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Like it was but darker

Journey with us now

Imagine for a moment, if you will....
A world in which all human experience was virtual. 
A world where you never had to leave the comfort of 
your own cosy dwelling, 
to experience any place on earth. 
Any thrill or excitement, any journey 
to any place in space or time. 
Where the sum of all human knowledge,
 was at your finger tips. 
A place where no imagined want, 
or need, was beyond your reach. 
How tempted would you be to go there? 

Well, that is where I live. 
Come walk with me now, to my world.
The World of the Imagination.

This Weeks Show - The Think Tank and Other Tales. (No.34) - Season 2

This Episode Also On Mixcloud. (No.34) - Season 2

Prepare for a Journey of the Imagination
Our dedicated team of  nonexistent entities strive constantly to achieve the very best possible experience for you.. Blending music and words like a chef might prepare a fine meal. You know all the ingredients but they were never served this way before.....
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Preparing yourself
Before listening to the programme it is best to prepare yourself a little first. If you are wearing a hat, take it off quickly and calmly, if you are wearing spectacles take them off first. Be sure sure to take a little nourishment first. Have a nice hot cup of tea by your side. Find a comfortable seat and elevate your feet. If wearing headphones make sure they are well fitting and comfortable for long periods of wear. If listening on loudspeakers make sure they are correctly set up for stereo and that your listening position is central, with your ears at the same hight as the centre of the speaker cone. Lower the lighting or better still light a candle or two. Remember you will be listening for up to an hour at a time so perhaps attend to any matters of toilet before seating yourself.  
Turn the volume to 11 and bolt the door and lock the cat flap. You should try to relax as far as it is possible.
Mind altering drugs are not recommended.
The Recovery Position
After listening to the programme it is best to take a little time to readjust to reality. Stand up slowly, do not jump up or try to rush about. Some people find it easier to adopt the fetal position on the floor and weep gently for a moment before attempting to stand. Either way move slowly but with purpose, rehydrating will also help, but avoid strong drink. 

The Banjo at Crossroads, and Other Scary Tales (No.33) - Season 2

The Naked Banana    (No.32) - Season 2

No Fuss Cremations - What Are You Waiting For?    (No.31) - Season 2

Existential Issues and Other Absurdities  (No.30) - Season 2

Conspiracy And Other Theories  (No.29) - Season 2

 Apocalypse Live   (No.28) - Season 2

 The Groom of Stool -  (No.27) - Season 2

 The Reluctant Hermit -  (No.26) - Season 2

Prophet and Loss, The Problem with Mermaids and Other Tales (No.25) - Season 2

What Stonehenge was really built for  (No.24) - Season 2

Long hair and other liabilities (No.23) - Season 2

It could be worse, it could be raining (No.22) - Season 2

The Complete Playlist - Season 1

Nobodys Home (3)

 The Sorting Office of the Soul (20)

"Its Life Jim, but not as we know it."(2)

 Satans Little Helpers  (No19)

An (Acid) Trip Down Mammory Lane, return to 1986

Experience nostalgia before pulling that trigger, with our carefully chosen assortment of earlier confectionary...

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Psychiatry An idiots guide to the mechanisms of the mind

Head doctoring for fun and profit with the Birdmans DIY guide to Psychiatric Practice.

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Coming Soon to a Kasbah near you.

Enough Nostalgia already. The Birdman is back and this time it's personal.

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Beam me up to Episode 7 in HQ

What if the aliens got fed up waiting for us to visit? What if they came looking for us?

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Featuring “Dangerous” Dan Smith Episode 6 in HQ

Another Cunning Stunt. Be prepared for Dans most dangerous performance to date. Press here to join him. Rather like the Star wars saga, we began our series in the middle.This is Episode Six in HQ, for the high fi enthusiasts.

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Also Featuring Ethereal Eddy Insubstantial entity and radio announcer

The Birdman is back and this time it's personal. We enter a New era of Madness and Music as we plunge deeper into that space between the real and the unreal.

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In the Cluttered Wardrobe of his Mind

Relax and enjoy an hour of, Uneasy listening. It's time to open the cluttered wardrobe, of the Intrepid Birdmans tormented mind.  Its not quite like Narnia, perhaps more like Alices rabbit hole. Listen to music you thought you knew, in perhaps a different way.. sometimes a version of a favourite tune differently interpreted, sometimes perhaps a slightly different mix... sometimes just a song you forgot that you actually liked, that doesn't get played anymore... sometimes even a genre of music you didnt think you liked. 
Why Am I Here?

Ah there is a question that perhaps we will never know the anwer to.

More pertinently why are you here on this page is perhaps a better question. Best to leave existential crisis triggers for another day.

In short I have come to the conclusion that there are only two kinds of Human being.
My sort and the other sort.

Hopefully you are here by invitation, because you fall into that narrow band of people who are "my sort" it requires no other qualification.

So you have been invited then on a journey of discovery. From these pages you will be able to meet others folk of "our sort" the creatives, the dreamers, the artists and the just plain weird folk who like "that sort of thing" From these pages you are invited to the Intrepid Birdman show an experimental style of radio presentation unlike any other. 

An  experience in binaural sound where music and humour are blended in an hour of  immersive alternative reality.

Our Dedicated Team of Insubstantial Entities

The Weird One

President

We try to keep this one from talking to people too much.

Ethereal Eddy

Insubstantial entity and radio anouncer

The serious one, he's a bit stand offish but he has a nice mellow voice. In all likelyhood trained on brandy and cuban cigars.

“Dangerous" Dan Smith

Insubstantial entity and radio stunt man

Nice fellow overall but cant keep a soap dish tidy. A tad quick with his temper and a very bad marksman

Invisible Vince

Insubstancial entity and journalist

We are not even sure if he's real but the girls like him. Drinks far too much furniture polish for a healthy lifestyle.

Paint it Black (No16)

Insubstantial Otherworldly Cast members

Major Lea - Explorers Club London

Explorer of dangerous places, White Hunter, founder member of the Explorers Club, adventurer and leader of men. Barking Mad,

Ernest Lea - Influencer and Gentle Persuader

Polar explorer, penguin fancier, poet, songsmith, Joss stick addict and twin brother of Frank Lea. The nice one, not nearly as sinister as his brother.

Frank Lea - Influencer and Occasional Enforcer...

Founder of the Marzipan Bathesphere Company. Mad bad and dangerous to know. Twin brother of Ernest. Together they form the collective “Frank and Ernest” now an expression as familiar to us as the “hoover” or the “biro"

Insubstantial Otherworldly Cast members

Ginger Lea -Maker of Tea and Mischief

We think this one must have been adopted, about as popular as a bacon buttie in a mosque.

Snotty Lea - Nonconformist and Tax Compliance Consultant

One of the blank generation, dribbles a bit..

Tim Ed Lea

Nothing seems to bother this fellow, but then he has only 2 brain cells to juggle with.

Featured Friends of the Intrepid Birdman

Take a moment to prepare yourself for your journey into the unknown Enjoy these great tracks from Beat the Drum and Syteria

On This Weeks Show
The Think Tank -  Jason and his Tasteless Coat and other Tales   

Reincarnation and Invisibilty  (No18)

Memories Are Made Of This  (No17)

The Fortune Teller and the Sock Thief (No15)

The Haunted Radio Set and the Devils Highway (No14)

(Unlucky For Some), The Soul Trader And The Woman With The Snake Tattoo (No13)

Octopods (No12)

Reality and Other Misconceptions (No 11)

Don't touch that (No.10)

When Life was a Miracle (no9)

Early Updated Feeds Now Available! 

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Close Encounters of the Entirely Unnoticed Kind (No 7)

Welcome to The Kasbahhh! (No 6)

Welcome to Dystopia (No 5)

Auto Pilot.  (No4)

Lies Damn Lies and Statistics (21)

Contact

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  • Underground Bunker 1

Things to do while waiting for our next presentation

Just gently chill

Still on the edge of perception?
This Weeks presentation is here.!
Be ready for the next one on  Sunday at 7pm

Testimonials

     

 I was amazed by the custom product I received from the Birdman.I can wear it undetected for hours without discomfort ! Best of all it leaves no visible bulge under the clothing! Now I can knit and sew again with both hands free, I don't know how I managed before. 

Edgar: Satisfied Customer
     

 I held my baby for him to kiss and he bit it! 

Elsie Bucket: Event Host
     

 I had a unique experience with the Birdman that I'll never forget. I may never get the Blancmange out of my tutu but it was a small price to pay! 

Bella: Happy Customer
     

 This is the man my mother warned me about. She insisted that he would come to a sticky end. Now I know why he was hoarding all that marzipan. 

Disgusted Hampstead: another whinging git

 Thrilled with the Free gift. He shared that it has had a significant impact on his life, especially the throat mallet. He would have written himself but we don't let him have anything sharp, like a pencil or pen unless he is supervised with it. 

Everard: lightly restrained except at weekends when he is “Doris"
     

 I really didn’t see this coming. 

Mystic Lea: fortune teller and reader of minds

 Never set foot in North Africa again unless you have a good explanation for that thing with the pineapple. 

Foirbin Din Lea: Chief of Police
   

 On my last polar expedition this was all the entertainment we had. Poor Oats froze to death rather than come back into the tent. 

Random Lea: Marzipan Sledge Builder and polar explorer

 Indispensable Radio. God knows I’ve tried. I just can’t switch it off - help me, please! 

Roj Smith

 I’d like to introduce you all to something a little different. If I were to describe it I would call it an exotically packaged music show. It’ll set your ears on fire. Its very mysterious. The Intrepid Birdman 

James Burke: earthbound Entity
     

 I was watching paint dry, it was fascinating, so nice to have something interesting to listen to while I am doing it! 

Elsie: porrige thickener

 It's very different to standard radio, but really well put together 

Debbie
  

Friends Of The Intrepid Birdman Show

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Beat the Drum
Recommended for your further listening
If you  enjoy the shows, you are going to love these guys

Music from Beat the Drum

How Is It Done?
As much as the words Artificially Intelligent are used here, the programmes are still produced in the tradional way. The increasingly surreal scripts are voiced by Ai actors but still written by The Birdman. New Ai tools have allowed a greater degree of flexibility. New editing tools allow a kind of audio mixing we could only dream about when the Birdman shows were first made.
But its still all done by hand......

All the music tracks have been remixed, or sometimes amalgamated from multiple releases.
We wanted to recreate the experience of hearing our favourite music as if for the first time.

Clearer vocals, expanded dynamic range, sometimes a version of a track you may never have known about.... but more surprisingly....  

Sometimes a version that didnt exist before.
All in uncompressed digital binaural stereo.
So use headphones for the best audio experience. 

Also Available On Mixcloud