The Clockwork Cabaret: Steampunk Radio

In which it is established that Klaude Davenport is a Gooseberry Fool, Emmett Davenport reveals her plans to sell umbrellas and parasols via a full body parasol support structure and Phineas P Moneyload discovers the remains of last week's sponsors (and the better part of his dignity) beneath a pile of floating goats. All this and more in store for you in Episode 82! 08.17.09 Playlist: DeVotchKa - Viens Avec Moi Fermata - The Widow Geiger New Model Army - I Love the World XTC - Generals and Majors Captain Beefheart - Electricity New Town Drunks - Always Home Tom Waits - Clang Boom Steam The Kinks - Holloway Jail The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier The James Gang - My Strut is Incredible Miles Mosely - Scuse Me Big Mama Da Vinci's Notebook - Hot Soup Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Ship Song Leon Redbone - You Nearly Lose Your Mind Kate Bush - Cloudbusting The Decemberists - The Rake's Song The Slow Poisoner - Faded Love Adam Ant - Puss N Boots Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed Asylum Street Spankers - Shine On Harvest Moon Squirrel Nut Zippers - Blue Angel Nina Hagen - Fever Rasputina - State Fair Michael Hurley - Hog of the Forsaken The Damned - Absinthe Robert Preston - Marian the Librarian Lemming Malloy - One Foot Off the Merry Go Round  Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters give thanks for a recent gift and discuss an upcoming event that may involve throwing wrenches. Plus, Mister Moneyload shares a tale of woe. 08.10.09 Playlist: Jason Webley - Icarus Neko Case - Margaret vs Pauline Klaus Nomi - The Cold Song The Dolly Carte Opera Company - I Am The Very Model (from Pirates of Penzance) Kate Bush - Babooshka Zoe Keating - Frozen Angel Man Man - Push the Eagle's Stomach Real Tuesday Weld - Cloud Cuckooland Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Babe, I'm on Fire The Smiths - Cemetary Gates Andrew Bird - Scythian Empires Divine Comedy - The Wreck of the Beautiful Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer - Straight Out of Surrey Tally Hall - Ruler of Everything Squirrel Nut Zippers - Wash Jones The Zydepunks - Dear Molly Beat Circus - Dark Eyes New Town Drunks - Itch Nouvelle Vague - Just Can't Get Enough Hayseed Dixie - Black Dog Tom Waits - All Stripped Down Count Zero - Golden Years Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters are dizzy on lemonade and blueberry pancakes, spinning wild ideas of positivity and learning they don't need kazoos when they have their own mouths. 08.03.09 playlist: Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry Reverend Horton Heat - If It Ain't Got Rhythm Flogging Molly - Sentimental Johnny Split Lip Rayfield - The High Price of Necromancy Luminescent Orchestrii - Neptune's Daughter The Smiths - Big Mouth Strikes Again Rasputina - Draconian Crackdown The Scarring Party - Leslie Ann Merrimac Tom Waits - Goin' Out West Beat Circus - Coney Island Creepshow Man Man - Engrish Bwudd Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - 15 ft of Pure White Snow Nouvelle Vague - This is Not a Love Song Holly GoLightly and the Brokeoffs - Devil Do Slow Poisoner - Roadside Altar Eartha Kitt - I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch They Might Be Giants - Whistling in the Dark Dr Steel - Boogeyman Boogie Vernian Process - The Alchemists Vision Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Deep in the bowels of the Calpurnia lurks the sinister and somewhat tiny Edward Carapace, who likes to pop out and scare the sisters & Phineas at the most inopportune times. 07.27.09 playlist: Slow Poisoner - Run Rooster Run Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple Professor Elemental - Cup of Brown Joy Beat Circus - Delirium Tremens Julie London - Cry Me A River Tuna Helpers - Circus Song Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea Riders in the Sky - Tumbling Tumbleweeds Abney Park - Wrong Side (Vernian Process Mix) Split Lip Rayfield - Factory Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier Lemming Malloy - Northern Crown Rasputina - State Fair Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom Tom Waits - Chocolate Jesus The Decemberists - The Tain Katzenjammer Kabarett - Wondered Colonel Killed Couple Flogging Molly - Factory Girls Dexter Romweber w/ Exene Cervenka - Lonesome Train Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Klaude has returned from her adventure and regales us with her tale of self-doubt and lost relaxation. Emmett's attempt at a Tom Waits impression has left her with a loss of voice and bad cough. Join us for this week's installment! 07.20.09 Playlist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Little Empty Boat Reverend Glasseye - Mother is a Carpagian Tom Waits - Starving in the Belly of a Whale Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea The Decemberists - Shankhill Butchers New Town Drunks - Camilla They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Blue October - Into the Ocean Slow Poisoner - TB Blues Harlequin Jones - Gutter Tango Babyshambles - There She Goes Rufus Wainwright - Vibrate Squirrel Nut Zippers - The Kraken DeVotchKa - Somethin' Stupid Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? - Don't Go The Denver Gentlemen - Vulture Girl The Damned - Beauty and the Beast Puppini Sisters - I Will Survive Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra - Oh, You Beautiful Doll Birdeatsbaby - China Doll Real Tuesday Weld - Ruth, Roses and Revolvers Ralph Schuckett with Richard Butler - Alabama Song  Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Come, steampunks, come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Let Emmett regale you with tales of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes! 07.13.09 playlist: Patrick Gowers - 221B Baker Street (The Sherlock Holmes Theme) The Real Tuesday Welds - I Loved London Danny Elfman - A Riddle Humanwine - Script Language Konstantin Krimets & Russian Philharmonic Orchestra - "Overture" from Sherlock Holmes, 1980 The Smiths - This Charming Man Mr. B, the Gentleman Rhymer - Let Me Smoke My Pipe Rasputina - Momma Was An Opium Smoker Miklos Rozsa - The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: English Waltz Over the Rhine - Trouble Thomas Dolby - I Scare Myself Vernian Process - Crime of the Century Patrick Gowers - Irene Adler Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Ants Under Glass Duke Special - Ballad of a Broken Man Tom Waits - The One That Got Away They Might Be Giants - (She Was A) Hotel Detective The Tiger Lillies - Police Sherlock Holmes the Musical - Men Like You The Two Man Gentlemen Band - My Other Half is Gone Patrick Gowers - River Chase Unwoman - Wicked Game Sherlock Holmes the Musical - Without Him There Can Be No Me Musee Mecanique - The Propellers Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The Davenport sisters play a few ditties to celebrate Tesla's birthday just a few days early (for a full Nikola Tesla themed birthday show please listen to Episode 24: Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla, from July 08). V Victrola Albion has taught the sisters a new game that they play on air and Klaude shares a new Dear Prudence letter concerning the shaking of hands. 07.06.09 playlist: Lemming Malloy - Don't Act Like Prey Kozai Resonance - A Lovesong to Science Captain Beefheart - Electricity They Might Be Giants - The Edison Museum Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Gamma Ray The Divine Comedy - My Imaginary Friend Vernian Process - Behold the Machine Steam Powered Giraffe - Electricity is in my Soul The Slow Poisoner - Carbolic Acid Rag Iron and Wine - Naked As We Came Danbert Nobacon - Information Storm Bat for Lashes - Horse and I Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Powers Out) Jonathan Coulton - I Crush Everything Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Under This Moon Tally Hall - Ruler of Everything The Handsome Family - Tesla's Hotel Room Findlay Brown - I Will (Ghost Ship) Dr Steel - Planet X Marks the Spot Bastard Fairies - We're All Going to Hell White Stripes - Astro Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters play the Glad Game and share their lists of the simple things that make them happy. A brief recap of the June Clockwork Ball and a list of helpful things not to say to steampunk DJs are included in this week's program. 06.28.09 Playlist: Tom Waits - Everything Goes to Hell Asylum Street Spankers - Be Like You Hazmat Modine with Huun Huur Tu - It Calls Me Goody and his Good Timers - Digga Digga Doo Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Nocturama John Barrowman and Kevin Kline - Night and Day Lemming Malloy - The Bunker Song Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking Luminsecent Orchestrii - Kombucha Monster Ukulele Mike - My Blue Heaven Rufus Waiwright - Beauty Mark Mavis Rivers - Five O'Clock Whistle Slow Poisoner - Run Rooster Run Max Raabe mit Palast Orchestre - Uptown Girl Malcolm Mclaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra - I Like You In Velvet Kate Bush - Babooshka Amelie Soundtrack - Guilty Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief Danbert Nobacon - Information Storm Hayseed Dixie - Strawberry Fields Forever Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Klaude and Emmett have had a very bad no good day. Emmett is still trying to recover from the squid flue, while Klaude seems to be having even less luck than normal with her adventures. Even the simple act of walking down the stairs ends in disaster. Enjoy some of the sisters favorite down tempo songs as they wallow in a stew of their own mopey-ness. 6.22.09 Playlist: Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) Man Man - The Ballad of Butterbeans Deathat - The Stranger The Scarring Party - Everything I touched Caught Fire Blixa Bargeld - Somewhere Over the Rainbow Jill Tracy - Quintessential Unreal Ian Whitcomb and the White Star Orchestra - Musical Hall March Medley Louis Prima and Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic Slow Poisoner - Roadside Altar Abney Park - The Wrong Side (Vernian Process'd Mix) The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson Sting and Dominic Muldowney - The Ballad of Mac the Knife The Decemberists - The Rake's Song They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Cake - Sad Songs and Waltzes Tiger Lillies and Kronos Quartet - ABC (Arsenical Bun) Rasputina - Oh Injury Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom Reverend Horton Heat - Octopus Mode Kirsty MacColl and the Pogues - Miss Otis Regrets/Just One of those Things David Bowie and Massive Attack - Nature Boy The Gourds - Luddite Juice Current 93 with Nick Cave - All the Pretty Little Horses Mad Tea Party - Where the Morning Glories Grow Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Emmett, Klaude and Phineas P Moneyload celebrate the anniversary of Klaude's birth. The sisters play some of Klaude's favorite music, Klaude related poetry is read, songs are sung, and Klaude almost overdoses on birthday. 06.15.09 Playlist: They Might Be Giants - Older Two Man Gentleman Band - Let's Make a Sandwich White Stripes - Conquest Asylum Street Spankers - Dance This Mess Around Holly Yarbough - You are Special David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In Muse - Knights of Cydonia Dr Steel - Planet X Marks the Spot Mr B, Gentleman Rhymer - Piece of My Mind Grinderman - Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars) Lemming Malloy - One Foot Off the Merry Go Round Gothic Archies - How Do You Slow This Thing Down? Nick Cave - The Carny Rasputina - Brand New Key Luminescent Orchestrii - Tea They Might Be Giants - Fingertips DeVotchKa - We're Leaving Decemberists - The Mariner's Revenge Song Man Man - Engrish Bwudd Tiger Lillies w/Kronos Quartet - Gin Slow Poisoner - The Hex Voltaire - Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend) Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters answer listeners questions about steampunk and themselves. 06.08.09 Playlist: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Opium Tea Sweet Soubrette - Can't Stop Thinking Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science Cinema Strange - Time Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summer Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Gamma Ray The Zydepunks - Long Story Short The Slow Poisoners - Todo Es Mal! Jolie Holland - You're Not Satisfied Unextraordinary Gentlemen - Mr Soot's Black Book Cheyenne Mize and Bonnie Prince Billy - Beautiful Dreamer Tom Waits - Hoist That Rag Billy Bragg - A New England The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Stephvenson Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain Flogging Molly - Tobacco Island They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Decemberists - Infanta Neko Case - Deep Red Bells Grinderman - Electric Alice Kate Bush - Cloudbusting Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Emmett and Klaude Davenport wax whimsical on their lovely weekend adventure at Con Carolinas Aught Nine. The girls brainstorm possible steampunk themed adventure groups, the Gear Guides and Cog Cadets. Merit badges to follow. 6.1.09 Playlist: Man Man - Spider Cider The Little Willies - I'll Never Get Out of this World Kate Bush - Babooshka Voltaire - The Man Upstairs Rasputina - Thimble Island World/Inferno Friendship Society - Only Anarchists are Pretty Babyshambles - There She Goes Sting and Dominic Muldowny - The Ballad of Mac the Knife Tiger Lillies - Weeping Chandelier The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing - Fox Beirut - Postcards from Italy Beat Circus - Delerium Tremens Brickbats - She's So Victorian Adam Ant - Puss'n'Boots Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lovely Creature Black Tape for a Blue Girl - Knock Three Times DeVotcKa - Lunnaya Pogonka Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

The sisters relate the adventurous adventures of their panel at Animazement and look forward to all the good-times fun to be had at ConCarolinas. Also, Klaude talks about her least favorite platitude. 05.25.09 playlist: The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle Palast Orchestre with Max Raabe - You Are My Lucky Star The Real Tuesday Weld - The Decline and Fall of the Clerkenwell Kid Luminescent Orchestrii - Moldavian Mad Tea Party - Buttons and Bows They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) Danny Elfman - Dance On My Grave (from the unmade film 'Little Demons') Tom Waits - In the Colosseum Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - They All Laughed The Handsome Family - Tesla's Hotel Room Katzenjammer Kabarett - A Real Gentleman or the Mad Lover The Damned - Beauty and the Beast Puppini Sisters - I Will Survive Lemming Malloy - The Curse of Greyface Lemming Malloy - One Foot Off the Merry Go Round Revue Noir - Sometimes, Sunshine Lost in the Woods - For Elizabeth and John Over the Rhine - Don't Wait for Tom Slow Poisoner - Magic Casket Fine Young Cannibals - Love for Sale Vernian Process - Maple Leaf Rag Asylum Street Spankers - Digga Digga Do Jay Munly - Spill the Wine Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Klaude reveals the bone-shattering truth about Eugenia Nolfet. 05.18.09 Playlist: The Slow Poisoner - The Shriek! Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five with Ella Fitzgerald - Baby, It's Cold Outside Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with PJ Harvey - Hendry Lee Leonard Cohen - Waiting for a Miracle Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Depression-Pasillo Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - Devil Do Reverend Glasseye - King of Men Senryn - Oh Murder! Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship? - Don't Go Split Lip Rayfield - Hobo Love Song Fast and Bulbous - Smithsonian Institute Blues Dr. Steel - Lament of a Toy Factory DeVotchKa - We're Leaving The Younger Sister Band - G Train Kate Bush - Hounds of Love Louis Armstrong - A Kiss to Build a Dream On Johnny Cash - Tearstained Letter Tally Hall - Hidden in the Sand Man Man - Skin Tension The Horseflies - Cluck Old Chicken Mighty Tiny - End of the Day Cab Calloway - Says Who, Says You, Says I They Might Be Giants - Exquisite Dead Guy Beirut - Nantes Mr B, the Gentlemen Rhymer - Let Me Smoke My Pipe Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.

Much is revealed about Emmett's trip abroad, the escape of Rupert, a visit from the long absent Phineas P. Moneyload, and a creation of a new word 'scrumble' by Klaude returns the show to its regular silliness. 05.11.09 Playlist: Tom Waits - Table Top Joe Pink Martini - Sympathetique Helen Kane - He's So Unusual The Ditty Bops - Wishful Thinking The Slow Poisoner - T.B. Blues The Scarring Party - Everything I Touched Caught Fire Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox Lemming Malloy - Northern Crown They Might Be Giants - I Can Hear You Tuna Helpers - Frying Pan Junior Brown - The Gal From Oklahoma Zydepunks - Dear Molly Lost in the Trees - Tall Trees Vermillion Lies - First the Bees Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher Juliet Turner - Toxic Grinderman - Go Tell the Women Polka Haunt Us - The Beer Hall in Hell Maxwell/Mosher - The Kraken Duke Special - Salvation Tambourine Modest Mouse - Float On  Logo: David Göbel, bulletride.deProduced by the Clockwork Cabaret. Hosted by Emmett & Klaude Davenport. More Info: clockworkcabaret.com, and follow @clockwrkcabaret on Twitter or Facebook.