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The Unmade Podcast

The Sofa Shop Reunion

The Unmade Podcast

The Unmade Podcast

Comedy, Podcasting, Technology

4.9864 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Tim and Brady get the band back together... Featuring Quentin Eyres and Carmine Scalzi, the original Sofa Shop jingle performers. And a special guest guitarist. Support us on Patreon so we can make more quality digital content like this - https://www.patreon.com/unmadeFM Join the discussion of this episode on our subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/Unmade_Podcast/ USEFUL LINKS Check out many of our Sofa Shop Covers here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRNeH_Kpl1ZgpeiNeJ-oiAQ Here's the Sofa Shop interviews episode with Carmine and Quentin - https://www.unmade.fm/episodes/sofa-shop-interviews 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

So Tim at the time of recording right now in the night sky there's this incredible

0:10.3

conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn the the planets are aligning. It's this rare once in

0:16.6

hundreds of years event. Wow, can you see that from your room or you know that because of you've read it?

0:24.0

No, no, you'd actually be able to see them in the sky,

0:26.2

that Jupiter and Saturn are very close together in the sky.

0:29.6

But yeah, anyway, that's sorry I didn't mean to throw that curveball like you. The reason I bring it up is because we have got an even more incredible aligning of the stars to bring people.

0:40.0

I didn't think you'd be so distracted by my piece of space trivia.

0:45.0

Tell me more about it.

0:47.0

Tim's hanging out the window looking now.

0:51.0

Anyway, let's move away from the astronomy. We have got the band back together. We've done what everyone wanted. We've done what everyone was expecting. A little while ago, you heard us do interviews with Quentin Ayers and Carmen Scalese, the people that made

1:07.0

the sofa shop jingle back in the 80s, the singer and the composer, we've got them back in the studio for this episode, as promised.

1:15.0

Incredible, incredible.

1:18.0

Amazing, you could cut the atmosphere with a knife right now, that's how excited we are.

1:22.0

So imagine if the Beatles got back together

1:25.9

which would be quite remarkable today but not even as remarkable, I think, are coming together, a reunion as we've managed to engineer.

1:39.6

I mean if you've got the Beatles back together now, it would be two guys and that's what we've got, so it kind of is like getting the Beatles back together, it would be two guys, and that's what we've got.

1:43.3

So it kind of is like getting the Beatles back together.

1:45.3

Yeah, well, that's true.

1:47.0

Yeah, yeah.

1:48.0

Yeah.

1:49.0

Tiny bit of background for, if this happens to be your first ever unmade podcast we should probably feel you in

1:54.3

there was a TV commercial for the sofa shop back in the 1980s in Adelaide it was on

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