Month: May 2014
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Ubuntu (Water into Wine) and Sick to D(eat)h
UBUNTU (Water Into Wine) by Sage Francis I was late getting round to listening to Sage Francis’s last mixtape Sick to D(eat)h released the end of last year, but given the new album is around the corner I thought I should. And I was struck by the song Ubuntu (Water into Wine) because not only…
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Crumplebanger hip hop mix
If you have to ask what Crumplebanger or Crumplehop is, then you’re not part of the in-gang ;( But this ‘battle’ mix, a kind of madder take on 72 from Oki and PomDeter should give you some idea – silly, mashup, manic, strange, funny – you might have heard it played on Radio Clash Live…
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Sage Francis: This is how you announce a new tour
Sage Francis is touring his new album Copper Gone worldwide, and of course whenever you announce a tour you get all this online fan bleating stuff like ‘No love for South Antarctica?’ and requesting songs. This video is a great response to that, and love the bit with the marker and the ‘I thought I…
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RC 259: Pop Is Dead #4 – We Hate The Kids (And Rock and Roll)
Fourth in the Pop is Dead series, and it’s all about hate – hating rock and roll, hating the kids, hating the hangers on, hating the Spice Girls, hating the fakers, hating music even. Oh and a little bit about Britpop False Memory Syndrome / Fake Nostalgia. The cover features as well as the classic…
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Everybody’s doing the twist (even pop artists)
I saw clips off the 1962 film Pop Goes The Easel aeons ago, but never watched the full BBC Monitor documentary by a young Ken Russell until now. It featured an equally young looking Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. What I love about this, and the clip I saw many moons…
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Conchita Wurst
Vaguely aware there is this Europevision or Yurovision thing or whatever it’s called tonight…I avoided going out on the gay scene tonight because of it’s grindingly depressing omnipresence (actually I don’t need an excuse to avoid the gay scene, the scene itself is a good enough reason, but Eurovision gives it an extra Brucie Bonus).…