GBA Live 2 A Room Full of Friends

Published: Feb. 19, 2013, 11:04 a.m.

b'Episode 2 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.\\n\\nToday we get we get better acquainted with A Room Full of Friends.\\n\\nThis is the pilot of a new strand of the GBA podcast. The Getting Better Acquainted house band, A Room full of Friends, will play regular gigs in rooms full of different groups of friends. We play songs, we talk, we talk to the audience, and we have fun. In this episode the songs and the conversation take us to all sorts of places from Steven Seagal, to heart attacks, to Winnie the Pooh, to teenage goth memories, to eulogies to dead friends and much, much more.\\n\\nThe current line up of a room full of friends is:\\n\\nDave: Vox/Guitar/Uke\\n\\nAsia: Vox\\n\\nSam: Drums: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-99-sam\\n\\nGeorge: Bass: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george\\n\\n\\nWe plug:\\n\\nSams other projects:\\n\\nStark Dangerous: http://www.starkdangerous.com/\\n\\nHwan: http://soundcloud.com/indifference-engine\\n\\n\\nWe mention:\\n\\nSteven Seagal: http://stevenseagal.com/\\n\\nArnold Schwarzenegger: http://www.schwarzenegger.com/\\n\\nJohnny Cash: http://www.johnnycash.com/\\n\\nWhere Wild Roses Grow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE\\n\\nBruce Springsteen: http://brucespringsteen.net/\\n\\nWinnie the Pooh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh\\n\\n\\nYou can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.\\n\\nOn-demand and on the go!\\n\\nDon\\u2019t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.\\n\\nHelp more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?\\n\\nFollow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!'