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The Clockwork Cabaret
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.
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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November 2008 Episodes:
- Episode 44: Klaude's Holiday Suprise
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- Klaude has been locked in the lab for what she thinks is months. Emmett has to break the news that only a week has gone by.
11.25.08 Playlist:
Brave Combo - Thanksgiving Day
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - They All Laughed
Rasputina - AntiqueHighHeelRedDollShoes
Helena Bonham Carter - By the Sea (from Sweeney Todd)
DeVotchKa - Basso Profundo
2 Man Gentleman Band - Stonewall Jackson's Arm
Jay Munly - Dar He Drone
The Gothic Archies - When You Play The Violin
Beat Circus - Slavotchka
Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Frozen Mood
Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer - Piece of My Mind
Voltaire - Accordion Player
Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song
Katzenjammer Cabaret - A Real Gentleman or The Mad Lover
The Damned - Alone Again Or
Gilbert and Sullivan - I Am The Very Model
Nouvelle Vague - Just Can't Get Enough
The Clash - English Civil War
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? - Gone is Gone
Jo Gabriel - There's a Crack in the Wall
Travis - Hit Me Baby One More Time
Bette Midler and James Caan - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Vernian Process - Maple Leaf Rag
James Gang - My Strut is Incredible
Flogging Molly - Sentimental Johnny
Eartha Kitt - Mack the Knife
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Link- Episode 43: Covered in Steam
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- This evening's show finds the sisters playing nothing but covers of other songs. This is a perfect example of steampunk - making something old new again. Klaude just finds it a pleasant excuse to play a Snoop Dogg cover.
Original artists/writers/human beatbox machines have been listed after the song in parenthesis. Parenthesii? Parenthesises? .....Brackets.
11.18.08 Playlist:
Miranda Sex Garden - Havana Lied (Kurt Weill)
The White Stripes - Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Concrete Blonde - End of the Line (Roxy Music)
Big Country - Cracked Actor (David Bowie)
Rasputina - Brand New Key (Melanie)
Cracker - Rainy Days and Mondays (The Carpenters)
Harry Connick Jr - If I Only Had a Brain (Ray Bolger from the Wizard of Oz)
Vernian Process - Cloudbusting (Kate Bush)
Puppini Sisters - Panic (the Smiths)
The Damned - Eloise (Barry and Paul Ryan)
Asylum Street Spankers - Paul Revere (Beastie Boys)
Tom Waits - King Kong (Daniel Johnston)
Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues - Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things (Cole Porter)
The Gourds - Gin and Juice (Snoop Dogg)
Tripod - Seaside Rendezvous (Queen)
Concrete Blonde - Ship Song (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
DeVotchKa - Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)
Nouvelle Vague - Friday Night Saturday Morning (The Specials)
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - I Wanna Be Like You (King Louis' song from The Jungle Book)
Klaus Nomi - The Twist (Chubby Checker)
Hayseed Dixie - Strawberry Fields Forever (Beatles)
Einsturzende Neubauten - Sand (Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra)
Voltaire - Caught a Lite Sneeze (Tori Amos)
Pole Cats - John, I'm Only Dancing (David Bowie)
Tiger Lillies - My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart)
- Episode 42: Shocking!
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- Every time Emmett tries to play music, she is shocked by something. Is it some kind of experiment that Klaude is doing or is she simply tormenting Emmett?
11.11.08 Playlist
Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? - Don't Go
The Brides - John, I'm Only Dancing
Morrissey - November Spawned a Monster
Fear of Dolls - She Was Laughing
Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver
Johnny Cash - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
The Slow Poisoner - Come to Me
Reverend Glasseye - Sleep Sweet Countrymen
Nouvelle Vague - Psyche
The Zydepunks - Valse de Balfa
Magnetic Fields - Born on a Train
Pink Martini - La Soledad
Daniel Johnston - Unpack Your Adjectives
Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Frozen Mood
Vernian Process - Cloudbusting
Tom Waits - Hi Ho (The Dwarfs' Marching Song)
Flogging Molly - Sentimental Johnny
Lemming Malloy - Don't Act Like Prey
Joe Black - Missed Me
Richard Cheese - Hey Ya
Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People
The Last Shadow Puppets - Separate and Ever Deadly
The Damned - Wait for the Blackout
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
- Episode 41: Vote!
- The sisters had a fun evening discussing the new President Elect - "The Reanimated Corpse of Prince Albert with the brain of Marie Curie & the Right Arm of a Monkey". However, due to some technical difficulties the cylinder did not record properly and the show was lost. So, hopefully, you were one of the lucky few who got to hear it live.
11.04.08 Playlist:
2 Man Gentlemen Band - Stuff Your Ballot Box
The Little Willies - I Gotta Get Drunk
Harlequin Jones - Carve That Crap
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Tiger Lillies - Gin
Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain
Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Ants Under Glass
Louis Prima & Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic
Vernian Process - Maple Leaf Rag
Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher
Why Are We Building Such a Big Ship? - Dance
Lars Hollmer - Avlagsen Stranduals
Rasputina - Antique High Heeled Red Doll Shoes
They Might Be Giants - The Edison Museum
Creature Feature - Such Horrible Things
Dr. Steel - Planet X Marks the Spot
Mr. B, Gentleman Rhymer - Straight Out of Surrey
Lemming Malloy - Brother Rabbit
Nouvelle Vague - In A Matter of Speaking
Humanwine - Script Language
The Damned - Under the Floor Again
Beirut - Elephant Gun
Tom Waits - Hoist
The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
Adam Ant - Stand & Deliver
Rufus Wainwright - Go or Go Ahead