Tag: Summerisle
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RC 323: Dark & Lonely Folk Horror with Ian of The Lloydbrary
Sumer is Icumen in, Loudly sing, cuckoo! Grows the seed and blows the mead, And springs the wood anew. Happy May Day! It’s sunrise on May the 1st and here’s a witchy folk horror & Black Aquarius edition of Radio Clash with Ian of The Lloydbrary blog and podcast. We stumble into the sleepy pastoral…
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RIP Robin Hardy and RIP Gordon Murray
Why am I reposting this Radiohead video from 2 months ago? Well it spookily demonstrates the cultural influence of not one but two people who have died in the last few days. Today we heard about the sad death of Robin Hardy, director of the Wicker Man and Wicker Tree. A few days ago I…
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Welcome To Summerisle Green
Love this new video from Radiohead and Chris Hopewell, shades of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley but also something of a darker hue. I guessed it within a minute…apples and all. The song is growing on me, I wasn’t initially that impressed hence not posting it yesterday…like the Steve Reich lift, but Radiohead should go…
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Wicker Man Day – 40th anniversary on Radio Clash Live
Wicker Man is 40! (well in December it is) and they’ve found a copy of the 99 minute cut, and this Friday 27th is showing in cinemas across the country (and I suspect the world). I’m seeing it with John at Curzon also with Memory Tapes performing the soundtrack. So to celebrate this, Radio Clash…
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Heigh ho! Who is there?
As part of the Great Mixcloud Upload I’m re-visting some old podcasts – currently upto the Wicker Man Return to Summerisle ones (probably the best podcasts I’ve done in recent times) but I missed this version of Willow’s Song by Isobel Campbell when I put them together – or rejected it because there are SO…