Tag: BBC Radio 6 Music
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RC 389: Ghosts
A ghostly ‘not halloween’ edition of Radio Clash, more Halloween-adjacent than the plastic chinese proxy-Xmas junkfest that Halloween has become. Ghosts of Xmas Capitalism… So we have songs about ghosts, existence, falling out of planes, dark paths, a trance cover of Wendy Carlos, a hard house cover of Somewhere Over The Radio, feminist queer punk,…
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RC 386: Bagpipes, Big Smoke & Bling
Bagpipes are the new rock n’ roll, as is fiddles, accordions and folk is not a four letter word. From London to Scotland via Ireland, we visit hiphop, mashups, deep house, the new ANOHNI album, new Grove and new-ish AFX, and visit two kinds of Drakes (and don’t talk about one of them). And the…
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Revolutionary Hip Hop by ez. Captures Britain in 2023
This hiphop song by ez. really sums up the state of Britain in 2023, and love the flip of the sample of “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair) just is the cherry on the top. The call for resistance, revolution and unionising is very much needed and you won’t…
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New from Orbital & Sleaford Mods – Dirty Rat
Oh how did I miss this? This is brilliant, a new timely track ‘Dirty Rat’ by Orbital and Sleaford Mods. I’ve not heard this on 6Music – did they get scared by the political (yet totally apt) lyrics? Love the video too – where Paul and Phil appear briefly, in a seaside town they forgot…
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Francis Lung – 2p Machine
Every once in a while – in fact rarely, a song stops you in your tracks. This happened today with ‘2p Machine’ by Francis Lung…A wonderful magical story of Sasha and the 2p Machine – oh I was obsessed with those tuppenny falls as a kid too – something very magic realist about this, and…
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Crumplstock 10 – DJNoNo set & brief roundup
Yes like Glasto Crumplstock 10 is over! (and unlike Glasto we won’t be going on about it for the next 4 week. Hey 6Music:, my favourite Glasto moment is when you shut the fuck up about it. Don’t need reminders of an event I missed out on tickets in not one but two different years!)…