Tag: Personal life
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I’m a feminist & Pride
Yes just like this video says far better than I could say it, I am, as much as possible a feminist (I hate saying I’m an -ist about anything because it suggests you’re finished, perfect, formed, kind of the reverse of ‘practising homosexual’ – it’s much more fluid than that). I don’t see a difference…
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Russia – don’t go there
Well more St Petersburg, which as well as wanting to be a #1 tourist destination has just passed a Clause 28 type law banning all homosexual propaganda – yes censorship. In fact it sounds exactly like Section 28 and yes the usual emotive straw man of ‘please won’t you think of the children!’ is being…
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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…
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Raveonettes cover I Wanna Be Adored
I wrote about DM50 a while back with Buraka Son Sistema’s great cover of Buffalo Stance, but although I get the emails I wasn’t so into the next few releases and had tuned it out…but Dunproofin posted the latest one to Facebook and I was entranced…the surreal and charming video (not involving the band) totally…
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Gay Shame mix
Supposed to be part of RC 121 but it all got way too long, so here it is as a separate long mix. Swap with your friends! Or swap FOR your friends! Sell them into slavery, I don’t care… As it’s Gay Pride Month, here’s another alternative love/hate mix about Gay Pride – called Gay…
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Radio Clash 81: Cheers, Tears and Souvenirs – Tim and Kirk in Amsterdam
Yes it’s finally here – Tim & Kirk terrify Amsterdam with their antics on their 10 year anniversary (of what? Well listen to the podcast to find out!), with ‘hilarious consequences’ (*quotes added by our lawyer) Err…Why am I writing in second person? Anyway it’s littered with music relating either to ver Dam itself or…