Tag: the Olympics
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Unofficial Anthems 1: Good Morning Britain
The Muse Olympic theme tune has been released and ho-hum, it’s the bastard lovechild of Mr Blue Sky, John Miles (!) and Flash-era Queen guitar squiggles meeting unironic Triumph-of-Will-style Laibach vocals. So usual Muse then. *boom tish*. No it really reminds me of Laibach, in a rather unhealthy way…except I guess Leni would use a…
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Here Come The Drones: Extradition & Copyright
I’ve been a bit lax in posting about copyleft issues – partly because, apart from the SOPA/PIPA win it’s been mostly a deluge of shit, nasty political fudging (eh, Dave?), endless cases like Megaupload (love that the NZ court finally got some balls and told FBI where to go on deleting all the data) and…
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RC 221: Stuff the Jubilee
Another 10 years and another Jubilee – this one the Diamond Jubilee, and then shortly after the Olympics for the full Union (I’m Alright) Jack overdrive, waved by the Dumb Flag Scum. More nationalism, more strangeness, more sucking up to Liz to try and get a gong by people who will claim that they are cool…
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Fuck The Olympics
People might think, from our press that Londoners are happy about this VIP Rich Person’s Party happening in the East of London. Nope – well this one isn’t happy, and I know many people who either are unhappy about the cost, security issues, the still crappy logo (no it hasn’t grown on me as promised,…
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Radio Clash 121: Human After All
Kirk at Wireless Noisy squelchy blog house via Daft Punk’s amazing 02 Wireless gig, a Justice gig, some Goblin stealing, pretend that we’re dead and an Olympics rant, ooh the (gay) shame! And after it gets messy we philosophise about the nature of the universe, or something. Prime of your Life is 42: (52Mb /…