Month: February 2018
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Tunak Tunak Tun Metal
The original I played on the podcast nearly 10 years ago (RC #166, omg) but this metal cover by Bloodywood featuring Bonde do Metaleiro from Brazil is the kind of fusion I can get behind. Completely bonkers and love how they take the piss out of the original video. (via Thriftshop XL) And you need…
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Lorraine Bowen with Barbara Moore
Given the hundredth anniversary of (some) women getting the right to vote in the UK, it seems appropriate to post this show I was listening to from the ‘Crumble Lady’ Lorraine Bowen, talking to composer Barbara Moore. Loving this podcast, Lorraine has the same love of stereo test records and Radiophonics as myself, and it…
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The Black Dog – Sheffield Favourites
I’m a strange mongrel, one foot in Manchester and the other in Sheffield (appropriate metaphor since it’s always pissing on the Pennines). My family come from Sheffield so I have a particular fondness for the grey and damp rainy city (more overgrown village), it’s seven hills ‘just like Rome!’ and it’s put upon citizens. So…
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Dismembered Sound Booth
Some of you might be wondering what became of those unlikely lads, The Who Boys. Well, after a pause where it seems they all became artists (and some like Mark continue to be, pretty sure that’s his artwork above for the cover), they came back to music, but creating original tunes with members of Pilchard…
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Bar 2, Psalter Lane 1980
Didn’t know there was ANY footage of Bar 2, at Psalter Lane, the Art College in Sheffield where Pulp had their second ever gig, Human League had their first along with a band called Vice Versa. Two years after this they were on the top of the charts with Lexicon of Love…yes this is ABC…
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The Ballad of Shirley Collins
Beautiful and moving documentary about the folk singer Shirley Collins by Tim Plester & Rob Curry, currently available to stream for free at Lush. Amazingly David Tibet and Stewart Lee also feature, as she says her fan base is now quite diverse compared to the old folkie days. It details her history recording songs in…