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.

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

Sun? What sun? Summer you say? What’s that?

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Berlin I go ( 41Mb, 53mins)

• Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
• Weezer – Pork And Beans
• Celebrity Murder Party – Sabotage_The_reaper
• World Famous Audio Hacker – Never Win Against The Wall
• Bo Diddley – You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover
• Soyuzmultfilm – Chunga Changa
• Ivor Cutler – There’s A Turtle In My Soup
• Celebrity Murder Party – Wild Boyz wearing ma rolex (d)
• Daler Menhdi – Tunak Tunak Tun
• madonna 303 ( aka air liquide – aka cem oral vs. ingmar koch )
• D-Ranged – Assembled (Wavewhore Remix)
• Pete Shelley – yesterday’s not here
• Augusto Alguero and Orchestra – Gran Premio

I was in Trier and got a phone call from Scott from the Night Nurse Show during his Thursday show letting me know I was in last week’s Time Out – Natasha (also from the NN Show) spotted it!

Big thanks to Scott and Natasha for letting me know, he even typed it up:

This music podcast originates for our own dear London town and is put together by a man who wishes to be known only as Tim, to avoid, as he puts it, ‘copyright stormtrooper crashing through my windows’. Tim is a mash-up fan, so you get plenty of those, as well as interesting remakes, remixes and anything else that takes his fancy. It’s the ideal mix of old stuff you’d forgotten you liked, new stuff you want to hear more of, and weird stuff that just makes you think ‘humph-weird’. Tim is adamant that he doesn’t want his podcast – already over 100 downloads (???) old with no signs of flagging – turning into a job or making any money, which is endearing in this cynical world. If you’re looking for a summery bank holiday soundtrack, try no. 116 (called Born to Synthesise) which features everyone from London Elektricity to Ivor Cutler, Public Enemy to ELO.

Funnily enough my name is Tim, LOL. Thank you Time Out people! May I suggest excellent London-based The Night Nurse Show for a future review?

Sun is shining, all around us, merry christmas everyone…err something’s not totally right there?

Usual tune/talk/ramble interface, with sun shine still hitting the UK like a wet haddock, Bastard #2 at the Macbeth report, and I spend the life savings of small Guatemalan children on CDs and feel fine about it.

You see I spent this whole post and I avoided the bad Sunthesise joke, I’m proud of myself: (64Mb, 88mins) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_116.mp3

• Lupe Fiasco – Sunshine (from Food and Liquor)
• London Elektricity – Different Drum (from Billion Dollar Gravy)
• Susan Cadogan – Fever (from Trojan Reggae Sisters)
• Ken Boothe – Everything I Own (from Trojan Originals)
• DJ Wrongtom – Bloody England
• Skatalites – Skata Skata
• Jungle Brothers – Because I Got it Like That (from Original HipHop Selection)
• Bumblebee Unlimited – Bumblebee Rap (from Original HipHop Selection)
• Public Enemy – Can’t Do Nuttin For Ya Man (from Fear of a Black Planet)
• Vicious Rumor Club – Whole Lotta Love (Original US version) (from Original HipHop Selection)
• Vicarious Bliss – Limousine (from Ed Banger Rec 2)
• Uffie – Dismissed (from Ed Banger Rec 2)
• fujikato – fcks a small boy
• SebastiAn – Ross Ross Ross (liggybaby’s fuck me harder edit)
• ELO – At the End of the World (from Time)
• London Elektricity – Born to Synthesise (from Billion Dollar Gravy)
• Vangelis – Blade Runner Blues (OST)
• Yoko Ono – Toy Boat (With Antony Of Antony And The Johnsons & Hahn Rowe) (from Yes I’m a Witch)
• Ivor Cutler – I Had a Little Boat (from Ludo)
• Pet Shop Boys – Numb (New Radio Version)
• American Analog Set – These Days (AmAnSet Keystroke mix)
• Petra Haden – God Only Knows