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Here’s the Background

After two years of steady podcastin’, Background Noise is clawing its way out of a dank basement and, um, into a dank basement of the Oasis Pub (just kidding! Love your wings, boo!) for their first ever live podcast. Saturday, August 25 at 9pm will bring Derrek Ord, Luke James and Devin Deuville to you, […]

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Q&A with Background Noise

Halifax’s weekly comedy/talk podcast, Background Noise, has been fighting like hell for over 200 hours now, sometimes with us, sometimes with themselves, sometimes with their moral compasses. But they don’t let anger get in the way of their dedicated Friday podcast. They push boundaries, but the creators (Luke James, Devin Deuville and Derrek Ord) hope […]

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Black Moor Noise

Hear part of the Background Noise chat with Mark Little above. If you’re like me, you just don’t know where you’ll be getting your radio jollies now that Andrew Krystal has left Maritime Morning, am I right? Cough. Well, for those who like their radio humour loud and crude, Background Noise might be the thing for you. It’s an amusingly crass local comedy talk show hosted by four kooks (Devin Deuville, Derrek Ord, Luke James and Jon Sangster) and recently enjoyed its one-year anniversary. Each episode is a mix: there are interviews, cheeky takes on local news, radio bits,

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