The Long Drive Home – Details, episodes & analysis

You're back then, are you? Welcome! The Long Drive Home is back - bigger, louder and more harrowing than ever.This episode sees our chat with prog and psych overlord Kavus Torabi (Cardiacs, Gong, The Utopia Strong, The Monsoon Bassoon) as he recounts some of his worst gigs ever, from rain-soaked shows and collapsing festivals to the bizarre night where boiled sweets became airborne weapons.Like, subscribe, tell ya mates!Kavus' music: https://kavustorabi.bandcamp.comAMTP live shows, music and merch: https://alphamaleteaparty.bandcamp.com/

The Long Drive Home is back baby! Bigger, louder and more harrowing than ever.

Episode one is us, Alpha Male Tea Party, explaining the absences of the podcast and also discussing our worst gigging experiences since we last spoke. Listen as we speak with stark honesty about how most of our gear was stolen from us as we ate an overpriced breakfast in a service station! Laugh as we bare our souls and contemplate - why do we even bother, eh?

Like, subscribe, tell ya mates!

Live shows, music and merch - https://alphamaleteaparty.bandcamp.com/

On this episode - A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of the company of the very wonderful and talented Serena Cherry, who discusses her fabulous and not-so-fabulous escapades when out on the road with her band Svalbard. Please note - later on in the podcast Serena touches on her appalling experiences of up-skirting, so if you feel this subject may be sensitive - please feel free to skip onwards.

Enjoy! xxx

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We're absolutely delighted to have Richard Jupp, former drummer from Elbow (yes, ELBOW) on the podcast to talk us through the lows and indeed HIGHS of being in Elbow. We gave Richard rare permission to also discuss some of his favourite parts of touring and some other wild activities of the A-list life.

A lovely episode that we all thoroughly enjoyed. Richard is a wonderful chap.

Enjoy x

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Episode 10! How did we get here? Who knows...

John Helps of the excellent Maybeshewill gives us the lowdown on his touring escapades both as a musician and as a tour manager for other artists.

This one is particularly explosive and wide reaching and covers some extremely dark content, so, be warned. There are also some very powerful swears.

Tuck in.

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HI.

We were delighted to invite Fin (James Findlay), bassist from Hell is for Heroes, onto the show to talk us through the lowest ebbs of touring in the height of the UK Post-Hardcore boom of the early to mid 00s.

Recorded back in ages ago (again), this one covers a lot of ground and the final tale is really quite something. Touring IS fun, promise, but the bad stuff is pretty damn interesting to talk about.

ENJOY.

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HELLO.

After an extremely long break, we've finally got a new episode for you.

This was recorded WAYYYY back in April, peak lockdown and for various tedious reasons, it's not been available till now, HOWEVER we are delighted to have the ultra brilliant Andrew Falkous off of Future of The Left and Mclusky join us to reveal his worst gigs for us and it was a very fun chat indeed.

Due to how long it's taken to get this up, there's a couple of chats relevant to when we recorded it that probably don't make any sense now but whatever, it's still funny.

ENJOY.

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HEY!

We've got Yvette Young from Covet on with us today and it's a CORKER. She talks us through some truly bizarre and in some cases harrowing situations she's found herself in over the years.

Get a nice mug of tea and tuck in.

xoxo

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Hurrah! Another one straight from the heart of Lockdown Britain.

Episode 6 of the Long Drive Home. This week we're joined by Djamila Azzouz, the brilliant vocalist of off ITHACA who guides us through the back catalogue of shitemares her and her valiant band mates have been through.

We talk pints gone wrong, Middlesborough and unnecessary drum kits.

We had loads of fun recording this one so hope you like it.

Enjoy xx

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This week we're joined by Ben Murray, our good friend and front of house engineering extraordinaire to talk over some of his less enthralling experiences as a professional sound engineer. Many beans are spilt and subsequently stood on.

Ben is a brilliant engineer based in Liverpool and he's a director at Total Control Sound, a PA hire company he's built up with his brother John. Ben also occasionally gets the dubious honour of running front of house for us (when we can afford him) at our live shows.

We cover everything from broken PAs, boxes full of dead animals and also read out and respond to some of your tweets.

This is also the first one we've attempted from isolation during the great Coronavirus Lockdown of 2020, thanks to the magic of Zoom.

ENJOY.

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