Live From the Barrage

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Live From the Barrage
GenreTalk, Comedy, Music, Entertainment
Running time3 1/2 hours
Country of originUnited States
Language(s)English
Home stationRadio NOPE
Hosted byJohn Houlihan
StarringSee List of Live From the Barrage staff
Original releaseJanuary 1, 2012 (2012-01-01)
No. of episodes300
Website http://livefromthebarrage.nyc
Podcast LFTB - Podcasts

Live From the Barrage is a combination music, call-in, and comedy Internet radio show/podcast hosted independently by John Houlihan since 2012, in a bar in a garage in Queens, New York. [1] [2] The show's slogan is: "it's Friday night and we're in fuggin' Queens". The show began on livestream (now: Vimeo Livestream) 2012-2015 (episodes 1-118) and then Radio NOPE from 2015–Present (119-Present). The format is largely talk based, ranging from music, sports, national events & more with both call-in and in-person guests.

Contents

Founded in 2012, Live From The Barrage broadcasts live at 8PM Eastern each week drawing regular listeners from around the world. Since launching the show has aired over 300 episodes and has hosted celebrity guests such as Marc Maron, [3] DMC of (Run DMC, Billy Bragg, Steve Albini, Mike Watt, [4] Tom Scharpling, Jon Wurster, C. J. Ramone , Pussy Riot, Eric Bachmann, & many more. [5]

The show is noted for its irreverent tone and occasional forays into Insult comedy and a roast like atmosphere. [6] The interplay and frequent frustration between the host and the other on-air personalities being a key part of the show. The shows feature a live weekly game hosted by producer Ryan Collison, which often involve the guests and the listeners. It also features a live news read by newsman and producer Tommy Rockstar, that is frequently interrupted by wisecracks and (frequently inebriated) commentary.

The show has been featured favorably in the New York Times [7] and on FOX5 News [8] in New York.

Barrage has listeners and callers around the world, from the United States and Canada, to as far afield as the U.K., Germany and Australia. Regular callers and in-studio guests of note have included Steve Albini, Matt Sweeney, Justin Foley of the Austerity Program and many others.

Background

Host Houlihan and sometime cohost Patrick Walsh both play in the New York band Risk/Reward. The show also features calls from various fans and personalities featuring parody characters such as Bill Clintron (a Bill Clinton parody), Tilda Swintron (a caricature of Tilda Swinton with a thick, clearly male, heavy New York accent) and actual NY personalities with difficult to believe nicknames. It is sometimes difficult to discern a character from a real person that also participates in the frequent poker games that occur after the show. [9] The show's jargon includes pluralizing words that are not meant to be pluralized, referring to any manner of recording as "tapes" (CD Tapes, MP3 Tapes, Record Tapes) and appending "tron" at the end of anything that ends in the phonetic "ton".

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