RC 387: Down By The River (Abhainn)

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash this is 387 and it’s Down By The River, Abhainn as they say in Irish

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And that was, well, me,

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Bitch Queen Roar, Meredith Brooks versus Katy Perry versus Taylor Swift versus Abba.

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Yeah, that’s become a bit of an answer for me. I mean, that Katy Perry, right in the verse about

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didn’t speak up, and I let them walk all over me. Yes, is me. As they say in Drag Queen World,

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when haters is gonna hate, just become more fabulous. And then, at the start of the section,

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we had the person who exclusively played the demo of that mashup on their Twitch stream,

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that’s iWillBattle, I Believe In A Bad Idea, Olivia Rodrigo’s new single versus

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The Darkness. I Believe In A Thing Called Love, and it was a weird time when I heard that,

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because not only do I know, because I’ve been watching Justin Hawkins Rides Again, and I

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had to, I’m not a big Darkness fan, but if you like Rick Beato, and that kind of music criticism,

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and talking about the industry, you’re loved Justin Hawkins Rides Again, except he’s less

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technical, more all over the shop, but very passionate views, and I do like that a lot.

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I think he’s a fan of Olivia Rodrigo, so I said to Will, send it over, send it to him. I think

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you’ll love it. That works so well. And I did have a look at the new single, and I quite like

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Bad Idea, but I couldn’t think of anything to work with it. When I heard that, I was like, oh,

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perfect. That works really well. So the histronic nature of the Olivia works well with The Darkness,

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which is, you need a kind of histronic vocal for a Darkness mashup. It’s, you know, that’s

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what The Darkness do. And at the start, we had ToTom’s Jingle for Radio Clash, Bullshit Opportunities

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in Drum and Bass, and yes, this is 387. It’s the Down by the River podcast, or I even learned how

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to say River in Irish is Abhainn. If there are any Irish listeners who are like, you said that wrong,

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Abhainn, because there is a Irish link to this podcast. Not only do we have Irish music later on

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and throughout the podcast, I’ve been doing my Ancestry shizzle. I’m doing a DNA test. That’s

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not going to come out for a while. There will be secrets, and my family is just a hot mess.

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Not in a bad way, but a bunch of troublemakers and also a shitload of secrets and blended like

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our family breaks genealogy of websites because they can’t really cope with all the

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parents with multiple marriages, half siblings, and then you throw in my mother who

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was adopted. You just get to the slide at that point and you’re like, yeah. So I’m doing that.

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I mentioned it before that it’s a bit further back than I thought it was, but I do have Irish

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heritage. I know cliche, I should be American. Oh, I’m Irish. No, no, it’s, but my great-great

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grandmother’s parents were from Offaly. There were Offaly nice people. They were from Kings

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County as it’s then. It’s now called County Offaly. And on the other side of the divide,

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my grand uncle, I think that’s right, married a woman whose parents were from Ulster. And so,

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yeah, I know I’ve said it, I’ve joked with them before. We have UDA and IRA in my family. That

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wasn’t a joke. You do know that. It’s not a joke. It wasn’t a joke. Anyway, luckily I don’t know them,

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but yeah, there is, I tell them we’re troublemakers. It’s interesting formalizing that, but all the

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other stuff that I’m finding in pictures, pictures of my, I so-so like my, I think my great-great

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grand uncle is very cute. I think three greats. It gets complicated with outside the family.

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Even like changing names, I’ve got a bunch of them that they didn’t marry. So they took some of them,

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took the mom’s name. I think all the women of that family took the mom’s name, but then the

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boys all took the father’s name. You know, that is a nightmare. But anyway, so we have an Irish

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team podcast. We’ve got some folk in here later on. I know some of you will be loving that.

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A whole bunch of mashups, Electronica, and I’m about to go off on holiday. So this podcast has

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been recorded a bit in a hurry because I don’t know when I’ll get to do another one because

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I’m going to go away for probably about at least a week. It might be longer, but I’m just sort of

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doing all the packing shit at the moment. And we know how stressful that was last time. So I’m

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actually doing a spreadsheet this time. We’re going to see if that makes it easier. It probably

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won’t. So in April, it was 25 years since the release of Music Has the Right to Children. And

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Ian Fondue reminded me of that fact on Facebook today? And I was like, oh, I really must put a

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Boards of Canada track in there. And it’s interesting. I have played fair bit from Boards of Canada,

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but not this song, which I was quite surprised. And I have to say that album when it came out in

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1928 was a really important one to me. And it still hasn’t really been beaten. I mean, the only

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people have maybe come closer are Boards of Canada themselves. And I think a lot of people have

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tried. I mean, look at Wikipedia, they mentioned people as a list of people I love, like Lone

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and Ulrich Schnauss and FourTet and a bunch of people that you’ve put you’ve heard on this podcast

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a lot. But you know, much as I love those people, there is only one Boards of Canada. So this is

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Telephasic Workshop, the Telephasic Workshop. Too much rum and coke.

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I do like indie dance, so I miss indie dance.

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That’s sort of an electro, a bit Section 25 as well. That’s Make A Dance featuring DEADLETTER,

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Line The Cows, Make A Dance remix, and I had another track of theirs on 6Music, and

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you’ll probably hear that a little bit later on, it’s more sort of punky,

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indie. They are from Sheffield, maybe not from Sheffield, it was South Yorkshire. They’re from South

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Yorkshire. Got to be right with our geography, with ancestry. It’s fun, it’s like naming differences

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between things. And that came out in 2022. You find that on their Bandcamp account, or Make A Dance

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Bandcamp account, you find it via DEADLETTER’s Bandcamp account, I think. And then before that we had

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Antony Szmierek, that has been rinsed incredibly so by 6Music, but you know, I know I don’t like

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to duplicate, but sometimes you have to repeat because it’s good. And it mentions rivers as well.

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Having explained the river theme down by the river, I actually weirdly am not playing Down By The

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River by Neil Young. I tried to find a cover I liked, and it wasn’t Big Bad, but I couldn’t really

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find one. But most is because I’ve been working down the river doing my usual artworks. It’s not

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down, it’s kind of a pun, it’s not down as interpressing. Although, you know, maybe later on. But no,

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mostly, ironically, through something called down by the river, this is actually quite a joyful

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podcast. And a reference to Nick Drake, because I’m listening to a lot of the recent compilation

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I’ve played some of the tracks from last time. And they’ll crop up again later. But yeah,

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there’s a Pseudo River theme and also a Pseudo Irish theme. I’ve only played one Irish track so far,

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which is, yeah, yeah. Later on, later on, later on. And then before that, we had the not Irish,

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but certainly very outspoken Miss Tony with Frank Ski, that’s yes. And that’s from Bitch

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Track II, the follow up to Tony’s Bitch Track, the one I used in the mashup recently. So when I was

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digging around for that, I found that one. Oh, definitely. Why have I not played this in the

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podcast? And then before that, we had John Rocca with I Want To Be Real, Late Night Tuff Guy edit.

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I like that a lot. A recent edit of John Rocca. And I didn’t know about that song. It was kind of

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post-freeze. He did some solo singles, not many. I want them was I want it to be real.

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I like they’re almost like speaking spelly type. I want it to be real, real, real. You can tell it’s

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like 1984, 83, 84. You can tell, you know, with a real, real, real, you know, playing the chorus

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up and down the keyboard without smashed glass. That’s basically 1984. That’s the music of 1984

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on a nutshell. But yeah, no, I like that a lot. And I do like Deep House. I mean, getting more into

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Deep House, I’ve never not into Deep House. I was to Deep House back in the day when it wasn’t called

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Deep House. I mean, Deep House is a fairly new name for it. At the time, it was just

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House, you know, and later on, there’s all these different variants. But certain stuff I

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like was more soulful, sort of lower base, that sort of Deep House template. That’s the house I

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liked. So, you know, naturally, I go for what people call Deep House now. And then before that,

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not Deep House, we had Captain Obvious (me) with Manic Cupid. Weirdly, never played that on the

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podcast. And I’m FIFTY FIFTY are having a moment because the excellent track in the Barbie movie,

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I did a mashup of that track. I was going to play it. I took it out because we don’t do the obvious

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on this podcast. You know, it might be good for business. It might be good for the brand.

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My everyone’s talking about Barbie. When I did the mashup, it was just coming out. I knew it

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be the big thing that it is. I’ve still not seen it. You know, whenever I was talking about it,

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I go and do something else. I’m not interested in constantly talking about it. This is why I’m not more

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successful. I just wander off of and do something else because I’m not interested in bashing on about

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Barbie and promoting Barbie’s movie, promoting it for Mattel or the film studio. I’m not interested

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in that. It’s not my thing at all. You know, I don’t mind sort of, you know, jumping on that little…

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It wasn’t a bandwagon because I was one of the first people to mash that Barbie Dreams track by FIFTY FIFTY.

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So, I wasn’t really jumping on a bandwagon, per se, because no one was jumping on that bandwagon

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then. But now, you know, so many people have done Barbie things. It’s all a bit like me.

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Yeah, I’m bored with Barbie now. So, that’s FIFTY FIFTY versus The Bangles. If you haven’t heard

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Cupid, it’s one of the best tracks of the year. I’m a total FIFTY FIFTY stan now. I think they want

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to release like six tracks and I just don’t get Blackpink and the other K-Bop acts. I don’t really

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get BTS or any of those things. They’re the first one I’ve gone, yeah, I get you. I get you. I

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like you. So, yeah, I’m very much a FIFTY FIFTY stan, which is why I’ve done two mashups of them.

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And then, before that, we had Irish bootlegger, ah! Alan Hurley, with Your Monkeys Like Heaven to Touch,

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Engelbert Humperdinck versus Pixies. That’s from his new album, Pock Rops, part of the Rock Pops

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series. And some really good things on that, but that’s my favourite. It’s weird when Will was

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going to play some bits from it and he was like, anybody, do things stand out. I hadn’t even heard

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I went Engelbert Humperdinck. Yeah, it’s just a skill of mine. I’m that sad. I can look at

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track lists of mashups and go, that’ll work, that’ll work, that won’t work, that won’t work,

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that won’t work. I’ve just been doing it for 20 years. And just look at them and go, in my head,

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I can hear the combination. Sometimes you listen to it and go, oh, it’s the reverse. Oh, I wouldn’t

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want to do that way. That’s quite good. Or quite often, oh dear. I usually know within a very

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short period whether something is, I’ll look at the combination and go, ooh, and then I’ll listen

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to a brief bit of Engelbert and go, yes or no. Sorry, mashup people. You’ve laboured for hours

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on your Epic to make sure every part is thing. But yeah, I just go a minute in and I’m like,

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you know, and then if he gets a rewind, this is good, I need to play this again,

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in full listening to all of it, it’s good. If it’s interesting, but I don’t necessarily

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get it. That doesn’t mean it gets thrown away. What happens is it goes into my iPod pile.

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There is one track in that section, which was just before that, which was MarkJMix

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together Celestial, Ed Sheeran versus The Farm versus Chumbawamba vs Aerosmith.

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And that’s one of those because I quite liked it, but I wasn’t like merely grabbed by it.

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But then it started haunting me on my iPod and I went, no, this is actually, I’m aware that sometimes

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things go from being sleeper hits and mashups. And that’s one of those. I love that greatly.

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It works really well. I wasn’t aware of the Ed Sheeran Celestial track. I didn’t know it was

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a Pokemon movie track. It’s from last year. He does mention Pokemon in the lyrics,

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but I was like a bit of Pachelbel. Pachelbel’s Canon, which is what The

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Farm’s all together now is based on. And I’ve used that in mashups before. It’s got a joyful feel

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and that’s one of the best things from MarkJMix ever. And I can’t remember what it came out.

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I’ve got a feeling it was either early 2023 or late 2022. It’s been around for a while,

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but I like that greatly. It has all is not lost if you do a mashup. And I don’t know,

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it’s not instance. And, you know, we don’t just play bangers on this, on this podcast we play.

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A mixture of things. I mean, I should say that I’m over from Boards of Canada and John Rocca

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and Frank Ski and some mashups and all over the place, but I’m just showing off. But yes,

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so now we’re going to play a, I say drama based mashup. I mean, it’s by Lee Spoons. It has to

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be drum and bass, but it’s also a winner of one of the Crumplbanger challenges. And I think you

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had to do tracks that were around before your birthday for the challenge. I think it was Peggy

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P. I’m not sure who said that child. So what he did was do a jungle track based around tunes

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from 1975, which was his birthday, but obviously before his birth. And it’s,

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That was DEADLETTER as mentioned earlier in the podcast, dEgenerate Inanimate, that’s the one

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there, playing alot on 6Music, I think where I first heard it. Tom Robinson filling in for

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Steve Lamacq played that and I was like, oh, I went into the back catalog and I would say

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one to watch, definitely. I like the use of words, you know, it’s not often you say, oh yeah,

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I like that wordplay, but I do like that wordplay a lot. And then before that, we had DubXanne

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with Girls Just Want To Have Fun, well it’s really Boys Just Want To Have Fun, featuring Denham. I

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love the gender switching in that, that’s brilliant and that’s from Pop Wave In Dub that came out in

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the year. And before that, we had a measure that’s been around for a while and it’s one of those

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always the bridemaid tracks that’s Minor Arth with the Edge Of Sloop John B. It fits the sort

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of watery river theme sort of. That’s the Beach Boys versus Panda Bear and Sonic Boom. I didn’t

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know Panda Bear and Sonic Boom did an album together, I think two albums together. Well,

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one was produced by Sonic Boom and then they did a collab album together. I’ve had bits of it,

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I need to listen to it properly. It’s weird, you hear something in the mashup and you go, oh,

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that sounds really good and you don’t listen to the actual thing, something’s missing.

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And that’s a sign of a good mashup that sounds actually gone. Oh, well that sounds, I mean,

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obviously Panda Bear, it’s not a massive stretch. I mean, everyone said Panda Bear

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is ripping off Beach Boys, especially with Panda Bear’s vocals. Yes, it’s not news,

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but it turns out, yeah, what’s missing from Panda Bear is the Beach Boys stuff. Who knew?

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But it works really well. And then before that, we had, yeah, more FIFTY FIFTY stans,

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that’s Loving Me. I think, I’m not sure, it’s hard to say what that’s all about. It seems to be about

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loving yourself, which is a very Lizzo, I shouldn’t mention Lizzo, should I? It would have been a

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very Lizzo thing to do. Apparently, loving yourself in the case of Lizzo is more hating

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other people. I agree with spite being a motivator, but that’s not really the message she was putting

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out, so yeah. Yeah, I think it’s about loving yourself, and I’d go with that message entirely.

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I’ve said before, not enough songs that’ve got a little spoken word bits in them. The spoken word

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revival, not, I mean, fucking, oh please no, not poetry slam shit. I mean, spoken word bits in

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song revival starts here. If it happens, you can blame it on me. Then before that, we had

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Chain Pigs, Black Sabbath versus Fleetwood Mac, that’s Danny Macabre originally, and it’s a collab with

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iWillBattle, because iWillBattle played it, the original mashup. There was a third thing in there.

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Both of us went, that doesn’t work, but that idea is brilliant. And nice to see Will went and worked

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with Danny Macabre in doing a new version, or I kind of, maybe it’s a reboot. I’m not sure how it

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happened, but sometimes reboots are good. I know there was a big debate about reboots,

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but sometimes reboots are for good. And yeah, it’s good to play a Danny Macabre track on the

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podcast. I want to watch it again. Then before that, we had, and I can’t believe this happened,

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I was watching Rick Beato. He did a really good interview with Daniel Lanois. Daniel Lanois

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did not mention his Venetian Snares album. I am disappointed in that, because I would

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say in every five seconds saying, you know, fuck U2, I don’t care about U2.

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I worked with Venetian Snares. In 2018, he did, and this is not even a lockdown album. It sounds

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like a lockdown album. This is 2018. He went and worked with Venetian Snares, Aaron Funk. So

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you have those slide guitars and very Lanois touches, and then it goes into the classic Venetian

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Snare’s. He’d heard his, I’m not going to say the Rossz album, the Hungarian album, it’s easy to say.

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by Venetian Snares, I love that. Quite rightly so. It’s an amazing album. I’m not sure it totally

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works, but I love the fact that they did that. It’s called Night Mxcmpv1 P74. Yeah, it’s like

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the Apex Twin naming schema, isn’t it? And yeah, it’s very much similar to that. It’s like slide

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guitar. Oh, It’s A Blue Day. You know, you know, Apollo. Here we go. And suddenly, you know, Venetian

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Snares crashes in. I do wonder how they worked because I’m pretty sure Venetian Snares works in

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MED or works in a tracker system. He might not do that now, but he used to. I have this weird image

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of Venetian Snares showing him an Amiga going, I do it on this and him going, what? I just got that

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metal image. It makes me laugh. It’s an interesting album. Check it out. And I love the fact that

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he went, I don’t know this music. This is completely beyond my experience. I must go and

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and that’s how he learns. He goes and works with people and goes, this is a new thing. I’m not

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going to run away from it. I want to know more about this. That’s how he’s still, you know,

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in demand as a producer today and as an artist. And then before that, we have The Way We Were In

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75. And I’ve actually tagged ir, wasn’t in the original. I’ve actually tagged every single artist

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in this. It took me ages and it’s the longest tag name in my library in probably in history.

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Well not in history. Gladys Night and THe Pips versus Windsor Davies and Don Estelle.

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That was the Jungle bit. Johnny Nash, Wings, Kraftwerk, Judge Dread, The Stylistics, Eric Clapton,

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10cc, the Goonies, Judy Collins, and anyone who knows me. No, maybe not last bit.

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I love the fact that he obviously got the bass, I think, from Judge Dread. That might be the

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vocal bits. But I think it’s The Stylistics is that little rave style, but he just took one of the

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horn sections and uses a classic, classic rave jungle technique. Yeah. So it’s like plunderphonics.

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It’s plunderphonics, jungle, that kind of like nostalgic jungle, plunderphonic. I heard a lot

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more, please, from Lee. Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons. Please, more of that, please. I love that.

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I love that because it’s a bit similar to his mixtapes, hasn’t it? He does his shows on

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is it, I forget the name of the radio stations. It’s noise box radio, something that I probably

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remember that wrong. And kind of similar, but not as layered. And I like that layering. I haven’t

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heard that from Lee before, but he does rhyme me on some of the chaotic, wonderfully chaotic mixes

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he did, although they’re more like A versus B versus C. There wasn’t like that level of

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medley layering and plundafonicness. And yeah, no, I like to hear more of that. I mean, I have to

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say that the Irish stuff is coming. It’s on the bus. It’s just late. I feel bad for trailing it now.

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I’m like, Tim, why did you trail this stuff when it’s right at the end? Duh, like really.

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So we’re going to play a track. Well, this is Viv Stanshall. And I don’t know where it’s from.

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I think it’s one of the radio flashes, but this is him doing a John Peel impression.

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That was Joni Mitchell, recorded live on the Miles of Aisles record of 1974. That’s The Circle

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Game. Wow, yeah. And yeah, I think I prefer that version. It’s kind of sad because there’s lots of

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recordings, or live recordings, of Joni Mitchell. And she’s always saying, come on,

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sing along. But the problem is, her songs were actually quite hard to sing even for… Well,

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she used to sing when I was five. She didn’t realise that other people can’t sing her songs.

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As if they know them. That’s one of the simpler ones. But that was recorded

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in Los Angeles. And it’s about Neil Young, because apparently, Neil, fellow Canadian,

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Neil Young was very happy. So there is a Neil Young Down By The River link. There is.

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That he’d reached 20, and he couldn’t go to the teeny-bopper clubs, because apparently he had

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age restrictions, which sounds a bit crazy. I had the idea of clubs with age restrictions,

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like, oh, you have to be under 21 or whatever. And he wrote a song about that. And she wrote

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that song as a response saying, what piffle, you know, you’ve got other things you can do.

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It’s not your end of your life at 20. What silly, silly silliness. Yeah, it’s talked to me about

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50. And then one of the Irish tracks, that’s Cara Dillon, who is from…Dungiven in London Derry,

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which, as I say, the… Some part of my family comes from Ulster. So I don’t know where in Ulster.

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Ulster’s a big place. And that’s Blue Mountain River. And that’s from her 2001

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eponymous solo debut, Cara Dillon, which I must have heard back in the day. I’m pretty sure I did,

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because I did know her cover of Black is the Colour, which I played at the start.

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And for some reason, I assumed I played it, because that’s one of my favourite songs of all time.

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And weirdly, I never did. I don’t know what happened there. And that’s a self-penned song

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with Seth Lakeman. And yeah, it’s really, really a beautiful song. Very much about similar to loving

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me about, you know, going out to nature and learning to love yourself in the Blue Mountain River.

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But obviously anything that’s got lyrics about uncertain times is always

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resonating with me at the moment. And before that, we had what’s more Irish than a song in Gaelic

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that’s Clannad with Coinleach Glas An Fhómhair, I think. I looked it up. Yes, you never believe how

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Fhómhair, which is autumn, is spell. It does not look like what it is. And even, I would say,

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Coinleach, being more, you know, a true Scottish, not Coinleach, but, you know, Coinleach.

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It’s not anyway. Glas is glass. But what it means is The Green Fields Of Autumn. And there is a link.

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And I found this when I was actually putting this just recording it. I was like, King of Spain.

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I was reading about County Offaly, otherwise formally known as Kings County, where apparently,

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if it’s true, if the ancestry.co.uk and all people’s trees are lying, which is always a big

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thing. But that said, I do actually know from my dad, we have Irish families. I know that part

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of the family is Irish. My great-great-grandmother, her parents were Irish. I knew there was a link

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there on that side. So it’s not like, oh, shock. I thought it was closer. I knew it wasn’t a grandmother

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because otherwise, I would be off and getting an Irish passport in a fucking millisecond.

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I knew it was further than that. It was a great-great grandmother. But,

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yeah, the King’s County is named after the King of Spain. This is all to do with Jacobite rebellion.

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And it got renamed to Offaly, which is kind of like the original name. It’s not actually the same,

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exactly the same, but the area was an older region. But yeah, that song mentions the King of Spain

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because it’s about a woman, probably. It’s always hard to tell with traditional songs because that’s

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18th century, supporting her lover who’s fighting abroad. I think France. So it suggests it’s probably

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about The Wild Geese who were the Jacobite army who went off to France to fight after The Glorious

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Revolution, in quotes, the invasion, the Dutch invasion, which is what it was. It’s interesting

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how they wrote the history books to say it was a Glorious Revolution. And it was all welcome.

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And it was like, no, if they were totally welcome, why did they bring all of their army with them?

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In many boats. If it was a formality, why would you bring your

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navy with you? Which is what happened a certain year. But because of that, the agreement was they’d

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left. And so it mentions the King of Spain. So I think it’s probably about that sort of

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period. It’s debated, but yeah, it mentions the King of Spain. So that is definitely the King’s

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Counties. There’s a link there. And that’s from Magical Ring from 1983. I could have played the

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original version because that’s not the original version they did. They did on their second ever

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album. I think 1973 or four, somewhere about them, they did a cover. And I prefer the 1983.

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It’s production’s a bit better, but they’re both really, really good. It’s just a haunting song.

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Songs about autumn usually are. I mean, it figures because my favourite song is Autumn Leaves,

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which is very Wistful. And then also wistful was DDir Hank on Drugs. Well, not that title.

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Bad Habits in Hotel California, Eagles versus Ed Sheeran. I think Sir Hank listens to his mashups

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on speakers. Just listen to the start of that mashup. I had noticed that before and I was

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going, why is that panned like that? I think you don’t listen to your mashups on headphones

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Sir Hank. I’m not sure what that was done probably about when Bad Habits came out because

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it seems to be Sir Hank, it seems to mostly seems to work on new pop as it arrives.

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However, which you can all find on remix.audio as he’s uploaded everything he’s done, which is

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amazing. It was hard to find before, as I know from my mashup, which I accidentally rebooted him.

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But yeah, it’s nice to hear all this back catalog of work. And there’s a few bits which

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I accidentally reboot some other things, which is, I hope you didn’t mind that, but if he does,

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he’s actually actually rebooted a few things as well, I’ve noticed. So yeah, it goes around.

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We all do it at some point. Then before that, we had Famous Blue Cable with River Man Featuring

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Feist. That’s from The Endless Coloured Ways. The song was new released back in May.

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And I call my River Man series after that song. It’s very mystical about that song. It’s very

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strange. He was studying English at Cambridge. So I actually worked out where the Lilac Time comes

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from, because I was looking into it, because it’s always struck me as a very interesting phrase,

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but an odd phrase. And a lot of the stuff you look online refers to the Lilac Time, the band

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who were named after it. But they don’t say where it came from. It came from Alfred Noyes. He did a

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song called The Barrel Organ. Well, it’s a poem called The Barrel Organ. And it got made into a song

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called Go Down to Kew in Lilac Time, which the poem mentioned Lilac Time, and that’s the probably

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the earliest I’ve come across it. Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time, and Lilac Time, and Lilac Time,

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Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time. It isn’t far from London. And you shall wander hand in hand with love in

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summer’s wonderland. Go Down To Kew in Lilac Time. It isn’t far from London. Although it says it’s a

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poem, it is written like a song. I don’t know whether that’s the actual song that was influenced me

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anyway. That is where that came from most likely, because it would have studied Alfred Noyes.

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Oh, mad. Yeah, I know of Alfred Noyes, because he wrote a poem which we studied at school called

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The Highwayman, which became the inspiration for the video. And probably this song, but definitely

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the video Fleetwood Mac Everywhere. I want to see with you everywhere that video is when I saw it

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I freaked out like that’s The Highwayman. It’s a fairly, it was a Dark and Stormy Night type

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poem. The story’s quite good. And yeah, it’s the same guy. That’s interesting, because we had

02:18:50.640 –> 02:18:55.840
Fleetwood Mac in this mix as well. It all connects in weird ways. Yeah, I was wondering if it was

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the same Alfred Noyes. So before the Famous Blue Table, we had Joni Mitchell again with the Dawn

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Treader. That’s the 2021 remaster that came out on Song to a Seagull in 1968. And originally it was

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recorded by David Crosby, RIP. And then there’s some thought that the Dawntreader is actually

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about his boat, because he had a boat with which you used to take people out of sailings is likely

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he took Johnny out on that sailing and then you each other. But he got her to sing into the strings

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of a piano. And that meant the problem with his they had to cut off and was very dull. And so

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they’ve been trying to work with that. I think I think that remaster is do some digital techniques

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to bring it bring it out. And it’s not bad. I mean, I’ve heard other versions which are very

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kind of like muffled. Good idea, though, but hard to do. I mean, unless I’m singing very strongly,

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you’re probably not going to reverberate the strings. But yes, he died recently, didn’t he?

02:19:48.000 –> 02:19:54.640
Then before that, we had a very strange but wonderful cover of Enya, who were in who who

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was in Clannad for a short period and is the sister of Clannad. That’s Watermark by Ampersandman.

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And that’s from the PRF Premier Rock Forum monthly series from October 2022. They did Enya. And so

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Watermark is one of my favourite songs. It’s one of my favourite songs of Enya’s.

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And I like how wonky that cover is. But apart from the drums, the drums are terrible. But the fact

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you’re doing like heavy metal version of Enya, and there’s not even the first heavy metal Enya,

02:20:24.560 –> 02:20:28.400
there’s lots of heavy metal Enya surprisingly. There’s a lot of love for Enya in the heavy metal

02:20:28.400 –> 02:20:34.160
community and the rock community. Strangely, you wouldn’t think so. Have I played the Enya versus

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Nirvana? Not sure if I’ve played it on the I think I have. But yeah, there is such things. But I like

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how wonky it is. It sounds like it’s going to fall apart any second. It’s very indie, but

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yeah, it’s charmingly, it’s charmingly falling apart. Then before that I’d put Cara Dillon again,

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as I mentioned before, Black is the Colour from 2001’s Cara Dillon. Then we had another song from

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the Nick Drake compilation that’s Aurora with Pink Moon. I really don’t know what Pink Moon is about.

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That is a really weird song. It’s a really weird album. It’s very apocalyptic. And I’ve looked

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and looked. Unlike the lIlac Time, I’ve looked and looked and I’ve never found that Pink Moon is

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usually a good tidying, a red moon possible. I don’t know who’s alluding to a red moon, but yeah,

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Pink Moon is going to get you. And then before that we had µ-ziq with 1977 from the album

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in 1977, which is a recent release. I heard one of those tracks from Dandelion Radio.

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I didn’t know µ-ziq had an album out. I was like, thank you very much. And then at the start section

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we had Viv Stanshall with doing a John Peel impression. And I’d have to say, yeah, the Dawn

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Treader and all that sea stuff. It’s not supposed to be a river. It’s, I think, me subconsciously

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thinking about going to the cliffs and not the cliffs of Dover and hopefully drawing and painting

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them. I’m planning to go to Kimmeridge and finally maybe do some wild camping. I’m planning to do a

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wild camp on that and finish that connection, that bit that I haven’t done, which is the five miles

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around Swanage to Kimmeridge or around that thing. But this time take my tent with me.

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This is what I was always planning to do. The little tent is very claustrophobic. So I’ve

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actually got a almost the same weight they released a two person one. They just use us both

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with a walking sticks and I’ve got some lighter walking sticks as well. I did promise not to

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spend any more money this year. I was doing that because a lot of the stuff I’m using this

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year I got last year and it’s been a gradual process. I did cave on the tent because like,

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I saw a bargain and it’s not very much. It was a Chinese tent, but it was I think a good buy

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because the problem was that really small one that one person one is if it chucks it down,

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you can’t stay inside it and then you get wet outside. If you’re doing what I’m doing, which is

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sometimes I’ve got a base camp. Sometimes I’m planning to take this home with me and take

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everything with me and walk, which is going to be hard. I’m not planning to do long distance like

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that because with a big pack on it’s quite hard to walk more than a few miles if you’re not used

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to it. But I’ve done it before, but not recently. So it might give me a heart attack. I might die, I don’t

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know, but I think it’ll be all right. But that was always the intention to get the stuff down

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and the weight of things and I had such shitty, shitty equipment. I had such heavy, shitty equipment

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like military rucksacks that didn’t really fit me properly and that kind of thing and I’ve slowly,

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slowly because, you know, you could spend tens of thousands or thousands to try and get this

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sort of equipment and yeah, there’s some ways of doing it like, you know, second hand and all

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sales and Chinese stuff and whatever. But it’s still, you know, you can’t just, you know,

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if you’re getting a down bag or a light tent, you’re not going to get it for 30 quid down the

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market. Unfortunately, when that’s done, hopefully, if I don’t fall off a cliff, I’m going to head

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down to my old stomping ground from last year and to the, you know, Lyme Regis area, Cannington

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site. I’m not sure if I’m going to go to the Weymouth site. I love Eweleaze, but one, it’s rather

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full of kids and two, it’s quite expensive really. I mean, it’s not bad, I suppose, but it’s easy to

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spend a lot of money on site and not know because of the tappy tappy. I want to try and use as much

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as cash as possible this time. It’s convenient, but it’s hard to monitor your spending like that.

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So I might just skip the whole Weymouth thing, go all the way down to the Lyme Regis and on to

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Cannington. Anyway, enough of my travel. So hopefully, I should get a little bit of jaunt for,

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I might be a smaller jaunt. And I’d say this time, the experience has been that the odd jaunts are

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really good and the even jaunts are a disaster because jaunt two is terrible. So this time,

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I’ll make sure. I’ve got some extra cream, I’ve taken my extra cream this time, so I don’t

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repeat what happened with the sunburn. And also, I’m taking warm clothes because last time I didn’t

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take warm enough clothes and I froze even though it’s still early in the year, so it’s not too bad, but

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yeah. So we’ll see, we’ll see. The idea is just like a week or so, possibly longer,

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depends how I go, but just a week, not like the three-week extrapaganza. I was planning to go

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abroad, but I think it’d be too expensive. Also, because I can go to these places out of season,

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it makes sense to go to them out of season when it’s cheaper and also there’s less kids and

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shit, you know, so. So I’m going to play out with the track by Katherine Priddy and I was reading

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the blurb about her and she’s inspired by Nick Drake, which is interesting because she

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did one of the best songs on The Endless Coloured Ways, which is a song from Family Tree, which

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Family Tree was the release of Nick’s tape collection. He used to do a lot of recording on

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reel-to-reel tape, I think. I think it’s pre-cassette. No, it’s about the time the cassette came in,

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but I think it’s reel-to-reel, quite low quality. And so it’s nice to hear this song

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in a form that is, yeah, sort of a good production. And yes, I hate to leave a podcast

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that’s full of mostly joy, you know, more down note, but it was Down By The River.

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So this is, I Think They’re Leaving Me Behind.