Tag: Trumpton
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RC 380: PSYCH SCHOOL – Play School Breaks, Psych & Funk
Get ready for a trip down memory lane with Radio Clash’s Psych School podcast, featuring funky tunes from children’s TV and records of the 60s and 70s. This deep dive into long-forgotten programs like Play School and Sesame Street is well worth a listen!
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DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero
DJNoNo – Accordion Hero (Hisstory 2004-2020) by DJNoNo DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero! (well if you don’t count Ballroom as an album, it is more like mini-album or long EP…that will be posted after this for the full DJNo ‘experience’). 16 years in the making it covers the best and a little of the…
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Here Is A Musical Box – RIP Brian Cant
Sadly Brian Cant, a cornerstone of my childhood from Play School, Play Away, even Orbital videos has died aged 83. But I think his best work was on the Trumptonshire trilogy – people mostly remember his voice-over work on them especially Camberwick Green – “Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready…
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RIP Robin Hardy and RIP Gordon Murray
Why am I reposting this Radiohead video from 2 months ago? Well it spookily demonstrates the cultural influence of not one but two people who have died in the last few days. Today we heard about the sad death of Robin Hardy, director of the Wicker Man and Wicker Tree. A few days ago I…
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Welcome To Summerisle Green
Love this new video from Radiohead and Chris Hopewell, shades of Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley but also something of a darker hue. I guessed it within a minute…apples and all. The song is growing on me, I wasn’t initially that impressed hence not posting it yesterday…like the Steve Reich lift, but Radiohead should go…