Getting Better Acquainted

Part 2 of The GBA 100th Episode Special:

To celebrate 100 episodes of the show I gathered a bunch of my favourite people together in a room and made them sit and listen to a special live episode of the show. There was talk and there was food.

Part 2 features more clips from the first 100 episodes, in this second part the listeners pretty much programme the clips, the much of the focus is on correspondence from both listeners and past guests, the GBA house band A Room Full of Friends play two songs and there is a cake with 100 candles.

The clips include discussions and experiences of guns, art movements, teenage romance, psycho-geography, homelessness, yoga in prisons, WW2, Chris Evans, inner city youth in the 70’s, dancing and lots and lots more.

It also features a message from fellow podcast Chillpak Hollywood Hour.

These episodes were recorded in January 2013.

Full show notes here: http://gettingbetteracquainted.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/show-notes-gba-100-pt-2.html

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

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Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

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Part 2 of The GBA 100th Episode Special:

To celebrate 100 episodes of the show I gathered a bunch of my favourite people together in a room and made them sit and listen to a special live episode of the show. There was talk and there was food.

Part 2 features more clips from the first 100 episodes, in this second part the listeners pretty much programme the clips, the much of the focus is on correspondence from both listeners and past guests, the GBA house band A Room Full of Friends play two songs and there is a cake with 100 candles.

The clips include discussions and experiences of guns, art movements, teenage romance, psycho-geography, homelessness, yoga in prisons, WW2, Chris Evans, inner city youth in the 70’s, dancing and lots and lots more.

It also features a message from fellow podcast Chillpak Hollywood Hour.

These episodes were recorded in January 2013.

Full show notes here: http://gettingbetteracquainted.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/show-notes-gba-100-pt-2.html

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Part 1 of The GBA 100th Episode Special:

To celebrate 100 episodes of the show I gathered a bunch of my favourite people together in a room and made them sit and listen to a special live episode of the show. There was talk and there was food (including a cake). In part 2 they’ll even be some live music from the GBA house band A Room Full of Friends.

Part 1 features clips from the first 100 episodes, focusing first on the way that doing Getting Better Acquainted has influenced and changed my life, then moving into more general examples of what GBA conversations can be, and then getting into how the show has developed its own internal logic and has begun to create itself.

It features messages from fellow podcasts I Like You and Risk!. Chillpak Hollywood Hour also gets focused on quite a lot. The conversation I had with Phil Leirness about his film The Truth Is Out There is was an interesting episode not just in itself but also in relation to how GBA works.

The clips include childbirth, death, the time I poured coke on a friends white shirt because I thought it would be funny, dealing with anger, life during the Northern Irish "Troubles", epiphanies and lots and lots more.

These episodes were recorded in January 2013.

Part 2 comes out on Friday.

Full show notes here: http://gettingbetteracquainted.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/show-notes-gba-100-pt-1.html

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Part 1 of The GBA 100th Episode Special:

To celebrate 100 episodes of the show I gathered a bunch of my favourite people together in a room and made them sit and listen to a special live episode of the show. There was talk and there was food (including a cake). In part 2 they’ll even be some live music from the GBA house band A Room Full of Friends.

Part 1 features clips from the first 100 episodes, focusing first on the way that doing Getting Better Acquainted has influenced and changed my life, then moving into more general examples of what GBA conversations can be, and then getting into how the show has developed its own internal logic and has begun to create itself.

It features messages from fellow podcasts I Like You and Risk!. Chillpak Hollywood Hour also gets focused on quite a lot. The conversation I had with Phil Leirness about his film The Truth Is Out There is was an interesting episode not just in itself but also in relation to how GBA works.

The clips include childbirth, death, the time I poured coke on a friends white shirt because I thought it would be funny, dealing with anger, life during the Northern Irish "Troubles", epiphanies and lots and lots more.

These episodes were recorded in January 2013.

Part 2 comes out on Friday.

Full show notes here: http://gettingbetteracquainted.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/show-notes-gba-100-pt-1.html

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 4 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get we get even better acquainted with return guest Radcliffe.

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes/

Rad talks about life before and after homelessness, crime, punishment and upbringing, addiction, being an options broker in the city, an unofficial school exchange trip, what to do when you find your father urinating in the mashed potato, how David Bowie is to blame for the financial crisis and lots more.

We plug:

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com

Radcliffe hosts the Spark Brixton Open Mic at the Ritzy Cinema on the third Monday of every month.

The next night is 18th March at 7:30pm where the theme is Birthdays.

I host the Spark Hackney Open Mic at the Hackney Attic on the second Monday of every month.

The next night is 11th March at 7:30pm where the theme is Awkward.

We mention:

The Liar Show: http://www.theliarshow.com/

On Living in a Soho Skip: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/on-living-in-a-soho-skip-radcliffe-royds/

David Bowie: http://www.davidbowie.com/

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 3 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get better acquainted with Urie.

She talks about Little Apple Dolls, making art, nearly getting signed to DC comics, growing up shifting between different religions as her mum followed a spiritual quest, depression, family, dogs with silly faces, bullying and much more.

It's a really open and honest conversation which covers a lot of ground, from comics conventions to Nigerian Church Cults, from the imaginary space of The Inbetween to living with mental health issues, Urie is engaging, funny and wise.

The live recording of this episode was picked as part of Something You Said's Top Gigs of 2012: http://somethingyousaid.com/2012/12/28/something-you-saids-top-gigs-of-2012/

Urie plugs:

Her new Little Apple Doll: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/product/new-limited-edition-lustravi-14-little-apple-doll

And Screaming Matriach: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Apple-Dolls/10150159360495593

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk

Urie will be performing at SUT on Thursday 28th March at the Dogstar in Brixton.

Byron Burger: http://www.byronhamburgers.com/

J Horror: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_horror

Robert Rodriguez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez

Quentin Tarantino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 2 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get we get better acquainted with A Room Full of Friends.

This is the pilot of a new strand of the GBA podcast. The Getting Better Acquainted house band, A Room full of Friends, will play regular gigs in rooms full of different groups of friends. We play songs, we talk, we talk to the audience, and we have fun. In this episode the songs and the conversation take us to all sorts of places from Steven Seagal, to heart attacks, to Winnie the Pooh, to teenage goth memories, to eulogies to dead friends and much, much more.

The current line up of a room full of friends is:

Dave: Vox/Guitar/Uke

Asia: Vox

Sam: Drums: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-99-sam

George: Bass: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george

We plug:

Sams other projects:

Stark Dangerous: http://www.starkdangerous.com/

Hwan: http://soundcloud.com/indifference-engine

We mention:

Steven Seagal: http://stevenseagal.com/

Arnold Schwarzenegger: http://www.schwarzenegger.com/

Johnny Cash: http://www.johnnycash.com/

Where Wild Roses Grow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE

Bruce Springsteen: http://brucespringsteen.net/

Winnie the Pooh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 5 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get we get even better acquainted with return guests Chris Goode and Karl James. Both have had individual conversations, this is the first time they have appeared on GBA together.

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-38-karl-james

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-83-chris-goode

This was a very surprising and interesting conversation which is really hard to sum up in a blurb. It moves through themes of performance, listening, provocation, violence, shame, authority, empathy, difference, therapy, forgiveness and more. All this spills out of the starting point of two projects which Chris and Karl have collaborated on. A piece by Tim Crouch called The Author which seems to have had a powerful effect on audiences but also on Chris who acted in it and Karl who co-directed it. And the more recent Monkey Bars, a piece of theatre where adults perform verbatim dialogue originally spoken by children. This conversation went to places I hadn't expected it too and was a challenging and rewarding experience.

Chris plugs:

Chris Goode and Company: http://chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk/

Thompson's Live: http://chrisgoodeandco.podbean.com/

Karl Plugs:

Dialogue Project: http://www.thedialogueproject.com/

His future Book: Big Conversations

And audio podcasts/conversations in general.

We mention:

The Author:

http://www.newsfromnowhere.net/shows/the-author/the-author.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/sep/30/the-author-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/aug/12/edinburghfestival-theatre

Tim Crouch: http://www.timcrouchtheatre.co.uk/

Andy Smith: http://www.asmithontheinternet.com/

Monkey Bars:

http://chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk/?page_id=69

http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/theatre/monkey-bars-unicorn--review-8447564.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/aug/16/monkey-bars-edinburgh-festival-review

God/Head: http://www.ovalhouse.com/whatson/detail/god-head

Irreversible: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/

Brené Brown Tedtalk: http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html

GBA Abbie: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-85-abbie

Georgie Meadows: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/georgie-meadows.aspx

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 4 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get we get even better acquainted with return guest Radcliffe.

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes/

Rad talks about life before and after homelessness, crime, punishment and upbringing, addiction, being an options broker in the city, an unofficial school exchange trip, what to do when you find your father urinating in the mashed potato, how David Bowie is to blame for the financial crisis and lots more.

We plug:

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com

Radcliffe hosts the Spark Brixton Open Mic at the Ritzy Cinema on the third Monday of every month.

The next night is 18th March at 7:30pm where the theme is Birthdays.

I host the Spark Hackney Open Mic at the Hackney Attic on the second Monday of every month.

The next night is 11th March at 7:30pm where the theme is Awkward.

We mention:

The Liar Show: http://www.theliarshow.com/

On Living in a Soho Skip: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/on-living-in-a-soho-skip-radcliffe-royds/

David Bowie: http://www.davidbowie.com/

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

Episode 3 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get better acquainted with Urie.

She talks about Little Apple Dolls, making art, nearly getting signed to DC comics, growing up shifting between different religions as her mum followed a spiritual quest, depression, family, dogs with silly faces, bullying and much more.

It's a really open and honest conversation which covers a lot of ground, from comics conventions to Nigerian Church Cults, from the imaginary space of The Inbetween to living with mental health issues, Urie is engaging, funny and wise.

The live recording of this episode was picked as part of Something You Said's Top Gigs of 2012: http://somethingyousaid.com/2012/12/28/something-you-saids-top-gigs-of-2012/

Urie plugs:

Her new Little Apple Doll: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/product/new-limited-edition-lustravi-14-little-apple-doll

And Screaming Matriach: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Apple-Dolls/10150159360495593

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk

Urie will be performing at SUT on Thursday 28th March at the Dogstar in Brixton.

Byron Burger: http://www.byronhamburgers.com/

J Horror: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_horror

Robert Rodriguez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez

Quentin Tarantino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino

You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.

On-demand and on the go!

Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.

Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!