On Sunday 15th we will take as our theme the Dickensian tale of a miserly man visited by four ghosts on Christmas Eve to persuade him that he needs to change his future.  Our telling of A Christmas Carol will be accompanied by music to illustrate scenes from the text, some of it festive, some less so, but bringing us to a happy ending as this is our final show for 2024.

Join the team in the cavern and on the stream for our festive entertainment.

This week’s show takes a look at the ongoing career of singer-songwriter Tom Waits, including some things he wrote for other artists, some things other artists have covered, and, of course, Tom Waits’ own recordings.

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Malaclypse

This week, we will throw the book at you again. This time, we will present artists, rather than songs, with literary names. Strangelove enough, the Decameron is missing, but we’ll leave the Doors open for any Supertramps.

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Malaclypse

This week’s show will present the work of the songwriting team of Bernie Taupin and Reginald Dwight (aka Elton John), showing not just Elton John’s own recordings, but highlighting songs they have written for other artists.

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Malaclypse

This week’s show will be appropriate to the time of year: songs about hot drinks. There’s quite some variety in there!

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Malaclypse

This week’s show is the first of two concerning themselves with Northern Irelands longest-standing musical export, multiinstrumentalist-singer-songwriter Van The Man Morrison. This one includes his time as one of Them. Gloria in caverna MOULa…

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Malaclypse

This week’s show will be concerned with multiinstrumentalist singer-songwriter and producer Dave Pegg, who may be more familiar to everybody as the bassist of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull. He also did some pretty nifty solo work, though.

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Malaclypse

“It’s a plane!”—”It’s a train!”—”No, it’s… a boat!”

The third section of our transportation-oriented series brings us to where there is only a thin sheet of metal between us and the water. There will be all sorts of modes of transportation, historical as well as contemporary.

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Malaclypse

This week’s theme is the seminal work of Miles Davis at Columbia Records, notably including his setting the world of Jazz on its ears not once, but twice.

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Malaclypse

No Apocalypse for Jazz can be seen in the near future, so we will have a look at how Jazz is doing these days—it may be doing it quietly and in the background for the mainstream listener, but it’s there, it’s alive, and it’s kickin’!

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse