Phew this touring lark in this hot weather is a bind, lugging those stacks around and…WAIT A MINUTE YOU HAVEN’T BEEN ON TOUR. Well *I* haven’t but my naughty videos have and will be – not only were my videos for the Videotones project just shown last week at Glastonbury (did I mention it? LOL…) as part of the Kleptones set, I received word a few days ago via Simon Iddol that Young Punx want to use my video of dj BC‘s excellent and indeed unforgettable Unbelievable Juice and Gin on their tour. Of course I said yes and sent them over the file.

So Instamatic – coming to a venue near you. I quite like this lazy gigging lark, actually…

Strawberry and Pimms by Moogan – Creative Commons

As the St George flags magically melt away as they were never there in the first place, just like the hopes of the England fans, we can get back to drinking Pimms, Cricket, moaning about being crap at Wimbedon, killer urban crack foxes and random violent knife crime.

Oh and listening to the monster 3-disc Summer Booty 2010 – the new summer mashup compilation from a cast of millions arranged by DJ Useo – this year with added Instamatic

Not Pimms, but oh so sweet…and the fruit doesn’t get stuck in your teeth.

Yup you read correctly – Videotones videos including the premiere of this one (Brightness and Contrast) shown at Glastonbury part of Kleptones AV set – they are playing tonight (Sunday at 11pm – Rabbit Hole Stage, The Park).

‘Tell me now how does it feel’ - Music has become branding and branding has become music; marketers want to know what the audience is doing so as TV morphs into CCTV, the hanging garden of reality shows has become king. And the irony is more choice actually means less as there’s 57 channels and there’s nothing on as the news becomes another reality show and propaganda and lies become reality…

Woah there! Yes it’s a video mashup, but one that’s more like ‘Mad Groove’ but it’s darker and more conspiracy theory prone elder sibling. The Kleptones‘ excellent Brightness and Contrast mashing up New Order’s Blue Monday, Nirvana’s On a Plain, Cure’s Hanging Garden and Bruce Springstein’s 57 Channels is added to such footage as Tommy, a rare Godfrey Reggio short, EdTV, bits of Steal This Film, MC Hammer, Slacker, the Good Consumer and Adbusters shorts, The End of Violence and many more.

Someone pointed out that Donald Sutherland was a theme in all the Videotones videos – sorry it’s actually Ken Russell Followed by TVs, Godfrey Reggio and things exploding…

Apparently the Silent Disco set at Glasto went well for Eric & co. – great news

I discovered this old Northern Soul gem on ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ records down the charity shop – who knew that Marvin Gaye and Mayer Hawthorne ripped this poor guy off? I ripped it from the original 7″ in glorious original mono just for y’all.

Marvin Hawthorne – I Heard You Were Ill (So I Bought You Grapes)

P.S. might be something to do with the GYBO Weekend Challenge

A long summer show reflecting the long uninterrupted periods of sunshine we’re getting in the UK, *cough* NOT.

So here’s another podcast for a schizophrenic summer that can’t make it’s mind up between sunshine, rain, and cloudy on an hourly basis. I also talk about hypnagogic pop, a term from the Wire (I know I know, but at least it’s not chillwave or shitgaze which ARE officially the worst genre names ever) about a certain type of woozy blissed out electronic/experimental guitar music (thanks eve!) – although listeners of Vini Reilly and Pat Metheny might debate the newness of this!

Oh and a cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

It’s only an oversized etch-a-sketch y’know (138 mins, 109Mb)

• El Guincho – Antillas
• Simon And Garfunkel – A Hazy Shade Of Winter
• Tennors – Weather Report
• Dubmatix – London Calling (Album Version) [feat. Don Letts & Dan Donovan] (from Shatter the Hotel benefitting Strummerville)
• B.o.B – The Kids (feat. Janelle Monae)
• Instamatic – Nothin’ Crazy (B.O.B ft Bruno Mars vs Gnarls Barkley)
• Balkan Beat Box – War Again
• LCD Soundsystem – You Wanted a Hit (Keljet Remix)
• Scissor Sisters – Invisible Light (Siriusmo Remix)
• Buraka Som Sistema – Buffalo Stance
• DJ not-I – Burst Your Own Way
• Yeasayer – Ambling Alp
• Inyang Henshaw – Esonta
• Balkan Beat Box – Balcumbia
• lobsterdust – Knock Out Eileen (L L Cool J vs. Dexy’s Midnight Runners)
• U-Roy – I Can’t Love Another
• Broken Bells – Vaporize
• Mark McGuire – A Pocket Full Of Rain
• Yeasayer – I Remember
• Emeralds – Candy Shoppe
• 5th Dimension – Love’s Lines, Angles, and Rhymes
• Matt Elliott – The Mess We Made
• Dusty Springfield – I Found My Way
• Mark McGuire – The Marfa Lights
• Alva Noto – Xerrox Soma
• Broken Bells – Trap Doors
• White Rainbow – Major Spillage
• Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme – Black Hole Sun