Tag: Television
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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RC 380: PSYCH SCHOOL – Play School Breaks, Psych & Funk
Get ready for a trip down memory lane with Radio Clash’s Psych School podcast, featuring funky tunes from children’s TV and records of the 60s and 70s. This deep dive into long-forgotten programs like Play School and Sesame Street is well worth a listen!
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Electronicos Fantasticos – Surfing on CRT waves
I saw a post about Japanese band? collective? Electronicos Fantasticos who hack domestic equipment like fans and TVs to make instruments, use touch synthesizers (Bruce Haack invented that WAY back in the 1960s!) and barcode readers to make music. Here they cover New Order’s Blue Monday at Iron Island Festival. It’s very Kraftwerk meets Tim…
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Carpenters Do Disco
I had forgotten about this – after the Carpenters frankly strange yet inspired choice of covering Klaatu’s psych pop odyssey ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft‘ they made their own ‘Star Wars Christmas Special’ after it was a surprise hit. Apparenetly Karen was a big disco fan, but it doesn’t get stranger than her covering Heatwave’s…
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Muppets vs SNL
A real life mashup, The Muppet Show meets SNL, via security from Keegan-Michael Key and Kenan Thompson – and doing what a lot of us wanted to do when Statler and Waldorf interrupt. Really it has to be seen to be believed… (Also firms up rumours that they are thinking of bringing The Muppet Show…
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You could stop at five or six stores
Sometimes stuff like Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! is actually too tame for the real world which is much, much weirder. Exhibit 1, this awkward screen tests for an advert at the Sarantos Studio of Acting: (via Boing Boing) – although I found a longer 13 minute cut