Tag: Punk rock
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RC 271: Pop Is Dead #6 – Dead Pod Stars
This will be my monument This will be a beacon when I’m gone… So that when the moment comes, I can say I did it all with love A bumper self-indulgent 10th anniversary show – 2 shows in one! If you listen at the 1:30 mark you’ll realise why it’s so long 😉 First half…
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Derek Boshier and The Clash
In response to my Pop Goes the Easel post, Paul Gormanis posted images from the songbook that Derek Boshier illustrated for The Clash’s second album. It’s amazing stuff, I didn’t know there were links from the pop artists to The Clash, apparently Derek taught Joe Strummer on Foundation, and they bumped into each other later…
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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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Alex Turner is a cock – surprise! And NME still love him
Classic NME storm-in-a-Yorkshire-tea-cup, and also revision of history. Alex Turner does a frankly brattish and not at all punk nor rock and roll, acceptance speech, and NME laps it up as some Dylan Judas moment. Umm, you’re accepting an award from MASTERCARD Alex? You is not punk, nor rock and roll. Say ‘Fuck Mastercard and…
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The other Radio Clash – Joe Strummer & Clash on air
On Christmas Day the remaining members of The Clash got together to do a show called Radio Clash (no I don’t mind fellas, really…plagiarism is the first form of flattery etc :-p ;-). It’s really good but of course will only be up for a few days. As part of that 6Music is repeating some…