Tag: John Martyn
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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…
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Favourite albums / tracks of 2015
Ian Fondue asked me to post my favourite albums/songs of 2015. Not necessarily released in 2015, this year I tended to listen to older releases, Pitchfork and Stereogum are mostly confusing to me, the first year it’s mostly a bunch of names I have no idea who they are! It’s a long list, partly because…
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Wicker Man Day – 40th anniversary on Radio Clash Live
Wicker Man is 40! (well in December it is) and they’ve found a copy of the 99 minute cut, and this Friday 27th is showing in cinemas across the country (and I suspect the world). I’m seeing it with John at Curzon also with Memory Tapes performing the soundtrack. So to celebrate this, Radio Clash…
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RC 209: Norwegian Blue
Although I recorded this last week I was so busy only just got round to posting it now, the 2nd of the 3 back to back (ish) shows…and this is a companion piece to RC 167: Not Here Right Now, with a downtempo look at that terrible events in Norway and the death of Amy…
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RC 208: Drowning in The Sun
(Weymouth collage, by Tim B) From walks along cliff tops to the deaths of red tops, the paper sea keeps rolling on, so rains the British Summer. I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide, Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied…
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John Martyn tribute album – Robert Smith does ‘Small Hours’
As usually happens, I go on a massive binge on an older artist or band, say Gil Scott-Heron – then find out they have a big release in the next week or two after years or decades of nothing. It happens a lot to me, and just happened with John Martyn. I wasn’t really up…