One Life Left

By Pickaxe

One Life Left is a radio show about videogames, only not really. We love games but we take them precisely as seriously as they deserve. 99% nonsense and 1% heart-stopping brilliance, they are all supp... more

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January 13, 2009 One Life Left -- s04e17 -- #89 -- Yo Joe
It begins with an interview because, hey, we don't let just anyone guest on One Life Left, much less give them the coveted title of OLL's Resident Film Expert. It's a formality, though, and post-theme we welcome our new colleague: spoiler warning! It's Joe Cornish, the tall half of TV / Radio / Multimedia's Adam & Joe. O. M. G!
Read more below.
Aside from the special guest star it's business as usual this week -- music, news, reviews, and one brand new feature that seems to work out pretty well. It's probably best you just listen, really. Oh! And if this is your first One Life Left here are some primer notes (there's a more detailed history in the About section).
-- We broadcast across London on the brilliant Resonance FM live every Monday evening, then we podcast the show the day after. We are Ste, Simon and Ann. Hi!
-- We're a radio show about videogames but not like that. You should be able to enjoy One Life Left even if you haven't picked up a joypad in weeks, months, years or ever. Um, that's our intention, anyway.
-- We mix inane chat with music that sounds like videogames and features from brilliant regular contributors, including Craig 'The Rage' McClellan (our resident gaming poet) and Derek Williams (a market-stall trader in Doncaster who plays a synth and tells us what's been selling this week).
-- We've been doing this for nearly three years and we welcome (and encourage) listener contributions. You can join our growing guerilla army in our Facebook group, on our forum, or by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes for free. Please do that.
Here's a link to the start of Season 4 so you can catch up.
Music in #89:
Tetra Star -- Robots Need Love Too
MC Chris -- Nrrrd Grrrl (Schizmo's Chiptune Remix)
Nullsleep -- Salvation for a Broken Heart
and Taliah, of course.
See you next week when we'll be joined by another brilliant guest. Who? There's a clue in the show. Jeu Fini!

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1h 2min
January 06, 2009 One Life Left -- s04e16 -- #88 -- Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
It's a reasonably Happy New Year as two-thirds of One Life Left mark
their first day back in the office with resolutions, chat, songs,
mistakes and one off-the-cuff comment we regret (cut from this podcast;
you really should try and listen live).
Yes, OLL is back with a bang, though not as big a bang as it would
be had Ste returned from his holidays in time. He's stuck in Lapland,
arguing with Father Christmas about the existence of Peter Molyneux.
So cue emergency call to I'm Dave Green, who ably fills Simon's
shoes whilst Simon occupies Ste's red high heels and pretty dress.
This week's show is filled to the brim with actual gaming chat about
games, a special "best-of" 2008's news special with Ann (who's ill), a
special Derek Williams' Free Market Economy with Derek Williams (who's
poorly), a very special Craig "The Rage" McClellan with Craig "The
Rage" McClellan (who's sick), a distraught Taliah, and, well, spoilers
etc.
One thing we're certainly not spoilerising is the identity of our
incredibly incredible special guest next week, who's reasonably certain
he'll make it. A few clues inside; join the speculation on the forum,
but whatever you do, do send us stuff to ask him or her (it's him).
Music this week is:
• An excellent Super Shinobi/Madonna mashup by Brian Flanagan (cut
short on the show: download the full version from the site shortly)
• Fever, by show-saver Spencer Lee
• The loading music to a classic C64 s-s-s-shmup by Rob Hubbard.
Apologies to those who sent musical contributions (and we're unsure
of whether we can name); we should have played your songs, but Simon
panicked at the desk and forgot his running order. They're in the bank,
so to speak.
Normal service will be resumed next week, when Stephen! returns,
just in time to welcome (hopefully!) our very, very, very special guest.

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1h 1min
December 25, 2008 One Life Left -- x05 -- Christmas Special '08 -- Christmas Mixtape
Hello! As you probably already know, OLL’s Christmas gift to
you isn’t a show, but a mixtape of sorts, badly-put-together by Ste. The
tracklist is below. It’s probably best not to read it if you haven’t listened
yet, because it’s best to be surprised. But when you have, check back here and
visit the page of the artist you love and buy something from them. It’s about
time, right?

Happy Christmas, and see you on January 5th!

OLL Theme // Iain Cook
Killing In The Name // Uoki-Toki
Breaking Wave // Random
Chip 2 Bit // Trash80
Salut! France
// Errors
99 Problems // Jay-Z vs Combat Dave
Girl Gamers (Live) // Craig ‘The Rage’ McClellan (+ Derek
Williams on Synths)
I Love Love You // Guitar Vader
It Dies // Mr. Miyagi
Sexy Back // Justin vs Combat Dave
Space Music // Sexy Synthesizer
Technologic // Daft Punk
Playerd // Copy
Door (Covox Remix) // Ram Rider
Kicks // She
CRIMEWave (LAZRtag HARDer Remix) // Crystal Castles vs
Health
Free Market Economy (Live) // Derek Williams
Sponsored By Destiny // Slagsmalsklubben
Put That Pussy On Me // Spank Rock vs CFCF
The Crystal Cat // Dan Deacon
Heartbleeps // Hiroshi
You Take My Breath Away // The Knife
Umbrella // Rihanna vs electronicMESS
Star Child // gwEm and Counter Reset

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1h 15min
December 16, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e15 -- #87 -- Snow Business
It’s 6.15pm, in the studio and we’re all set up, missing one
guest. Ste makes the call. Hey Ellie Gibson of Eurogamer Dot Net! Where are
you? “Hey Ste! I’m in Soho!” Are you still on
for the show tonight? “Yes, totally. It’s an 8pm start isn’t it?” Uh oh. No,
Ellie, you’ve got 45 minutes. Pause. “It’s OK, I’ll be there!”

So begins Ellie’s sprint across town which, just like Ste’s
in episode #81, is perfectly timed and finishes with ten seconds remaining the show’s
30-second theme tune. That’s why we’re a bit giggly at the start of the very
festive #87 and that’s why her mic doesn’t work. We deal! We absolutely deal. We
would not have been able to deal with that last week.

Oh, last week.

On to this week, and the last episode of this year. It’s the
most feature-packed episode of One Life Left this season with very special
Christmas editions of Free Market Economy, Best Worst Games, and a new,
exclusive doyouinverts Christmas single. There’s also the return of a classic One
Life Left feature that hasn’t appeared for at least a season and some brilliant
Christmas music, including:

SNOBLIND – Receptors
Unironic Christmas Medley – Savestates
Last Christmas (hot digi remix) – Goto80 (a brilliant but
essentially emergency choice that I think we played last year)

We’ll see you next year. Do email us in the meantime and
keep watching the site for Christmas blogs and things. Happy Christmas, Happy
New Year, Happy everything.

Ste, Simon and Ann
xxx

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1h 3min
December 10, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e14 -- #86 -- Math Problem
It's Simon's last show before Christmas! So what better way to celebrate than with a return to One Life Left values of old: awkward silences, and dozens of technical errors. Welcome to the world's greatest videogame radio show.
So what have we learnt? Firstly, that we shouldn't let Ste drink for three days and arrive at the show a physical and emotional mess, incapable of working even the most basic elements of the desk, let alone delivering any kind of insight into the gaming industry. Secondly that if we absolutely have to do that, we shouldn't do it in front of Brammers, Eurogamer's Editor. And thirdly sometimes apologies just don't cut it.
Seriously, sorry. This is not the best episode and if it's your first you should probably click back a few although there are, as ever, some highlights. Taliah! Best Worst Games! Sweet music! Off-air libel! An introductory I'm Dave Green joke cut off by Ste's seratonin-deficient incompetence! Oh God.
Music on #86:
Heartbleeps by Hiroshi
Heathens (8-bit mix) by Bracken
Ryu the Red Nosed Ninja by Doctor Octoroc
Sorry. Sorry!
(And sorry this is late, too. For obvious reasons.)
See you next week!

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1h 2min
December 02, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e13 -- #85 -- Bucks Fizz
Bucks Fizz -- champagne cut with orange juice for reasons of cost masked by reasons of taste; the sort of drink you have at a company party just before everyone gets fired or a wedding where there's nothing to celebrate. And this is the episode just after the One Life Left Christmas Party, and the apologies section is back. Uh oh...

Whatever! The past is the past, literally unbroadcastable or otherwise, and the future is here right now. Five features, including a new song by some time best-friend-of-the-show Spencer Lee and a Very Christmas Craig The Rage.

And today marks an important point in One Life Left's history -- the launch of our very first CD, as press-released on Eurogamer here. You can buy it from Amazon here. Please buy it from Amazon. It is seven quid. Buy it now! BUY IT NOW. Then we can make another one.

Apologies for the broken mic problems near the end, which stopped Ste from being as enthusiastic as he'd like about Think Quick.

Music on #85:

Umbrella by electronicMESS
The Opposite of Sick of You by Think Quick

See you!

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1h 2min
November 24, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e12 -- #84 -- Terrain Man
We’re halfway through Season 4 (like the day after the
summer solstice it’s all downhill from here) but if you think we’re getting
complacent, thing again: One Life Left #84 is a special episode with a special guest.
But who’s the guest? And what’s the occasion?

It’s Rock Paper Shotgun’s very own Kieron Gillen! And it’s
Simon Byron’s birthday, so he has the night off. Consequently this episode of
OLL may sound a little bit different (we’ve not had to edit out any slander for
a start, and we talk about video games quite a lot) but you can still expect
the same quality of Xeroxed news, half-hearted reviews, games industry gossip
and improbably brilliant features.

Download the episode from here and as always, tell everyone
you love to do the same.

Crucuially (and you’ll hear this throughout the show) this
is the last episode of One Life Left before our Christmas Party. It is HUGELY
IMPORTANT you attend, whether this is the first episode you’ve listened to or
the last. We’ll be recording a show, live, and an audience will make that
better, but the radio part’s only a fraction of the day’s events; there’s our
CD launch, live music performances, your chance to make friends / make enemies
/ make out with some games industry legends. It’s free. And it’ll be brilliant.
I have no idea why you aren’t writing it in your diary already.

Oh, you are? Sweet! It’s at The Blue Posts on Rupert St, Soho, and it’ll be going on from 2pm until late, late,
late. We’ll see you there, and for the after party, and the after-after party,
and etc.

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1h 2min
November 18, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e11 -- #83 -- Troll Booth
Om nom nom nom? What? No! The OTHER kind of troll, the one that resides on the internet and says naughty things to gain a lol-some reaction. That's what OLL's big mouth feels like this week. But who are we trolling, and why?

Oh, no-one, deliberately, obviously. We're nice! We love everyone, even the gaming industry legends we insult. That's why we promise to keep the really salacious anecdotes to the off-air stuff at the OLL party. But the best kind of troll is the accidental one, the off-hand quip you regret later, and while there's no apology section this week we expect we'll need one in #84. Sorry! Sorry.

OLL #83 also contains no less than five separate features, the continuation of some threads from episodes past and some excellent listener-letters. If you want to be on next week's show you're welcome to send us stuff, of course. Otherwise just tune in, silently listening, and enjoy. It is a fun one, we think.

Also, keep an eye on the blog for more BONUS CONTENT from presenters and contributors alike.

Music in #83:

Hello by Uoki-Toki
In the Year 200X by 8-Bit Metal
I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

Special thanks to Derek, who's struggling through computer problems to maintain his excellent contribution record.

ALSO. RSVP to our party. It is going to be awesome.

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1h 1min
November 10, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e10 -- #82 -- Party Favour
No last-minute dramas this week, except that the show before ran on for three minutes into our slot and we were outraged. And which week is this? It's week in which Simon organised one party but mostly One Life Left got excited about another one. It's show #82.
And we'll let the actual content of the show reveal itself to you, with all the features, news, reviews and music waiting for you like a girl on stage awkwardly awaiting carnal instruction. No spoilers, except to say we do actually genuinely talk quite a lot about videogames in this one. I know! We were quite surprised too. Especially Ann.
Most pertinently, the Facebook party page for people who want to join us at our once-a-year Christmas bash on Saturday 29th of November is here. If you are reading this then you are genuinely invited. We want to see you there. You will have fun.
Music in #82: Not a lot, really, but the one chiptune thing we played is worth it...
Sexy Synthesizer -- Follow Me
Love Machine -- Girls Aloud
I'll leave you to guess which one that is. Oh, and two contributions from our friends, of course. No spoilers. See you next week!

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1h 1min
November 04, 2008 One Life Left -- s04e09 -- #81 -- Rush Hour
No time for a long explanation here because 1/3 of One Life Left is getting a flight to Lyon in a few hours, which leaves precious little time for sleep / lying awake, regretting all the things you said today. But we should explain why there's three minutes missing from this week's show...
Public transport. Ste left Brighton in plenty of time to reach the Resonance FM studios but a series of problems on the British rail network (four separate issues, detail fans) left him fighting his way through rush hour as Ann and Simon broke out the emergency CDs. Ste made it with seconds to spare -- the theme was about fifteen seconds in -- but, as a few weeks ago, we weren't set up to record.
So that's why the show starts just after Ann's pleas with Simon not to talk about what she got up to on Friday night at Nottingham Game City. Some of our listeners will already know. The rest will have to put together pieces from the fragments of information here, in episode 81 of Europe's favourite tenuously-related-to-videogames show, One Life Left.
Music:
Spring // Resplendent / Downey
Illusional Hop // Anthony Lofton & Joshua Morse
Glasgow Mega-Snake // Mogwai
That's it. See you next week. Oh, and please come to our party on the 29th of November. It's going to be brilliant and you'll be able to buy a CD! Srsly.

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