London Bridge
Is Broken down,
Dance over my Lady Lee.
London Bridge
Is Broken down
With a gay Lady.

Take a key and lock her up,
Lock her up, Lock her up.

Build it up with silver and gold,
My fair lady.

Gold and silver I have none,
I have none, I have none.

Silver, and Gold
Will be stolen away,

Stone so strong will last so long,
Last so long, Last so long.

Second part of the now 3-part London series with a darker, greyer and less shiny podcast including rain, riots, rail, revolution and race; and also a LUL FU. So just another day in the city, then!

As before, thanks to The London Nobody Sings, Bob Levingbird, Ian Fondue and anyone I’ve forgotten for their suggestions/posts.

Gold , Silver or Oyster Card I Have None, My Fare Lady! (72Mb, 97mins)

• Professor Bumble’s Magic Machine – London Bridge Is Falling Down
• George Mitchell Singers – Swinging London
• Wendy James – London’s Brilliant
• Blur – London Loves
• Gene – To The City
• Bitter Springs – Moving to the City
• London Conversations  – Sheena MacKay
• Mike Proctor – Mr. Commuter
• Ian Dury -  Busdrivers Prayer
• Big Audio Dynamite – Harrow Road
• XTC – Towers of London
• Rotten & Reynebeau: Finsbury Park – Part 1
• Linton Kwesi Johnson – Di Great Insohreckshan
• Blak Twang – Real Estate
• Demon Boyz – Law Abiding Citizen
• Ivor Cutler – British Museum
• Linton Kwesi Johnson – Reggae Fi Peach
• Smiley Culture – Cockney Translation
• The King Blues – Let’s Hang The Landlord
• Bevis Frond – South Hampstead Rain
• Spike Milligan – Wormwood Scrubs Tango
• Saint Etienne – Side Streets
• The Real Tuesday Weld – London
• The Real Tuesday Weld – I Loved London
• London Bridge (Chinese version)

P.S. following on from my discussion of Blair Peach, I found out that the CPS are reviewing the case – read the comments about the weapons and items they found afterwards – including Nazi regalia. Horrific.

And it seems 30 years later, like with the riots and Kevin Gately and more recently Charles De Menenez and Ian Tomlinson, nothing has really changed. A few of many reasons why I don’t trust the police. In my opinion, any police officer that is violent towards the public and/or hides their identity should be fired, prosecuted and jailed.

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
• London Conversations – Nick Sanderson
• 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
• Sylvia Plath – Parliament Hill Fields
• 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)
• Passport to Pimilico
  
• David Devant and His Spirit Wife – Pimlico
• Pulp – 59 Lyndhurst Grove

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

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

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence (yes Banksy you can kiss my arse)

I mentioned on Twitter that I was planning a follow-up to these shows, and without even mentioning that the idea was around the theme of first, dorkland aka Walton (Viera?) in Second Life suggested I do a show on the first mashups that got people hooked on them. I did so on Twitter, Get Your Bootleg On forum and this blog and had an amazing response…so amazing that the show has had to be edited down and some of the responses dropped – but I still have 27 amazing tracks which are all classics and part of bootleg/mashup history (and a few were surprises even for me).

Still ended up over 2 hours though! Very much worth it, because it is a 2 hour 20 long mix of some of the most influential and classic bootlegs of all time.

As I said this is part 1 of a series, the next one as it always happens was playlisted first and already included a few mashups and cutups that were mentioned for this show, so those tracks and shouts will be in the next part.

Thanks to all who responded what their first mashup they heard (or wanted to hear) was!

But you know that we’ve changed so much since then, oh yeah (2 hours 20, 110Mb)

Tracklist:

• Girls On Top – Warm Bitch (first mashup for: me & Cartelmike)
• Freelance Hellraiser – A Stroke of Genius (dorkland, LV15, okiokinl)
• Soulwax – Smells Like Teen Booty (iainh, A&D)
• dj french bloke – destiny’s kennedys (eve massacre)
• Soulwax – Skeelo & Eye Of The Tiger (REMIX) (tigermendoza, RebornIdentity)
• Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse – 99 Problems (Eternalkhaos)
• DJ EZG – Rockerfaction (ACRoZ, Mighty Mike)
• ? – My Name Is Funk Soul Brother (Veering Axiom)
• Pussy 2000 – It’s Gonna Be Alright (dunproofin)
• Tinman – 18 Strings (Promo mix) (ACROZ)
• Freelance Hellraiser – I Just Can’t Get Enough Purple Pills (GaraGara)
• ? – Last Night Billie Jean Saved My Life (Bob Levingbird)
• Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (X-Press White Label Club Mix) (Oscar TG)
• ECC – Rebel Without A Pause (Pete Juxtaposeur, FM24)
• Osymyso – Intro Inspection (corporation)
• DJ Gauffie – Oops! Slim Shady Did It Again (Norwegian Recycling, DJ Schmolli)
• Jay-Zena – 99 Luft Problems (9freak9)
• Grease Vs Dr Dre & Snoop Dog – You’re The One I Want In The Next Episode (lassoo the moon)
• Girls on Top – We Don’t Give a Damn About Our Friends (Tizwarz, jake9274)
• Soulwax – Dreadlock Child (Lee Spoons)
• Freelance Hellraiser – Step on Man (Ian Fondue)
• Go Home Productions – Jacko Under Pressure (Linus)
• Loo & Placido – Rigby Reggae (CMP)
• DJ Earworm – Stairway to Bootleg Heaven (BenY)
• 10000 Spoons – Whiskey in the Jarre (clivester)
• PartyBen – Boulevard of Broken Songs (psycho acoustic research, WFAH)
• Orbital – Halcyon (Live) (PortPower)