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Communal Bathroom
by Communal Bathroom
A Podcast About IdeasSam Bradley and Chris Delamere bring in audio dispatches. Chris doesn't know what Sam has brought and Sam doesn't know what Chris has brought, and they share them with each other. songs / comedy / borderline unlistenable sound art
Episodes
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Group Chat Ambivalence
In this episode, Chris brings a song about football memories while Sam brings a dramatic reading of a group chat. Chris introduces us to A Terrible Superhero (Captain Century) while Sam recalls a meeting with A Real Character (Samosa Man aka Inspekta Veg) and they both try to learn a little more...
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Live Bath
Chris and Sam are joined by Kieran “Ichabod Wolf” Smith and Mario D’Agostino in a special bath time sing song. Mario has a song about a blazed family dinner, Chris has a saucy tune about some thirsty monks and Ichabod Wolf blesses us a with a future classic of past good times.
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The Unblockable Toilet
The Unblockable Toilet by Communal Bathroom
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Going Backwards & Forwards
A new era of The Communal Bathroom begins! Sam no longer lives on boat and is a married man, while Chris has realised a lifelong dream of making a ‘proper album’. Re-embracing the ‘anything goes’ approach, Sam and Chris bring a jam-packed first episode back. Sam brings a letter from a dog, a...
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Jazz
Jazz: the great American art form of the 20th century, raked over and misunderstood by two idiot bathroom boys. Recorded live at a dingy downtown Bristol Youth Hostel, this episode sees Sam teaching Chris about The Lick, while Chris brings Sam some jazz made out of jazz. There's some woefully...
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Sleep
After settling the bets from the previous episode ‘Gambling’, Sam rocks us to slumber with a 3 / 4 time jam and then Chris presents a quiz about animal snoring. They both delve into their subconscious: Sam makes one of his dreams come true, while Chris allows his dreams to be influenced. Chris...
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Gambling
All bets are ON in this episode, as Sam and Chris take a punt at gambling. They discuss scratchcards and casinos, Chris tackles online sports betting, Sam hopes for the best with randomised music production, Chris dwells on the ways we gamble with our lives, and Sam pits the two of them together…
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Meat
In this first episode of 2018, Sam and Chris take a bite out of the grisly subject of meat. Sam goes vegan, and brings his new found sanctimoniousness to a fairly listenable sound art piece, while also offering us a taste test of various vegan meats. Chris brings an audio diary about his own...
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Half & Half
The bathroom boys have met in the middle, somewhere near Birmingham, at the geographic midpoints between their homes to record a sun kissed episode of two halves. Chris has brought a Sci-Fi story written with a mystery collaborator and a song about our better halves. Sam has a breathless beat…
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Red Hot Spicy
All hands off the cold tap in this episode: We are getting Red, Hot and Spicy. Chris does some chilli spice training, Sam takes us to 4 hot corners of the globe, Chris teaches us about spices through song, and together they imagine their ideal spicy 90s supergroup and undertake a live spice...
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Paint
The sound of paint: How do you represent a visual medium in an audio platform? Chris and Sam scour the internet for programs to help them achieve SONIC PAINT. They take inspiration from Turner, Picasso and Warhol and craft their own paintings out of yoghurt and bathrooms. And Chris poses the...
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Football
In this episode Sam and Chris focus on football. Not knowing who they support or what the rules are, Sam and Chris explore the nuances of the beautiful game as best they can. Chris brings a dispatch from a famous ground and a song about a famous player. Sam chants some chants and presents a quiz...
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Time
In this episode, our time is spent dwelling on 'Time'. Both Sam and Chris experiment with time-manipulated music, Sam takes us through the past in fast forward, Chris presents a game, and together they make completely accurate predictions for the future.
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Eggs
In this, the first episode of 2017, Chris and Sam discuss eggs. There is an egg story, an egg rap, some audio scrambled eggs and an egg quiz. Having learnt lessons from 2016's podcasting, this year's DFTCB episodes will each have a different theme but will be more consistent with our original...
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The Hills Of Sheffield
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Pizza Weekend 2: 50 Songs About Pizza
For their 2nd annual celebration of pizza the boys from DFTCB write 50 songs about pizza featuring a special guest appearance from Chris Gethard. Track listing Slice 1: Gimme A Pizza 1. Gimme A Pizza (Delamere) Performed by Chris Delamere. Mixed and masteried (M&M) by David Brady 2. Pizza and…
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Episode 23 - A Brush with the Stars with Mario D'Agostino
In this episode, Sam and Chris are joined by the linchpin of their ever expanding podcast network, Mario D'Agostino. Coming at the end of a mammoth podcast recording weekend, the guys discuss space and toothbrushes, exploring pulsars both celestial and dental. Elsewhere, Chris attempts a…
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Episode 22 - Self Improvement
In this special and long-gestating episode, Sam and Chris attempt to improve their lives in a variety of ways, from the daft, sweaty, vague and unmeasurable to the more meditative, mental and meaningful. Sam reads some books whilst Chris concentrates on particular words. Sam attempts to improve…
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12 Hour Bath Part 1
In homage to 12 Hour Day with JD and Connor, Sam and Chris attempt to record a podcast for 12 hours. They go to their parents houses, meet some of the leading lights of the Sheffield comedy scene, and end up at a folk session in the pub. This is part 1 (soundcloud has a time limit on uploads).
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12 Hour Bath Part 2
In homage to 12 Hour Day with JD and Connor, Sam and Chris attempt to record a podcast for 12 hours. They go to their parents houses, meet some of the leading lights of the Sheffield comedy scene, and end up at a folk session in the pub. This is part 2 (soundcloud has a time limit on uploads)....
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Episode 20 - The Days and Nights of Molly's Dog
In this, the final soak in the virtual bathroom, Sam and Chris prepare to say goodbye to their respective homes in France and Chapeltown. In a particularly bathroomy episode, Chris brings a bathroom-fixated reworking of a classic folk song and Sam encourages us to take some sexy pics in the...
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Episode 19 - Proper Revenant
Bonjour and Bienvenue to Le Gallic Bathroom! Having endured a long-distance bathroomship for many months, Sam and Chris find themselves once again in knee-groping distance of each other on the top of a mountain in the French Alps. Joined by their friend Ahmed (who has never listened to the show),...
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Episode 18 - Love, Death and Listerine
With another dip into 'The Virtual Bathroom', Sam and Chris valiantly attempt once again to make an episode that is mainstream and popular. They indulge in many top timesuckers and mortality distractions such as: 'Music', 'The Internet', 'Video Games', 'Religion' and 'Long-running US TV Series'....
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Episode 17 - A Show For Hangovers
The Communal Bathroom is no stranger to alcohol. The bath is often awash with all manner of wines and continental lagers. You will have heard them drunk and you will certainly have heard them hungover. So who better to present a two-part sonic exploration on the subject: one episode about the...
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Episode 16 - A Show For Drunks
The Communal Bathroom is no stranger to alcohol. The bath is often awash with all manner of wines and continental lagers. You will have heard them drunk and you will certainly have heard them hungover. So who better to present a two-part sonic exploration on the subject: one episode about the...
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Episode 15 - The Faucet Awakens
With Sam having moved to France, this 2nd Season opener is the first dip into 'The Virtual Bathroom'. Using laptop-straining technical wizardry, and with the expressed intent of moving into more accessible, mainstream territory, Sam and Chris get stuck into a glut of new dispatches. Central to…
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Episode 14 - Coup de Tap: Trouble in the Bubbles with Mario D'Agostino
In this, the season finale, the Communal Bathroom is joined by contributor and co-conspirator Mario D'Agostino. The gang sharpen their 'now' in the face of some stinking hangovers and get stuck into a bumper crop of dispatches. Sam helps you out with your morning routine, offering some towel…
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Episode 13 - A Very Communal Bath With Our Best Buds
No diving, no running and definitely no heavy petting, with 6 people in the bathroom this time, I hope no one has a verruca. Producer Paul, Brad Francisco and Mayor Gunson all appear in this busy bathroom. And appearing for the first time is mysterious new guest The Angry Swede. Brad and Chris...
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Episode 12 - Unflushed, Unbrushed and Unpumiced
This is Chris writing a description of the episode and this description will not be rewritten or edited. Illusions are shattered this time - this episode is entirely unedited. In our Euston Square studios, we are joined by poor old put-upomn Producer Paul (who is an awful mood). Chrsi does some...
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Episode 11 - Two Spiders in a Sink
Back in the Chapeltown studios, four of the DFTCB crew convene for a boozy celebration of Sam's thesis completion. Joining Chris, Sam and Producer Paul this time is the original Chapeltown resident and Sheffield mayoral election hopeful Daniel Gunson. Mayor Gunson tries to appeal to the…
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Episode 10 - Pizza Weekend
It's Pizza Weekend! And the Communal Bathroom gang go on a cross-country tour of pizza from Manchester to London! In this free-wheeling episode, Chris reveals his 28-day pizza-abstinence challenge diary and eats his first post-abstinence pizza. Sam, meanwhile, plays both wily antagonist and…
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Episode 9 - Calm Out Chill Down
After a glut of guests in recent episodes, it's back to bubble bath basics...Sam and Chris each find themselves a warm, sudsy spot in the bath and take the opportunity to calm out and chill down. As they relax, they ponder upon the violent rap wars of Chester and the easy-going educational songs…
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Episode 8 - Tortoise Bidet with "My Darling Girlfriend" Sally Beveridge
We're having a party! In attendance: 4 humans, 2 tortoises and 1 duck. It's Sam's tortoises' 5th birthday, so Sam and Chris have two guests to join in the celebrating. Now a fully fledged member of bathroom staff but who for tax reasons gets paid in chilli....It's Producer Paul. And...you may...
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Episode 7 - Toilet Rolling with Brad Francisco
He's maths in the dark. He's a bag of the masses. He's the church nightwatchman. He is the crumpled martyr of Malmo. That's right, our special guest this episode is none other than Brad Francisco! Shadowy Gamesmaster Francisco helps direct our journey through weird noises, weird birthday presents...
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Episode 6 - Infused With Hyperintrajocularities
Joining Sam and Chris in the bathroom this time is their good friend Producer Paul, who sees to all their engineering needs and also wades in on such serious subjects as 'That Glass Of Water That You Have Immediately After Having Brushed Your Teeth'. Producer Paul joins a growing fold which...
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Episode 5 - Everything But The Bathroom Sink
Sam and Chris throw everything at this podcast and see what sticks. With the aid of cryptic cue cards and swimming sidekicks, they sound off about the city of Sheffield and conflabulate about the community of kendama. There is a rap about cycling and some jokes about punk. In this the most...
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Episode 4 - Shouting Into A Plug Hole
In this shorter solo episode, Chris gets the run of the bathroom as Sam is busy with actual real life stuff. Chris gets a little lonely and a little scared, and entertains himself by taking a walk and writing songs about food. Sam sends in a dispatch about procrastination and also speaks to us…
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Episode 3 - A Rubber Ducky Bobbing in an Angel's Basin
The bathroom moves down south, and this time we're on a boat! Sam welcomes Chris to the boat by explaining the rigours of boat life, and Chris struggles with some of its less convenient aspects... And then songs and poems abound! There's a famous poem set to music, a famous song with new lyrics…
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Episode 2 - The Beatles Special
Episode 2 of Dispatches From The Communal Bathroom is a Beatles Special! Our two intrepid audio adventurers bravely tackle the Beatles behemoth in the face of extreme tiredness (which they concede was their own fault). There's a quiz from Sam, and a song from Chris, an interview beamed in from…
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Episode 1 - The Pilot
Welcome to the bathroom! In this first trip Sam brings some dispatches of clandestine recordings of a North London house party and some sexy/ unsexy readings, whilst Chris takes us on a soundscape journey through the gents' hometown of Sheffield and introduces us to The Bullrushes.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A Podcast About IdeasSam Bradley and Chris Delamere bring in audio dispatches. Chris doesn't know what Sam has brought and Sam doesn't know what Chris has brought, and they share them with each other. songs / comedy / borderline unlistenable sound art
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A Podcast About IdeasSam Bradley and Chris Delamere bring in audio dispatches. Chris doesn't know what Sam has brought and Sam doesn't know what Chris has brought, and they share them with each other. songs / comedy / borderline unlistenable sound art
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