Month: July 2020
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Closer 40
Joy Division’s Closer is 40 today…an album that means a lot to me, but reminds me of very dark times. So as a flip side of that dour darkness, to celebrate here’s George Michael and Morrissey in 1984 extolling their love – well partly in Moz’s case – for Joy Division. Closer was one of…
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Hallelujah 30
Well 30 plus 7 months, and actually it took Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches and Step On before most people noticed, but yes, love this update from Ewan Pearson. Always thought the Kirsty Maccoll backing vocals – yes that’s her – were oddly buried. I was listening to his Perspex Sex remix only the other…
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Covid Fever in House Nation
Jarv…Is’s Beyond the Pale drops tomorrow and in anticipation here’s the video for ‘House Music All Night Long’. Although I’ve played this and another track from it on the podcast. I never checked out the video which fulfils Jarvis Cocker’s working class Bond aspirations as detailed in ‘I Spy’ but in a surprising way with…
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Hard Ton Cover useless Man
Minty – the infamous Leigh Bowery with Richard Torry, Nicola Bateman, and Matthew Glammore seem to sadly have become a footnote in pop’s history. Well I say pop, but Useless Man is a great if rather rude very radio-unfriendly track, but definitely a part of queer history. It’s a mutated freak Pepsi commercial, one from…
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A Change Needs To Come
Not going to preface this with a warning, since these unfortunate people from Emmett Till to George Floyd didn’t get warnings. This has been happening for hundreds of years and now is not the time to look away. Sam Cook’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ means a lot to me, and I always read it…
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RC 328: Summer Always Happens When It’s Raining
Throwing out a queer life ring to those missing London Pride, Notting Hill Carnival and drowning under the constant rain – although yesterday the sun came back but we’ve had weeks of rain – the classic British Summer! Starts with a traditional summer jungle / drum and bass mix fromme, and then more downtempo with…