Peel Badge by Skreen from the Cuban Boys

Today was the 4 year anniversary of John Peel’s last show – and on the 25th of this month the anniversary of his death. And fittingly I was reminded of this by the excellent Cuban Boys by the ever-present and psychic DJ Charles III (my iPod). Down down deeper and down!

So, given that BBC has seemingly given up the ghost on a John Peel Day this year, I think a fitting tribute is to play this loud on the 25th (or today if you get it in time). It’s not totally the same without Peel, although Rob da Bank seems to be doing pretty well in his own way, there probably won’t be anyone with the same breadth of music and definitely not anyone with that history. The industry is far too marketing niche and career orientated for that to happen now.

Cuban Boys – The Nation Needs You (7″)
Cuban Boys – The Nation Needs You (12″)

Random, random, random…we all do the knuckle shuffle with DJ Charles II the Psychic iPod DJ.

1-2-3 Cha Cha 69-4-3 Cha Cha…(49Mb, 82mins) http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_88.mp3

Notes

• Rutles – Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik
• Hungry Lucy – Love Vigilantes
• Minus Kelvin – Epic
• Elbow – Teardrop (live)
• Jarvis Cocker – Two Little Boys (live)
• ELO – Rain Is Falling
• CHAOS Production aka DJ Jay-R – This How We Doobie
• KANO – 9 to 5
• Bolland – In The Army Now
• Cannibal Corpse – California Uber Alles
• ? – Waves of Multiation cover
• Cassetteboy – Gownday (off Dead Horse)
• Dannyman (?) – 69 raggaremix
• Bruce Haack – Chant of the Unborn
• House of Love – Who By Fire
• Scissor Sisters – It Can’t Come Quickly Enough
• Felt – All I Like Are Those That Are Dead
• Josh Console – Never Sell Out

DJ Charles is in the House! The iPod returneth, weird having to create a new directory and dragging everything in and charging it via Firewire, but it’s cool. A sort of generation 2 chunky old-skool cool.
Not sure it’s been treat well since John pointed out it was leaking a brown rusty susbtance…err…what has he done to it?

Gerald (the iRiver) won’t be back for another 2 weeks at least. Sigh. But at least I have big iVor 1 & little iVor to keep me company too.

Late night drunken ramble through the brambles, thorny relationship power issues, a belated introduction but thankfully some great music courtesy of DJ Charles on the decks…

• Fourstones – Mort vs Toots (Mort Sahl vs Toots and the Maytals
• Clash – Straight to Hell (unedited version)
• Black Box Recorder – Being Number One (thanks Greg!)
• Negativland - Helter Stupid (excerpt, especially for all you Godcasters/fundy Xtians out there)
• TimG- Teenage Kicks with Somebody(Undertones vs Whitney)
• Rolo – Radio Beauty (Radiohead vs American Beauty)
• Bozilla – I‘d Rather Jack than Bomb Iraq (from end of the month club)
• dsico – Billie Jean Dancehall
• DJ Tripp - breatheroads (Erasure vs Portishead)

Listen here (57:49 33MB): http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_show29.mp3