Hubba bubba, boil pot noodle, the bitching hour is on hand; down comes the killer smog and we Wyrd sisters cackle:

‘eye of Newt and tongue of Crazy Frog;
Madonna’s new single should end up in a Peat Bog;
Hex Bush and his evil cronies;
But Kate Moss we like so curse her hyper-critical cokehead phonies…’

or something…I didn’t say spells had to scan did I?

Go wooh in the night here (42Mb, 70mins): http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_show51.mp3

Shownotes

• Radio Clash in Entertainment Weekly!
• Thiftshop XL – Antichrist (EOTMC mix – part of the Son of Monster Mashup remix CD)
• Depeche Mode – Halo (Jimmi Jammes Violated Halo remix – from the Depeche Mode Violated online remix CD)
• Cassetteboy – Saltgrain (all from ‘Dead Horse’ album out now – I bought it from NormanRecords in the UK who were very fast)
• Cassetteboy – Duck Breath
• Cassetteboy – Eyes Of A Tranny’s Fanny
• dsico – Modulations (from You Fight Like a Girl from Spasticated.net)
• Cassetteboy – Apple Cak (Shitbox)
• Mr Terrible – Hokus Pricey (from the Son of Monster Mashup remix CD)
• Brave Combo, Tiny Tim and Tom Lehrer – Stairway to Heaven
• Peter Pringle - The Blue Lotus (from musicformaniacs blog)
• Cassetteboy – From This Day On
• Cath Carroll – England Made Me
• Voicedude – U Should Be the Witch Queen (from Son of Monster Mashup)
• Butthole Surfers – Strangers Die Everyday (from Rembrandt Pussyhorse CD)
• JoolsMF – Waiting for the Night (cover from Depeche Mode Violated online remix CD)
• Cassetteboy – Swizz Chrizz
• Kleptones – Revolverlution (from From Detroit to JA remix CD)

As mentioned in the show, you can now find 50 Pound Note’s feed here and his LJ blog here.

2 upcoming gigs:

Yes I’m playing Bastard in London this coming Thursday (3rd Nov) as DJNoNo (or TBC, currently on the flyer, but actually Tonight Matthew I WILL be DjNoNo) – the chaos ensues from 9pm at the Asylum, 28 Rathbone Place W1P 1DJ (corner of Charlotte Street and Rathbone place, it’s the basement club next door to the newsagents with a red front. Secret code word: flibble…:-D)

Good to see some of you come down…it’s free!

So expect a very stoopid set from me, and a cool set from Classic Boot-ers Fondue Meltdown. They are one of the originators from back in 2001 and mighty fine in my book, so an honour to open for them…got some special boots/mashes organised from MrNoNo and Instamatic, and plenty more acquired elsewhere so expect polka, rap, chacha, rock, drum and bass, musicals and such eclectic bizniz.

And it looks like I’ll be also playing the Foundry (86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL) on the following Saturday 5th of Nov playing between 6pm-8pm (not sure exactly when, but between those times) opening for the Who Boys – last gig AFAIK for them at the Foundry, so if you can’t make the Thursday come on down then…again it’s free.

I hear some *ahem* interesting people might be there to hear the kopyright being liberated in force…

Scott Loftness’s reply about Walled Gardens to Dave Winer’s Google post (which I was following every rising and falling Southern-style cadence until I got to the phrase “bright eyes of happy independent developers” and I dissolved in a fit of giggles caused by images from dog-food commercials…do these developers have a glossy coat and warm wet noses too?) got me thinking…

I think Netscape is, or was the most important Internet company there has been so far.

You won’t see that in the histories – Netscape is deemed a valiant failure against the mighty juggernaut of Microsoft. But were they a failure? They forced Microsoft, a company not known for it’s willingness to give it’s intellectual property away. They developed RSS initially and let others such as Dave Winer develop it (maybe they abandoned it, lost interest, but they didn’t do a Microsoft lawyer attack or a British Telecom style sneaky patent to trip up people like Dave who continued the work). They developed the first viable browser, and I seem to remember was the first to do such things as frames and objects – then used for awful Java applets of shimmering lakes, but eventually becoming the all important .NET ActiveX objects that power Microsoft’s MSN online world.

I’m a child of the Web 1.0 (or web beta revolution) – I started programming in HTML in 1996 when Netscape 2.0 had tutorials and you could fit it all in one (slightly crammed) page…without Netscape I wouldn’t be here…are they a failure? I don’t think so.

And they did so by being open and probably dooming themselves to commercial failure giving away all their assets…but the children of Netscape live on (oops I’m becoming a bit Dave here) in the Open Source movement, in all web technologies, and the fact that Microsoft never could charge for IE (although I seem to remember it tried). Online streaming? Yep. Annoying animated gifs? Err, well you can’t have em all…

They also inspired Firefox, my browser of choice…but that’s another story.

Thanks to my spies (well RadioQuita over at Strangely Familiar) I’ve just found out I’m in this weeks Entertainment Weekly listed #5 in their Radio article…anyone have a copy of this? I’ve not seen it, I’d love a copy sent to me or a scan of that article…it’s the October 21st issue.

My reaction? 1 word: WOW!

Hello Entertainment Weekly ppl…make yourself at home. I suggest you start on Show 49 as #50 is not exactly usually fare, being more of a celebration (well much alcohol was drunken while recording it, so we celebrated that way LOL and thus meant it got a little, well, chaotic, normal service resumed shortly)

And there could be some UK press coming up, my first…;-)

UPDATE: Thanks to Cindy, you can read the review here (or in the comments of this very site here). Tried to get a copy today and we’re still on the 7th October issue in the UK…

This is the 50th ‘Special’ show (in more senses than one) and is an Enhanced Podcast – comedy enhanced that is; through the trickery of technology. Oh you’ll get the idea in the end…

Recorded on Marvin my mobile podcast rig at my dad’s house in Surrey. Pictures to follow but you can see one of Kirks on the FAQ page

Release your inner special child here: http://www.radioclashblog.com/show-archive/rc_show50.mp3

Shownotes

• Intro & Warning
• Setting the scene
• Inner City – Big Fun (off Now 13!)
• Classic hihats and techno chords and Final Destination, Rebel-style
• Hank Handy – Joni Mitchell vs Rebel MC
• Massive Bristol rappers smoking the Tumbleweed
• Massive Attack – Five Man Army (off Blue Lines)
• Jo Whiley, she’s so 90′s!
• Derek B – Bad Young Brother
• Cheesy Fill-in SpecDrum Programming for Beginners
• New Order – 5-8-6
• F Minor – G Major – C Minor

–Interval–

• Melodica (ohnoica) and programming from the ground up
• kozmikdj – Close to the Soul (Art of Noise vs Eric B and Rakim)
• Bad Apples and dead spiders
• Psychoacoustic – Hi Chris Where’s Your Big Track?
• Legalese and Clashline
• Harry and the Potters – Wizard Chess (on Myspace, they’re mah fwend you thee!)