Episode 785: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 03.09.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Release Date: 03/10/2025
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
That darling DJ duo, Emmett Davenport & Lady Attercop, raise a glass to history’s most decadent troublemakers with a dive into the scandalous Hellfire Club—complete with monks’ robes, pagan toasts, and enough debauchery to make the Devil blush. This week’s Cursed Cocktail, The Bishop, offers a warm, wine-soaked blessing while the Calpurnia’s gramophone pours out riotous revelry from The Tiger Lillies, Tom Waits, Murder By Death, and more. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is...
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Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop tumble through the centuries in this time-twisting episode of The Clockwork Cabaret. From the eerie tale of the Moberly–Jourdain Versailles Time Slip to a chronometric Cursed Cocktail that bends hours and minds alike, it’s an evening of ghosts, gears, and glorious anachronisms—soundtracked by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Steam Powered Giraffe, and more. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo,...
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Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop keeps spirits high with a dangerously reviving Cursed Cocktail (the Corpse Reviver No. 2), bodies only mostly dead, and music from Emilie Autumn, The Mechanisms, and The Decemberists. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door. This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 11.02.25. New episodes...
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This week, Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop summon the spirit of Halloween aboard the Calpurnia with haunted banter, cursed weiner dog statues, and a chilling Cursed Cocktail: the Widow’s Kiss. Featuring eerie tunes from PJ Harvey, Rasputina, Twin Temple, and more—this séance is equal parts spooky and sublime. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially...
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This week, Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop tinker with the boundaries of science, spirits, and sheer absurdity. In Weird History, they revisit Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg’s explosive plumbing mishap—a cautionary tale of invention meeting indignity. Then it’s time for Cursed Cocktails, featuring the disturbingly decadent Monkey Gland—a drink born from mad science and questionable anatomy. Plus: fake adverts for steam-powered sock sorters and doomed musical ice spectacles. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves....
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This week Emmett Davenport and Lady Attercop lead you through a delirious dance of death, gin, and gothic delight! From the cursed streets of 1518 Strasbourg to the devil’s own speakeasy, it’s a night of macabre melodies and infernal cocktails. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door. This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio,...
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This week, Emmett Davenport & Lady Attercop crank the gears of the macabre and the ridiculous for another two hours of haunted hilarity. All this is stitched together with a setlist of haunted polkas, devilish ditties, cabaret chaos, and punk-inflected mayhem. As ever, The Clockwork Cabaret rattles its chains, spikes the punch, and politely ruins your evening. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and...
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This week on The Clockwork Cabaret, Lady Attercop is out sick, which means you’re stuck with just Emmett Davenport… and a balloon taped to a chair. Two hours of strange and wonderful music, fake sponsors, and the occasional cry for help into the void. Join Emmett for a solo edition of The Clockwork Cabaret, on Mad Wasp Radio. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is...
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This week, Emmett celebrates their birthday in the most dignified way possible: alone, with a balloon taped to a chair, a candle stuck in Boot Whiskey, and you—dear listeners—as the unwilling party guests. Expect melancholy waltzes, gleeful absurdity, fake sponsors peddling frosted bloomers and mandatory hats, and the occasional kazoo rendition of “Happy Birthday.” It’s two hours of cake-fingered solitude and frosted chaos on The Clockwork Cabaret, only on Mad Wasp Radio. WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by...
info_outlineThe Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves. The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door. This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 09.14.25. New episodes air on Mad Wasp Radio on Sundays @ 12pm GMT! Listen at or via TuneIn radio app! Playlist: Tom Waits – I Never Talk To Strangers Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2 M. Ward – Let’s Dance Charming Disaster – Dance...
info_outlineWARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves.
The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door.
This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 03.09.25.
New episodes air on Mad Wasp Radio on Sundays @ 12pm GMT! Listen at www.madwaspradio.com or via TuneIn radio app!
Playlist:
- Thanatos – That’s The Way (I Like It)
- Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox – Mad World (feat. Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart)
- Revue Noir – Strange Little Show
- Tom Waits – God’s Away On Business
- Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – Minnie the Moocher
- The Tiger Lillies – Kick a Baby
- Tori Amos – I Don’t Like Mondays
- Society of The Silver Cross & King Dude – Wife of The Sea
- Flogging Molly – The Worst Day Since Yesterday
- Kevin Kline – Be A Clown
- Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur – Bosom Buddies
- Good Co – Don’t Look Now
- Janet Klein and Her Parlor Boys – A Room With A View
- Kathy Brier – After You Get What You Want (You Don’t Want It)
- The Cast of Schmigadoon! – Bustin’ Out
- The White Stripes – I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
- the Deadfly Ensemble – Revenge On the Nursemaid
- Ethel Merman & Bruce Yarnell – Anything You Can Do
- Mr. B The Gentleman Rhymer – No Character to Clear
- Childish Gambino – Little Foot Big Foot (feat. Young Nudy)
- Florence + The Machine – I’m Not Calling You A Liar
- Jonathan Coulton – Creepy Doll
- Colin Hay – Down Under
- Jim’s Big Ego – Stress
- Nina Simone – Take Care of Business
- The Walker Brothers – Deadlier Than the Male
- The Divine Comedy – Becoming More Like Alfie
- XTC – Here Comes President Kill Again
- King Missile – Sensitive Artist
- Oingo Boingo – No Spill Blood
- Siouxsie & the Banshees – Cities in Dust