Episode 788: Originally Aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 03.30.25
The Clockwork Cabaret: A Mad Wasp Radio Show
Release Date: 03/31/2025
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, 03.30.25.
New episodes air on Mad Wasp Radio on Sundays @ 12pm GMT! Listen at www.madwaspradio.com or via TuneIn radio app!
Playlist:
- The Mediaeval Baebes – The Woods and The Rivers are Silent
- AURORA – Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1) [Acoustic]
- Julee Cruise – Into the Night
- Emilie-Claire Barlow – Will You (Still) Love Me Tomorrow?
- Tom Waits – A Sweet Little Bullet From A Pretty Blue Gun
- The Decemberists – Don’t Go to the Woods
- Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – Odd Stories
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Lovely Creature
- Cary Ann Hearst – Hell’s Bells
- Hozier – In the Woods Somewhere
- Murder By Death – Sometimes the Line Walks You
- The Scarring Party – Long Legged Daddy
- The Puppini Sisters – Spooky
- The Lost Fingers – Fresh
- Caro Emerald – Excuse My French
- The Careless Lovers – Black Coffee
- Asylum Street Spankers – Coffee Grindin’ Blues
- Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul (Feat. David Lynch)
- The White Stripes – Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
- Ibeyi – River
- Cocteau Twins – Road, River And Rail
- Birdeatsbaby – Seventeen
- Kate Bush – How to Be Invisible
- Lord Huron – Meet Me in the Woods
- Scissor Sisters – Laura