Don’t Vote Cass McC0mbs Do They Owe Jeffrey Lew!s Move! Damian “Jr. G0ng” Mar1ey Fellini For Prime Minister Ge0rge Pr!ng1e The Unelected President Cra$$ (with sample of E.P. Thomson) the Government Sau1 W!11!ams Juggle Tings Proper R00ts Manuva Vote Or Die M0dese1ekt0r Path To Wisdom J!m!Ten0r / T0ny A11en Baby, It’s Time to Vote Mad [...]
Archive for April, 2010
cross.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Elect This
Posted in RR Playlists, Uncategorized, tagged Elections on April 30, 2010 | 15 Comments »
P is for Panda Su
Posted in a to z, Indie, Scots, tagged Panda Su on April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Panda Su is from Fife. She sings amazing songs of heartache and beauty, with a simple delivery that floors me every time. Sometimes she dresses up like a panda. I played one of her tracks on an old podcast, and feel that the P slot in the A-Z of Scots music should really belong to [...]
mule donkey
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
ecstatic!
XY Factor Final – live tonight!
Posted in Randomness on April 29, 2010 | 16 Comments »
1-2, 1-2 this is just a test…
Posted in Experimental, Uncategorized on April 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It’s “Golden Week” over in Japan for the next 5 days or so, which means afternoons off for me and lovely sunshine, so what better way to spend these precious hours than sitting alone in a cramped flat trying to get my noggin around this new WordPress business. I’m using Maki’s extremely clear guide, but [...]
EOTWQs still have the mic on
Posted in EOTWQs, tagged EOTWQs on April 28, 2010 | 55 Comments »
1. Sometimes I have very realistic dreams where I’m a character in a tv show that i’ve been watching a lot of (very convincing scripting too, it’s always great to get that extra unique episode) but if you had to live in a TV show for a month, which one would it be, and why? [...]
The Sun Has Got His Hat On!
Posted in Musing, tagged maki on April 28, 2010 | 31 Comments »
Now you ain’t gonna believe this but we’ve had a long, rainy winter here in Madrid and we were just desperate for the sun to come out! Well, it’s here with a vengeance (temperatures in the high seventies – low eighties Fahrenheit the last couple of days). And I found myself doing what I always [...]
Luckily, none of us get distracted
Posted in Technology on April 28, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I found this great kids’ site called Soup Toys, and its genius. You get a free little app that lets you choose from thousands of playsets or create your own. The toys spill out on your screen and you ‘play’ with them as you would in real life – balls bounce and make ball bouncing [...]
I do like you today
Posted in Pop, Scots, tagged Pearl on April 28, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Sometimes a bit of breezy, perky, happy pop music (from Glasgow) is just the ticket – especially one that doesn’t rely on lesbian prison sex in order to shift units (yes Lady GaGa, I’m pointing the finger at you) Pearl & The Puppets website is here if you want a free mp3
Terry Reid’s “River”
Posted in 1970s, blues, Rock, Uncategorized, tagged river, terry reid on April 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’ve mentioned this album before and posted a track or two because it is a huge favourite of mine, ever since I saw Terry performing tracks from it on the Old Grey Whistle Test when it was first released. Terry Reid is a British R ‘n’ B singer, who first came to prominence when he [...]
Album Of The Month – April
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AOTM, April 2010 on April 27, 2010 | 28 Comments »
Soft Options Hard Choices
Earworms – Apr 27
Posted in Earworms on April 26, 2010 | 55 Comments »
Todd Rundgren – Just One Victory You may have heard a little Todd over the years, but if you haven’t heard this you haven’t started. It’s been his encore song for as long as I can remember (mid-70s) and is the perfect rallying call for the optimistic at heart. Pure pop genius. – Magicman . [...]
All I know is something like a bird within her sang ….
Posted in 1980s, Folk, Psychedelia, Rock, Uncategorized, tagged bird song, CaroleBristol, grateful dead, reckoning on April 26, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A beautiful acoustic version of Bird Song by The Grateful Dead. This is one of my favourite Dead songs and I love this version from The Radio City Music Hall concerts in 1980, which were released on the 1981 live album Reckoning which I would urge anyone who is curious about the Dead to go [...]
Lost?
Posted in TV, tagged Lost on April 26, 2010 | 19 Comments »
Watching this very witty and well cut recap, I think I must have stopped watching Lost at the end of series 4, but this has brought it all back and I may well have to get stuck into the whole thing again (now I’ve finished all three series of Mad Men). Has anyone kept with [...]
Hello
Posted in Randomness, tagged Random on April 25, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I’m just trying this to see if it works, nothing to say except that there are some fantastic photos in the posts below, and I need a month of Sundays to get started on the music. Sprog wants me to play and I haven’t had my breakfast yet!!
Tweedledee
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Pajaritos
Posted in RR Playlists, tagged Birds, maki on April 24, 2010 | 10 Comments »
My first ever themed ‘spill list. Loads of showing off about how to use the player… time to find out if I can really do it. Some are tenuous, some are less so.
jonathan livingston – I presume.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2010 | 13 Comments »
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.” Look A Bleached Coral Faced Crow With Jewels For Eyes Bearsu!t 2:40 In Hiding From The Crow Z0la Jesus 2:00 Blood Red Bird P0pul0us 4:26 [...]
Birdsong
Posted in RR Playlists, tagged Birds on April 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It’s Good To Be Here
Posted in Randomness on April 23, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Trust me to mess up after reading the instructions nine times. Luckily you can’t see it here but I smudged my owl, and that’s why I asked for a couple. Anyway, that’s me and my owl between Butterfly and Doodlebug of Digable Planets. This is what they opened with:
It was a very good year
Posted in 1990s, Hip Hop, Podcasts on April 22, 2010 | 42 Comments »
Here’s my podcast! 1. I’m sorry! It’s extremely inarticulate and not well-explained, and I SWEAR my vocabulary is bigger than this! 2. I’m sorry, but it’s all hip hop, and I know that a) people who like hip hop will have heard everything in here b) people who don’t like hip hop won’t probably listen. [...]
Everything around me is falling down
Posted in Funk, Soul, TV, tagged Aloe Blacc on April 22, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Cos it’s on the titles of a show I watch, I now have the itchy soul funk of Aloe Blacc in my head, I know nothing about this guy, but he’s got good horns and an expressive, yet restrained range.
Indulge me (yet again)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Sorry folks, I’m wearing that Proud Mum cap again. A couple of you know that Sam (a.k.a. The Boy Wonder) played a gig at his school last week. It wasn’t much of a gig, 3 bands playing to an audience of maybe 60 people, but I was impressed at how much Sam’s singing and playing [...]
