Good to be back
Hello. Hello. After a full 22 days off (more than I state on the podcast itself, but I've since done the maths), Collings & Herrin Podcast 27 is up. It was fun to discuss so many burning issues of the day after so much time apart, including whether Gary Glitter's sunglasses should be tagged, whether the Falkland Islands really need protecting and whether BBC News website reporters are actually working hard enough. (The latter came up because they are so lazy that Richard Herring is now making the news, as seen on the BBC News website: Spirit of Fringe award "cop-out". It's on the screen above.)A big thank you to Nathan* for supplying us with our first ever jingles. We are so close to selling out.
* Nathan's album is on iTunes. Unlike our podcast, it costs money.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 2:48 PM
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Just wanted to say thank you! I hope Gaunty's tome is an entertaining as you say!
Yours hot-lapped,
Nic Bowden (the boy)
Oh, and I really enjoyed your new book :)
Welcome back! Was worth the wait.
Lizzie x
That was just... sorry, but no.
It is not that I have an objection to jingles in principle. And I am sure Nathan is good at getting the kids down and funky with his dancing musics.
But... well... just no.
I'm glad to see you're both back. Will listen to the podcast on the train tomorrow.
Darn - I was hoping your weekly photo from the Podcast might be you scowling at the Facebook fan page, which I could then pilfer and use as the main photo on said page. Oh well!
Rich can't be Paedofinder General. The position has already been filled on Monkey Dust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yL_U5gSaT0
Andrew - is Richard Herring going out with Derren Brown?!
I really hope it's true
i'll look out for Nathan's album on iTunes. Would you like some theme music? In the same way the The Word podcast has the twnagy guitar intro [ I think, thanks to Mark Ellen] I'd be happy to do 10-15 seconds of music for you. I can't claim to be that good, but it might fit with the DIY ethos of the podcast.
Backtoblack
Andrew -in the podcast you mentioned you want to go to the sellout Lee and Herring reunion gig in Nov 16 but can't get a ticket. I am actually auctioning one ticket for the event on eBay - proceeds to Richard's Scope Justgiving page. Seller's eBay name is kathx44.
Kathy
Thanks, Kathy, but if my so-called colleague can't get his so-called colleague into his own gig, things have come to a pretty pass, whatever that means.
I heard that rumour too, Superdelphinus.
Good luck to them both, it's lovely news!
Andrew
Maybe you can join your so-called colleague on stage and get in that way?
If no-one bids for the ticket,I will let you have it for free. Though I'm fairly sure someone will.
Kathy
This podcast really does make my week better. The odd looks for giggling on public transport while listening are a small price to pay.
Also, surely getting jingles for free from a listener isn't selling out. Rather the opposite, I'd have thought. :)
Haven't listen to this yet but I'm guessing the whole Rich & Derren rumours are part of this podcast.
If it is true then they're officially my favourite showbiz couple.
If it's just publicity fodder to make me listen the podcast then it's worked.
If it's utter gubbins then I would say Richard, maybe you should consider the two points above and make a move on him.
Andrew, did you read the extracts in The Times from the new Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor letters book, edited once again by Charlotte Mosley?
The bizarre family connections continue - I didn't realise Debo is supermodel Stella Tennant's grandmother! What a family.
"Is it a baby's gun?"
That tickled me for some reason.
I still don't get your groovy photoshopped C&H picture on my iPod when I play the podcast. Should I?
If you've not set it up so the photo is attached to the file I'm sure some techhie who reads your blog who can tell you how to do it in a few easy steps.
It seems a shame not to use those cool photos that guy did for you.
Hurrah, a new podcast to listen to. Now with jingles! Aural cereal for the journey to work on Monday morning. Yum.
I'm sure I made a sample jingle for you boys then sent it over when you first started your fine podcast...
Ignored... oh well.
*slits wrists*
My Podcast jingle submission:
To the tune of The Model by Kraftwerk:
We are podcast making and it's good
The famous synth riff: De dew. De de de dew de dew.
We know you download it, that's understood.
De dew. De de de dew de dew.
We talk about bumming from time to time
De dew ..
But not ALL the time
De dewwww.
(c. Mingles Corporation 2008. Licensed for use.)
More podcast ideas you say Andrew? If you insist ..
(to chaz n dave style piano)
Collings drinks oatmilk in the open air
Oi
Herrin is an old man - with a young mans hair
Oi
Collings loves the mitfords and a wheat-free crumpet
Herrin loves gaunty, some bummin and the trumpet
Oi
And that, I'm afraid, is all you're getting from me.
Lovely podcast this week, so glad you mentioned the Movie Club, I have very fond memories of that show. It would be fantastic if you could upload it somewhere- although I have to admit when I first saw the show I thought you were Marconie, you always looked more Italian to me.
Back then late night television was a beautiful thing indeed, so many wierd and fantastic things would appear after the witching hour. Now it's just quizes and rolling news, alas.
Fair play to Herrin for calling out the man on giving the prize to everyone, how lazy. It's taking me a bit of time but I'm beginning to warm up to Herrin (it's just his constant shouting into the shite-mic on the PC is really hard on the ears on the noisey train with the volume cranked) but this might just have sealed the deal -- you tell 'em comrade.
I'm new by the by -- nice to meet everyone.
Are you the Derek Boland, Derek?
Haha, yes it's me Andrew (is that a good thing or a bad thing...don't answer that!), hope you are doing well. I'm really enjoying the podcast/blog.
Yay, podcasts!
I am currently working my way through the podcast back catalogue, having come to it late, so I didn't even know there was one missing. I've been enjoying them so much I bought "That's me in the corner" on the strength of them and greatly enjoyed that too. This means that since I've been zipping through the podcasts on the bus and reading the book on the Tube, most of my commuting entertainment over the past couple of weeks has been Andrew Collins-based, via the media of both vision and hearing. I think I'll leave him out of the other three senses though, at least for the time being.
Andrew, are you planning to post anything on the sudden death of Geoffrey Perkins in a car crash?
He was involved in so many great projects and I feel sure many comedy writers and performers will be very sad today at the news; not to mention the many audiences who enjoyed his work as a writer, performer and laterly as a very succesful producer. The League of Gentlemen, The Royle Family, Men Behaving Badly, Harry Enfield's TV Programme and the sublime Father Ted. He was instrumental in bringing these and many other great shows to radio and television and one of the names I always saw at the end-credits of some of my favourite shows over the past 15 years.
Very sad news.
Yay, Derek B, Bad young brother!
Is he a Yankie? No, he's a Londoner!
After finishing the jingles, I happened upon the acapella of Good Groove and began remixing it. Hows that for spooky coincidences?
(I'm also using bits of the OutRun game music, so if someone from Sega also comments on this blog the size of the coincidence could set off a chain of events destroying space & time)
Sorry to read the news about Geoffrey Perkins, charliemingles. I seem to recall he was responsible for getting Hitch-hikers Guide To The Galaxy on radio, way back in the olden days, which makes him a good bloke in my book.
I agree Doug, he was involved in some really great stuff.
I notice that we're from the same part of the world. I'm from Kirkcaldy originally. Small world.
Andrew C and Andrew R -- sorry to report I'm not THAT Derek Boland. I'm the Derek that used to bug the crap out of Andrew C. every day via email years ago on his 6music radio show. To be honest Andrew C. I was fair surprised that you would have remembered me. Sorry for the confusion Blog on!
Bah, what a disappointment!
Slow to catch up, but Jimmy Page did not need to go off piste as the music of G Glitter was already played at the Olympics.
Apparently playing short "clapalong" clips of music is all part of the sport of beach volleyball - each only a fews seconds long between points to get the crowd going. And yes, in amongst the samples was GG chanting "Come on! Come On!" etc. culminating in "I say!".
I didn't notice if any of the players were wearing Spaedos although I understand there may be a range of sunglasses available from the same manufacturer. Would you happen to know where I might find a photograph of a well known celebrity sporting a pair of such shades?
why do people like techno-ey music as jingles, with stupid voices on? I've heard loads of podcasts with that kind of stuff, it's just irritating. Like in the ricky gervais podcast they had an annoying little thing like that.
So are Richard Herrin and Derren Brown an "item"?
and if so - Andrew - do you think the chemistry will change between you two?
Call me slow, but where did this Herring/Brown rumour come from? (I don't wish to give it the oxygen of publicity, but you keep going on about it.)
I was wondering the very same thing, but didn't want to appear out of touch.
Actually, maybe the anonymous posts are from Richard himself, just sounding out the reaction! Ha ha! :-)
Andrew,
It's funny that this week your podcast and the word podcast started with the same joke.
Maybe there should be a Collings and Herrin vs Word Podcast.
Utterly irrelevant and tardy comment: I live in Fife.
We can set up Fife Friends of Andrew Collins.
Or not.
fife colleagues of andrew collins would surely be more appropriate?
I mean it in a "Friends of the Earth" type of friend way, ie we can try and minimise damage to him and raise money to protect him.
Actually no, that's not what I mean at all.
What is the level below colleague? Fife Strangers of Andrew Collins sounds a bit vague.
what do you suggest we do during these meetings md? Sit around drinking oatmilk and mis-spelling our names? I'm not sure there'd be enough to fill the day. No offence Andrew.
So unless Mister Collings can reveal a secret fetish for dressing as Nancy Mitford and playing the ukulele, there's not much to go on.
(although he does regularly get stopped by the police. so they obviously know something we dont)
We have to do something? Have meetings? I was thinking more in terms of just existing.
We could:
Write jingles and/or a podcast theme tune
Seek out other Andrew Collinses and write an amusing tome called "Are you Andrew Collins?"
Get very drunk and toast Andrew a lot (as in "raise a toast to", not "cook in toaster")
Buy a fish and call it Andrew Coley
Endless possibilities...
It looks like there are already break-away factions from the main group, md.
One group believes we should worship the words of collins in their purest form. Whilst another thinks we should stick instead to the 'collinsite' essence of other later interpreters. And even some more others believe that Collings is merely a prophet, signalling in the dawn of Herrin, the unfashionably long-haired new messiah.
As I speak, these various groups are currently fighting over an empty bottle of oat milk Collins apparantly left on the stage after his live podcast (here on earth!) and are claiming 'he who holds aloft the strange milk-made-out-of--oats shall rule the kingdom.'
Frankly, its all getting too complicated for me. I resign.
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