Tag: Mark E Smith
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Covid Fever in House Nation
Jarv…Is’s Beyond the Pale drops tomorrow and in anticipation here’s the video for ‘House Music All Night Long’. Although I’ve played this and another track from it on the podcast. I never checked out the video which fulfils Jarvis Cocker’s working class Bond aspirations as detailed in ‘I Spy’ but in a surprising way with…
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RC 275: The Man Whose Dread Expanded
Saying goodbye to Mark E Smith with music from around the world from Icelandic surf/Country & Western, Portuguese Tuga hop, Italian warped cocktail music, American reggae, Polish dub suicide tangos, UK Indie, British lover’s rock and Jazz covers of the Smiths…it’s all there! And it is far from dreadful. Sorry for the slightly longer episode,…
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RIP Mark E. Smith
Just heard that Mark E. Smith of The Fall has died…here he is introduced by John Peel (also RIP) on The Tube performing my favourite Fall song, Smile. A sad day. If you want to commiserate togather, listen to BBC 6Music who is currently playing wall-to-wall Fall at the moment. And this gif says it…
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RC 266: Winging It
Dark and flappy, gothic and giddy, the new podcast comes just in time for Halloween – just as well as it seems rather grotesque, if even by accident as I fly by the seat of my pants…then find I have no pants. And then forget to upload it. Pfft. Bird brain. Stone the crows! Oh…
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Fat White Family – I Am Mark E Smith
A sign of a good song is to hear it at a gig and not realise it’s new, it’s instantly familiar and you’re singing along in no time. This was what happened with the new Fat White Family single when I saw them at Glastonbury, I thought that ‘I Am Mark E Smith’ was already…