Tag: 1980’s
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RC 383: Cha Cha Charles / House Proud
Royal Blood is in the air – from that band to musically eviscerating King Charles III and his Coronation with some Royalty Free Music, after we Cha Cha Cha our way around Eurovision, kick off Pride month and pay tribute to Tina Turner who sadly recently died. She was a legend. Disco, punk, hiphop, indie…
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Lou Hayter – Private Sunshine
Rather late to the party – but my what a party! Listening to Lou Hayter’s Private Sunshine, which I would say quickly has rocketed up to my favourite albums of 2021, but it was released last year. The deluxe was released this year, so sorta qualifies. To the layman they’d probably say ‘chilled 80’s’ but…
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Horace goes IP Trolling
Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…
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The Last Pirates
Just like the pirate stations, I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but this is a great documentary on London pirate stations of the 1980’s and 90’s. Kiss, Kool, Passion, Fire, used to listen to a lot of those (and remember the anger over Jazz FM). Not exactly the last pirates, there…
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Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth
It seems Adult Swim especially it’s late night 3am specials can do no wrong…look at this video of an epic 1986 synth battle from Xangelix, Morgio Zoroger and Carla Wendos. It’s genius, and makes you really want them to succeed, a rare thing in this deluge of viral mehtent. Even the throwaway lines or characters…
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Bowie memories
People are sharing their Bowie memories, and I think that’s a good thing to do…seems as others have said odd to mourn for someone you didn’t know, but as Lauren Laverne said, when someone’s music touches your life for so long, so many decades, it’s bound to make you feel something. I won’t then apologise…