Podcasts by The Chorus
Bruce Dennill and Stefan Vos have found that they 'can't not art'.
The Chorus is a weekly collection of fascinating stories and interesting inanities drawn from their broad range of interests, including music, literature and the arts.
Interviews with guests involved in the above fields add perspectives, humour and possibly reasons to get lightly sued.
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The Chorus #89: The Ego Episode, Or Does Big Blunt Better? from 2023-12-01T12:22:22
Recorded on the day Shane MacGowan died, while we happened to be drinking and chatting about whiskey named after his band, there is talk of the horrors of hubris and the war it often results in,...
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The Chorus #88: The Long Life Episode - Same Auld Story, Or Every Now And Then from 2023-11-10T06:04:22
While sipping more excellent whiskey and coffee, we muse on unintended themes like living forever (Peter Pan; The Beatles) and how to best make use of those years (be enduringly brilliant; spend...
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The Chorus #87: The Thankful Episode - Involved In Art, Or Beyond The Dark Side from 2023-10-23T06:36:34
After a break due to being involved in arts projects beginning with "A" - Actress (theatre show for which Bruce was writer and composer) and Aardklop (large arts festival at which Stef...
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The Chorus #86 - The Angle Grinder Episode: Human Interest, Or Known Beyond The Noise from 2023-09-22T07:43:30
We chat about the approach of dystopia, and then it begins to sound like it's arrived. But we press on unto Gilead and beyond, where a Stoner makes Stefan emotional, and Bruce is almost cert...
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The Chorus #85 - The Intellectual Episode: Minds Always Matter, Or Thoughts And Wares from 2023-08-16T07:28:41
This week's discussion includes artists of all stripes who don't mind using a bit of brain power and thoughtfulness in the execution of their craft and the underpinnings of their concept...
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The Chorus #84 - The Relatable Episode: Tough Times Staged, Or Wondering At Whimsy from 2023-08-01T08:00:16
There are a number of ways to reflect life in art. We see theatre doing it in ways that hurt and opera doing it in ways that excite. We see chefs doing it under a load of stress. And we see Wes ...
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The Chorus #83 - The Kultuur Episode: Saturday Night's Alright For Theatre, Or Putting On The Maritz from 2023-07-14T06:45:24
Our guest is Albert Maritz, director of a new production of Paul Slabolepszy's ...
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The Chorus #82 - The Like, IRL Episode: Vocals And Violence, Or More Floe Than Ebb from 2023-07-03T08:39:01
Theatre highlights issues we all face and how we feel about them. Books take on more esoteric issues in poetic ways. Musicians create audible emotion. And directors make actors hit other actors ...
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The Chorus #81 - The Living Episode: You Get What Yu Gives, Or Charisma In Conflict from 2023-06-20T06:24:46
Stefan has read a book that he immediately regards as a classic, which happens once a decade or less. A big band grieves through loud music, a bald man goes native and there is beauty in war - i...
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The Chorus #80 - The Oblivion Episode: Come What May, Or Revealing Feelings from 2023-05-26T06:46:48
Realising that we both have gigs coming up (Bruce on 3 June at Spilt Milk Social Cafe in Melville; Stefan on 10 June at The Radium Beer Hall in Orange Grove), we don't at all in any way then...
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The Chorus #79 - The Sort Of Sports Episode: Interrupted Flow, Or Echoes Of The Galaxy from 2023-05-05T20:35:38
There's another Hollywood writer's strike. Last time, that made for some terrible shows. This time, it may burst the streaming bubble, which both makes us nervous and suggests a quality-...
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The Chorus #78 - The Crepuscular Episode: Of Night Sweats, White Hate And Not Yet Being A Murderer from 2023-04-11T07:00:12
Powerful stories examine depression; a useful guitar pedal ensures compression; a black man prepares to be a white racist and that nice Stanley Tucci is removed from the babysi...
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The Chorus #77 - The Gruntled Episode: A Focus On Favourites, Or Just Enough Of A Good Thing from 2023-03-28T07:02:12
Someone sent us a bottle of whisky, so we tasted that. We discovered new signature guitar models, so we were excited. There was almost too much theatre to watch, but we persevered. A beautiful b...
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The Chorus #76 - The (Re)Discovery Episode: In With The New, Or 99 Problems But Bad Art Ain't One from 2023-03-13T10:10:10
Stefan is in recovery after a rock star weekend gracing festival stages. On those stages, and between the pages of a collection of short stories, we discover the presence of the level of emergin...
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The Chorus #75 - The Authentic Episode: Is It Who You Know Or Where You Go? from 2023-02-24T14:07:29
We almost wander into talking about Actual Issues but then remember that we prefer to retreat to books and music and the arts in general than pretend we know how to sort out the world's...
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The Chorus #74 - The Vulnerability Episode: The Keys To Storytelling, Or Songs Of Sincerity from 2023-02-14T08:01:37
It was a fecund couple of weeks for live music, both in music venues and on theatre stages, and the readiness of the performers involved to put their hearts and souls on display is as memorable ...
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The Chorus #73 - The Snob Episode: Cruise Control, Or What The Dickens? from 2023-01-27T07:22:42
The Oscar nominations are out and we're not sure if we're happy that Top Gun might get Best Picture because, like, you know, it's not art. Elsewhere, we appreciate good writing, kitchen...
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The Chorus - Episode 72: Bronwyn Williams Is Trendy, Or Nope To A Rainbow Nation from 2022-12-15T14:39:23
It's the end of the year (and Spotify tells us we're 87% up in streams, so thank you so much for your support). We welcome back our very first guest, trends analyst and rabid reader Bronwyn Will...
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The Chorus - Episode 71: Deluxe Discussions, Plus How To Not Be A Twit from 2022-11-22T08:15:31
A little birdy told us to delve into whether Twitter is quiet as much of a cesspool as we're led to believe. Elsewhere on social media, a man from The Darkness proves to be sweet, sensitive and ...
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The Chorus - Episode 70: Garth Barnes Is Not Dead, Plus Old Men And The Very Dickens from 2022-11-07T12:11:23
Our guest is CrashCarBurn frontman Garth Barnes, chatting about the band's new album, Back From The Dead. In almost related news, we also talk about old men, including Mick Jagger and Jeff Bridg...
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The Chorus - Episode 69: Mark Banks Is Alive!, Plus Irish Girls And The End Of The World from 2022-10-21T09:45:40
Our guest is comedian Mark Banks, whose show Alive! runs at the Studio at Pieter Toerien's Montecasino Theatre until 20 November. Book at Computicket.
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The Chorus - Episode 68: Ben Voss, Plus Why Andrew Lloyd Webber Likes Pussycats, Doll from 2022-10-10T09:21:24
Our guest is Ben Voss, who plays Abominable Uncle Abanazar in Janice Honeyman's Adventures In Pantoland at the Joburg Theatre from November 6 to December 24.
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The Chorus - Episode 67: The Wonders Of WOMAD, Plus The Mob And A Murder from 2022-09-27T12:49:08
Our guest is Dan Chiorboli, festival director for WOMAD South Africa (running from 30 September to 8 October; tickets at Quicket), who unpacks the festival's itinerant delights and name-drops Pe...
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The Chorus - Episode 66: Musicians And Mental Health, Plus Pratchett And Pink Elephants from 2022-09-09T08:25:48
There's a tweaked format in this post-sojourn return, as we take a stab at edification alongside entertainment. We dip into the effects of career pressure on musicians, as well as revisiting the...
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The Chorus - Episode 65: Cakes, Brothers And Imagination Made To Taste from 2022-07-19T12:25:32
Discussed this week (in which Bruce celebrated a birthday): The giant Cake Brothers tiramisu birthday that appeare...
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The Chorus - Episode 64: Sins, Sinners And Singers from 2022-07-08T09:30:11
Discussed this week: The seven deadly sins, possibly in conjunction with the experiences of Elton John, Frank Sinatra, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee (that should cover most of them). Plus cyclin...
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The Chorus - Episode 63: Falling Furiously (Is What We Heard) from 2022-06-26T19:11:19
Discussed this week: the return of full-capacity theatre, guilty pleasures. lovely hungry people and a sublime songwriter who needs to be Heard.
THEATRE: If A Tree Falls, Locked U...
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The Chorus - Episode 62: Spiralling Into Shakespeare, Or In Fear Of A Father from 2022-06-10T07:04:32
Discussed this week:
FIRST TAKE: Spiral Staircase - Bruce Dennill
THEATRE: The Abba Show: A Cinderella Story, Borderline
BOOKS: Car...
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The Chorus - Episode 61: The SuperNature Of Covetable Commentary from 2022-06-03T09:43:01
Is Ricky Gervais a bully? Does the music industry give a toss about artists? Is whistleblowing worth it? Why don't more people know how good a guitarist Jack Pearson is? Asked and (possibly) ans...
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The Chorus - Episode 60: Occasionally The Twain Have Met from 2022-05-27T14:50:29
Discussed this week:
BOOKS: Reuben by Bryan Andrews, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
TV: Mark Twain - Ken Burns, Peaky Blinders, Ozark, Th...
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The Chorus - Episode 59: Old-Fashioned Genius And Reflections On Ruefulness from 2022-05-15T17:12:47
In which we reveal a shared fetish for 500-year-old, long-haired gentlemen, indulge an affection for Andy Samberg, wonder at fine musicians, appreciate others who appreciate what we appreciate a...
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The Chorus - Episode 58: Wouldn't It Be Nice If There Was More Brian Wilson? from 2022-05-06T13:43:21
We try out a new mic (CAN YOU HEAR US AT THE BACK?) and include our new release as The Van Dyke Parks Board. It's called "Song For Doubt" and is available everywhere you stream or download. Stef...
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The Chorus - Episode 57: Into The Wood, With Coffee from 2022-04-16T14:51:13
Our guest is actor, playwright, broadcaster and sarky Facebook presence Peter Terry, who discusses his new one-man play At All Costs, which deals (brilliantly) with the horrors of the Battle of ...
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The Chorus - Episode 56: Enjoying Craft, Dear from 2022-04-08T08:31:28
Producer, engineer, multi-instrumentalist and Very Nice Man Michael Wright joins us to talk a little bit about his Gloryvale Studio in Edenvale (he's all humble like that) and the new V...
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The Chorus - Episode 55: Mushrooms In The Nik Of Time from 2022-03-24T14:59:44
In which we welcome comedian Nik Rabinowitz, consider the power of storytelling and the value of joy over cynicism; investigate magic mushrooms; visit a dark forest in Latvia and suggest not nam...
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The Chorus - Episode 54: Enlighted About Everything, Almost from 2022-03-18T06:43:54
In which we confront our naivety through the medium of television, well-known for its truth-telling; have some very big questions almost answered; suggest that music is more important t...
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The Chorus - Episode 54: Enlightened About Everything, Almost from 2022-03-18T06:43:54
In which we confront our naivety through the medium of television, well-known for its truth-telling; have some very big questions almost answered; suggest that music is more important t...
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The Chorus - Episode 53: The Psychedelics Say We Are Beautiful Geniuses from 2022-03-11T11:05:49
In which Stefan survives several old-man ailments, we perv over a Gibson Les Paul (respectfully), acknowledge how "Beautiful" Carole King is, do the backstroke in psychedelia and realise that it...
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The Chorus - Episode 52: Banking On Your Mother's Future from 2022-03-06T18:41
In which we are joined by Mark Banks and several of his personalities as he talks about his new show, Mask About Face; discuss the appeal of getting motherless in the future and do a half-decent...
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The Chorus - Episode 51: Of Beasts, Blood, Stories And Lego from 2022-02-28T07:54:31
In which we veer from rose-coloured perspectives on arms up cows' bums to blood-coloured perspectives on rather less bucolic scenarios, and from diving into the Greatest Story Ever Told into Dav...
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The Chorus - Episode 50: Blanket Statements Made Manifest from 2022-02-18T10:44:01
In which we - on our 50th episode! - welcome Malcolm Burroughs, 67 Blankets for Nelson Mandela Day (go to www.67blankets.co.za for details of the upcoming Rainbow Nation Blanket Of Hope ...
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The Chorus - Episode 49: Drawing Conclusions With Rico from 2022-02-04T06:42:32
In which we welcome cartoonist, satirist and artist Rico to talk about his work and the sordid state of society. We also return to a giant space tortoise and head both west and backwards in time...
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The Chorus - Episode 48: The Art Of Giving A Toss About The Right Things from 2022-01-28T17:56:50
In which we look on the bright side, dispatch doubts about the value of art over fame and trip over tropes before landing in music, often The Only Place that makes sense.
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The Chorus - Episode 47: How Not To Stuff Up A Purple Patch from 2022-01-21T07:01:04
In which we consider that much is stuffed up, but also that much is not, praise men with lovely voices, focus on the strength of sensitivity and intellect over machismo and are otherwise apparen...
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The Chorus - Episode 46: Lyrics, Learning And Looking Up At Level 4 from 2022-01-14T19:05:21
In which we are told not to look up but do anyway because Meryl's not our real mom; take eating a level up; sing a song about remembering to rest; travel through Africa in taxis and take our Mut...
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The Chorus - Episode 45: Killing The Closer from 2021-12-23T14:29:29
In which, in our final podcast for 2021, we go to Lesotho, Twickenham and Cambridge; deal with Kingsolvers and crime solvers; and watch the Beatles get back and Dave Chapelle move forward.
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The Chorus - Episode 44: Cartoonists Are Dune It For Themselves from 2021-12-14T19:10:27
In which Christmas has arrived on stage, cowboys are bebopping, crows are counting and souls have been collected. Also, Dune is the new Star Wars, movies in general matter, Tenet makes perfect s...
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The Chorus - Episode 43: Ticking Off Ryan Reynolds from 2021-12-07T10:04:26
In which Stefan falls for Ryan Reynolds - in fairness, who among us has not? - Bruce gets a fresh look at the Good Book, a musical takes centre screen and delays are finally a good thing.
The Chorus - Episode 42: The White Falcon Has Landed from 2021-11-27T10:34:09
In which Stefan hunts guitars, Cinderella and Shakespeare share a theatre, a publisher puts Instagram posts in book on purpose, the West gets revised, and serial killing goes Scottish.
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The Chorus - Episode 41: The Single Hobbit Of Highly Effective Artists from 2021-11-05T13:08:52
In which Stefan has finished more than one book, Salman Rushdie uses too many words, Satan has a dual role, the end of the world is hilarious, dancers go to hell, the war on drugs is actually a ...
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The Chorus - Episode 40: Grinding On The Hvnny from 2021-10-29T08:34:05
In which singer, songwriter, coffee baron and horse straddler Cito arrives with his own beans to make us ...
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The Chorus - Episode 39: Sogn Of The Times from 2021-10-27T08:49:27
In which live music and lithe dancers return, along with concerns regarding breathing viruses on people; we launch our new Van Dyke Parks Board single, "What We Have Carried"; we discuss guitar ...
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The Chorus - Episode 38: Nine Sobbing Squid And A Hyena from 2021-10-08T09:12:02
In which our guest Mark Tatham shares what it's like being inside a hyena, dark humour is played by the numbers, squid prove to be lethal, John Mayer cries a bit and we praise a White Room that ...
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The Chorus - Episode 37: Diamonds Are Guitarists' Best Friends from 2021-10-01T10:57:30
In which Stefan comes achingly close to finishing a book, people who play guitars are celebrated even more than usual, a diamond is cursed, a blackbird is slaughtered (more or less meta...
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The Chorus - Episode 36: Every Clown Has A Silver Bullet from 2021-09-25T09:59:04
In which this episode's heading becomes an actual catchphrase for important reasons that will be lost to our children and their children and their children's children unless you listen ...
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The Chorus - Episode 35: Emotional About Entertainment from 2021-09-21T10:42:10
In which there is coffee, a pair of errant hounds and wrangling of such topics as:
TV: I Can't Get You Out Of My Head - An Emotional History Of The World by Adam Curtis; ...
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The Chorus - Episode 34: Honor, Shaving And FOMO In The Real World from 2021-09-11T14:38:58
We grapple with the tension between FOMO and going back to the good stuff, with Stefan being charmed by a third stab at Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose, Bruce not yet Listen
The Chorus - Episode 33: The Wisdom Of Solomon from 2021-09-04T18:15:15
We're joined by singer, songwriter, composer, producer, music publisher, short Lebanese person and bald man Neill Solomon, who tells tales of geographically ignorant record exec...
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The Chorus - Episode 32: John McEnroe Finds The River from 2021-08-28T19:20:10
We encounter both John McEnroe and Ian Thornley twice - it's more cost-effective that way - in the course of talking about the former writing books and narratin...
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The Chorus - Episode 31: Devils And Dusk from 2021-08-13T06:46:17
We return, cautiously but happily, to the theatre for "Dusk" - a fictional story ...
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The Chorus - Episode 30: In Search Of The Sweet Spot from 2021-08-06T13:45:24
Paths to - and definitions of - success in matters of creativity differ wildly. Put the best song at the end of an album? Sara Bareilles does just that in our "Closing Time" feature. Re-imagine ...
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The Chorus: Crows Are Counted And Lincoln Outvoted, Or Stating Your Soul Intentions from 2021-07-28T14:33:44
Post-lockdown. New features. Live performance. Short sentences. Key messages: corruption is bad, music is great, driving is cool, food is complicated and doing things purely to feel joy is essen...
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The Chorus: Deadpan Delirium, Or Of Sequels And Insouciance from 2021-06-18T14:31:34
People who don't laugh make jokes much funnier. It's Brooklyn Nine-Nine science. As is Stephen King ÷ Stanley Kubrick > 1. Wait, that's maths. Movie maths. AC/DC music videos feel flaccid, bu...
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The Chorus - Fantasy Philosophy, Or Loving The Long Form from 2021-06-11T09:03:50
In which Bruce and Stefan are less retentive than usual. Feel the freedom of unclenched sphincters and rejoice! We chat about fake Faust and fantasy philosophy, about a Charlie Parker who doesn'...
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The Chorus: A Harrison Scored, Or Unplugging A Parable from 2021-06-05T16:32:45
We welcome the lovely Alyssa Harrison - actress, singer, director, and half of theatre marketing hub and events co-ordination platform Plug In Theatre, She adds class and elegance as we rattle o...
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The Chorus: Jackie, Jupiter And Jargon, Or Zombies Who Punch Goats from 2021-05-28T18:25:40
Bruce attempts to expand, amplify and explicate his vocabulary while forgetting - or wishing he could - film plots and appreciating a boundary-pushing songwriter. Stefan has forgotten how to rea...
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The Chorus: Killer Kids (The Horror, The Horror!), Or DC Talking About NYC from 2021-05-14T10:31:08
Stefan discusses being scared and literal character assassination, while Bruce is less impressed with Greek kings than he is New York nerds. And both go back to the Nineties, to when music invol...
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The Chorus: Choirs And Chronicles, Or Paperback Tigers from 2021-05-07T13:10:19
Stefan and Bruce wax lyrical about a vocal collective before considering animated AI and the kind of all-encompassing drive(r) needed to become the best and most famous sportsman on the planet. ...
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The Chorus: Our Hows In The Country, Or Imagining The Imbolc from 2021-04-30T07:06:51
We welcome a bald, bearded tattooed man into the studio and live to tell the tale. David Batzofin writes about about travel and ... things ... on his excellent blog, um, Travel & Things (www...
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The Chorus: The Good, The Bad And The Forgettable, Or Touring Through Time from 2021-04-28T10:17:54
We prove that, in the same way that two random musicians with reading fetishes can create a sublime podcast, sometimes great actors can appear in entirely average films, and that it's e...
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The Chorus: Of Ballet, Blacklists, Bucks, Bobs And BBs, Or Hussein What About America from 2021-04-09T09:40:33
Bruce sees actual live people perform and lives to tell the story while Stefan admires rolling cheeses and frets about the darkness of Victorian London. Both Saddam Hussein and queer musicians g...
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The Chorus: The Mettle Of Pedals, Or Presidential Perspectives On Pacing The Peripheries from 2021-03-20T14:37:19
Stefan appears to have forgotten how to read. But he is making up for it by watching and listening to all manner of intriguing material, including a whole musical about and starring guitar pedal...
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The Chorus: Paean To A Peacock, Or Pick Your Preferred Predator from 2021-03-15T12:50:26
We harp on about music (ooh - art form-specific pun!) at length, glorying in the multifarious skills of a man named after a bird; noting the importance of mystery in the appeal composit...
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The Chorus: Closing The Circle, Or Translating The Language Of Music from 2021-03-08T11:11:47
In which we give a toss what a listener thinks (he's moved by films about necessary violence in ruined ancient cities, for what it's worth), and notice that a television series set in the future...
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The Chorus: We Care A Lot, Or Blue Flowers For The Invisible Criminals from 2021-02-26T18:20:12
We consider the merits of being the lesser of two evils, or whether being a good guy makes you invisible or not. We notice, with not a little shame, that changing music models have resulted in u...
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The Chorus: Hanks For The Memories, Or Dancing Through A Deadly Purple Patch from 2021-02-19T19:01:56
In which we note that Tom Hanks makes delivering news an art form - which we like, as for us, art is the best kind of news. There's also sex and beer and secret histories of different kinds - in...
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The Chorus: Being A Sub For Culture, Or Putting Dreamers On The (Jimmy) Page from 2021-02-05T09:00:45
It's probably harsh to refer to our podcast as sub-cultural - like, don't harsh our vibe, man - but we do find ourselves wandering into, and wondering about, the niches (the subcultures) that ar...
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The Chorus: When Fragile Things Feed What Ailes You, Or Why Peacocks In The Office Are Not An Unfortunate Event from 2021-01-27T19:02:47
Back in the screen saddle (to maim a metaphor), Bruce hunts a terrorist, explodes songs, discovering what Ailes Rodger and noting that making money as a teacher shouldn't include embezz...
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The Chorus: Cats' A-Curdlin', Or Never Second-Guest A Verbose Virtuoso from 2020-12-04T14:13:03
Joined in studio by our second guest, actual live rock star Andre Kriel, our three-way (ooh!) cornucopia of confabulation includes boiling cats (there is context, fear not); cocaine in Ibiza; Bl...
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The Chorus: Immigration Complications, Or Appreciating Blue Woman Group from 2020-11-20T06:43:19
We delve, literarily, into the complexities of immigration, and just how dark it can get for the displaced. We discover, happily, that everyone does love guitar, and that Richard Bennet...
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The Chorus: Here Come The Fuzz, Or Of Guilt, Pleasure, Cults And Comics from 2020-11-13T07:03:38
Verily, we spoke of many things this day. Of Billy Gibbons and his fuzzy pedal; of Twin Peaks, 25-year-long cliffhangers and Tubular Bells; and of the Ndlovu Youth Choir and their musical meticu...
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The Chorus: Theroux The Looking Glass, Or Understanding The Horror, The Horror from 2020-11-06T18:38:06
Whiskies in hand, we go armchair travelling through Paul Theroux's Mexico (and politics), Bill Bryson's England (and humour), and wherever the animals are (and David Attenborough). We consider t...
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The Chorus: Taken As Read, Or A Present Futurist from 2020-10-22T07:16:27
We welcome our first in-studio guest in the delightful person of Bronwyn Williams - futurist, trends analyst and catholic reader - who shares her expertise while gamely interrupting as we consid...
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The Chorus: Deliberations On Dilemmas, Or Dreams Of Difference from 2020-10-09T07:46:16
Wide-ranging musings take us from Tiny Desk Concerts, Jason Isbell's concerns about his daughter's fitness for professional yodelling, Dolly Parton being the ideal homework subject and Jeff McEr...
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The Chorus: Towards Utopia, Or Meeting Marvellous Martin from 2020-09-27T19:52:51
We're back again. Again. We remember how to plug in the talkie-make-louder thing and press the circle button to start the recordering bit. And we can still, it turns out, talk. Quite a lot. And ...
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The Chorus: Crisis Creativity, Or In Search Of Significance from 2020-05-01T18:34:39
It's been a while, and we're sorry for the break in transmission. Global crises and all that. Bit of a palaver, what? Lurking in lockdown, our perspectives turn to the nature of making art, shar...
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The Chorus: Neil The Younger, Or Ornery Over Ordinary from 2020-03-06T11:17:49
Substance over supplication. This is a good thing. Give the people what they need, not what they think they want. It isn't a topic we'd written down, but then we talk about Neil Young's...
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The Chorus: Of Heritage Bands And Handcrafted Brands from 2020-02-21T10:51:44
We go to a concert, and we have some A-ha moments. We appreciate the new. We empathise with the old. Stefan coughs, because he is sick. We bring together two of the most talented singer-songwrit...
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The Chorus: Introductions, Part The Second from 2020-02-14T10:48:52
In continued informed waffling, Bruce and Stefan delve – dive, even – into books, discussing the fragile genius of Brian Wilson and ploughing (such a fecund word) through all 47 volumes...
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The Chorus: Introductions, Part The First from 2020-02-07T08:21:08
Bruce and Stefan made a podcast. The focus is on music, literature and the arts. In this first part of the introduction, we introduce themselves and our hopes for the podcast. There are ine...
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