It’s my great honour to be involved with judging round 1 of Crate Digger Death Match this year – the competition where you can only use $12 (or equivalent) in 12 hours to buy Charity Shop albums, instruments etc. and then use those and only those to create a 6 track album.

My and the other judges votes are in but of the 7 finalists, you can vote on the ’single’ track of the 6 tracks by Monday 14th – and I can’t possibly say which ones are my favourites, being impartial and all, but I can say there are some really good tracks in those albums.

Thanks to Z of hipsterplease for inviting me

Just before I went to Spain, and as I was busy preparing to release This One’s For Joe, BBC Radio 6 did a week of shows dedicated to Joe Strummer. They replayed 4 of the shows from 2001, I recorded them off-air and they are here for you in the feed/clicky linky.

Also included is the great show by Don Letts they did on the Saturday, with his memories of Joe Strummer and an unreleased BAD demo that Joe wrote. Very good listening, but it’s sadly too large for the other server and is on my 20Gb daily limited archive account, so if the bandwidth gets blasted and it’s unavailable, come back the next day or so.

If anyone from BBC Radio reads this, apart from as Negativland said ‘please don’t sue us’ we want MORE STRUMMER LONDON CALLING SHOWS. It’d be great to hear a podcast or repeat of all the shows., 1998-2001. Pretty please.

If anyone can ID the songs and/or the original 2001 transmit dates of the shows, I’d be very grateful.

Joe Strummer London Calling Show 1 (2001/repeated 17/12/2007)
Joe Strummer London Calling Show 2 (2001/repeated 18/12/2007)
Joe Strummer London Calling Show 3 (2001/repeated 19/12/2007)
Joe Strummer London Calling Show 4 (2001/repeated 20/12/2007)

Don Letts Clash City Radio tribute to Joe Strummer (transmitted 22/12/2007)

(Those with podcatchers who can’t handle multiple enclosures will have to download all but the first one manually – I’m not doing a post for every show!)

Where have all the podcasters gone online? I get the distinct impression of a deserted party where no-one’s told me which party or where everyone has gone  on to.

I assumed everyone moved over to Twitter, but can’t find them over there – certainly the podcasters aren’t in Second Life, not on any of the forums in anything but small number, or on Facebook in any visible/group form other than a few people.

It’s so quiet compared to 2006/early 2007, it’s spooky. Where is everyone?

By Brian Eno, really insightful at home things are changing.

thanks don/pirate!

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_byrne?currentPage=all

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