Tag: manchester
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BabyLondon mashups: Bob Vylan vs Ruts & The Clash vs Pet Shop Boys vs 808 State
Two very apocalyptic love/hate mashups about my manor…London, and part of a series called BabyLondon WINNER of the 1989 Crumplbangers Discord Challenge! So had to do something with 808 State as both Quadrastate and 90 (both of which I own, on vinyl and cassette respectively) were released in 1989, and back then I was all…
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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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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Antony Szmierek
As played on the latest podcast, just checking out Manchester rapper Antony Szmierek‘s tracks – one about Ventolin (oh hai fellow asthma sufferer) with a wonderfully trippy middle eght, and this summer woozy banger from last year – The City Is Safe With You about I suspect the re-opening of cities post lockdown….but it’s also…