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Radio Clash is 6 years old! Come join with us in a Top of the Spods type show where I list my top 5 tracks featured on previous Radio Clash shows from each year back to 2004 (with added Bear of Little Brain presenting!).

Yes it's a Best of show *ducks*, yes it's the laziest format around but it was the best I could come up with this year so bite me :-P Some good music on it though.

But now I am six, I'm as clever as clever. So I think I'll be six now and forever.

mwhahaha the cult of pudding (postres! postres!) is forming.

Bored Bishop, Ely Cathedral - taken on my new Lumix LX5

Popes, protests, paramours and pedalbikes - A mix of great current pop music, dubstep, psych garage rock, mashups (fancy that!) and cutup nonsense and talking about what's what in the State of Tim.

Doin' the Vatican Rag (123Mb, 140 mins).

Tracklist at the website or in the comments of the MP3, or on an iPod the Lyrics field (press your centre button 4 times).

It's LOLBEARDS!

The Beardly http://thebeardly.blogspot.com

Really enjoying This is England '86 which is the TV 4 part follow up to one of my favourite films. Shane Meadows can do no wrong...

And Banjo (the character with the tats and beard and mohawk) aint bad to look at either...WOOF!

Also a personal side to this, unlike the film it's filmed in the Gleadless Valley, Sheffield...I lived in Meersbrook a few years later than this is set, and my older family live a few km north o there...so yes getting total flashback on when we used to visit them, including around this time.

And yes, they've not done any grotty 'makeup' on the area, it IS a shithole, was in the 80's, 90's, and by the looks of it, now n'well.



For instance - 2 seconds or so in from the above trailer is the (in)famous Park Hill flats, my grandmother on my mother's side used to live there with my mother's brother David.

Y'all know the meme. Post a picture of you. No primping allowed, no editing allowed. Just straight up.

This is my response to my first attempts:



Me rocking my tramp look, it's fresh for 2011...

And no you're not seeing those mostly cos you probably couldn't even see me (camera was set to ISO 80 with only domestic light, doh)...although this was only the 14th take, a new record for me...not edited nor tweaked and definitely no primping (can you see that horrible hair? Ugh.)

Take on cruiseliner, the Pacific Sun, and some really heavy seas...this CCTV is the result.

Like the ironic soundtrack, LOL

Srsly scary, I hope the women who got swept away by the chairs didn't get badly hurt...ouch!

EDIT: if it's this and I think it is, 40 people were injured in 2008 near Auckland. Oof!

LeeDM101 asked for someone to make a video for his excellent mashup and I jumped at the chance of editing Kraftwerk's 'Radioactivity', Duran Duran's 'Girls on Film', Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' and Calvin Harris 'Girls' together with Attack of the 50ft Woman and Public Service Announcements from the atomic age of the 1950's. So this video is spanning the 50's, 70's, 80's & 00's, and prog, techno, house & pop, from the atomic age to the iPod age!

Worth it just to see Kraftwerk dancing along with Duran Duran and Mike Oldfield at least!

Thanks Lee - also on YouTube (strangely the PSA public domain content has been ID'd - it's from a documentary from Atomic Cafe even though most or all of the footage for that is from the public domain - if get DMCA grief I'll question it as I dunno how they can content ID and 'own' films formed from publicly owned archive.org/Prelinger/LOC footage?)

Well I'm going to assume band can mean act or artist...

It's strangely quite hard for me to think of an act I entirely and totally hate - yes I have REALLY strong opinions on music and most of the time can back them up - but usually a band has at least song I don't despise, or someone did a mashup or remix of it that made me see it in another light.

The following acts have no redeeming features EVER:

Jason Donovan.




Yes I know some of you 80's Cheese Queens are going 'WHAT? NO WAI!!!' but really, it doesn't get worse than this...well maybe Spagna and Taylor Dayne but their careers were mercifully short. Stock Aitken Waterman the producers started well - doing pop versions of black house tunes, Roadblock, Mel and Kim and Dead or Alive. But at some point in 86 or 87 they decided to go for the money and produce soap stars as pop artists. Now the only one that really paid off and actually probably could sing was Kylie - but Jason especially on that first duet couldn't. Stefan Dennis, Dannii and Rick fucking Astley followed, and some really bad Charidee singles. Nothing Jason Donovan has done can I like, and I've left a club for playing both him and Rick. There's good 80's cheese and there is bad wedding disco from hell 80's cheese. Most S/A/W/ after 1987 falls into the latter.

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This is a hard one for me since I hardly EVER can fall asleep to music. It's happened but usually drugs or intense tiredness was involved...thing is I CANNOT do muzak, background music and not be distracted or concentrate on the music at some point. I really have to be really busy and focused and concentrating, then I don't hear the music at all. This is not a state you are in waiting for the blessed myoclonic jerk.

I have TRIED to use music to help me sleep - there is one album I used to do that with, a new agey medieval vocal album that does just have the frequencies in that precise order that induces almost a meditative state - and of course few changes in the music to jerk me out of them.

It was a present of a former straight crush of mine, Andy (a wiccan) - Anonymous 4, a female acapella vocal group with 1000: A Mass for the End of Time. Medieval chanting and polyphony, done by women but makes Miri it is and Sumer is Icumen In sound like veritable modern rock and roll songs...laced with paganistic feeling and melancholic end of the world doom cults. Yes this thing helps me sleep (or meditate). Can't find the embed on this Chinese site, but you can hear some here. It's all a bit Hildegard of Bingen. I stopped listening to it and indeed meditating or trying to, I was crap at it when I got a rather strong by effect that freaked me...something to do with what the wiccans were doing. I really didn't want to go there.

Leads me to a funny story - another album I've fallen alseep to while drunk or wasted (probably the latter) is Can - Sacrilege, the remixes album. I must've put it on for Kirk to hear, or left it playing - and it was playing quietly in the background, almost so you couldn't hear.

Forward to the middle of the night and I get a terrified Kirk nudging me. He's freaking out at an ominous repetitive chanting coming from the corner of the room. The album eventually got to Westbam's mix of Yoo Doo Right, and all you could here was the ooh aah oooh aahh in a sort of spooky gregorian techno style in the corner in the dark. It was pretty funny but also understandable, as if the monsters were doing some sort of beatbox boogie in the dark.