Get Your Dingle This Morning
02/18/2008
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(PR) Meet Mick Dingle, L.A.'s newest wanker. He's a middle-aged music industry lifer from the North of England who has somehow wrangled a gig hosting the morning show at one of the city's lesser-known outlets. The only problem is he is completely out of touch with the current scene. He'll tell you it's because the music has lost the magic it had in the 90s, when he was working in college radio promotions ("The Shins are o.k., but face it, mate, they're no Chumbawamba"), or the fire it had in the 80s, when he managed the not quite legendary Machine Shop in Birmingham ("We were like the sister club of the Hacienda, yeah? Not officially, mind you. But people knew.") The real reason, however is that he is both too old and too full of self-pity. Like any hustling weasel, though, he is quick to jump on any bandwagon that will make him seem cool.
Actually, there are other problems as well. For one thing, the man has no taste. He likes whatever the labels tell him is good or whatever he mistakenly believes to be popular. He is also afflicted with what his past life therapist calls ancient rage issues ("I might have been a Native American, like a Hopi or some s*** like that"). These "issues" get worked out on his engineer/assistant, Josh, who despite a nervous disposition is in fact everything Mick wishes he could be: musical, liked by the bands, popular with women, ...and young.
Follow the hilarious misadventures as Mick adjusts to life in LA without his record collection (held up at customs due to a Homeland Security ban on Eighties vinyl), or as he convinces Josh to join him in a spiritual session with his Shaman/Past Life Healer. Each episode features a "fake" interview with a "real" band as well as exploring the evolving relationship between the hapless Mick and the increasingly annoyed Josh. Bands featured include Entrance, No Age, Jonathan Rice and Lavender Diamond... - will you get the joke?
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