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

About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas!

So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came to the 2nd Radio Clash night in 2005 (also called Bah Humbug!) – was that 4 years ago? Wow. I’m uploading this because I met up with Kirk last night and he said he still listens to it every Xmas while wrapping presents, so it definitely gets the Coverley Classic ™.

Also reuploaded the Bah Humbug mix also from 2005, you’ll get a bit of deja vu from this but it’s an expanded version of this compilation – but in lower quality to get the filesize…and it’s mixed!

You can get a zip file of the compilation here – enjoy! Or don’t, grinches!

01. Wayne Butane / Xmas (Excerpt)
02. Sparks / Thank God It’s Not Christmas
03. Bob Rivers / Chipmunks Roasting On An Open Fire
04. The Chipmunks / Xmas with the Devil
05. A plus D / Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty)
06. Princess Superstar / I Hope I Sell a Lot of Records at Christmastime
07. Culturcide / They Aren’t The World
08. Cassetteboy / Up the Chimney
09. Mae West / Put The Loot In The Boot, Santa
10. Culturcide / Santa Claus Was My Lover
11. Vandals / Christmas Time for my Penis
12. Cassetteboy / Happy Cliffmas
13. Vim / When a Child is Bored
14. Little Marcy / Suzy Snowflake
15. Tiny Tim / Santa Claus Has Got the Aids
16. dj BC / Turbo Sleigh Ride
17. The Fall / Jingle Bell Rock
18. Bob Rivers / Wreck the Malls
19. Mr. T Experience / Merry Fucking Christmas
20. Voicedude / Carol Of The Burgers
21. Peter & The Test Tube Babies / I’m Getting Pissed For Christmas
22. Dwarves / Drinking Up Christmas
23. Showcase Showdown / Merry Christmas I Fucked Your Snowman
24. JIROB v Paul McCartney / Pipes of Peace (gentle remix)
25. Adam Sky / Shakin’ and a Bakin’
26. Shitmat / Dis Dancehall Ting Is Better Than That T.V. Ting Tony
27. Rx / Happy RxMas & a Whole Lotta Love
28. TBC Poundsystem / Don’t Lose my Funky Sledge

Finally have this on MutantPopTV – for the moment because of Vimeo’s current oddness and slowly uploading to other places this is the only place you can see it in full as one file. Crazy but true.

If you encounter jerkiness then it might be best to let it load for a bit and buffer…it’s not a small file and my server’s hamsters sometimes get tired. Also running stuff or downloading in the background can slow down Flash video, as it tends to be more CPU intensive that other sorts of video – there don’t let anyone tell you I’m not informative…

Remember you can share it by the little menu in the corner, but keep a mind for my poor bandwidth will you? I hope to have a full length video on Vimeo or Viddler or something soon, but who knows?

This is the long-delayed video part of RC: 183 – I really really didn’t want to post it as two parts and will post a hopefully higher quality single version as soon as it converts/uploads and Vimeo stops being shit (I may have a long wait).

I could list a long list of how this has been a nightmare,from broken lights and scrambles to get the only worklight in christendom in the fun environs of Leyton, from Adobe Media Encoder taking 7 hours to create an empty file and the scrabble to get anything out Premiere and it’s usual crashes, frequent crashes and comepletely wrong estimated sizes of QuickTime Pro conversions, and now Vimeo is flaking out with it’s conversions stopping at 4% even with a Plus account. I think this’ll be the first and last video podcast, at least til I have money to get new non-shit hardware and software (6 months-1 year+). Sorry but this doesn’t pay costs loads and I haz no money. *shrugs*

Also that means no iPod downloadable version, don’t have the server space without this server falling over, unless someone wants to donate me the money to upgrade libsyn so it can store a 400-500Mb video, it aint gonna happen. And given it’s taken days of QT crashes to get this far I doubt we’d get there anyway.

Anyway I hope you enjoy it, it’s taken FAR too long.

RC 183: Take Me Back To Africa – video podcast Part 1! from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Part two:

RC 183: Take Me Back to Africa Part 2 from Tim Baker on Vimeo.

Also now over as one file at MutantPopTV:

Yup bring out the candles and mountains of icing – Radio Clash is 5 years old and bouncing around due to too much sugar, excitement and tartrazine. We started as a podcast on 29th November 2004.

A special podcast (special in several ways) is completed and will be up later today hopefully