Tag: Poly Styrene
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Have a Happy XMash
Part of a series called ‘let’s make the life hard of those who finished their festive mashup compilations in October’, – finally live, the XMash compilation new and old Christmas Classics in ‘high’ quality – well we are in part talking DJNoNo here so quality is extremely subjective – but two new mashups from me,…
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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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Oh cancer, up yours – RIP Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex
Today comes the surprises news of the death of Poly Styrene at 53 from cancer…she was the lead singer of X-Ray Spex which had a very short but influential career in 1976-9, playing Rock Against Racism with the Clash and later reforming and producing their second album. Sad cos she’d just released a solo album…