Tag: friendly fires
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RC 308: Raving I’m Raving
It’s that time of year – back to school is in all the shops, depressing reminders you summer is close to it’s end. But as it’s 30 years since the Second Summer of Love (and incidentally it’s 30 years since I left school) sod the grey jumpers and shrunken ties, I’m raving Back to the…
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RC 298: Riddle of the Sphinx
The inscrutable smile of the Sphinx brings February and the No-Snowmadeddon, and also the most accessible and upbeat Radio Clash in ages falls from the sky (just as I was telling people how eclectic and strange the music is on the the podcast…oh well. service as usual next time, most likely). AND under two hours!…
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RC 206: Wise Enough?
Recorded last Monday after the black cloud of a bad day was dissipating, now I post it as the rain clouds are precipitating, it seems very appropriately down for today… It’s raining, it’s pouring, the old man is snoring… (101Mb, 1:50) Friendly Fires – True Love Buzzcocks – Harmony in My Head The 2 Bears…
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RC 205: Royal Dreading
A Post-Coachella show and what could be more English to come back to, a cauldron of self-hatred doffing our (dutch) caps at our overlords than a Royale Wedding with Cheese? So inevitably as everyone is totally sick of it after the event (and during and before…) so this show has a theme of royal dreading…
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Back to 89…again with Friendly Fires
I would love this video from Friendly Fires harking back to the summer of rave – 1989 and the sentiment about missing it and being told ‘you don’t get it’ by those who were there (I missed going to raves – no car, no drugs, no money, and in the uncoolest place on earth). The…
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disco will never die – nowdisco nu-disco/neo disco long mix
What is nu/neo-disco? I asked myself that recently – disco is in my genes (jeans?) yet I was confused at what had happened to the genre since 2008, and at all since I knew hardly any of it (I thought, it partly turned out a matter of genre labelling for a few acts I already…