RC 394: A Place To Hide

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Hello and welcome to Radio Clash.

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This is 394, and A Place To Hide, and there’s no jingle this time, I thought, well, we’ve

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got this long section from the end is much which I love, I love the fact you’re hearing

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all the Martians here.

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This is iWillBattle with War the Houdinis, Dua Lipa vs Jeff Wayne, War of the Worlds,

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and at the start you heard SpongeBob SquareWave from 2023 that this is one new day you don’t

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want to fuck, which I love the way that sort of chops up that sample.

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I hope you’re all well, I’ve been, oh, I’ve been so busy doing hiking shizzle, so hiking

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YouTube stuff, nearly 500 subscribers now, about sort of 16 away, and I don’t want to

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jinx it because I know I’m just saying this, but like, I’ll probably go down next week,

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it always does.

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And I’ve just posted on my second attempt at the South Downs Way trip where I did 45

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miles, you can find that over at YouTube at @HardUpHiker, just at @HardUpHiker or where

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you’ll find it.

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And yeah, I screwed my knee up, I think maybe I mentioned it in the last podcast, it’s

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taken five, six weeks, and I did about 50 miles for walking last week, including two

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12 mile hikes with the full pack, and I’ve got a video about that next week, but you

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know, I kind of felt I had to kind of build back up again, it’s like, you know, training

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or, you know, recuperation, but it’s taken a very long time and it’s been very annoying

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because I had all these plans and because The Big Freeze finished and everything, warmer

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again and I couldn’t go out, and I was like, now it’s all rains, obviously, we had the

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full spring, and now we’re having the proper spring, which is very wet, so yeah, I meant

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to get this out earlier, and I say it’s just way too, way too busy, the one I did previously

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was a stopgap, I mean that’s the thing with the deep dive shows, they’re very much things

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where I’ve got them and I just want to do a quickie, when I want to do a quickie, yeah,

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and this case with this one is that it’s just been hanging around for the last couple of

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weeks, ready to go, and I’ve just haven’t had time to record it, it’s supposed to have

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been for February, and this is now going to be for March really, and it’s more of a

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mash-up show, but more about clubs, and when the clubs closed down back in the pandemic

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and how I reacted to that, and hence the phrase ‘a place to hide’ is from a song later on

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in the podcast by Antony Szmierek, but we’re going to start in typical fashion, with nothing

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to do with the theme, this is Shades of Fade to Grey, Visage vs Delaney Jane by Sir Hank.

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That had to be Pete Cannon, and Mistrees with their 2023 take of The Streets Blinded By The Lights, and before that was The

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Streets, We Become Heroes, The 9Trane Edit, and that was from 2022.

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I had to have those songs somehow in here in a mashup or remix form, because they’re

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very much about clubbing, and I wasn’t a part of the Acid House Summer.

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I was a bit too young for all the Acid House stuff, but the original Summer of Love, he was

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like five years later and writing about five years before, and now it’s 30 years later.

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Twenty years?

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Yeah.

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I feel old.

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And before that, in honour of the fact that I can’t go to these places anymore, we have

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bis Irrelevant disco from 2022’s System Music for Home Defense, and that’s all about

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seemingly becoming irrelevant, and just wondering if anyone’s out there, which I totally, totally

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get.

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What could that relate to?

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And also, the fact that you can’t afford to go to Tokyo, I can never afford to go to

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Tokyo.

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I probably could have when I was younger, but now you can’t afford to go places that

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you were, and the kind of things move on.

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You know, like Glastonbury.

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I used to go to Glastonbury.

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I can’t afford to go to Glastonbury anymore, which is really sad.

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Then before that, we have, For Those I Love, with I Have a Love, the Overmono remix from

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2021.

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And I didn’t know about that until weirdly, Ivo Graham was talking about, was reviewing

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the Huw Stevens Round Table, the track that I played earlier, the Orbital, and said he

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reminded him of that track, and it was like, I’ve never heard that, and I went and checked

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out the Boiler Room.

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For Those I Love is an Irish poet, and he arrives on stage in the Boiler Room, and he

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is really like, wow, yes, it’s like the whole stage is levitating, and everyone’s just so

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into it.

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It was about his friend who died, so I relate to it in the sense that, you know, it’s also

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I Have a Love of clubbing, and I think that’s also in there as well, but also it’s a very

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specific love for someone else, and love for doing spoken word, and love for doing your

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thing.

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And then before that, we had something that was about the lockdown, that’s Marea (We’ve

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Lost Dancing) vs At Night, Switch Disco Edit, and that’s Fred Again featuring the Blessed

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Madonna, and Switch Disco have mixed in some Shakedown, and that seemed to work really well.

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I mean, again, I wanted to play that, but I played the original, but then I found that

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mashup edit, and I was like, oh, that’s perfect.

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It’s a bit weird, yeah, I haven’t heard of Switch, well, it says Switch Disco, I don’t

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know if that’s Switch, as in the Switch producer, or whether it’s Switch Disco or someone else.

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I’m not totally sure, I’m not sure.

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And then before that, I’ve all mentioned Martin Badder and Antony Szmierek with A Place

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to Hide, from 2023, when I was a single, and he’s doing the Manchester Six Music, another

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thing I can’t go to, the 6Music Festival, which is, you know, quite rightly so.

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We love Antony Szmierek here.

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And then before that, we had, it me, Instamatic, not the winner of the Crumplbanger Challenge,

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but I did actually win that challenge.

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It was a challenge to create phonk mashups, and I had not really come across a genre

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called phonk, which seems to be very much using those tomtoms, you know, those tuned 808 tomtoms.

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Quite often, distortion, and it’s sort of this Memphis thing, but Kordhell, who I mashed

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up there, is actually a British producer.

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And that’s Houdini Fatality, Houdini again, I do like Houdini, it’s a brilliant song,

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Dua Lipa versus Kordhell.

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I’ve done like four or five Kordhell mashups in the last month or so, I’m a big fan of

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his work.

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It’s just a very interesting, it’s a bit like more tempo, witch house, or like stream

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thing.

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There’s, there’s 80s references in there, and they use a lot of samples of Memphis

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rappers quite sped up and you can hardly work out what they are.

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I had fun making them more pop, which is probably against their, against their image with all

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the skulls and all the purple skulls and everything to make it all.

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I did a Whitney Houston one, and I did another one, which I’ll play later on.

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And then before that, we had a mashup, which I missed out on, it was just about three months

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ago, or maybe a bit longer now, at Dunproofin’ with Flash, Green Velvet versus Joey Beltram

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versus Queen.

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Oh, I mean, Green Velvet is about being in a club and looking at all of the naughty

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kiddies doing naughty things.

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Who doesn’t like, you know, Queen meeting Acid House?

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I don’t know, is it Joey, Joey Beltram is more techno, isn’t he?

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Techno.

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So yeah, I like that a lot.

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And then before that, we had Tonight in Belfast, Orbital with David Holmes, Mike Garry doing

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the spoken word and DJ Helen.

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And that was a release at the start of February, which is why I know this mix was kind of inspired

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it, but it was like, yeah, it kind of broke off from there and then I wanted to do a Place

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To Hide and I heard that and went, that’s perfect.

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I wanted to do a whole spoken word club mix, but then it became about a thing, obviously.

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I mean, quite emotional. And interestingly, in a similar sense of hiding, although in

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a different sense, more like looking on headphones and getting away from people, we have Bliss

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by Arab Strap, with the new Arab Strap album, which hasn’t been released yet, or I don’t

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know, maybe it’s been released now, but certainly, I don’t think it has been come out yet.

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But yeah, I really like that a lot.

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That’s really, really cool.

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It’s very much about having to react to people living in a city.

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The whole thing about sitting here, you know, having to shut people off and you put on your

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headphones or go hiking and get away and go camping in the middle of a wood somewhere,

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which is another way of doing it.

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It all relates.

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It all relates.

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And the start is actually just a mashup I really like, although it has a similar mood

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to the Arab Strap mix, Sir Hank, with Shades Of Fade To Gray, Visage versus Delaney Jane.

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I don’t know Delaney Jane, but I love how the interplay of those vocals worked really

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well.

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And that is, I wouldn’t say it’s hard to do, it’s half spotting two combinations that

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work really well.

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And the other one is knowing how to interweave them to make a flow narrative.

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And a lot of people get it wrong, they try and chop it all up and it’s all goes.

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And it’s like, no simple respect when it comes to juxtaposing two things to relate to each

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other.

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It’s best to let them breathe.

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Don’t change it to another diva every 30 seconds.

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And I really hate that.

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And when you’ve got a combination that speaks to both bits, that is a good combination.

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And I feel that about that one.

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So we’re going to change track and play some rock, but I have to say this is something

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I heard via, iWillBattle, iWillBattle does a top 10 or did a top 10 for January.

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I’m not, was it February?

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I don’t know.

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I was in the top 10 for mashups for rock, but I can’t remember if it was end of January

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or early February, but, but yes, I was in the top 10 with a track you’ll hear later.

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But he also played this track by, I originally thought it was by Lewis Wake and I was looking

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at Lewis wake’s Bandcamp.

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Where is it?

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Where is it?

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Where is it?

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And it turns out it’s actually by someone called Lewis Scarole.

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I don’t know them.

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I don’t know if they’re a Mashup Reddit person, but this is really cool because I know DJNoNo

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loves and I love Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly’s Moonlight Shadow.

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And I was thinking there wasn’t enough Moonlight Shadow mashups.

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That’s why DJNoNo did theirs with the Pixies and someone’s done one with Bloc

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Party.

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This is Moonlight Banquet.

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That was one of mine that’s TBC aka Instamatic with ‘The Great Grande in the Sky’ Ariana

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Grande as ‘yes and’, versus ‘Pink Floy’ds The Great Gig in the Sky’, then before that

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I think we’re the best moody mash I’ve heard.

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Well, definitely this year if not in a very long time, that’s ToTom with high times on

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Acid Eiffel With Dying Slaves Of Fear In The Sky, that’s Health versus Yungblud and Lil

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Yachty Pink Floyd versus Choice, and that was the winner in, well, when I won the Phonk

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Challenge, I had to judge one and I chose acid house, and that’s like a 13 minute, nearly

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14 minute acid mash-up epic, and it’s probably the longest mash-up I’ve played in this podcast,

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one of them, and I played almost all of it and just mixed out right at the end and start,

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but it is brilliant, I’m really glad ToTom finished that, it’s really good.

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And then before that we heard Caserta with Lights Off, we had a sort of a Alexa section

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because there was this running joke in the Crumplstock about something which PomDeter

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played, which is shouting ‘Alexa, play Pumped Up Kicks’ at a pork pie, there’s a

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video of just an hour of someone doing that, and he played 17 minutes of that and then

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it became a thing and then I ran with it and did a mash-up during the Crumplstock for

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the phonk challenge, so that was the end of January, that was about a month ago, time flies,

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hence that’s what that comes from. So that was DJNo No’s Phonked Up Kicks, Foster The People

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vs. Kordhell vs. Chin Stroke TV, which is the person who did the shouting at a pork

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pie, but then I thought, well, I wanted to play some Negativland, I was going through

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the Live Brain live Negativland shows I was at in 2020, fortunately they had to cancel the

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one recently because of illness, there’s ‘I’m Going To Sing Now (London 2)’, I was

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there for both of them, I think actually, the Weatherman’s singing, but it’s

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all him interacting with Alexa and Okay Google, so it’s funny how it says, that’s why left

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the drum and bass going, it says, ‘Music of the Spheres’ is 180 beats or whatever, in music

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from the cosmos, 180 beats or more, and it’s like, oh, and then before that, aforementioned

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more ‘Jungle’ really, that’s ‘Mirror Method’ by Charla Green, I’ve really been digging

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Charla Green, Charla Green is a Sheffield Jungle drum bass producer, and yeah, I’m

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really liking what she’s producing, so that’s from 2021, check her out, as she has a bit

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of a quiet YouTube channel where she’s making music from various sound and things, but also

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that one is on Off Me Nut Records, Ian Fondue posted the SpongeBob Squarewave,

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an older one of SpongeBob Squarewave, so thanks to Ian Fondue for that, but then I checked

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out the more recent stuff, and hence the intro thing, and that was all relating to the acid

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challenge, and then before that, we had Shahar Varshal with, as it was like heaven, The Cure

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versus Genesis, me and Genesis mashup, so yes, versus Ultravox versus Harry

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Styles, I love that Harry Styles song, I love the Genesis song, but yeah, that

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works pretty well, I mean, you know, I was talking about how things have to have a narrative

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flow or whatever, but they don’t necessarily have to be too chin-strokey or a little bit

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more chop and change, but it’s still, you know, The Cure goes really well with Genesis,

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The Ultravox and Harry Styles, it has a similar mood, or there’s a connection

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there between them, like telling a story, like with a ToTom, finding very disparate things

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that sound similar, and have a similar vibe, I’m going to tell a story, that’s what a

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good multi-mash is, but so many people don’t do it probably, and then at the start section

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we had Lewis Scarole with Mike Oldfield, Moonlight Shadow versus Bloc Party, is it ‘Helicopter’,

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I forget the name of that one, I think it’s ‘Helicopter’, I should know, 2004, 20 years

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ago, again, fitting old, fitting old, so, you know, play a track from Adriana A’s album,

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Adriana she released a album right at the end of 2023 of a collection of mashups created

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over the last year, and there were a lot are related to challenges I think, and it’s, I

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have tried to say it, it’s ‘Imashionationships’, I can’t say that, and this is, I so loved

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seeing Tracy Chapman at the Grammys, I think I posted about it on the blog, RadioClash.com,

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he sold me on Luke Combs really, because before I was a bit like, who is this person,

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kind of dimly knew the name, very big in country, but I was like, hmm, who is this person, and

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you can see the respect and love for Tracy that he has in the performance, and how apparently

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they made it so that Tracy had complete veto, complete agreement over the arrangement, it

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was her chance to shine, it was her thing, you know, they made sure it was about her,

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and we could tell just by the way he was on stage that it was deferring to her, almost

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nervous to sing with her, and it obviously meant a lot to him, and a very moving version,

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so this is, I Keep Forgetting You’ve Got A Fast Car, that’s Luke Combs versus Michael

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MacDonald, a bit of, yacht mashing, yacht mashing, yacht folk, is that a thing?

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I don’t know.

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This is Tony Mason-Cox, hItting The Bottom, from Songs in the Key of Z, Vol 3, I didn’t

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realize that I think they were unofficial that Songs in the Key of Z, 1 and 2 were in

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Tuesday.

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I don’t know if 3 and 4 are how official they are, especially 3 which ends on the four

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tracks by a child rapist, which, you know, I was like, hmm, Google, who is this person?

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Oh, there he is in the sexual offender registry in the United States.

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Yeah, lovely. /s

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So I really wouldn’t buy that album, but I love that.

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It’s kind of like existential and also funny at the same time, which is, you know, perfect.

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I’ve been checking out lots of outside in music recently, and I’ve been hearing a lot

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via PDSMix’s Brave New Weird Show, and it’s all inspired me to go and check them out.

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I have to say, I have mixed feelings because I remember the heyday of WFMU, I mean, still

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going, but you know, the 365 Days Project and those compilations being released, you

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know, and finding Shooby Taylor, and there’s all that sort of stuff, early 2000s, and it

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seems like that used most of the pot, apart from the old thing like that one, but a lot

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after the pot of the good tracks. And now there’s this thing so bad it’s good and just

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bad or me. There’s a lot of stuff I hear that’s outside of music. It’s like the next big thing.

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It’s like, you know, it doesn’t, maybe just something happens when you listen to a lot

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of outside of music. It just becomes not as good as it used to be, but I don’t know.

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Then before that, we had KKill_mR_DJ with, I Wasn’t Made For Surprises, Radiohead versus

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Billie Eilish. Yes, I love the Billie Eilish song. So, and that was kind of obvious, perfect.

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And I was like, Oh, why didn’t I think of that? But then again, I don’t think I’d do

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another Radiohead mesh for a while. I’ve been too many of them. I’ve certainly done several

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so no surprises ones. Then before that, we had iWillBattle with I Lose Control Of You,

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Teddy Swims, which is currently in the charts, I think, versus Nina Simone, who isn’t the

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currently in the charts, but should be. I lose control and I put a spell on you. That

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works very well. Then before that, we had from 1975, the B side of You Sexy Thing is

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the proof of the Hot Chocolate were nore than You Sexy Thing. That’s A Warm Smile that was

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written and performed by the other members of the band. So not Errol Brown, a beautiful

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song and a couple of theirs are really good. Really, I’ve been banging on for ages about

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Hot Chocolate and how you know, I’ve been diving into the B sides and stuff and how they kind

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of got known as being this novelty disco funk act. Every 1’S A Winner. YOu Sexy Thing in

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a very pop disco funk, but they were much, much more from day one. Then before that,

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we had a track kind of by me kind of not that’s TBC aka Instamatic with Boulevard of Broken

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Dreamcoat Green Day versus Boards of Canada. But originally that was done by Reborn Identity

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Gavin in 2008. And I found that version. I was like, this is good, but you know, I want

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the high quality version. So I made it myself. But then I made it different by adding in

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all of the bits of that’s Billie Joe Armstrong at five years old. He recorded a single Live

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To Love, I think it was. And I think one of the Green Day albums, they had a little bit

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of it of the interview on the B side, I used a lot more of it. Boards of Canada Chromakey

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Dreamcoat is the backing. And there aren’t that many mashups of Campfire Headphase at

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all. And there should be a lot more and heard that one and I was ahh. And I also extended it. He didn’t

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do the end section. So it’s, it’s called a Reborn Identity Mostly Reboot because I

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did bits, but it’s, I don’t know. I hate it when people add a little bit and then they

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go, Oh, this is mine. It’s like, that’s not right. Really, you have to completely change

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it or, you know, do the inverse or I even sideeye inverses. If you, if it’s a well

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known combo, just to do an inverse is lazy. I think you really have to nod to somebody.

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If you take their idea and just reverse it, you know, I think flip in reverse it, but

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I know some people would disagree, ‘who did it first?” But it’s just like really, you

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know, the person came out with a combo. You’re just flipping it. Is that really? Yeah. So

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yeah, that’s why I had to credit that because, you know, it’s mostly Reborn Identity’s, but

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you know, I sped it up and did it my way. So it is kind of my take on it. I don’t think

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you can find the original out there. I was looking for it looking for a high quality

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version because I said the version I had was 192 kilobits second. Yeah. Ooh, quality so

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I couldn’t find one. I was like, Oh, I’ll make it. And then, and then I asked Reborn Identity

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whether I could release that and Gavin said yes. So he was very good about it. So brilliant.

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But yes, it seems to have not been making mashups anymore, sadly. And then before that,

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we had Adriana A with, I Keep Forgetting You Got A Fast Car, Luke Combs versus Michael

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McDonald. Yacht folk is a thing. So we reached the end of the podcast. It’s been a weird

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one because as I say, this has been on on this has been in the stack for last at least

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two to three weeks. I just haven’t had time because I’ve been training, training for hiking

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and trying to get my knee working. And I’m going out and doing a group video in a couple

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of weeks or just under us about a week and a half with some YouTube people, hiking YouTube

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people. So I was like, Oh, I really want to make sure everything’s, you know, my knees

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are okay. It sounds like actually there isn’t going to be a long hike, but I didn’t want

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to let anyone down. That’s going to be fun. And I’m going to go back to South Downs Way

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in the next couple of days, hopefully, since my tent repairs dry, head off to Cocking to

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do the Winchester, Cocking to Winchester part. So it’s thirty three miles I last read. It’s 33

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miles. I think that should be all right and do that in about probably not three days.

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I’m not going to rush it this time. So however long it takes, it won’t take a week, but

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it’ll probably take about three or four days, I think, because my tests say that my knees

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fine for at least 12 miles and I’ll be a bit less going up and down hills. And maybe hills

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will be a problem. I’m hoping that’s not true. But we’ll see. So I’ve been trying to treat

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my knee as gently as possible, but you have to kind of use it. You have to keep moving

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and you have to push that envelope of your stock when it’s hurting, but then just see

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how far you can take it. Otherwise, you’re just stuck at home not doing anything and it doesn’t

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get any better. So that’s the weird thing about knees and leg injuries. You have to

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exercise them even if they’re a bit painful or achy, but not so it’s sharp stabby pain.

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It’s kind of a difference between sharp, like we need stop now. And then this is sort of

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the achy and it went a bit backward recently and a walk a couple of days ago, I did like

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four miles and it was like, ouch okay. But I’ve been trying to regularly walk each day

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or so normally resting if it really hurts. And you’re doing like three, four miles a

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day. But we just lose weight and partly just to kind of keep the knee going until I do

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hiking. Otherwise, what happens is you do a long 50 odd miles in a week and then you

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stop and then the knee kind of just goes back to where it was before it locks up a bit,

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you know, so you have to kind of keep exercising it, use it or lose it. So I’m going to play

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out with the track by Flanagan and Allen. This is one of the ones that’s been in and

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out of various podcasts, but I love it greatly. It’s from, I don’t know, is it in 1960, not

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a camera exactly when it came out with it was 1950s or 1960s [1940!]. So this is, Are You Having

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Any Fun? And you probably know it more from other people like Tony Bennett or Morecambe &

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Wise covering it. And yeah, this is Flanagan and Allen. Yes, ‘Underneath The Arches’. This

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is them doing. Are You Having Any Fun?