Tag: Thomas Dolby
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RC 371: Don’t Truss it / Kings & Queens
Aka a Tale of Two Lizzes…. one Liz leaves as another arrives as I go away for a month and we get not only a new Prime Minister Liz Truss but a new monarch? So of course I have to start with God Save The Queen – Sex Pistols not Elgar – they cancelled the…
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Corona Oh My Country
So what have Thomas Dolby’s kids been upto I hear you ask (err…actually you probably aren’t). Well I am glad you (didn’t) ask, they are spoofing their Dad’s legacy with COVID-19 themes and it’s really good. Now singing “Corona! Look at my country now!” Looks like it’s filmed on the South coast, reminds me of…
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The New Radiophonics
Look Mum No Computer is an Insane hybrid of 1990’s ‘Get Stuffed’ meets Thomas Dolby, BigClive and Secret Life of Machines Tim Hunkin* but with a more musical (circuit) bent. From the circuit bent electronic Wonder Wonder bible to the demented Furby Organ, lots of insane projects, but it’s his self-built modular synth that to…
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Bye bye empire, bye bye
This one of the songs that has haunted me for very long time, but I didn’t know it was actually about his uncle that died when a WW2 sub sunk …decades ago came up with a fantasy about an escaped submarine deciding to do a Mutiny on the Bounty, a sort of cold-war fantasy fable,…
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Synthesizer Grammy Medley
Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Thomas Dolby and Howard Jones mashup their hits for the 1985 Grammys. As someone commented, the Grammys used to be fun?!?
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Radio Clash 113: From Brussels With Love TWI 007 / Cuddle the Present mk2
The 3rd Live! Radio Clash, this is in honour of From Brussels With Love – the first album on Les Disques Du Crépuscule the Belgium Factory-Benelux related label finally re-released on CD, and has some amazing tracks on it, from modern classical to new wave to early electronic/new romantic, some of which make it onto…