Suggestible - An Odd Sexy Duck

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

Suggestible things to watch, read and listen to. Hosted by James Clement @mrsundaymovies and Claire Tonti @clairetonti.New music, merch, live show info and much more available at https://www.clairetonti.com/This week’s Suggestibles:02:17 White Noise10:50 Pearls by Jessie Ware14:52 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial23:03 Kae Tempest30:39 Brothers by Gang of YouthsSend your recommendations to [e-mail], we’d love to hear them.You can also follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook @suggestiblepod and join our ‘Planet Broadcasting Great Mates OFFICIAL’ Facebook Group. So many things. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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read and listen to. For those who are new to listening to this podcast, I do bing bongs every week. They're different every time. Who knows? They're not that different. Like if that's what you're tuning in for, you're not going to be very impressed.

Oh, excuse me. I've done many a bing bong of all different varieties. Disagree. All right. You might do a festive one. You might do something that's, I don't know, a song that you've been listening to but I can never really tell the difference. Bing bong, bing bing bong, bing bing bing bong, bing bing bong, bing bing bong,

bong bong, bong bong, bong, like that. Who knows? It's just a scatting bing bong. A scat. Anyway, James Clement is here. I'm Claire Twente. We are married. We recommend you things to watch, read and listen to.

And that's the show. That's it. You should Google scat, you know, to set different varieties. I know that scat. I know scat is also another word for poo. I know that. Okay. I, okay, side note before we get into this thing that we do.

This has just been side notes, but go on. Okay. I hate that you keep making jokes about poo all the time. I absolutely do not. You absolutely do. This is it. The other day you were like, what are you drinking, a hot cup of poo? And I'm like, no, it's gross.

But that's classic comedy. No, I'm sick of it. I am putting a halt to it. I'm calling a meeting of the heads of our households and I'm saying no more poo jokes. Well, that's, I don't even know what to say to that. I mean, we live with a seven-year-old, so that's probably pretty hard. Exactly, we live with children and that's just not a reality.

A son of a monkey's walking around going, have you done a giant fluffy? I don't know why it makes me laugh. Just keep them busy. So much. It's hilarious. Anyway. Should we get into whatever the recommendations are?

I think we should, James. I think we should. Also for new listeners because I don't know why but I just felt like saying it. The way that it works is James brings in some things that he's watched and really listened to. I bring some things that I'm watching and really listened to. We swap notes and then we have a lovely little end of the show where we read an email, read a review, and then that's it.

That's the show. That's all. That's it. That's it. That's what happens. All right, stop yawning. I'm excited about mine. Are you going to go first, Frank, or I?

I've got two. Gentlemen's first, as they say. Both of my things are set in the 80s. One of them was actually made in the 80s, which was the reason why it are set in the 80s. One of them was actually made in the 80s, which was the reason why it's set in the 80s. But I'm going to start with White Noise, Claire. Right. So it's set in the 80s when you were, what, 15?

What the hell is this? I've had hot chocolate before we came. I'm really on fire. Oh, really? Because I'm like, I'm falling apart. And you were just like, bam, bam. And I'm like, oh. Sticking the boot.

I can't. I can't retaliate. It was my special hot chocolate too with cacao powder and honey and turmeric and cinnamon. It's real good for you. I'd rather drink a cup of poo. So, Claire. I said that more. White Noise is a movie directed by Noah Baumbach, who also wrote and directed it.

It stars Greta Gerwig, who you might know. I love her. She's also directing the Barbie movie that's coming out this year. I know. Adam Driver. Do you love it? Is Adam Driver handsome or not? Go.

As we always have said, incredibly so. I knew it. Incredibly so. Andre 3000? Yes. I don't know who that is. He's that Hey Ya guy. What?

He's in Outcast. Oh, he's like, oh, actually he's Hey Ya. Yeah, he's who that is. He's that Hey Ya guy. What? He's in Outcast. Oh, he's like, oh, actually he's Hey Ya. Yeah, he's also an actor. Yeah. Hey Ya. Okay. Among many. Is that how it goes?

Yeah, that's exactly how it goes. No. And Raffy Cassidy. So here's the synopsis. Just before you get onto it, I love the way he walks in that video clip. Great. That's really good. Continue.

So college professor Jack Gladney, Adam Driver, and his family's comfortable suburban life is upended when a nearby chemical leak causes the airborne toxic event, releasing a noxious black cloud over the region that forces the Gladney family to evacuate. So you might be like, oh, is this one of those apocalyptic family whatever, whatever situations? And you would be correct.

No, it's not that at all. I just want to point this out from the get-go. This is absolutely not for everybody. I feel like if you watch this for like five, ten minutes and you're like, this is a weird rhythm and I'm not sure I'm with this, I can totally understand that. But I really like that because it's the the interactions between people it's kind of it plays out it's kind of like a stage play and the language is kind of

very flowery and precise and there's this weird rhythm like an exaggeration and thought process to everything and there's like an unreality to it because the situations that i i kind of i'm not explaining it well because it's kind of hard to explain, where when people are talking to themselves, it doesn't feel real. It's like a heightened kind of almost academic reality, which is also, you know, because the Adam Driver's character in it, he is an academic. He's like a, his area is like the rise of Nazis in Germany, right? So he's in this role at university where there's a bunch of other like weirdo academics

and they have these kind of, all these pointless and like kind of bombastic and stupid, but also really interesting conversations around their like chosen topics. And it's almost like a bizarre and like mockery of academia, but it's also not. It's also more like a heightened version of it. So there's that going on and then there's the cloud that's threatened

to poisoning everybody and it's also about like death and family and mortality and relationships and all of these different elements to it. I'm not explaining this well because it's just like a real odd duck of a movie, you know? Much like Adam Driver. Much like Adam Driver. Much like Adam Driver. A sexy odd duck though. Who is handsome and giant.

Which is my genre of men. Yeah, well, that's true. You know, people, ever since he worked out how to put his hair over his ears, he's completely changed how he's perceived. It's so true. You know who else has done that? Who? Good old J, what's his, J, not JTT.

Justin Timberlake. No, you know who I mean. He's in 10 Things I Hate About You and he wasn't that hot and then he got real hot. Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Yes. He doesn't wear his hair over his ears. No, but he had really sticky out of years in 10 Things I Hate About You.

Did he? And either he had them pinned back or he just grew into his head and face. I don't know. Something happened between that movie and then many other movies where he got incredibly hot. It's a good movie. I'm not quite sure why. I think it's the old duck thing.

Yeah. It's the odd sexy duck. An odd sexy duck. Do you know he's so good in that lip sync battle that I know you don't like, but I love those lip sync battles. No, they're still going. I have no idea. But I loved him in that one particularly. Anyway, continue. What song did he sing? Quack, quack, I'm an lip sync battles. No, that's not going. I have no idea. But I loved him in that one particularly.

Anyway, continue. What song did he sing? Quack, quack, I'm an old sexy duck. He sung quack, quack, I'm a sexy duck. Quack, quack, I'm a sexy duck. Do you remember what he sung? I'm a sexy duck. That's him.

That's what he sang. Those always pop up on Twitter. Five sexy ducks went out one day over the hills and far away. Something about those lip sync battles that I just, and I know there is talent to it because there's a lot of dancing and physicality. You've got to sell the performance. Quack, quack, quack, quack.

You've got to sell the performance. But I just don't like it. I don't know what it is. I just don't like it. I don't know. I know why. Why? Because you're a sad, sexy odd duck.

Well, at least I'm sexy and sad. You're a sad, you just don't like at least I'm sexy and sad. You're a sad. You just don't like a lot of things. I don't know. You find joy and fun irritating. No, I find organized fun irritating. Do you like karaoke? No, I don't.

Exactly. It's basically karaoke with like more planning. Yeah, but. So you just don't like joy and that's okay. No, I don't like other people's idea of joy. I thought you were going to say other people's joy. No, I like other people's joy. I just don't want to be part of it.

I know. I know. That's what I'm saying. And are you feeling like all these ellipsing battles are like forcing into other people's joy? No. Whatever, let them do it. But I watch that and I'm just like, whatever.

Okay. I love it. There's a very famous one that's like Tom Holland does. I'm on Tom Holland. I'm bloody Holland does. I'm on Tom Holland. I'm bloody Tom Holland. I'm famous Tom Holland. He does Umbrella. You've probably seen that one.

Hello, I'm Spider-Man. I'm Tom Holland. I'm upside down. Hello. What are you doing here today? I don't know. I'm just coming in to say that James is an old sexy duck. Thanks, Tom.

Oh, not an odd one, an old one now. Well, that's fine. Thanks, Tom. That was accurate. You're looking up at the roof like there's someone there. Tom Holland. Yeah, yeah, Tom. Oh, not an odd one, an old one now. Well, that's fine. Thanks, Tom. That was accurate. You're looking up at the roof like there's someone there. Tom Holland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, I'm fine with it.

I'm fine with it. I just don't care. Anyways, this is also the same writer, director who wrote and direct Marriage Story. So it's interesting because that one is also, the thing about White Noise is it's got a heavy focus on relationships, in particular marriage and family, as does Marriage Story, but they're totally different.

Like Marriage Story is arguably, I guess, like very accurate and it feels like you're watching somebody have like a fight and you're like in the room and you're like, should I say something? Should I leave? Yeah, it's very intense. Also, I will say my favourite part is when the Muppet. He hits the wall and goes, ah!

Ow! No, I was going to say my favourite part is that part, you know, when the Muppet comes in? Oh, yeah, absolutely. In the fight. So if anyone who doesn't know, James is one of James' most viral Twitters of all time was when he superimposed a Muppet.

I did Muppet marriage story. Yeah, and literally. It's still pinned? I think it's still pinned at the top of my Twitter. It's still pinned at your Twitter because I think it's one of your most successful videos. Might be the best thing I've ever done. It might be and it only goes for a couple of minutes.

I know. Not even seconds. I reckon I made that in about two minutes. Yeah. And it's got 700,000 views. God, that's from four years ago, really. There you go. I should probably let this go as a pinned tweet.

But every now and then it comes around, like people go, this is great. And I'm like, I know. The best thing I've ever done. Anyway, White Noise, I recommend it because it's good. Again, not for everybody. Weird rhythm. It's sort of about a poisonous cloud, white noise. I recommend it because it's good. Again, not for everybody. Weird rhythm. It's sort of about a poisonous cloud sort of. I know there's been a bunch of like train derailments in the US as well

where that's like really happened and people have lost their homes and whatever, so that's terrible. But this was before that. I mean that's always kind of happened. Hello, dog. How did you get in? I don't trust you. Anyway, what have you got?

Oh, all right, excellent. Okay, that sounds cool i'm definitely gonna check it out i'm also a fan of white noise in general particularly for sleeping babies yeah no what white noise excellent for baby sleeping that white noise nap app amazing put that on your phone if you're desperate while you're trying to that's not the sound of white noise anyway like this all right right. Moving right along. Okay, old duck. What do you got?

I want to talk about a really amazing new song that's just coming out. I don't want to talk about that. There's an artist called Jessie Ware who I bloody love. She hosts a podcast called Table Manners with her mother. You've talked about this particular podcast. Yes, who is hilarious as well and it's so fun. She basically gets a guest, like a famous celebrity, come to their house, her mum cooks for them and they talk

about food memories and it's just the best and gorgeous and she has pink on just recently for their new season. However, her upcoming album, That Feels Good, is her latest release. It's going to be out soon and I cannot wait. Is she a big musician? She's a very big musician. She does a lot.

James is trying to pick up this dog. What has happened today? We're really losing it. You're trying to pick her up and she's just kind of like, the way the toddlers put their arms up so you can't grab them, she did that to me. But she's also pouring at me to climb up. Such a strange dog, this one.

You're the weirdest dog. This is our puppy who's a beagle-y and she's just all kinds of odd. Anyway, yeah, she's a strange one. But we love you, Zippy. So this particular song, it's kind of disco is her vibe. Yeah. And really amazing. Like her stage presence is incredible.

Vocally she's really, really cool. Her tiny desk videos are amazing on YouTube as well. She does kind of incredible dance routines and these like high disco kind of numbers. They're like inspired by artists like Donna Summer, Evelyn Champagne King, Tina Marie and Chaka Khan. This song, Pearls, has just released and it's just full of joy and dance and escapism. And what I like about it as well is she's a mother. And so it has this kind of gravitas to it in this way where it's super grounding in the reality of being a mom and trying to wear about a million hats.

The lyrics that go, let it go, let me dance and shake it till the pearls get lost. It's kind of like her being really sexy and joyful and free while also being a mother and wearing all the hats we do. And unsurprisingly, I really resonate with all of that. And it's also just a bloody jolly good time. The first single of this album was Free Yourself, which is also really excellent. But Pearls is by far my favorite. The video clip looks bloody spectacular, and I'm so excited for this whole album to drop.

Actually, she made like kind of almost a short film that was her video clip for Remember Where You Are, which I used as a bit of inspiration for my video clip for the album for Fear to Feel. And it's an incredible sort of look at London during the pandemic. Was this when she filmed a bunch of stuff? Yeah, it was completely empty. And it's just such a beautifully shot video as well. It's really good. I'm sorry about all the rustling in the background. That's our dog.

Now she's sitting in a chair. She somehow opened the door and got in. I don't know. She's an odd one. Zippy, off you go. You're going outside. Oh, let me go. Let me dance.

Shake till the pearls get lost. Let me go. All right. Are you done bragging about your gym routine over there? Anyway, go on. Sorry. All right. Are you done bragging about your gym routine over there? Anyway, go on. Sorry. All right. Anyway.

Yeah. So Jessie Ware, I recommend going back through her back catalogue and listening to everything. What's Your Pleasure is an incredible song. Go and watch her videos on YouTube. She's just so cool. And also her podcast is amazing. But this particular song, Shake It Till The Pearls Get Lost,

honestly, it's just brilliant. So would you say joy, joyful? Joyful, freeing, fun, all of it. British musician, Jessie Ware, Smashing It Out Of The Park. The album is going to be spectacular. I can feel it in my bones. And I also just bloody love it when women go and smash things, particularly when they're also mothers and having to do all that stuff too.

God knows how she does all the things she does. She's bloody great. All right. You can get anything you need with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get an ice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea and ice cream? Yes, we can deliver that.

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Now, I talk about this. I talk about it. I bring this to you now, Claire. I actually briefly talked about it on The Weekly Planet, but I watched it with our son on the weekend. He was like, we're still moving on. I'm like, there's still a movie night. He's like, what do you want to watch?

I'm like, I don't know what I want. I'll pick a movie. And I'm like, do I start the Star Wars prequels? I'm like, oh, I just watched the movie. I don't want to watch the Star Wars prequels. But then today he brought home the junior novelization of episode three, Revenge of the Sith. He's like, look at this.

And I'm like, oh, no, you can't read that one yet. You've got to read the other ones or whatever. Anyway, that's unrelated. Oh. Should I watch the Star Wars prequel? So I'll watch E.T., which anyway has a lot of links to Star Wars, which is one of the things he loves about it. There's a moment where, like, Elliot is showing E.T.

all these different Star Wars figures and all the names. Yeah. He's like, oh, my God, it's Star Wars figures. There's a moment where E.T. sees Yoda, like a kid dressed up as Yoda, and he's like, and he goes to, like, follow him, which is weird because whatever the name of the alien E.T. is, whatever species there are, they're in Star Wars.

So that means that E.T. exists in the Star Wars universe, but also in the universe of E.T., like, however long later, on the human world or whatever, somehow they have knowledge of Star Wars happening because he recognises Yoda. He's like, I fucking know this guy. I've seen this guy before. I saw him in Star Wars. Do you see what I'm saying, Claire?

I see what you're saying. Yeah, it's bizarre. Could it be that he saw the figurines? No, he saw Yoda because he was alive during Star Wars Episode 1 or his species was and apparently he's like 10 million years old as well. Steven Spielberg recently said that. Who E.T. He's 10 million and also not a he.

That's so many. Not gender specific, Claire. Oh, I like that. And like the physiology of like a plant. Oh, what? Yeah, I don't know. I love that. This is all E.T. stuff.

I don't even know how that works but I love E.T. Anyways, this is directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Matheson. Everybody knows this movie but here's the synopsis. An alien is left behind on Earth and is saved by young Elliot who decides to keep him hidden. While the task force hunts for it, Elliot and his siblings form an emotional bond with their new friend.

Stars Henry Thomas, who's like 50 now, Dee Wallace as their mother, who's amazing in this movie, by the way, Robert McNaughton, Drew Barrymore, the youngest Drew Barrymore you've ever seen in your goddamn life. She's like five years old. This movie, like, I remember liking it as a kid or whatever. I brought it up to my siblings recently. They're like, that movie sucks. It's boring. Disagree.

It's incredible. It's an incredible movie, Claire. Do you agree that E.T. is an incredible movie? That's right, it is. It just feels so real and lived in. It's like, again, me and Mason were talking about this, but, like, the way they build the house, and it's a set, obviously a set obviously because you know it just feels like a real like i don't know what it is about the clutter in particular in the way like the kids rooms are set up in the refrigerator and

all these different things it just feels like a real place and everybody's real and all the clothes are real you know what i mean they don't feel like store-bought and they've just like worn them on the day do you know what i mean yeah it's so lived in and like tactile and so many movies now and it's not every movie but like they just they don't have that you know it's just and the relationships are so real but they don't also touch on them you find out that like elliot's dad is no longer there anymore and his mom is like clearly having a terrible time of that they don't delve into like really why or what happened or her feelings about it or whatever. It's kind of just like a background element to this story

about an alien or whatever. The puppeteering on E.T. also is amazing. It's like incredible. They actually updated it a few years ago to make it. They put like a CGI model in to like enhance some of that. And I'm like, no, don't do that. There's even a moment, it's controversial, where you remember where the kids are riding on bikes

and they're trying to get ET back to the ship and they're like, let's get out of here. It's still ET. And there's a whole bunch of cops like block off the street and they fly over the cars. You probably remember. It's famous. They changed all the cops' like shotguns to radios.

Like Spielberg like altered them. So the cops are like holding radios. I don't know, like sanitised. They've changed it back since. Spielberg was like, I shouldn't have done that, I apologise. It's incredible. Like it's, I mean, it's also written by, did I mention this, Melissa Matheson, who I think doesn't get enough credit for this because the story of it, like it's obviously like all good stories.

It's the story, the writing of the story, which keeps it all together. I think I told you this recently as well and Drew Barrymore, I think, talked about this on her talk show where she brings people in and she's like, I love you, I fucking love you, and everyone cries. Have you ever seen that show? Yes, I have. Yeah. That they kept the E.T. puppet alive for her.

They just paid it to like the guy to like operate it because she'd often go over and talk to it like in between sets. And they didn't want it to just like slump like. Like lifeless. Exactly. So she didn't know that it wasn't real. Thought it was like a guy or whatever. And what's interesting about this also, and I feel like this wouldn't happen now, there

was going to be a sequel to this. They went to Spielberg. It was like the biggest biggest movie I think it was even bigger than Star Wars or something whatever it was like it's a huge movie the kind of movie that also wouldn't make that kind of money now you know yeah you have to like be the end of a franchise or an avatar movie or whatever the fuck you know and they said you can you do E.T. too and he went away and they thought of an idea and the idea was that like these aliens come back, these aliens come to Earth and Elliot's like, E.T.'s back, I love him or whatever, and them.

And then they're like white E.T.'s and they're like evil and they kidnap Elliot and then E.T. has to go rescue them, whatever. There's also a sequel book also which isn't great. But also the best part of this movie I feel as well is the relationship between Elliot and his family and also et because it's it's really like it's quite grim you know it's just a sad movie at times and not ultimately like but also it kind of is because if you've seen et you know at the end it's it's like a bittersweet kind of ending and it's they really sell it and the john williams score like it just it's one of those movies. It's just, it's an absolute like unicorn of like a production, you know,

like just every single element of that movie works. And even if like some of the special effects, like, you know, the bike flying or whatever, you know, might not look like you do it now. It just, it feels so like real and like an imaginative and, and like the wonder of it is really handled well. And the kids feel really real as well it's it's terrific i i will say this and i did this for our son i've just warned your kids going in like what it is because i know people i've spoken to people about this and they were like horrified by this movie as a kid because there's elements of it that kind of feel

scary but they're not like when you first find., if you didn't know what it was, you'd be like, what is happening? This is a terrifying thing. And if you tell them like it's an alien or whatever and it's friendly and et cetera, then that will be fine. Well, that's how it was for me anyway. But, yeah, anyway, I recommend the movie E.T. I really want to go and watch it again now.

I mean I loved it at the time. I actually find it almost painful to watch. It is painful. But, yeah, not in the way of like, oh, I hate it, as in it's so emotionally charged that I remember as a kid like watching it probably more as a teenager and the visceral nature of it because it's so real. You're right.

Yeah. And the feelings in it are so beautifully drawn and heart-wrenching and it's spooky in parts as well. Yeah, it is spooky. I'm so glad it holds up because I remember it being like extraordinary when I saw it. It just stays with you. Yeah.

There was a Comcast sequel with the original actor called E.T., A Holiday Reunion, where he comes back in like 2019. He's like, Elliot, I'm back and I bring you Comcast special deals or whatever. It's not as bad as that but it's like it's about family and whatever and it's had the dog got back in yet again. Anyways, do you have another recommendation? I certainly do.

That's how this show works. Okay, so during this week I have been seeing quite a few concerts, which is really cool for me because I don't always get out and about. And particularly because the albums kind of come out now, I just feel like I've got sort of, I don't know, all this energy to burn. Really? You don't seem like you have that much energy when you come out and you're like, oh, I'm

so tired. I know. I've been wrecked. I'm dying. Anyway, so I want to talk about today an incredible, how do I explain K Tempest? So if you don't know who they are, they're a non-binary English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist, singer, and playwright. K is an extraordinary human being, universally acclaimed for their artistry and rapping

and emphatically also their singing too, which they've moved into more recently. Okay. And so their debut album was Everybody Down, but actually in 2014 they were age 27 and at that point had a trademark wild mane of red hair. Tempest emerged as a symbol of politically frustrated youth in Britain. So in concept albums, they articulate the wild emotional

dichotomy of a generation troubled not just by drugs, loves and loneliness, but by financial inequality, global instability and environmental catastrophe. So artistically, they walk the line between two worlds. So they're equally powerful as a writer and a rapper and musician on stage at the Forum, which is where I saw them perform. But also as a political advocate addressing an audience of say Q&A, which is like a current affairs kind of debate show on our Australian broadcastingcasting Network. Kay Tempest, I think, changed my life in so many ways. Yeah. The depth of their poetry alone, so putting their music aside,

there's a book they've written called On Connection, which is kind of hard to articulate in words, but somehow Kay manages to explain the human condition in a way that allows you to sink really deeply into yourself, into your inner knowing, into your connection with the world, while also being incredibly charged and angry at the current state of affairs, while also looking really deeply at the beauty of humanity. So Kay manages to kind of draw you into their energy and world. And when I saw them perform live, it was extraordinary. You sort of have to work incredibly hard because they speak so fast and they have these incredible

beats and live music kind of swirling underneath them. But it's almost like being hit by lightning. You kind of get absorbed into the storytelling, into often really mundane commentary about their life or their experience, but that ends up, you know, talking about the ordinary actually ends up being the extraordinary because in the tiny things in life you often find the hugest things. So, for example, they write about people's faces and how they find calm and peace in people's faces.

Anybody's faces? Yeah, just in human nature. Or they write about the feeling of feeling stuck and small and of your dreams having passed you by, of thinking you were going to be one person and then the reality of what your life has actually become. So in one moment it's incredibly joyful and then the next minute it's utterly heartbreaking in Kay's ability to really incisively describe a human experience.

Yeah, right. So I don't know if I'm articulating it very well. It's almost like you have to listen to it to really understand what I mean. I would say they have audio books too so you can listen to them, read their audio book on connection. I would really recommend, but also you can go on Spotify and listen to their music. Their music is just amazing. So just to give you a little background as well, I mean, 2020 Tempest revealed they were non-binary and spoke of the pain gender dysphoria had caused throughout their life.

At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the Brit School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, they won the Ted Hughes Award for their work Brand New Ancients. They were named a Next Generation Poet by the Poultry Book Society, a once-in-a-decade accolade. Tempest albums Everybody Down, as I mentioned, and then Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. And the latter's accompanying poetry book, also titled Let Them Eat Chaos, was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the poetry category. And their debut novel, The Bricks That Built the Houses, was a Sunday Times bestseller

and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Reader's Award for Breakthrough Author. It's just, there's just so much and so much writing and an extraordinary breadth of work and depth of work. So I would totally recommend going to check out K Tempest. Maybe I will. Yeah, I really think you should. I really actually think you'd enjoy, Maybe I will. Yeah, I really think you should. I really actually think you'd enjoy the music itself is really cool and is quite an accessible way to get into their art.

But do you think then there's other things like beyond that though which are? Oh, I think all of it together. It's almost like following their, I haven't looked really at their plays or any of that, but any of it really. If you just went and Googled Tay Tim. Sounds incredibly prolific, yeah. Yeah, and kind of also I would say it sounds really grim but it's actually really kind of.

You don't listen to it and go, oh. No, in spots it's actually quite funny or it's absorbing and it's like really entertaining and they're really funny and kind of self-deprecating and gorgeous as well and humble, very humble too. So if you haven't heard of Kate Tempest before, I highly recommend going to find out more about them because they're extraordinary. And touring always, I'd imagine?

Yeah, at the moment, yeah. So they were performing here in Melbourne at the Forum and now I think they're off to New Zealand potentially but they're originally from Britain so I'm sure they'll be around later in the year. Around the traps. Gotcha. For sure. Cool.

Well, you know what? You don't have to be anywhere or go anywhere to review this show, though. That's one of the beauties of it. That's one of the great things. And we actually got some reviews, which was good because we ran out of reviews and now we have some reviews, but maybe not enough reviews forever. We need more ones. The reviews are really good.

I've got this one from William Shultheus. Five stars. Just do it in your app of choice. Will says, I'm on the suggestible diet. I see suggestible. I suggest a suggestible, especially the podcast Suggestible, which I suggest to my friends who don't listen to suggestible. I really enjoyed that one. Listeners, you're clever. That's a good one. I like that one.

I would argue that 70% of the people that listen are smarter than us. I would say almost 100%, especially the bog experts. No, you don't see YouTube comments. The bog are 30% of people just the dumbest people you'll ever meet in your life. Hey, no, that's a terrible thing to say. I'm not saying these people. How dare you disrespect our listeners. They are, as I've already said to you, the creme de la creme of the listenership. Okay, calm down. Definitely. I know.

I can sense it. I can sense it. I also have an email. If you would like to email the show with a recommendation. Why would I? I'm on the show. I know. Well, not you personally. I'm speaking to the listeners. You can. It's just robot.gmail.com. You can send us a voice memo if you would like to actually have your dulcet tones on the show. Just record a little voice memo in and email it to me. I would love that. And I have bing bong, a musical recommendation from the wonderful Gemma Louise. Hi, Claire and James. First of all, thanks for such a great podcast.

It never fails to make me giggle and accidentally snort in a public place. Nice. My boyfriend is a long-time listener of the Weekly Planet and introduced me to Suggestible. More successful. It was my first and remains my favorite podcast. I thought you were going to say boyfriend. He was my first and remains my favorite boyfriend.

Well, that would be nice. Who knows? Anyway, moving right along. I'd like to recommend an album by Australian band Gang of Youths. Gang of Youths. That sounds scary to me. Called Angel in Real Time. I love Gang of Youths.

I don't like, I don't trust them. The album is about the death of lead singer David Lopope's father. I think I pronounced that wrong. Yeah, you know. And it is a beautiful heartfelt album about grief. It's one of those albums where I can't pick a favourite song as they are all so great, but if you're going to only listen to one, make it Brothers.

Okay. Also, on the subject of albums, congrats on your release, Claire. Thank you. As a musician that has recently graduated from a course in songwriting, I'm constantly hearing songs that are super formulaic and designed to be completely universal. It was so refreshing to hear the love and honesty in your album. I believed every word and it reminded me of the main reason we all got into music in the

first place, to work through and release those tough emotions, easily forgotten as we immerse ourselves in the beast that is the music industry. It's true. Love from the UK, Gemma. Oh, what a delightful email. Oh, Gemma, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. That was so lovely.

Thank you for listening to the old album that I made. I also listened to it just so you know. Now, don't you have something to spruik? Don't you have something to say? Oh, I do. What do I have something to say? Oh, yes, I do. If you are in Melbourne, I'm doing a little low-key gig at a pub

on the 9th of March at 8 p.m. And it's at the Lully Tavern, which is just near Victoria Park Station in Abbotsford. It's a free entry one, this one. What? Free? I know. Tables and chairs to sit on so you can have a little chip,

have a little beer or a pint or a little whiskey or something. I'm going to be singing some tunes from 8 o'clock and there'll be a DJ afterwards. So if you want to be in bed early, it'll all be done and dusted by like 9, 30, 10. I don't have a lot. I don't have supports or anything. It's not one of those gigs where you think it's start to date

and then you rock up and then it goes for bloody hours. Yuck. And there's like lots of different supports. No, no, no. It'll just be me and then a DJ afterwards. So free entry. I will be DJing. I would love to see you there.

Yes, you will be. You'll be DJing. I would love to see you there. Yes, you will be. You'll be DJing. Anyway, so that's happening. I'll have some little merch and some records set up. So if you'd like to come and say hello and grab some merch, I would love that too. And, yeah, so that is happening next Thursday, 8 p.m., at the Lily Tavern in Abbotsford in Melbourne.

And I have plans to tour around a little bit. So keep your eye out and your ears out. I'll be putting up some links on my website for more dates in the next little while. Woo. Woo-hoo. Anyway. Wow.

What an era. It's time to leave. It is. But it's not always time to leave. It's not. But now it is. It is. We'll be back next week for more suggestible.

We will. More suggestions. Thank you. I might even watch Steven Spielberg's latest movie, The Fablemans, which is about his love of cinema and his family or whatever. Why do I think it won't hold up to the standards of 18? Apparently it's very good. All right.

Excellent. Cool. I'm going to go and listen to more Jessie Ware. Shake it till the pearls get lost. Yeah. I actually thought it was fall off, but I don't know. Maybe it is get lost. Who knows?

Who cares? How about that? Oh, let me go, let me dance. Shake it till the pearls get lost. It's so good. What about the pearls? What happens to them? I don't know.

You just get lost. They just get lost. I think that's ridiculous. They're expensive. You should look after your pearls if you have any. Thank you, Colleen, for ending this episode. We really appreciate it. We've been suggested podcasts. Bye think that's ridiculous. They're expensive. You should look after your pills if you have any. Thank you, Colleen, for adding these six episodes. We really appreciate it. We've been suggested for podcasts.

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