Tag: Punk
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The Clockworks & Dry Cleaning
These fingers were made for pointing…. These fingers were made for pointing….These fingers were made for pointing…. I have been listening to a lot of Dandelion Radio in the last few months, especially their Festive 50 and December/January shows which a chock full of music I missed in 2020. Also I love some of the…
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RC 334: Windmills of Mercury
A long episode of Radio Clash for reasons explained within, this has taken over a week to finish and started out being an uptempo celebration of Windmills of Your Mind, the Mercury Awards and Eddie Van Halen during the first Kitchen Disco Hour…and became rather more downbeat after I learned that Radio Clash has been…
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RC 333: Three Birds Repeating
An episode dedicated to the number 3 and the birds that come and say hello when I paint and draw…and spookily the birds of Rhiannon, the Adar Rhiannon whose songs can wake the dead and lull the living to sleep. They also can simultaneously appear close and far, hence the artwork. From new age to…
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Yacht cover Aphex Twin
In current self-isolation and lockdown, creatives seem to react in different ways – some take a well-earned rest, others like me go into creative hyperdrive to keep ourselves sane. One of the latter is the band YACHT who are doing a cover a week. So far they’ve have covered Crass in benefit of One Fair…
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RC #309: Make Art GRATE Again
Aka don’t tell the trees – cos the trees don’t need to know! Those useless trees might be silently judging you, though. A trip alternating between Brexit, BoJo and Trump and making good art as a response. It’s not downbeat, it’s not upbeat, it’s sort of middlebeat. Glasses halfway and all that. From novelty songs…
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#Horseproblems
Petrol Hoers came into my life (fnar) last night through the odd means of 6Music (playing silly horse themed crumpltastic punky speed/breakcore? Really?). I’ve been through the whole of his equine oevre (err, horses don’t lay eggs, neither do humans I guess…) and this is my favourite still from the latest album. As Petrol Hoers…