Month: September 2013
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RC 248: 8-Bit Music Machine
In the 1980′ and 90’s I like most of my friends spent many hours programming, creating rudimentary digital pictures (I had a mouse for my Spectrum!), playing games and trying to get something vaguely musical from said microcomputers. So in honour of my 8-bit and 16-bit music days, here is a 8-bit/16-bit music special of…
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Skatebank or Skategate
Just come across this, yeah I’m late but I knew it was bubbling in the background. Appalled at the position Billy Bragg has taken though, how the formerly radical has fallen. As someone who has been using the Southbank for decades, and you know, LIVES HERE unlike some (ie. Bragg, he lives in Dorset!) I’ve…
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Free music: Friend Within
Really loving everything Friend Within does, as you can hear on the latest 90’s themed podcast with the ‘Future Garage’ mix, I gush about his work and the mystery around him. Just seen this free track via Annie Mac of ‘The 90s Rhythm’ on his Twitter which basically explains the track and the sound. I’m…
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Cos nothing is more punk than a $375 Crass jacket
Yes you read right, Urban Outfitters are selling a ‘one of a kind’ ‘punk’ leather jacket with anarchopunk legends Crass on the back. Pay no more than $375 indeed (rather than 99p – yes I own that album, I tried to argue with the secondhand seller that it should be also 99p with no success…revolution…
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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…