Tag: The Fall
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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 294: Gammonweddon
Last Brexit, I Gave You My Vote, And The Very Next Day, You Threw It Away… Don’t worry there’s no Last Christmas in the latest Radio Clash – I’m playing Whamageddon too, but in the UK it’s more Gammonweddon, a sort of idiotic Whack-A-Mole (or Wham-A-Mole?) for spot the shouty white van bloke, usually on…
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RC 275: The Man Whose Dread Expanded
Saying goodbye to Mark E Smith with music from around the world from Icelandic surf/Country & Western, Portuguese Tuga hop, Italian warped cocktail music, American reggae, Polish dub suicide tangos, UK Indie, British lover’s rock and Jazz covers of the Smiths…it’s all there! And it is far from dreadful. Sorry for the slightly longer episode,…
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RIP Mark E. Smith
Just heard that Mark E. Smith of The Fall has died…here he is introduced by John Peel (also RIP) on The Tube performing my favourite Fall song, Smile. A sad day. If you want to commiserate togather, listen to BBC 6Music who is currently playing wall-to-wall Fall at the moment. And this gif says it…
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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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Happy Scroogemas! And A Bah Humbug New Year!
About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas! So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came…