Gill's new EP "Evermore" is out now!!

Please peruse our website, and listen to the podcasts and find out about the bands...

We aint done a podcast for ages, but if you're a local band - we'd still like to hear from you... We've been getting LOADS of spam emails on our main email address featured on the site - so please instead add the year "2008" after the "info" and before the "@"...

We have other projects bubbling in the background, so please do get in contact.

Byeeeeeeeee..

If you have yet to watch the comedic sketchings of Ross & Andrew aka Kapow you're missing out on a surreal, gore filled, treat.

The comedy shorts, filmed in an around the local area have a whiff of Spaced, mixed with a little 80's cop action and seasoned with some Hammer Horror.

We caught up with the guys recently, we had lots of questions - luckily the chaps had a lot of answers;

How did you both meet?

I was at school and Andrew got kicked out of the lap dancing course he had joined the previous August. Sounds crazy, but it is absolutely the truth. We both shared a love of Dan Cake and quality video games, and when we were made to work together on a Theatre Studies project, we were at first bitter rivals, but eventually came to become the greatest of companions.

What inspired you to create KAPOW?

Well, originally, after we had overcome our bitter rivalry, we just wanted to make a sketch-based thing. But, that didn't really go anywhere. And then, one night, I was watching television and happened upon an advert for a little machine that printed off address labels, and one of the names was something like "Ross Andrews". It then hit me. I sent a message to Andrew right away, and within a short 2 years or so we were well on our way to making the first episode.

Which comedy performers/writer/directors have influenced your work?

We look to our lives for inspiration. But, more specifically, we just ripped off a bunch of alternative comedy shows. We got compared to Spaced and Green Wing in Digital Video Magazine. Green Wing... not so much. But Spaced is a big influence.

How many people are involved in producing the KAPOW series?

Just about every episode is made with only myself and Andrew. We had some special parts for people in The Super Glue Fiend, but apart from that, it's Ross and Andrew all over the shop. Actually [OVERTLY OBVIOUS PLUG], you can catch the full 31 minute version of The Super Glue Fiend on our web site at www.rossandandrew.co.uk.

Who would win in a fight between Jim Rockford and Magnum PI?

Well, to answer this, we must take into account weaponry and terrain. On a clearly flat surface, with machetes, Magnum. On something a little more varied, such as a work site or country garden, with glass daggers, there can be only one. Jim Rockford.

Are you "into" the local music scene?

Absolutely. And, at the moment, the best band around is Rebuild The Doxa. Actually, their hit song - "Snail Shell Full of Slugs" - was written specifically FOR The Super Glue Fiend's end credit sequence.

Where would you like to see yourselves in 5 years time?

Alive, with a wealth of jewellery and a butler.

The next podcast episode is likely to be the last for the meantime. Therefore we will be coming out all guns blazing - packed with local bands, comedy and banter.

However, fear not we will be back very shortly on a brand new podcast called "PSW - Podcast South West" where we will basically do the same stuff but featuring bands from across the south west along with some new writers, performers and team members.

In the meantime, take care of yourself and each other.

Ello,

We shall be getting considerbaly plastered this bank holiday the next edition of Plymcast will be available to download on Saturday 15th April.

If you're in a band and would like to be featured, get in touch me hearties!

All the Best
Plymcast

We're recording episode six this week (Friday).

We'll be featuring local bands Sangreal & The Prima Donners along with a track from a US based band called the Gidgets Gaga in our new "Plymouth Import" feature. We'll also be featuring music from Lemanis and Rick Weightman.

Following on from last week's episode we're also inviting you to send in your "Dragons Den" style business propositions.

Can you do better than kitchen scrubbers gaffer taped to a pair of trainers or hotpantsfortramps.com?

By the way, the black dog we rescued from the tedious Sidmouth "booty trip" is still hanging round Plymcast HQ. To earn his keep we're going to make him produce this week's show. We still haven't got a name for him, any suggestions?

You can drop us an email at info@plymcast.com or leave us a message on our answer machine thingy- 01752 548649.

Musician Pat Orchard (who we featured in podcast number three) has kindly agreed to lend Plymcast his musings on music and life. Here's the first blog,

Fancy blogging on Plymcast? Email Us



Pat's MySpace Site

WONT PAY...? DON'T PLAY.

What is it with some of these so called music venues in Jannerville! I went to a gig recently and the fiscal journey was along these lines...

Called a cab on my phone (British Tele Con got paid £0.05p for this service.)

My Taxi (dermist) driver stuffed his wallet with £4.00 for a journey that was mostly downhill, the sod could have freewheeled all the way, probably did.

Got to the door of the 'venue' and a 'bruiser-cum-bouncer-cum-ape' allowed me in, for his skill in assessing my suitability as a patron he was paid about £80.00 for the night.

The pert breasted receptionist sold me a ticket, I don't know what she was on per hour but as she was a pert-breasted girl I didn't really give a ****...still lets say she was on basic minimum pay of £5.05 per hour.

The girl who checked my coat in (couldn't see her breasts as she was behind the counter) gave me a bingo ticket in exchange for my attire, guess she was on minimum wage to of £5.05 per hour.

The 'pop stars or models to be' bar staff served me drinks all night, thereby making money for the breweries (say about £1.00 per pint of larger, money for the tax man, say about £0.40p, profit for the clubs and of course wages for the bar staff/models/pop stars...

(I undress, I mean digress...don't you f**ckin hate the way that music shop staff keep playing the guitar when you enter the store? Worse still is that they play it better then you do! Why don't they just hang it on the wall and sell me my £0.20p thumb pick!
I feel a rant coming on here.
Do you realise the disdain I get from them that I haven't bought rock 'n' roll plectrum in black plastic with a skull printed on it, or a limited edition (i.e. 789 million) silver sixpence copy of the Bryan May type plectrum (£8.00 for a sixpence!, - if you don't know what a sixpence is then sod off you youthful bastard).. no they look at me like a piece of shit, or even worse a folk-guitarist, that I have had the audacity to interrupt there note-fucking-perfect solo from what ever heavy metal guitar solo they were performing...NOTE TO HEAVY METAL GUITARISTS...you all sound the same.. only Jimi Hendrix sounded different!..

(the following blog continues after a glass of wine and two Diazepam- posh name for Valium)...

sorry about that, where was I. oh yes...the fiscal journey through Plymouth Music Biz...

so after a few beers I go to the loo, avoid a sign saying 'wet floor' and try to position myself against the urinal so that the old hag cleaning the floor cant see my willy, she tries though and I guess she is getting paid £5.05 to do it....

then its back to the bar where I order 'BBQ Chicken wings' (I am vegetarian so I only eat the things that animals don't use, never seen a chicken fly so they obviously don't value their wings as much as my taste buds do.. ) The plate was bought to me by a waitress, long legs pert breasts, who was paid approx. £5.50 an hour plus tips (in my case £0.50p - £0.25p per breast, would have given her a quid but I didn't find her pretty).

The cook who made it was on about £8.00 an hour I guess..

Then the concert started.. the solo acoustic guitarist, a friend of mine, was superb! His set went down a storm,
- the pert tittied receptionist peered through the entry doors with love/hate knuckled bouncer uncomfortably close behind,
- the unknown breast-type cloak-room girl peered around the corner from her woolly warren,
- the 'I'm to good for this place' bar staff looked towards the stage with a worried look,...maybe they would need more then good looks and perfect bodies to make it after all?.. can talent be infused by reversed liposuction?
- Cooks stopped flipping burgers
- Waitresses stopped counting tips...
all were mesmerised by the person on stage.. who incidentally was the whole point of the night in the first place...what a performance MORE MORE!!

A broom is drearily sweeping
Up the broken pieces of yesterdays life.. (Heavy metal guitarists please note that Hendrix wrote great lyrics as well...so do us a favour turn it down to minus-eleven and give us all a break will you )

With the night over I walk with my guitarist friend past the night cleaners (on about £5.50 per hour)..

we get near Union street and the musician says..
"Lend me £2.50 will you Pat, I'm staving.. could do with a burger"..
"Oh", I reply, "were you paid by cheque tonight"..
"Na" he says... "this venue don't pay the musicians!"

Some Jannerville venues don't pay at all...some say they will give you £0.50 per flyer that comes with your name on.. RIP OFF.
The first is obvious, in the case of the second - who gets paid for all those who come along without flyers because they heard that the guitarist was playing? Should Sting play at Wembley then the only money he would get would be from his family... ;-)

DON'T SUPPORT THESE VENUES… IF YOU DO THEN OTHERS WILL FOLLOW SUITE AND GOOD MUSICIANS WILL BE FORCED TO SELL THERE GUITARS AND THEN THEIR ASSES TO SURVIVE.

Thank you and goodnight.

Friday February 2nd

TOTAL SCIENCE
Jungle / Drum & Bass / Hip-Hop DJ Nite
@ The Hub, Plymouth

Age: 18+

Entry: £7 (Flyer/NUS) / £9
www.plymouthhub.com

www.myspace.com/theplymouthhub

Remember lovely club/bar owners, you can email us your upcoming gigs to be included in our Event Calendar, it's over that'a way ----------------------------------------------->

As discussed in Plymcast episode 4, here is my initial design of this website which Gaz then scanned into his computer before putting it in the internet's...



Mark

We plan to be recording the next podcast this week - please submit your events, bands, songs, and 'voicebox' messages...

Somehow, we've ended up with two entries in iTunes.

What's even more astonishing is that Plymcast's "popularity" rating is equal to that of Ricky Gervais podcasts.

This might be a mistake, but we shall ignore this rather important factor and continue to bask in false glory...