Tag: South Africa
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RC 375: Home for Christmas
Only one Christmas podcast this year – blame the strikes (and having a lockdown Xmas #3 at home for financial reasons) with a weird combination of merry metal mashup mayhem vs epic festive sadbangers. Bittersweet happy/sad music for the holidays partly made for those folk who have to survive or endure this time of year…I…
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Ragga Jungle Return
Heard this new-ish Chase and Status jam with Irah along with the new Original Nuttah 25th anniversary version at David Rodigan’s set at House of Common (the Madness 40th gig on Clapham Common) and like the rest of his set it just SLAYED. I was a sweaty mess at the end when he finished with…
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Percy and Louis 50th Anniversary of Decriminalisation
A few days ago it was the 50th anniversary of partial decriminalisation in the UK – the result of the famous Wolfenden Report, which was fallout over the Peter Wildeblood case. This is a great little video showing how being illegal to be gay affected 78 year old Percy, and the difference in how 13…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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Jonathan Pie: State of the news
Many a truth spoken in jest ‘off camera’ about Jeremy Corbyn. It is crazy that during #piggate and all the stuff and nonsense about an atheist republican not singing ‘God Save The Queen’, there’s been tax cuts for the poorest, trying to scrap free school meals, the refugee crisis, an estimated 50,000+ people died of…
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This Land Is Mine
I’ve been avoiding talking about Gaza not because I don’t care, it’s not even compassion fatigue, it’s more same shit, different genocide. I’ve been against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and Israeli Arabs for decades, but it does seem rather intractable, since as this wonderful video from Nina Paley points out, the land has been killed…