Month: December 2014
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Bitter Sound Foundation & Podcast
Firstly to keep on theme, here are some mashups! Yeah I know, spook but it’s party time tonight and nothing better than classic bootlegger and long-time Radio Clash fave Bitter Sound Foundation remastering their mashup collection. Listen and learn! And pssst, you might be able to download it somewhere around here, but you didn’t see…
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Neal D Retke For President!
When Facebook suggest someone you don’t know from the other side of the world, can you *really* be friends? This documentary takes that to extreme, where Victor Van Rossem and Bram van Bree to Austin Texas to find Neal D. Retke when he doesn’t add them, and it ends up being a weird yet sweet…
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The Week Between
And now we’re in what Kirk calls the ‘Hinterland’ – the week between Xmas and New Year. Still eating leftovers and recovering at Radio Clash Towers and about to go meet Kirk for a drink, but this song by the Santa-esque John Roderick and Jonathan Coulton says it all. Bittersweet and lazy…hope you had a…
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This pain is like a glacier moving through you
I make no secret of my love of John Grant, seeing him perform Glacier last year was probably the best moment in a gig, his voice blew right through me and lifted me up. I seem to be hearing a lot of him lately, what with the excellent documentary on Iceland that’s just aired, the…
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Do they know it’s Chapmastime?
Oh I LOVE this Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer’s take on THAT song, Band Aid ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas Time’ done live in Brighton last month. Love the altered lyrics about Bono and the end ‘Proceeds of this song will go towards trying to avoid Bob Geldof ever recording that thing again!’. Having gone through…