Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

Every venue has its work. GenCon is “Freebird”. We made the mistake of playing it in the pre-show last year at Friday Night Live and ended up with a standing ovation before our actual show started. Sadly, we succumbed to peer pressure and played it again… but with a twist. Michelle Hedden joins us on bodhran for this mad hour of geek-filled fun. Show Notes: Name that Tune “Morning Song”, a 45-minute song in the dealer’s room “Don’t Go Drinking With Hobbits” from Marc’s Dragon CD “Do Virgins Taste Better Medley” from A Faire to Remember Why Andrew stands on stage right of Marc Motley Crue Contest “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” from Songs of Ireland “In the Mood” from Bards Live “Exclamations” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales Starbucks Sponsorship “Old Dun Cow” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales “Free Bog” “Monahan’s Mudders Milk” (a Firefly song) The Great Luke Ski “If I Had a Million Ducats” from a bunch of CDs “Jedi Drinking Song” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales  

We’re back from another brilliant time visiting Ireland with our fans. The trip was all too brief, but in this podcast, we take some time to share some of our fond memories of our trip. Show Notes: Favorite Places from our Vacation Tour of Ireland Gougane Barra Stone Circles “Black Velvet Band” from The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs Magnum Ice Cream Video from Brigit’s Garden “Fellowship of the Ring” “Rocky Road to Dublin” from Songs of Ireland Fond Fables Movie Reviews: Zohan, Get Smart, Hancock, WALL-E GenCon Confirmed “Lish Young Buy-A-Broom” from Songs of Ireland  

This podcast was recorded at the end of March, and lookie, I’m just now getting around to posting it. W00t! Well, at least we’ll be caught up to record a new show very soon. And more once we get to Ireland. Enjoy! Show Notes: Bardic Bonus Features Bardic Foundation of Not Losing Your Brain Through the Windshielf Car mileage conspiracy Consuming the consumer Executive Suite (1954) with William Holden Battlestar Galactica Nerd Warning! Marketing with Integrity Politics Above the Law Summer Brooks of Slice of Sci Fi and Essays on Battlestar Galactica Buck Rogers DVD GM Motors Annecdote Songs This Week: “The Heart of Fangorn” from Memories of Middle Earth “Patriot Game” from Songs of Ireland “Shepherd’s Serenade” from Songs of the Muse  

Welcome to Season 3 of A Brodingnagian Minute. We’re back with more zany bardic goodness… whatever that may be. This month, we’re happy to say we WON in the Austin Music Awards, plus lots of rambling on the usual bardic randomness. Show Notes: Too many podcasts: Irish & Celtic Music Podcast, Renaissance Festival Podcast and other podcasts by Marc Gunn Andrew’s Picasso Period Lord of War Pet Peeve: Trailers you can’t fast forward through Best Folk Act in the Austin Music Awards The Cowsills Music for old video games: Pitfall, Pacman, Donkey Kong Samson Zoom H2 Onya, Irish rock musician Demand the Brobdingnagian Bards Songs This Week: “Patriot Game” from Songs of Ireland “Harvest Home” from Songs of the Muse “The Holy Ground” from The Holy Grail of Irish Drinking Songs “Jug of Punch (Live)” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus Download MP3 A Brobdingnagian Minute #25 – Austin Music Award Win #3 Insert this RSS Feed into your podcatcher to have the shows downloaded automatically: http://www.thebard

Welcome to Season 3 of A Brodingnagian Minute. We’re back with more zany bardic goodness… whatever that may be. This month, we’re talking about Wil Wheaton, the Ireland tour, our presidential nomination, and a “crapload” of shows for the spring. Show Notes: Writer’s Strike Wil Wheaton on Pulp Gamer Join the Bards Tour of Ireland Bards on SoundClick Brobdingnagian Bards for President Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Love Bites” Movie comments: Juno, Charlie Wilson’s War and Atonement Gigs in Yuma, Arizona, Four Winds, Muskogee, I-Con, and more! Songs This Week: “Spancil Hill” from Songs of Ireland “Rising of the Moon” from Songs of Ireland “Like a Hobbit in a Mushroom Field” from Memories of Middle Earth Download MP3 A Brobdingnagian Minute #24 – Explicit Writer’s Strike Insert this RSS Feed into your podcatcher to have the shows downloaded automatically: http://www.thebards.net/mp3/ABrobdingnagianMinute.xml  

Show Notes: Dune Red Dwarf Mobile Pack New CD: LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus New Bards Video Podcast Coming Soon Six Weeks at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival Bourbon Street and The Drunken Scotsman video And We’re Back! Booking for 2008 How to Find Good Mexican Food Songs This Week: “Finnegan’s Wake” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus, “LOOB” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus, “Donald, Where’s Your Drunken Scotsman?” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus.  

This weeks Brobdingnagian Bards podcast was recorded on the drive to DragonCon 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. Show Notes: Marc’s fancy sports car Lots of shows at DragonCon New CD: LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus The Bardy Balls: The Case of the Bardic Treasure The Stalkers Union of DragonCon A Word from our Table People Other bands at DragonCon: Voltaire, Bedlam Bards, Boogie Knights, Emerald Rose Songs This Week: “Pachelbel’s Canon/Old Dun Cow” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus, “Jedi Drinking Song Prequel” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus, “If I Had A Million Smurfy Ducats” from LIVE: Nex Monoceroti, Per Risibus.    

Recorded live in Lisdoonvarna, Ireland while on the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland. Songs This Week: “Man of La Mancha” “Old Dun Cow” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, “Frog Kissin’” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, “A Fairy Story” from A Faire To Remember, “Lily the Pink” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, “Spancil Hill” from Songs of Ireland, “Whiskey in the Jar” from A Faire To Remember, “An Irishman Who Doesn’t Drink“ “Donald, Where’s Your Trousers Medley” from A Faire To Remember, Marc Trying to Think/”Munumanuh” “Star of the County Down“ “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from A Faire To Remember. If you enjoy the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast, support Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee. Subscribe to our mailing list at www.thebards.net. Buy our music. And then LIKE and SHARE this podcast with other Nagians.

Notes: Talking about Ireland while viewing the Cliffs of Moher on the Brobdingnagian Bards Tour of Ireland. Don’t you wish you were here? Question or Comment for the Bards at 512-879-NEWT (6398)

Notes: Live recordings and CD?, Oklahoma Renaissance Festival, Bardic passports,Stamps, Indulgences, and toe bones in Vatican City, Shakespeare and Friends Renaissance Festival, Learning not to wear tights, Nickel Shakespeare Girls, Interview with WANC, “My Prison Time with Paris Hilton”, Role Models, Snowball fights in Colorado, Stoa Galleries, Opus Fantasy Arts Festival, 3 Summer Movies: Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Shrek 3, and Spider-Man 3, and Harry Potter, Songs This Week: “Lady Faery” from Songs of the Muse, “Big Strong Man (My Bruddha Sylvest)” from Songs of Ireland, “An Irish Lullaby” from Songs of Ireland.  

Notes: The World’s Biggest Flubs by the Brobdingnagian Bards, The Hoax, Based on a True Story, Splash with Tom Hanks, George Lucas and the Director’s Guild, South Park Easter Special ala Da Vinci Code, Four Winds Renaissance Faire, Another Random Andrew Quote,   Songs This Week: “My Darling Clementine Blues (Live from I-Con)”, “Old Dun Cow (live)” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, “A Fairy Story (live)” from A Faire To Remember.  

Notes: Voted “Best None of the Above” in the 2006-2007 Austin Music Awards KUT with John Aielli Thanks to everyone who voted for us, Other winners we met: Guitar Center, Lucid Dementia, Eklektikos, John Aielli, KUT, and Bobby Bones, Shameless self-promotion   Songs This Week: “Spancil Hill” from Songs of Ireland, “Lily the Pink” from Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales, “Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)” from Songs of the Muse, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from A Faire To Remember.  

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). Download MP3 A Brobdingnagian Minute #13 – Happy Halloween! with Halloween Music, Conclusion of How We Started Playing Music Together Insert this RSS Feed into your podcatcher to have the shows downloaded automatically: http://www.thebards.net/mp3/ABrobdingnagianMinute.xml  

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“   If you enjoyed this live concert, you will really love joining the Nagians Only Club on Patreon. You'll get a new concert every month, behind-the-scenes bonus podcasts, and new songs before they are released. Best of all, you are a part of our record label which allows us to keep the Brobdingnagian Bards creating. Sign up today!

Where did our “Jedi Drinking Song” come from? What was the first album we recorded on together? You’ll learn that and more in the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast. 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. — If you enjoy the Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast, support Marc Gunn and Andrew McKee. Subscribe to our mailing list at www.thebards.net. Buy our music. And then LIKE and SHARE this podcast with other Nagians.  

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.