The UK’s Foremost Untrained Agony Uncle Attempts to Help You With More of Your Awful Problems in ‘Dear Dredge’

Dear Dredge

My desk in our office is directly opposite my manager’s desk, and we generally get along very well. However, he has mannerisms which I find hard to deal with. For example, every ten minutes he stands on the desk, screams at the top of his voice and does an elaborate tap dance, before blowing an enormous raspberry and resuming his seat. I may be overreacting but some things are difficult to overlook. What would you advise?
Gwen, Prestwood-on-Sea
 

Dear Gwen
Make sure you take regular breaks.

Dear Dredge
Somebody has stolen some cubes from my highly expensive cube collection and I am at my wit’s end. What should I do?
Muriel, Penge-on-Sea

Dear Muriel
The Cube Police may be able to help you here. Unfortunately, and this may cause some difficulties, the Cube Police does not exist. I would wait until their formation takes place, form a branch yourself, or simply take up the banjo to take your mind off it.

Dear Dredge
I have recently acquired a biscuit tin but have nowhere to put it as my flat is chock full of Shreddies, for reasons I don’t have time to go into now. What would you suggest?
Daphne, Bexhill-on-Penge
 

Dear Daphne
Attach an elastic band to the biscuit tin, tie it under your chin, and voila - a stylish and unusual hat. This won’t take up unnecessary shelf space, and if it is kept stocked with fresh biscuits, you may find yourself becoming more popular than ever before.

John’s new talking-type-podcast can be heard here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dredgelandpodcastspectacular

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The DredgeLand Podcast Spectacular - Episode 1

Join insane comedic human beings John Dredge and Andy Harland as they take a bizarre verbal stroll through the canyons of their own minds. There are scintillating subjects galore, as well as many other things which have yet to be undecided.

Conversation will flow freely in a disorderly fashion, so why not grab a cup of biscuits and an artichoke, sit back, and listen to the nonsensical ramblings of this pesky duo of duos. Slightly skewed and super-strange, John and Andy will keep you confused for a half hour at a time – that’s the DredgeLand promise. Or is it?

And if you contact us @DredgeLand with your ridiculous tweets and sayings, a green inflatable trilby hat could be yours. Get on the DredgeLand Express today, and may your banjos never become detuned. Ker-pow!

This week sees John and Andy abandoning their carefully prepared script and embarking on an imaginary tour of Hove. Spot our ‘Word of the Week’ and win a fortnight for two in the aquarium of your choice. Plus facts, figures, frenetic freeform fun, and a preview of forthcoming things in the Durham area.

Link to podcast:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/dredgelandpodcastspectacular

Slightly exclusive interview with new indie sensations

The No-Marks may be the newest band on the scene since the last one, but will they really be able to push into new areas?

'Well we're playing Lowestoft for the first time next week.'

It's lead vocalist, Clark Clarksonby.

'Some critics have said that we're nothing more than a cross between Nirvana and The Massed Bands of the Royal Highland Fusiliers.  That's a very one-dimensional view.'

But aren't you a very one-dimensional band?

'No.'

Vexed bassist, Gary Pink.

'The No-Marks are simply the sound of a porpoise in a ditch, or a cablecar being pulled along the M1 by a giant ocelot.'

'You're wrong there.'

Guitarist extraordinaire, Bob Loam.

'Hold on, mate.  I don't consider myself a guitarist.'

But surely you play the guitar?

'I hold the guitar and my spirit plays it.'

Has your spirit ever considered tuning up beforehand?

'That would make us sound too safe, too conventional, too..what's the word...?'

'I don't know.'

Toothless drummer, Milton Winterbaum.

'Hello.'

Why, I wondered, did they decide to call themselves The No-Marks?

'Because there's no one in the band called Mark.'

'What did you say?'

Erratic xylophonist, Mark Hoist.

'Originally we were going to be called Womack & Womack, but we discovered there was another band called that.'

Simple.  They see their new EP as embracing a kind of negative optimism, a rejection of both conformity and non-conformity, and yet an acceptance of both, though not at the same time.

'Exactly.'

A silence descends.  It's awe-inspiring.  It's the sound of The No-Marks, except with the music taken away.  Perhaps, all things considered, it should be.

listen to my weird weekly radio show here!

Helo.

I do a weekly show on Wandsworth Radio which is a bit weird and contains:

things
stuff
odd parts
babbling
nuttiness
peculiar topics
your tweets
a strange serial
records
bizarre ramblings


here it is! have a listen!

 https://www.mixcloud.com/WandsworthRadio/dredgeland-comedy-wandsworth-radio-radio-funny-amusing-jokes-twitter-tweet-fun/


Goodbye.

a comedee show on lyne

Helo deer reeders it is me agane cheers cheers! I hav mayde a sketch show with Mark Hibbett and it iz now on lyne for yoo. Pleez wotch it and then say to the BBC to put it onn. Thank yoo and buy for nowe.

Jhon x

Best of DredgeLand Vol 2

Humans of earth. Here’s the best of October 2015's DredgeLand Radio Spectacular Spectacular, featuring me (myself) and Andy Harland (himself) of that Wandsworth Radio. You can listen to it and hear stuff. We is on every Thursday from 7pm till 8. Tweet us anytime at @DredgeLand. You can also buy us drinks (Ideally Quatro).

The DredgeLand Radio Spectacular

Stand-up comedian and human man Andy Harland and myself now have a weekly show on Wandsworth Radio and we'll be putting a fifteen to twenty minute 'Best Of The Month's Shows' podcast up on here, you see. So thus and therefore:

Behold The Best of September!

HEAR Andy struggle with the studio equipment!

SEE very little as this is radio!

GASP as the wacky wireless duo attempt to talk faster than was ever thought possible!

STRAIN as Andy attempts to convince John that his feature idea - "This Week's Biscuit" - makes great radio!

MARVEL at the talking topics!

DO other things!

But above all LISTEN to this week's wacky and zany yet somehow nutty compilation thingggggggg!

Thank you.