Tag: Glastonbury Festival
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Cassetteboy: The Lecture
Saw them at Glastonbury, which was very good (or was it them? The London gig where they were in Australia mentioned in the video I think was at Bangface, which I also saw, but apparently only saw DJ Rubbish :-/)…now Cassetteboy does a TED-style lecture into their history, with some unheard tracks. Shame these have…
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Ready Brexit
Ahh…the xenophobic nostalgia! And yes although I’m off to Glasto I have my postal vote ready, and will be voting to remain (Bremain? BStay? Bin?) because I don’t want to be stuck with just the Tories on this damp little isle, bringing back the Victorian Workhouse as shoddy as the EU can be sometimes. (via…
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Hot Chip – Dancing In The Dark / All My Friends
When I heard this when Hot Chip did Glastonbury last year, I really wanted a copy…so glad they are releasing it as part of an EP tomorrow. Bruce Springsteen mashed up with LCD Soundsystem? Brilliant. And far better than the album, Huarache Lights withholding (although I didn’t know that was actually a Nike advert), this…
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When you cut into the present the future leaks out – cut-ups
Cutting Up The Cut-Up is a great documentary from BBC Radio 4 featuring many artists featured regularly on Radio Clash over the years – Cassetteboy, Vicki People Like Us, DJ Food and Matt Black from Coldcut. Even a shout-out to Negativland! It goes way back into the roots of the audio cutup, to Brion Gysin,…
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Penda’s Fen and Owl Service
On 21 March 1974 Penda’s Fen was Play for Today on the BBC, this strange tale of teenage homosexuality, Elgar and the Dream of Gerontius, the Midlands, ecology, the old and new gods, Britain and the last pagan king, Penda (oddly the image above does NOT appear in the film, only in shadow, although the…