Tag: Sharon Jones
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Hannah Williams & The Affirmations
I was digging around tracks sampled on departure’s Graduation Demos (very good btw) and she did a remix of Jay=Z’s 4:44, a track I didn’t know (I hd long tuned out Jay before all the Bey/Becky drama) which samples Bristol group Hannah Williams and The Affirmations ‘Late Nights & Heartbreak’. It being 3am and having…
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RC 326: A Big Line In The Sand (Black Lives Matter Pt 1)
Brothers and Sisters…I don’t know what this world is coming to…. My response to the death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests around the world and is to create a two-parter focusing on radical and revolutionary voices criticising racism, fascism and police brutality. So I pass the mic to celebrate and uplift the…
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RC 318: Stormy Weather aka Veni VD Vichy
Stormy weather And I just can’t get my poor self together Oh I’m weary all of the time… With the weather of the last week with Storm Ciara and Storm Denis, Valentine’s Day it’s a hopeful episode of Radio Clash, with uptempo uplifting songs as we shout into the storm – I came! I saw!…
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RC 313: Old Age (15th Birthday Part 1)
On this day in 2004 not much happened, Girls Aloud were #1 in the UK with a forgettable single, My Boo (??) by Alicia Keys was #1 in the US Billboard Charts…an actor or two died that had been forgotten or their kids were more famous than them. Looking through the headlines it was a…
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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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RC 272: Don’t Call It A Comeback
Yes I’m back and podcasting, only popped out for over 3 years and appropriately with a bumper 3 hour show*…after guesting on the Lloydbrary 100 show over Xmas I got the podcasting bug again. Also I’ve been watching what came along after I left podcasting, and I mostly am not impressed…need some better music and…