Well now, here’s something new from the Stalemates crew – LIVE SUFFERING. In late November 2021, Joe and John elected to take a hop on, hop off Belfast bus tour. It was a bright, sunny day and even the bus was shivering. Joe wore a bobble hat and multiple scarves; John was in his new woolly coat. They thought nothing could touch them. What fools they were. Within half an hour the microphone was frozen in John’s bone white hand, and Joe was lost in a reverie of past loves and fading memories. When the batteries ran out on the Tascam it may have saved their lives.

What follows is often a load of windy bollocks – that’s not John and Joe’s fault, for once – it was just whipping a gale on the top deck, and the mic was buffeted to buggery. That, and the constant catty drawl of the bus’s inbuilt tour guide, throwing monotonic shade over the entire city, renders quite a lot of the following podcast inaudible.

Parts of it sound like the breakdown in “You Made Me Realise” with John hoarsely slagging off the Titanic building over the top of it.
There is a special prize for anyone who makes it to the end. We’ll come round your house and re-enact it. In the warm. With hot chocolate. Please respect our social distancing. X

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