The Clockwork Cabaret is a weekly radio show hosted by the darling Davenport sisters, Emmett and Klaude, on WCOM 103.5 FM-LP in Chapel Hill/Carrboro, NC, every Monday at 11pm. And, you can call in to the show via the telephone at 919.929.9601.
We play the "Music o' Gears", an anachronistic style of music that will make you long for the days gone by. A wide assortment of jazz, blues, goth, folk, swing, gypsy punk, dark cabaret, steampunk, classical and other related genres.
So, pour yourself a glass of port or a nice cup of tea and give us a listen.
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The sisters are weary from a weekend of friends, frights, and fun thanks to the Eccentrik Festival.
11.02.2009
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Little Empty Boat
Rickie Lee Jones - Bye Bye Blackbird
Vernian Process - Delta Queen
Mighty Tiny - Dance Nobody Knew
MC Elemental - Cup of Brown Joy *r
Real Tuesday Weld - Cloud Cuckooland
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson
Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back
Muse - Uprising
KK and the Steampunk Orchestra - Cirque Du Lac
Beirut - My Family's Role in the World Revolution
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Mr Soot's Little Black Book
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - The Ghost of Smokey Joe
Jay Munly - Spill the Wine
Fermata - Gypsy Blood
Flogging Molly - Tomorrow Comes a Day Too Soon
Terilize Stereo - Annie Magee
Arcade Fire - Haiti
The Divine Comedy - My Imaginary Friend
Squirrel Nut Zippers - That Fascinating Thing
Vernian Process - Behold the Machine *r
Lotte Lenya - Mack the Knife (w/Louis Armstrong)
Futureheads - Hounds of Love
Pub Date: Oct 27, 2009
Episode 92: Screaming Banshees of Halloween (aka It's Spooktacular!)
Once upon a midnight dreary, shunning music that was cheery,
And pondering over many a quaint and curious tale of yore.
The Davenport's toes set to tapping while their mouths were loudly yapping,
Suddenly there came a rapping, rapping from the airship door,
"What in the hecks is that?!" they wondered, staring at the airship door.
And then the sound, it came once more.
That sound was the Davenport sister's holiday spooktacular! Join Emmett and Klaude as they revel in the history, myth and music of Halloween. ASTOUND as they reveal to you a thousand and one ways to maim your party guests with traditional Halloween games, DELIGHT in the auditory horrors that await your bleeding eardrums, and SCREAM with delight at Emmett's poetry corner.
10.26.09 Playlist
Creature Feature - Aim for the Head
Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
Tammy Grimes - The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Allegri String Quartet - Teddy Bear's Picnic
Veronique Chevalier - Vampire Surprise
Scarring Party - No More Room
Slow Poisoner - Le Grand Zombi
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead
Hayseed Dixie - Monster Mash
Christopher Walken - The Raven
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster
Nouvelle Vague - The Killing Moon
ABC Horse - Haunted Phonogram *r
Evan Dando - Skulls
They Might Be Giants - Exquisite Dead Guy
Rasputina - Bad Moon Rising
Deadbolt - Billy's Dead
Dr Steel - Boogeyman Boogie *r
Beat Circus - The Ghost of Emma Jean
Gothic Archies - Walking My Gargoyle
The sisters wax poetic about the importance of pie as a lubrication in the wheels of radio programming, discuss the upcoming Eccentrik Festival, and ask the question poking wrinkly folds of our collective brain-meats, "What is Phineas P. Moneyload doing on the Moon?"
10.19.09 Playlist
Two Man Gentleman Band - Unicycle Blues
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Vernian Process - I Am The Sea
Asylum Street Spankers - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra - Shine on Harvest Moon
Vince Guaraldi - Great Pumpkin Waltz
New Model Army - Queen of my Heart
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Lemming Malloy - One Foot Off the Merry Go Round
Kozai Resonance - Julius and the Elephant
Strung Out on Ok Computer - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band - Bella Ciao (live)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Lugubrious Whing Whang
KK and the Steampunk Orchestra - Pioneers
Hazmat Modine - It Calls Me (w/Huun-Huur-Tu)
Helena Bonham Carter - Worst Pies in London (Sweeny Todd) *r
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Come Into My Sleep
Obadiah Parker - Let's Stay Together
Luminescent Orchestrii - How to Play Romanian
The Damned - Absinthe
Menagerie - Marching Orders
Real Tuesday Weld - Cloud Cuckooland *r
Dr Steel *r - Planet X Marks the Spot
The sisters regale their listeners with a load of new music, tales of fright in preparation of Halloween and dissect the worlds worst love spell.
10.12.09 Playlist
Steam Powered Giraffe - Clockwork Vaudeville
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody *r
ManMan - Tunneling through the Guy
Tom Waits - It's Alright With Me
Rasputina - State Fair
Kanon Wakeshima - Still Doll
Real Tuesday Weld - Decline and Fall of the Clerkenwell Kid
Fermata - Vampire
RPM Orchestra - Life in Mumbly Muddle
Sterilize Stereo - Annie Magee
Madness - Clerkenwell Polka
Over the Rhine - Who'm I Kidding But Me?
Decemberists - The Infanta
Extraordinary Contraptions - Policy of Honesty
Lemming Malloy - House of Cards
Mad Tea Party - Like a Monkey Likes Coconuts
Luminescent Orchestrii - She's a Brick
Dr Steel - Lament for a Toy Factory *r
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - They all Laughed
Klaude tells the tale of her daring escape from the asylum, Emmett runs off to bed with a case of The Ick. And, there is discussion of a serious nature regarding a puppy delivery service.
10.06.09 playlist
ManMan - Van Helsing Boombox
Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea
Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Depression Pasillo
ABC Horse - Truck Song
Captain Beefheart - Electricity
Thomas Dolby - Windpower
The Crux - Walls for the Poor
Beirut - Postcards from Italy
DeVotchKa - Last Beat of my Heart
They Might Be Giants - Cowtown
Danbert Nobacon - Information Storm
Beat Circus - Delirium Tremens
Flogging Molly - Selfish Man
Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter
Slow Poisoner- Todo Es Mal
Alarm Will Sound - Logon Rock Witch
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Mondo Bongo
Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate
Tom Waits - In the Colosseum
Vernian Process - I Am the Sea
Klaude reveals that she is planning to make a break from the Asylum. And, once again, we find Emmett bemoaning the fact that there are no good steampunk jokes out there. And, never ones to disappoint Miss Mopey Bloomers, Mister Moneyload, Klaude and some of our distant friends help to rectify the situation with ridiculous results.
09.28.09 playlist
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry
Tom Waits - Blow Wind Blow
Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom
A Band Called Horse - the Haunted Phonogram
Helena Bonham Carter (from Sweeny Todd) - By the Sea
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It
Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya
Lemming Malloy - Don't Act Like Prey
Beirut - Nantes
DeVotchKa - Last Beat of my Heart
The Divine Comedy - Absent Friends
Rasputina - Our Lies
The Zydepunks - Dear Molly
MC Elemental - Cup of Brown Joy *r
Mighty Tiny - Dance Nobody Knew
ManMan - Spider Cider
Kate Tucker - I'm On Fire
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creature
Diana Krall - Just One of Those Things
Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus
Two Man Gentleman Band - Let's Make a Sandwich
Beat Circus - Slavotchka
Musee Mecanique - The Propellers
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Traditional Victorian Gentleman's Boasting Song
The sisters share excerpts from some of Mister Wells' stories, as well as some of lesser known facts about one of the "Fathers of Science Fiction".
09.21.09 Playlist
Alarm Will Sound - 4
Unwoman - Wicked Game
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Opium Tea
Tripod - Seaside Rendezvous
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
They Might Be Giants - I Can Hear You
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Prince Nez
The Two Man Gentleman Band - There'll Be Time For Loving
Vernian Process - Behold the Machine
Humanwine - Rivolta Silenziosa
Tiger Lillies - Weeping Chandelier
Extraordinary Contraptions - Kiss from a Girl
Robobilly - Butter Peaches
Vermillion Lies - First the Bees
Madness - We Are London
The Decemberists - The Rake's Song
Bombadil - Sad Birthday
They Might Be Giants - Older *r
Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea
HMS Pinafore - We Sail the Ocean Blue
DeVotchKa - The Enemy Guns
Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
Muse - Hoodoo
Over the Rhine - Trouble
The Crux - Don't Need No Man
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
After hearing that Klaude was not going to be allowed out on work release due to an infraction in the Asylum. Emmett started to contemplate her upcoming birthday, all the recent tragedies and was becoming once again Miss Mopey Bloomers, but thanks to the arrival of Phineas P. Moneyload, tonight's show was saved from being a solemn occasion.
09.14.09 Playlist
Dr. Steel - Lament for a Toy Factory*
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
The Gothic Archies - Things are not Always What They Appear
Madness - NW5
Sting & Dominic Muldowney - The Ballad of Mac the Knife
The Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Voltaire - Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend)
Bonzo Dog Doodah Band - Hunting Tigers Out in India*
Riders in the Sky - Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself
Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine
Lemming Malloy - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Asylum Street Spankers - Paul Revere
Uncle Leon & the Alibis - Baby Got Back
The Puppini Sisters - Walk Like an Egyptian
Beirut - Elephant Gun
DeVotchKa - I Cried Like a Silly Boy
The Men That Will Not be Blamed for Nothing - Fox
Mr. B, the Gentleman Rhymer - Let Me Smoke My Pipe*
Max Raabe mit Palast Orchester - Tainted Love
The James Gang - Hoofer
The Extraordinary Contraptions - A Kiss from a Girl
The Scarring Party - Everything I Touched Caught Fire
