Friday, 27 June 2014

Coming July 6/14 to the Muffin Junkee -A brand new Podcast featuring The Electric Mess !



New York Garage Rock Greats The Electric Mess give the Muffin Junkee  exclusive interviews about

their Music-l Three of their albums (Including their brand new Gem called House on Fire ! aqd much

More!

You will also  hear some amazing tracks from their classic albums -The Electric Mess ,Falling off the Face of

The Earth and their brand new garage rock epic House On Fire!


Esther Crow,Derek Davidson,Dan Crow,Oweinama Biu  and Craig Rogers ..the complete band line up provide some cool talk while interviewed  by Pod Host Raving Looney Jay Daniels.


You don't want to miss this one ,Gang! Look for it Sunday July 6/2014!!on my Buzzsprout site.

I will post a blog when it actualy is online on that day with links and a podcast set list and more!


Special thanks to everyone in the Electric Mess (with special mention to Derek Davidson who put this all together with me and made these interviews with the Electric Mess possible!)

Also special thanks to Soundflat Records and Groovie Refcords and the Electric Mess for allowing some tracks for these very fine albums by The Electric Mess to be played and a special shout out to

Alan J Camlet at Hoboken Recorders for recording and mixing the Electric Mess new album House on Fire.







Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Update on The Torments!The Muffin Junkee Recommends you check this out!

Hot off the Press !

Attention All  you listeners of the Muffin Junkee who love   The   classic Torments Podcast ! One of the all time fave episodes ever !

 http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/138522-muffin-junkee-13-the-torments

originally podcast in Dec 2013 and nicknamed Christmas in the Crypt !

 All of you will be as thrilled  to bits as I am to learn of this exceptional new release by The Torments !

due out this July 2014!  










All lovers of Garage Band Music and blues and rockabilly check this one out ! Its The Torments on this double dose of devastation! 


 A true garage rock gem!


new 7" 45, The Creamer/Hot Dog Surf coming out on Hidden Volume Records in just a matter of weeks!
Details:
300 copies
Orange vinyl
Day-Glo jacket (double hits of fluorescent green and orange on a heavy ass stock)
First 50 copies come with glow in the dark button set
Digital Download card
Cd


More info can be found at :

http://thetorments.net/





Saturday, 10 May 2014

May 10-14:Check these out! Conway Hambone :The Sublime to the Ridiculous Pod 2-Part 1 and 2

May 10/14 Attention all Listeners!Please Check out these Two brand new Podcasts of the Muffin Junkee featuring the more Surreal Side of Conway Hambone!


http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/172696-muffin-junkee-16a-conway-hambone-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous-pod-2-part-1-128k-stereo

and Part 2 is at :

http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/172702-muffin-junkee-16b-conway-hambone-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous-pod2-part-2-128k-stereo

Part One info :Muffin Junkee 16a:Conway Hambone -Pod 2-Part 1

Paul Worsley of Conway Hambone>

Released: May 10, 2014      By: Conway Hambone,Paul Worsley,Alison Worsley,Elvin Worsley,Sony Worsley,announced by Jay Daniels,Robert Grieves,Mike Afford,Mikele Dickenson,Suzanne Dickenson,Tom Wolfe Fowler,Mark Jenkinson


Uk Musical Sensation Conway Hambone takes you on Surreal Musical trip that runs from the Sublime to the Ridiculous!Part One of this second Two Part Podcast on Conway Hambone!Made up of tapes from my ongoing investigation into the mysteries of the band and their mysteries shed studio over in England. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Along with some great music that ranges from majestic orchestra to the whimsical semi spoken word and disco and electronic! Paul Worsley gives the Muffin Junkee more insights and interviews about Conway Hambone and gives a DIY Physical Remix demo along with a demo on the Bit crusher and disco box. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other special guests include:Oscar qualified(for his animated film Sausage) Animator Robert Grieves,Mikele and Suzanne Dickenson,Tom Wolfe Fowler(Stekodat and Isobars) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set List for this Podcast: Main title -The George Bond Orchestra (Mike Afford) -----> Sausage -Paul Worsley ------> 300 Harmonicas -Paul Worsley ------> Gitmanesque-Paul Worsley with Mark Jenkinson -----> Poem -Alison Worsley ----> Take Her to the Boogie -Paul Worsley ----> Discotechnique -Paul Worsley -----> Soul Technique -Paul Worsley with Lisa Diamond on Vocals -----> Eat Like A King-Mikele Dickenson with Paul Worsley -----> Disco Dancing -Mikele Dickenson ----> Jumble Rumble Crumble -Isobars (Tom Wolfe Fowler and Paul Worsley) ------->- Story Time-(Stekodat -Tom Wolfe Fowler) --------> Reginald Billing -Reginald Billing with Theramin backing by Paul Worsley -------> Bonbon -A Fezz of the Heart -Elvin and Sony Worsley ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special thanks to Paul Worsley,Alison Worsley,Elvin Worsley, Sony Worsley, Robert Grieves,Mike Afford,Mikele Dickenson, Suzanne Dickenson,Mark Jenkinson,Tom Wolfe Fowler


  Part 2 info :Muffin Junkee 16B:Conway Hambone Pod 2 -Part 2

 
 
 

     Released May 10/14  By: Conway Hambone,Paul Worsley,Aural Jerky,Meretrix,Aural Drift,Marc Muir,Elton Crane,Leon Smith ,Lisa Diamond,Alison Worsley,James Afford,Paul Mason,Ian Banks,Announced by Jay Daniels ,Catapult


Part 2 of this Surreal Musical trip with Conway Hambone -Captured on Tape by the Raving Looney Jay Daniels.More Interviews with Paul Worsley and musical friends! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This Part of the Podcast showcases the Experimental Electronic Side of Conway Hambone!IncludingI lots of rare and never before online tracks.You will also hear exclusive interviews and tracks from Marc Muir (Meretrix and Aural Jerky)and Elton Crane(Scratch Manual) as well as a very special interview with Writer,Musician and Spiritual Adventurer Paul Mason along a track of Paul's remixed by Paul Worsley! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set list for this Podcast : Cycling Event -Aural Jerky(Paul Worsley and Marc Muir)-------> SpeedTeen-Aural Jerky (Paul Worsley and Marc Muir)--------> Flange Pipe Chase -Aural Jerky (Paul Worsley and Marc Muir )-------> Audio Snorkeling -Meretrix (Paul Worsley,Marc Muir,Ian Banks)------> Chopper -Meretrix(Paul Worsley,Marc Muir,Ian Banks)---------> Camel Race(Live)-Meretrix(Paul Worsley,Marc Muir,Ian Banks)--------> La Glace-Meretrix(Paul Worsley,Marc Muir,Ian Banks)--------> Martha's Wheel Barrow -(Paul Worsley and Alison Worsley)--------> Foot Wind Bird -( Marc Muir) ----------> Concave Ball -( Marc Muir )-----------> Aural Drift -(Paul Worsley)---------> Irregular Guy - Catapult(Paul Worsley and Ian Banks)------> Irregular Guy Remix(Der Fancy Boys-Mike Afford)-----> Sarcastifrice-Hensbies Pad - (James Afford)-------> Elastic Band -ScratchManual(Paul Worsley and Elton Crane)-------> Push it- Scratch Manual (Paul Worsley and Elton Crane)--------> Karma Rope - (Paul Worsley)-------> GoManGo(Paul Mason and Paul Worsley)----------> This is what it Oz - Conway Hambone (Paul Worsley and Leon Smith)----> Downturn Soul-Conway Hambone(Paul Worsely,Lisa Diamond,Leon Smith) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special thanks to Paul Worsley,Alison Worsley,Marc Muir,Elton Crane,James Afford,Mike Afford,,Paul Mason and to the Late Ian Banks

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Part 2 of A Week with Conway Hambone is now live! see details below

Part 2 of the Muffin Junkee Podcast on  a Week with Conway Hambone is now live and online!







Listen to it here!:


Stereo Version:
http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/170195-muffin-junkee15b-a-week-with-conway-hambone-128k-stereo-version-part-2

Mono Version:

http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/163400-muffin-junkee-15b-a-week-with-conway-hambone-part-2-mono-version



Details about this Episode are as Follows :


The second half of the Podcast 15: A Week with Conway Hambone ****Make sure that you have listened to Part one which online here first before you listen to this Podcast!****then go to this and listen and enjoy! 

All the music and fun mischief continues as Thee Raving Looney sits down for more breakfast interviews with Paul Worsley of Conway Hambone in His Mysterious Shed Studio in an effort to determine what the Band is all about!Lots more rare and new tracks and lots more from Conway Hambones Albums!including some Reggae! ------------------------------------------------------


------------------------------------- Leon Smith ..drummer for Conway Hambone along with his own solo projects talks with Jay in an interview and you will hear a track from Conway Hambone that features Leon on Lead Vocals called Shake Me Down --------------------------------------------------------

There Is interviews here with Matt Kubik who wrote and collaborated with Paul on Little Montezuma and Spectorizer two great tracks from Conway Hambone and a Interview with James Afford of Angelfield.

Paul's sons Elvin and Sony talk about their musical project in which they collaborated on with their Father called : A Fezz of the Heart and you will hear a track by them called Flog it. Sony has a spoken Poem here too called Time Ticking Away --------------------------------------------------------------

 Conway Hambone Tracks on this Podcast :(by Conway Hambone and Paul Worsley )and Played under a Creative Commons Licence are : Blues Nun .............. More Lite 13 .......... Revolution Eyes ............. Little Montezuma ........... Spectorizer .......... Jebel Walker ........... The Cold Spy Diva .........10kgs of Onions......... Shake Me Down ........ Rock Steady Mod Can Can ........ End of the Pier .......... Road to Brentford ...... Ticking Away ....... Crumblin (Lisa Diamond,Lady Jay Stephenson)......... Herbert Fontaine -------------------------------------------------------------------------


Angelfield tracks with James and Mike Afford : Exhibit No # 1 George Bond ----------------------------

---------------------------------------------- A Fezz of the Heart Tracks played on this Podcast : Flog it (Sony and Elvin and Paul Worsley) -------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Special thanks again to Paul Worsley who spent hours of his time to do these series of Podcasts with me and for providing all the rare and new Conway Hambone Material,and to Sony and Elvin for their interview and Flog it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you James and Mike Afford for the great Angelfield tracks included here on the Podcast and for the interviews James! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you Lisa Diamond and Leon Smith and Lady Jane Stephenson and Alison Worsley. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

***** Please note that due to the high volume of great quality material captured on tape from my visit over to the UK with Paul Worsley at the Mysterious shed studio that there will be a Third Podcast featuring Conway Hambone with lots of their more experimental and electronic music and much more including a poem and sitar demos and interviews with collaborators like Oscar Shortlisted film animator Robert Grieves ,Tom Wolfe Fowler of Stekodat and Isobars and writer/musician/adventurer Paul Mason and musician and funny guy Mikele Dickenson and more beyond! It will be called From the Sublime to the Ridiculous so look for that in a couple weeks!


Part 1 of A Week with Conway Hambone is now Live !See details and listen to the link below !

A Week with Uk Musical Sensation Conway Hambone on the Muffin Junkee is now live!Part 1 and 2!See Details Below!



Listen to Part one of this podcast featuring Conway Hambone at this link Below!Enjoy!
Stereo Version:
http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/170191-muffin-junkee-15a-a-week-with-conway-hambone-128k-stereo-version-part-1

Mono Version:
http://www.buzzsprout.com/10029/163394-muffin-junkee-15a-a-week-with-conway-hambone-part-1-mono-version

UK Musical Sensations Conway Hambone Plays Rock N Roll,Blues,Northern Soul,Reggae,Disco and Dub and more!

But just who are they?This mysterious band that records out of enigmatic shed studio in an undisclosed location in the UK?

Podhost Jay Daniels Travels to the UK with a tape recorder in hand to find out!and breaches the boundry of the shed in an unprecedented series of sit down interivews with Paul Worsley about Conway Hambone and he speaks with some Collaborators too!Paul invites Jay into a the aneochaotic suite where he gives the Muffin Junkee live instrumental demos captured here on tape.

Along with Material from Paul's first band Growling Dogs Nash(With Nick Bates)and Paul's subsequent Band Sally's Hat (Paul Worsley,Lisa/Lucy Diamond,Robin Diamond,Ravi Kasinathan

 Conway Hambone Songs Played during this Podcast under a Creative Commons licence including rare tracks! Thank you Paul Worsley

                       Podcast Part 1 set List
Melon Blender Stomp .......... Lower Eastside Shuffle ........ Soultide ........ Cuban Stomp ......... Move Me ........ Aquaplane ....... Bone Hipshake ....... Cellphone Shake ...... Milk Stout Rock ...... 90 Degreez of Sleeze ....... OmniWaltz ....... Tears in My Beard .........

Sally's Hat Tracks Played on this Podcast : Party (Live)

Growling Dogs Nash Tracks on this Podcast : Dance Like a Zombie ...... Confusion ....... Life is Strange ....... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Ravi Kasinathan Tracks played on this Podcast : PSILUVU ........ Tinned Peaches ....... ------------------------------------------------------------------

Mike Afford  Tracks played on this Podcast : All I know it Will Never Be Me (Angelo Campo) -------


-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important ****Listen to Part 2 of this Podcast which will be online here right after this one ends..it's called Muffin Junkee 15B:A Week With Conway Hambone Part 2 **** -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Also note that due to the high quality of volume of material captured on tape there will be a Third 2 part Podcast about Conway Hambone Coming your way in 2 or three week that will feature the highly experimental music of Conway Hambone and Collaborators called from the Sublime to the Ridiculous !-so be sure look for that one***(see my blogs here for more details) --------------------------------------------------------------------

---------- Special thanks to :Paul Worsley for all the hours of interviews and musical demos and making available uber rare material for this podcast and for creating the brand new Muffin Junkee Glambone Theme! and thanks also goes to Lucy Diamond,Leon Smith who will be interviewed on the podcast that follows this one,Ravi Kasinathan,Robin Diamond,Mike Afford and Angelo Campo


Saturday, 22 February 2014

Attention All Listeners !Coming in April 2014...the Muffin Junkee presents Special Musical Guest . the one and only UK Musical Genre breaking pioneers ....Conway Hambone!

Epic Musical Entertainment  in the form of UK Musical Sensation Conway Hambone is coming  to British Columbia's Grooviest Lo fi Podcast in April 2014! 


      



I am pleased to announce that the amazingly Talented UK recording artists Conway Hambone will be

featured Musical  Guests in April 2014 on the Muffin Junkee Serves Tunes with your Tea Podcast!

Listeners will be treated to exclusive interviews from England with Paul Worsley the Musical Genius

behind the groups many musical styles and variety of genre crossing uber  cool sounds!and hear

Paul's sons Elvin and Sony about their work with their father on the project A Fezz of the Heart and the track Flog it .Their song has been used in Uk commericals and much more!





 Paul's Wife Alison will speak  about her unique perspective about Paul and his Music and as a  musical collaborator   she will talk about an upcoming musical Project in the works with her and Paul!

Elton Crane , Incredible New Zealand Rapper and Lyricist,will also talk about his work with Paul on their musical collaboration Scratch Manual during the interviews.The Raving Looney will play songs that Paul did with all the collaborators represented during these  ground breaking musical breaking interviews!

These are amongst many of the various people who will be interviewed  by Podhost The Raving Looney Jay Daniels on tape in exlusive English Breakfast Setting!Paul has worked with these various collaborators not only on Conway Hambone tracks but other musical projects and even for animated  movie soundtrack!

But hold on to your Hats folks there is way more!

Paul Worlsey has allowed the Muffin Junkee the first ever exclusive entry for an overseas visitor into

his Mysterious recording facility known only as "The Shed"!
.
Paul will demonstrate many of his unique Lo Fi instruments and show there use in the leadup to

final tracks!

You will get to hear tracks from various Conway Hambone albums including rare or unreleased tracks and even exclusive listens to tracks from their brand new album in works currently.

This but the tip of the ice berg there is so much more that it will likely be two podcasts in duration!

Special thanks to Paul Worsely,his family and Everyone involved  who have  been amazing in putting this all together with Jay Daniels despite all the flooding which has bombarded  and devastated the   UK during the last month or so.

***Please note that there will be no Podcast of my show in March due to Unforeseen offline
events in both my case with possible Civil Duty  and with Paul and His family facing potential unknown events with the UK floods.But Listeners your patience and loyalty will be rewarded come April with an outstanding Podcast and or Podcasts that will be incredibly entertaining and worth every moment of the extended wait.****

All Music from these upcoming Podcast is by Paul Worsley or in collaboration with Paul and other artists and played under a Creative Commons licence :




Saturday, 25 January 2014

February 1/2014 -Muffin Junkee 14- with special Musical Guest Mike Cormier !

The long wait for a new Podcast Episode of the Muffin Junkee is now over!

 
New Episode : Saturday February 1/2014
 
 
Featuring :Mike Cormier the creative genius behind The Volta Sound !Guitarist,Vocalist and Remixer and Lakewood Ohio musical talent extraordinaire !
British Columbia's Grooviest Lo Fi Music Podcast continues to bring you the best from today's best Bands and solo Musicians in the lo fi  music scene!
 
You will be treated to an exclusive interview where you will hear  Mike talk about The Volta Sound,his  solo album with Planets and his current album called Words which he recorded with his Son Khalil Cormier and friend Dylan Glover! He will also talk about his collaboration with Nameless(UA ,Ternopil)and more!
 
 




Set list for first half of the Podcast (The Volta Sound) 1.Everything is Alright 2.My All American Girl 3.Ano Domination 4.Gracious Guru 5.There is no Question>> Set list for Second Half of the Podcast(Solo Albums &Collaborations) 6.What Goes on Closer (Planets) 7.To the Wolves (Burimes) 8.Messy (Words -Mike newest album with his Son Khalil) 9.Never Got Saved (Words) 10.Just One More Time (Words)>>> Final two rare and bonus songs 11.Last Train to Painsville (Hello Cleveland)- Relics by The Volta Sound 12. We'll Be Fine-from Austin by The Volta Sound

Do yourself a favour and Don't you Dare Miss this one!