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The Unmade Podcast

EXCLUSIVE: The Sofa Shop Interviews

The Unmade Podcast

The Unmade Podcast

Comedy, Podcasting, Technology

4.9864 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

EPISODE SPOILERS BELOW We secure sit-down interviews with the men behind The Sofa Shop jingle - Carmine Scalzi (singer) and Quentin Eyers (writer/producer/instrumentalist). Go to Storyblocks for stock video, pictures and audio at storyblocks.com/unmade - it's a creative fountain - https://www.storyblocks.com/unmade Support us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://redd.it/jl0ku5 USEFUL LINKS The YouTube version of this episode - with pics and some video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ_rk0Kdwxo Photos from the interviews - https://www.unmade.fm/sofa-shop-interview-pictures Quentin's business - Q the Music - http://qthemusic.com.au/About.html Here's a retro video of Carmine singing Tears in Heaven - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gan107Q7s2c Patrons - check out some of the original Sofa Shop recording material from Quentin's archive - https://www.patreon.com/posts/43327150

Transcript

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0:00.0

What did you have for breakfast this morning, Quentin?

0:01.8

Actually, I've yet to have breakfast.

0:03.2

Oh, you should have let me buy your breakfast before we get.

0:06.2

That was the idea to buy you.

0:07.8

Yeah, no, but I...

0:08.8

Well, let's do this quickly so I can buy you some food. A bit of background that a lot of people are already going to be familiar with. The sofa shop.

0:21.0

Indeed. This is a store in Adelaide that only just recently closed. They had an

0:25.8

advertising jingle in the 80s and 90s, even in the 2000s and well beyond that was played over and over again in Adelaide and it's been kind of like a

0:35.0

running joke or a running theme here on the show. How would you describe it?

0:38.8

Oh wash out your mouth it's a masterpiece It hasn't been played enough in my view.

0:45.0

I'm not saying the piece itself isn't a masterpiece. I'm just saying anyway.

0:51.0

For people who haven't heard it before, do such people exist, I don't know.

0:55.7

The sofa shop is your only stop for the sofa you need.

1:05.0

The sofa shop, yeah, come and drop in. We have a sofa design for you.

1:10.0

Choose your fabric, you couldons do the sofa shop ain't gonna cost what

1:17.7

you think it will don't you do a thing until you see the selfish shop.

1:24.0

Friends, if you're hearing that for the first time,

1:27.0

you're never gonna forget it, that's for sure.

1:29.0

And of course, what has been happening since is many civilians have been recording their own versions.

1:37.7

We've had everything. We've had country versions.

1:39.8

We have a silver design for you. We've had bag pipes, guitars, guitars, instrumentals, orchestrations, we've had all sorts and we feature them on the show

1:58.7

quite a bit just lately. And I tell you they've been impressive. These are not just quick rip-offs. People have put

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