Thursday, March 21, 2013

Janey Godley’s Podcast Episode 140



(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language)

 

In episode 140 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedy mother and daughter get ranty about Aspergers, the war in Iraq and Ken Barlow. Ashley discusses her experience of living through ten years of the illegal occupation of Iraq and her feelings about The Steubenville rape case.

 

Janey tells us a horrific story involving a guide dog and another about a toilet brush. Infidelity, a story about a kidney and some weird singing feature this week.

 

Mother and Daughter comedy team get to natter and the world gets to hear it on Janey Godley’s podcasts, expect some bawdy language and home truths, as Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie lead you down the roads less taken in their fantastic weekly podcast. Listen as mother and daughter banter, bait and burst with laughter.

 


Janey Godley Podcast at: Episode 140

 

If you would like to support our podcast then please do so by clicking onto Our Donate Page and donate via PayPal or like us on Facebook

 


 

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We hope you enjoy our Podcasts it would be great if you would pass it on, thanks Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Why do I panic about RockNess Festival?


Me and my stand up comedy daughter Ashley Storrie are doing the comedy stage at RockNess, despite the press releases mistakenly calling her Ashley Godley and me Janey Godle....yes I know sounds like 'coddle', ok typos aside....am worried.

 

Glastonbury was amazing when I performed there a few times, but the flooding and extreme cold and the day Ashley jumped into a bloated stream to save someone, hasn't quite left me. I am scared of biblical flooding, especially when we are far from home and the nearest thing surviving better than you is a gnarly cow-makes me feel jittery. We used a rowing boat to get to the comedy tent, it was that deep under water, where is Kevin Costner when you need him?

 

Now I know RockNess isn't as isolated than Glastonbury and it may or may not have better facilities for artists, I don't know yet. Am now planning my 3 day stay the way some people get ready for an apocalyptic survival situation.

 

"We must have water tablets, heat packs, freezer pack, dried apricots, solar panels, sausages and packs of bacon" I explain shrilly to Ashley who is questioning my sudden desire for survival food and weird shit pork based products.

 

"Mum, we don't need all those fancy perishables, just some cans of tuna, dried pasta and teabags for the 67 pints of tea you down daily" she added. I stared at her. Ashley is so excited about Rockness, in her head there are sexy men, sunshine, nights round a camp fire, days filled with camping camaraderie and hours spent making daisy chain in the long grass as music fills our ears.

 

I see a nuclear wipe out and cholera.

 

Ashley looked at my food packing list.

 

"Are you having a Nigella type dinner party, with a Campari fountain, some home baked cheese quiche and sorbet served on fresh mint leaves? No, mum you will eating beans from a can and sitting near a tent in the rain" she laughed at me.

 

Am now thinking of getting a pop up tent with a big gazebo over that, some waterproof curtains round the gazebo, a gas fire, a fitted carpet, a three piece suite, some Egyptian cotton sheets a few occasional tables and a full cooker and microwave....basically I want a bungalow in a campsite. I am a twat.

 

Ashley is horrified at my panicking and my planning for Armageddon and not a happy three day camping trip with performing in between. I suppose I have to shut up and just accept it will rain, I will get close to a beetle or worm, I will get cold, I will want to kill people who talk too loud when I am trying to sleep, I will cry and want to go home....am such a feeble minded shit bag.

 

So if you are going to RockNess and you have a luxury campervan and you will parked near the comedy tent where we are...can I be your best pal?

 

So thanks for reading, if you want follow me on twitter @JaneyGodley for updates.

Friday, March 15, 2013

You are either out or you are in

I was in a supermarket in London last month.

 

I watched three young children, around five or six years old, sliding up and down the store squealing and pulling stuff off the shelves. They were like chattering, screaming meerkats on a hunt through the Kalahari Desert.

 

I looked for the parents and spotted three women chatting to two men. Every now and then, the kids would huddle round them and then bound off screaming again. The parents were pushing those extremely expensive three wheeled prams and feeding organic seaweed sheets to a baby who was spitting it all back out. One child had one of those wooden bikes with no pedals, let's be honest pedalling is SOoooo last year.

 

That wee munchkin was crashing into giant displays of organic cereal. One child ran up and kicked it's mum right on the shin, she merely rubbed her leg and limped off.

 

It made me recall childhood shopping trips with my mammy in Shettleston. She would frequent the King-Co shop, the nearest thing we got to a supermarket in Glasgow’s East End. It contained about seven aisles of food, a few shelves containing bleach, carbolic soap and some household goods, with maybe four till points. There was a cold meat counter and usually two women in men's socks wearing slippers, pushing a steamie pram full of washing tied in a tight bundle.

 

Before we entered the glass doors, my mammy would grab me by the neck of my damp duffel coat and read me the riot act: “If you touch anything, I will stamp on your neck”

 

I would walk the cool aisles of that store, scared to even look at stuff. If my mammy caught me making eye contact with the ice-cream freezer, she would hiss: “Don’t even think about it!” The rest of the shopping trip would be spent with me staring at the ground.

 

Then we would waddle down the road, struggling with our shopping, a string vegetable bag full of papery onions scratching my legs and plastic bags full of cans cracking my knees. Once we got home, she would take the bags off me.

 

“Go out and play!” she would yell. “Take your skate with you!”

 

Rain or shine, we all went out to play, even if it was with just one broken roller-skate tied to the ankle with a discarded brown nylon our mammy could no longer wear. That was how I spent my long summer holidays. You weren't allowed back in for ages or your mammy would shout "you are either out or you are in bastard face" It was illegal back in the 60s to open and shut a door too many times (obviously a joke).

 

I know I must be getting older, now that I start to tut at other mothers’ parenting skills.

 

Today’s kids even answer their mammy back! I don’t know anyone who was born in the 1960s who would have dared to mouth off at their mammy. We didn't come from mothers who tolerated a kick to their shins. I would still be in a coma ward to this day if I had.

 

I know better than most people that the old days weren’t as good as we think. I know there was a lot of poverty, abuse, robbery and murder, but I still believe that kids didn’t dare disrespect their parents the way they do in today’s society.

 

Then again, in our day we didn’t have shedloads of TV shows that explained how to make your child behave. We had The Golden Shot and The Avengers: two things my mammy was already good at. She could fire a sling-back shoe like a warrior and – trust me – she could avenge like no one I knew.

 

Ah …the good old days.

 


So thanks for reading, if you want follow me on twitter @JaneyGodley for updates.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Janey Godley’s Podcast Episode 139


(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language)

 

In episode 139 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedy mother and daughter get ranty about right wing comics, the new Pope and how rape apologist's are flooding the media.

 

Ashley narrates an impromptu Space Porn script and Janey sets about Millionaire inspirational speakers. The two give us some insight into having a camera crew follow them for a whole day and William Shatner gets a mention.

 

Mother and Daughter comedy team get to natter and the world gets to hear it on Janey Godley’s podcasts, expect some bawdy language and home truths, as Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie lead you down the roads less taken in their fantastic weekly podcast. Listen as mother and daughter banter, bait and burst with laughter.

 

 

Janey Godley Podcast at: Episode 139

 

If you would like to support our podcast then please do so by clicking onto Our Donate Page and donate via PayPal or like us on Facebook

 


 

Click here to see the art of Hannah Stone

 

Get your copy of Molly Wobbly’s Tit factory, live cast recording here.

 


 

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We hope you enjoy our Podcasts it would be great if you would pass it on, thanks Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie.

 

 

 

 

Saturday, March 09, 2013

Women.


Imagine there was a place where women weren't really valued ? They were occasionally allowed but only in rare numbers, and men who were not always as well qualified got the better jobs over the women?

 

Think of this place...are you picturing it ? This is a place where men can talk about equality, values and the plight of people in today's politics. They have adverts where they extol the virtues of men and how good men are in this place.

 

If a woman dares to complain about the lack of women in the place, the men mostly turn their backs and make sure they don't say anything, as they may not get work again or are seen as 'trouble makers' and the women are told the reason they aren't valued is because they aren't good enough, they are made to seem...."whingey and bitter". It shatters the women's confidence and plays to her insecurities.

 

When they televise men doing this job in their place, they have heaps of men and occasionally they will have a female...but she might not be in the same job, she can be a model or a presenter who doesn't pose any threat to the men, as she does a different job altogether. She will be neutral. The women who do the same job rarely get a chance as they may be a challenge to the men or maybe the public don't like seeing women do this, as they aren't used to it as they haven't fully been introduced to women doing this job ....like the men do.

 

These men will take their jobs seriously and the Army take them over to speak to the troops, paying them heaps of money. There are women in the troops but they rarely see women talking to them, but they can see women in sexy bikini's dancing for the men.

 

This isn't some middle eastern corporation based on sexism and inhibiting women's rights....this is comedy in the UK...comedy today. Luckily there are people trying to change this and slowly making changes....the glass ceiling is not a myth...good news is we women keep it clean every time we reach it.

 

Happy International Women's Day.

 
 
 

Friday, March 08, 2013

Janey Godley’s Podcast Episode 138



(Please be aware that this Podcast Contains strong language)

 

In episode 138 of Janey Godley's podcast, the mother and daughter comedy duo discuss Vicky Price's guilty verdict and sexism in comedy and in general. Ashley explains why I can't be her 'wingman' and how she turns into Yoda when she fancies a man.

 

Janey talks about her dad's recent fall in the street and Ashley talks about her visit to a criminal court and despairs about her forthcoming performance at Rock Ness as Janey will no doubt cock block her all the way.

 

Mother and Daughter comedy team get to natter and the world gets to hear it on Janey Godley’s podcasts, expect some bawdy language and home truths, as Janey Godley and Ashley Storrie lead you down the roads less taken in their fantastic weekly podcast. Listen as mother and daughter banter, bait and burst with laughter.

 

 

Janey Godley Podcast at: Episode 138

 

If you would like to support our podcast then please do so by clicking onto Our Donate Page and donate via PayPal or like us on Facebook

 


 

Click here to see the art of Hannah Stone

 

Get your copy of Molly Wobbly’s Tit factory, live cast recording here.

 


 

You can check out all our videos on YouTube

 

Order “Handstands in the Dark” Paper Back or in EBook

 

Please rate us or leave a comment on PodOmatic, ITunes

 

You can find all the info regarding Janey’s live shows by just clicking Gigs!

 

We hope you enjoy our Podcasts it would be great if you would pass it on, thanks Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie.