From Barcelona bathroom to your err, pod. Via stoopid internet cafes that don´t work, noisy late-night hotel people, annoying Spanish keyboards, (welcome) distraction from John and various related pieces of music.

P.S. if you ever need a decent online FTP client because your web cafe is SO stupidly nannyish they don´t provide decent FTP (but CLI oddly) then use web2ftp.com)

Go from Barcino to BCN here: (31Mb, mono, 58Mins) http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_show58.mp3

• Hello from an Barcelona Bathroom
• Steve Bent – I´m Going to Spain
• Rufus Wainwright – Barcelona
• A+D - A Honest Mia
• Parc Guell and noisy kids
• Fangoria – Hombres (from CD Naturaleza Muerta)
• La Terrormoto de AronÇon Dolores Vargas – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (from Spanish Bizarro vol. 2)
• Toshi Akigoto – Christmas Song (from Copy, Right)
• Roses are Red – Last Christmas (from Copy, Right)
• Bus Turistic at the Port Vella
• Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Dirty Old Town (from Puritan Blister blog)
• Bonny Prince Billy Songs Ohia – Farewell Transmission (from Puritan Blister blog)

Uno queso bocadillos por favor! err…Bon Dias well Notches from Barcelona!

Just a quick note that Radio Clash 58 Barcelona edition is done and ready but can´t find an internet place here that´ll let me upload it.

Part of it will be a little old if I don´t upload it before I get back (has a few Xmas-related songs) but that´s the way it goes – why put USB ports on these EasyInternet machines that won´t actually do anything and show a connected device? GAH!

Also I´ve got another show already and I need to edit but is mostly there…2006 will be slightly different for Radio Clash; yes I know change is ominous but been thinking of the direction of RC while I´m away. Less of a show and more, well you´ll see.

Full of festering, sorry festive cheer, here’s the last Radio Clash of 2005 with loads of Xmess mashups, a special collaboration by the Ginger Bear Conspiracy and Timbearcub, a few tunes suggested by the Hand of Kirk.

Have a happy Xmas and and hopefully see you in the new year!

Shake yer sleigh bells here (66mins, 39Mb): http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_show57-xmas.mp3

• Happy Happy Joy Joy / Box of Delights intro
• Dma-Sc – The First Blip Blop Noel (from 8bitpeoples)
• rx – A Happy RxMas / Whole Lotta Love
• sam flanagan – Frosty DMC (from Santastic)
• GHP – Christmas on the Block
• jirob – Pipes of Peace (gentle mix)
  
• DJBC – Reverend Linus mix
• DJ John – Charlie Brown Massacre (from Santastic)
• JoolsMF – Havana Good Xmas
• Staple Singers – Who Took the Merry out of Christmas?
• Shitmat – Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony (from Full Sunken Breakfast)
• vim – When A Child is Bored (from 8bitpeoples)
• Muppets – Jingle Bell Rock (Kirk’s choice)
• Fettdog – Fett’s Festive Fest (from 8bitpeoplea)
• Jona Lewie – Stop the Cavalry (Kirk’s choice)
• TBC Poundsystem (GBC vs TBC) – Losing My Sledge (demo)
• Pendulum – Coma
• Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats

I hate Xmas, reminds me of all the painful dysfunctional family dramas, and the enforced ‘cheer’ and ensuing psychological damage really pisses me off.

All the mixes and shows seem to be promoting this happy-happy-joy-joy view of Xmas and the New Year* – hold on, I remember nothing but upset as a child at Xmas. So ever generous at Radio Clash. we are sharing this miserly Scroogesque spirit with you as a gift; in the form of the Bah Humbug mix below.

So this is for those like me in a festering rather than festive mood, I dedicate this mix to you. I hope you survive the Xmess intact. And to the others, you give me a Christmas cracker at your own risk…

May all your Xmases be Nowhere in Sight: http://www.mutantpop.net/mp3s/tbc/tbc_bahhumbugmix.mp3 (41Mb, 44:37s)

*actually Radio Clash will be doing this too, in the Xmas show to follow, but in interests of balance and sanity this mix was born! Damn that just undermined the whole preceding spiel. Oh well…

Tracklist:

Have a depressed Xmas!Vince Guaraldi – Christmastime is here
RIAA – Santa’s Acid Hawaiian Space Disco
Cassetteboy – Bingmas
Culturcide – Depressed Xmas

Have a dysfunctional Xmas!

Cassetteboy – Santa Claus Is Drinking (feat. Wesley Willis)
Sufjan Stevens – That was the Worst Christmas Ever!

Have a depraved Xmas!

Cassetteboy – Festive Christmas (excerpt)
Kip Addotta – I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus
Culturcide – Santa Claus Was My Lover
Adam Sky – Shakin’ and Bakin’
Pansy Division – Homo Christmas
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra – Fairy on the Christmas Tree
Vandals – Christmastime for my Penis
Henry Hall and BBC Dance Group – Does Santa Claus Sleep with His Whiskers?

Have a detuned Xmas!

Kids of CPH – Oh Come all ye Faithful
The Singing Dogs – Jingle Dogs
DJNoNo – 12 Vaulting Hippos (Pendulum vs Gayle Peevey)
ebn ozn – rockin robin

Have a de-Lightful Xmas!

Cassetteboy – Happy Cliffmas
Bob Rivers – Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire

Have a debt-ridden Xmas!

Culturcide – They Aren’t the World
Cassetteboy – I Believe in the Virgin Megastore
Stan Freberg – Green Chri$tma$
John Baker – Christmas Commercial
Mae West – Put the Loot in the Boot, Santa

Have a deliquent Xmas!

Bob Rivers – Wreck the Malls
Basement 5 – Last White Christmas
Wesley Willis – Merry Christmas

Have a decoratively deforested Xmas!

Line Material – Let’s Trim the Christmas Tree
Cassetteboy – Christmas Tree
Wild Man Fischer – I’m a Christmas Tree
Bob Rivers – Decorations

Have a diseased Xmas!

Cassetteboy – Festive Christmas (excerpt)
Line Material – The Day Santa was Sick
Tiny Tim – Santa Claus Has Got the Aids this Year

Have a death-row Xmas!

The Reverend Glen Armstrong – Even Squeaky Fromme Loves Christmas
Cassetteboy – Festive Christmas (excerpt)
Crass – Merry Crassmas

Despite sounding like some dyslexic Starbucks coffee, I like Frappr – and the blogging bears have a Frappr map. Those big of fur or long of beard (or lovers of same) need only apply!

http://www.frappr.com/bloggobears

I know it’s trendy but should we have a Radio Clash Frappr map? Be nice to know more about y’all…