Month: March 2020
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RC 320: Coronanation Pt 1: You Can’t Outrun A Virus
Broadcasting on pirate satellite from Lockdown UK, REMAIN INDOORS! This town is all under lock down…bands don’t play no more (or indeed does anyone, least of all the kids in playgrounds). It seems an eternity since the last podcast and I said glumly that the Bond film had been cancelled due to this new virus.…
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In The Mood For An Apocalypse
Loving the on-point hip hop game vs COVID-19, it’s viral in both senses, it’s telling it as it is, and it’s responding immediately to this crisis. Latest installment is this hip-hop track mashing up two films – Apocalypse Now and In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai….and the video and rap is by yes,…
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Wish I Could Wake In September (CoVID-19 Mashup)
Well there’s one good/bad* thing to the current events I have started making mashups again! (*delete as necessary) This is my current response to the coronavirus epidemic aka COVID-19, a complete nightmare and I want to just sleep til September and wish others were here in my isolation. Already had the Pink Floyd ‘Wish You…
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Self isolate with a podcast
I’ve been mostly self-isolating for a while apart from the odd socially-distanced walk where I tend to frown at anyone coming closer than a metre (people are getting better at it, some shockers though who seem to want COVID-19!) and the odd frantic dash round fairly empty shops. I know quite a few of you…
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Running Red Lights
What’s this? Another Avalanches track drops within a month? What is this, 2001? The song is pretty good, with Rivers Cuomo of Weezer fame and Pink Siifu but what makes this is the video with Erik Cavanaugh giving some street realness. You go, girl! P.S. If you wondered what the sample is buried under the…
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No cornettos?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in an update of the plan we all need for 2020 – DON’T go to The Winchester! Wash your hands. But do make a nice cup of tea. (via Andy Churchill) And can I be first to say: Nick with the longer beard is really hot? He has a lot…