mind behind the brand, remembers how everyone was against him when he proposed to open a Saturday morning club. Now 11 years into history, A:M is at its strongest! Fire Main Room has evolved like A:M becoming a world renowned dance space with State Of The Art sound and lighting systems, but always keeping its true soul intact and only delivering the best possible music. Over a year after the last A:M After Hours held in this space, by many defined magical, we are back bigger than ever. Hosted by Louise Port. Door patrol by Domenico. Expect A:M incredible productions, with Edna of Vauxhall in charge of the decor team, together with Katy Lawrence and Stevie Steve dance shows this is a party you do not want to miss! The VIP experience will be curated by man of the moment Martin Princess who will look after table guests, email martin@orangenation.co.uk to know more about our offers. To commemorate this historic event, we are giving the first 200 customer a FREE Beyond ticket!! TO RECAP TURBOCHARGED MAIN FLOOR GONZALO RIVAS (Birthday set) D'JOHNNY PAUL HERON MIKE DOWER FUNKY LOUNGE - THE SOUND OF NOW THE OLI b2b TERRY BRYAN HOSTED BY LOUISE PORT, MARTIN PRINCESS DANCE SHOWS: SHAUN CAPEWELL & KATY LAWRENCE PRODUCTION: EDNA Admission: £7 with ad/flyer/concession £12 on the door FIRE South Lambeth Road - SW8 1RT 1 Minute walk from Vauxhall Station Direct buses from Trafalgar Square 87-88