Tag: shoegaze
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RC 381: This Is My Church / 50th
Recorded on my 50th birthday, this is the church where I heal my hurt. It’s a speed garage special for punk rockers with flowers in their hair (in the pouring rain or buying them for yourself). We also have a tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto, a middle finger to complaining neighbours, various mashups new and old,…
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Deafheaven – Great Mass of Color
Was watching Dunproofin’s Spin set (Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm UK time) and he raided moshtalks hosted by Beez which I’d not heard before who did a great video set of metal – some requests (Gojira! Motorhead!), some his choices (Slayer is always welcome, Sepultura, classic stuff and newer stuff I’d not heard of). I…
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RC 296: Red And Green Brexmas
Take Backstop Ireland From The Frame…What Backstop? Your Moaning Refrain, I Hope You Understand, Sometimes The Single Market Trade Zones Does Not Make The Plan!) Last podcast of the year, and the second part of the Xmas podcasts with a New Year, A New EU! (without Britain, most likely). We see off 2018 in style,…
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…
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Sylvan Esso
Hmm, I really don’t want to add more to the Hype Machine’s Most Blogged Chart, but given this blog isn’t in their 800 Best Blogs let alone on their radar, it probably won’t. Another mentioned on 6Music was someone I initially thought was Silver Nesso, which is a better name than Sylvan Esso, the name…
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RC 240: Mexican Monkey 40th Birthday Party!
It was my 40th birthday a few weeks ago and I’ve just about recovered. There was alcohol, there were cards, there were long beards, thou shalt always BBQ, the cake was not a lie, there was mexican monkeys – wait, what? Well maybe not Mexican Monkeys, the new track from Daft Punk. Well not that…