Tag: Peter
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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RIP Peter Green
I actually have this lined up for the next podcast but one, it was supposed to be in 329 but ran out of time. The next but one podcast is called ‘Lost Stars’ and is partly memorialising Ian Curtis, but add Peter to that too. Amazing guitarist without whom Fleetwood Mac would not exist. A…
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Happy Scroogemas! And A Bah Humbug New Year!
About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas! So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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Pigs might fly
Rob at Demonbaby (via ravery and arthole on LJ) has posted a great post about the closure of Oink and from an insider’s perspective what is wrong with the record industry. I like particularly this line: I would have gladly paid a large monthly fee for a legal service as good as Oink – but…
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Radio Clash 102: Not Quite Xmas (for Donkeys)
Tim taken at BahHumbug RC night #2 by John Shed Xmas cheer or New Year Fear? You decide with the ExMess edition du Radio Clash, with a mini-best of 2006 and some seasonal mashups and unseasonal sentiments. And a strange accidental Jackson theme running through….*shudder* Even the Queen sorry Kirk pops by for a Santymas…