Month: May 2022
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Stranger Things – Kate Bush vs Depeche Mode
Edit – and now with video! Spoilers if you haven’t watched Stranger Things 4, so be warned. Those of you who are watching ST4 will know what this is about…a very emotional scene (no spoilers!) using Kate Bush- Running Up That Hill (and further used in the series frequenty). The choice of Depeche Mode is…
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RIP Fletch of Depeche Mode
Sadly Andy Fletcher keyboardist of Depeche Mode has died, aged 60. Very sad. A lot of people have written essays on their love of him and Depeche Mode, and I get that – but not for me. Depeche Mode have always been there since I was a kid and they are a very important band…
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RIP Vangelis & Klaus Schulze
Usually I get my tributes out immediately when musicians I love die, but I was totally dumbstruck when I heard a few days ago that Vangelis had died. To me, he’s Beatles or Elvis or Rolling Stones level; a majpr influence in my listening and composing. And that’s why I couldn’t just throw out a…
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Grove – Feed My Desire
I heard Grove being interviewed on 6Music and loved it. I heard Feed My Desire and immediately had to check their stuff out that second, Lamacq described it they are punk dancehall, they are proudly black and queer and Bristol represent… basically why did no-one tell me of them? It’s totally up my street. Their…
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Food Poverty & 30p meals
The current Tory MP to pull the ‘foodbanks are overused, you can make a 30p meal’ trick is Lee Anderson. As the TikTok video below proves, you can make a 30p meal but you’ll be very hungry and also it won’t be very nutrional nor good for you. This has happened so often that Jack…
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RC 367: Indie Space Butterfly
Release your inner Space Butterfly! First we have some good news – Radio Clash is back on iTunes and Spotify – for now….Well a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms on there and to everyone else, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!. The Copy Gods of Olympus Were Angry And Threatened a…