Tag: The Magnetic Fields
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RC 367: Indie Space Butterfly
Release your inner Space Butterfly! First we have some good news – Radio Clash is back on iTunes and Spotify – for now….Well a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms on there and to everyone else, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!. The Copy Gods of Olympus Were Angry And Threatened a…
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RC 292: Halloween Queen
Halloween puts the willies up me, with things going bump in the dark and all that woo. Here’s a dark yet upbeat selection for the Twerking Witching Hour: from monstrous mashups to spooky soundracks, evil electronica to ghoulish grime, Amy Ghost House, The Punkergeist and the zeitgeist horror of now*. Oh and the theme from…
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RC 290: Well Tempered
A listener once said they knew if it was a good podcast if I sounded pissed off at the start. Well, welcome to an extremely good episode then! A well tempered Clash, forged in the heat of online battle, which raises the question, where’s the real one? (oh it’s an old joke, and not even…
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RC 235: The Queer History of Pop Part 2 (90s-00s)
Part two of The Queer History of Pop – this is version two, those who listened in on Radio Clash LIVE! would have heard an exclusive never-to-be-repeated version, glitches and all 😉 Here we discuss the queer history of pop from early 90’s queer Act-Up! activism to the 1990s Britpop explosion and flirting with queer…
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RC 217: Rehearsals for Retirement
A really long show since I’ve not done one for a while, and a quite a ranty/angry/noisy one putting the world to wrong. It’s not exactly an Aural pOddities show, but parts come close. As the imagery also suggests, it shared a little in part with the Freak Folk Wicker Man shows, too. Photo is…
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Andrew in Drag (Ukelele version)
First things first, and if you know me well you’ll know what I’ll say: since when did Stephin Merritt become a bear?!? Lovely version of Andrew in Drag by the Magnetic Fields on the Ukelele as part of Bet Fit Sessions…it brings out his wonderfully lugubrious and very distinctive voice. This song has been haunting…