Ezra Furman - The Anti-Assimilationist (Part 1)

The Moon Under Water

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🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

So far at The Moon Under Water we’ve played hosts to a wide range of creatives. Artists, poets, authors, brewers, thespians… and this week we’re delighted to be in the presence of one of the finest songwriters in the Other Realm. Making their way through the mists to create their dream pub… it’s Ezra Furman!

Ezra has released 8 albums so far either as a solo artist or alongside her former band The Harpoons, and well as writing the incredible soundtrack for Sex Education. She also wrote a book about Lou Reed; something that Landlord John and Robin will certainly want to discuss. But what will her dream pub look like? Will it even be a pub? There’s only one way to find out…

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0:00.0	Wood carved, iron forged, stone wrought, bronze cast, crystal set, light thrown, leather bound, china glazed, glass cut, pint poured, pint adored, pint aboard,
0:27.6	watered moon under you, come back soon to the moon underwater, I am John Robbins, the landlord of this mystical, magical
1:14.7	pub. And where is this pub? Oh, good question. It's within thy sen. It's within you.
1:21.5	It's an impossible pub that we've made possible. I say we, because across the bar from the singing brass and the shining cut glass
1:30.9	is regular the lovely Robin-Hounder. Hello Robin. Hello, John. How are you? I'm good. How have you
1:36.9	found yourself recently? Well, I found myself very well. Yeah, there's a lovely introduction.
1:41.6	You're sounding more and more kind of like a cult leader each week.
1:44.9	Yes, well, it is a sort of a cult, but a nice one where the only thing that's been added
1:50.3	to the drinks is alcohol.
1:52.8	Oh, God.
1:54.3	It's quite dark, that.
1:57.3	Yeah, well, no, it's quite light because everyone's sort of, everyone's clear that they're not
2:02.7	going to come to any harm, and it's not actually a cult. It's just a pub of the mind that shifts and
2:08.8	changes itself and renews. Yes. Have you noticed I've bought some plants inside? Yes.
2:15.2	They've brought, the moon under underwater has brought its own plants inside.
2:19.6	Yeah.
2:20.0	What do you mean they're kind of, they're sort of growing, ivy is growing outside and now inside?
2:24.9	Yeah, the creepers.
2:25.9	We've got a bit of Virginia creeper, a bit of ivy.
2:28.3	Got some winter jasmine making itself known around the booth.
2:34.4	So it's just got a nice sort of fresh fragrance, isn't it?
2:37.1	Lovely willow.
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