Tag: Bronski Beat
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RC 393: Boredom Could Be Good For You – Deep Dive #3
It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom…
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RC 362: Streaming For One
The loneliness of the long-distance streamer – after the streaming goes wrong…. This is not the version announced here, as that had severe technical issues so after that run through I re-recorded it late on a Monday night solely to an audience of Russian bots. Not sure there will be another ‘Radio Clash Live’ for…
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RIP Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat
Sadly Steve Bronski of Bronski Beat has died aged 61 (on the right in the above photo). I can’t stress how important his band was – not only launching the career of Jimmy Somerville but also soundtracking my early queer experiences and being one of the few out queer bands – the only one that…
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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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RC 333: Three Birds Repeating
An episode dedicated to the number 3 and the birds that come and say hello when I paint and draw…and spookily the birds of Rhiannon, the Adar Rhiannon whose songs can wake the dead and lull the living to sleep. They also can simultaneously appear close and far, hence the artwork. From new age to…
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RC 302: Re:direction
302: A temporary (re)direction to a new Radio Clash! A very geeky rocking episode with new hiphop from Epic Beard Men and Pete Cannon & Dr Syntax, reggae from Koffee and Rankin Roger (RIP), a Kurt mashup and rocking out with Japanese idol groups and Metal Marble Madness, some heavenly tracks, classic sample funk and…