Tag: Wicker Man
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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…
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Worst Music Videos Of All Time
I’ve posted quite a few over the years – IceJJFish, Christian music videos, various Musical Car Crashes which are in this list but I won’t repost them. A recent Facebook thread added some more to this stack, like the Candlemass track above. This was the first video by Jonas Åkerlund famous for that Ray of…
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Wicker Man Day – 40th anniversary on Radio Clash Live
Wicker Man is 40! (well in December it is) and they’ve found a copy of the 99 minute cut, and this Friday 27th is showing in cinemas across the country (and I suspect the world). I’m seeing it with John at Curzon also with Memory Tapes performing the soundtrack. So to celebrate this, Radio Clash…
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Heigh ho! Who is there?
As part of the Great Mixcloud Upload I’m re-visting some old podcasts – currently upto the Wicker Man Return to Summerisle ones (probably the best podcasts I’ve done in recent times) but I missed this version of Willow’s Song by Isobel Campbell when I put them together – or rejected it because there are SO…
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RC 193: Return to Summerisle Part 2
Dead Rabbit, Outer Hebrides 2006 Return to Summerisle for a musical Wicker sequel (one probably making more sense than Wicker Man II – yes it exists, yes it was written by Tony Shaffer, yes it was bonkers. Being molested by tree gods and throwing people off cliffs with eagles attached to them? Anyone?). This time…