Tag: Gruff Rhys
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Gruff Rhys – American Interior
Can’t wait for this album to be released, all about his distant relative John Evans, a farmhand who went to America to look for an apparently mythical tribe of Welsh-speaking native Americans. Interesting how that’s not completely far-fetched, that Vikings and the Welsh seem to have headed off to the Americas, and the former definitely…
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Mashup videos 5th anniversary
I don’t usually repost stuff, but I was reminded by the ‘Past Clashes’ widget on my front page that I posted my first mashup video 5 years ago today – which was Neon Sex People (Neon Neon vs LaTour vs Depeche Mode) which promptly fell foul of the WMG vs YouTube copyright war, and so…
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The Return of Neon Neon
As well as the new debut (well partly) Big Black Delta album on the 29th, finally a new Neon Neon album from Boom Bip and Gruff Rhys. This one is in a more revolutionary mode, covering the life of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli although I’m sure like Stainless Style it will take liberties with history (unless John…
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RC 213: The Unoriginally Titled Xmas Show
For a season I either hate or feel meh humbug about, I don’t half do a lot of CDs/shows/mixes about it! Here’s the Xmas episode of Radio Clash, where I rant about shitty dubstep, play Jingle Bells on a saw, have a totally Punk Rock Christmas, meet some rather scarily friendly Cuddly Daleks ™, play…
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Bah Humbug II
It’s been 5 years since the original Bah Humbug (the event and the CD – still up!) hit the world…in fact Kirk has repeatedly told me he plays the CD every year…so I thought in the sake of giving him another CD to play (it must be the only one he has) I’d create BAH…
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Gruff Rhys is Having a Depressed Post Apocalyptic Atheist Christmas
Oh wow? Me too! 😉 Well maybe not this extreme, but ‘Slashed Wrists This Chrismas’ off Gruff’s forthcoming Atheist Christmas EP and it sounds like he’s been listening to Culturecide’s Depressed Christmas (you can still hear it on the Bah Humbug mix I did)…although rather more gently handled, it sums up the ambivalent feelings created…