The Clockwork Cabaret: Steampunk Radio

Oh my stars & garters! Mingan is actually in a good mood, possibly due to something Emmett did... but guess who benefits from these sisterly shenanigans? You!     01.24.12 playlist:    Jolie Holland - Nothing to Do But Dream    The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams    Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By    Beat Circus - Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland   Circus Contraption - Drunkard's Dream    Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream   Natalie Merchant - The Land of Nod   Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone    Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong    The Decemberists - Odalisque    Sunday Driver - Concubine Waltz    Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers - Dames A Dime A Dozen    Martin Gore - Loverman   Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Oh my stars 8 garters! Mingan is actually in a good mood, possibly due to something Emmett did... but guess who benefits from these sisterly shenanigans? You! 01/24/12 playlist: Jolie Holland - Nothing to Do But Dream The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By Beat Circus - Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland Circus Contraption - Drunkard's Dream Edward Sharpe 8 the Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream Natalie Merchant - The Land of Nod Bat For Lashes - Sleep Alone Dengue Fever - Sleepwalking Through the Mekong The Decemberists - Odalisque Sunday Driver - Concubine Waltz Shilpa Ray 8 her Happy Hookers - Dames A Dime A Dozen Martin Gore - Loverman

Mingan's in a mood & Emmett is attempting to cheer her up by playing grumpy, angsty music.    01.17.12 playlist:    The Drowning Lovers - Kill Her    A.C. Newman - Take On Me   Antony & the Johnsons - What Can I Do?   Maxwell/Mosher - Orphaned/Funeral & A Fire   "Bonnie" Prince Billy - Death to Everyone   The Dead Brothers - Old Pine Box   Beauxregard - This Is How You Die   Cary Ann Hearst - Are You Ready To Die?    The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber    Alan Cumming - I Don't Care Much    Professor Elemental - Penny Dreadful   The Tiger Lillies - Kick A Baby   Bing Crosby & the Andrew Sisters - Accentuate the Positive   Nina Hagen - I Want to be Happy    Savile Row - We Happy Few    Palast Orchester mit Max Raabe - Best Things in Life Are Free   Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Mingan's in a mood 8 Emmett is attempting to cheer her up by playing grumpy, angsty music. 01.17.12 playlist: The Drowning Lovers - Kill Her A.C. Newman - Take On Me Antony 8 the Johnsons - What Can I Do? Maxwell/Mosher - Orphaned/Funeral 8 A Fire "Bonnie" Prince Billy - Death to Everyone The Dead Brothers - Old Pine Box Beauxregard - This Is How You Die Cary Ann Hearst - Are You Ready To Die? The Dresden Dolls - Backstabber Alan Cumming - I Don't Care Much Professor Elemental - Penny Dreadful The Tiger Lillies - Kick A Baby Bing Crosby 8 the Andrew Sisters - Accentuate the Positive Nina Hagen - I Want to be Happy Savile Row - We Happy Few Palast Orchester mit Max Raabe - Best Things in Life Are Free

Mingan is running the show while Emmett is recuperating from a cold.Will Mingan become mad with power? Will Emmett ever be allowed on the microphone again? Who knows?     01.09.12 playlist:    Not Waving But Drowning - Sick   Nina Hagen - Fever    Man Man - Harppon Fever (Queequeg's Playhouse)   Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero    Adam Ant - Kings of the Wild Frontier   Cary Ann Hearst - American Made Machine   Tom Waits - Goin' Out West    Asylum Street Spankers - It Ain't Necessarily So   Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher   Ella Fitzgerald - It Was Written In The Stars   Beirut - The Peacock   Wovenhand - Sparroe Falls    Curtis Eller - Red Red Robin     Mindy Gledhill - Anchor   Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters find themselves pulled in too many directions and sadly, could not find the time to sit down, so this week's episode is nothing but music.    01.04.12 playlist:    Toy Box Trio - Sepia Theme   Escape the Clouds - The Air Race   The Bastard Fairies - Memento Mori   Dr. Steel - Lament for a Toy Factory   Bad Things - Just Four Weeks   8in8 - Nikola Tesla   Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? - Release the Kraken   Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys - Sea Song (Mare Carmen)   Voltaire - The Beast of Pirate Bay   The Fog People - Permission Withdrawn   A Band Called Horse - The Haunted Phonogram   Circus Contraption - The Odditorium   Revue Noir - Sometimes, Sunshine   Vernian Process - Something Wicked This Way Comes   Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate   Vagabond Orchestra - Until We Meet Again   Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Emmett is left alone to do the show, while Mingan recovers from a Sweet Potato overdose.  12.26.11 playlist:  Jonah Knight - Oh, the Places You Will Go   Meaghan Smith - If You Asked Me Mighty Tiny - Fuel for the Stars Lonesome Wyatt & the Holy Spooks - Going Crazy April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Bright White Jackets Alexandra Hamer - Wild Girl & Crazy Dog Elsie Carlisle - Please Leave My Butter Alone Tessie O'Shea - I Fell in Love With An Airman The Cog Is Dead - Savior of the Skies Magnetic Fields - Queen of the Savages Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream Hellblinki - All For You Ambrose - Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie Natalie Merchant - Calico Pie Blair Crimmins & the Hookers - Kitchen Rag The Hothouse Roses - Burrow Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters prepare for the holiday season with songs of Christmas cheer, plus a carol of their own & a poem.  12.20.11 playlist:  She & Him - Silver Bells  Morella & the Wheels of If - Yule Fire  Annie Lennox - Lullay Lullay Regina Spektor - 20 Years of Snow Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - 15 feet of Pure White Snow Jimmy Durante - Frosty the Snowman My Morning Jacket (featuring the Head & the Heart) - When the Bells Start Ringing Tommy Womack - Luigi, the Lonely Christmas Bear The Decemberists - Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) Rufus Wainwright - Spotlight on Christmas Holly Golightly - Christmas Tree on Fire Squirrel Nut Zippers - Gift of the Magi Etta James - This Time of Year Antony & the Johnsons - Blue Angel Lena Horne - Santa Claus is Coming to Town Lou Monte - Dominick the Donkey Gayla Peevey - I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas  Ella Fitzgerald - Santa Claus Got Stuck (In My Chimney) Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Mr. Heatmiser Thurl Ravenscroft - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Ebeneezer's Carol Porn Orchard - Christmas Sucks (A Tom Waits/Peter Murphy Parody) Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters stop for a brief time to discuss their travel plans and play some music.   12.12.11 playlist:  The Andrew Sisters - Long Time No See  Judy Garland - Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bing Crosby - Accentuate the Positive Pete Molinari - Sweet Louise Jolie Holland - All Those Girls   Beirut - After the Curtain Grinderman - No Pussy Blues Grinderman - Go Tell the Women Hellblinki -The End Tom Waits - Raised Right Men Florence & the Machine - No Light, No Light Steam Powered Giraffe - Electricity Is In My Soul Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Strange Form of Life Mindy Gledhill - Anchor The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters spend the evening testing the waters of their new podcast only program with only one microphone. It's a little awkward but they manage. 12.05.11 playlist: Caroline O'Connor & Chorus - Anything Goes (from 'DeLovely') Ella Fitzgerald - Love For Sale Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester - Dance With Me (Hernando's Hideaway) Vernian Process - Behold the Machine Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Adam Ant - Friend or Foe Dengue Fever - Made of Steam Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Christina the Astonishing DeVotchKa - Blessing in Disguise The Decemberists - The Legionaire's Lament Alexandra Hamer - Wild Girl & Crazy Dog Frenchy & the Punk - Dark Carnivale Voltaire - Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend) Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Tonight the sisters say their farewells to WCOM 103.5 FM Carrboro/Chapel Hill. Stay tuned next week for a new chapter in the exciting adventures of The Clockwork Cabaret. 11.28.11 playlist: Aimee Mann - One Beirut - The Gulag Orchester Grey DeLisle - Bohemian Rhapsody The Damned - In Dulce Decorum Uncle Leon & the Alibis - Baby Got Back Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple Steam Powered Giraffe - Clockwork Vaudeville Amanda Palmer - Runs in the Family Hellblinki - Don't Go Down to the Woods Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science T-Rex - Dandy in the Underworld Eric McFadden - Womanizer Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves Electric Light Orchestra - Mister Blue Sky Falco - Rock Me Amadeus Rasputina - Cage in a Cave Jolie Holland - Gold & Yellow Vyvian Long - Seven Nation Army Flogging Molly - Sentimental Johnny Tom Waits - Hang on St. Christopher David Bowie - Magic Dance Tripod - Gonna Make You Happy Tonight Guests: Lady Attercop & Mister Ducky Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The crew aboard the Airship Calpurnia start off the evening discussing vampires, werewolves and other strange topics... so, just your typical night here at The Clockwork Cabaret. 11.21.11 playlist: Anthony & The Johnsons - Twilight Antsy Pants - Vampire CocoRosie - Werewolf Rufus Wainwright - Oh What A World Mindy Gledhill - Anchor Squirrel Nut Zippers - Got My Own Thing Now Miss Li - Don't Try to Fool Me Tom Waits - Lie to Me April Smith & the Great Picture Show - Bright White Jackets Two Man Gentleman Band - Fancy Beer Tiger Lillies - Gin Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Rye Whiskey Max Raabe - Oops, I Did It Again Regina Spektor - Fidelity Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Pink Martini - Que Sera Sera Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine Neko Case - Deep Red Bells DeVotchka - Head Honcho Dominic Mulroney & Sting - Mack the Knife They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul The Clash - English Civil War Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters make an important announcement, that they will be leaving the airwaves of WCOM-LP 103.5 FM, but tell their listeners not to fear, as they will be continuing on in a weekly podcast. 11.14.11 playlist: Gothic Archies - Smile! No One Cares How You Feel Tom Waits - Bad As Me Cary Ann Hearst - Are You Ready to Die? Puppini Sisters - It's Not Over Nina Hagen - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off April Smith & the Great Picture Show - What'll I Do Tessie O'Shea - I Fell in Love With an Airman Two Man Gentlemen Band - There'll Be Time For Lovin' Decemberists - I Was Meant for the Stage Clockwork Doll - Don't Stop Believin' John Lennon - Mind Games Unwoman - Let the Music Play Madness - The Liberty of Norton Folgate The Be Good Tanyas - When Doves Cry Rolf Harris - Maxmillian Mouse CocoRosie - The Sea is Calm Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You Voltaire - This Ship's Going Down Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man Ingrid Lucia - The Kiss Sxip Shirey - Mehenatta Nouvelle Vague - Road to Nowhere Muppet Jug Band - To Morrow Beirut - Elephant Gun DeVotchka - Somethin' Stupid Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters are alone on the airship, and they are trying to keep each other from slipping into their mopeybloomers. 11.07.11 playlist: Florence & the Machine - Seven Devils David Bowie - Bring Me the Disco King DeVotchka - Last Beat of My Heart Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands - Lollipop Curtis Eller - Sugar for the Horses Over the Rhine - Don't Wait For Tom Baby Dee - Only Bones That Show Man Man - 10 Lb Mustache 8in8 - The Problems with Saints Not Waving But Drowning - Thanks A lot, Lancelot Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester - We Will Rock You Tripod - Seaside Rendevous Klaus Nomi - The Twist M. Ward - Howlin' For My Baby The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes Babyshambles - There She Goes Harlequin Jones - Unsought Slow Poisoner - Come to Me Magnificent Seven - The Last Waltz Riders in the Sky - You Are My Sunshine Danny Kaye - Inch Worm Cliff Edward - When You Wish Upon A Star The Andrew Sisters - In Apple Blossom Time Puppini Sisters - I Will Survive Rickie Lee Jones - I Won't Grow Up Unwoman - SheBop The Dresden Dolls - Pretty in Pink Emilie Autumn - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

On this hallow's eve, the airship Calpurnia is fully stocked on candy, halloween spirit & shenanigans. 10.31.11 playlist: The Tenth Stage - The Grand Guignol Jeff Buckley - Witch's Rave Rasputina - Gingerbread Coffin The Glove - The Perfect Murder The Birthday Party - Release the Bats Antsy Pants - Vampire Annie Lennox - Lovesong for a Vampire Diamanda Galas - My World is Empty Without You "Bonnie" Prince Billy - Death to Everyone Vernian Process - Something Wicked (That Way Went) Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Whistlin' Past the Graveyard Blair Crimmins & the Hookers - A Demon Like Me Modest Mouse - This Devil's Workday Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Skeleton Goes Town James Brown - Hell Otis Redding - Trick Or Treat Cake - Satan Is My Motor Grinderman - Evil Allen Sherman - My Son, the Vampire Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Run Devil Run Sting - Moon Over Bourbon Street The Head & the Heart - Ghosts Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell Eartha Kitt - I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch Southern Culture on the Skids - Tombstone Shadow Hayseed Dixie - Monster Mash Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Mingan Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.