From Daniel's press release:
Dlist Radio CENSORED?
After
four years of broadcasting the wildly popular nightlife talk radio show
DList Radio, East Village Radio has cancelled the show after a
scandalous incident on their November 8 show.
The
show, a very popular podcast on Itunes, has been called “Party Monster
meets The View” and “Gay Howard Stern” in the media. Despite all of
this attention, EVR station manager Jorge DoCouto deemed it necessary
to bring Nardicio in to the station and berate him for producing a show
the station considered "inappropriate", "offensive" and "no good".
“He
was seriously going off the handle about how there was no line I
wouldn’t cross, no offensive thing I wouldn’t say, which is absolutely
untrue. It’s a gay shock jock type show, that’s the format- don’t they
listen to radio?”
During
the as yet un-aired November 8 show which features interviews with
comedians Booth and Pat, the band The Tigerlillies, Dick Chibbles Porn
Clown and an interview with Dr Pouset, a French Anthropologist who
studied the similarities between Bonobo Apes and Homos, hosts Daniel
Nardicio and Matt Phillp discussed how enamored Nardicio was with the
station’s sound technician “Joe” and afterwards, the show was
mysteriously unavailable online.
“I
called the station the next morning to find out where our show was
because it is always on Itunes immediately after we record it live on
Saturday nights,” says Nardicio. “I was told the show had been lost.”
Nardicio
and Phillp apologized to “Joe” for the offending remarks and even
offered to take the “offensive” bit out of the show if only the station
would broadcast the November 8 show but East Village Radio refused.
Nardicio and Phillp then asked several times for East Village Radio to
return the recording of the November 8 show and they not only refused,
they reacted by canceling the show.
D
List Radio was featured in the Village Voice’s Best of New York for
2008 and has recently broadcast interviews with celebrities like Rue
McClanahan, Perez Hilton, Michael Musto, Elijah Wood, Lady Gaga, Alison Moyet and Fred Schneider - many of whom EVR were proud enough to advertise on eastvillageradio.com's homepage.
“Based
on the station’s support of our celebrity interviews, our top iTunes
rating, the fact that we’re syndicated on other web radio sites like
QNationFM.com in Cleveland and feedback from fans, we're not convinced
we're “ inappropriate”, “offensive” or “no good”,” says co-host Matt
Phillp.
“What
confuses me is EVR’s official party line is that they’re “community
based” and “East Village” yet when I was dressed down I was told our
show was too much for the “new” East Village, which caters to women who
moved here to be Carrie Bradshaw than do something interesting. Says
Nardicio.
“EVR”
is doing exactly what the entire East Village businesses are doing,
they’re trying to make it more like the Meat Packing District, and our
show is directly counter to that movement.
The
show, which will be going on the road this fall with their road version
called “Fairy Home Companion” will be making an announcement after
Thanksgiving about their exciting new NYC home for the show, which will
be reinvented as a multi-media, live audience event.
“Regardless,
we're still doing the show live at Sugarland in Williamsburg this
Friday with Robynne Kaamil, Bianca del Rio and DJ Aaron Elvis.” Says
Nardicio Legal proceedings to retrieve the confiscated
show are also underway and to help help us finance this free speech
lawsuit you can purchase a “I fucked EVR’s Joe” at www.theDshop.com starting this Friday and all our shows are now available at www.dlistradio.com. Well, all except the Nov 8 show. So far."
For more information contact Daniel Nardicio at Daniel@dlist.com (917 204 2476) or Matt Phillp at contact@matthewphillp.com
