Episodes

  • RC 402: The Oh Oh Bird (Ex-Mas)
    Dec 17 2025

    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?

    Not So Flappy Bird But I Bet It’s Ghost Is Angry (2:27, 201Mb)
    • Captain Obvious – What Believing Sounds Like (Huntr/x vs Journey)
    • Bill McClintock – Sleigh Bitch –Explicit– (Carpenters and Buckcherry)
    • B Dolan – Fight Naked
    • Lambrini Girls – God’s Country
    • Problem Patterns – Christmas Number One
    • Obscurest Vinyl – The Secrets Your Asshole Keeps
    • Instamatic – Cranes In The Waterfall (Solange vs Stone Roses)
    • Saint Etienne – Sweet Melodies
    • Lewis Scarole – Moonlight Banquet (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly vs Bloc Party)
    • Lankum – Ghost Town
    • Xinon – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (One Gameboy Remix)
    • Mike Anthony – Why Can’t We Live Together
    • Tom Rasmussen – Joy
    • Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert – Weihnachtsstimmung
    • HallMighty – Drive Home Alone For Christmas (The Cars vs. Chris Rea ft Olivia Rodrigo)
    • Jenny Stardust – My Arms Are Just Fuckin’ Stuck Like This
    • Piers Faccini , Ballaké Sissoko – One Half Of A Dream
    • One True Pairing – The World Said No [Domino Recording Co]
    • Black Box Recorder – Do You Believe in God?
    • Ben Folds – Still (Reprise)
    • Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks – Crystal
    • Minor Arth – This Used To Be My Playgound Love (Air vs Madonna)
    • Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert – Ode to Plastic Mistletoe
    • Buckingham Nicks – Nomad (aka Candelbright)
    • David Gilmour – Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour)
    • Tom Rasmussen – This Is How We Walk on the Moon
    • SOPHIE & Hannah Diamond – Always and Forever
    • Lily Allen – Fruityloop
    • tbc aka Instamatic – Happy Novacaine Year (Green Day vs ABBA)
    • tbc aka Instamatic – Chasing Epilogues (Snow Patrol vs Daft Punk)
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    2 hrs and 28 mins
  • RC 401: Summer Ghost
    Jul 21 2025

    For Paul.

    Black Memory Hole Summer (224Mb, 2:39)
    • Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé – Black Hole Sun
    • pomDeter – Through The Fire And The Heatwave (Dragonforce vs Martha And The Vandellas)
    • Soviet Dolls – Cruel Summer (Bananarama cover)
    • G Flip – It’s Raining Them
    • Mila Jam – It’s Raining Them
    • Corook – They!
    • Lambrini Girls – No Homo
    • Bob Vylan – Ring The Alarm
    • DJ Schmolli – American Generation (Green Day vs. The Who)
    • Mixomatosis – America Don’t Give A… (Green Day vs. Peaches vs. Joan Jett)
    • The Urban Guerillas – Here Come The Americans
    • Marc Johnce – Dancing Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen vs Scissor Sisters)
    • Dunproofin’ – Acid Comes Quickly (Pet Shop Boys vs A Guy Called Gerald)
    • Jamie xx – Still Summer
    • Everything But The Girl – Missing (Cosmic Dawn 2024 Remix)
    • Tom Rasmussen – Street Violence
    • The Blessed Madonna – Mercy (feat. Jacob Lusk)
    • Lissie – Night Moves
    • JamiePR – Bluey In The Summertime (Bluey vs Mungo Jerry)
    • Peggy_P – Blue Champagne Under The Stars (Bluey x Oasis)
    • Degs, Nu:Tone, Duskee – Can We Talk?
    • Charla Green – Livin In Sunshine
    • Makoto feat. Karina Ramage – Wind of Change
    • DJ Kal – Cruel Summer of Broken Dreams (Green Day vs. Taylor Swift)
    • Peggy_P – Crossed Rings (Ariana Grande vs Art of Noise)
    • LeeDM101 – LA Roads (Lana’s Version) (Lana Del Rey vs. The Midnight)
    • Run the Jewels – 2100 (feat BOOTS)
    • Hildegard von Blingin – Summertime Sadness (Bardcore)
    • Hannah Cohen – Mountain
    • Kill_mR_DJ – Wait, They Don’t Love You Like I Love You (Moby + Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
    • DSP – Throwing Myself (Genesis vs Depeche Mode)
    • Sufjan Stevens – A Little Lost
    • Black Box Recorder – Wonderful Life (2023 Remaster)
    • ANOHNI and the Johnsons – Another World
    • tbc aka Instamatic – Always Tears Go By On My Mind (Pet Shop Boys vs The Rolling Stones)
    • Lewis Scarole – Falling Once More (Carpenters VS Twin Peaks)
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    2 hrs and 38 mins
  • RC 400 – Trans Joy Is Pain
    Mar 7 2025
    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 […]
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    2 hrs and 26 mins
  • RC 399 – Still Not OK
    Nov 26 2024
    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 […]
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    2 hrs and 31 mins
  • RC 398: The Funeral
    Sep 19 2024
    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. […]
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    2 hrs and 43 mins
  • RC 397: The Song Of The Summer
    Jul 22 2024
    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 […]
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    2 hrs and 29 mins
  • RC 396: Camping aka A Walk In The Woods
    May 31 2024
    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 […]
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    2 hrs and 14 mins
  • RC 395: River Is Beautiful
    Apr 11 2024
    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… I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly (2:23, 192Mb) The Bran Flakes – Fifty Four FiftyToToM – I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic (Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay)HallMighty – Take My Heart Back To London (Ed Sheeran & Stormzy vs Pet Shop Boys)Captain Obvious – Murder Everywhere On The Dancefloor (Sophie Ellis Bextor vs Fleetwood Mac)Minor Arth – Video Killed Digital Love (Daft Punk vs The Buggles)Mighty Mike – Time killed the radio star (Cyndi Lauper vs The Buggles)Minor Arth – Andromeda’s Teardrops (Womack & Womack vs Gorillaz vs DRAM)Overmono – BbyBicep – Water (featuring Clara La San)HallMighty (ft Lady T) – The RhythmPhoenix City All-stars – London CallingThe Unusuals – I’m Walking, Babeoki – walk idiot don’t stop (the hives vs. fleetwood mac)London Elektricity – Possible Worlds (feat. Inja)Charla Green – Babylon FallMen – Who Am I To Feel So FreeBluey – Creek is Beautiful!Solange – Cranes in the SkyKae Tempest – Bad Place For A Good TimeBilly Nomates – saboteur forcefieldThe Handless Organist – Turn Your Radio OnGorillaz – The Lost Chord (feat. Leee John)The Revolutionaries – Kunta Kinte (Dub Plate Version 2)HallMighty – Hurt Me Under The Bridge (RHCP vs K’Naan ft Robbie Williams & The Beatles)Working Men’s Club – CircumferenceToToM – Everybody Would Drown and Y.O.U.D. Too (How To Destroy Angels and Billie Eilish vs. Culoe De Song)Danny Macabre – Vampire Creep (Olivia Rodrigo vs Radiohead)ah! – Black Frog Peace Swan (The Doors vs Thom Yorke)iWillBattle – Feeling Beautiful Good Things (Benson Boone x Muse)Goldie & The Gingerbreads – Walking In Different Circlestbc aka Instamatic – Whisper Forever (George Michael vs The Spice Girls)10000 Spoons – Chariots Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles vs Vangelis) Transcript WEBVTT 00:04:07.600 –> 00:04:14.600Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom, 00:04:14.600 –> 00:04:16.360for making a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:16.360 –> 00:04:18.040Making me play a Coldplay Mash. 00:04:18.040 –> 00:04:22.600Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash. 00:04:22.600 –> 00:04:29.600After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay 00:04:29.600 –> 00:04:34.880song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic. 00:04:34.880 –> 00:04:42.720Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay. 00:04:42.720 –> 00:04:49.800And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which 00:04:49.800 –> 00:04:51.600I missed, I somehow missed. 00:04:51.600 –> 00:04:56.440I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that 00:04:56.440 –> 00:04:57.440one. 00:04:57.440 –> 00:05:00.080I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?” 00:05:00.080 –> 00:05:04.600And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like 00:05:04.600 –> 00:05:07.920a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that. 00:05:07.920 –> 00:05:11.320And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent 00:05:11.320 –> 00:05:14.440two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path. 00:05:14.440 –> 00:05:17.800I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers 00:05:17.800 –> 00:05:18.800sweetie, spoilers. 00:05:18.800 –> 00:05:29.920But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it, 00:05:29.920 –> 00:05:34.640to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking. 00:05:34.640 –> 00:05:40.080And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the 00:05:40.080 –> 00:05:41.080copyright. 00:05:41.080 –> 00:05:45.600I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs. 00:05:45.600 –> 00:05:50.320So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music. 00:05:50.320 –> 00:05:57.840This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack 00:05:57.840 –> 00:06:00.200for the Thames Path series. 00:06:00.200 –> 00:06:04.160It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out. 00:06:04.160 –> 00:06:06.000I’m just editing it at the moment. 00:06:06.000 –> 00:06:11.240And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based. 00:06:11.240 –> 00:06:17.680And yes, if I ...
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    2 hrs and 23 mins