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RC 376: Hinterland / Epic 2023?


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Hinterland is what I call the period between Christmas and the New Year, that strange waiting room time where it’s not the next year and you slowly eat the leftovers and the Christmas/New Year blues kick in. A grey snowy/rainy hinterland where light barely enters, and things seem rather bleak or weird.

This is a 2023 dub/punk new year themed episode dedicated to Terry Hall of the Specials and FB3 who died recently, Vivienne Westwood who I heard about immediately after I recorded this podcast, and the 20th annviversary of the death of Joe Strummer., Wilko Johnson who died in November and Jet Black of the Stranglers who died early December.

It’s been a bad month in the world of punk.

Also some drum and bass and acid chiiled vibes from Ceephax and less chilled vibes from Daniel Avery as we wave goodbye to 2023 and hope it’s much more epic and less shit than 2022, but don’t I always say that?.

Wondering in a Winter Hinterland (2:33, 217MB)
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  • The Specials – Rat Race (BBC in Concert: Live at Paris Theatre, 15 December 1979)
  • Cecille DeMilla vs Instamatic – This Is Radio Clash
  • The Kunts (feat. Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer) – Fuck The Tories (Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer Remix)
  • Mikkim vs The Clash – I Fought The Law
  • dj feva – gun clash brixton (The Clash – Guns of Brixton)
  • dubmones feat. Sebastian Sturm – Pinhead
  • DubXanne – Message In A Bottle (Message In A Dub) Featuring Earl 16
  • Fun Boy Three – The More I See (The Less I Believe)
  • DubXanne – Spirits In A Material World (Spirits In A Dubworld) Featuring Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Ceephax – Strut (Storm Mix)
  • Bobby Martini – Too Busy Thinking About The Magnificent Seven (The Clash vs Marvin Gaye)
  • Cookiee Kawaii – H@ters Anonymous
  • mashupchuck – Dio Lipa – Hallucinate in the Dark (Dua Lipa vs. Dio)
  • HallMighty – Set Fire To Blue Monday (Adele vs New Order vs Sebastian Bohm)
  • Instamatic – Bush of Ghosts (A Deal With The Devil) (Kate Bush vs Ghost)
  • Daniel Avery & Sherelle – Higher (Vocal Version)
  • DJ Fresh – Gold Dust (Fox Stevenson Remix Full Length)
  • Lily Allen – Smile (Mista Trick & Fizzy Gillespie Drum ‘n’ Bass Remix)
  • 4am Kru – 4AMK3 (Golden Boy)
  • Degs – Still Messed Up
  • Buunshin – Tranen
  • Cobrah – BRAND NEW BITCH
  • Daniel Avery – Chaos Energy (featuring HAAi & Kelly Lee Owens)
  • DJ Useo – Girls Just Want To Tear Us Apart (Cyndi Lauper vs Joy Division)
  • USS – Riders of love (The Doors vs Air)
  • Ceephax – Roddy
  • Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Belize (feat. MF DOOM)
  • Sault – Stronger
  • Instamatic – Willesden Blue (The Orb vs Mescaleros vs Bonzo Dog Band – 2020 remaster)
  • B.B. Seaton – Thin Line Between Love And Hate
  • Hollie Cook – Happy Hour
  • The Specials – Friday Night, Saturday Morning
  • BB Seaton – I Feel Lost
  • tbc aka Instamatic – Only Living Boy In Jamaica (Boy Who We Be) (Tanya Stephens vs Simon & Garfunkel)
  • Specials – Enjoy Yourself (reprise)
  • Transcript

    Hello, Welcome to Radio Clash, this is 376
    and it’s Hinterland, or Epic 2023
    Question mark? Will it be epic?
    Welcome to Ready Clash 376
    And it’s Hinterland
    Because this is recorded in the Hinterland
    The Christmas Hinterland as we call it around here
    You know that weird time between Christmas and New Year
    And also Epic 2023
    Question mark
    Because I have a theory that the music in 2023
    And currently now is becoming less of that
    Lockdown, acoustic and more epic
    More bigger, more maximalist, more widescreen
    More throwing the kitchen sink and everything
    Well that’s just my theory, I think it’s going to get more epic
    But the question is whether 2023 itself has become epic
    Hmm, probably not
    And you just heard I Fought the Law
    Mikkim vs The Clash
    And of course it’s not dated, but I think it’s from a few years ago
    Mikkim is an Eastern European producer
    He’s produced quite a few of dub drum and bass
    Remixes especially around The Clash
    Then before that we had from The Kunts
    With their Christmas single this year
    That’s Fuck the Tories
    And that’s the Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer remix
    I didn’t really think I’d support them
    Although I found it funny how they managed to
    Piss off the sausage roll grifter that is Lad Baby
    And quite right too
    Although I think The Cunts are grifting to some extent
    I think Lad Baby is much worse example
    But I like that version by Mr B going all jungle
    And I agree with the sentiment obviously
    And then before the wonderful jingle from Cecille DeMilla
    The new one that was a Rat Race by the Specials
    From BBC concert live at the Paris Theatre
    15th of December, 1979
    And obviously included that because of the sad death of Terry Hall
    And also we just had the 20th anniversary of
    The death of Joe Strummer
    Who died 23rd of December
    I remember that, that was similar feeling to
    How I feel about Terry Hall
    Of Specials, FUNBOY 3
    And many other things, kind of field
    And you will hear some Terry Hall
    And some more Joe Strummer and The Clash
    Later on in the podcast
    It’s a very dubby, punky, drum and bassy
    Some electronica, something with the new Ceephax
    And the new Daniel Avery albums
    The Ceephax one just recently dropped
    I’ve featured it on the blog RadioClash.com
    If you don’t know, I’m sure you do know
    Because you downloaded this
    But you never know where people get to hear this
    But yeah, from RadioClash.com
    You can feature the Ceephax album
    And the Daniel Avery album is brilliant as well
    We’ll talk about that later
    But we’re going to start with some more
    More Clash related shizzle
    RadioClash, I mean seriously, I mean
    It’s part of the MO
    That’s where we stole the name from
    So this is from DJ Feva’s
    Lockdown EP
    During lockdown he created a bunch of
    Lockdown related dub tracks
    This one was less lockdown related
    Probably is why I didn’t play it
    But this is Gun Clash Brixton
    The Clash Guns of Brixton
    By DJ Feva
    That was Dubxanne
    With Spirits in a Material World
    Spirits in a Dub World
    Featuring Benjamin Zephaniah
    I like BBenjamin Zephaniah but
    Dubbing up police tracks
    Oh that’s not the one I heard
    Maybe it was but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t
    Informously, a long long time ago
    On this podcast we did a podcast
    Probably the first ever podcast in the world
    On psychedelic mushrooms
    And just before they became illegal
    In the UK
    We thought we heard the best
    Or I thought I heard the best
    Police dub album ever
    And I think it was just audio hallucinations
    It certainly didn’t sound like that
    It sounded like King Tubby
    Or Lee Scratch Perry remixing the police
    It was like wow
    And I think it was just an audio hallucination
    Because everything was looping around
    In my head
    Even the birds and everything was just looping around
    Because it was like an in echo chamber
    So it was the best dub album ever
    And it was in my head, annoyingly
    I’ve always wanted to do a dub section
    And it just seemed appropriate
    Because of the death of Terry Hall
    And the 20th anniversary
    Of Dub and Reggae and Ska
    Just seemed to be appropriate
    To drop loads of tracks relating to that
    Before there was Funboy 3
    With More I See The Less I Believe
    From their album Waiting
    From 1983
    From Police and Dub
    So I actually couldn’t have been that
    It couldn’t have been that album
    Maybe it was a pre-release, I don’t know
    It’s such a shame that that Funboy 3 track
    Is out of date
    Is out nation divided
    And terrorism
    And all those things
    It’s such a relic of the times
    Things have changed
    And it’s nothing like that at all
    Ahem
    Yes
    Then before that we had Dubxanne
    With Message in a Bottle
    Message in a Dub
    Featuring Earl 16
    I love Earl 16
    I’ve played tracks
    I think with Mikkim again
    From Earl 16
    And I couldn’t decide which one to put in
    So I put in both
    And usually one gets dropped
    I was like no
    I really think the
    Spiritual
    Anti-Materialism
    Your You
    Message is perfect for
    A New Year show
    And also
    There’s the line in
    Message in a Bottle
    About another year has passed
    And then
    Bottles
    Arriving at my shore
    And that kind of sums up
    Kind of where I’m at at the moment
    Talking about my experiences
    And a few things online
    The idea that
    Not everyone’s experience is unique
    But also
    Depressingly common
    And that also seems to work
    Very well with a
    A New Year idea
    So, you know
    And then before that
    We had Dubmones
    Featuring Sebastian Sturm
    That’s Pinhead
    That’s from
    The King-sized Dub
    25
    Convolution
    That’s from this year
    I don’t know, is that a cover?
    Is that a cover mashup?
    A mash cover?
    A cash-up
    A mother
    Of Pinhead
    By the Ramones
    I love how they dropped in bits of the Ramones
    And it’s also mixed in
    And with the radio sounds at the start
    And then at the start of the section
    We had DJ Feva
    Spell FEVA
    I think you can still find that online
    For downloads still available
    Very well worth checking out
    For 2020
    That’s
    That’s Gun Clash Brixton
    I’ve rinsed several tracks from that EP
    Back in 2020
    As it seemed to sum up the
    Times
    So I’m sure some of it
    Has probably hasn’t dated very well
    Because it’s talking about
    Johnson and Gove
    Hopefully
    Hopefully those are in the past
    Who knows what’s going to happen
    Fuck the Tories
    Fuck, fuck the Tories
    Et cetera
    And again
    It’s a shame those things are in the past
    It’s a shame things have changed
    Things have got so much better
    In the last two years
    Yeah, so hopefully
    2020-23 is epic
    In Capitals
    I have no doubts
    But anyway
    What is epic
    Is the new album
    I would say epic in a very quiet way
    A new album from Ceephax
    And it’s called
    Baddow Moods
    And he released it
    I think it’s Christmas Day
    Yeah, it was Christmas Day
    He released it
    And very much
    I hate to use the phrase
    Return to Form
    Because there isn’t really a form
    With Ceephax
    Ceephax just does what Ceephax does
    It’s all acid
    Old machined
    Kind of nostalgia
    But kind of Ceephax
    It’s just what Ceephax does
    To say it’s acid
    Is not really
    It’s sort of acid
    Ambient
    Unlike his brother
    Square push
    It doesn’t go all
    Base workouts
    At sort of 170 BPM
    No
    But a variety of things
    And there’s some really nice
    Sort of chill track on this
    Surprisingly
    Piano tracks
    And something a little bit
    Even a little bit
    Happy hardcore
    A little bit
    Even
    Which is surprising
    By the next track
    He hasn’t exactly gone
    Hands on the air
    Whistle
    And that’s the stuff
    That’s the Ceephax
    But yeah
    I would really
    Would recommend checking
    Ceephax
    That’s spelled C-E-E-P-H-A-X
    If you don’t know
    And it’s available
    On Bandcamp
    And this is Strat
    Storm Mix
    by Ceephax
    That was DJ Useo
    With
    Girls Just Want to Tear Us Apart
    Cindi Lauper vs Joy Division
    And I hope
    You got my
    Feeling about the whole
    Epic
    That was the right
    Epic mix in places
    What I mean by that
    The whole frequency range
    The whole orchestral
    Big
    Sounds big
    Not necessarily
    Orchestral
    But you know
    Electronic
    And very much in that vein
    We have
    Daniel Avery
    From
    Ultra Truth
    The Latest Album
    And that’s
    KS Energy
    Featuring
    HAAi
    H-A-A-I
    And Kelly Lee Owens
    Both
    Or three
    Are not
    Strangest this podcast
    It just sounds like
    A massive breakbeat
    Drum and bass rave
    In the next room
    A booming echoey room
    But just
    Invelopes you
    Before that
    We had
    Cobrah
    With an H
    With brand new bitch
    2022 as well
    I heard that via
    Iggy Pop
    On 6Music
    Actually
    Just playing some Cobrah
    Working with
    Coucou Chloe
    Chloe
    Cuckou?
    Cuckoo?
    French producer
    Bunshiin
    I really like
    Tranen
    Again from
    I was
    Come down
    On the drum and bass section
    Degs
    We’re still messed up
    We love Degs
    Another recent track
    A single from
    2022
    4AM Kru
    Are always welcome
    On this podcast
    4AM
    Mark 3
    Golden Boy
    That’s them
    Remixing
    Elf Kid
    With bits
    Of
    Reggae
    Diggy
    Hey Dougie Rascal
    Yeah that’s
    That’s a good mashup
    Hey Dougie
    Means
    Dizzy Rascal
    That needs to be done
    I wouldn’t play
    Probably
    Because of
    Revenge
    Fairly recently
    Yeah I don’t really like
    People that
    Beat up their partner
    Yeah
    Not good
    But that’s
    Got a little bit of that
    Jamaican
    Dancehall
    I can’t remember the name
    That
    I’m thinking
    Weedy G
    That’s sampled in there
    It’s very mashup like
    A Golden Boy track
    Then before that
    We had a remix
    Of the
    Lily Allen’s Smile
    By Mr. Trick
    And Dizzy Gillespie
    Swing and Bass
    Compilations
    They both have done
    Fair amount of those
    And going back to that
    Danny Bird
    Post
    I then went through a lot of
    I was like
    Oh yeah 5
    Sorry Mr. Trick
    Oh Dizzy Gillespie
    So I kind of went through
    Their soundclouds
    I stalked their soundclouds
    You know
    For all the
    Freebies
    And stuff
    Which they can’t release
    Properly
    But I usually download
    For free
    So that’s how
    I heard that
    I think that’s
    Probably how I heard
    The new
    Like I said
    New
    It was back from
    March
    It’s new for me
    March 2022
    That’s the new
    In quotes
    Remix
    Gold Dust
    Because it’s 10 years
    Oh my God
    Don’t you feel old
    DJ Fresh’s
    Gold Dust was released
    10 years ago
    7 years ago
    That’s the next March
    Fox Stevenson
    Of that
    And there was a big
    EP
    With about
    I think
    7 or 10
    Remixes on it
    That’s my favourite
    Because
    It just goes large
    It goes large
    In a very big fashion
    Fashion
    DJ Fresh’s Gold Dust
    You’ve probably heard it
    In a remix
    Or an advert
    Or whatever
    It just became
    Omnipresent
    It was one of those releases
    Which
    Unlike
    Say
    Shirefx
    Or
    Andy C
    Doesn’t really have
    The same profile
    That’s what to me
    Brought him to my attention
    I think is it him
    Apologies for isn’t
    We had another track
    Or that’s from
    The higher single
    That’s higher
    Vocal version
    Because actually on the album
    Sherelle’s vocal
    Is on the previous track
    I had to write a version
    But it’s mixed in
    Because I couldn’t be bothered
    To go and edit it myself
    And
    And I think
    I’m not sure
    What she’s speaking about
    But I suspect
    She’s talking about
    Queer spaces
    Generally queer spaces
    And raves how
    They are special spaces
    They are a church
    The dance floor is a church
    It’s a ritual space
    I think house planiers
    Came from gospel
    And yeah
    There’s a whole
    Thing there
    But
    Certainly the dance floor
    Has a queer
    Ritual aspects
    It is
    Our coming together space
    It is our
    Ritual space
    It’s an expression
    Of our culture
    It’s been there
    For a very long time
    60 70 plus years
    And probably more
    If you go back
    Into the shamanic stuff
    And all that things
    And so many queer
    People are shamans
    It goes back
    Even thousands of years
    If you
    Recent times
    56 years
    It is a very key part
    Of a culture
    Having that space
    But it is
    Hemmed in
    By everything around it
    So it is that
    Area where
    You can be yourself
    Or you know
    For other people
    To guess themselves
    And be themselves
    But as soon as you leave
    That dance floor
    It becomes
    Something else
    You have to go back
    Into the normal world
    I don’t know if that’s
    What it was about
    But that’s what it got
    From that
    That vocal snippet
    That was why it’s important
    For me
    What a mind
    Instamatic with
    Bush of Ghosts
    That’s a deal
    With the devil
    That’s Kate Bush
    Versus Ghost
    That’s again
    I think more
    And more
    Instamatic tracks
    Leaking in
    And more of the TBC stuff
    The more serious side
    Is leaking into them
    There aren’t that many
    Ghost mashups
    And that was done
    For one of the
    Challenges
    The Crumplbanger
    Challenge
    Which was
    Mashed
    Something that’s under-mashed
    And there aren’t
    That many Ghost mashups
    I’ve done one
    Titus Jones has done one
    There might be a few more
    But not many
    Which is weird
    Because Ghost
    Are
    Piggering
    Amazing
    I don’t know why
    But yes
    There is a darkness
    And art
    Track
    Much more epic
    And that was
    What Adriana said
    When she played it
    And it was like
    Yes, exactly
    And that’s why I came up
    With the
    2023
    Is the epic thing
    Because I’ve noticed
    That trend
    Of making things
    That were
    Epic even more epic
    That will be
    Continue into
    I might be wrong
    But that’s why
    I just have a feeling
    Occasionally I have these
    Little
    And I’m not usually wrong
    I have these
    Things
    It feels about right
    It’s like
    Three years after the
    Pandemic
    I think it’s
    It’s going to be a time
    When people will be like
    Obviously circumstances
    Allowing
    It’s now time
    To let everyone’s hair down
    Or go
    Just super wide screen
    Glitz
    Glam
    I can see that happening
    In a similar
    Very epic frame
    Hallmighty with
    Set fire to
    Blue Monday
    You shouldn’t do that
    Don’t set fly to
    Unless you’re throwing it
    It’s
    Adele
    Versus
    New Order
    Sebastian
    Boom
    And that’s from
    No pressure
    A collection of
    New Order mashups
    Which Hallmighty
    Released
    A month or two ago
    A couple of months now
    And yes
    Again
    mashupchuck
    And that’s something
    It’s been
    In the stack for a while
    It was more epic than
    Sort of
    Dua Lipa disco
    Dio
    Nothing really
    Sort of big
    Versus big
    Big hair
    Versus big beats
    Bigish beats
    I’ve been liking
    mashupchucks work
    Throughout 2022
    And hopefully
    We’ll continue to
    Hear more good stuff
    From them
    In 2023
    Then we had
    Cookiee
    Kawaii
    2021’s
    Van Ice
    That’s Haters Anonymous
    You might have heard
    A theme there
    I mean that
    In a weird way
    Inspired
    A mashup
    I’m going to play
    Right at the end
    Though
    Doesn’t involve
    Cookie Kauai
    But there is a similar
    Theme through a different artist
    I love how it’s like
    Haters get online
    Do your thing
    Don’t rake her
    We had a mashup
    Which I’m surprised
    I’ve not played before
    Bobby Martini
    Too busy thinking about
    The Magnificent 7
    The Clash
    Versus Marvin Gay
    And it’s
    This one’s for Joe
    Compilation
    I did in
    Which was the 5th anniversary
    Of Joe Strummer’s death
    That is still out there
    It was MutantPop.net
    Slash
    Strummer Remix
    Punk Rock Warlord
    This is a subtitle of it
    It was all mashups
    From people that Dunproofin’
    Useo
    Me
    Juxtaposeur
    Marty Batfreak
    Ian Fondue
    World Famous Audio Hacker
    And a lot of people
    Did stuff like that
    And I think that worked
    Really well
    Other compilations
    Later on
    I thought
    Oh, we were Mac
    And that was a nightmare
    But actually
    That one wasn’t too bad
    Yeah, it’s weird to think
    15 years later
    Now it’s the 20th
    Anniversary of the death
    Of Joe Strummer
    I was listening to it
    And I was still stunned
    By it
    And you might hear
    Another one of the mashups
    Which at the time
    I played about
    5 or 6 of them
    And then I didn’t play
    The rest
    Because I was like
    Don’t want to
    Bother people
    With all this
    There was a mix
    From the new album
    I don’t know
    Moods
    That’s Struct
    I like the sort of
    Upbeat
    But chilled nature of it
    It is very
    I know I said
    Happy Hardcore
    It’s not really
    The piano
    And things like that
    And the way
    It’s sort of mournful
    But there is a sort of
    A piano house
    It’s a piano house
    The Ceephax gets
    So we’re going to play
    A track
    We’re going to get a bit more
    Downbeat now
    Reaching towards the end
    Of the podcast
    I hope not
    It was originally
    About 2.7 hours
    3 hours
    And I whittled it down
    But there’s always
    As always
    A massive struggle
    To get everything down
    This is by
    Universe Sound System
    USS
    The air track
    In this
    But I definitely know
    The Doors
    This is Doors versus air
    Riders of love
    That was
    Stronger
    By Sault
    From one of four
    New albums
    Well, new
    They were dropped in November
    That’s from Earth
    There was also
    Eleven
    A bit like
    Well, Ed Sheeran
    Does symbols and they
    They do numbers
    And so
    There was like
    Nine and there was eleven
    But I forget the name
    Of the other two albums
    If you like Sault
    If you like Sault’s work
    You really, really
    Really need to get over
    To their Bandcamp
    And check them out
    There is a lot of listening to do
    I’m not like all of them
    I mean some of them
    Are very gospel
    Like
    Very Jesus based
    Which is not
    Really so popular for me
    It’s always worth listening
    To what they do
    They’re brilliant
    And no one knows who they are
    Apart from the singers
    The singers who work with them
    I’m not sure if the singers are
    Part of them
    Little Sims is always
    Heavily connected with
    Sault
    But I suspect the people behind
    The people doing the music
    They stay
    Out of the media
    And they’re a collective
    In London
    I love them for that
    They just like
    Well, we just put on music
    We don’t do videos
    And we don’t know interviews
    You take it on
    What’s out there
    And I think it’s worked
    Very well for them
    Belize featuring
    MF Doom
    That’s Danger Mouse
    And Black Thought
    2022’s
    Cheat Codes
    A brilliant album
    One of my favourites
    Of 2022
    Heard it
    Typical
    But that’s actually
    Been
    Supposed to have been
    In a couple of the podcasts
    I could never refit it
    In anywhere
    It’s one of those tracks
    I love the sample
    That is
    Federal Duck
    Piece on my mind
    It’s a
    Very rare
    Not very well known
    Psychedelic
    Rock record
    From 1968
    I just love the mood of that
    And I’m playing that
    In part
    The fact that
    Obama
    President
    But that
    In his end of year
    List of his favourite tunes
    And he was in power
    When he refused to
    Allow
    In his country
    Although he’s born in London
    His parents settled
    From the age of
    Well his age of
    About one
    Into
    America
    But unfortunately
    They never got him
    Proper
    Status
    So like a lot of the dreamers
    He never got status
    So
    He didn’t realise that
    And then it wasn’t until later
    Life
    He realised
    He had trouble getting back in
    He got back in
    And he went out for another
    Tour
    He just refused to get
    Let him back in
    And that was it
    Until he died
    From the United States
    The fucking cheek
    Was a man who
    Led the immigration policy
    Which was worse
    Than previous presidents
    So for all of his
    Talk
    His actions were
    An extra 2.5 million people
    Were denied entrance
    To the United States
    So screw him
    How dare he use the music
    Of the people
    He refused to
    Allow back into their
    Homeland
    The place they grew up
    Ceephax with
    Roddy
    That’s a
    Wonderful track
    Very
    A synth wave
    I love the
    What seems to be synthetic
    Rumbles of thunder
    And it seems to
    All been generated
    And that has
    Has its own
    Feeling in itself
    Synthetic thunder
    I like that
    Of course I had to go
    Universal Sound System
    And Riders of Love
    Riders on the Storm
    Yeah, I’m not
    For anything
    Predictable
    My mixing sometimes
    And the Doors
    Versus Air
    I assume that the love part
    Is the air track
    And is that
    A recent Air track?
    I thought I’d heard
    All the Air tracks
    And I was like
    I don’t recognise that
    So I said I had a track
    The punk rock
    Warlord
    Mashup
    Compilation I did
    I’m really
    Surprised I did
    Not play this
    This is
    One of my favourite
    Mashups I’ve ever done
    And it’s pre
    MVSep
    It’s pre
    AI separations
    Any acapellas
    Available for
    We did the whole album
    By then the
    Clash
    Rock band stems
    Hadn’t leaked
    So we had to do it
    like London Booted
    Had to be done
    Just with what you could
    Create or
    Extract
    And the same here
    So I could do this
    A lot better now
    But this is
    Willesden Blue
    The Orb
    Mescaleros
    That’s Joe Strummer
    And the Mescaleros
    Which was his
    One of his
    Later bands
    After
    The Clash broke up
    Bonzo Dog Band
    And this is
    Got a personal track
    I used to live in
    Willesden Green
    So he was talking
    About the areas
    Near me
    The Mescaleros track
    Is called
    From Willesden to Cricklewood
    I knew both those places
    Very well
    And then I managed to
    Find a
    Bonzo Dog track
    Which has
    A weird interview
    It’s Shirts
    A bit of
    street
    Just accosting
    Random people
    In Willesden
    Blue room
    It’s quite
    Dubby
    BB Seaton
    A reggae artist
    That I
    Randomly came across
    When I was looking for
    Covers of
    Reggae covers of
    Sweet Caroline
    As you do
    And that is
    Well, it’s from a compilation
    But it’s from
    Mid-70s
    I feel lost by
    And it’s one of those tracks
    Where you hear it
    And you go
    Oh, that must be a cover
    That’s so brilliant
    Why have I not heard this song before
    And you look and you find out
    It is actually an original
    And it’s a lost
    A lost reggae
    Classic, I would say
    The Specials with
    Friday night
    Saturday morning
    On the B side
    Of Ghost Town
    1981
    To me, I think that’s
    What
    The third Specials album
    Which never happened
    Which then became Specials
    A.K.A.
    Not with
    The other three
    The Funboy 3
    I feel that’s
    A hint of what it could have been like
    It’s a bit sad to listen to
    Because it’s a true
    Brilliant song
    Written by Terry Hall
    And it’s sad when I saw them
    They were brilliant
    Jerry Dammers wasn’t involved with that
    So I’ve never got to see the Specials
    As they were
    Back then
    But still a brilliant song
    And I was listening to
    The Nouvelle Vague version
    They did a cover version
    With Terry Hall
    That’s when
    Nouvelle Vague
    Became
    A bit too much
    Like a weird covers band
    It wasn’t as good
    As the original
    Other punk links
    Holly Cook
    The daughter
    Paul Cook
    And Happy Hour
    That’s from the latest album
    Of the same name
    Came out in June
    That’s one of the tracks
    I wanted to put in
    And it sort of
    Been put in
    To get out
    This has become
    A sort of a best of
    Podcast
    I wasn’t intended to be
    There’s a lot of
    Things that
    Other podcasts
    That didn’t fit into that
    For instance
    I wanted to put them
    Into the Christmas podcast
    But then I wanted
    To put some shit in there
    And it’s sort of
    I didn’t want to
    You feel you have to
    One of these days
    Is going to be a Christmas
    Ride Don’t Do A
    That’ll be wonderful
    BB Seaton in again
    With a cover of
    The classic
    Thin Line Between
    Love and Hate
    The mid-70s
    And at the start
    Of the section
    Instamatic
    Ever since the challenge
    Which is
    Last week’s challenge
    Undermashed on Mashed
    I’ve been finding things
    That have been
    Undermashed
    And one of them
    Is Bonzo Dog Band
    And the orb is another
    The orb
    Mashed things
    But they very
    Rarely
    Mashed themselves
    Outside of
    Little fluffy clouds
    Anyway
    Is similar
    If I can’t think of any
    I can’t imagine
    When I suspect
    They’re probably all
    Urban Spaceman
    Not my favourite
    Bonzo Dog track ever
    So over each
    The end of the podcast
    I’m losing my voice
    And that’s always a good ending
    Tim loses his voice
    I’m not even on the red wine either
    It’s just
    Too much talking
    Just too much
    And I hope you have a good new year
    I need to panic when I post this
    I don’t need to post this
    Before the new year
    Or shortly afterwards
    But I hope you had one
    Or we’ll have one
    A time traveller’s
    10th done, I’m written a
    But I hope you had a good one
    Or we’ll have a good one
    And I’ll see you in 2023
    When we’ve got out
    Of this hinterland
    This strange hinterland
    I’m going to play out with a
    Another mashup of mine
    Yeah, it’s a whole mashup of some mine
    There’s only three
    Or is there four?
    There’s three
    This podcast
    Weird, I tend to
    Sort of do one per alias
    But this one I’ll allow myself
    Especially as
    I have to say
    The Instamatic track
    Was really a TBC track
    The Willesden Blue
    That’s not really an
    Instamatic track
    And the Bush of Ghosts one
    Is not really an
    Instamatic track either
    But this is TBC
    aka Instamatic
    With Only Living Boy in Jamaica
    And this is my year
    Ending track
    Anyways, this is very appropriate
    To actually end the podcast
    The last podcast of 2022
    And fuck you 2022
    I look forward to 2023
    But I say that every year
    This is Boy Who We Be
    That’s Tanya Stephens
    Versus Simon and Garfunkel
    And I’ve been obsessed by
    Living Boy in New York
    Partly because
    Well, I am a Simon and Garfunkel stan
    It’s appeared in so many brilliant films
    It was in the normal heart
    At the end
    It’s in Garden State
    Which is a film
    Just rewatched it recently
    I still come back to that film
    I know some people have
    Stacked it off
    And I’m like, why?
    It is actually
    An amazingly brilliant film
    The ending is shit
    Yeah, like we’ve got to
    Tack on a happy ending here
    But the rest of it
    Is brilliant from Zach Braff
    I feel like I lost in translation
    Where someone just wandering through that life
    And just thinking, what the hell’s going on here?
    I’ve used to in mashups
    There was a Fever Ray mashup
    Where I used the scene where they’re in the pool
    Talking about families
    There’s all that stuff about going home
    And families
    Which links into the Dorothea mashup I did
    Links into the last podcast
    With home
    All that sort of stuff
    You know, so yeah
    No wonder I was watching Garden State again
    Yeah, it’s all about sort of
    Coming back to the place you grew up
    And just being weirded out by it
    Pretty much the film
    And also finding it
    The usual things of finding yourself
    And resolving things with your parents
    Not those Hollywood tropes
    But mostly the bit that’s interesting to me
    Is the whole
    Kind of feeling of going home
    Or whether you can really go home again
    And then after this
    I’m going to play a short little track
    From the Specials
    Because you know
    I have to start with Specials
    End with Specials
    Or I like to bring this full circle
    And enjoy yourself
    Reprise
    You’ve played them
    Enjoy yourself
    Before
    That was the difficult thing
    About this podcast
    So many of the things
    I wanted to play
    I’ve played before
    So this is
    The Only Living Boy in Jamaica
    And I hope you have a good
    New year
    And a good end of 2022
    And a good start of 2023

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