Month: August 2023

From relatives in Ireland to making artworks down the river, FIFTY FIFTY stanning to Nick Drake covers, Alfred Noyes and nostalgic jungle, slide guitar breakcore and Fleetwood Mac doom metal, Kings of Spain and Bitch Queens, sea journeys, sloops, metal watermarks and shipwrecks, this podcast has it all like a long blue wide winding river. A podcast mostly about joy, rivers and finding relatives in far off places.. Avon Calling, Is That A River, Owen? And off to the sea I go... (211Mb, 2:30) Listen to RC 387: Down By The River (Abhainn) byRadio Clash on hearthis.at Dylan Moran - There's Nothing We're Doing Right ToToM - Radio Clash Jingle - Bullshit Opportunities in Drum and Bass iWillBattle - I Believe In a Bad Idea (Olivia Rodrigo x The Darkness) Instamatic - Bitch Queen Roar (Meredith Brooks vs Katy Perry vs Taylor Swift vs ABBA) Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop MarkJMix - Together Celestial (Ed Sheeran vs The Farm ft Chumbawamba & Aerosmith) ah! - Your Monkey's Like Heaven To Touch (Engelbert Humperdinck vs Pixies) Captain Obvious - Manic Cupid (Fifty Fifty vs The Bangles) John Rocca - I Want It to Be Real (Late Nite Tuff Guy Edit) Frank Ski feat. Miss Tony - Yes! Antony Szmierek - The Words to Auld Lang Syne Make A Dance feat DEADLETTER - Line The Cows (Make A Dance Remix) Megablast Sound System - The Way We Were In '75 (Gladys Knight & The Pips vs Windsor Davies & Don Estelle vs Johnny Nash vs Wings vs Kraftwerk vs Judge Dread vs The Stylistics vs Eric Clapton vs 10cc vs The Goodies vs Judy Collins) Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois - Night Mxcmpv1 P74 iWillBattle vs Danny Macabre - Chain Pigs (Black Sabbath x Fleetwood Mac) FIFTY FIFTY - Lovin' Me Minor Arth - The Edge Of Sloop John B (The Beach Boys vs Panda Bear & Sonic Boom) DubXanne - Girls Just Want To Have Fun Ft. Denham DEADLETTER - Degenerate Inanimate Vivian Stanshall - Doing A John Peel Impression µ-ziq - 1977 Aurora - Pink Moon Cara Dillon - Black Is The Colour Ampersandman - Watermark Joni Mitchell - The Dawntreader (2021 Remaster) Famous Blue Cable - River Man ft Feist Sir Hank on drugs - Bad Habits in Hotel California (Eagles vs Ed Sheeran) Clannad - Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair Cara Dillon - Blue Mountain River Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game (live) Katherine Priddy - I Think They're Leaving Me Behind Cover - detail Jackdaw Man, Fountain pen and wash, A4, 2022 Transcript WEBVTT 00:36.160 --> 00:41.280Hello and welcome to Radio Clash this is 387 and it's Down By The River, Abhainn as they say in Irish 10:00.880 --> 10:05.840And that was, well, me, 10:05.840 --> 10:12.320Bitch Queen Roar, Meredith Brooks versus Katy Perry versus Taylor Swift versus Abba. 10:12.320 --> 10:16.640Yeah, that's become a bit of an answer for me. I mean, that Katy Perry, right in the verse about 10:16.640 --> 10:22.160didn't speak up, and I let them walk all over me. Yes, is me. As they say in Drag Queen World, 10:22.160 --> 10:28.640when haters is gonna hate, just become more fabulous. And then, at the start of the section, 10:28.640 --> 10:33.920we had the person who exclusively played the demo of that mashup on their Twitch stream, 10:33.920 --> 10:40.880that's iWillBattle, I Believe In A Bad Idea, Olivia Rodrigo's new single versus 10:40.880 --> 10:45.360The Darkness. I Believe In A Thing Called Love, and it was a weird time when I heard that, 10:45.360 --> 10:49.760because not only do I know, because I've been watching Justin Hawkins Rides Again, and I 10:49.760 --> 10:56.640had to, I'm not a big Darkness fan, but if you like Rick Beato, and that kind of music criticism, 10:56.640 --> 11:01.440and talking about the industry, you're loved Justin Hawkins Rides Again, except he's less 11:01.440 --> 11:05.360technical, more all over the shop, but very passionate views, and I do like that a lot. 11:05.360 --> 11:10.160I think he's a fan of Olivia Rodrigo, so I said to Will, send it over, send it to him. I think 11:10.160 --> 11:16.240you'll love it. That works so well. And I did have a look at the new single, and I quite like 11:16.240 --> 11:20.080Bad Idea, but I couldn't think of anything to work with it. When I heard that, I was like, oh, 11:20.080 --> 11:26.560perfect. That works really well. So the histronic nature of the Olivia works well with The Darkness, 11:26.640 --> 11:31.600which is, you need a kind of histronic vocal for a Darkness mashup. It's, you know, that's 11:31.600 --> 11:39.680what The Darkness do. And at the start, we had ToTom's Jingle for Radio Clash, Bullshit Opportunities 11:39.680 --> 11:46.960in Drum and Bass, and yes, this is 387. It's the Down by the River podcast, or I even learned how 11:46.960 --> 11:51.680to say River in Irish is Abhainn. If there are any Irish listeners who are like, you said that wrong, 11:51.680 --> 11:58.560Abhainn, because there is a Irish link to this podcast. Not only do we have Irish music later on 11:58.560 --> 12:04.800and throughout the podcast, I've been doing my Ancestry shizzle. I'm doing a DNA test. That's 12:04.800 --> 12:10.400not going to come out for a while. There will be secrets, and my family is just a hot mess. 12:10.400 --> 12:17.120Not in a bad way, but a bunch of troublemakers and also a shitload of secrets and blended like 12:17.120 --> 12:22.160our family breaks genealogy of websites because they can't really cope with all the 12:22.160 --> 12:27.680parents with multiple marriages, half siblings, and then you throw in my mother who 12:27.680 --> 12:32.400was adopted. You just get to the slide at that point and you're like, yeah. So I'm doing that. 12:32.400 --> 12:38.240I mentioned it before that it's a bit further back than I thought it was, but I do have Irish 12:38.240 --> 12:45.920heritage. I know cliche, I should be American. Oh, I'm Irish. No, no, it's, but my great-great 12:45.920 --> 12:51.280grandmother's parents were from Offaly. There were Offaly nice people. They were from Kings 12:51.280 --> 12:56.400County as it's then. It's now called County Offaly. And on the other side of the divide, 12:56.400 --> 13:05.280my grand uncle, I think that's right, married a woman whose parents were from Ulster. And so, 13:05.280 --> 13:09.520yeah, I know I've said it, I've joked with them before. We have UDA and IRA in my family. That 13:09.520 --> 13:15.520wasn't a joke. You do know that. It's not a joke. It wasn't a joke. Anyway, luckily I don't know them, 13:15.520 --> 13:20.960but yeah, there is, I tell them we're troublemakers. It's interesting formalizing that, but all the 13:20.960 --> 13:26.640other stuff that I'm finding in pictures, pictures of my, I so-so like my, I think my great-great 13:26.640 --> 13:31.920grand uncle is very cute. I think three greats. It gets complicated with outside the family. 13:31.920 --> 13:36.480Even like changing names, I've got a bunch of them that they didn't marry. So they took some of them, 13:36.480 --> 13:41.440took the mom's name. I think all the women of that family took the mom's name, but then the 13:41.440 --> 13:46.320boys all took the father's name. You know, that is a nightmare. But anyway, so we have an Irish 13:46.320 --> 13:49.680team podcast. We've got some folk in here later on. I know some of you will be loving that. 13:50.720 --> 13:57.040A whole bunch of mashups, Electronica, and I'm about to go off on holiday. So this podcast has 13:57.040 --> 14:04.800been recorded a bit in a hurry because I don't know when I'll get to do another one because 14:04.800 --> 14:08.800I'm going to go away for probably about at least a week. It might be longer, but I'm just sort of 14:08.800 --> 14:13.680doing all the packing shit at the moment. And we know how stressful that was last time. So I'm 14:13.680 --> 14:17.120actually doing a spreadsheet this time. We're going to see if that makes it easier. It probably 14:17.120 --> 14:23.920won't. So in April, it was 25 years since the release of Music Has the Right to Children. And 14:23.920 --> 14:28.640Ian Fondue reminded me of that fact on Facebook today? And I was like, oh, I really must put a 14:28.640 --> 14:34.720Boards of Canada track in there. And it's interesting. I have played fair bit from Boards of Canada, 14:34.720 --> 14:40.880but not this song, which I was quite surprised. And I have to say that album when it came out in 14:40.880 --> 14:46.6401928 was a really important one to me. And it still hasn't really been beaten. I mean, the only 14:46.640 --> 14:51.040people have maybe come closer are Boards of Canada themselves. And I think a lot of people have 14:51.040 --> 14:56.240tried. I mean, look at Wikipedia, they mentioned people as a list of people I love, like Lone 14:56.240 --> 15:02.080and Ulrich Schnauss and FourTet and a bunch of people that you've put you've heard on this podcast 15:02.080 --> 15:07.120a lot. But you know, much as I love those people, there is only one Boards of Canada. So this is 15:07.120 --> 15:11.760Telephasic Workshop, the Telephasic Workshop. Too much rum and coke. 50:03.280 --> 50:09.200I do like indie dance, so I miss indie dance. 50:09.200 --> 50:15.120That's sort of an electro, a bit Section 25 as well. That's Make A Dance featuring DEADLETTER, 50:15.760 --> 50:22.240Line The Cows, Make A Dance remix, and I had another track of theirs on 6Music, and 50:22.960 --> 50:27.200you'll probably hear that a little bit later on, it's more sort of punky, 50:27.200 --> 50:32.080indie. They are from Sheffield, maybe not from Sheffield, it was South Yorkshire. They're from South 50:32.080 --> 50:37.440Yorkshire. Got to be right with our geography, with ancestry. It's fun, it's like naming differences 50:37.440 --> 50:42.720between things. And that came out in 2022. You find that on their Bandcamp account, or Make A Dance 50:42.720 --> 50:47.600Bandcamp account, you find it via DEADLETTER's Bandcamp account, I think. And then before that we had 50:47.600 --> 50:53.680Antony Szmierek, that has been rinsed incredibly so by 6Music, but you know, I know I don't like 50:53.680 --> 50:59.280to duplicate, but sometimes you have to repeat because it's good. And it mentions rivers as well. 50:59.280 --> 51:03.760Having explained the river theme down by the river, I actually weirdly am not playing Down By The 51:03.760 --> 51:09.280River by Neil Young. I tried to find a cover I liked, and it wasn't Big Bad, but I couldn't really 51:09.280 --> 51:16.000find one. But most is because I've been working down the river doing my usual artworks. It's not 51:16.000 --> 51:20.640down, it's kind of a pun, it's not down as interpressing. Although, you know, maybe later on. But no, 51:20.640 --> 51:25.040mostly, ironically, through something called down by the river, this is actually quite a joyful 51:25.040 --> 51:31.360podcast. And a reference to Nick Drake, because I'm listening to a lot of the recent compilation 51:31.360 --> 51:37.280I've played some of the tracks from last time. And they'll crop up again later. But yeah, 51:37.280 --> 51:42.400there's a Pseudo River theme and also a Pseudo Irish theme. I've only played one Irish track so far, 51:42.400 --> 51:48.400which is, yeah, yeah. Later on, later on, later on. And then before that, we had the not Irish, 51:48.400 --> 51:55.760but certainly very outspoken Miss Tony with Frank Ski, that's yes. And that's from Bitch 51:55.760 --> 52:01.760Track II, the follow up to Tony's Bitch Track, the one I used in the mashup recently. So when I was 52:01.760 --> 52:06.240digging around for that, I found that one. Oh, definitely. Why have I not played this in the 52:06.320 --> 52:13.280podcast? And then before that, we had John Rocca with I Want To Be Real, Late Night Tuff Guy edit. 52:13.280 --> 52:19.440I like that a lot. A recent edit of John Rocca. And I didn't know about that song. It was kind of 52:19.440 --> 52:25.040post-freeze. He did some solo singles, not many. I want them was I want it to be real. 52:25.600 --> 52:30.400I like they're almost like speaking spelly type. I want it to be real, real, real. You can tell it's 52:30.480 --> 52:36.880like 1984, 83, 84. You can tell, you know, with a real, real, real, you know, playing the chorus 52:36.880 --> 52:43.680up and down the keyboard without smashed glass. That's basically 1984. That's the music of 1984 52:43.680 --> 52:49.920on a nutshell. But yeah, no, I like that a lot. And I do like Deep House. I mean, getting more into 52:49.920 --> 52:55.200Deep House, I've never not into Deep House. I was to Deep House back in the day when it wasn't called 52:55.200 --> 53:01.120Deep House. I mean, Deep House is a fairly new name for it. At the time, it was just 53:01.120 --> 53:06.640House, you know, and later on, there's all these different variants. But certain stuff I 53:06.640 --> 53:11.520like was more soulful, sort of lower base, that sort of Deep House template. That's the house I 53:11.520 --> 53:16.960liked. So, you know, naturally, I go for what people call Deep House now. And then before that, 53:16.960 --> 53:22.960not Deep House, we had Captain Obvious (me) with Manic Cupid. Weirdly, never played that on the 53:22.960 --> 53:27.760podcast. And I'm FIFTY FIFTY are having a moment because the excellent track in the Barbie movie, 53:27.760 --> 53:32.880I did a mashup of that track. I was going to play it. I took it out because we don't do the obvious 53:32.880 --> 53:36.480on this podcast. You know, it might be good for business. It might be good for the brand. 53:36.480 --> 53:40.720My everyone's talking about Barbie. When I did the mashup, it was just coming out. I knew it 53:40.720 --> 53:45.040be the big thing that it is. I've still not seen it. You know, whenever I was talking about it, 53:45.040 --> 53:48.640I go and do something else. I'm not interested in constantly talking about it. This is why I'm not more 53:48.640 --> 53:55.440successful. I just wander off of and do something else because I'm not interested in bashing on about 53:55.440 --> 53:59.840Barbie and promoting Barbie's movie, promoting it for Mattel or the film studio. I'm not interested 53:59.840 --> 54:04.000in that. It's not my thing at all. You know, I don't mind sort of, you know, jumping on that little… 54:04.000 --> 54:09.680It wasn't a bandwagon because I was one of the first people to mash that Barbie Dreams track by FIFTY FIFTY. 54:09.680 --> 54:13.680So, I wasn't really jumping on a bandwagon, per se, because no one was jumping on that bandwagon 54:14.400 --> 54:18.720then. But now, you know, so many people have done Barbie things. It's all a bit like me. 54:18.720 --> 54:25.600Yeah, I'm bored with Barbie now. So, that's FIFTY FIFTY versus The Bangles. If you haven't heard 54:25.600 --> 54:30.800Cupid, it's one of the best tracks of the year. I'm a total FIFTY FIFTY stan now. I think they want 54:30.800 --> 54:37.840to release like six tracks and I just don't get Blackpink and the other K-Bop acts. I don't really 54:37.840 --> 54:43.200get BTS or any of those things. They're the first one I've gone, yeah, I get you. I get you. I 54:43.200 --> 54:47.040like you. So, yeah, I'm very much a FIFTY FIFTY stan, which is why I've done two mashups of them. 54:47.920 --> 54:56.560And then, before that, we had Irish bootlegger, ah! Alan Hurley, with Your Monkeys Like Heaven to Touch, 54:56.560 --> 55:03.520Engelbert Humperdinck versus Pixies. That's from his new album, Pock Rops, part of the Rock Pops 55:03.520 --> 55:10.640series. And some really good things on that, but that's my favourite. It's weird when Will was 55:10.640 --> 55:15.360going to play some bits from it and he was like, anybody, do things stand out. I hadn't even heard 55:15.360 --> 55:19.280I went Engelbert Humperdinck. Yeah, it's just a skill of mine. I'm that sad. I can look at 55:19.280 --> 55:22.800track lists of mashups and go, that'll work, that'll work, that won't work, that won't work, 55:22.800 --> 55:26.720that won't work. I've just been doing it for 20 years. And just look at them and go, in my head, 55:26.720 --> 55:31.520I can hear the combination. Sometimes you listen to it and go, oh, it's the reverse. Oh, I wouldn't 55:31.520 --> 55:36.960want to do that way. That's quite good. Or quite often, oh dear. I usually know within a very 55:36.960 --> 55:41.600short period whether something is, I'll look at the combination and go, ooh, and then I'll listen 55:41.600 --> 55:47.120to a brief bit of Engelbert and go, yes or no. Sorry, mashup people. You've laboured for hours 55:47.120 --> 55:51.520on your Epic to make sure every part is thing. But yeah, I just go a minute in and I'm like, 55:52.560 --> 55:57.120you know, and then if he gets a rewind, this is good, I need to play this again, 55:57.120 --> 56:02.800in full listening to all of it, it's good. If it's interesting, but I don't necessarily 56:02.880 --> 56:07.120get it. That doesn't mean it gets thrown away. What happens is it goes into my iPod pile. 56:07.120 --> 56:12.160There is one track in that section, which was just before that, which was MarkJMix 56:12.160 --> 56:17.040together Celestial, Ed Sheeran versus The Farm versus Chumbawamba vs Aerosmith. 56:17.040 --> 56:21.520And that's one of those because I quite liked it, but I wasn't like merely grabbed by it. 56:21.520 --> 56:26.560But then it started haunting me on my iPod and I went, no, this is actually, I'm aware that sometimes 56:26.560 --> 56:32.320things go from being sleeper hits and mashups. And that's one of those. I love that greatly. 56:32.400 --> 56:36.320It works really well. I wasn't aware of the Ed Sheeran Celestial track. I didn't know it was 56:36.320 --> 56:40.720a Pokemon movie track. It's from last year. He does mention Pokemon in the lyrics, 56:40.720 --> 56:45.840but I was like a bit of Pachelbel. Pachelbel's Canon, which is what The 56:45.840 --> 56:51.920Farm's all together now is based on. And I've used that in mashups before. It's got a joyful feel 56:51.920 --> 56:56.960and that's one of the best things from MarkJMix ever. And I can't remember what it came out. 56:56.960 --> 57:01.360I've got a feeling it was either early 2023 or late 2022. It's been around for a while, 57:01.360 --> 57:05.760but I like that greatly. It has all is not lost if you do a mashup. And I don't know, 57:05.760 --> 57:10.800it's not instance. And, you know, we don't just play bangers on this, on this podcast we play. 57:10.800 --> 57:14.880A mixture of things. I mean, I should say that I'm over from Boards of Canada and John Rocca 57:14.880 --> 57:21.200and Frank Ski and some mashups and all over the place, but I'm just showing off. But yes, 57:21.200 --> 57:26.800so now we're going to play a, I say drama based mashup. I mean, it's by Lee Spoons. It has to 57:26.800 --> 57:32.800be drum and bass, but it's also a winner of one of the Crumplbanger challenges. And I think you 57:32.800 --> 57:38.400had to do tracks that were around before your birthday for the challenge. I think it was Peggy 57:38.400 --> 57:45.680P. I'm not sure who said that child. So what he did was do a jungle track based around tunes 57:45.680 --> 57:51.600from 1975, which was his birthday, but obviously before his birth. And it's, 01:22:40.240 --> 01:22:46.960That was DEADLETTER as mentioned earlier in the podcast, dEgenerate Inanimate, that's the one 01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:53.360there, playing alot on 6Music, I think where I first heard it. Tom Robinson filling in for 01:22:53.360 --> 01:22:58.320Steve Lamacq played that and I was like, oh, I went into the back catalog and I would say 01:22:58.320 --> 01:23:03.680one to watch, definitely. I like the use of words, you know, it's not often you say, oh yeah, 01:23:03.680 --> 01:23:09.040I like that wordplay, but I do like that wordplay a lot. And then before that, we had DubXanne 01:23:09.040 --> 01:23:14.560with Girls Just Want To Have Fun, well it's really Boys Just Want To Have Fun, featuring Denham. I 01:23:14.560 --> 01:23:19.840love the gender switching in that, that's brilliant and that's from Pop Wave In Dub that came out in 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:25.440the year. And before that, we had a measure that's been around for a while and it's one of those 01:23:25.440 --> 01:23:32.240always the bridemaid tracks that's Minor Arth with the Edge Of Sloop John B. It fits the sort 01:23:32.240 --> 01:23:37.600of watery river theme sort of. That's the Beach Boys versus Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. I didn't 01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:40.720know Panda Bear and Sonic Boom did an album together, I think two albums together. Well, 01:23:41.280 --> 01:23:45.360one was produced by Sonic Boom and then they did a collab album together. I've had bits of it, 01:23:45.360 --> 01:23:50.000I need to listen to it properly. It's weird, you hear something in the mashup and you go, oh, 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:53.440that sounds really good and you don't listen to the actual thing, something's missing. 01:23:54.080 --> 01:23:57.760And that's a sign of a good mashup that sounds actually gone. Oh, well that sounds, I mean, 01:23:57.760 --> 01:24:01.520obviously Panda Bear, it's not a massive stretch. I mean, everyone said Panda Bear 01:24:02.320 --> 01:24:07.360is ripping off Beach Boys, especially with Panda Bear's vocals. Yes, it's not news, 01:24:08.000 --> 01:24:12.560but it turns out, yeah, what's missing from Panda Bear is the Beach Boys stuff. Who knew? 01:24:13.200 --> 01:24:17.760But it works really well. And then before that, we had, yeah, more FIFTY FIFTY stans, 01:24:17.760 --> 01:24:22.880that's Loving Me. I think, I'm not sure, it's hard to say what that's all about. It seems to be about 01:24:22.880 --> 01:24:27.840loving yourself, which is a very Lizzo, I shouldn't mention Lizzo, should I? It would have been a 01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:33.280very Lizzo thing to do. Apparently, loving yourself in the case of Lizzo is more hating 01:24:33.280 --> 01:24:38.480other people. I agree with spite being a motivator, but that's not really the message she was putting 01:24:38.480 --> 01:24:43.360out, so yeah. Yeah, I think it's about loving yourself, and I'd go with that message entirely. 01:24:43.360 --> 01:24:48.480I've said before, not enough songs that've got a little spoken word bits in them. The spoken word 01:24:48.480 --> 01:24:55.600revival, not, I mean, fucking, oh please no, not poetry slam shit. I mean, spoken word bits in 01:24:55.600 --> 01:25:03.040song revival starts here. If it happens, you can blame it on me. Then before that, we had 01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:12.560Chain Pigs, Black Sabbath versus Fleetwood Mac, that's Danny Macabre originally, and it's a collab with 01:25:12.560 --> 01:25:18.080iWillBattle, because iWillBattle played it, the original mashup. There was a third thing in there. 01:25:18.080 --> 01:25:25.120Both of us went, that doesn't work, but that idea is brilliant. And nice to see Will went and worked 01:25:25.120 --> 01:25:29.680with Danny Macabre in doing a new version, or I kind of, maybe it's a reboot. I'm not sure how it 01:25:29.760 --> 01:25:34.160happened, but sometimes reboots are good. I know there was a big debate about reboots, 01:25:34.160 --> 01:25:41.120but sometimes reboots are for good. And yeah, it's good to play a Danny Macabre track on the 01:25:41.120 --> 01:25:46.720podcast. I want to watch it again. Then before that, we had, and I can't believe this happened, 01:25:48.080 --> 01:25:53.760I was watching Rick Beato. He did a really good interview with Daniel Lanois. Daniel Lanois 01:25:53.760 --> 01:25:57.680did not mention his Venetian Snares album. I am disappointed in that, because I would 01:25:57.760 --> 01:26:01.520say in every five seconds saying, you know, fuck U2, I don't care about U2. 01:26:01.520 --> 01:26:08.400I worked with Venetian Snares. In 2018, he did, and this is not even a lockdown album. It sounds 01:26:08.400 --> 01:26:14.000like a lockdown album. This is 2018. He went and worked with Venetian Snares, Aaron Funk. So 01:26:14.560 --> 01:26:19.200you have those slide guitars and very Lanois touches, and then it goes into the classic Venetian 01:26:19.200 --> 01:26:27.120Snare's. He'd heard his, I'm not going to say the Rossz album, the Hungarian album, it's easy to say. 01:26:28.160 --> 01:26:32.960by Venetian Snares, I love that. Quite rightly so. It's an amazing album. I'm not sure it totally 01:26:32.960 --> 01:26:43.200works, but I love the fact that they did that. It's called Night Mxcmpv1 P74. Yeah, it's like 01:26:43.200 --> 01:26:50.480the Apex Twin naming schema, isn't it? And yeah, it's very much similar to that. It's like slide 01:26:50.480 --> 01:26:57.520guitar. Oh, It's A Blue Day. You know, you know, Apollo. Here we go. And suddenly, you know, Venetian 01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:03.200Snares crashes in. I do wonder how they worked because I'm pretty sure Venetian Snares works in 01:27:03.200 --> 01:27:08.080MED or works in a tracker system. He might not do that now, but he used to. I have this weird image 01:27:08.080 --> 01:27:14.720of Venetian Snares showing him an Amiga going, I do it on this and him going, what? I just got that 01:27:14.720 --> 01:27:19.680metal image. It makes me laugh. It's an interesting album. Check it out. And I love the fact that 01:27:19.760 --> 01:27:24.880he went, I don't know this music. This is completely beyond my experience. I must go and 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:29.440and that's how he learns. He goes and works with people and goes, this is a new thing. I'm not 01:27:29.440 --> 01:27:34.080going to run away from it. I want to know more about this. That's how he's still, you know, 01:27:34.080 --> 01:27:38.480in demand as a producer today and as an artist. And then before that, we have The Way We Were In 01:27:38.480 --> 01:27:43.920 And I've actually tagged ir, wasn't in the original. I've actually tagged every single artist 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:49.360in this. It took me ages and it's the longest tag name in my library in probably in history. 01:27:49.360 --> 01:27:53.440Well not in history. Gladys Night and THe Pips versus Windsor Davies and Don Estelle. 01:27:53.440 --> 01:28:00.000That was the Jungle bit. Johnny Nash, Wings, Kraftwerk, Judge Dread, The Stylistics, Eric Clapton, 01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:05.44010cc, the Goonies, Judy Collins, and anyone who knows me. No, maybe not last bit. 01:28:05.440 --> 01:28:09.280I love the fact that he obviously got the bass, I think, from Judge Dread. That might be the 01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:15.920vocal bits. But I think it's The Stylistics is that little rave style, but he just took one of the 01:28:16.640 --> 01:28:21.680horn sections and uses a classic, classic rave jungle technique. Yeah. So it's like plunderphonics. 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:27.520It's plunderphonics, jungle, that kind of like nostalgic jungle, plunderphonic. I heard a lot 01:28:27.520 --> 01:28:32.240more, please, from Lee. Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons. Please, more of that, please. I love that. 01:28:32.240 --> 01:28:38.240I love that because it's a bit similar to his mixtapes, hasn't it? He does his shows on 01:28:39.120 --> 01:28:43.920is it, I forget the name of the radio stations. It's noise box radio, something that I probably 01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:50.320remember that wrong. And kind of similar, but not as layered. And I like that layering. I haven't 01:28:50.320 --> 01:28:55.760heard that from Lee before, but he does rhyme me on some of the chaotic, wonderfully chaotic mixes 01:28:55.760 --> 01:29:00.080he did, although they're more like A versus B versus C. There wasn't like that level of 01:29:00.080 --> 01:29:05.360medley layering and plundafonicness. And yeah, no, I like to hear more of that. I mean, I have to 01:29:05.360 --> 01:29:11.600say that the Irish stuff is coming. It's on the bus. It's just late. I feel bad for trailing it now. 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:15.840I'm like, Tim, why did you trail this stuff when it's right at the end? Duh, like really. 01:29:15.840 --> 01:29:22.160So we're going to play a track. Well, this is Viv Stanshall. And I don't know where it's from. 01:29:22.160 --> 01:29:26.880I think it's one of the radio flashes, but this is him doing a John Peel impression. 02:10:46.640 --> 02:10:53.920That was Joni Mitchell, recorded live on the Miles of Aisles record of 1974. That's The Circle 02:10:53.920 --> 02:11:01.600Game. Wow, yeah. And yeah, I think I prefer that version. It's kind of sad because there's lots of 02:11:02.240 --> 02:11:07.360recordings, or live recordings, of Joni Mitchell. And she's always saying, come on, 02:11:07.360 --> 02:11:11.520sing along. But the problem is, her songs were actually quite hard to sing even for… Well, 02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:14.800she used to sing when I was five. She didn't realise that other people can't sing her songs. 02:11:16.160 --> 02:11:19.840As if they know them. That's one of the simpler ones. But that was recorded 02:11:20.480 --> 02:11:26.240in Los Angeles. And it's about Neil Young, because apparently, Neil, fellow Canadian, 02:11:26.240 --> 02:11:30.320Neil Young was very happy. So there is a Neil Young Down By The River link. There is. 02:11:31.280 --> 02:11:36.880That he'd reached 20, and he couldn't go to the teeny-bopper clubs, because apparently he had 02:11:36.880 --> 02:11:40.240age restrictions, which sounds a bit crazy. I had the idea of clubs with age restrictions, 02:11:40.240 --> 02:11:45.760like, oh, you have to be under 21 or whatever. And he wrote a song about that. And she wrote 02:11:45.760 --> 02:11:50.560that song as a response saying, what piffle, you know, you've got other things you can do. 02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:54.560It's not your end of your life at 20. What silly, silly silliness. Yeah, it's talked to me about 02:11:54.560 --> 02:12:04.160 And then one of the Irish tracks, that's Cara Dillon, who is from…Dungiven in London Derry, 02:12:04.160 --> 02:12:08.880which, as I say, the… Some part of my family comes from Ulster. So I don't know where in Ulster. 02:12:09.440 --> 02:12:15.520Ulster's a big place. And that's Blue Mountain River. And that's from her 2001 02:12:16.240 --> 02:12:22.640eponymous solo debut, Cara Dillon, which I must have heard back in the day. I'm pretty sure I did, 02:12:22.640 --> 02:12:27.120because I did know her cover of Black is the Colour, which I played at the start. 02:12:27.120 --> 02:12:31.760And for some reason, I assumed I played it, because that's one of my favourite songs of all time. 02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:37.760And weirdly, I never did. I don't know what happened there. And that's a self-penned song 02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:45.280with Seth Lakeman. And yeah, it's really, really a beautiful song. Very much about similar to loving 02:12:45.280 --> 02:12:51.200me about, you know, going out to nature and learning to love yourself in the Blue Mountain River. 02:12:51.200 --> 02:12:56.240But obviously anything that's got lyrics about uncertain times is always 02:12:56.240 --> 02:13:03.120resonating with me at the moment. And before that, we had what's more Irish than a song in Gaelic 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:12.400that's Clannad with Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair, I think. I looked it up. Yes, you never believe how 02:13:12.400 --> 02:13:19.120Fhómhair, which is autumn, is spell. It does not look like what it is. And even, I would say, 02:13:19.120 --> 02:13:24.720Coinleach, being more, you know, a true Scottish, not Coinleach, but, you know, Coinleach. 02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:31.760It's not anyway. Glas is glass. But what it means is The Green Fields Of Autumn. And there is a link. 02:13:31.760 --> 02:13:37.520And I found this when I was actually putting this just recording it. I was like, King of Spain. 02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:43.200I was reading about County Offaly, otherwise formally known as Kings County, where apparently, 02:13:43.200 --> 02:13:48.960if it's true, if the ancestry.co.uk and all people's trees are lying, which is always a big 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:54.320thing. But that said, I do actually know from my dad, we have Irish families. I know that part 02:13:54.320 --> 02:14:00.960of the family is Irish. My great-great-grandmother, her parents were Irish. I knew there was a link 02:14:00.960 --> 02:14:07.840there on that side. So it's not like, oh, shock. I thought it was closer. I knew it wasn't a grandmother 02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:12.640because otherwise, I would be off and getting an Irish passport in a fucking millisecond. 02:14:13.280 --> 02:14:17.680I knew it was further than that. It was a great-great grandmother. But, 02:14:18.400 --> 02:14:25.120yeah, the King's County is named after the King of Spain. This is all to do with Jacobite rebellion. 02:14:25.120 --> 02:14:32.880And it got renamed to Offaly, which is kind of like the original name. It's not actually the same, 02:14:32.880 --> 02:14:38.720exactly the same, but the area was an older region. But yeah, that song mentions the King of Spain 02:14:38.720 --> 02:14:44.480because it's about a woman, probably. It's always hard to tell with traditional songs because that's 02:14:44.480 --> 02:14:52.64018th century, supporting her lover who's fighting abroad. I think France. So it suggests it's probably 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:59.280about The Wild Geese who were the Jacobite army who went off to France to fight after The Glorious 02:14:59.280 --> 02:15:04.160Revolution, in quotes, the invasion, the Dutch invasion, which is what it was. It's interesting 02:15:04.160 --> 02:15:09.040how they wrote the history books to say it was a Glorious Revolution. And it was all welcome. 02:15:09.040 --> 02:15:13.520And it was like, no, if they were totally welcome, why did they bring all of their army with them? 02:15:14.080 --> 02:15:19.760In many boats. If it was a formality, why would you bring your 02:15:21.120 --> 02:15:27.520navy with you? Which is what happened a certain year. But because of that, the agreement was they'd 02:15:27.520 --> 02:15:34.720left. And so it mentions the King of Spain. So I think it's probably about that sort of 02:15:34.720 --> 02:15:39.840period. It's debated, but yeah, it mentions the King of Spain. So that is definitely the King's 02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:45.280Counties. There's a link there. And that's from Magical Ring from 1983. I could have played the 02:15:45.280 --> 02:15:50.000original version because that's not the original version they did. They did on their second ever 02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:59.040album. I think 1973 or four, somewhere about them, they did a cover. And I prefer the 1983. 02:15:59.040 --> 02:16:03.680It's production's a bit better, but they're both really, really good. It's just a haunting song. 02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:07.760Songs about autumn usually are. I mean, it figures because my favourite song is Autumn Leaves, 02:16:07.760 --> 02:16:13.840which is very Wistful. And then also wistful was DDir Hank on Drugs. Well, not that title. 02:16:14.880 --> 02:16:21.200Bad Habits in Hotel California, Eagles versus Ed Sheeran. I think Sir Hank listens to his mashups 02:16:21.200 --> 02:16:25.120on speakers. Just listen to the start of that mashup. I had noticed that before and I was 02:16:25.120 --> 02:16:28.880going, why is that panned like that? I think you don't listen to your mashups on headphones 02:16:28.880 --> 02:16:33.200Sir Hank. I'm not sure what that was done probably about when Bad Habits came out because 02:16:33.200 --> 02:16:38.480it seems to be Sir Hank, it seems to mostly seems to work on new pop as it arrives. 02:16:39.200 --> 02:16:44.720However, which you can all find on remix.audio as he's uploaded everything he's done, which is 02:16:44.720 --> 02:16:50.000amazing. It was hard to find before, as I know from my mashup, which I accidentally rebooted him. 02:16:50.640 --> 02:16:56.960But yeah, it's nice to hear all this back catalog of work. And there's a few bits which 02:16:56.960 --> 02:17:02.160I accidentally reboot some other things, which is, I hope you didn't mind that, but if he does, 02:17:02.160 --> 02:17:06.640he's actually actually rebooted a few things as well, I've noticed. So yeah, it goes around. 02:17:06.640 --> 02:17:12.640We all do it at some point. Then before that, we had Famous Blue Cable with River Man Featuring 02:17:12.640 --> 02:17:20.480Feist. That's from The Endless Coloured Ways. The song was new released back in May. 02:17:20.480 --> 02:17:28.400And I call my River Man series after that song. It's very mystical about that song. It's very 02:17:28.400 --> 02:17:34.400strange. He was studying English at Cambridge. So I actually worked out where the Lilac Time comes 02:17:34.400 --> 02:17:37.760from, because I was looking into it, because it's always struck me as a very interesting phrase, 02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:43.120but an odd phrase. And a lot of the stuff you look online refers to the Lilac Time, the band 02:17:43.120 --> 02:17:47.600who were named after it. But they don't say where it came from. It came from Alfred Noyes. He did a 02:17:47.600 --> 02:17:54.000song called The Barrel Organ. Well, it's a poem called The Barrel Organ. And it got made into a song 02:17:54.000 --> 02:18:00.480called Go Down to Kew in Lilac Time, which the poem mentioned Lilac Time, and that's the probably 02:18:00.480 --> 02:18:04.800the earliest I've come across it. Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time, and Lilac Time, and Lilac Time, 02:18:04.800 --> 02:18:09.600Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time. It isn't far from London. And you shall wander hand in hand with love in 02:18:09.600 --> 02:18:14.960summer’s wonderland. Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time. It isn't far from London. Although it says it's a 02:18:14.960 --> 02:18:19.200poem, it is written like a song. I don't know whether that's the actual song that was influenced me 02:18:19.360 --> 02:18:25.120anyway. That is where that came from most likely, because it would have studied Alfred Noyes. 02:18:25.760 --> 02:18:31.440Oh, mad. Yeah, I know of Alfred Noyes, because he wrote a poem which we studied at school called 02:18:31.440 --> 02:18:36.880The Highwayman, which became the inspiration for the video. And probably this song, but definitely 02:18:36.880 --> 02:18:41.200the video Fleetwood Mac Everywhere. I want to see with you everywhere that video is when I saw it 02:18:41.200 --> 02:18:46.000I freaked out like that's The Highwayman. It's a fairly, it was a Dark and Stormy Night type 02:18:46.720 --> 02:18:50.640poem. The story's quite good. And yeah, it's the same guy. That's interesting, because we had 02:18:50.640 --> 02:18:55.840Fleetwood Mac in this mix as well. It all connects in weird ways. Yeah, I was wondering if it was 02:18:55.840 --> 02:19:02.800the same Alfred Noyes. So before the Famous Blue Table, we had Joni Mitchell again with the Dawn 02:19:02.800 --> 02:19:09.360Treader. That's the 2021 remaster that came out on Song to a Seagull in 1968. And originally it was 02:19:09.360 --> 02:19:13.920recorded by David Crosby, RIP. And then there's some thought that the Dawntreader is actually 02:19:13.920 --> 02:19:18.640about his boat, because he had a boat with which you used to take people out of sailings is likely 02:19:18.640 --> 02:19:23.600he took Johnny out on that sailing and then you each other. But he got her to sing into the strings 02:19:23.600 --> 02:19:28.800of a piano. And that meant the problem with his they had to cut off and was very dull. And so 02:19:28.800 --> 02:19:33.760they've been trying to work with that. I think I think that remaster is do some digital techniques 02:19:33.760 --> 02:19:37.520to bring it bring it out. And it's not bad. I mean, I've heard other versions which are very 02:19:37.520 --> 02:19:43.360kind of like muffled. Good idea, though, but hard to do. I mean, unless I'm singing very strongly, 02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:48.000you're probably not going to reverberate the strings. But yes, he died recently, didn't he? 02:19:48.000 --> 02:19:54.640Then before that, we had a very strange but wonderful cover of Enya, who were in who who 02:19:54.640 --> 02:20:00.960was in Clannad for a short period and is the sister of Clannad. That's Watermark by Ampersandman. 02:20:00.960 --> 02:20:10.960And that's from the PRF Premier Rock Forum monthly series from October 2022. They did Enya. And so 02:20:10.960 --> 02:20:14.640Watermark is one of my favourite songs. It's one of my favourite songs of Enya's. 02:20:14.640 --> 02:20:19.440And I like how wonky that cover is. But apart from the drums, the drums are terrible. But the fact 02:20:19.440 --> 02:20:24.560you're doing like heavy metal version of Enya, and there's not even the first heavy metal Enya, 02:20:24.560 --> 02:20:28.400there's lots of heavy metal Enya surprisingly. There's a lot of love for Enya in the heavy metal 02:20:28.400 --> 02:20:34.160community and the rock community. Strangely, you wouldn't think so. Have I played the Enya versus 02:20:34.160 --> 02:20:39.040Nirvana? Not sure if I've played it on the I think I have. But yeah, there is such things. But I like 02:20:39.120 --> 02:20:43.520how wonky it is. It sounds like it's going to fall apart any second. It's very indie, but 02:20:44.320 --> 02:20:49.920yeah, it's charmingly, it's charmingly falling apart. Then before that I'd put Cara Dillon again, 02:20:49.920 --> 02:20:57.840as I mentioned before, Black is the Colour from 2001's Cara Dillon. Then we had another song from 02:20:57.840 --> 02:21:03.680the Nick Drake compilation that's Aurora with Pink Moon. I really don't know what Pink Moon is about. 02:21:03.680 --> 02:21:08.880That is a really weird song. It's a really weird album. It's very apocalyptic. And I've looked 02:21:08.960 --> 02:21:13.600and looked. Unlike the lIlac Time, I've looked and looked and I've never found that Pink Moon is 02:21:13.600 --> 02:21:19.040usually a good tidying, a red moon possible. I don't know who's alluding to a red moon, but yeah, 02:21:19.760 --> 02:21:27.040Pink Moon is going to get you. And then before that we had µ-ziq with 1977 from the album 02:21:27.040 --> 02:21:32.400in 1977, which is a recent release. I heard one of those tracks from Dandelion Radio. 02:21:32.400 --> 02:21:36.720I didn't know µ-ziq had an album out. I was like, thank you very much. And then at the start section 02:21:36.720 --> 02:21:41.920we had Viv Stanshall with doing a John Peel impression. And I'd have to say, yeah, the Dawn 02:21:41.920 --> 02:21:46.480Treader and all that sea stuff. It's not supposed to be a river. It's, I think, me subconsciously 02:21:46.480 --> 02:21:53.600thinking about going to the cliffs and not the cliffs of Dover and hopefully drawing and painting 02:21:53.600 --> 02:21:58.880them. I'm planning to go to Kimmeridge and finally maybe do some wild camping. I'm planning to do a 02:21:58.880 --> 02:22:05.440wild camp on that and finish that connection, that bit that I haven't done, which is the five miles 02:22:05.440 --> 02:22:12.000around Swanage to Kimmeridge or around that thing. But this time take my tent with me. 02:22:12.000 --> 02:22:16.000This is what I was always planning to do. The little tent is very claustrophobic. So I've 02:22:16.000 --> 02:22:21.680actually got a almost the same weight they released a two person one. They just use us both 02:22:21.680 --> 02:22:25.600with a walking sticks and I've got some lighter walking sticks as well. I did promise not to 02:22:25.600 --> 02:22:29.920spend any more money this year. I was doing that because a lot of the stuff I'm using this 02:22:29.920 --> 02:22:34.880year I got last year and it's been a gradual process. I did cave on the tent because like, 02:22:34.880 --> 02:22:41.040I saw a bargain and it's not very much. It was a Chinese tent, but it was I think a good buy 02:22:41.040 --> 02:22:45.920because the problem was that really small one that one person one is if it chucks it down, 02:22:45.920 --> 02:22:50.240you can't stay inside it and then you get wet outside. If you're doing what I'm doing, which is 02:22:50.240 --> 02:22:54.720sometimes I've got a base camp. Sometimes I'm planning to take this home with me and take 02:22:54.720 --> 02:22:59.680everything with me and walk, which is going to be hard. I'm not planning to do long distance like 02:22:59.680 --> 02:23:05.120that because with a big pack on it's quite hard to walk more than a few miles if you're not used 02:23:05.120 --> 02:23:08.960to it. But I've done it before, but not recently. So it might give me a heart attack. I might die, I don't 02:23:08.960 --> 02:23:13.920know, but I think it'll be all right. But that was always the intention to get the stuff down 02:23:13.920 --> 02:23:18.800and the weight of things and I had such shitty, shitty equipment. I had such heavy, shitty equipment 02:23:18.800 --> 02:23:24.560like military rucksacks that didn't really fit me properly and that kind of thing and I've slowly, 02:23:24.560 --> 02:23:29.840slowly because, you know, you could spend tens of thousands or thousands to try and get this 02:23:29.840 --> 02:23:34.720sort of equipment and yeah, there's some ways of doing it like, you know, second hand and all 02:23:34.720 --> 02:23:40.160sales and Chinese stuff and whatever. But it's still, you know, you can't just, you know, 02:23:40.160 --> 02:23:45.840if you're getting a down bag or a light tent, you're not going to get it for 30 quid down the 02:23:45.840 --> 02:23:51.760market. Unfortunately, when that's done, hopefully, if I don't fall off a cliff, I'm going to head 02:23:51.840 --> 02:23:59.280down to my old stomping ground from last year and to the, you know, Lyme Regis area, Cannington 02:24:00.080 --> 02:24:05.760site. I'm not sure if I'm going to go to the Weymouth site. I love Eweleaze, but one, it's rather 02:24:05.760 --> 02:24:12.480full of kids and two, it's quite expensive really. I mean, it's not bad, I suppose, but it's easy to 02:24:12.480 --> 02:24:16.640spend a lot of money on site and not know because of the tappy tappy. I want to try and use as much 02:24:16.640 --> 02:24:21.600as cash as possible this time. It's convenient, but it's hard to monitor your spending like that. 02:24:21.600 --> 02:24:26.640So I might just skip the whole Weymouth thing, go all the way down to the Lyme Regis and on to 02:24:26.640 --> 02:24:32.720Cannington. Anyway, enough of my travel. So hopefully, I should get a little bit of jaunt for, 02:24:32.720 --> 02:24:38.480I might be a smaller jaunt. And I'd say this time, the experience has been that the odd jaunts are 02:24:38.480 --> 02:24:44.480really good and the even jaunts are a disaster because jaunt two is terrible. So this time, 02:24:44.560 --> 02:24:48.960I'll make sure. I've got some extra cream, I've taken my extra cream this time, so I don't 02:24:48.960 --> 02:24:54.560repeat what happened with the sunburn. And also, I'm taking warm clothes because last time I didn't 02:24:54.560 --> 02:25:00.000take warm enough clothes and I froze even though it's still early in the year, so it's not too bad, but 02:25:00.000 --> 02:25:07.120yeah. So we'll see, we'll see. The idea is just like a week or so, possibly longer, 02:25:07.120 --> 02:25:12.960depends how I go, but just a week, not like the three-week extrapaganza. I was planning to go 02:25:12.960 --> 02:25:19.120abroad, but I think it'd be too expensive. Also, because I can go to these places out of season, 02:25:19.120 --> 02:25:24.000it makes sense to go to them out of season when it's cheaper and also there's less kids and 02:25:24.000 --> 02:25:30.240shit, you know, so. So I'm going to play out with the track by Katherine Priddy and I was reading 02:25:30.240 --> 02:25:35.760the blurb about her and she's inspired by Nick Drake, which is interesting because she 02:25:35.760 --> 02:25:42.160did one of the best songs on The Endless Coloured Ways, which is a song from Family Tree, which 02:25:42.160 --> 02:25:49.360Family Tree was the release of Nick's tape collection. He used to do a lot of recording on 02:25:49.360 --> 02:25:53.840reel-to-reel tape, I think. I think it's pre-cassette. No, it's about the time the cassette came in, 02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:58.720but I think it's reel-to-reel, quite low quality. And so it's nice to hear this song 02:25:59.360 --> 02:26:08.240in a form that is, yeah, sort of a good production. And yes, I hate to leave a podcast 02:26:08.240 --> 02:26:13.680that's full of mostly joy, you know, more down note, but it was Down By The River. 02:26:13.680 --> 02:26:16.240So this is, I Think They're Leaving Me Behind.

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