GBA Live 2 A Room Full of Friends

Summary: Episode 2 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation. Today we get we get better acquainted with A Room Full of Friends. This is the pilot of a new strand of the GBA podcast. The Getting Better Acquainted house band, A Room full of Friends, will play regular gigs in rooms full of different groups of friends. We play songs, we talk, we talk to the audience, and we have fun. In this episode the songs and the conversation take us to all sorts of places from Steven Seagal, to heart attacks, to Winnie the Pooh, to teenage goth memories, to eulogies to dead friends and much, much more. The current line up of a room full of friends is: Dave: Vox/Guitar/Uke Asia: Vox Sam: Drums: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-99-sam George: Bass: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george We plug: Sams other projects: Stark Dangerous: http://www.starkdangerous.com/ Hwan: http://soundcloud.com/indifference-engine We mention: Steven Seagal: http://stevenseagal.com/ Arnold Schwarzenegger: http://www.schwarzenegger.com/ Johnny Cash: http://www.johnnycash.com/ Where Wild Roses Grow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE Bruce Springsteen: http://brucespringsteen.net/ Winnie the Pooh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!