It’s a distinctly un-British 30 degrees, I’ve got voicemails not letters from am-er-ic-aaaa, it’s all gone a bit norfern soul, islamophobia in Finchley Road, some press (WHORE!) and a brandy spanking new sparkly Beatles mix #3…

what more can you want?

(well less DISTORTION cos I recorded this TOO LOUD might be good, but you aint getting that, y’hear?)

Please listen here: (33MB, 57:57) : http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_show36.mp3

Tim

Shownotes

team 9 – mama kin in the street (Martha Reeves & the Vandellas vs Aerosmith)
ccc – shake your grapes (Black Grape vs Marvin Gaye)
marianne faithfull – broken english

2 voicemails from San Francisco

Beatles mix #3: Paul is Live No. 9

Is Paul Dead?(from 365 Project)
ccc – sleeping
Supremes – Come Together
DJ Zebra - Come Closer
Jay-Z – December 4th (Dangermouse remix from the infamous Grey Album)
Mike Mills – Satanism in Rock Music (from 365 Project)
team 9 – eleanor rigby vs in your place
GHP(?) – eleanor rigby vs soulsearchers
The Fall – A Day in the Life
Soundhog – A Day in Tracy’s Life(Mogwai vs Beatles)

Costa do Castelo vs Arturix (aka Toka Productions) – FadunXo
Seu Jorge – Life on mars (from The Life Aquatic)

Tim being an Attention Seeking Whore(tm) – SPIN magazine and QPodder Queercast

With all the hullaballoo forgot to say – I’m featured in the new enhanced Queercast from Ms Madge Weinstein over at Yeast Radio as part of the new Queercast group over at qpodder.org.

Madge seemed to be surprised, but yeah, we’re queer and we’re over here at Radio Clash (well more like ‘we’re bear and over there’ but anyways). I hope to cover more from the bear and queer scene over here, but I think I will always be a strange little hybrid mashup cub, (which is why I’m surprised yet glad to be part of the Queercasters, hey it’s a Family thing) so the music and silliness will stay – just might drop in the odd thing.

Thing is, a bit like punk, queerness is an attitude that informs everything I do, rather than something I personally have to express (others like Fausto Fearnos, Yeast Radio and LuckyBitch do those far better than moi anyway!) but it doesn’t mean I’m not a big ol’ queen sometimes and if I’m a fairy fluttering near a microphone you’ll hear it! (lucky you)

In happier news (well for me anyway) I’ve been featured in July’s edition of SPIN magazine as one of their top 5 coolest podcasts!

Click on the image to the left for the full article. Yes I’m called Tim (no quotes needed! Not a very good pseudonym if I needed one..) and if you want to check out the magazine for yourself it’s on page 30 in the July issue. And you can still get Show 25 of Radio Clash here (in fact all archives are still available to around Show 13 or 14)

They said:

English host “Tim” focuses on mash-ups, from metal mixes of M.I.A. to crafty combo of the Killers and the Clash. Check out podcast number 25 for the “FUCC Mix,” a set loaded with radio-unfriendly f-bombs

Thanks SPIN!

I wrote this over at Bicyclemark‘s blog in response to his great and thoughtful 50th show – I noticed no-one responding was actually on the spot where it happened, so I wanted to reinforce my view from the ‘front line’.

I support the comments from bicyclemark, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone (although people have pointed out the irony of the latter) and my immediate response and since has been that the propaganda tactics, shocking pictures, and fear through SHOUTY HEADLINES have made people draw into line like little docile sheep.

The same sheep who weren’t on the Anti War marches, the same people who voted Labour without questioning their policies, the same sheep that have a go when people point out the links to Afghanistan and the Iraq war and say that ‘This isn’t the time for this discussion’ – when is the time? WHEN?

I get so angry at those people, so closed and ignorant that although there were obviously people in those trains and tubes who were against what Blair and Bush were doing – being ironically near large Muslim areas – but the idea of saintly innocence of everyone involved when all this shit is going down is seriously suspect.

That old chestnut – “good people to do nothing” is true here.

No people didn’t have to die.

Yes terrorism is wrong in a democracy as it’s dictatorial and enforcing the wishes of a few on the many.

Yes I’m glad I didn’t go to work early and get blown up – I have to add that sharpens the mind and your politics terribly. I’m grateful for those that contacted me to find out if I was OK. Apart from the initial and correct response of horror and worry, it’s easy to go ‘oh that’s bad’ when seeing pictures from Baghdad or Sudan or any other warzone; there is a difference when it’s in your back yard – as the people of Madrid, and now London have found.

I find it sad that the only time (as the IRA found out) that the British take note is when you take the battle to their door. Why is that? If we were so open and listening to the Middle East, or Ireland, and our politicians were doing their job, then this wouldn’t happen surely?

As a clip on Bicyclemark’s 50th show – if they are having a war against freedom why don’t they bomb Denmark, Sweden, Canada, Netherlands?

This is a direct result of the “war on terror”, pure and simple. And if this particular atrocity was not done by Al Qaeda it is still a reminder of what goes on in Baghdad every day. Aren’t they ‘innocent’ too?

You might have heard this on the qpodder Queercast – proud to be included over there (thanks Madge!) but happy for anyone else to play it on their show…

It’s 750K and 30 Seconds and WARNING! includes bad singing and 70′s gameshow references.

http://libsyn.com/static/radioclash/radioclash_blankpromo.mp3