Category: Covers
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Corona Oh My Country
So what have Thomas Dolby’s kids been upto I hear you ask (err…actually you probably aren’t). Well I am glad you (didn’t) ask, they are spoofing their Dad’s legacy with COVID-19 themes and it’s really good. Now singing “Corona! Look at my country now!” Looks like it’s filmed on the South coast, reminds me of…
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Billie Joe’s Manic Monday With Susanna Hoffs
One of the few good upsides of this pandemic is that creativity is going crazy in lockdown – even whole TV shows and films are being made from home (loving Mash Report which in some ways is better in lockdown, and Have I Got News For You is shaping up to be a great series…
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Everybody Must Stay Home
Love the Don’t Open Idiots Outside…state of the world/nation in one video, really. Apologies to Bob Dylan. (via Boing Boing) And to really sum up the lockdown week 5 madness, here is how you judge your quarantine level by of course, cartoon bears. Definitely Level 2 shading into 3 at the moment…. (via Cheerful Nihilism)
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John B is back with a Coronavirus anthem
‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ has become an unofficial anthem of COVID-19 with even Sting recording it remotely with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots (love the Connect 4 percussion!). Can I say one thing? STING!!!!! But I like best this new drum and bass version by a returning John B, the UK drum and…
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Yacht cover Aphex Twin
In current self-isolation and lockdown, creatives seem to react in different ways – some take a well-earned rest, others like me go into creative hyperdrive to keep ourselves sane. One of the latter is the band YACHT who are doing a cover a week. So far they’ve have covered Crass in benefit of One Fair…
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Somewhere over the virus
This COVID-19 version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow got me tearful… well it’s that kind of song anyway but as an extra three weeks of lockdown is announced I long for things to go back to some semblance of normality, if they ever. (via Phoebe Howie)