Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran and Katy Krassner spin “108” on WHOOOSH!
August 31, 2025, Sirius XM, The Spectrum channel
Here’s an excerpt:
•Simon: Some old friends of ours ... Two very very very special ladies who go by the name of The Living Pins. This is their new single. It’s “108”.
•Katy: …as Simon said, we have developed a friendship with The Living Pins, Carrie and Pam. And they’re from Texas. And the track “108” is about how hot it is in Texas. And I’m just going to read their quote because I think it was funny. Pam said that “108 is like downtown Austin, 6th and Lamar, in an abandoned car dealership,” like picture this everyone ..
•Simon: (laughing) Yeah.
•Katy: “An abandoned car dealership with weeds growing everywhere.” And “The Texas heat feels purifying”, Carrie said. And I can just picture that. It’s almost like I can see it clearly.
•Simon: My memories of Austin, Texas are coming out of an airconditioned cowboy hat store. Which is so nice and cool. Makes you want to buy a lot of hats, by the way. And you walk out and the heat hits you like a hammer on the head. And you think, “I should’ve bought that hat”.
•Katy: See, there you go. Everybody has a memory of Austin.
“108” added to Jukebox 2025 - Turn Up The Volume blog
August 15, 2025
“Expect another foot-tapping living pins cherry bomb, powered by gloriously
creaking guitars and a sing-along/hum-along chorus. Funky and groovy kick, all
day long.”
“108” Singles Club Daily Pick - Uber Rock UK
August 9, 2025
“Co-vocalists and guitarists Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz talked us through the song’s rather heated (sic) back story…
Pam: ‘108’ is like 1980s Austin, downtown around 6th St. and Lamar, when there were abandoned car dealerships and weeds growing everywhere and driveways to nowhere. I would be walking around in the extreme heat, almost so hot I couldn’t see. But loving it, cuz I kind of love the Texas heat, which I know is wrong.
Carrie: One of the things that I love about the Texas heat is that it feels purifying. It burns your soul clean. It’s almost like you’re going through this baptism of heat to really feel like you’re at home in Austin. You get the baptism of cold in Barton Springs, but the rest of the time, walking down the street, it’s a baptism of heat. “ read more