Episode 131: 61 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio.
4. And you can now get the show on your mobile phone from our friends over at Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. The Razorbax, Picture on my Wall (http://www.myspace.com/therazorbax)
2. Sharon Robinson, The High Road (http://www.myspace.com/sharonrobinsonmusic)
3. Bo Bruce, Brighter Moon (http://www.myspace.com/bobrucesongs)
4. Tiger Lilly, Here I Am (http://www.myspace.com/tigerlillyofficialuk)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• A confession. We were terribly under-prepared for this show owing to being under-prepared. And yet we discussed…
• Soph & Gemma's film night (weird, it includes poo, fish, Hairspray and Fame)
• Bren's filmfest-of-one-film – The Bourne Identity and…
• Student Baked Beans on Toast
• Spook tradecraft in Bourne and spook tradecraft in The Ronin
• Luc Besson being a cinematic genius (and some of his films)
• Bren applying Equal Ops to all religions (scary)
• Going to a rehearsal and photoshoot tomorrow
• What Lies Beneath – a mundane, pedestrian not-shocker
• A big discussion about the TV series ‘Flash Forward' (which was excellent and shouldn't have been cancelled) and the book ‘Flash Forward' (which was cow poo and shouldn't have been printed)
• Taking lunch to work is not good, you end up eating two lunches!
• We’ve teamed up with Stitcher.com so you can get the show on your phone – check the sidebar!
• Many other things…!

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 130: 61 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio.
4. And you can now get the show on your mobile phone from our friends over at Stitcher.com!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. She Makes War, I Am (http://www.myspace.com/shemakeswar or shemakeswar.com)
2. James Robot, Stranger (http://www.myspace.com/jamesrobotmusic)
3. Jessie Grace, Beautiful (http://www.myspace.com/jesiegrace)
4. Lily Sparks, Stars (http://www.myspace.com/lilysparksrock)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• An interview with the very talented and artistic She Makes War – from the car!
• Soph's week: being called a bitch at work, having a customer fall asleep and the Fire Alarm incident (not as funny as Bren's mental image of what happened)
• Kickboxing, with Gemma and Soph (scary much?)
• We've teamed up with Stitcher.com so you can get the show on your phone – check the sidebar!
• Contraband information
• Film review: Knight and Day (good fodder if you leave your brain at home)
• Film review: Mansun (disturbing, and highlights inconsistencies in the US penal system)
• Unusual questions that Surrey Council has been asked by the public
• Two shows down for UKHDRadio
• Many other things…!

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 129: 64 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Dial F For Frankenstein, USA (http://www.myspace.com/dialfforfrankenstein)
2. Little Fish, Darling Dear (http://www.myspace.com/littlefishmusic)
3. Ross and the Wrongens, Summersun (http://www.myspace.com/rossandthewrongens)
4. The Epstein, Dance the Night Away (http://www.myspace.com/theepstein)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• Big up to S. Le for spreading the Ben Walker and Troubadork message on her blog, for buying the album – and also for getting one of her readers to buy the album too. For that she gets a crisp new t-shirt so she can continue to be excellent – but with us all over her chest.
• Gemma has a not good week
• We drink wine during the show (and Bren falls over his worms)
• The launch of Little Fish‘s debut album: Baffled and Beat
• An interview with Juju and Nez from Little Fish
• A reminder that MattyB is willing to help produce work for musicians
• A booklaunch on Saturday 18th September: Sam Manicom‘s ‘Tortillas to Totems. If you're interested in motorbikes or strongly-written travel/adventure books, and you can be in the north London area on the day, drop us a line and come along to the launch party!
• X-Factor starts soon. Will the winner last as long as the show season?
• Soph says Autumn is the time for ‘new stationary'. Is this a code?
• Soph's very weird Robert Pattinson dream. Very weird!
• A reminder for the Battstock Music Festival in Witney on 11th September
• Our Big News: We're going to do a weekly radio show!
• Many other things…!

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 128: 48 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Quadrophobe, Sir Penguin (http://www.myspace.com/quadrophobe)
2. Jake Smith, One False Step (http://www.myspace.com/jakesmithmusic)
3. Elizabeth Tryon, Fire Inside (http://www.myspace.com/elizabethtryon)
4. Second Dan, Today (http://www.myspace.com/seconddan)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• Gig review: Sobell House Hospice fundraiser, organised by Quadrophobe
• Gemma writes a letter…  (this is slightly worrying)
• Bren has a rant about Gatcombe Horse Trials
• Bren says goodbye to an old friend
• An interview with Jake Smith (our 2nd artist on this week's playlist!)
• An offer of audio production work from Matty B
• Michelle Obama listens to us! Probably
• Batstock Music Festival in Witney on 11th September 2010
• Farewell to the lightweights at Neanderthal Radio
• Many other things…!

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to studio@thisrealitypodcast.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – unsigned, independent recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at studio@thisrealitypodcast.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 127: 56 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. The Postal Service, Such Great Heights (http://www.myspace.com/thepostalservice)
2. Ben Walker, Dressing Up (http://ihatemornings.com)
3. The Zephyrs, Rip The Heart (http://www.myspace.com/lagres)
4. Echo Boomer, The Circle (http://www.myspace.com/echoboomeruk)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• Film review: Toy Story 3
• Gemma tells us about her creative writing mishap
• Bren going to the Ali Booker Memorial cricket match
• Quadrophobe's charity gig in aid of Sobell House Hospice
• A quick mention for next month's Batstock Music Festival in Witney
• A random discussion about Kingham resident, Alex James from Blur
• Bren doing a new, non-music podcast with Leigh off of Dirtyboxers
• Being in discussion about producing/presenting a music show for a radio station
• Meeting up with Jack from Alcopop! Records
• Bren's suggestion that we could be a venue for The Edinburgh Fringe
• Bren asks the question on everyone's lips: would a vegetarian eat another person?
• Soph having eaten a camel. The animal, not the cigarette
• Lloyd Grossman chat
• Jeremy Clarkson chat (and him having a fat arse)
• Secret watching of Total Wipeout!
• Many other things…!

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 126: 49 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Muse, Hysteria (http://www.myspace.com/muse)
2. Any Color Black, Answer (http://www.myspace.com/anycolorblack)
3. Lisbeth Scott, Right Now (http://www.myspace.com/lisbethscottmusic)
4. War Tapes, She Lied (http://www.myspace.com/wartapes)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week’s show includes:

• Film review: Twilight Eclipse
• Film review: Predators (very meh)
• A social day out in London meeting many very lovely, creative and awe-inspiring people
• Playing with new sound effects in the studio
• A whole pile of rambling

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 125: 49 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Breed 77, La Ultima Hora (http://www.myspace.com/breed77)
2. Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde, War Cry (http://www.myspace.com/tainapoet)
3. Dave Sasscer, Ella (http://www.myspace.com/davesasscer)
4. Origen, Perdón (http://www.myspace.com/origenweb)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this week's Spanish-themed show includes:

• Soph’s poorly exploding bottom
• Why, precisely this is a special Spanish show
• Film review: Inception (and a discussion about William Gibson novels)
• Spanish fact! Spain's Parque Naçional de Sierra Nevada is the most heavily environmentally protected territory in Europe
• Lots of facts and a few peculiarities about the small village of Bérchules
• Lots of facts about the Alhambra palace in Granada
• The village of Bérchules celebrating New Year in… August! Oh yes.
• It is the anniversary of Bren getting arrested in Bérchules for a crime that doesn't exist
• Why the first course of Tapas is usually… pork.

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 124: 56 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Hundred Reasons, What You Get (http://www.myspace.com/hundredreasons)
2. Unsound, August (http://www.myspace.com/thegreenstoneproject)
3. Ghosts on the Radio, Lovely (http://www.myspace.com/ghostsontheradio)
4. Grandadbob, Hide Me (http://www.myspace.com/grandadbobmusic)
5. The Hoodoo Fifties, Push Against The Roles (they put you through) (http://www.myspace.com/hoodoofifties)

Some of the talkie bits we cover this week includes:

• Soph's quiet week that has yielded lots of food. Yay!
• Soph catching Bren in bed with a bitch
• We had two tracks submitted by a female artist who is signed to Sony/RCA. They didn't make it on to our playlist
• A live phone call to Ian, our ex-pat correspondent who lives in Nebraska that covered such things as: Tornadoes, Barbecue weather, Freedom of speech vs Setting fire to the US flag, National stereotypes, Health & Safety (in a badger-related way), No MOT for vehicles, ‘Lie to Me' and ‘Flashforward'. And love for Norwegian Recycling
• Bad lawsuits 1: The mayor of a town in Turkey called ‘Batman' is suing Warner Brothers, claiming the makers of The Dark Knight used his city's name without permission.
• Bad lawsuits 2: German playboy pensioner Rolf Eden (77) tried to sue 19-year-old Katharina Weiss after she refused to sleep with him. His legal action hinged on his argument that she was being ageist.
• Evidence that the film industry is dead; according to Will Smith's IMDB page, he's currently working on Independence Day 3. And Independence Day 2. And The Karate Kid 2. And I Robot 2. And Hancock 2. And Bad Boys 3. And Men In Black 3. And I Am Legend – The Prequel. Do we need any more evidence?
• Meeting with Derek Hobbs off of Contraband
• A bit of a rant about the BBC's ‘cut n paste' solution to Jonathan Ross leaving his BBC radio show and leaving his BBC TV show and replacing him with Graham Norton who, in the past, has not, is not now and never will be any good. Is the BBC stifling creative talent through this series of decisions? Or is this somehow supposed to be a miraculous way of encouraging emerging talent?

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and we listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and a banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Cornbury Music Festival, 2010 Special!

Episode 123: 50 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save’ or ‘save as’ option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

This week we bring you a Cornbury Music Festival ‘special', with news, reviews and interviews with artists, band-members and members of the public. The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Charly Coombes and The New Breed, Hell Below (http://www.myspace.com/charlycoombes)
2. Joshua Radin, I'd Rather Be With You (http://www.myspace.com/joshuaradin)
3. Buddy Guy, Feels Like Rain (http://www.myspace.com/buddyguy)
4. The Brainchild, Conversational Tennis (http://www.myspace.com/brainchild44)

Some of the talkie bits we cover in this Cornbury special includes:

• Street entertainment brilliance
• Joshua Radin's groupie collective
• Sean, from Contraband being asked to sign girls breasts
• Views that Cornbury 2010 felt different to Cornbury 2009 for both of us
• An interview with Sean of Contraband
• An interview with Charly Coombes
• An interview with The International Jet Setters
• An interview with Chris Dowling of The Brainchild
• And interviews with the following members of the festival-going public: Callum and Family, John and Ellie, Jez, Matthew and the lovely Annie D

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and we talked about last weekend's Cornbury Music Festival and then we listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.

Episode 122: 60 minutes running time

Welcome to the UK’s most listened-to independent music and entertainment podcast.

You want to listen to the show? You have 3 options:

1. You can listen by streaming the show straight from our website: just click here!
2. Or you can download the show to your computer – or your mobile phone – so you can listen whenever you want, and in the privacy of your own home: just right click here and use the ‘save' or ‘save as' option in your browser
3. Or, if you have iTunes, you can get the show from the iTunes store (free of charge!): just click here and listen to it on your iPod, iPhone, iPad, your computer or other iTunes-compatible music player. Better than radio!

The musical goodness that you can listen to in this week’s show includes:

1. Speakowire, Supertight (http://www.myspace.com/speakowire)
2. My First Tooth, Margaret Yen (http://www.myspace.com/myfirsttooth)
3. Kamala, Repeated Beats (http://www.myspace.com/dannyrhymezandmattyb)
4. TQR (ft Tracy Gibbons), Underground (http://www.myspace.com/tqrmusic)
5. The Hype Theory, We Will Be Singing (http://www.myspace.com/thehypetheory)

Some of the talkie bits we cover includes:

• England crashing out of the World Cup
• Film Review: The Hurt Locker
• Theatre Review: Tomahawk Theatre‘s production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Oxford Castle
• Very sad news at the departure of a dear friend, Ali Booker
• Bren's listening to a new podcast: Dirty Boxers
• Soph's sleepy, sleepy week off
• Bren's got a cunning idea for listener interaction – a Skype-based conference call. Let us have your views on the concept
• We explore the idea that Daily Mail readers have subscribed because they hate us and they need to have something to hate
• Some random discussions about Cornbury Festival, interviews Bren has pitched for and some special guests…?
• We listen to a clip from stand-up comedian Robin Ince which sets us up for:
• An interview with Silky, the organiser of the Isis Comedy Festival which will be taking part next weekend (9th, 10th, 11th July 2010) in Oxford

How did it happen?
On Friday evening we sat in Studio B in rural Oxfordshire and we listened to four excellent musical tracks that were so good, that we had to share them with you. Then we had a range of conversations about topics so diverse they defy a simple description.

This Reality Podcast is an independently-produced, advertising-free, feast of musical goodness and banquet of all-round entertainment, and all you have to do to enjoy it is to download the show! And it’s free of charge!

Normally we have a phone call slot, if you would like to join us during the show, just let us have your number and we’ll call you. Or you can add ‘thisrealitypodcast’ to your Skype address book.

You want more? Really?

About this production:
The show is recorded live in one take like a radio show. There is absolutely no after-show editing or post-production mucking about. While we were sitting in the studio recording the show we were also Twittering live. Why don’t you come on over and follow the podcast on This Reality Podcast twitter feed.

Did you know that you can send in your email or audio contributions to thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com or leave comments on the website?

If you are a band or a recording artist and you would like to send your music in to the podcast, just email us or do the MySpace thing at http://www.myspace.com/thisrealitypodcast or email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com.

Podcast admin:
All tracks are featured and played with the generous permission of the artists and/or their management.

Now go and visit their websites, tell them where you heard them and let them know how much you love their work! And treat yourself, buy a little piece of their work – recording artists have to eat, you know!

If you would like to contribute your thoughts to This Reality Podcast or air your views on any of the topics we’ve discussed (or anything else that you want to), just drop us a line. Email us at thisrealitypodcast@gmail.com. Or if you prefer you can leave your comments, your tracks or your words of abuse or encouragement in our drop zone, just go to http://drop.io/thisrealitypodcast.

Or you can just leave your thoughts on the website at http://www.thisrealitypodcast.com.