And another podcast slips out – what’s gotten into me?

To honour 10 years in the Old Smoke I’ve a two-part podcast for you about London – first one is full of those songs about moving to the Emeraldine city, and visiting Buckingham Palais and going down on Alice, doing the Lambeth Stalk and having a rather (too much of a?) good time, down at the Old Bull and Bush Ye Olde Weatherspoons.

Nah actually we take the sideroutes that only the locals know and the London tunes Nobody Sings (not only a reference to this great documentary, but also a great blog I owe a lot to for these shows, as well as the Wikipedia entry for London songs, and James O’Malley aka @Psythor and his London Musical Map) – and take a journey to the lesser known musical Metropolis. Yes that means no flipping Waterloo Sunset, sorry

No umbrellas, bedknobs, broomsticks or psychotic nannies or chimney sweeps needed…(66Mb, 85Mins)

P.S. Forgot to say the Peter Sellers is for my dad…he loves that track

• Rolf Harris – London Town
• Lord Kitchener – London Is The Place For Me
• Man Like Me – London Town (feat. JME) (Bass Line House Vocal Remix)
• Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – The Only Living Boy in New Cross
• Dynamo City – One Night In Hackney
• Beverley – Where The Good Times Are
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – Last Night In Soho
• Saint Etienne – London Belongs To Me (Richard X Remix from FoxBase Beta)
• The Clientele – Losing Haringey
• Magna Carta – Parliament Hill
• John and Beverley Martyn Primrose Hill
• Belle and Sebastian – Mornington Crescent
• Peter Sellers – Balham, Gateway to the South
• Saint Etienne – Girl VIII (Richard X Remix from FoxBase Beta)
• David Devant and His Spirit Wife – Pimlico
• Pulp – 59 Lyndhurst Grove

Yup I’ve created a M4V file for my Kleptones – Welcome Back video for youse people who want a downloadable version.

Those of you without iPods probably will be able to play it – it’s a basic MP4 file just with Apple’s wanky suffix. Rename it to .MP4 and/or give it a try.

* Other video players are available, and not produced by killing poor Chinese workers…:-P

A bumper show of 3 months worth of delayed music. Twas the storm’s fault, you see. A quiet storm…one you could hardly hear, but yet so loud.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. (121Mb, 180 mins)

• The Big Pink – Velvet
• Therapy? – Opal Mantra (Studio version)
• Culturcide – Pass For Normal
• The Kleptones – This Song Smells (from Uptime/Downtime)
• Fuck Buttons – Olympians
• Klutae – We Are Sinners (We Will All Burn In Hell)
• Reso – If Ya Can’t Beat Em – Original Mix
• The Horrors – Sea Within A Sea
• Broken Dongles – Only Idiots Assume
• Klutae – I’m A Fat Faggot In A Leather Jacket
• Anti-Nowhere League – Degeneration
• The Drums – I Felt Stupid
• Sub Focus – Timewarp
• Nu:Tone – Balaclava In My System
• Semi-Not – Disco Communist (from MusicforManiacs blog)
• Ivor Cutler – Out with the Light
• Hot Chip – Brothers
• Gil Scott-Heron – Black History/ The World
• Mikey Dread – Saturday Night Style mixed with bits from:
  Mikey Dread – Mikey Dread In Action
  Mikey Dread – Technical Selection
  Mikey Dread – JBC Days
• J-Live – Satisfied?
• Gil Scott-Heron – Home Is Where The Hatred Is
• King Britt featuring Ursula Rucker – Human Beings want to be Happy
• Viv Stanshall – The Question
• Big Hard Excellent Fish – The Imperfect List (Version 2)
• HEALTH – Die Slow
• Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
• Linda Thompson – The Way I Love You
• Richard Hawley – As The Dawn Breaks
• The Low Anthem – Cage The Songbird
• Kiki & Herb – Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
• Sage Francis – Waterline
• Wild Beasts – Cheerio Chaps Cheerio Goodbye
• Viv Stanshall – In The Final Analysis
• Richard Hawley – Don’t Get Hung Up in Your Soul

Finally have this on MutantPopTV – for the moment because of Vimeo’s current oddness and slowly uploading to other places this is the only place you can see it in full as one file. Crazy but true.

If you encounter jerkiness then it might be best to let it load for a bit and buffer…it’s not a small file and my server’s hamsters sometimes get tired. Also running stuff or downloading in the background can slow down Flash video, as it tends to be more CPU intensive that other sorts of video – there don’t let anyone tell you I’m not informative…

Remember you can share it by the little menu in the corner, but keep a mind for my poor bandwidth will you? I hope to have a full length video on Vimeo or Viddler or something soon, but who knows?

As I mentioned before on the blog I went to Ethiopia and South Africa for 2 weeks, and to honour that occasion and of the 5 years of Radio Clash I resurrected the travel podcasts – with a twist. I shot video on my iPod and camera so there is a complete video podcast of 1 1/2 hours and also here is the full 2 hour music podcast it’s based from.

RC 183: Take Me Back To Africa – video podcast Part 1! from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Part two:

RC 183: Take Me Back to Africa Part 2 from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Includes music (and video) from all over Africa – from Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria, Malawi, Angola and Kenya, and the first ever solo remix from me, as Fingertrouble – that video will also go live separately, and the track will be available for download.

It Began in Africa-ca-ca-ca (88Mb, 116mins)

• Happy Birthday to RC-C-C!
• The Very Best – The Warm Heart of Africa (Fingertrouble Takes The Boom Bap Back to Africa remix)
• Femi Kuti – Alkebu-Lan (Cradle Of Civilization)
• DJ Mujava – Township Funk (Sinden Rmx)
• The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Boyz
• Buraka Som Sistema (feat. Dj Znobia) – Luanda/Lisboa
• Fela Kuti – Expensive Shit
• Sahara All Stars Bandjos – Enjoy Yourself
• Mandoza – Noma Guphi
• Zola – Ngudu
• Brenda Fassie – Vulindela
• Miriam Makeba – Remember Sophiatown (Featuring The Skylarks)
• Miss Frenchie – The Lion Sleeps
• Jonas Gwangwa – Sello Sa Matseltapo
• Sir Victor Uwaifo & his Melody Maestroes – Guitar Boy
• The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit) – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
• East Africa Bashment Crew – Fire Anthem
• Pitch Black Afro – A Day In the Life
• Aster Aweke – Tchewata
• Gigi – Guramayle
• Miriam Makeba – Kilimanjaro