Planet of the japes
The new Collings & Herrin Podcast, Number 16, is coming atcha. In it, we address the criticisms of our podcast in our first ever national magazine review, in Q, where Rupert Howe, who reviews podcasts, gave us two stars. I won't repeat his slander here, as you'll hear it, verbatim, in the podcast. It's good to know that an ex-editor of the magazine gets no favours! Also, we discuss the Big Brother hopefuls while trying not to learn their names, the subtext of Planet Of The Apes, crybaby Jon Gaunt, Richard's advanced colour-blindness and we go on about ginger beer - again!
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I really enjoyed the podcast today. Best in a while I reckon. Had me giggling a lot.
Btw, your hair's looking very lovely. Herring's ... not so much.
Lizzie
I'm glad Q Magazine pointed out the podcast's sound quality because it's just not at the same level as other podcasts. I can hear every word you say even when I'm outside with background noise.
So here are a couple of ideas to get your sound quality to the level of other podcasts:
One of you should be very close to the mic and laugh a lot, noisily. The other should be several feet away and talk quietly. Into the mix you can add a delicious explosion of ambient noise from outside, such as "the sound of young Islington".
Another idea (this also cuts down on travelling, CO2 emissions etc): Richard should sit in his attic and Andrew in his. One of you calls the other using a free internet telephone service (eg Skype). The caller's voice will sound slightly muffled so it'll be easier for listeners to tell who is talking. For extra comedy value the internet telephone service will sometimes distort the caller's voice making him sound like a dalek. Sometimes it will drop out altogether. In the best podcasts we then hear the host fumbling about trying to get him back. This works even better when one of you is in London and the other is in, say, San Francisco. You'll also find yourselves talking over each other a lot more and I know the magazine reviewers will appreciate the synchronicity.
Adam & Joe just read out your text! Exciting to have a text read out on 6 Music, isn't it? They sounded slightly awestruck when they read it out, as if they're a bit in love with you. You and Herrin should go on a double date with them. I know A&J are very well-brought-up gentlemen, but if you modified your behaviour slightly, you'd be well in there.
OK, I'll download your podcast now.
Don't pay any attention to the fools who think you should edit the podcast. The unrehearsed nature of the whole thing is part of its charm. It always makes me laugh a great deal, for which I am thankful.
By the way, although you should know by now if you are reading their letters, it was Unity Mitford who was chums with Hitler. Diana was married to Oswald Mosley.
I never sent Adam and Joe a text.
Ok, so the sound can be a bit loud but it sounds like it should - 2 guys in an attic having a laugh. Rather that than an over-edited one (re-hashed radio shows) or where the contibutors are too far from the mike (the Word). At least we can hear everything that's being said, and it's entertaining from the 'unplanned' starts to the button being pressed to stop the podcast mid sentence.
Thank you, Ian.
I love the unrehearsed nature of the podcast, it is a large part of its charm. Number 16 was very enjoyable, a more gentle hour than 15 which was a bit scary.
I must be going to the wrong hairdresser, no one offers to massage my head, I think it must be your natural charm that inspires it, Andrew.
Yep, but in the photo, it appears that Herrin is surprised, though not entirely disappointed, to feel something being inserted up his bottom. Perhaps his trip to a kinky cafe later in the day might not have been such an unintential event?
Peter
I only got round to listening to No.16 this afternoon. Maybe it was the unseasonally warm and sunny weather,unseasonal for my part of Scotland anyway, maybe it was the 3 hours I spent by the canal watching the ducks and other birds just playing, but the podcast made me choke with laughter at one point. A damned fine podcast, what do Q know? All the good people that were there are at Word now.
I also found myself in my local Co-op buying Old Jamaica Ginger Beer. Please be careful when it comes to subliminal advertising.
An Andrew Collins sent a text to Adam & Joe, and I'm fairly sure they thought it was from you. They said something about being excited to have a text from Andrew Collins, and I can't think why else they'd say that. It'll be on Listen Again.
I haven't even listened to the podcast yet, as things keep going on, but I would like to applaud Andrew for picking '0ne Hundred Years' by The Cure rather than being a twat as I would have and chosen 'The Exploding Boy' or 'Babble'(Faith No More should be ashamed) just to try to win over neutrals and show I knew some B-Sides.
What a guy!
Andrew - A monkey has a tail, apes do not.
Orang-utan; has no tail = ape
Baboon; has tail = monkey
I like the unrehearsed nature, but I'm a bit baffled by the pride you take in poor sound quality.
It doesn't make it sound amateur, since nowadays even an amateur podcast can quite easily have good sound quality. It's just an irritation on the ears.
That said, I've not noticed it so much recently, so either you've destroyed my ears' ability to discern good sound quality from bad, or you've improved it.
Either way, thanks for the podcast!
I think Richard is starting to look like Dave Gilmor's lovechild. I have no views on how you yourself look. Sorry andrew.
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