EP. 45 - PETER HUGHES (MUSICIAN / THE MOUNTAIN GOATS BASS PLAYER EMERITUS / CAR ENTHUSIAST) + LWICFD! 2ND BIRTHDAY!! 🎂

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ETC.!

Yes! Today marks the 2nd birthday of the LWICFD! Podcast and to help celebrate this very special anniversary for me (see EP.#31), I am extremely honoured to have my dear friend Peter Hughes! 🥳

I first met Peter back in 2005 (pretty much to the day this pod drops 😳!) when I got asked to do the sound and Tour Manage the band Peter was playing bass and singing beautiful harmonies in…The Mountain Goats who were blowing up in Australia and globally with songs such as “This Year”, “No Children” and “Dance Music”.

For 20+ yrs Peter toured with the 🏔️ 🐐 and I was lucky enough to tour Aus&NZ with them on 4 occasions. Peter even came to stay with my wife and I at our house at the conclusion of the 2006/2007 tour for a week (with another rad dude who was on that tour - John Vanderslice) so we have a lot of good history and I really enjoyed catching up with him and hear his journey from growing up in California to now, especially because…

…late last year, Peter “retired” from the MGs - but he didn’t go and drink cocktails on the beach while enjoying retirement. Instead he jumped on a plane and came back to Australia to record a brand new solo record called “Half-Staff Blues” which comes out on 5TH SEPT so I strongly recommend you head on over to Peter’s bandcamp and get a copy (link below). 

Massive thanks to Shizafrigginhotsauce for the Friggin’ hot sauce & sponsoring my show for another year❤️‍🔥 It’s waaaaay hotter than it is outside b/c it’s fecking freezing where I am right now so I might go and have a bath in it, anyway go check them out and put it on all of the foods. 🔥🌶️

Another massive thanks to my patreons for their $upport and if you’re just a casual listener, thats cool too and thank you for listening 🙏🏼 

Further 🔗 to all the other fun things from this episode including Peter’s Spotify playlist featuring his fantasy guests are below...

🍸💃🏻🪩🕺

Bob

SHOW LINKS:

EP. 45 SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5lAU66BkQg0Xv6BmtLjzsj

PETER'S LINKTREE (links to Bandcamp / insta / podcast etc): https://linktr.ee/peterpeterhughes

PETER'S NEW ALBUM ON BANDCAMP (FULL DROP SEPT 5TH): https://peterpeterhughes.bandcamp.com/album/half-staff-blues

PETER'S FANGIO VIDEO (Directed by Davey G. Johnson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiU-CYOc7Bs

KSPC RADIO STATION: https://kspc.org

THE OCEAN PARTY BANDCAMP: https://theoceanparty.bandcamp.com/music

POP FILTER BANDCAMP: https://popfilter.bandcamp.com/

SNOWY BANDCAMP: https://snowynasdaq.bandcamp.com/

DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GUESTS1&2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmKGusadv08

GUEST#5'S MOST WELL KNOWN SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE

THE SONG GUEST#6 WROTE WHILE AT BOB'S HOUSE ☺️: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KanY_lWctjc

LWICFD! PODCAST EMAIL ADDRESS: [e-mail]

LWICFD! PODCAST PATREON = https://patreon.com/user?u=64621029