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Deux très bons films:

Où est la piscine?

Not intent on plundering the human race’s entire literary canon, Google have now taken the audacious step of rewriting the literary classics. As Dan and I read great novels into YouTube, the new Google Transcribe Audio (which claims to provide a written transcript of any video) clearly decided to “improve” upon them…

The Bakery  1 – 0  Google

Anyone unfortunate enough to have come across this song will most certainly enjoy this rendition of it:

If you prefer the original, go stick your head down the nearest one of these and flush. You’ll be in for the finest musical experience of your life.

Tom’s 3rd pipe smoking instalment.

Earlier this month “Coffee & Corks” held a night of comedy and spoken word with top-notch foolery and storytelling from the legendary Devilstick Peat, as well as poetry from compere Rick Bollinger, and lots more besides.

There was also stand-up comedy from me . . .

Now, I’ve run away and hid from all previous invitations to perform at the cafe, but this time I finally gave in because it was in aid of the Macmillan cancer charity. Cancer’s a pile of shit and 2 people close to me lost family members to it last year, so I decided to stop being such a bloody coward and try to make people laugh to help raise money for this cause. Thankfully it went rather well.

A very poor quality audio recording was made, and can be heard below. It was originally made just for my own reference, and the sound quality is far too poor to go on the Bakery Audio Player. But hopefully you can all ignore the constant ruffle of my coat on the microphone and still enjoy the material. I’d like to be able to refine the set and perform it again some time, so maybe there will one day be a decent recording. Until then, I hope you enjoy this wee curiosity.

WARNING: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR TEACHERS!

Friend of The Bakery and local Canterbury musician Lucy Kitt (you may remember her guitar-plucking cameo in “Chair” ) may well win some studio recording time if she gets enough plays of the video below. And who wouldn’t want a shiny new Lucy Kitt CD on their shelf? Give it a play, do!

Live and Unsigned – Times They are a changin/ Loud and Clear on MUZU

After the splendid warm welcome that the YouTube pipe smoking community gave Tom in his first film, we were very eager to make another. This time we ventured all the way up to London Town, to bring a hint of England and the outdoors, to what remains a rather American-bedroom centred video community. Enjoy.