Tag: Brexit
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New from Orbital & Sleaford Mods – Dirty Rat
Oh how did I miss this? This is brilliant, a new timely track ‘Dirty Rat’ by Orbital and Sleaford Mods. I’ve not heard this on 6Music – did they get scared by the political (yet totally apt) lyrics? Love the video too – where Paul and Phil appear briefly, in a seaside town they forgot…
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Bye Boris Johnson
Sadly Boris Johnson is still trying to cling on as a Caretaker PM, but good riddance to Boris Johnson (eventually) – the only problem is who out of the utter shitshower of current ministers and MPs will take over his job? The people that as Jonathan Pie says, stood by while he lied to Parliament,…
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Fool Britannia – Kid Kapichi x Bob Vylan
I’m excited for the new Bob Vylan album that drops later in the week, so checking out anything I’ve missed for the podcast I found this collab with Kid Kapichi called ‘New England’ from a few months ago = a title with already a lot of history to deal with. It says everything I want…
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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Kleptones – ER
Another Wednesday so that means another Kleptones album as part of the OV/ER/LO/AD quad-trilogy. This week it’s the turn of ER – starting with a startling current quote from cult 1981 British film Babylon – as sampled by Congo Natty and Bob Vylan (‘lady this IS my fucking country’) and then on Urban Clearway (the…
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Iron Maiden – The Writing On The Wall
Trust Iron Maiden to be there during the End Times – the collapse of empires, Brexit, Trump, COVID and the implosion of late-state capitalism. And then make an amazing Good Omens vs Mad Max vs Lord of the Rings meets the Bible animated video for it…with samurai Eddies and the four horsemen and the Eden…