Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast

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.    

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 Bro

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: “The Holy Ground” “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye”    

Notes: Should we do a Brobdingnagian Bards Radio Serial? – Got an idea for a Bards radio serial, write a one-page script and send it to us. Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd Bards Comic Upcoming Gigs House Concert Update Wise Words from Andrew McKee “Rip Jarvis of the Space Cadets, Adventures in the 94th Century”, Episode 1 from We’re Really In It This Time Doo Dah Song this week: “Dirty Old Town” “Scarborough Faire” from A Faire To Remember “Liquid Sunshine”  

  Notes: Holidays in Review New Ren Fest Compilation CD: The Circle Happy Songs of Death Sleeping Habits of Musicians Vote in the Austin Music Awards Song this week: “A Prudent Thief” “Come Out Ye Black and Tans” “Auld Lang Syne”  

Our apologies for the popping sound that shows up throughout the podcast. We can’t seem to fix that. The Irish Dragoon Pub closed last week. So this podcast is a tribute to one of our all-time favorite pubs. Notes: Irish dancing at the Dragoon ArmadilloCon How to Kill Wasps Garry Owen Set Reprinting green shirts? Songs this week: “Old Dun Cow” “Seven Drunken Nights” “Garry Owen Set” “Big Strong Man (My Brother Sylvest), and “Lily the Pink” Get a client like iPodder or you can now access it directly through the new podcasting section of iTunes where you can also buy our music.  

  Songs this week: Mari Mac Follow Prince Charlie Wild Mountain Thyme The Mermaid Song Sellinger’s Round Notes: Slice of Sci Fi interview with Marc Real Men Wear Kilts CD History of Entymology/Etymology DragonCon    

  Notes: Marc DIES! in a movie — Deadbacks Send Jedi Drinking Song to your friends Vote for Jedi on Dr Demento DragonCon Tour. If you live in the Southeast and have ten friends, you can have us come play in your house. Contact us Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales Hit #1 on CDBaby Firefly Shindig this weekend in Austin, Texas. Get the Firefly DVD Lone Star Shindig Practicing The Ballad of Jayne If you’re not familiar with podcasting, it’s like a downloadable radio program. In this case, it’s us chatting about what’s going on with The Bards. The best thing about it is that you can add it to a podcasting client and have it downloaded automatically every time we release another.  

After much urging from Mur Lafferty of Geek Fu Action Grip, we have created our very own Brobdingnagian Bards Podcast — A Brobdingnagian Minute. Notes: Bard Shows this Fall Real Men Wear Kilts 9 days till Marc Quits his job… July 8th is coming! Firefly TV Show early videos with Marc’s rock bands, Ben Stroud Power Hour, Moore-Hill Players present “Monty Python’s Holy Grail” and “The Princess Pride” Jedi Drinking Song If you’re not familiar with podcasting, it’s like a downloadable radio program. In this case, it’s us chatting about what’s going on with The Bards. The best thing about it is that you can add it to a podcasting client and have it downloaded automatically every time we release another. Oh! And it seems I messed up the link to the Renaissance Festival Podcast in the newsletter.