Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

As we close out this momentous year, here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute! In this episode.... We talk about Christmas, our own Holiday memories, our upcoming schedule and upcoming projects. This is Patreon Episode number 14 and overall Episode 54. It's getting VERY close to the holidays so have fun and be safe! If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section. We would love to hear from you! -- Yes. I finally decided to use Andrew's numbering system. 

Here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute!  In this episode.... We talk about Halloween, Thanksgiving, our upcoming schedule and upcoming projects. So starts the holiday gauntlet so have fun and be safe! If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! --- UPCOMING SHOWS   Brobdingnagian Bards * Memorial Day Weekend: Georgia Renaissance Festival   * The Last Jedi Drinking Song on December 13 * I Will Not Sing Along official release on Feb 2   Andrew McKee * NOV-DEC: Louisiana Renaissance Festival, Hammond, LA * JAN: GaFilk, Atlanta, GA ??? * MAR-APR: Sherwood Forest Faire, Paige, TX   * Everything Is Filk Podcast * Andrew Irish Bard CD in January * Renaissance dance music, Fun Happy Instrumental Music * Convention CD   Marc Gunn * FRI 15 NOVEMBER: Brennan's Irish Pub, Birmingham, AL, US * SAT 16 NOVEMBER: Pepper Place Market, Birmingham, AL, US * FRI 29 NOVEMBER: Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN, US * Coffee with The Celtfather

Dragon Con 2019 is over. It will go down in the record books as one of the best. We share with you our thoughts of this year's convention. Were these the best shows ever at Dragon Con? As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #46 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

We are gearing up to launch a Kickstarter for our first studio album in over ten years. How do you stand out in a world where streaming rules? How do you get your music heard? Years ago, we gave away all of our music on MP3.com. We're gonna do it again. You can now download all of our music for free on Bandcamp. We're giving it away so that YOU have a compelling reason to talk about us on- and offline. As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #44 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

Here is another update with the Brobdingnagian Minute!  The last time we heard the Bards, they talked about how they got started.  In this podcast, we not only talk about our first full CD, Marked By Great Size, but we play every single track from it! Episode #44. This is a VERY long podcast and we are testing the upload limit but I hope you enjoy it. If you have questions, comments, or thoughts, please post them in the comments section.  We would love to hear from you! Since it is so long, here are the full time markers: Songs: 2:55 None But A Harper 5:34 Satisfied 9:01 Lady Faery 12:57 Gypsy Rover 16:13 Swift Dining 18:59 A Begging I Will Go 21:39 Do Virgins Taste Better 24:13 Irish Ballad 27:09 Bella's Highland Jig 31:35 O'er The Way 35:47 Liquid Sunshine 39:17 The Dragon's Retort 41:59 Happily Ever After 45:03 A Prudent Thief 48:11 If I Had A Million Ducats 51:39 Pachelbel Canon in F - Variations   Discussions 57:45 Marked By Great Size History 1:09:38 None But A Harper 1:20:10 Satisfied 1:27:31 Lady Faer

Brobdingnagian Bards are back for the 10th season of Sherwood Forest Faire. That means were are once again in the same vicinity of each other. That means craziness will ensue. Andrew McKee is a little hoarse in this episode. That means Marc Gunn gets to make fun of him while Andrew's guard is down. But it's not all goofiness. In fact, we make a big announcement. We're making a new album! You can learn the new album name.  As always, this show is brought to you by our Nagians Only Club on Patreon. Sign up today so we can keep entertaining you! Find out more about our show #43 in the shownotes and more about our music at www.thebards.net.

2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Brobdingnagian Bards. To celebrate this amazing milestone, we are releasing a LOT of cool new content every month. We have also made this podcast public once again. Last year, we restarted the band through Patreon. We are creating all new music together. That hasn't been done since 2007. We wanted to give our kind members of the Nagians Only Club on Patreon, a special treat.  However, we realized that this podcast is a great tool for bringing new Brobdingnagian Bards fans back into the fold. We asked our Nagians if we could make it public again. They overwhelmingly agreed. And so... it's back! In this episode, we take one of the most in depth examination of how we got started. We share some fun anecdotes and stories from our time together early on. Yes. We've done some of this before. But this is a 20 year retrospective. So it's all new to us. We hope you will join us in our crusade to have fun sing Celtic songs and being Renaissance festival geeks. Maybe you'll even joi

Last year, this podcast became patron-only as part of the Nagians Only Club on Patreon. That is now changing! You see, January marked the 20th anniversary of the Brobdingnagian Bards. It seemed a shame to hide all of this great content from Nagians around the world. So we asked them if we could make this podcast public once again. They resoundingly said, "YES!" We are very pleased to share this show with you. Once a month, you will hear us chat about what's new, funny things that happened or are happening, behind-the-scenes look at new songs, chat about geek culture, and all of the silly antics that make up a Brobdingnagian Bards show.  Yes, it's a lot like listening to a Brobdingnagian Bards with all of the craziness that ensues. Sign up today! Of course, this podcast would not be back without the generosity of members of the Nagians Only Club. You can support our mission to make Celtic music fun when you join us there on Patreon for as little as $5 per month. Plus, you'll get episodes before regular listene

Welcome to show #40 of the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast. Yup. This is the last one. In our public feed. That’s because we have decided to relaunch A Brobdingnagian Minute into a monthly podcast exclusively available for our new Nagians Only fan club on Patreon! The Brobdingnagian Bards are back with a brand new Patreon page. We’re gonna start working on a new album. Plus, we’ll share stories behind the songs, rants and raves, chat you and lots more. This is a big change. We will tell you all about it in the show. PLUS we’ll share Andrew’s experience with MoviePass and his 2018 Oscar Picks. Do you think he will pick the winners?

We’re gonna step back in time to see how our first CD, “Marked By Great Size” came to be. You’ll hear never-before-told-stories about the how we rolled with the punches and made lemonade…figuratively speaking. Plus, you’ll enjoy some music from our first official album as well as music from the atrocity that we tried to hide… As Andrew requested, here’s the track listing for Marked By Great Size: None But A Harper (from The Last Unicorn), Satisfied, Lady Faery, Gypsy Rover, Swift Dining, A Begging I Will Go, DO VIRGINS TASTE BETTER?, (Tom Lehrer’s) Irish Ballad, Bella’s Highland Jig, O’er The Way, Liquid Sunshine, The Dragon’s Retort, Happily Ever After, A Prudent Thief, If I Had A Million Ducats, Pachelbel Canon in F – Variations. The Brobdingnagian Bards’ self-titled preview CD features: Nonesuch, If I Had A Million Ducats, Satisfied, None But A Harper, The King’s Song, The Brobdingnagian Love Song, Ramblin’ Boy, Oe’r the Way, Gypsy Rover (Instrumental). Music Played in this Show “Swift Dining” (intro music

Andrew and I are performing separately at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival. We thought it would be nice to record a podcast. But people kept walking in on us. Our Top 5 movie theme was hijacked into a round table of wandering entertainers and a lot of fun. Special guests: Paolo Garbanzo, Melanie and Melissa of Chaste Treasure, Mandie Kitty Cat Turner, Tom Zadoyko What’s in this Week’s Show Unofficially sponsored by Paolo Garbanzo’s RenAdventures.com Top Travel Movies: Around the World in 80 Days, French Kiss, Road Trip, Darjeeling Express, The Illusionist, The Quiet Man, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Aliens, Ice Pirates, Serenity, Timeline Top Book to Movie Disasters: Howl’s Moving Castle, Starship Troopers, The Hobbit, Avatar Last Airbender, Alone in the Dark Favorite Movie Ever: The Big Sleep, Fifth Element, Raising Arizona, Fight Club, Velvet Goldmine, The Kingsman, Three Musketeers (1973), The Crow Bards Songs Played This Week “Rosin the Beau” from Real Men Wear Kilts “Loch Lomond” from Real Men W

Photo by GRHookPhoto.com As we prepare for our reunion show at Sherwood Forest Faire, wandering through the grounds, we record a podcast for the world to hear! And our theme is: What you can do with worn out Bards CDs? When they’ve been listened to far too often, rendering them useless for further musical perusal? Here are our suggestions… 10. Coaster! 9. Oriental Star – be a CD ninja! 8. Frisbee 7. Mirror 6. Christmas Ornaments 5. Reflect on the Virgin Song (?) 4. Confounding Jugglers at Ren Faires 3. Sundial (using a recorder!) 2. “Fun” things to do in your microwave (Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home. DANGER.) 1. Wall Art! What would YOU do with your worn out Bards CD? Yesterday’s show was great! The show went well, the crowd was fun, and we were good – we didn’t go over time! We went through a bunch of old favorites, and some others that we rarely play for some of our die hard fans. Most importantly, as we log off, in order to replace your beloved CDs, go to thebards.net to replenish and restock your she

Here’s our improvised podcast while driving to DragonCon 2015! The first question that raises it’s head is “What is the purpose of a podcast?” In the past, we’ve done brainstorming, as well as just chatting about what’s going on with our lives. A behind-the-scenes tour, if you will – or a self-covering band! So how do you create a podcast for a band that only meets once or twice a year? Do we just go for the general chatting about life and work, or do we go for something completely off-the-wall? We don’t have much time together, so outrageous skits and dashing fight scenes aren’t really options… But these options of chatting about TV and our lives are all boring… a good setup is usually starting off with news, followed by an intro, and then the meat of the podcast. Informing, entertaining, evergreen. Crazy idea – we could do skits, but ask our audience to send in suggestions of what they’d like to see! Improv, parodies, rambling, actual dialogue, commentary – who knows! Or we could just start classifying ever

Brobdingnagian Bards were officially invited to DragonCon this year. We’re already planning this year’s shows. One of which is a Sunday evening Hobbit Drinking Songs show. The show is currently scheduled for 10pm in the Augusta Ballroom in the Westin. Every year, we like to change things up, doing something new and exciting. Last year, we added a fun arrangement of “Seven Drunken Nights”, hobbit-style. This year, I was thinking about how the show should conclude. What can we do to create one giant crescendo of a song where everyone is singing along with us? The song we decided on was “I See Fire”, the song from the end of the second Hobbit movie. It’s beautiful, dramatic and has a great sing-along at the end. At ALEP last year (the hobbit gathering in Central Kentucky), an Elf Choir performed the song. It was amazing. Wouldn’t it be awesome replicate that song at the end of the show? I threw the idea out to Andrew and together we talk about the logistics needed to make it happen. What we are envisioning. You

It’s time for another edition of the podcast formerly known as A Brobdingnagian Minute, now known as Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast. Marc got an itch to do another Bards podcast. So he crank called Andrew and now you get another show. We’re kinda hoping to release this podcast on a more regular basis. In order to do that and not bore you to death, we NEED Your FEEDBACK. What would you like to hear us talk about? What interests you? How long could you stand listening? What’s the air speed velocity of an unladen bard? Use the dang shownotes below and post your comments today!  

Let us start with apologies to everyone who got excited about yesterday’s April Fool’s joke. Yes, it was another bad joke brought to you by Brobdingnagian Bards. I don’t know if it was as bad as 2001 or 2002 when we told everyone we were breaking up the band… but it sounds like it was close. So our apologies. We are NOT reuniting, except at DragonCon. That said, we have a bunch of fun Bards news where you can hear some of the legitimate news, some of which was included in yesterday’s podcast. If you enjoy our insanity, then then please buy a CD over on our website at thebards.net and make sure you also subscribe to our mailing list. April Fools Day – When Bards of a Brobdingnagian persuasion see how far they can push fans before being burned in effigy (previous post) A new Brobdingnagian Bards CD is in development! Magical Mystery Lore is on the way! Ms.Inara Gunn shall be joining the family in May The Unicorn Song DragonCon 2015 – Keep your eyes open Andrew’s wrapping up a new CD, set to be ready by Dragon

You heard that right, the Brobdingnagian Bards are back together and planning our 2015-2016 World Tour. It’s gonna be amazing. You can find out all of the exciting news, including the name of our next album and all 17 countries we will be performing at, kicking off with our return to DragonCon. Are you ready to have your mind blown away? Find out more about Brobdingnagian Bards at thebards.net. Because WE HAVE CDS! Sorry… This IS an April Fool’s joke! Listen to the real podcast here… No joke!  

It always helps when you’re announcing big news that you do it in a timely fashion. Alas, this show was recorded a month ago after said news was released. Oh well! Enjoy the show. Favorite thing about the digital age Marc DJing in high school Andrew’s Star Wars Podcast project Starting late at gigs Run-ins at the Georgia Renaissance Festival Marc’s family vacation in Ireland Release of Ichabod Zeuss CDs Andrew recording on my CDs Trivia Question: What song appears on our CD more than any other? Brobdingnagian Bards Reunion Show at Sherwood Celtic Music Festival Song requests for the reunion? Hedgehog-free zone, Certificate of Authenticity Hunger Games-review Getting Old and Becoming Your Parents In Dumbledore fashion Looking forward to The Hobbit   Music: “The Kiss” from Gullible’s Travels “Lanigan’s Ball” from Songs of Ireland “The Orange and the Green” from by Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales “The Scotsman” from A Faire to Remember  

The Brobdingnagian Bards Christmas Soap Opera episode with special guests, Blu, the Teddy Bear, and a whole bunch of Christmas movies. Google Hangouts Jedi Mind Tricks Favorite Christmas Movie The many incarnations of Charles Dickens Christmas Story White Christmas vs. Holiday Inn TV Shows with Staying Power Steve Jobs biography Building excitement for Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits New albums from Marc? End of the World as Mayan’s Know It Music video ideas Merry Christmas! Christmas in Brobdingnag Music: “Little Drummer Boy” from Christmas in Brobdingnag, Vol. 1 “Lusty Young Smith” from A Faire to Remember “Bog Down in Christmas” from Christmas in Brobdingnag, Vol. 1 “Ye Jacobites By Name” from Real Men Wear Kilts Insert this RSS Feed into your podcatcher to have the shows downloaded automatically: http://www.thebards.net/mp3/ABrobdingnagianMinute.xml  

Now with More Virgins Marc’s a Daddy Andrew’s podcast and upcoming CD New CDs from Marc: Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits and Firefly Drinking Songs The Last Bards CD–Real Men Wear Kilts Marc Heading Back to DragonCon “If I Had $1000000” by Barenaked Ladies at the Texas Renaissance Festival Karaoke New Harry Potter movie Comic Book movies: Captain America vs. Green Lantern vs. Thor Rant about 3D Movies Hulu Plus vs. Netflix Lie to Me Big Bang Theory Rip Off Featured on SIMS Medieval Trailer More Super Secret Brobdingnagian Bards Projects Subscribe to the podcast at www.bardbootlegs.com Music Intro tune: “Swift Dining” from Marked By Great Size “Do Virgins Taste Better Medley” from A Faire to Remember “Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)” from Songs of the Muse “Seven Drunken Nights” from Real Men Wear Kilts “If I Had a Million Smurfy Ducats” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales “My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose / 500 Miles” from Real Men Wear Kilts