Tag: the Mercury Prize
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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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Sitting on the Fence
Was listening to the 6Music show about King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Diamond Mine’ (well worth listening to both the show and the album, fave of this year so far) and I still think they wuz robbed of the Mercury Prize. Yes ‘Let England Shake’ is good, but PJ’s squawking gets irritating after a while,…
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Idiosyncratic end of year post
Inspired by the likes of CultureBully’s Top 10 mashups of 2010 and Bootie’s Best of 2010 collections, and the fact I should have sent in my top 5 but was too busy organising the Milan-Venice trip, here are my thoughts about 2010, and best mashups of the year. With a lot less Van Halen 😉…