Podshambles 36: Dweebles, We Hardly Knew Ye is now OUT. Here is what to expect:
Another Podpun? Sorry mate I can’t be Cast.
The aces are high and the deck is loaded in favour of the Shamblegamblers in this saloon – Podshambles 36 really has it all. The team muse over their latest DnD session, Laurie gets a wet chest, and Paddy discovers both Deliveroo and Pointless on the same day. It will blow your mind.
Tinker with the fusion schematics, recalibrate the advanced targeting module and meet me on the holodeck – we’re taking this sucker down.
Podshambles 35: Finger Of Fudge is now OUT. Here is what to expect:
Poddy (Poddy) / The little man in the red and yellow Cast.
That’s right – we’re now at the point where I’m crowbarring Noddy references into descriptions as there are only so many words that rhyme/half-rhyme with pod, cast, or podcast. The Shambleboots are laced this week as Paddy & Laurie take you on a journey through forgotten James Bond movies, the ever increasing pretentiousness of music genres, and what happens when you shine a torch into a lemur’s eyes. There’s even a generous dollop of Choose Your Own Adventure thrown in for good measure.
Plug in your toasters, steer clear of the bath, and dance like nobody else is dancing i.e. sit down. This is a shambles.
Podshambles 27: Betrayal Monkey and Lie Bananas (Live From New York)
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The Podprinces have been Cast away to Shamblerica but golly gee willikers are they bouncing back!
Continue your adventures with Padcoolio and Lauradical as they brave the tundras of New York, covering everything from overzealous flag usage to why three and a half feet of bacon is apparently an appropriate substitute for bread. They’ve only bloody gone and made a YouTube channel too.
Well ahoy, avast, and away we go, Shamble Cadets! Welcome to the good ship ‘YouTube Videos’!
Yeah, can you actually believe it? We’ve actually gone and made a bona fide video with a video game in and us talking over the top and keeping vaguely on topic! Wowee! Our first outing is with the fantastic Sunless Sea, a HP Lovecraft-fuellled roguelike seafaring adventure game, heavy on the storytelling and atmosphere. We had an absolutely brilliant time.
Our maiden Shambles voyage is with Liam Welton, all-round good guy and one of the lead developers on Sunless Sea. He helped us out when we inevitably got into problems with the mouse, our own ability to breathe and actually being able to survive the first half-hour of playing, for which we are eternally grateful.
Check out the first part here and, remember, check back every Tuesday and Friday for more Shamble-vids (Shambeos? Shamble Cinema? whatever).
It’s been a while. I know I usually say that in jest because it generally hasn’t been a while, but today I mean it. I very rarely mean things, or do I? We may never know.
So as you may have gathered from smatterings of tweets, facebook posts and Laurie’s tear-jerking (genuinely) LCD Soundsystem ‘All My Friends‘ Shambletrack – I am now in America. New York City to be precise, and I will be remaining here for the time being. Of course this has thrown a comically-sized socket-wrench into the purely metaphorical cogs of Podshambles (yeah that’s right guys – we have metaphorical cogs. Metaphorical cogs powered by FRIENDSHIP) but never fear – I’m to an extent back on the radar. It took me a good week to get used to residing out here, and I’m still very much adjusting to the intricacies of Stateside life – for instance everyone thinking I’m adorable because of my voice, the absence of soft drinks that won’t instantly kill you, or having to order ‘a pack of Marlboro Reds’ as opposed to ‘twenty Marlboro Reds’ – a conundrum which ended up with me accidentally being handed 400 hundred cigarettes by a cashier who thought I was either mental or trying to kill myself.
BUT THAT’S LIFE GUYS.
I’ve found a spare half an hour, so here we go. I was going to do something loosely based on New York City but I feel like I’ll be doing a few of those whilst I’m out here and I don’t want to just aimlessly throw something at you guys because it conveniently has the words ‘New York’ embedded in the lyrics somewhere. So I’ve chosen a song that actually means something to me.
I was asked in an interview today (that’s right – I do interviews because I am super cool) what my favourite political song was, and the answer was so blindingly obvious. Farewell To Welfare by Grace Petrie is a stand-out masterclass in just how effective and meaningful political and satirical music can be. I first gigged with Grace about three years ago and she blew me away. Her songs have so much heart and honesty that it brings a tear to the eye, and she is politically dead on – hitting points such as anti-LGBT discrimination, the victimisation of the working people and the attitudes of the husks currently running our UK government.
This goes out to everyone who gives a shit about our country and the people who live in it. Grace you are an absolute star.
Thanks for reading everyone – I’ll be back to usual soon, just need to get over some culture shock/sugar poisoning/getting hit by a big yellow taxi whilst ‘jaywalking‘ (?). You can buy the music of Grace Petrie (and more with her band ‘The Benefits Culture’) buy clicking HERE.
Big, big love and HEY IF YOU’RE IN NEW YORK GIVE ME A CALL ON 555-PADDY-NEW-YORK-PHONE-.com. I think that’s it?
Paddy XX
p.s Oh my God I actually just saw a TV advert for meow mix. I’ve wanted to see what all the fuss is about for years. Now I know. The cat even said ‘I want chicken I want liver Meow Mix Meow Mix please deliver’. IT WAS AMAZING. #meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow.
