Tag: Eurovision Song Contest
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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90’s Revival Is In Full Skippety Swing
At the pub on Tuesday getting some dinner I noticed that the internet radio stream, many of the house tracks sampling late 80’s to early 00’s pop, big beat, house and r’n’b, but mostly around the sweet spot of the mid-late 90’s. From FLO and Sk*ill*x bringing back Missy Ellott for that bomp-a-bomp bomp, to…
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RC 364: Ukraine In the Membrane
When the ship goes down, you’d better have an humanitarian corridor – mashups, Ukraine drag queens and current events looking large over everything, indie rock and Britpop, swing metal, latin, disco, ambient, neo-classical, Japanese punk and computer game exotica, modern rave, and bid a drum and bass farewell to MC Skibadee and err, swing n’…
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Daði Freyr Love
The song that was robbed during Eurovision not by voting but by this virus, Think About Things by Daði Freyr is one of my songs of the year. Funky, funny, and personal – it’s about his child – and such a good video. But not a fluke, even in isolation Daði & Gagnamagnið – the…
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ABBA and the Muppets
No not ABBA and the Bunnymen (or the Boris B G3rst Gimme Pussy video I first saw this in, doubt they’d approve!), I didn’t know that in 2004 ABBA made their last music video with Jim Henson Creature Shop called Our Last Video. It stars Rik Mayall (RIP) and Cher. Even Eddie from Iron Maiden…
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Cue the piper! Play you bastard!
As we start another Commonwealth Games, here’s the producer Stewart Morris trying to wrestle the opening ceremony of the last Scottish games, the disastrous 1986 Games in Edinburgh onto the telly…very funny. (sort of via Soundhog who posted the Eurovision one, funny also)