Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

Notes:

• What Do You Do with a Drunken Bard?
• Playing Music with Voltaire at Elysium
• Inspired to Record Real Men Wear Kilts,
• An OCD Moment by Andrew McKee
• The Jamaican Intro
• Photo shoot at Laguna Gloria and Mayfield Park for The Austin Chronicle
• Austin Music Awards 2006-2007 Announced on March 15th
• Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon on DVD

Songs This Week:

• "Donald, Where's Your Drunken Scotsman?" from Real Men Wear Kilts,
• "Loch Lomond" from Real Men Wear Kilts,
• "Oor Hamlet" from Real Men Wear Kilts.

Notes:

• First Show of the Second Season
• Winner of "Best Ineligible Band" in the Renaissance Festival Awards
• How we decide songs to play in the podcast
• Bard Focus Groups
• Bards with Voltaire at Elysium
• "Death to the World"
• Another Random Andrew Quote: #8 and #24
• The Vista Operating System
• Slice of Sci Fi
• Groundhog Day!
• An OCD Moment by Marc Gunn

Songs This Week:

• "Beer, Beer, Beer" from The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs,
• "Paddy McCullough" from Songs of Ireland,
• "Valeria" from Songs of the Muse.

Notes:

• End of Season One
• Vote for us in the Austin Music Awards
• ShadowCon, the First Show of the Year
• Craving Dungeons & Dragons
• Bard Age Conversion Chart
• The Life of Mozart on autoharp
• Bardic New Years Resolutions
• Finishing Real Men Wear Kilts, non-traditional Scottish music, like the Other Bible, or The Dark Horse of Scottish Music
• The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs, a CompilaNew CD
• Real World: Ren Faire. Comedy Gold at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival with Vince Conaway, Paolo Garbanzo, The Tortuga Twins, The Limeybirds, Marrus
• New Segment(?): Another Random Andrew Quote #12
• "Greedo Fired Second"

Songs This Week:

• "Hero of Canton"
• "Jug of Punch" from Songs of Ireland,
• "Follow Prince Charlie",
• "Mary Mac",
• "Donald, Where's Your Drunken Scotsman?",
• "Flower of Scotland"
• "Green Grow the Rashes",
• "If I Had A Million New Years Ducats".

Notes:

• The William Shatner Bards
• The story of the Brobdingnagian Bards cont.
• Coming up with the Band Name
• The first songs we played at faire
• BrobdingnagianBards.com
• Trying out for Excalibur Fantasy Faire
• Daily Texan Comic – Bards on the South Mall
• Remembering us at the Alamo Drafthouse
• Mentors at faire: Bedlam Bards
• Halloween music
• What's important about Halloween?
• Dressing up for Halloween
• Cool Halloween costumes
• Willow for Halloween
• Opening for the Rolling Stones in Austin vs. Tipperary Inn in Dallas
• HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Songs This Week:

• "A Rabbit for Halloween" (unreleased)
• "Monster Mash" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Trick or Treat in Yonkers" (unreleased).

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Notes:

• TV Shows: Bards vs. Sci Fi Channel
• Friday, October 6th at Elysium, Goth Club
• Part 2: How Did The Bards Get Started?
• Love/hate relationship with Celtic Rock
• Coming Out of the Closet
• Practicing on the South Mall of the University of Texas at Austin
• One Bard ponders the Air Force, another Dreams of the Texas Renaissance Festival
• VH1's Where Are They Now – Renaissance Festival Version
• Vacation Tour of Ireland with the Brobdingnagian Bards
• Things Celtic
• Jedi Drinking Songs Video on YouTube
• Request for more YouTube Videos of our music
• "Warning" by Mac

Songs This Week:

• "Soul of a Harper" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Patriot Game" from Songs of Ireland,
• "Jedi Drinking Song Prequel" (unreleased).

Notes:

• Promo: The Signal Firefly Podcast
• Live Show from DragonCon in 2006 from the Sunday night filk show

Songs This Week:

• "Old Dun Cow"
• "Lily the Pink"
• "Wild Mountain Thyme"
• "The Leprechaun"
• "If I Had A Million Ducats"
• "Do Virgins Taste Better Medley"
• "The Orange and The Green"
• "Jedi Drinking Song"
• "Mari Mac"
• "The Irishman Who Doesn't Drink"
• "Jedi Drinking Song Prequel"
• "The Bridge"
• "Exclamations"
• "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"

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Notes

• Listener Comment – Request for More Jedi Songs
• Jedi Drinking Song Prequel
• Other Jedi drinking song ideas… and George Lucas
• Listener Comment – How Did the Bard's Get Started?
• Things You Really Hope Marc Doesn't Say In Bed
• How NOT to Record a CD
• Tom's Podcast

Songs This Week

• "Jedi Drinking Song" from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• "Mari Mac" from Bard Bootlegs, Vol. 1,
• "Shadowfax" from Memories of Middle Earth.

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Notes:

• Complaints against Scottish music,
• Song request for Oor Hamlet from Casey in Kansas City,
• How many episodes should we do in each season of A Brobdingnagian Minute, and what constitutes a season?,
• Greek promo done for Vry Pannet Radio,
• Promos around the globe,
• New songs: "The Irishman Who Doesn't Drink" and "Jedi Drinking Song Prequel",
• Upcoming gigs: C.W. Post Renaissance Faire, Georgia Renaissance Festival and Opus Fantasy Arts Festival.

Songs This Week:

• Oor Hamlet from Real Men Wear Kilts,
• Santa Lucia from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales,
• Do Virgins Taste Better Medley from A Faire to Remember, and
• Valeria from Songs of the Muse.

It's that happy time of year for everyone who is Irish–St. Patrick's Day. We recorded our first ever St Patrick's Day special edition of A Brobdingnagian Minute. And it's pretty dang funny!

Notes:

• All about St Patrick's Day,
• Talking with Irish accents,
• The difference between Irish and Irish Americans,
• Irish fashion police,
• What's happening around the world for St Patrick's Day? St Patrick's Day Parties,
• Wearing green on St. Patrick's Day,
• Moonlighting Leprechauns,
• Chef on South Park Quits,
• Campaign Against Green Beer,
• Marc, the Guinness Guy,
• A History of St Patrick's Day,
• Wearing Orange on St. Patrick's Day?,
• St. Patrick's Day in Austin: Wheatsville Co-Op & Opal Divine's Freehouse,
• Happy Birthday on St Patrick's Day to Marc, who's birthday is March 17th, St Patrick's Day!

Songs This Week:

• Johnny Jump Up
• Finnegan's Wake
• If I Had A Million Ducats (The Leprechaun Edition)
• The Orange and The Green
• Happy Birthday from Ireland from Soul of a Harper
• The Hobbit Happy Birthday Song
• Jedi Drinking Song from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales
• An Irish Lullaby from Songs of Ireland

Notes:

• Now have music posted on the Podsafe Music Network
• Thanks to Matt Taylor for inspiring us to write our first Serial. Find out more Big T Studios
• Vacation in Ireland with the Brobdingnagian Bards?
• Western DVD Pick: High Noon

Song this week:

1. "The Holy Ground"
2. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
3. "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye"