In the grand tradition of Finnegans Wake, WAKE has looped back around on itself to become a self-generating machine, as we welcome back musical innovator and the most reckless of stramashers, Tommy Mackay, to talk about WAKE: the Album! Yes, this very podcast is honoured to be the inspiration for at least half the tracks on Tommy's new (stra)mash-up album of music, smashing WAKE readings into the music of Taylor Swift, Wham!, Devo, and more, with more groan-worthy dad-joke pun titles than you could possibly handle.
There's a sailor on a horse! There's an invitation to suck a sugarstick! There's Gráinne O'Malley's girl power!
Join us for a track-by-track odyssey through WAKE: the Album, in the hope that no takedown notices emerge to ruin anyone's fun.
This week's chatters: Tommy Mackay, Toby Malone, TJ Young
References
WAKE: the Album on the Daily Reckless
Album details:
A collection of stramash-ups by Tommy Mackay drawn from readings of James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'
Main sources:
Released April 4, 2025
Clips used by permission from the WAKE podcast by Toby Malone and TJ Young and also the audio-visual book by One Little Goat Theatre Company read by Richard Harte, directed by Adam Seelig.
Individual credits in song info.
all rights reserved
Bonus Tracks:
Other references:
Allaster Mckallester: https://www.instagram.com/mckallaster/
ReWiggled: https://open.spotify.com/album/7pMmcRjBt41hvqnFQHqYb2
Finnegans Dreams: https://www.dailyreckless.com/2024/08/15/finnegans-dreams/
McCourt, John. ‘Denti Alligator' or ‘Airtight Alligator': Reading Dante with Joyce and Beckett.
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