Month: April 2024

RIVER iS BEAUTIFUL! Fresh off a long walk along the River Thames - over a 100 miles sweetie - so we have a London and water themed podcast, an imagined soundtrack for my new YouTube video series on the Thames Path - cos I can't afford the rights! And new mashups from me and others and original music as well, and some old classics, And Video Killed The Radio Star? Hope not... Listen to RC 395: River Is Beautiful byRadio Clash on hearthis.at I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly (2:23, 192Mb) The Bran Flakes - Fifty Four Fifty ToToM - I Promise You Flowers, Don't Panic (Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay) HallMighty - Take My Heart Back To London (Ed Sheeran & Stormzy vs Pet Shop Boys) Captain Obvious - Murder Everywhere On The Dancefloor (Sophie Ellis Bextor vs Fleetwood Mac) Minor Arth - Video Killed Digital Love (Daft Punk vs The Buggles) Mighty Mike - Time killed the radio star (Cyndi Lauper vs The Buggles) Minor Arth - Andromeda's Teardrops (Womack & Womack vs Gorillaz vs DRAM) Overmono - Bby Bicep - Water (featuring Clara La San) HallMighty (ft Lady T) - The Rhythm Phoenix City All-stars - London Calling The Unusuals - I'm Walking, Babe oki - walk idiot don't stop (the hives vs. fleetwood mac) London Elektricity - Possible Worlds (feat. Inja) Charla Green - Babylon Fall Men - Who Am I To Feel So Free Bluey - Creek is Beautiful! Solange - Cranes in the Sky Kae Tempest - Bad Place For A Good Time Billy Nomates - saboteur forcefield The Handless Organist - Turn Your Radio On Gorillaz - The Lost Chord (feat. Leee John) The Revolutionaries - Kunta Kinte (Dub Plate Version 2) HallMighty - Hurt Me Under The Bridge (RHCP vs K'Naan ft Robbie Williams & The Beatles) Working Men's Club - Circumference ToToM - Everybody Would Drown and Y.O.U.D. Too (How To Destroy Angels and Billie Eilish vs. Culoe De Song) Danny Macabre - Vampire Creep (Olivia Rodrigo vs Radiohead) ah! - Black Frog Peace Swan (The Doors vs Thom Yorke) iWillBattle - Feeling Beautiful Good Things (Benson Boone x Muse) Goldie & The Gingerbreads - Walking In Different Circles tbc aka Instamatic - Whisper Forever (George Michael vs The Spice Girls) 10000 Spoons - Chariots Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles vs Vangelis) Transcript WEBVTT 00:04:07.600 --> 00:04:14.600Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom, 00:04:14.600 --> 00:04:16.360for making a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.040Making me play a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.600Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash. 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:29.600After I said I really can't stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:34.880song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don't Panic. 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:42.720Yeah, all the feels, that's I Promise You Flowers, Don't Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay. 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:49.800And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016's Ultimate Hits, which 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:51.600I missed, I somehow missed. 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.440I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn't know about that 00:04:56.440 --> 00:04:57.440one. 00:04:57.440 --> 00:05:00.080I was checking out the discography and went, "What's this?" 00:05:00.080 --> 00:05:04.600And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I'd heard before, so it's like 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.920a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that. 00:05:07.920 --> 00:05:11.320And yes, it's called River is Beautiful because I've been walking the Thames path, I spent 00:05:11.320 --> 00:05:14.440two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path. 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:17.800I'm not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it's a bit spoilers, spoilers 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:18.800sweetie, spoilers. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:29.920But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it, 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:34.640to more than halfway, and it's 200 miles, so a lot of walking. 00:05:34.640 --> 00:05:40.080And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can't afford the 00:05:40.080 --> 00:05:41.080copyright. 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:45.600I can't afford the musical rights to any of these songs. 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:50.320So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn't listening to music. 00:05:50.320 --> 00:05:57.840This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack 00:05:57.840 --> 00:06:00.200for the Thames Path series. 00:06:00.200 --> 00:06:04.160It's going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out. 00:06:04.160 --> 00:06:06.000I'm just editing it at the moment. 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:11.240And yeah, there's a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based. 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:17.680And yes, if I could license any music, there'd be some of these in that video, but I can't. 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:20.320So talking of London, we can play a track by Hallmighty. 00:06:20.320 --> 00:06:23.220This is, surprise I've not played this. 00:06:23.220 --> 00:06:28.640This is from 2023, Hallmighty Presents, Disco Deluxe 6. 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:33.440This is Take My Heart Back to London, Ed Sheeran versus Stormzy versus Pet Shop Boys. 00:37:23.720 --> 00:37:30.400That was Hallmighty featuring Lady Tea, with his first ever original track. 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:31.400That's 'The Rhythm'. 00:37:31.400 --> 00:37:33.080I like that a lot. 00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:37.720It's a good slice of disco, modern disco. 00:37:37.720 --> 00:37:41.320And then before that we had, yeah, more of that sort of river section. 00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:47.520That's 'Water' featuring Clara La San by Bicep from 2022. 00:37:47.520 --> 00:37:52.760Then before that Overmono with 'BBY' from 2029. 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:54.680And then before that we had Minor Arth 00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:57.880We had two Minor Arth tracks in that mix, actually. 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:02.560There's 'Andromedas Teardrops', Womack and Womacn versus Gorillaz versus D-RAM or 00:38:02.560 --> 00:38:06.080DRAM, I don't know how you say that, a very recent mashup. 00:38:06.080 --> 00:38:12.200I'm not really up on Gorillaz and I've been hearing the odd thing that has used tracks 00:38:12.200 --> 00:38:15.000and I've really liked the track they use. 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.200So I have one later in the podcast, which is one of those, it's like, "Oh, actually, 00:38:19.200 --> 00:38:20.200I've not heard that. 00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:22.200I recognise that vocalist. 00:38:22.200 --> 00:38:23.960I must have this." 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:30.280And of course, you know, 'Teardrop' is a classic and it's apparently namedropped in the Andromeda 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:31.280track. 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:36.640Then before that, the theme of mine is 'Video Killed the Radio Star', for kind of obvious 00:38:36.640 --> 00:38:42.040reasons I would say, though I never was a radio star. 00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:43.640Video killed the radio unknown. 00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:52.200But yeah, there's very much a thing with YouTube taking on my time that I don't really spend 00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:53.200the time. 00:38:53.200 --> 00:39:01.240I should do with the podcast and other things, blog and etc. are very neglected at the moment, 00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:02.240which is very bad. 00:39:02.240 --> 00:39:05.920But you know, it's kind of like, that's the way with YouTube. 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:07.000You have to be very much all in. 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:10.520You can't just do half cock, really. 00:39:10.520 --> 00:39:13.760So that's Mighty Mike with 'Time Killed the Radio Star'. 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:18.440That's Cyndi Lauper'versus 'Buggles'. 00:39:18.440 --> 00:39:23.040And before that, we had 'Video Killed Digital Love', Daftpunk versus 'The Buggles' by 00:39:23.040 --> 00:39:24.040Minor Arth 00:39:24.040 --> 00:39:27.240Again, another new-ish mash. 00:39:27.240 --> 00:39:31.960And then before that, we had one of me that was kept an obvious with, because everyone's 00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:35.800doing Murder on the Dancefloor mashups because of Saltburn. 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:39.040Even though I've never seen Saltburn, it was for a challenge actually. 00:39:39.040 --> 00:39:43.440I didn't win the challenge, but hey, that's 'Murder Everywhere' on the dancefloor. 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.440Sophie Ellis Bexter versus Fleetwood Mac 00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:48.440Yes, me doing a Fleetwood Mac mashup. 00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:49.440Surprise! 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:50.440Much surprise. 00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:54.160And then before the start of that section, we had Hallmighty with 'Take My Heart Back 00:39:54.160 --> 00:39:57.880to London' Ed Sheeran and 'Stormzy' versus Pet Shop Boys. 00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:02.560Yes, I'd love to have stuff like, you know, 'Bicep' in my video. 00:40:02.560 --> 00:40:06.560I just have to use an AI knock-offs of that kind of thing. 00:40:06.560 --> 00:40:09.000Unfortunately, yes, it's sad. 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:10.000It's sad. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:18.640So, we're going to play another London-related track, which is 'London Calling' by The Clash. 00:40:18.640 --> 00:40:19.880Hey, we're Radio Clash. 00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:22.320We have to play Clash tunes it's in the rules 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:26.320And this is Phoenix City All-Stars, their version of 'London Calling'. 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:24.020That was men, not just 01:02:24.020 --> 01:02:26.520any old men, we're just innocent men. 01:02:26.520 --> 01:02:34.120Now, MEN, J.D. Samson's band from 2011, that's "Who Am I to Feel So Free?" which I know from 01:02:34.120 --> 01:02:38.720Duckie I'd heard it from Duckie and I heard it again through checking out what J.D. Samson 01:02:38.720 --> 01:02:42.040had been up to and I was like, "Oh, I know that song. 01:02:42.040 --> 01:02:45.280Always good to play some queer indy disco. 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.480Always a pleasure in this podcast." 01:02:47.480 --> 01:02:51.180The whole thing that I always love to play is also Jungle, so we had Charla Green 01:02:51.180 --> 01:02:55.560with Babylon Fall from 2020, not from London, from Sheffield, but yeah. 01:02:55.560 --> 01:02:57.360Before that, we had some London Elektricity. 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:02.240I mean, how could we do a London podcast without some London Elektricity? 01:03:02.240 --> 01:03:03.240It's impossible. 01:03:03.240 --> 01:03:04.240We can't. 01:03:04.240 --> 01:03:05.240We cannot. 01:03:05.240 --> 01:03:06.240We cannot. 01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:07.240We cannot. 01:03:07.240 --> 01:03:08.640We cannot have a London podcast without London Elektricity. 01:03:08.640 --> 01:03:13.920And that's from 2019's "Building Better Worlds." 01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:15.680That's "Possible Worlds" featuring Inja. 01:03:15.680 --> 01:03:19.280I haven't played a remix of that, but I haven't played the original weirdly. 01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:23.920And then we had Oki's "Walk Idiot, Don't Stop." 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:25.280You see what I did there? 01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:31.960Hives vs. Fleetwood Mac the Oki tracks from 2023, and The Unusuals "I'm Walking, 01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:35.960Babe" from 1965, some classic garage rock. 01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:41.080I've played some Unusualson a podcast before, a very different one with a different vocalist, 01:03:41.080 --> 01:03:42.880but that's their other single. 01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:45.400They're like three singles, I think, or two singles. 01:03:45.400 --> 01:03:47.160And that's that other single. 01:03:47.160 --> 01:03:51.520They're more known for their second single, which I forget her name, but it's quite a 01:03:51.520 --> 01:03:55.760well-known vocalist who worked with them on their last single. 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:59.280I think it was their last single, one of their singles. 01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:05.480And then before that, we had Phoenix City All-Stars with London Calling, or London Colin, as 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:07.040I always call it. 01:04:07.040 --> 01:04:09.080I can hear you, Colin. 01:04:09.080 --> 01:04:10.640London Colin. 01:04:10.640 --> 01:04:11.640Yes. 01:04:11.640 --> 01:04:12.640Yes. 01:04:12.640 --> 01:04:19.520So, again, when I was walking down the river, there was one song that was in my head, or 01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:20.520one statement. 01:04:20.520 --> 01:04:23.440There was a few songs that I was singing along the way. 01:04:23.440 --> 01:04:25.600Weirdly not river-based, most of them. 01:04:25.600 --> 01:04:28.680For some reason, I was always singing Negativland's 01:04:28.680 --> 01:04:31.440"I am a man, a man with four fingers." 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:34.000For some reason, I just kept singing that. 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.000I don't know why. 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:36.000I don't know why. 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:37.000So I kept changing lyrics. 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:38.280"I am a man, a man with four locks. 01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:39.960I am a man, a man with four rivers. 01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:43.960I am a man with four pastels." 01:04:43.960 --> 01:04:46.680I was eating a lot of fruit pastels. 01:04:46.680 --> 01:04:49.400With four fruit pastels, yeah. 01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.200I ate two and a half bags of, no three and a half bags of fruit pastels. 01:04:53.200 --> 01:04:56.880And I can tell you, my fruit pastel research, that the original fruit pastels are worse 01:04:56.880 --> 01:04:59.840than the supermarket-owned brands. 01:04:59.840 --> 01:05:00.840Even Lidl. 01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:01.840That doesn't make sense. 01:05:01.840 --> 01:05:06.240But, of course, Rowntrees changed the formula, like they did with fruit gums. 01:05:06.240 --> 01:05:08.400And then ours tastes like shit. 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:10.600Whereas the best one is Tesco's. 01:05:10.600 --> 01:05:15.800Tesco's own fruit pastels taste fruitier than the original fruit pastels. 01:05:15.800 --> 01:05:17.920And they still have that texture. 01:05:17.920 --> 01:05:20.400I think it's because they made it vegan. 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:22.960They made the original ones vegan. 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:24.800And so now they're just not as nice. 01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:25.800Sorry, vegans. 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:26.800You spoil everything. 01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:29.200I'm going to get complaints. 01:05:29.200 --> 01:05:30.200I don't care. 01:05:30.200 --> 01:05:31.200No one fucking listens to this. 01:05:31.200 --> 01:05:35.600But yeah, so I'm not almost now listening to this. 01:05:35.600 --> 01:05:36.600So what? 01:05:36.600 --> 01:05:37.600It's true, though. 01:05:37.600 --> 01:05:42.040That's nice things that have been sort of wrecked by having to change the formula because 01:05:42.040 --> 01:05:43.040of… 01:05:43.040 --> 01:05:44.960I mean, I get it with allergies, but it's… 01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:45.960Yeah. 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:50.720I have vegans and I have gluten tolerance and stuff. 01:05:50.720 --> 01:05:51.720So I get it. 01:05:51.720 --> 01:05:55.480But I don't go around insisting everyone should change their crusty loaf. 01:05:55.480 --> 01:06:00.880I wish there was more gluten bread, but I don't think people should change theirs. 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:06.440But yeah, and I'll readily agree that the gluten-free versions are dreadful. 01:06:06.440 --> 01:06:07.440Well, not dreadful. 01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:08.440They're getting better. 01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:09.440But sourdough is all right. 01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:13.240But a lot of them are just like cardboard. 01:06:13.240 --> 01:06:17.400And I will freely admit that. 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:20.760But yeah, whenever… 01:06:20.760 --> 01:06:23.280I've noticed the vegan version of things. 01:06:23.280 --> 01:06:25.360The vegan version of jelly gums. 01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:31.200Unfortunately, I think you do need pigs or gelatin, really. 01:06:31.200 --> 01:06:34.720It's part of the flavor and the taste and texture. 01:06:34.720 --> 01:06:45.920So the thing that I was saying was "Creek is beautiful" rather than saying what is the 01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:47.320title of this podcast. 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:48.320River is beautiful. 01:06:48.320 --> 01:06:50.320And so I have to play the original. 01:06:50.320 --> 01:06:51.680So this is from Bluey. 01:06:51.680 --> 01:06:54.000"Creek is beautiful" and it is a beautiful episode. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:57.720And this is pretty much every Bluey episode. 01:06:57.720 --> 01:06:58.720All of them actually. 01:06:58.720 --> 01:06:59.720They are beautiful. 01:06:59.720 --> 01:07:03.320But yeah, this is a magical paen to… 01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:08.680Kids going outdoors and playing in the creek. 01:36:25.400 --> 01:36:28.440It seems to be a bumper podcast for Hallmighty. 01:36:28.440 --> 01:36:33.160Well I was actually planning to play the two Hallmighty tracks, and then he dropped the original 01:36:33.160 --> 01:36:35.640tracks, so I was like, "Oh, put that in as well" 01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:41.400That's "Hear Me Under the Bridge," Red Hot Chili Peppers versus K'Naan versus 01:36:41.400 --> 01:36:43.640Robbie Williams, versus The Beatles. 01:36:43.640 --> 01:36:46.920I must have agreed, when I first heard that, I was like, "Where's The Beatles? 01:36:46.920 --> 01:36:47.920Where's The Beatles?" 01:36:47.920 --> 01:36:50.200And it was just like, right at the end, a little bit of Hey Jude. 01:36:50.200 --> 01:36:56.080And before that, we had the dub classic, "Kunte Kinte dub plate, version two". 01:36:56.080 --> 01:36:59.520Everyone plays version one, and I preferred version two actually. 01:36:59.520 --> 01:37:01.360That's by The Revolutionaries. 01:37:01.360 --> 01:37:05.560And it's weird, because the date on that is like 2007, 2009. 01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:09.600I can't find the original version, even though it's from the 1970s. 01:37:09.600 --> 01:37:13.560I can't find it on Discogs because I can't find what the original version, when the original 01:37:13.560 --> 01:37:15.920version, release date was. 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:20.800I think I won these things that languished on dub plates, and never got properly released, 01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:22.920commercially released. 01:37:22.920 --> 01:37:27.240But I've certainly heard that organ sound in so many other things. 01:37:27.240 --> 01:37:30.440So that organ sound was very much copied. 01:37:30.440 --> 01:37:34.000And The Revolutionaries was the first time that Sly and Robbie got together. 01:37:34.000 --> 01:37:35.520That was their group. 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:36.520Various people came and went. 01:37:36.520 --> 01:37:42.240I think Ansel Collins was in there, and various people you all heard of came through The 01:37:42.240 --> 01:37:44.640Revolutionaries. 01:37:44.640 --> 01:37:49.400And before that, we had Gorillaz with the lost chord featuring Leee John. 01:37:49.400 --> 01:37:50.400The man with three E's 01:37:50.400 --> 01:37:52.400Oh, it's great to hear Leee John. 01:37:52.400 --> 01:37:54.040I'm a big Imagination fan. 01:37:54.040 --> 01:37:56.040I was as a child. 01:37:56.040 --> 01:37:59.840And I heard that voice in a mashup, and I was like, "Hey, that's Leee John. 01:37:59.840 --> 01:38:02.120I'm pretty sure that's Leee John on a Gorillaz track." 01:38:02.120 --> 01:38:03.120Yep. 01:38:03.120 --> 01:38:08.160It was from 2020's Song Machine Season 1, "Strange Times." 01:38:08.160 --> 01:38:13.040And I don't know what that song's about, but every song sounds better with Leee John in it. 01:38:13.040 --> 01:38:16.320And before that, we had the headless, the headless organist. 01:38:16.320 --> 01:38:20.960I'm not going to get very far, are they? 01:38:20.960 --> 01:38:21.960Headless organist. 01:38:21.960 --> 01:38:22.960Bonk. 01:38:22.960 --> 01:38:30.080Now, the Handless Organist is Turn Your Radio On from 1984's Truly a Miracle of God. 01:38:30.080 --> 01:38:35.880And people describe that as an outsider album, and I don't think it is. 01:38:35.880 --> 01:38:38.000Having listened to it, it's perfectly fine. 01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:41.360I love the organ work, and I love the singing. 01:38:41.360 --> 01:38:43.160It's like, "Oh, it's an outsider record. 01:38:43.160 --> 01:38:46.640Just watch, because she's got a disability, because she has no hands." 01:38:46.640 --> 01:38:48.840It's like, that's a bit weird. 01:38:48.840 --> 01:38:50.160No, it's not. 01:38:50.160 --> 01:38:52.520It has to be a bit more than that. 01:38:52.520 --> 01:38:56.360But still, I really like that song, despite the Christian bits. 01:38:56.360 --> 01:38:59.400It's just the, "Turn your radio on." 01:38:59.400 --> 01:39:00.400It's good. 01:39:00.400 --> 01:39:06.280And then before that, we had Billy No-Mates with Saboteur Forcefield from 2023's Cacti. 01:39:06.280 --> 01:39:10.080It's probably the only podcast that went from Billy No-Mates to the Handless Organist, 01:39:10.080 --> 01:39:11.080I can tell you. 01:39:11.080 --> 01:39:16.640Then before that, we had a kind of a London section, but not necessarily a happy London 01:39:16.640 --> 01:39:17.640section. 01:39:17.640 --> 01:39:19.880It started out happy. 01:39:19.880 --> 01:39:25.720So we had Kae Tempest with Bad Place for a Good Time, and that was the last single that they 01:39:25.720 --> 01:39:27.800did for Big Dada. 01:39:27.800 --> 01:39:32.120That was the last independent single from 2015. 01:39:32.120 --> 01:39:37.160And then they joined the big bad UMG, unfortunately. 01:39:37.160 --> 01:39:43.000And before that, we had Solange with Cranes in the Sky from 2016's A Seat at the Table. 01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:47.240And I questioned myself about doing this, because it harmonically works so well. 01:39:47.240 --> 01:39:52.040But I really didn't want to cramp on the style of Bluey's and Joff Bush's. 01:39:52.040 --> 01:39:53.360"The creek is beautiful." 01:39:53.360 --> 01:39:55.880But then I was like, that is basically my walk. 01:39:55.880 --> 01:40:00.760It was, you'd see a beautiful creek, a beautiful river, and then you turn the corner and there 01:40:00.760 --> 01:40:04.840would be cranes and the usual London bullshit. 01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:10.720And so that was why I was like, yeah, I'll keep it in, because it's kind of that duality 01:40:10.720 --> 01:40:13.840is what's in my video series. 01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:17.840To come, he's very much that ugly next to beautiful. 01:40:17.840 --> 01:40:20.680And the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful is ugly, you know, that kind of thing. 01:40:20.680 --> 01:40:21.680That's London. 01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:24.200It's all jostled together, the good and the bad. 01:40:24.200 --> 01:40:29.000And yes, as you might have guessed, my walk didn't go badly. 01:40:29.000 --> 01:40:34.360It didn't, unfortunately, because of flooding, didn't actually get where I wanted it to be, 01:40:34.360 --> 01:40:35.360which was depressing. 01:40:35.360 --> 01:40:38.800But it's funny, it was Easter and it was like, well, I can't walk on water. 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:39.800I'm not Jesus. 01:40:39.800 --> 01:40:44.320So I'm going to go back and finish, well, less than half, I think it is. 01:40:44.320 --> 01:40:47.880I'm totted it up, but it's definitely more than half. 01:40:47.880 --> 01:40:57.080Look at the latter bit when it's summer and it's less of a stressy thing, because I just 01:40:57.080 --> 01:41:02.080ended up walking on roads and like walking roads, taking a path in, finding it flooded, 01:41:02.080 --> 01:41:03.800you know, and it's like I did take water through socks. 01:41:03.800 --> 01:41:08.200I was fording across things, but the problem is you can't hike in wellies. 01:41:08.200 --> 01:41:09.760So it was a debate. 01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:13.560I should have took wellies, but then it was like, well, there'd be another thing to carry. 01:41:13.560 --> 01:41:15.200Some of the bits are impossible to afford. 01:41:15.200 --> 01:41:20.120Like I got to this thing which I've jumped before or around. 01:41:20.120 --> 01:41:24.800So sort of like this sort of bit, which is like a break in the bank. 01:41:24.800 --> 01:41:28.040And it was, I actually put my pole and I was like, should I walk through this? 01:41:28.040 --> 01:41:30.200And it was like, kept going down and down and down. 01:41:30.200 --> 01:41:31.200I was more than waist deep. 01:41:31.200 --> 01:41:33.200I was like, no. 01:41:33.200 --> 01:41:38.320And the field was completely flooded going into unless I sort of forded that. 01:41:38.320 --> 01:41:41.520And I was like, no. 01:41:41.520 --> 01:41:45.560So there was a few things like that, but I did, I did ford quite a lot of them and 01:41:45.560 --> 01:41:48.440I got, got my feet wet quite a few times. 01:41:48.440 --> 01:41:51.360It got to a point where I don't need wellies. 01:41:51.360 --> 01:41:52.360I need waders. 01:41:52.360 --> 01:41:54.200It's too deep. 01:41:54.200 --> 01:41:56.200And so then I was like, no, it's just silly. 01:41:56.200 --> 01:42:00.160I was fed up of camping by roads and walking along roads. 01:42:00.160 --> 01:42:03.000It was just, it was just too stressy. 01:42:03.000 --> 01:42:05.520Lots of bad places and lots of good places. 01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:06.520Well, then one. 01:42:06.520 --> 01:42:09.760But yeah, I'm going to play a track by Working Men's Club. 01:42:09.760 --> 01:42:10.760I love this greatly. 01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:13.360It doesn't really fit for the rest of it. 01:42:13.360 --> 01:42:15.880It's very sort of new wave. 01:42:15.880 --> 01:42:19.160This is Circumference. 02:12:38.840 --> 02:12:42.520I almost didn't make the ending because I fell asleep to my own mashup, which is, I'm 02:12:42.520 --> 02:12:45.080not sure that's a good thing or a bad thing. 02:12:45.080 --> 02:12:49.080That TBC aka Instamatic with Whisper Forever 02:12:49.080 --> 02:12:51.000George Michael versus the Spice Girls 02:12:51.000 --> 02:12:55.120I always wanted to do a mashup with Viva Forever. 02:12:55.120 --> 02:12:59.480I'm not a massive Spice Girls fan, but I do like the feel of that. 02:12:59.480 --> 02:13:02.520I mean, it was like a whole Geri leaving at that point. 02:13:02.520 --> 02:13:05.960And you know, I don't know. 02:13:05.960 --> 02:13:07.520There's a whole kind of feel of that. 02:13:07.520 --> 02:13:11.480Even though it's supposed to be like the end of a summer romance. 02:13:11.480 --> 02:13:13.960It's quite a sad song. 02:13:13.960 --> 02:13:17.680Then before that, we had Goldie and the Gingerbreads with Walking in Different Circles. 02:13:17.680 --> 02:13:22.680That's some classic psych sort of garage from 1967. 02:13:22.680 --> 02:13:27.560And before that, we had iWillBattle with Feeling Beautiful Good Things, Benson Boone 02:13:27.560 --> 02:13:28.720versus Muse. 02:13:28.720 --> 02:13:31.520I didn't know the Benson Boone song at all. 02:13:31.520 --> 02:13:36.080It's always a good sign of a mashup when you really connect to a mashup, but you don't 02:13:36.080 --> 02:13:37.080know one of the songs. 02:13:37.080 --> 02:13:40.640And you're kind of like, it just works. 02:13:40.640 --> 02:13:45.880I've not heard the original version of the Benson Boone track at all. 02:13:45.880 --> 02:13:50.280So I don't know it, but yeah, it just works really well. 02:13:50.280 --> 02:13:56.640And then before that, we had ah! Alan Hurley with Black Frog Peace One. 02:13:56.640 --> 02:14:00.280Again, I think that's one of my favorite mashups of the year. 02:14:00.280 --> 02:14:03.440That's the Doors versus Thom Yorke. 02:14:03.440 --> 02:14:05.440And I don't know. 02:14:05.440 --> 02:14:10.200You know, in some senses, I suppose, Radiohead, Tom York versus the Doors might be slightly 02:14:10.200 --> 02:14:11.960obvious, but it's not really. 02:14:11.960 --> 02:14:15.920It feels very intertwined. 02:14:15.920 --> 02:14:22.640It's certainly not an obvious choice, the two songs together, but they work so well. 02:14:22.640 --> 02:14:25.160So that's the important thing. 02:14:25.160 --> 02:14:28.840And then before that, we had Danny Macabre with Vampire Creep. 02:14:28.840 --> 02:14:30.920There's Olivia Rodrigo versus Radiohead. 02:14:30.920 --> 02:14:36.440I question myself whether to put that in because the Radiohead is too fast, that really weird 02:14:36.440 --> 02:14:37.880break in it. 02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:43.400And I don't know why the extra drums sound odd, but the combination is brilliant. 02:14:43.400 --> 02:14:51.840The Vampire Olivia Rodrigo versus Creep, it's kind of like more than half of a good 02:14:51.840 --> 02:14:54.040mashup is the song selection. 02:14:54.040 --> 02:15:00.040The Alan Hurley as well is like the one from iWillBattle. 02:15:00.040 --> 02:15:03.960The two things just meshing. 02:15:03.960 --> 02:15:05.800And that's kind of more than half the battle. 02:15:05.800 --> 02:15:09.480It's just choosing two things that sync together really well. 02:15:09.480 --> 02:15:15.360At the end of the day, the technical side is not as important as having two good tracks 02:15:15.360 --> 02:15:17.840that work really well together. 02:15:17.840 --> 02:15:19.520You can kind of overlook some of the bits. 02:15:19.520 --> 02:15:20.520It's like, "Hmm." 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:24.280That's still, yeah, I don't know if that's going on with that first break, but anyway, 02:15:24.280 --> 02:15:25.400first drop. 02:15:25.400 --> 02:15:28.360And then before that, we had Totom's. 02:15:28.360 --> 02:15:33.320Everybody would drown and You'd Too Y.O.U.D. Too. 02:15:33.320 --> 02:15:39.160How to Destroy Angels versus Billie Eilish versus Culoe Da Song. 02:15:39.160 --> 02:15:44.600I don't know the How to Destroy Angels or the Culoe Da Song, but it just works so 02:15:44.600 --> 02:15:45.600well. 02:15:45.600 --> 02:15:49.040I know the Billie Eilish and it just is a complete mood. 02:15:49.040 --> 02:15:50.720A complete mood. 02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:52.560Hashtag vibe. 02:15:52.560 --> 02:15:57.800Then before that, we had Working Men's Club with Circumference. 02:15:57.800 --> 02:15:59.560And as you might have guessed, that's selection. 02:15:59.560 --> 02:16:02.640Yeah, not exactly happy, happy, joy, joy. 02:16:02.640 --> 02:16:05.720My mental health has been a bit weird since I got back. 02:16:05.720 --> 02:16:08.520I think it's just sitting indoors editing. 02:16:08.520 --> 02:16:13.880I edited the South Downs Way Part 3 last week and now I'm working on the editing for the 02:16:13.880 --> 02:16:17.240Thames Path stuff and just going through all my old photographs. 02:16:17.240 --> 02:16:20.200And it's just been a bit of a kind of like a drudge I think. 02:16:20.200 --> 02:16:26.440But luckily I'm going out next weekend on another collaboration trip in Felixstowe and 02:16:26.440 --> 02:16:27.440Harwich. 02:16:27.440 --> 02:16:31.040So it's a coast I don't know well, walking around the estuary. 02:16:31.040 --> 02:16:34.920Yeah, that should be hopefully good. 02:16:34.920 --> 02:16:35.920Hopefully interesting. 02:16:35.920 --> 02:16:38.400But yeah, I think really getting out would be good for me. 02:16:38.400 --> 02:16:43.360I've been trying to keep myself busy because yeah, things have been a bit like, I think 02:16:43.360 --> 02:16:48.080it's just probably because I'm about to reach 51. 02:16:48.080 --> 02:16:51.440It's always weird about that sort of time and so looking at my achievements and the 02:16:51.440 --> 02:16:55.320YouTube channel and stuff and just thinking it's not really where I want it to be. 02:16:55.320 --> 02:16:59.520I mean, that's what the two week walk thing was about was just a bit like, you know, I'm 02:16:59.520 --> 02:17:02.760going to do something big and sort of really push it. 02:17:02.760 --> 02:17:05.760But it's a lot of work, a lot of footage. 02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:06.760A lot of editing. 02:17:06.760 --> 02:17:11.360I don't know how long the series hopefully won't be daily. 02:17:11.360 --> 02:17:14.080If it's daily, it's going to be 12 parts, which is right. 02:17:14.080 --> 02:17:15.080That's crazy. 02:17:15.080 --> 02:17:17.880I'm hoping to do it every couple of days. 02:17:17.880 --> 02:17:21.760My computer is having to use external drives and stuff. 02:17:21.760 --> 02:17:22.760Computer's fall on it. 02:17:22.760 --> 02:17:26.400It's just like, a lot of tech issues. 02:17:26.400 --> 02:17:30.000I've been going through all my old photographs and that's quite fun. 02:17:30.000 --> 02:17:32.840But also the scanner won't scan the slides. 02:17:32.840 --> 02:17:37.640So I can't include any of the slides unless I get the other scanner in and it's all that 02:17:37.640 --> 02:17:38.640sort of stuff. 02:17:38.640 --> 02:17:43.440It's just like, oh, so yeah, there's a lot of that going on and it's not helping. 02:17:43.440 --> 02:17:45.040So I hope you're all well. 02:17:45.040 --> 02:17:50.760I'm going to play out with a classic from Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons. 02:17:50.760 --> 02:17:57.520Again, I think I heard this on his Megabllast radio show from Noisebox Radio. 02:17:57.520 --> 02:17:58.880I think it was that. 02:17:58.880 --> 02:18:00.520I think he played on that. 02:18:00.520 --> 02:18:01.520I had not heard it before. 02:18:01.520 --> 02:18:03.440It's from way back in the day. 02:18:03.440 --> 02:18:08.640And I have to say, I love it, but it does have that weird kind of, because I'm pretty sure, 02:18:08.640 --> 02:18:13.440I'm really not sure what time signatures Charots of Fire is in. 02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:18.000And I think it's kind of a weird kind of almost Waltz time. 02:18:18.000 --> 02:18:19.160I'm not sure. 02:18:19.160 --> 02:18:20.160So there an element of that. 02:18:20.160 --> 02:18:24.800But even that, it just, it does, it does work even though bits are on like, yeah, where 02:18:24.800 --> 02:18:27.080is the snare there? 02:18:27.080 --> 02:18:29.920So this is Chariots Killed The Radio Star, Buggles. 02:18:29.920 --> 02:18:32.240Yeah, again, Buggles versus Vangelis. 02:18:32.240 --> 02:18:35.600Speak to you soon.

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