Radio Clash Music Podcast

What’s this? A podcast? In THIS economy?

Meant to be recorded back in April (!) and updated ever since, we have exclusive original music from me (yes I am making music again), tributes to Dolly Parton and Moya Brennan (RIP both), punky covers of Le Tigre and Amerie and less punky responses to the state of the world including leopards eating her face, Wicker Man and Bowie in dub, Leonard Cohen disco, psych and acid folk and Brubeck meets The Stranglers and Purcell!

I don’t know
I just work here, I suppose
I don’t care
You can burn it down as far as I’m concerned (2:39, 220Mb)

“Cos my sorrows did not drown my friend, they always learned to swim…”

I’ve been taking a lot of early baths – in the middle of the night when the electricity is cheaper, and I created a playlist for that – over 300 tracks. As I was lying there I thought ‘this would make a good podcast’ and here we are – recorded in my bathroom!

Paradoxically that’s where I used to record my podcasts not to disturb John, annoyed by the ever-present echo – now it’s a stylistic choice.

Talking of John – he’s famous! He’s featured in a book about Switchboard (formerly Lesbian and Gay Switchboard) as he was one of the co-founders. One of the many things he did…and I am so proud. Halfway through reading it, and the book is great – but also you can also hear his voice on famous The Log Books podcast – Series 4, episode 1.

Hearing his voice again was wonderful but also bittersweet. Ugly-cried when it came on.

So I’ve done readings across the podcast from a few bits of the book around him. It has nothing to do with baths, but given it’s his bath in a weird olive/grey shade (which made recently fixing a hole in it with Milliput easy actually, it’s that sort of weird grey/green!) and we used to have baths together when I was lot thinner.

I talk about that, the music, the state of the world (Iran So Far Away) and how I am glad that John doesn’t get to see the rise of the Fourth Reich, Icy Dumb and Dumber edition.

A surprise not-totally-festive edition of Radio Clash, where I talk about a bird I think about a lot (the lost Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird – apologies for the transliteration but those special symbols will likely gum up the works in the feed and tags) and what Christmas means to me now…

I play some new and old mashups and original music – some of which is my favourites of the year, but mostly older since I don’t listen to music in the same way anymore. Loving the new Saint Etienne and Lily Allen albums though, and K-Pop Demon Hunters (DERPY 4EVAH!) and new-ish music from B. Dolan, Hallmighty and Lankum.

Buckingham Nicks album gets a timely re-release (are they talking again?) so talk about that and the legendary Coffee Plant demos – and visit Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert’s Christmas Ghost Stories album…and play the last of my choices from Tom Rasmussen’s amazing Body Building album.

And some festive? festering? tracks that have been on ice stuck at the North Pole since Xmas two years ago. Joy to the world and all that, there’s a theme about wanting 2026 to be a lot less shit…but not that hopeful, concentrating on what Xmas is supposed to be about, rather than all the capitalism, food and tradition. Peace on earth for all would be a nice place to start?

Forgot to explain why I played Nomad/Candlebright though. John used to light a candle for me to guide me in when I visited on Tuesdays. “You’re my candlebright in the window”. I mentioned this in a 2012 episode with an image of that candle burning in the window.

Even back then this demo was important to me, it expressed the weird on/off yet constant nature of our relationship, but that candle was like a lighthouse, guiding me back to him from my travels.

And that’s why I light a candle for him now, to guide him back to me every Friday. And yes ‘The story has a strange ending’ indeed.

For Paul.

A podcast of queer, non-binary and trans joy (and music by same), going out to my community who are facing a lot of bad things atm.

A much belated podcast (I am not podfading, honest!) that was ready to go in January and then had no time to record it! I talk about what’s going on with me and the world, from trans non-binary agender shenanigans to clearing storage, ABBA and Dua Lipa mashups, some very explicit songs, a bumper Kitsch-en Disco, city lights, TRANSA compilation, bears. clubbing and cancellation bobbins in Gran Canaria, and whole load of fuck you to Donald Trump and co…

Recorded and edited in the same night, like olden days…

And we’ve reached 400, happy birthday to me!

Over 2 months since my last podcast, the longest time away since the hiatus and 2008, but I’ve been busy with funerals, probate, and grieving. I think this will likely be my last podcast of 2024, good riddance to this year but unlikely to do a Xmas podcast for the first time ever because I don’t feel that festive. In fact Xmas is a sore point this year…and likely every year onwards. A bunch of resistance songs and merry songs for the apocalypse, I do love to soundtrack that one (yr welcome).

An angry podcast reacting to the news of Trump’s election, the state of the world, and how I am in a fighting mood (I have to be given the shit I’ve had from banks, organisations and pensions) but also reflective too. Selections from the new Jamie XX album, some new mashups from me created for the podcast and before and after John died, punk, new age, soul, covers, ancient Roman music and modern Lebanese songs about Romans, shoe gaze, indie and my favourite mashup of the year and more.

I forgot to explain, the title comes from a post I wrote on Facebook, I might make a t-shirt some point – it read:

Four weeks ago, John my partner of 27 years died. I have the task of arranging the funeral, which is this afternoon 19th September 2024 at 2pm (I recorded this two days ago). This includes the music…the saddest gig for any DJ, let alone the saddest thing I’ve done for someone I loved so deeply. EDIT: there is a report of how it went with video/photos here.

So this cheery banging episode /s is comprised of music I’ve made about the death of John, or about John, or that he loved that will be played at some point during the funeral service or wake/reception after.

Raise a glass for him, and remember him fondly. I will miss him forever, he was my soul mate, my daddy bear, my beautiful man.

The feed artwork is from the coffin I painted for him, a custom abstract piece called ‘The Ship’ that will take him onwards. Collaged into it is pieces of his writing – his thousands of ‘notes’ and also the symbols reflect his life from the TFL roundel to the ANL arrow and Rock Against Racism star.

The actual MP3 artwork I cannot show here, because it’s John lying in state and people get oddly squeamish about death. I just see John in another state, one I’d rather he wasn’t in, but photos of it do not bother me. Unlike my reality of doing CPR on him and watching the paramedics do same, and seeing him dead on the messy floor which I see every time I close my eyes in ‘wonderful’ 3D living technicolour courtesy of my visual brain and likely PTSD. That’s way worse.

John clothed in his favourite clothes in a white coffin – it’s a much nicer memory, if slightly weird cos he’s not really there. So be really thankful if that’s all you have to worry about. So don’t look at the artwork in the MP3 if you don’t want to see that. You are warned.

As i said at the end of the podcast, given my grief and my lack of love for anything other than songs about loss this might be the last Radio Clash, at least for a long while until I can listen to silly mashups and relate to them.

But at the moment pop songs and inane fluff are the last thing on my mind.

A delayed podcast as I’ve been off in the woods – but we have a feature on the two ‘Songs of the Summer’, the new albums by G3RST and Mark David Hadley and talk Twisted Firestarters and Mashup Summer Camp, actual camping and hiking, and why July is always Summertime Sadness – with some songs to soundtrack the long hot/rainy summer.

And we talk about Trump and the times…how could I not? It lurks over this podcast like a black cloud…

Apologies for the late podcast, just scraping in for May, and the last one was early April! I’ve been off walking the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way in Scotland – all 170ish miles, so a LONG walk and a lot of wild camping, which seemed appropriate as it’s about to be Pride month as well.

So we have a slightly camp disco edit and queer acid tastic mix in the Kitchen Bathroom Disco, a few mashups and tunes I was singing while I was hiking, and listening to on the coach there and back, and a downtempo section where it goes a little Cabin In The Woods with strangers acting weirdly in remote locales.

And to those who follow me on HearThis, they’ve done a Mixcloud and restricted the accounts suddenly to 40 public uploads and 5Gb per account (the latter is definitely new since I am apparently over at 7.6Gb?), so I won’t be uploading there anymore. Please follow me here, on iTunes/Spotify or Amazon Podcasts – I think Google Podcasts is going, and I’m not uploading this to YouTube for anything, too much copyright aggro.

Kind of glad, since it’s another step and I’m trying to reduce my workload on these podcasts – hence no SEO/AI transcripts either. Too much faff for no return.

RIVER iS BEAUTIFUL! Fresh off a long walk along the River Thames – over a 100 miles sweetie – so we have a London and water themed podcast, an imagined soundtrack for my new YouTube video series on the Thames Path – cos I can’t afford the rights!

And new mashups from me and others and original music as well, and some old classics, And Video Killed The Radio Star? Hope not…

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Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom,

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for making a Coldplay Mash.

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Making me play a Coldplay Mash.

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Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash.

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After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay

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song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic.

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Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay.

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And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which

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I missed, I somehow missed.

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I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that

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one.

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I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?”

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And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like

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a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that.

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And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent

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two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path.

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I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers

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sweetie, spoilers.

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But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it,

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to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking.

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And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the

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copyright.

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I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs.

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So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music.

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This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack

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for the Thames Path series.

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It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out.

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I’m just editing it at the moment.

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And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based.

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And yes, if I could license any music, there’d be some of these in that video, but I can’t.

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So talking of London, we can play a track by Hallmighty.

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This is, surprise I’ve not played this.

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This is from 2023, Hallmighty Presents, Disco Deluxe 6.

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This is Take My Heart Back to London, Ed Sheeran versus Stormzy versus Pet Shop Boys.

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That was Hallmighty featuring Lady Tea, with his first ever original track.

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That’s ‘The Rhythm’.

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I like that a lot.

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It’s a good slice of disco, modern disco.

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And then before that we had, yeah, more of that sort of river section.

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That’s ‘Water’ featuring Clara La San by Bicep from 2022.

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Then before that Overmono with ‘BBY’ from 2029.

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And then before that we had Minor Arth

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We had two Minor Arth tracks in that mix, actually.

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There’s ‘Andromedas Teardrops’, Womack and Womacn versus Gorillaz versus D-RAM or

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DRAM, I don’t know how you say that, a very recent mashup.

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I’m not really up on Gorillaz and I’ve been hearing the odd thing that has used tracks

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and I’ve really liked the track they use.

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So I have one later in the podcast, which is one of those, it’s like, “Oh, actually,

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I’ve not heard that.

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I recognise that vocalist.

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I must have this.”

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And of course, you know, ‘Teardrop’ is a classic and it’s apparently namedropped in the Andromeda

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track.

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Then before that, the theme of mine is ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, for kind of obvious

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reasons I would say, though I never was a radio star.

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Video killed the radio unknown.

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But yeah, there’s very much a thing with YouTube taking on my time that I don’t really spend

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the time.

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I should do with the podcast and other things, blog and etc. are very neglected at the moment,

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which is very bad.

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But you know, it’s kind of like, that’s the way with YouTube.

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You have to be very much all in.

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You can’t just do half cock, really.

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So that’s Mighty Mike with ‘Time Killed the Radio Star’.

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That’s Cyndi Lauper’versus ‘Buggles’.

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And before that, we had ‘Video Killed Digital Love’, Daftpunk versus ‘The Buggles’ by

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Minor Arth

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Again, another new-ish mash.

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And then before that, we had one of me that was kept an obvious with, because everyone’s

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doing Murder on the Dancefloor mashups because of Saltburn.

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Even though I’ve never seen Saltburn, it was for a challenge actually.

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I didn’t win the challenge, but hey, that’s ‘Murder Everywhere’ on the dancefloor.

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Sophie Ellis Bexter versus Fleetwood Mac

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Yes, me doing a Fleetwood Mac mashup.

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Surprise!

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Much surprise.

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And then before the start of that section, we had Hallmighty with ‘Take My Heart Back

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to London’ Ed Sheeran and ‘Stormzy’ versus Pet Shop Boys.

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Yes, I’d love to have stuff like, you know, ‘Bicep’ in my video.

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I just have to use an AI knock-offs of that kind of thing.

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Unfortunately, yes, it’s sad.

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It’s sad.

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So, we’re going to play another London-related track, which is ‘London Calling’ by The Clash.

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Hey, we’re Radio Clash.

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We have to play Clash tunes it’s in the rules

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And this is Phoenix City All-Stars, their version of ‘London Calling’.

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That was men, not just

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any old men, we’re just innocent men.

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Now, MEN, J.D. Samson’s band from 2011, that’s “Who Am I to Feel So Free?” which I know from

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Duckie I’d heard it from Duckie and I heard it again through checking out what J.D. Samson

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had been up to and I was like, “Oh, I know that song.

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Always good to play some queer indy disco.

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Always a pleasure in this podcast.”

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The whole thing that I always love to play is also Jungle, so we had Charla Green

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with Babylon Fall from 2020, not from London, from Sheffield, but yeah.

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Before that, we had some London Elektricity.

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I mean, how could we do a London podcast without some London Elektricity?

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It’s impossible.

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We can’t.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot.

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We cannot have a London podcast without London Elektricity.

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And that’s from 2019’s “Building Better Worlds.”

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That’s “Possible Worlds” featuring Inja.

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I haven’t played a remix of that, but I haven’t played the original weirdly.

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And then we had Oki’s “Walk Idiot, Don’t Stop.”

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You see what I did there?

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Hives vs. Fleetwood Mac the Oki tracks from 2023, and The Unusuals “I’m Walking,

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Babe” from 1965, some classic garage rock.

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I’ve played some Unusualson a podcast before, a very different one with a different vocalist,

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but that’s their other single.

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They’re like three singles, I think, or two singles.

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And that’s that other single.

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They’re more known for their second single, which I forget her name, but it’s quite a

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well-known vocalist who worked with them on their last single.

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I think it was their last single, one of their singles.

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And then before that, we had Phoenix City All-Stars with London Calling, or London Colin, as

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I always call it.

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I can hear you, Colin.

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London Colin.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So, again, when I was walking down the river, there was one song that was in my head, or

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one statement.

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There was a few songs that I was singing along the way.

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Weirdly not river-based, most of them.

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For some reason, I was always singing Negativland’s

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“I am a man, a man with four fingers.”

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For some reason, I just kept singing that.

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I don’t know why.

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I don’t know why.

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So I kept changing lyrics.

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“I am a man, a man with four locks.

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I am a man, a man with four rivers.

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I am a man with four pastels.”

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I was eating a lot of fruit pastels.

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With four fruit pastels, yeah.

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I ate two and a half bags of, no three and a half bags of fruit pastels.

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And I can tell you, my fruit pastel research, that the original fruit pastels are worse

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than the supermarket-owned brands.

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Even Lidl.

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That doesn’t make sense.

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But, of course, Rowntrees changed the formula, like they did with fruit gums.

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And then ours tastes like shit.

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Whereas the best one is Tesco’s.

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Tesco’s own fruit pastels taste fruitier than the original fruit pastels.

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And they still have that texture.

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I think it’s because they made it vegan.

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They made the original ones vegan.

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And so now they’re just not as nice.

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Sorry, vegans.

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You spoil everything.

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I’m going to get complaints.

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I don’t care.

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No one fucking listens to this.

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But yeah, so I’m not almost now listening to this.

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So what?

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It’s true, though.

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That’s nice things that have been sort of wrecked by having to change the formula because

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of…

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I mean, I get it with allergies, but it’s…

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Yeah.

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I have vegans and I have gluten tolerance and stuff.

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So I get it.

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But I don’t go around insisting everyone should change their crusty loaf.

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I wish there was more gluten bread, but I don’t think people should change theirs.

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But yeah, and I’ll readily agree that the gluten-free versions are dreadful.

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Well, not dreadful.

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They’re getting better.

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But sourdough is all right.

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But a lot of them are just like cardboard.

01:06:13.240 –> 01:06:17.400
And I will freely admit that.

01:06:17.400 –> 01:06:20.760
But yeah, whenever…

01:06:20.760 –> 01:06:23.280
I’ve noticed the vegan version of things.

01:06:23.280 –> 01:06:25.360
The vegan version of jelly gums.

01:06:25.360 –> 01:06:31.200
Unfortunately, I think you do need pigs or gelatin, really.

01:06:31.200 –> 01:06:34.720
It’s part of the flavor and the taste and texture.

01:06:34.720 –> 01:06:45.920
So the thing that I was saying was “Creek is beautiful” rather than saying what is the

01:06:45.920 –> 01:06:47.320
title of this podcast.

01:06:47.320 –> 01:06:48.320
River is beautiful.

01:06:48.320 –> 01:06:50.320
And so I have to play the original.

01:06:50.320 –> 01:06:51.680
So this is from Bluey.

01:06:51.680 –> 01:06:54.000
“Creek is beautiful” and it is a beautiful episode.

01:06:54.000 –> 01:06:57.720
And this is pretty much every Bluey episode.

01:06:57.720 –> 01:06:58.720
All of them actually.

01:06:58.720 –> 01:06:59.720
They are beautiful.

01:06:59.720 –> 01:07:03.320
But yeah, this is a magical paen to…

01:07:03.320 –> 01:07:08.680
Kids going outdoors and playing in the creek.

01:36:25.400 –> 01:36:28.440
It seems to be a bumper podcast for Hallmighty.

01:36:28.440 –> 01:36:33.160
Well I was actually planning to play the two Hallmighty tracks, and then he dropped the original

01:36:33.160 –> 01:36:35.640
tracks, so I was like, “Oh, put that in as well”

01:36:35.640 –> 01:36:41.400
That’s “Hear Me Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers versus K’Naan versus

01:36:41.400 –> 01:36:43.640
Robbie Williams, versus The Beatles.

01:36:43.640 –> 01:36:46.920
I must have agreed, when I first heard that, I was like, “Where’s The Beatles?

01:36:46.920 –> 01:36:47.920
Where’s The Beatles?”

01:36:47.920 –> 01:36:50.200
And it was just like, right at the end, a little bit of Hey Jude.

01:36:50.200 –> 01:36:56.080
And before that, we had the dub classic, “Kunte Kinte dub plate, version two”.

01:36:56.080 –> 01:36:59.520
Everyone plays version one, and I preferred version two actually.

01:36:59.520 –> 01:37:01.360
That’s by The Revolutionaries.

01:37:01.360 –> 01:37:05.560
And it’s weird, because the date on that is like 2007, 2009.

01:37:05.560 –> 01:37:09.600
I can’t find the original version, even though it’s from the 1970s.

01:37:09.600 –> 01:37:13.560
I can’t find it on Discogs because I can’t find what the original version, when the original

01:37:13.560 –> 01:37:15.920
version, release date was.

01:37:15.920 –> 01:37:20.800
I think I won these things that languished on dub plates, and never got properly released,

01:37:20.800 –> 01:37:22.920
commercially released.

01:37:22.920 –> 01:37:27.240
But I’ve certainly heard that organ sound in so many other things.

01:37:27.240 –> 01:37:30.440
So that organ sound was very much copied.

01:37:30.440 –> 01:37:34.000
And The Revolutionaries was the first time that Sly and Robbie got together.

01:37:34.000 –> 01:37:35.520
That was their group.

01:37:35.520 –> 01:37:36.520
Various people came and went.

01:37:36.520 –> 01:37:42.240
I think Ansel Collins was in there, and various people you all heard of came through The

01:37:42.240 –> 01:37:44.640
Revolutionaries.

01:37:44.640 –> 01:37:49.400
And before that, we had Gorillaz with the lost chord featuring Leee John.

01:37:49.400 –> 01:37:50.400
The man with three E’s

01:37:50.400 –> 01:37:52.400
Oh, it’s great to hear Leee John.

01:37:52.400 –> 01:37:54.040
I’m a big Imagination fan.

01:37:54.040 –> 01:37:56.040
I was as a child.

01:37:56.040 –> 01:37:59.840
And I heard that voice in a mashup, and I was like, “Hey, that’s Leee John.

01:37:59.840 –> 01:38:02.120
I’m pretty sure that’s Leee John on a Gorillaz track.”

01:38:02.120 –> 01:38:03.120
Yep.

01:38:03.120 –> 01:38:08.160
It was from 2020’s Song Machine Season 1, “Strange Times.”

01:38:08.160 –> 01:38:13.040
And I don’t know what that song’s about, but every song sounds better with Leee John in it.

01:38:13.040 –> 01:38:16.320
And before that, we had the headless, the headless organist.

01:38:16.320 –> 01:38:20.960
I’m not going to get very far, are they?

01:38:20.960 –> 01:38:21.960
Headless organist.

01:38:21.960 –> 01:38:22.960
Bonk.

01:38:22.960 –> 01:38:30.080
Now, the Handless Organist is Turn Your Radio On from 1984’s Truly a Miracle of God.

01:38:30.080 –> 01:38:35.880
And people describe that as an outsider album, and I don’t think it is.

01:38:35.880 –> 01:38:38.000
Having listened to it, it’s perfectly fine.

01:38:38.000 –> 01:38:41.360
I love the organ work, and I love the singing.

01:38:41.360 –> 01:38:43.160
It’s like, “Oh, it’s an outsider record.

01:38:43.160 –> 01:38:46.640
Just watch, because she’s got a disability, because she has no hands.”

01:38:46.640 –> 01:38:48.840
It’s like, that’s a bit weird.

01:38:48.840 –> 01:38:50.160
No, it’s not.

01:38:50.160 –> 01:38:52.520
It has to be a bit more than that.

01:38:52.520 –> 01:38:56.360
But still, I really like that song, despite the Christian bits.

01:38:56.360 –> 01:38:59.400
It’s just the, “Turn your radio on.”

01:38:59.400 –> 01:39:00.400
It’s good.

01:39:00.400 –> 01:39:06.280
And then before that, we had Billy No-Mates with Saboteur Forcefield from 2023’s Cacti.

01:39:06.280 –> 01:39:10.080
It’s probably the only podcast that went from Billy No-Mates to the Handless Organist,

01:39:10.080 –> 01:39:11.080
I can tell you.

01:39:11.080 –> 01:39:16.640
Then before that, we had a kind of a London section, but not necessarily a happy London

01:39:16.640 –> 01:39:17.640
section.

01:39:17.640 –> 01:39:19.880
It started out happy.

01:39:19.880 –> 01:39:25.720
So we had Kae Tempest with Bad Place for a Good Time, and that was the last single that they

01:39:25.720 –> 01:39:27.800
did for Big Dada.

01:39:27.800 –> 01:39:32.120
That was the last independent single from 2015.

01:39:32.120 –> 01:39:37.160
And then they joined the big bad UMG, unfortunately.

01:39:37.160 –> 01:39:43.000
And before that, we had Solange with Cranes in the Sky from 2016’s A Seat at the Table.

01:39:43.000 –> 01:39:47.240
And I questioned myself about doing this, because it harmonically works so well.

01:39:47.240 –> 01:39:52.040
But I really didn’t want to cramp on the style of Bluey’s and Joff Bush’s.

01:39:52.040 –> 01:39:53.360
“The creek is beautiful.”

01:39:53.360 –> 01:39:55.880
But then I was like, that is basically my walk.

01:39:55.880 –> 01:40:00.760
It was, you’d see a beautiful creek, a beautiful river, and then you turn the corner and there

01:40:00.760 –> 01:40:04.840
would be cranes and the usual London bullshit.

01:40:04.840 –> 01:40:10.720
And so that was why I was like, yeah, I’ll keep it in, because it’s kind of that duality

01:40:10.720 –> 01:40:13.840
is what’s in my video series.

01:40:13.840 –> 01:40:17.840
To come, he’s very much that ugly next to beautiful.

01:40:17.840 –> 01:40:20.680
And the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful is ugly, you know, that kind of thing.

01:40:20.680 –> 01:40:21.680
That’s London.

01:40:21.680 –> 01:40:24.200
It’s all jostled together, the good and the bad.

01:40:24.200 –> 01:40:29.000
And yes, as you might have guessed, my walk didn’t go badly.

01:40:29.000 –> 01:40:34.360
It didn’t, unfortunately, because of flooding, didn’t actually get where I wanted it to be,

01:40:34.360 –> 01:40:35.360
which was depressing.

01:40:35.360 –> 01:40:38.800
But it’s funny, it was Easter and it was like, well, I can’t walk on water.

01:40:38.800 –> 01:40:39.800
I’m not Jesus.

01:40:39.800 –> 01:40:44.320
So I’m going to go back and finish, well, less than half, I think it is.

01:40:44.320 –> 01:40:47.880
I’m totted it up, but it’s definitely more than half.

01:40:47.880 –> 01:40:57.080
Look at the latter bit when it’s summer and it’s less of a stressy thing, because I just

01:40:57.080 –> 01:41:02.080
ended up walking on roads and like walking roads, taking a path in, finding it flooded,

01:41:02.080 –> 01:41:03.800
you know, and it’s like I did take water through socks.

01:41:03.800 –> 01:41:08.200
I was fording across things, but the problem is you can’t hike in wellies.

01:41:08.200 –> 01:41:09.760
So it was a debate.

01:41:09.760 –> 01:41:13.560
I should have took wellies, but then it was like, well, there’d be another thing to carry.

01:41:13.560 –> 01:41:15.200
Some of the bits are impossible to afford.

01:41:15.200 –> 01:41:20.120
Like I got to this thing which I’ve jumped before or around.

01:41:20.120 –> 01:41:24.800
So sort of like this sort of bit, which is like a break in the bank.

01:41:24.800 –> 01:41:28.040
And it was, I actually put my pole and I was like, should I walk through this?

01:41:28.040 –> 01:41:30.200
And it was like, kept going down and down and down.

01:41:30.200 –> 01:41:31.200
I was more than waist deep.

01:41:31.200 –> 01:41:33.200
I was like, no.

01:41:33.200 –> 01:41:38.320
And the field was completely flooded going into unless I sort of forded that.

01:41:38.320 –> 01:41:41.520
And I was like, no.

01:41:41.520 –> 01:41:45.560
So there was a few things like that, but I did, I did ford quite a lot of them and

01:41:45.560 –> 01:41:48.440
I got, got my feet wet quite a few times.

01:41:48.440 –> 01:41:51.360
It got to a point where I don’t need wellies.

01:41:51.360 –> 01:41:52.360
I need waders.

01:41:52.360 –> 01:41:54.200
It’s too deep.

01:41:54.200 –> 01:41:56.200
And so then I was like, no, it’s just silly.

01:41:56.200 –> 01:42:00.160
I was fed up of camping by roads and walking along roads.

01:42:00.160 –> 01:42:03.000
It was just, it was just too stressy.

01:42:03.000 –> 01:42:05.520
Lots of bad places and lots of good places.

01:42:05.520 –> 01:42:06.520
Well, then one.

01:42:06.520 –> 01:42:09.760
But yeah, I’m going to play a track by Working Men’s Club.

01:42:09.760 –> 01:42:10.760
I love this greatly.

01:42:10.760 –> 01:42:13.360
It doesn’t really fit for the rest of it.

01:42:13.360 –> 01:42:15.880
It’s very sort of new wave.

01:42:15.880 –> 01:42:19.160
This is Circumference.

02:12:38.840 –> 02:12:42.520
I almost didn’t make the ending because I fell asleep to my own mashup, which is, I’m

02:12:42.520 –> 02:12:45.080
not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.

02:12:45.080 –> 02:12:49.080
That TBC aka Instamatic with Whisper Forever

02:12:49.080 –> 02:12:51.000
George Michael versus the Spice Girls

02:12:51.000 –> 02:12:55.120
I always wanted to do a mashup with Viva Forever.

02:12:55.120 –> 02:12:59.480
I’m not a massive Spice Girls fan, but I do like the feel of that.

02:12:59.480 –> 02:13:02.520
I mean, it was like a whole Geri leaving at that point.

02:13:02.520 –> 02:13:05.960
And you know, I don’t know.

02:13:05.960 –> 02:13:07.520
There’s a whole kind of feel of that.

02:13:07.520 –> 02:13:11.480
Even though it’s supposed to be like the end of a summer romance.

02:13:11.480 –> 02:13:13.960
It’s quite a sad song.

02:13:13.960 –> 02:13:17.680
Then before that, we had Goldie and the Gingerbreads with Walking in Different Circles.

02:13:17.680 –> 02:13:22.680
That’s some classic psych sort of garage from 1967.

02:13:22.680 –> 02:13:27.560
And before that, we had iWillBattle with Feeling Beautiful Good Things, Benson Boone

02:13:27.560 –> 02:13:28.720
versus Muse.

02:13:28.720 –> 02:13:31.520
I didn’t know the Benson Boone song at all.

02:13:31.520 –> 02:13:36.080
It’s always a good sign of a mashup when you really connect to a mashup, but you don’t

02:13:36.080 –> 02:13:37.080
know one of the songs.

02:13:37.080 –> 02:13:40.640
And you’re kind of like, it just works.

02:13:40.640 –> 02:13:45.880
I’ve not heard the original version of the Benson Boone track at all.

02:13:45.880 –> 02:13:50.280
So I don’t know it, but yeah, it just works really well.

02:13:50.280 –> 02:13:56.640
And then before that, we had ah! Alan Hurley with Black Frog Peace One.

02:13:56.640 –> 02:14:00.280
Again, I think that’s one of my favorite mashups of the year.

02:14:00.280 –> 02:14:03.440
That’s the Doors versus Thom Yorke.

02:14:03.440 –> 02:14:05.440
And I don’t know.

02:14:05.440 –> 02:14:10.200
You know, in some senses, I suppose, Radiohead, Tom York versus the Doors might be slightly

02:14:10.200 –> 02:14:11.960
obvious, but it’s not really.

02:14:11.960 –> 02:14:15.920
It feels very intertwined.

02:14:15.920 –> 02:14:22.640
It’s certainly not an obvious choice, the two songs together, but they work so well.

02:14:22.640 –> 02:14:25.160
So that’s the important thing.

02:14:25.160 –> 02:14:28.840
And then before that, we had Danny Macabre with Vampire Creep.

02:14:28.840 –> 02:14:30.920
There’s Olivia Rodrigo versus Radiohead.

02:14:30.920 –> 02:14:36.440
I question myself whether to put that in because the Radiohead is too fast, that really weird

02:14:36.440 –> 02:14:37.880
break in it.

02:14:37.880 –> 02:14:43.400
And I don’t know why the extra drums sound odd, but the combination is brilliant.

02:14:43.400 –> 02:14:51.840
The Vampire Olivia Rodrigo versus Creep, it’s kind of like more than half of a good

02:14:51.840 –> 02:14:54.040
mashup is the song selection.

02:14:54.040 –> 02:15:00.040
The Alan Hurley as well is like the one from iWillBattle.

02:15:00.040 –> 02:15:03.960
The two things just meshing.

02:15:03.960 –> 02:15:05.800
And that’s kind of more than half the battle.

02:15:05.800 –> 02:15:09.480
It’s just choosing two things that sync together really well.

02:15:09.480 –> 02:15:15.360
At the end of the day, the technical side is not as important as having two good tracks

02:15:15.360 –> 02:15:17.840
that work really well together.

02:15:17.840 –> 02:15:19.520
You can kind of overlook some of the bits.

02:15:19.520 –> 02:15:20.520
It’s like, “Hmm.”

02:15:20.520 –> 02:15:24.280
That’s still, yeah, I don’t know if that’s going on with that first break, but anyway,

02:15:24.280 –> 02:15:25.400
first drop.

02:15:25.400 –> 02:15:28.360
And then before that, we had Totom’s.

02:15:28.360 –> 02:15:33.320
Everybody would drown and You’d Too Y.O.U.D. Too.

02:15:33.320 –> 02:15:39.160
How to Destroy Angels versus Billie Eilish versus Culoe Da Song.

02:15:39.160 –> 02:15:44.600
I don’t know the How to Destroy Angels or the Culoe Da Song, but it just works so

02:15:44.600 –> 02:15:45.600
well.

02:15:45.600 –> 02:15:49.040
I know the Billie Eilish and it just is a complete mood.

02:15:49.040 –> 02:15:50.720
A complete mood.

02:15:50.720 –> 02:15:52.560
Hashtag vibe.

02:15:52.560 –> 02:15:57.800
Then before that, we had Working Men’s Club with Circumference.

02:15:57.800 –> 02:15:59.560
And as you might have guessed, that’s selection.

02:15:59.560 –> 02:16:02.640
Yeah, not exactly happy, happy, joy, joy.

02:16:02.640 –> 02:16:05.720
My mental health has been a bit weird since I got back.

02:16:05.720 –> 02:16:08.520
I think it’s just sitting indoors editing.

02:16:08.520 –> 02:16:13.880
I edited the South Downs Way Part 3 last week and now I’m working on the editing for the

02:16:13.880 –> 02:16:17.240
Thames Path stuff and just going through all my old photographs.

02:16:17.240 –> 02:16:20.200
And it’s just been a bit of a kind of like a drudge I think.

02:16:20.200 –> 02:16:26.440
But luckily I’m going out next weekend on another collaboration trip in Felixstowe and

02:16:26.440 –> 02:16:27.440
Harwich.

02:16:27.440 –> 02:16:31.040
So it’s a coast I don’t know well, walking around the estuary.

02:16:31.040 –> 02:16:34.920
Yeah, that should be hopefully good.

02:16:34.920 –> 02:16:35.920
Hopefully interesting.

02:16:35.920 –> 02:16:38.400
But yeah, I think really getting out would be good for me.

02:16:38.400 –> 02:16:43.360
I’ve been trying to keep myself busy because yeah, things have been a bit like, I think

02:16:43.360 –> 02:16:48.080
it’s just probably because I’m about to reach 51.

02:16:48.080 –> 02:16:51.440
It’s always weird about that sort of time and so looking at my achievements and the

02:16:51.440 –> 02:16:55.320
YouTube channel and stuff and just thinking it’s not really where I want it to be.

02:16:55.320 –> 02:16:59.520
I mean, that’s what the two week walk thing was about was just a bit like, you know, I’m

02:16:59.520 –> 02:17:02.760
going to do something big and sort of really push it.

02:17:02.760 –> 02:17:05.760
But it’s a lot of work, a lot of footage.

02:17:05.760 –> 02:17:06.760
A lot of editing.

02:17:06.760 –> 02:17:11.360
I don’t know how long the series hopefully won’t be daily.

02:17:11.360 –> 02:17:14.080
If it’s daily, it’s going to be 12 parts, which is right.

02:17:14.080 –> 02:17:15.080
That’s crazy.

02:17:15.080 –> 02:17:17.880
I’m hoping to do it every couple of days.

02:17:17.880 –> 02:17:21.760
My computer is having to use external drives and stuff.

02:17:21.760 –> 02:17:22.760
Computer’s fall on it.

02:17:22.760 –> 02:17:26.400
It’s just like, a lot of tech issues.

02:17:26.400 –> 02:17:30.000
I’ve been going through all my old photographs and that’s quite fun.

02:17:30.000 –> 02:17:32.840
But also the scanner won’t scan the slides.

02:17:32.840 –> 02:17:37.640
So I can’t include any of the slides unless I get the other scanner in and it’s all that

02:17:37.640 –> 02:17:38.640
sort of stuff.

02:17:38.640 –> 02:17:43.440
It’s just like, oh, so yeah, there’s a lot of that going on and it’s not helping.

02:17:43.440 –> 02:17:45.040
So I hope you’re all well.

02:17:45.040 –> 02:17:50.760
I’m going to play out with a classic from Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons.

02:17:50.760 –> 02:17:57.520
Again, I think I heard this on his Megabllast radio show from Noisebox Radio.

02:17:57.520 –> 02:17:58.880
I think it was that.

02:17:58.880 –> 02:18:00.520
I think he played on that.

02:18:00.520 –> 02:18:01.520
I had not heard it before.

02:18:01.520 –> 02:18:03.440
It’s from way back in the day.

02:18:03.440 –> 02:18:08.640
And I have to say, I love it, but it does have that weird kind of, because I’m pretty sure,

02:18:08.640 –> 02:18:13.440
I’m really not sure what time signatures Charots of Fire is in.

02:18:13.440 –> 02:18:18.000
And I think it’s kind of a weird kind of almost Waltz time.

02:18:18.000 –> 02:18:19.160
I’m not sure.

02:18:19.160 –> 02:18:20.160
So there an element of that.

02:18:20.160 –> 02:18:24.800
But even that, it just, it does, it does work even though bits are on like, yeah, where

02:18:24.800 –> 02:18:27.080
is the snare there?

02:18:27.080 –> 02:18:29.920
So this is Chariots Killed The Radio Star, Buggles.

02:18:29.920 –> 02:18:32.240
Yeah, again, Buggles versus Vangelis.

02:18:32.240 –> 02:18:35.600
Speak to you soon.