The Hello Goodbye Show hosted by Dexter Bentley heard Protagonists playing a live four-song set, featuring the first ever performance of DOOM RADIO with Reginald Ffolkes. We also mentioned our next show at aSpoonfulofPoison.com, Stokey Records Bar, Stoke Newington Church Street, hosted by Spoon. Our new recycling drive invites you to bring as many beer bottle caps as you can, to our show. Whoever brings the most will get a special themed prize, and the runners up will get a copy of our FIRST EDITION EP.
DOOM RADIO at first sounds like a bleak number, foreshadowing the blitz, the obliteration of total annihilation, the fantasy of megalomaniacs, and seeming to piss all over the genuine suffering of the people who actually lived through that world-changing horror of WWII. Well that is an edge that David walks upon, and doesn't seem to mind being misunderstood by those who don't listen carefully. He said very clearly that it's more about the character of Reginald - smug, self-satisfied, and cosy in his radio booth status. He was not like today's radio DJs, but one of the few emergency broadcast system champions. And perhaps he laughed at the kids who had to snuggle up in lead-lined government bunkers, or their own private lead-lined bunkers. David takes the piss of Reginald. It was great to watch him sweat all over it. My, how radio has changed over the decades. But what is the significance of it now? How is the world facing total annihilation? Do we fear nukes anymore? We seem much more in the moment and ready for anything in our hellish happiness, in our 'reasonable insanity'.
A podcast of the live set will be available for streaming on www.resonancefm.com by about Weds 19.10.11. The band felt very welcome and honoured to meet Dexter the host, Michael the co-host, the lovely engineers, and witness the new sponge transforming the kitchen. Those kind of rations are really important in these destitute times. But we still live in excessive abundance, extreme decadence, says Garyloo SPeW our saxophonist. Destitute times sounds strange and I agree, but they still are.
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