Monday, 28 April 2008

We'll start the show properly in a minute...


Good morning! Welcome to the All Day Breakfast Show episode guide, devoted to championing and logging the joy and fun contained with Danny Baker's venture into the world of podcasting. Unfortunately, the whole project ended on a sour note with Mr Baker, reportedly not receiving a penny from the revenue earned from the many thousand downloads attributed to the show. We may delve into the whys and wherefores of how all of that came to be, once our lawyers have gone over the story with a FTC, but let us not start on a downer, and let's concentrate on the positive, namely the contents of the ADBS, from the experimental "prototype shows", to the ambitious enthusiasm of the "In Color" episodes, this guide hopes to remind those who followed the adventures of the Candy Crew of the good times, and those who missed out to seek out the archive of episodes available.

The shows, as well as the Candyman himself features a trio of co-hosts, who appear sometimes as an ensemble, or as interchangable, individual right-hand men/woman; namely giggling financial expert David Kuo, Amy Lamé, and Baylen Leonard. Far from taking on the roles of sychophantic co-presenters that radio listeners have become accustomed to, these three bring their own individual facets to the proceedings. David, happily takes on the role of "foil" to Baker, Amy brings a little order to the show where necessary, and Baylen brings reliability, seemingly being the most in tune to the hosts mindset of the three.

Baker admits that in the 20 plus years he has been in the medium, he only has only ever had one radio show in him, led by his quick, trivia-filled mind and spontanaeity. The ADBS podcast though is clearly the liveliest version of that radio show, Danny's enthusiasm, often led by the wonder of the stories provided by the listenership, is evident throughout the run.

Hopefully, once the wounds of the shows bitter end have healed, the ADBS will return to a computer or iPod near you someday soon, but until then, as the project of chronicling the episodes lays before us like a great shoe with it's lights on, hopefully this blog will remind you of the unique internet phenomenon that was the All Day Breakfast Show.

2 comments:

Johnnyroast said...

Good stuff!

Unknown said...

I miss the ADBS, is there a way to redownload them? Im in the Elite Premium Guard :)