Tag: Gary Numan
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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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Everything is a Remix gets a remix!
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away…no actually this blog, we featured Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series. And now, for 2021 he’s back with a totally new upgraded remix! Love the parts about Kanye and Led Zep (and I sort of knew that Sister Nancy’s Bam Bam used a riddim,…
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How an Illegal Mashup Reignited British Pop
Great video explaining how Richard X et al reinvented British pop music, and it makes a good case for that (although I feel that he was treated like an outsider for a lot of it, even though he was a hitmaker, they took his ideas but shut him out?). And the Gary Numan comment that…
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RC 342: Rockin’ Up The Pop Charts – Mashup 2021
Rocking and Rolling In The UK and Popping (sh)It up Everywhere which is about as welcome as a rock in your pop and a turd in your Corporate Sponsored Drink. So I’m getting my revenge by mashing and mixing up pop and rock and everything else and giving it the respect it deserves (i.e, none…
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RIP Florian Schneider
Oh boy…where do you start with an artist like Florian Schneider, of Kraftwerk? Sadly he has died at 73. It’s not hyperbole when you say that Florian and Kraftwerk may not be household names like some, but without Kraftwerk you probably wouldn’t have new wave and new romantics, electro-pop, house, techno and all those influenced…
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RC 320: Coronanation Pt 1: You Can’t Outrun A Virus
Broadcasting on pirate satellite from Lockdown UK, REMAIN INDOORS! This town is all under lock down…bands don’t play no more (or indeed does anyone, least of all the kids in playgrounds). It seems an eternity since the last podcast and I said glumly that the Bond film had been cancelled due to this new virus.…