From Lady in Red to Ladies in Hats with Artist Musician Danny McBride

Published: April 12, 2018, 11:30 p.m.

b'Our Guest Artist: Danny McBride
\\nOur Host Artist: Carol McQuaid
\\nOur Bar: The Canadian Brewhouse
\\nIf you\\u2019ve ever slow danced to Lady in Red you\\u2019ve heard him play guitar. \\xa0You\\u2019ve known him as a musician, but now he\\u2019s taking the art world by storm with big beautiful paintings of ladies in hats.\\xa0 He can\\u2019t paint fast enough to keep up with the demand for these beautiful creations, but we get him to take some time out of his busy schedule to sit down over beers and share stories from the studio and from the road.
\\nNow let\\u2019s head to the Canadian Brewhouse and listen in as Danny and I talk about his art start as the poisoned pencil, \\xa0almost auditioning for the Rolling Stones, and the best Trump/David Hasselhoff/OJ Simpson story you\\u2019ll ever hear.
\\nWe talk about:
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\\n* His musical start
\\n* Brother Bob McBride and Lighthouse
\\n* Overcoming stage fright
\\n* Meeting Mick Jagger
\\n* What he thought of Chris DeBurgh’s “Lady in Red” as it was being written “It’s a nice melody Chris, but I don’t know if it’s ever going to be a hit”.\\xa0 (It’s one of the top 5 love songs ever recorded)
\\n* Growing up drawing caricatures,as did his dad, and amusing his band mates on the road with his “poisoned pencil”
\\n* How he switched to canvas and began drawing his hatted ladies (listen until the end and you’ll find out who that lady in the hat really is)
\\n* The biggest sale of his art career
\\n* Visiting the home of Lady Di, and what her mother Frances Shand Kydd had to say about his offer to hand a few of his paintings between\\xa0 her Gainsboroughs: “Darling, the spaces between are owned by the paintings themselves”.\\xa0 Great line Frances!
\\n* Writing his new sitcom pilot and other bucket list items
\\n* The crossover from one creative genre to another
\\n* The amazing outcome of a chance meeting with a young Allan Doyle of Great Big Sea
\\n* On meeting Jimi Hendrix backstage when Danny was 16-17: “I was standing there in my little Nehru jacket, Sargent Peppers, and he looked over and said “Stay cool.”
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\\nArtists and Musicians we talk about (links are live through the show website)
\\nLed Zeppelin
\\nThe Who
\\nMoby Grape
\\nRick James (Super Freak Video)
\\nU2
\\n Supertramp
\\nDepeche Mode
\\n Chris DeBurgh (Lady in Red Video)
\\nModigliani
\\nDanny’s Instagram:
\\nhttps://www.instagram.'