A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #50

Sat April 07 2007

The A-Bomb City Easter Extravaganza, featuring a squeaking Japanese Easter Bunny, reminiscences of childhood chocolate eggs, and...er...nothing else t... read more

The A-Bomb City Easter Extravaganza, featuring a squeaking Japanese Easter Bunny, reminiscences of childhood chocolate eggs, and...er...nothing else to do with Easter.Dave reveals his new internet venture, a website featuring 100-word book reviews, and kicks it off with a summary of Eric Hoffer's little-known tome "The Ordeal of Change". Andy pretends to go and make a cup of tea.Part 3 of Andy's '... read more

The A-Bomb City Easter Extravaganza, featuring a squeaking Japanese Easter Bunny, reminiscences of childhood chocolate eggs, and...er...nothing else to do with Easter.Dave reveals his new internet venture, a website featuring 100-word book reviews, and kicks it off with a summary of Eric Hoffer's little-known tome "The Ordeal of Change". Andy pretends to go and make a cup of tea.Part 3 of Andy's 'Kyushu Diary' next, in which we discover the Chinese and European past of Nagasaki, and why the Lonely Planet guides are crap.The musical interlude this week is an old Easter Islanders techno piece called 'Canova da Milano', based on sampled and reversed lute loops, which leads in to a discussion of said renaissance stringed instrument and its appearance in a certain Shakespearian epic.'Difficult Word of the Week' features that esoteric biblical utterance 'shibboleth', which somehow leads into talk of immersive online world 'Second Life' - watch out for Alric Yoshikawa!abombcity@gmail.comwww.abombcity.comwww.hirohurl.netwww.ardle.netwww.myspace.com/abombcity100-word-book-reviews.blogspot.com read less

A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #49

Sat March 31 2007

This week we kick off with that most important of questions - do the Japanese eat grasshoppers? From here we follow up with an amazing tale of how you... read more

This week we kick off with that most important of questions - do the Japanese eat grasshoppers? From here we follow up with an amazing tale of how you can find honey armed with only a long piece of cotton, which somehow gets mixed up with David's fish-selling exploits of yore. Next our hosts discuss some recent purchases - Andy has had a spring blow-out on musical gear while Dave has begun support... read more

This week we kick off with that most important of questions - do the Japanese eat grasshoppers? From here we follow up with an amazing tale of how you can find honey armed with only a long piece of cotton, which somehow gets mixed up with David's fish-selling exploits of yore. Next our hosts discuss some recent purchases - Andy has had a spring blow-out on musical gear while Dave has begun supporting the arts with his wallet. In the second part of Andy's 'Kyushu Diary' we find out about how the residents of Nagasaki have come to love the bomb, after which STAVKA (www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm) hit us with the experimental rock piece 'Modality in Extremes'. Then it's time for the new 'Difficult Word of the Week' segment to rear its shiny head before Dave returns to feed us some more 'Real Japanese', this week concerning a subject dear to his heart: stinginess. Don't forget to vote for us on www.podcastalley.com! abombcity@gmail.com www.abombcity.com www.hirohurl.net www.ardle.net www.myspace.com/abombcity read less

A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #48

Sat March 24 2007

We're back! The usual poorly-recorded rambling returns. Find out what fun Dave had with the trains back in Britain, and listen to part one of Andy's '... read more

We're back! The usual poorly-recorded rambling returns. Find out what fun Dave had with the trains back in Britain, and listen to part one of Andy's 'Kyushu Diary', detailing his exploits on his recent trip to that particular Japanese island.Another rude rubbing story from Hiroshima's trams, and then Andy's band STAVKA (www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm) assault our ears with the track 'Searchlight Ser... read more

We're back! The usual poorly-recorded rambling returns. Find out what fun Dave had with the trains back in Britain, and listen to part one of Andy's 'Kyushu Diary', detailing his exploits on his recent trip to that particular Japanese island.Another rude rubbing story from Hiroshima's trams, and then Andy's band STAVKA (www.ardle.net/stavkahome.htm) assault our ears with the track 'Searchlight Serenade.' Next the lads head into the plastic world of Japanese Pop with an old magazine article of Andy's, and the live dissection of a cheery song by oriental boy band faves, SMAP.After Dave muses on the need to travel, both of your hosts are then unexpectedly thrown out of the karaoke box in which they had been recording...Yep, business as usual!abombcity@gmail.comwww.abombcity.comwww.hirohurl.netwww.ardle.netwww.myspace.com/abombcity read less

A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #47

Fri February 16 2007

This week kicks off with a pungent tale of what the Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did when he met Queen Elizabeth I.Next we hear about our hosts' holi... read more

This week kicks off with a pungent tale of what the Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did when he met Queen Elizabeth I.Next we hear about our hosts' holiday plans - Dave is set to visit dear old Albion during the most dismal month of the year weather wise, there to spend jolly hours in the family mansion while the aged mother knits. Andy reveals his plans to tour Japan's southern island, Kyushu, in M... read more

This week kicks off with a pungent tale of what the Earl of Oxford Edward de Vere did when he met Queen Elizabeth I.Next we hear about our hosts' holiday plans - Dave is set to visit dear old Albion during the most dismal month of the year weather wise, there to spend jolly hours in the family mansion while the aged mother knits. Andy reveals his plans to tour Japan's southern island, Kyushu, in March, and anticipates much sulphurous volcanic activity.Then we introduce www.gethiroshima.com, a somewhat cliquey English-language website designed to let you know about what's going on in the A-Bomb City. Andy relates an amusing tale of how one of his aquaintances passes the time by replying to the very intriguing personal adds to be found therein.This week's musical offering is another slice of techno from Andy's electronic outfit Easter Islanders, entitled 'Slosco'.After that, we tackle a very touchy and tricky subject : the use and meaning of the word 'Jap'. Free speech it seems, needs to be tempered with sensitivity in such areas.We round off the show with another dose of 'Real Japanese' from David, this time centring on those naughty parts and what you might need to say about them in certain situations in good ol' Nippon.Amen.abombcity@gmail.comwww.abombcity.comwww.hirohurl.netwww.ardle.netwww.myspace.com/abombcity read less

A-Bomb City Podcast : Episode #46

Sat February 10 2007

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