Month: July 2021
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Bo Burnham mashups
Lewis Wake’s has released ‘Outside’ a mashup album of songs from Bo Burnham’s moving (if tonally weird) Netflix special Inside. This inspired me to make a mashup of one of the songs he didn’t choose. I was surprised my favourite song ‘That Funny Feeling’ wasn’t included (I like it so much it’s featured on the…
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RIP Dusty Hill of ZZ Top
Very sad day for music and beardom – Dusty Hill, the bassist of ZZ Top has died age 72. Sharp Dressed Man is one of my fave tracks. And mashup wise, here’s Sharp Dressed Party by Divide & Kreate – haven’t found many more yet, but that’s one of my faves also.
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Fools & Dreamers – Hugh Wilson & The Hinewai Reserve
I stumbled by accident on this documentary about Hugh Wilson and the Hinewai reserve rewilding a desolate part of New Zealand for the last 30 years. It’s an amazing story, and also some wonderful nature porn for New Zealand. Calming and inspirational and shows that when people call you (or indeed Hugh Wilson) a ‘fool…
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RC 350: The List Show Part 1
Podcast 350 is finally here and it’s slightly listing because it’s the much threatened show of list songs! 23 tracks and you won’t believe #22! This is first of a 2-part series – both parts are recorded, and even just recorded 352. So I’m well ahead but I have been fighting the apathy caused by…
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Low – Disappearing
Oh the new Low song had to not only grab me by the feels, sound different to anything (like Drums and Guns, they’re playing with production again. Moooom!) AND express in the video part of my personal weirdness/hell of the last 17 months by showing a Zoom life drawing class. How do they do it?…
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Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall
Trust Iron Maiden to be there during the End Times – the collapse of empires, Brexit, Trump, COVID and the implosion of late-state capitalism. And then make an amazing Good Omens vs Mad Max vs Lord of the Rings meets the Bible animated video for it…with samurai Eddies and the four horsemen and the Eden…