Doo-dah, dada, dog. Radio Clash 175 is a special show which commemorates two great songwriters and performers – that original ginger geezah Vivian Stanshall and the Seventh Python (I bet he hates that term) Neil Innes, the former who sadly died in 1995, and their legacy of arty chaotic jazz/pop/psychedelic silliness and melancholy that probably only the English really get…as much rooted in the 20′s than the 60′s and 70′s, but strange and insane in any timeframe.

The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Doo-Dah (92Mb, 2:05)

• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – The Craig Torso Show (excerpt)
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – The Intro and the Outro
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – I’m Going to Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Button up Your Overcoat
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Death Cab for Cutie
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – The Sound Of Music
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Hello Mabel
• The Bonzo Dog Band – My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
• Vivian Stanshall – Pub Talk
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Canyons of Your Mind 2
• The Bonzo Dog Band – The Craig Torso Show (excerpt)
• The Bonzo Dog Band – By a Waterfall
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Sport (The Odd Boy)
• The Bonzo Dog Band – What Do You Do?
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Sofa Head
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Don’t Get Me Wrong
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Straight from My Heart
• Roger Ruskin Spear – Mattress Man
• Neil Innes – Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues
• Eric Idle & Neil Innes – Front Loader
• The Rutles – Eine Kleine Middle Klasse Musik
• Neil Innes – How Sweet To Be An Idiot
• Vivian Stanshall – Terry Keeps His Clips On
• Vivian Stanshall – Rawlinson’s End (excerpt)
• Vivian Stanshall – Viv stanshall – John Peel Epitaph
• Vivian Stanshall – Id Rather Cut My Hands (live)
• Vivian Stanshall – The Cracks Are Showing
• The Bonzo Dog Band – No Matter Who You Vote For, The Government Always Gets In
• The Bonzo Dog Band – Slush

via this wonderful funny paperlicious 70′s kids TV style animation for the Yazoo-sampling ‘Bubblicious’ by Rex the Dog which I think is out in February.

Tony Hart would’ve been proud (RIP)

Back with attack and a very big Mack(intosh), it’s a new Odds and Sodz show with an exclusive from Phil n’ Dog, an exclusive new mashup from me (now released over at AudioPornCentral), and loads of great tunes, in the LONGEST EVAH Radio Clash at over 2 hours…in honour of the mighty mighty WOBCast (well that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it)

What is a Cherry Chopstick anyways? (103Mb,  130Min)

• Phil n’ Dog – Bleeding Rascal (EXCLUSIVE!)
• Negativland – Richard Nixon Died Today (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra – Around The World (Rumba) (from Around the World)
• People Like Us – Singin’ In The Shower (via WFMU)
• Fosforo – Desconocido (via WFMU)
• Vampire Weekend – Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)
• David Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones (from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today)
• Wally Whyton – Don’t You Push Me Down (from Fred Deakin’s Triptych)
• Joe Meek – Keep Your Sunny Side Up
• Negativland – It’s Not a Critique (from Thigmotactic)
• Senor Coconut and his Orchestra – Moscow Discow (Mambo) (from Around the World)
• Ame – Fiori
• Jonathan and Darlene Edwards – Tiptoe Through The Tulips
• Negativland – Kind Of Grumpy (from Thigmotactic)
• Instamatic – I Kissed a Monster (EXCLUSIVE!) part of Guilty Pleasures – Volume One: We All Kissed A Girl at APC
  
• Finitribe – De Testimony
• Handbook for the Recently Dead – Hell is Other People
• Chase and Status – Indian Dub aka Eastern Jam (from their Radio 1 Essential Mix)
• Braintax – Decade (from Panorama)
• Deman Rockers – Iron Lady (from Ragga Twins Step Out)
• Kid Carpet – Nelson Street Space Invaders (from Ideas And Oh Dears)
• George Michael – Cars And Trains (from Patience)
• Negativland – Basketball Plant (from Thigmotactic)
• Dusty Springfield – Am I The Same Girl
• Soko – I’ll kill her
• Finitribe – Hypnopaedia (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Air - Alone In Kyoto (from Lost in Translation)
• Finitribe – Mellowman (from An Unexpected Groovy Treat)
• Fleetwood Mac – Save Me a Place (from Tusk)

Beggar’s dog – Hoboken (LOC)

I usually cover copyright issues of a different nature; ones regarding audio. But as a keen photographer and designer I love images, and know how hard it is, or was, to find open source images. One big addition to this is Flickr Commons – several big museums and collections have gotten together with Flickr to share imagery that has no copyright, old photographs or has governmental uses like the legendary FSA and wartime images. The collections are good – from Smithsonian who started this, to Library of Congress, George Eastman House, Bibliothèque de Toulouse and so on.

Sadly I’m surprised (although not shocked having dealt with these organisations via John) that there are no British museums or collections yet taking part. Certainly governmental ‘public’ works has a different stance here – Crown copyright vs the US model where if public money is used it rightly stays in public domain – and a non-sharing approach with British galleries and museums means yet again America and Europe lead the way in copyright advances and public amenity. Sigh. I hope that changes – because I know the likes of the V&A, British Museum, British Library, The Hulton/Picture Post archive and the Tates have amazing treasures to share.

Will we ever be allowed to, though?

Paris Exposition: ship, Paris, France, 1900

Last Thursday we did a special themed gig at the Parkade in Second Life around the music of the Pet Shop Boys. I DJ’d first for 2 hours, then Amanda Shinji aka Ms Cyberpink DJ’d for 2 hours – you can hear her mix here. My set included a real mixture of originals, covers, remixes, mashups, collaborations and even the odd spoof

In this mix I included To Speak is a Sin, one of my coming out songs, as it is as I correctly guessed before Mr Tennant’s coming out, about a gay bar – takes me back to those times!

C.L.I.C.K.I.N.G. we’re clicking (108Mb, 128mins)

Setlist

• Pet Shop Boys – We’re the Pet Shop Boys
• Pet Shop Boys – Love Comes Quickly (Automatic Drum Beat Mix)
• DJ Magnet – Love Comes Running Up That Hill Quickly
• Pet Shop Boys – You Know Where You Went Wrong
• Pet Shop Boys – Two Divided by Zero
• Xam – West End Jump
• Flight Of The Conchords.- Inner City Pressure
• Junobot – What Have I Done To Deserve This
• Pet Shop Boys – Paninaro ’95
• Electronic – Disappointed
• judgedreadfull – don’t drop the washing up
• Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice (Pet Shop Boys Electro Mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin (DreamTime Mix v2.0)
• Pet Shop Boys – Left To My Own Devices
• Pet Shop Boys – In Private (7″ mix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Sodom (Trentmoller remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Psychological (alter ego remix)
• Pet Shop Boys – Yesterday, When I Was Mad
• 10000 Spoons – Polyminimal-C
• Pet Shop Boys – Shopping
• Carter USM – Rent (Pet Shop Boys)
• Pet Shop Boys – We All Feel Better In the Dark
• Pet Shop Boys – I Want A Dog
• KLF vs PSB – So Hard
• Pet Shop Boys – DJ Culture
• Pet Shop Boys – How I Learned To Hate Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Pet Shop Boys – Party Song
• Pet Shop Boys – A Red Letter Day
• Pet Shop Boys – Go West
• Pet Shop Boys – To Speak Is A Sin
• Pet Shop Boys – Tall Thin Men (Demo)

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