Tag: neil innes
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RC 259: Pop Is Dead #4 – We Hate The Kids (And Rock and Roll)
Fourth in the Pop is Dead series, and it’s all about hate – hating rock and roll, hating the kids, hating the hangers on, hating the Spice Girls, hating the fakers, hating music even. Oh and a little bit about Britpop False Memory Syndrome / Fake Nostalgia. The cover features as well as the classic…
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Vivian Stanshall – English as Tuppence
We Are Normal And We Love Burt Weedon! Why Does He Have A Rabbit Head On? What Do You Think About Shirts? Craig Torso Is Wonderful! A 3 hour documentary about Vivian Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Band on the BBC iPlayer, presented by Neil Innes and with Adrian Edmondson. Been listening to this and…
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Future Islands
Sometimes new music is like a splinter, you know you shouldn’t play with it, but in a grotesque fashion you do, transfixed by the mortality. The same could be said for Future Islands – that strange performance doing the rounds, not wanting to say ‘me too’ about a band that’s been around for over a…
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RC 194: Bikes Bears and Beatifications
Bored Bishop, Ely Cathedral – taken on my new Lumix LX5 Popes, protests, paramours and pedalbikes – A mix of great current pop music, dubstep, psych garage rock, mashups (fancy that!) and cutup nonsense and talking about what’s what in the State of Tim. Doin’ the Vatican Rag (123Mb, 140 mins). Tracklist: Foxdye – Martha’s…
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RC 175: The Viv and Neil Show (Bonzo Dog Band)
Doo-dah, dada, dog. Radio Clash 175 is a special show which commemorates two great songwriters and performers – that original ginger geezah Vivian Stanshall and the Seventh Python (I bet he hates that term) Neil Innes, the former who sadly died in 1995, and their legacy of arty chaotic jazz/pop/psychedelic silliness and melancholy that probably…
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RC 161: Odds n Sods 6 – Acoustic PoohStyx (part one)
Downtempo acoustic tracks – part 1 of 2. HPBD2ME (or was 57Mb, 75mins) Frank Turner – Photosynthesis Vitaly Dmitriev – Zolotaryov – Partita no.1 / Toccata in d-moll BWV565 (backing) Au – RR vs. D Bourbonese qualk – Lukunzi Mark Mothersbaugh – My Home Town Radiohead – Videotape (Amplive Remix Feat Del The Funky Homosapien)…