Month: August 2022
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Jaunt: A New Jurassically Arty Travel Tentcast
Last year I did two jaunts I (first one was great, second one was a failure and freezing, not a problem this time with Heatwave v2 – more the opposite!), Now I am doing Jaunt 3 down in the Jurassic Coast, starting again where I failed on Jaunt 2 and this time near Weymouth –…
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RC 370: When I Go Deaf
About to go off on my holiblobs, but did I tell you about the time I went deaf? Hear me wax lyrical about how I went half deaf for nearly two weeks, hence the delay in a new podcast as I couldn’t hear properly and realised the hard way how stereo hearing is essential for…
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RIP Olivia Newton-John
I had avoided posting obituaries for a while, thankfully but news just came in that Olivia Newton-John has succumbed in her long battle with breast cancer. I am not a fan of Grease or a lot of her 70’s work – I did love her in the band/film Toomorrow which sadly never was released at…
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If American Idiot Was A Bro Country Song
At the time I kind of liked American Idiot by Green Day but the band put me off…but in the years since I”ve realised how talented Billie-Joe Armstrong is and how it’s a very clever song. On the 6th of January this year, Alex Melton did a ‘Bro Country’ version of American Idiot as a…
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Orbital – Smiley / 30 Something
30 something years on and Orbital have a new best-of compilation celebrating their ’30 Something’ anniversary – the real anniversary was in lockdown. New track Smiley sums up the feeling of acid house, 303’s,distant raves and the times – especially with the evil Maggie robot and the sheep police and nods to Burning Man and…