Tag: leigh bowery
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RC 366: May Day Neverlution
Mayday! Mayday! Get out your May Pole and start your Revolutions with this punky pagan podcast. Talking and singing about resistance, riot and revolution for International Workers’ Day, we mash it up with a righteous riot at the front, then a pagan pastoral party at the back. Punk, rock experimental mixes, mashups, jungle, hiphop, dub…
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Hard Ton Cover useless Man
Minty – the infamous Leigh Bowery with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman, and Matthew Glammore seem to sadly have become a footnote in pop’s history. Well I say pop, but Useless Man is a great if rather rude very radio-unfriendly track, but definitely a part of queer history. It’s a mutated freak Pepsi commercial, one from…
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Night Network and the rise and fall of UK night telly
As a night owl in the 1980’s (and now, notice the time of posting this!) I used to watch Night Network all the time – probably have some on my old tapes. ITV In Your Face goes through all of the original late night programs in the UK, including Late Night Late which was less…
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Always the last to know – A Thousand Secrets
Just thought I’d check in on a Radio Clash fave, Phil Retrospector, who I’ve not heard from for a while (totally my fault, I tend to forget to check back regularly with what people are doing!), and found this entrancing and beautiful mix of Leonard Cohen, Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares and Muse – good…
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Genlock You Don’t Stop: A Journey Through Video
There was an era in the mid to late 80’s where videos weren’t cheap. So when rave and hiphouse/hiphop came along they needed something for MTV and Top of the Pops etc – so enter the stand in front of a screen video, usually with graphics ‘genlocked’ (aka ‘keyed’) ie. placed digitally behind them, or…
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Holestar in FIRST MINTY track in 10 years SHOCKA!!!!
Oops must be the extreme heat, apologies for the Sun-style headline but this is, as my antipodean friends would say, a beaut. News just in, Holestar (recently dubbed ‘the loudest lungs in London’ she was interviewed by yours truly on Radio Clash #72) recently collaborated and performed a new MINTY* track at Kashpoint with Richard…