Tag: bbc radio 1
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RC 384: Tender Silence of Night – Deep Dive #2
It has only taken me a year and a half to get around to the second Deep DIve (!) – I was going to put this out in a few months after the first Deep Dive but never got around to it. The catalyst for this bonus podcast was a new controller – the five…
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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Lil Nas X sings Jolene
Man of the hour, well year, after dropping his amazing debut Montero that’s been on constant rotation at the Radio Clash Bunker, Lil Nas X covers Dolly Parton’s Jolene for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. He gives it a totally different spin as a man telling Jolene not to steal his man…wonder what Dolly thinks…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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Anthologised by Cherry Red
Some songs are too good to be ‘blipverted‘ and this is one. Heard via the frankly odd confines of Dandelion Radio. As the host said, probably too pop for Dandelion, which is a great place to be, but it’s probably too different for 6Music or Radio 1 as well though. Which means although this should…
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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…