Thanks to Steve Holy13Nation I found out that in America last summer 8 shows (plus an intro documentary) were broadcast featuring 14 episodes of Joe Strummer’s London Calling – the show he did for many years on the World Service before he died, and as featured in the film ‘The Future is Unwritten‘ as links – you can find them on iTunes for free as podcasts (which I’ve uploaded here as a mirror in case they go down or people don’t have iTunes).

Only downside is as Steve pointed out, is the need and desire for such things is to tell you how great Joe Strummer was and constantly reminding you who he was through fairly obscure and tangentially related people  cf. a  ‘I met him once at a bus stop! type’ popping up before the 1st show.

So if you want to hear some of the other London Calling shows without the waffle, you’ve come to the right place. Posted some of these here before such as the 2007 repeats and Don Letts show, but most of these were obtained from the wonderful alphish and his Multiply page which is always worth checking out for new ones if they turn up – but they’re all Megaupload, which can be a right arse, so here they are all in one place…most are MP3 but some are OGG files EDIT: I’ve uploaded the converted MP3 files, aren’t I nice?. And also the Don Letts show.

Also I’ve checked the podcasts linked above versus these original radio recordings – it’s weird, some are duplicated here and some are not (none of the 2002 shows are there) and all in the wrong order. So you might be best listening to the podcast as a few of these are terrible hissy quality, compared to the lovely clean podcasts.

As a side note, the blurb around the ‘Summer of Strummer’ seems to suggest there were only 14 shows – not true from what I’ve read on ClashCity (sadly the thread isn’t there anymore) and others – there were quite a few shows esp. in  2000 – and the fact they missed the last 4 shows doesn’t really inspire confidence.

Anyone know for certain how many shows were created and their TX dates? And if you have anything not listed here – gimme! I’ll add it.

As Joe said once ‘If that was no toe tapper or no body shaker, boy you need to see the undertaker!’

• 1998 Show 1 * low quality, duplicated by the  podcasts
• 1998 Show 2 * low quality, duplicated by the  podcasts
• 1998 Show 3 * low quality, duplicated by the  podcasts
• 1998 Show 4 * low quality, duplicated by the  podcasts

• 2000 Show 1 (ogg) 2000 Show 1 (mp3) *
• 2000 Show 2 (ogg) 2000 Show 2 (mp3) *
• 2000 Show 3 (ogg) 2000 Show 3 (mp3) * – low quality – fortunately  this show is part of the podcast set
• 2000 Show 4 (ogg) 2000 Show 4 (mp3) *
• 2000 Show 5 (ogg) 2000 Show 5 (mp3) * full intro on the podcast version
• 2000 Show 6 (ogg) 2000 Show 6 (mp3) *

• 2001 Show 1 *
• 2001 Show 2 *
• 2001 Show 3 *
• 2001 Show 4 *

• 2002 (rebroadcast 2007) Show 1 (weirdly not in the podcasts)
• 2002 (rebroadcast 2007) Show 2 (ditto)
• 2002 (rebroadcast 2007) Show 3 (ditto)
• 2002 (rebroadcast 2007) Show 4 (ditto)
• Don Letts Culture Clash tribute show- includes rare stuff about Joe also not in the podcasts (2007) – bit low quality to fit on my webspace – higher quality is the original RealAudio file rip which you can use something like this to convert. Tracklisting

And may I remind you, This One’s For Joe, the Strummer mashup album from a few years back is available – including my Orb vs Joe Strummer & Bonzo Dog mashup Willesden Blue which also takes samples from London Calling, and is still one of my best.

Oh and after a few question – it’s nice to be asked but – feel free to repost, spread the links, repost the files, torrent, twitter, send to all your friends, burn to CD etc. spread these far and wild – these files are on an old server and is dedicated to this, and has been up for years with some of these files with no problem, but in the rare event it does get pulled or go down I want these files to be out there – for ever. For future generations to hear – for the future is unwritten.

Joe’s love was the music and getting it heard, and this show deserves to be preserved and heard again – still surprised the BBC hasn’t repeated the whole series, or released them as discs – that’s a shocking omission, I’d far prefer to listen to these in high quality complete…I think there are many shows missing – let me know if you have any more.

Also some naughty person might’ve uploaded the podcasts for those without iTunes, with tracklists in the comments, tags and cover art, but as Shaggy once said ‘It wasn’t me’

Please let me know ASAP if any of these links are broken – I want to make sure these stay up permanently for as long as possible, for everyone to hear these great shows. Joe deserves that.

One Hundred and EEEiiiightyyyyy!!!!

Last of the Beatles Podcasts, a bumper edition concentrating on the end of the Beatles, their various followups in mashup and cover form, and John Lennon’s death.

I live near Abbey Road so I just popped out and took these pictures – the ones of the tourists recreating the famous picture (and blocking the traffic in the process) are priceless – including the one below!

Tim you went too far this time…about 2 hours 18 minutes to be exact (138 minutes – EEK! 103Mb)

• The Rutles
• 17 Plombs Pour Peter Les Tubes – Come Together
• The Exterminators – The Beetle-Bomb
• Easy Star All-Stars – With a Little Help from My Friends
• Roy Redmond – Good Day Sunshine
• Wax Audio – Blue Rigby
• Stereo MC’s – Tomorrow Never Knows
• John Peel,John Lennon, Kenny Everett, Malcolm MCdowell – Nostalgia
• Jimmi Jammes – Let A Girl Be
• George Harrison – Pirate Bob
• Keith Lynn & The S.P.M’s & Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – My Sweet Lord
• Go Home Productions – Just Be Good To Paul
• People Like Us – Let Them In
• Ringo Starr with Stevie Nicks – Lay Down Your Arms
• The RIAA Remixes DO or DIY – Lord Only Knows:
• Byron Lee & The Dragonaires – Live And Let Die
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – Isms
• Rainbo – John, You Went Too Far This Time
• Yoshida Brothers – Oh, My Love
• Elliott Smith – Jealous Guy
• John Lennon And Kenny Everett – Desert Island Discs
• The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Give Booze a Chance
• John Lennon & ATOM – John Lennon-Nobody Told Me (ATOM’s Yin & Yang Mix)
• Yoko Ono – Everyman Everywoman (Basement Jaxx Man 2 Man Mix)
• Mountain Con – Variations on Outkast, The White Strips and John Lennon
• Marianne Faithfull – Working Class Hero (live)
• Wax Audio – God
• The Beatles – John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Interview (Part 2) June 1969
• WFMU – New York, NY Radio / The Night John Lennon Died
• John Lennon with Yoko Ono – Imagine (instrumental)
• team9 vs lennon vs temptations vs morrison – imagine vs ball of confusion vs palestine woman
• rx – imagine…walk on the wild side
• The Kleptones – Imagine The End Of The World
• DJ Earlybird – John Lennon vs the Supremes ‘Baby, imagine Love!’
• Go Home Productions – Imagine The Game
• Lennon – Love (demo)
• John Lennon – Stand By Me (demo?)
• Easy Star All-Stars – A Day in the Life
• Nina Simone – Here Comes The Sun

Fed up with YouTube pulling my videos, here is MutantPopTV – really a bunch of FLVs and MP4s on my server, but a hopefully permanent home for these videos. As with any TV channel you’ve got a mix here – from my mashup music videos, full VJ sets, video podcasts and random DJing/drunken rambles and old art degree videos – many hours of watching, and as it’s on shuffle you’d always get a random next video – or select from the list if there’s something you like the look of.

I’ll add more as I find it or export it at the higher quality here – this should play fine on broadband connections 512Mb or faster – if not let it preload, as it’s not live streaming you won’t miss a thing

Oh and before you rip any videos from here I’d be happy to send you a link to a hi-res QT H264 MOV if I have it (and most of them I do) rather than anyone trying to use or play low-res FLVs – just click ‘contact’ above.

Via the wonderful Skip to the End (one of the few podcasts I still make time for – sometimes live, if you don’t listen, why not?) and interesting that he increasingly seems to be more drawn to the YouTube side of things, as I am at the moment.

So here’s a great remix of Return of the Living Dead created only by sounds from that movie: