Adam Buxton's latest ramble chat is with Irish cycling mad comedian David O'Doherty. And when I say latest I really do mean latest - it was recorded in Dublin in front of a live audience back in 2018 - possibly a podcasting record timelag-wise, suggests our host.
Adam, being a guest on DO'D and Max Rushden’s podcast ‘What did you do yesterday’ podcast was reminded that he had a live recording that he hadn’t used due to ‘a combination of boring technical and organisational reasons’
But nearly seven years later Buxton has decided ‘it’s really great’.
Buxton, podcasting's politest host, sends a voicemail to check whether David is OK about running the podcast so long after the original.
DO'D replies in a voice note recorded on board a flight from Heathrow to Dublin – ‘I was 42 then, I’m 49 now! I remember it being really fun at the time and thinking Oh yeah I can’t wait for people to listening to this. But Adam that only went on for 5 years, I would say.’
He gives the green light and forgives Buxton’s tardiness. Typically for O’Doherty the topic soon turns to bikes and bike shop staff ‘the closest you’ll get to Black Books’ applying chamois butter, and his favourite bike pump – ‘track pump with a presta valve’.
In the interval they record some dressing room chat about drinking during a gig – not a good idea and DO'D tells a story of puking on stage in Aberdeen after eating too much pick-n-mix that’s been left on the stage.
The second half brings stories of DOD’s dad, a respected jazz musician. He started out in the mid 5’s ‘This was an era when in this country, the government and the church were trying to ban jazz, because it was going to make people pregnant…I mean that’s the thing, you wouldn’t choose to live in repressive times, but there’s always very interesting stuff going on in those times. People pushing against that stuff and their subcultures forming, they end up being very influential.’
DO'D’s first song is about going out in Dublin having forgotten his phone – forced to interact with the world and people he turns it into a positive. He gets home to 12 missed calls telling him he’s missed the best evening ever.
His second song is a dialogue with his 18-year old self, explaining his career path he reveals that he doesn’t become a footballer or musician, but a comedian. And he does musical comedy. ‘oh fuck, the lamest genre in all comedy.’
Here’s hoping travelling back to a show recorded seven years ago doesn’t disappoint the 49-year-old comedian to the same extent that the 42-year-old disappointed his 18-year-old self.
Listen to the interview where you get your usual podcasts.
