RC 395: River Is Beatiful

RIVER iS BEAUTIFUL! Fresh off a long walk along the River Thames – over a 100 miles sweetie – so we have a London and water themed podcast, an imagined soundtrack for my new YouTube video series on the Thames Path – cos I can’t afford the rights!



And new mashups from me and others and original music as well, and some old classics, And Video Killed The Radio Star? Hope not…



Listen to RC 395: River Is Beautiful by Radio Clash on hearthis.at



I wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly (2:23, 192Mb)




The Bran Flakes – Fifty Four Fifty



ToToM – I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic (Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay)



HallMighty – Take My Heart Back To London (Ed Sheeran & Stormzy vs Pet Shop Boys)



Captain Obvious – Murder Everywhere On The Dancefloor (Sophie Ellis Bextor vs Fleetwood Mac)



Minor Arth – Video Killed Digital Love (Daft Punk vs The Buggles)



Mighty Mike – Time killed the radio star (Cyndi Lauper vs The Buggles)



Minor Arth – Andromeda’s Teardrops (Womack & Womack vs Gorillaz vs DRAM)



Overmono – Bby



Bicep – Water (featuring Clara La San)



HallMighty (ft Lady T) – The Rhythm



Phoenix City All-stars – London Calling



The Unusuals – I’m Walking, Babe



oki – walk idiot don’t stop (the hives vs. fleetwood mac)



London Elektricity – Possible Worlds (feat. Inja)



Charla Green – Babylon Fall



Men – Who Am I To Feel So Free



Bluey – Creek is Beautiful!



Solange – Cranes in the Sky



Kae Tempest – Bad Place For A Good Time



Billy Nomates – saboteur forcefield



The Handless Organist – Turn Your Radio On



Gorillaz – The Lost Chord (feat. Leee John)



The Revolutionaries – Kunta Kinte (Dub Plate Version 2)



HallMighty – Hurt Me Under The Bridge (RHCP vs K’Naan ft Robbie Williams & The Beatles)



Working Men’s Club – Circumference



ToToM – Everybody Would Drown and Y.O.U.D. Too (How To Destroy Angels and Billie Eilish vs. Culoe De Song)



Danny Macabre – Vampire Creep (Olivia Rodrigo vs Radiohead)



ah! – Black Frog Peace Swan (The Doors vs Thom Yorke)



iWillBattle – Feeling Beautiful Good Things (Benson Boone x Muse)



Goldie & The Gingerbreads – Walking In Different Circles



tbc aka Instamatic – Whisper Forever (George Michael vs The Spice Girls)



10000 Spoons – Chariots Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles vs Vangelis)




Transcript
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00:04:07.600 –> 00:04:14.600 Hello, welcome to Radio Clash, this is 395, called River is Beautiful, and Curse you, Totom,



00:04:14.600 –> 00:04:16.360 for making a Coldplay Mash.



00:04:16.360 –> 00:04:18.040 Making me play a Coldplay Mash.



00:04:18.040 –> 00:04:22.600 Well, not making me play it, but making me like Coldplay Mash.



00:04:22.600 –> 00:04:29.600 After I said I really can’t stand Coldplay Mashes, Totom has to go and mash the one Coldplay



00:04:29.600 –> 00:04:34.880 song off the one album I can stand, which is the first album, and Don’t Panic.



00:04:34.880 –> 00:04:42.720 Yeah, all the feels, that’s I Promise You Flowers, Don’t Panic, Miley Cyrus vs. Coldplay.



00:04:42.720 –> 00:04:49.800 And at the start we had the Branflakes with Fifty Four Fifty from their 2016’s Ultimate Hits, which



00:04:49.800 –> 00:04:51.600 I missed, I somehow missed.



00:04:51.600 –> 00:04:56.440 I have several, at least one Branflakes album, and yeah, somehow I didn’t know about that



00:04:56.440 –> 00:04:57.440 one.



00:04:57.440 –> 00:05:00.080 I was checking out the discography and went, “What’s this?”



00:05:00.080 –> 00:05:04.600 And it sounds like a best-off, but none of the tracks I’d heard before, so it’s like



00:05:04.600 –> 00:05:07.920 a mock best-off, but I might be wrong on that.



00:05:07.920 –> 00:05:11.320 And yes, it’s called River is Beautiful because I’ve been walking the Thames path, I spent



00:05:11.320 –> 00:05:14.440 two weeks walking a lot of the Thames path.



00:05:14.440 –> 00:05:17.800 I’m not going to say exactly where I ended up, because it’s a bit spoilers, spoilers



00:05:17.800 –> 00:05:18.800 sweetie, spoilers.



00:05:18.800 –> 00:05:29.920 But yeah, I walked from Yantlet, which is where the London Stone is, to quite a bit of it,



00:05:29.920 –> 00:05:34.640 to more than halfway, and it’s 200 miles, so a lot of walking.



00:05:34.640 –> 00:05:40.080 And as this is a YouTube, as this is a video for my YouTube channel, I can’t afford the



00:05:40.080 –> 00:05:41.080 copyright.



00:05:41.080 –> 00:05:45.600 I can’t afford the musical rights to any of these songs.



00:05:45.600 –> 00:05:50.320 So weirdly, during the whole of it, I wasn’t listening to music.



00:05:50.320 –> 00:05:57.840 This episode is kind of a mixture of new stuff that I really dig, and also an imagined soundtrack



00:05:57.840 –> 00:06:00.200 for the Thames Path series.



00:06:00.200 –> 00:06:04.160 It’s going to be called Thames Spring when it comes out.



00:06:04.160 –> 00:06:06.000 I’m just editing it at the moment.



00:06:06.000 –> 00:06:11.240 And yeah, there’s a lot of tracks in here that are London based and river based.



00:06:11.240 –> 00:06:17.680 And yes, if I could license any music, there’d be some of these in that video, but I can’t.



00:06:17.680 –> 00:06:20.320 So talking of London, we can play a track by Hallmighty.



00:06:20.320 –> 00:06:23.220 This is, surprise I’ve not played this.



00:06:23.220 –> 00:06:28.640 This is from 2023, Hallmighty Presents, Disco Deluxe 6.



00:06:28.640 –> 00:06:33.440 This is Take My Heart Back to London, Ed Sheeran versus Stormzy versus Pet Shop Boys.



00:37:23.720 –> 00:37:30.400 That was Hallmighty featuring Lady Tea, with his first ever original track.



00:37:30.400 –> 00:37:31.400 That’s ‘The Rhythm’.



00:37:31.400 –> 00:37:33.080 I like that a lot.



00:37:33.080 –> 00:37:37.720 It’s a good slice of disco, modern disco.



00:37:37.720 –> 00:37:41.320 And then before that we had, yeah, more of that sort of river section.



00:37:41.320 –> 00:37:47.520 That’s ‘Water’ featuring Clara La San by Bicep from 2022.



00:37:47.520 –> 00:37:52.760 Then before that Overmono with ‘BBY’ from 2029.



00:37:52.760 –> 00:37:54.680 And then before that we had Minor Arth



00:37:54.680 –> 00:37:57.880 We had two Minor Arth tracks in that mix, actually.



00:37:57.880 –> 00:38:02.560 There’s ‘Andromedas Teardrops’, Womack and Womacn versus Gorillaz versus D-RAM or



00:38:02.560 –> 00:38:06.080 DRAM, I don’t know how you say that, a very recent mashup.



00:38:06.080 –> 00:38:12.200 I’m not really up on Gorillaz and I’ve been hearing the odd thing that has used tracks



00:38:12.200 –> 00:38:15.000 and I’ve really liked the track they use.



00:38:15.000 –> 00:38:19.200 So I have one later in the podcast, which is one of those, it’s like, “Oh, actually,



00:38:19.200 –> 00:38:20.200 I’ve not heard that.



00:38:20.200 –> 00:38:22.200 I recognise that vocalist.



00:38:22.200 –> 00:38:23.960 I must have this.”



00:38:23.960 –> 00:38:30.280 And of course, you know, ‘Teardrop’ is a classic and it’s apparently namedropped in the Andromeda



00:38:30.280 –> 00:38:31.280 track.



00:38:31.280 –> 00:38:36.640 Then before that, the theme of mine is ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’, for kind of obvious



00:38:36.640 –> 00:38:42.040 reasons I would say, though I never was a radio star.



00:38:42.040 –> 00:38:43.640 Video killed the radio unknown.



00:38:43.640 –> 00:38:52.200 But yeah, there’s very much a thing with YouTube taking on my time that I don’t really spend



00:38:52.200 –> 00:38:53.200 the time.



00:38:53.200 –> 00:39:01.240 I should do with the podcast and other things, blog and etc. are very neglected at the moment,



00:39:01.240 –> 00:39:02.240 which is very bad.



00:39:02.240 –> 00:39:05.920 But you know, it’s kind of like, that’s the way with YouTube.



00:39:05.920 –> 00:39:07.000 You have to be very much all in.



00:39:07.000 –> 00:39:10.520 You can’t just do half cock, really.



00:39:10.520 –> 00:39:13.760 So that’s Mighty Mike with ‘Time Killed the Radio Star’.



00:39:13.760 –> 00:39:18.440 That’s Cyndi Lauper’versus ‘Buggles’.



00:39:18.440 –> 00:39:23.040 And before that, we had ‘Video Killed Digital Love’, Daftpunk versus ‘The Buggles’ by



00:39:23.040 –> 00:39:24.040 Minor Arth



00:39:24.040 –> 00:39:27.240 Again, another new-ish mash.



00:39:27.240 –> 00:39:31.960 And then before that, we had one of me that was kept an obvious with, because everyone’s



00:39:31.960 –> 00:39:35.800 doing Murder on the Dancefloor mashups because of Saltburn.



00:39:35.800 –> 00:39:39.040 Even though I’ve never seen Saltburn, it was for a challenge actually.



00:39:39.040 –> 00:39:43.440 I didn’t win the challenge, but hey, that’s ‘Murder Everywhere’ on the dancefloor.



00:39:43.440 –> 00:39:45.440 Sophie Ellis Bexter versus Fleetwood Mac



00:39:45.440 –> 00:39:48.440 Yes, me doing a Fleetwood Mac mashup.



00:39:48.440 –> 00:39:49.440 Surprise!



00:39:49.440 –> 00:39:50.440 Much surprise.



00:39:50.440 –> 00:39:54.160 And then before the start of that section, we had Hallmighty with ‘Take My Heart Back



00:39:54.160 –> 00:39:57.880 to London’ Ed Sheeran and ‘Stormzy’ versus Pet Shop Boys.



00:39:57.880 –> 00:40:02.560 Yes, I’d love to have stuff like, you know, ‘Bicep’ in my video.



00:40:02.560 –> 00:40:06.560 I just have to use an AI knock-offs of that kind of thing.



00:40:06.560 –> 00:40:09.000 Unfortunately, yes, it’s sad.



00:40:09.000 –> 00:40:10.000 It’s sad.



00:40:10.000 –> 00:40:18.640 So, we’re going to play another London-related track, which is ‘London Calling’ by The Clash.



00:40:18.640 –> 00:40:19.880 Hey, we’re Radio Clash.



00:40:19.880 –> 00:40:22.320 We have to play Clash tunes it’s in the rules



00:40:22.320 –> 00:40:26.320 And this is Phoenix City All-Stars, their version of ‘London Calling’.



01:02:17.920 –> 01:02:24.020 That was men, not just



01:02:24.020 –> 01:02:26.520 any old men, we’re just innocent men.



01:02:26.520 –> 01:02:34.120 Now, MEN, J.D. Samson’s band from 2011, that’s “Who Am I to Feel So Free?” which I know from



01:02:34.120 –> 01:02:38.720 Duckie I’d heard it from Duckie and I heard it again through checking out what J.D. Samson



01:02:38.720 –> 01:02:42.040 had been up to and I was like, “Oh, I know that song.



01:02:42.040 –> 01:02:45.280 Always good to play some queer indy disco.



01:02:45.280 –> 01:02:47.480 Always a pleasure in this podcast.”



01:02:47.480 –> 01:02:51.180 The whole thing that I always love to play is also Jungle, so we had Charla Green



01:02:51.180 –> 01:02:55.560 with Babylon Fall from 2020, not from London, from Sheffield, but yeah.



01:02:55.560 –> 01:02:57.360 Before that, we had some London Elektricity.



01:02:57.360 –> 01:03:02.240 I mean, how could we do a London podcast without some London Elektricity?



01:03:02.240 –> 01:03:03.240 It’s impossible.



01:03:03.240 –> 01:03:04.240 We can’t.



01:03:04.240 –> 01:03:05.240 We cannot.



01:03:05.240 –> 01:03:06.240 We cannot.



01:03:06.240 –> 01:03:07.240 We cannot.



01:03:07.240 –> 01:03:08.640 We cannot have a London podcast without London Elektricity.



01:03:08.640 –> 01:03:13.920 And that’s from 2019’s “Building Better Worlds.”



01:03:13.920 –> 01:03:15.680 That’s “Possible Worlds” featuring Inja.



01:03:15.680 –> 01:03:19.280 I haven’t played a remix of that, but I haven’t played the original weirdly.



01:03:19.280 –> 01:03:23.920 And then we had Oki’s “Walk Idiot, Don’t Stop.”



01:03:23.920 –> 01:03:25.280 You see what I did there?



01:03:25.280 –> 01:03:31.960 Hives vs. Fleetwood Mac the Oki tracks from 2023, and The Unusuals “I’m Walking,



01:03:31.960 –> 01:03:35.960 Babe” from 1965, some classic garage rock.



01:03:35.960 –> 01:03:41.080 I’ve played some Unusualson a podcast before, a very different one with a different vocalist,



01:03:41.080 –> 01:03:42.880 but that’s their other single.



01:03:42.880 –> 01:03:45.400 They’re like three singles, I think, or two singles.



01:03:45.400 –> 01:03:47.160 And that’s that other single.



01:03:47.160 –> 01:03:51.520 They’re more known for their second single, which I forget her name, but it’s quite a



01:03:51.520 –> 01:03:55.760 well-known vocalist who worked with them on their last single.



01:03:55.760 –> 01:03:59.280 I think it was their last single, one of their singles.



01:03:59.280 –> 01:04:05.480 And then before that, we had Phoenix City All-Stars with London Calling, or London Colin, as



01:04:05.480 –> 01:04:07.040 I always call it.



01:04:07.040 –> 01:04:09.080 I can hear you, Colin.



01:04:09.080 –> 01:04:10.640 London Colin.



01:04:10.640 –> 01:04:11.640 Yes.



01:04:11.640 –> 01:04:12.640 Yes.



01:04:12.640 –> 01:04:19.520 So, again, when I was walking down the river, there was one song that was in my head, or



01:04:19.520 –> 01:04:20.520 one statement.



01:04:20.520 –> 01:04:23.440 There was a few songs that I was singing along the way.



01:04:23.440 –> 01:04:25.600 Weirdly not river-based, most of them.



01:04:25.600 –> 01:04:28.680 For some reason, I was always singing Negativland’s



01:04:28.680 –> 01:04:31.440 “I am a man, a man with four fingers.”



01:04:31.440 –> 01:04:34.000 For some reason, I just kept singing that.



01:04:34.000 –> 01:04:35.000 I don’t know why.



01:04:35.000 –> 01:04:36.000 I don’t know why.



01:04:36.000 –> 01:04:37.000 So I kept changing lyrics.



01:04:37.000 –> 01:04:38.280 “I am a man, a man with four locks.



01:04:38.280 –> 01:04:39.960 I am a man, a man with four rivers.



01:04:39.960 –> 01:04:43.960 I am a man with four pastels.”



01:04:43.960 –> 01:04:46.680 I was eating a lot of fruit pastels.



01:04:46.680 –> 01:04:49.400 With four fruit pastels, yeah.



01:04:49.400 –> 01:04:53.200 I ate two and a half bags of, no three and a half bags of fruit pastels.



01:04:53.200 –> 01:04:56.880 And I can tell you, my fruit pastel research, that the original fruit pastels are worse



01:04:56.880 –> 01:04:59.840 than the supermarket-owned brands.



01:04:59.840 –> 01:05:00.840 Even Lidl.



01:05:00.840 –> 01:05:01.840 That doesn’t make sense.



01:05:01.840 –> 01:05:06.240 But, of course, Rowntrees changed the formula, like they did with fruit gums.



01:05:06.240 –> 01:05:08.400 And then ours tastes like shit.



01:05:08.400 –> 01:05:10.600 Whereas the best one is Tesco’s.



01:05:10.600 –> 01:05:15.800 Tesco’s own fruit pastels taste fruitier than the original fruit pastels.



01:05:15.800 –> 01:05:17.920 And they still have that texture.



01:05:17.920 –> 01:05:20.400 I think it’s because they made it vegan.



01:05:20.400 –> 01:05:22.960 They made the original ones vegan.



01:05:22.960 –> 01:05:24.800 And so now they’re just not as nice.



01:05:24.800 –> 01:05:25.800 Sorry, vegans.



01:05:25.800 –> 01:05:26.800 You spoil everything.



01:05:26.800 –> 01:05:29.200 I’m going to get complaints.



01:05:29.200 –> 01:05:30.200 I don’t care.



01:05:30.200 –> 01:05:31.200 No one fucking listens to this.



01:05:31.200 –> 01:05:35.600 But yeah, so I’m not almost now listening to this.



01:05:35.600 –> 01:05:36.600 So what?



01:05:36.600 –> 01:05:37.600 It’s true, though.



01:05:37.600 –> 01:05:42.040 That’s nice things that have been sort of wrecked by having to change the formula because



01:05:42.040 –> 01:05:43.040 of…



01:05:43.040 –> 01:05:44.960 I mean, I get it with allergies, but it’s…



01:05:44.960 –> 01:05:45.960 Yeah.



01:05:45.960 –> 01:05:50.720 I have vegans and I have gluten tolerance and stuff.



01:05:50.720 –> 01:05:51.720 So I get it.



01:05:51.720 –> 01:05:55.480 But I don’t go around insisting everyone should change their crusty loaf.



01:05:55.480 –> 01:06:00.880 I wish there was more gluten bread, but I don’t think people should change theirs.



01:06:00.880 –> 01:06:06.440 But yeah, and I’ll readily agree that the gluten-free versions are dreadful.



01:06:06.440 –> 01:06:07.440 Well, not dreadful.



01:06:07.440 –> 01:06:08.440 They’re getting better.



01:06:08.440 –> 01:06:09.440 But sourdough is all right.



01:06:09.440 –> 01:06:13.240 But a lot of them are just like cardboard.



01:06:13.240 –> 01:06:17.400 And I will freely admit that.



01:06:17.400 –> 01:06:20.760 But yeah, whenever…



01:06:20.760 –> 01:06:23.280 I’ve noticed the vegan version of things.



01:06:23.280 –> 01:06:25.360 The vegan version of jelly gums.



01:06:25.360 –> 01:06:31.200 Unfortunately, I think you do need pigs or gelatin, really.



01:06:31.200 –> 01:06:34.720 It’s part of the flavor and the taste and texture.



01:06:34.720 –> 01:06:45.920 So the thing that I was saying was “Creek is beautiful” rather than saying what is the



01:06:45.920 –> 01:06:47.320 title of this podcast.



01:06:47.320 –> 01:06:48.320 River is beautiful.



01:06:48.320 –> 01:06:50.320 And so I have to play the original.



01:06:50.320 –> 01:06:51.680 So this is from Bluey.



01:06:51.680 –> 01:06:54.000 “Creek is beautiful” and it is a beautiful episode.



01:06:54.000 –> 01:06:57.720 And this is pretty much every Bluey episode.



01:06:57.720 –> 01:06:58.720 All of them actually.



01:06:58.720 –> 01:06:59.720 They are beautiful.



01:06:59.720 –> 01:07:03.320 But yeah, this is a magical paen to…



01:07:03.320 –> 01:07:08.680 Kids going outdoors and playing in the creek.



01:36:25.400 –> 01:36:28.440 It seems to be a bumper podcast for Hallmighty.



01:36:28.440 –> 01:36:33.160 Well I was actually planning to play the two Hallmighty tracks, and then he dropped the original



01:36:33.160 –> 01:36:35.640 tracks, so I was like, “Oh, put that in as well”



01:36:35.640 –> 01:36:41.400 That’s “Hear Me Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers versus K’Naan versus



01:36:41.400 –> 01:36:43.640 Robbie Williams, versus The Beatles.



01:36:43.640 –> 01:36:46.920 I must have agreed, when I first heard that, I was like, “Where’s The Beatles?



01:36:46.920 –> 01:36:47.920 Where’s The Beatles?”



01:36:47.920 –> 01:36:50.200 And it was just like, right at the end, a little bit of Hey Jude.



01:36:50.200 –> 01:36:56.080 And before that, we had the dub classic, “Kunte Kinte dub plate, version two”.



01:36:56.080 –> 01:36:59.520 Everyone plays version one, and I preferred version two actually.



01:36:59.520 –> 01:37:01.360 That’s by The Revolutionaries.



01:37:01.360 –> 01:37:05.560 And it’s weird, because the date on that is like 2007, 2009.



01:37:05.560 –> 01:37:09.600 I can’t find the original version, even though it’s from the 1970s.



01:37:09.600 –> 01:37:13.560 I can’t find it on Discogs because I can’t find what the original version, when the original



01:37:13.560 –> 01:37:15.920 version, release date was.



01:37:15.920 –> 01:37:20.800 I think I won these things that languished on dub plates, and never got properly released,



01:37:20.800 –> 01:37:22.920 commercially released.



01:37:22.920 –> 01:37:27.240 But I’ve certainly heard that organ sound in so many other things.



01:37:27.240 –> 01:37:30.440 So that organ sound was very much copied.



01:37:30.440 –> 01:37:34.000 And The Revolutionaries was the first time that Sly and Robbie got together.



01:37:34.000 –> 01:37:35.520 That was their group.



01:37:35.520 –> 01:37:36.520 Various people came and went.



01:37:36.520 –> 01:37:42.240 I think Ansel Collins was in there, and various people you all heard of came through The



01:37:42.240 –> 01:37:44.640 Revolutionaries.



01:37:44.640 –> 01:37:49.400 And before that, we had Gorillaz with the lost chord featuring Leee John.



01:37:49.400 –> 01:37:50.400 The man with three E’s



01:37:50.400 –> 01:37:52.400 Oh, it’s great to hear Leee John.



01:37:52.400 –> 01:37:54.040 I’m a big Imagination fan.



01:37:54.040 –> 01:37:56.040 I was as a child.



01:37:56.040 –> 01:37:59.840 And I heard that voice in a mashup, and I was like, “Hey, that’s Leee John.



01:37:59.840 –> 01:38:02.120 I’m pretty sure that’s Leee John on a Gorillaz track.”



01:38:02.120 –> 01:38:03.120 Yep.



01:38:03.120 –> 01:38:08.160 It was from 2020’s Song Machine Season 1, “Strange Times.”



01:38:08.160 –> 01:38:13.040 And I don’t know what that song’s about, but every song sounds better with Leee John in it.



01:38:13.040 –> 01:38:16.320 And before that, we had the headless, the headless organist.



01:38:16.320 –> 01:38:20.960 I’m not going to get very far, are they?



01:38:20.960 –> 01:38:21.960 Headless organist.



01:38:21.960 –> 01:38:22.960 Bonk.



01:38:22.960 –> 01:38:30.080 Now, the Handless Organist is Turn Your Radio On from 1984’s Truly a Miracle of God.



01:38:30.080 –> 01:38:35.880 And people describe that as an outsider album, and I don’t think it is.



01:38:35.880 –> 01:38:38.000 Having listened to it, it’s perfectly fine.



01:38:38.000 –> 01:38:41.360 I love the organ work, and I love the singing.



01:38:41.360 –> 01:38:43.160 It’s like, “Oh, it’s an outsider record.



01:38:43.160 –> 01:38:46.640 Just watch, because she’s got a disability, because she has no hands.”



01:38:46.640 –> 01:38:48.840 It’s like, that’s a bit weird.



01:38:48.840 –> 01:38:50.160 No, it’s not.



01:38:50.160 –> 01:38:52.520 It has to be a bit more than that.



01:38:52.520 –> 01:38:56.360 But still, I really like that song, despite the Christian bits.



01:38:56.360 –> 01:38:59.400 It’s just the, “Turn your radio on.”



01:38:59.400 –> 01:39:00.400 It’s good.



01:39:00.400 –> 01:39:06.280 And then before that, we had Billy No-Mates with Saboteur Forcefield from 2023’s Cacti.



01:39:06.280 –> 01:39:10.080 It’s probably the only podcast that went from Billy No-Mates to the Handless Organist,



01:39:10.080 –> 01:39:11.080 I can tell you.



01:39:11.080 –> 01:39:16.640 Then before that, we had a kind of a London section, but not necessarily a happy London



01:39:16.640 –> 01:39:17.640 section.



01:39:17.640 –> 01:39:19.880 It started out happy.



01:39:19.880 –> 01:39:25.720 So we had Kae Tempest with Bad Place for a Good Time, and that was the last single that they



01:39:25.720 –> 01:39:27.800 did for Big Dada.



01:39:27.800 –> 01:39:32.120 That was the last independent single from 2015.



01:39:32.120 –> 01:39:37.160 And then they joined the big bad UMG, unfortunately.



01:39:37.160 –> 01:39:43.000 And before that, we had Solange with Cranes in the Sky from 2016’s A Seat at the Table.



01:39:43.000 –> 01:39:47.240 And I questioned myself about doing this, because it harmonically works so well.



01:39:47.240 –> 01:39:52.040 But I really didn’t want to cramp on the style of Bluey’s and Joff Bush’s.



01:39:52.040 –> 01:39:53.360 “The creek is beautiful.”



01:39:53.360 –> 01:39:55.880 But then I was like, that is basically my walk.



01:39:55.880 –> 01:40:00.760 It was, you’d see a beautiful creek, a beautiful river, and then you turn the corner and there



01:40:00.760 –> 01:40:04.840 would be cranes and the usual London bullshit.



01:40:04.840 –> 01:40:10.720 And so that was why I was like, yeah, I’ll keep it in, because it’s kind of that duality



01:40:10.720 –> 01:40:13.840 is what’s in my video series.



01:40:13.840 –> 01:40:17.840 To come, he’s very much that ugly next to beautiful.



01:40:17.840 –> 01:40:20.680 And the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful is ugly, you know, that kind of thing.



01:40:20.680 –> 01:40:21.680 That’s London.



01:40:21.680 –> 01:40:24.200 It’s all jostled together, the good and the bad.



01:40:24.200 –> 01:40:29.000 And yes, as you might have guessed, my walk didn’t go badly.



01:40:29.000 –> 01:40:34.360 It didn’t, unfortunately, because of flooding, didn’t actually get where I wanted it to be,



01:40:34.360 –> 01:40:35.360 which was depressing.



01:40:35.360 –> 01:40:38.800 But it’s funny, it was Easter and it was like, well, I can’t walk on water.



01:40:38.800 –> 01:40:39.800 I’m not Jesus.



01:40:39.800 –> 01:40:44.320 So I’m going to go back and finish, well, less than half, I think it is.



01:40:44.320 –> 01:40:47.880 I’m totted it up, but it’s definitely more than half.



01:40:47.880 –> 01:40:57.080 Look at the latter bit when it’s summer and it’s less of a stressy thing, because I just



01:40:57.080 –> 01:41:02.080 ended up walking on roads and like walking roads, taking a path in, finding it flooded,



01:41:02.080 –> 01:41:03.800 you know, and it’s like I did take water through socks.



01:41:03.800 –> 01:41:08.200 I was fording across things, but the problem is you can’t hike in wellies.



01:41:08.200 –> 01:41:09.760 So it was a debate.



01:41:09.760 –> 01:41:13.560 I should have took wellies, but then it was like, well, there’d be another thing to carry.



01:41:13.560 –> 01:41:15.200 Some of the bits are impossible to afford.



01:41:15.200 –> 01:41:20.120 Like I got to this thing which I’ve jumped before or around.



01:41:20.120 –> 01:41:24.800 So sort of like this sort of bit, which is like a break in the bank.



01:41:24.800 –> 01:41:28.040 And it was, I actually put my pole and I was like, should I walk through this?



01:41:28.040 –> 01:41:30.200 And it was like, kept going down and down and down.



01:41:30.200 –> 01:41:31.200 I was more than waist deep.



01:41:31.200 –> 01:41:33.200 I was like, no.



01:41:33.200 –> 01:41:38.320 And the field was completely flooded going into unless I sort of forded that.



01:41:38.320 –> 01:41:41.520 And I was like, no.



01:41:41.520 –> 01:41:45.560 So there was a few things like that, but I did, I did ford quite a lot of them and



01:41:45.560 –> 01:41:48.440 I got, got my feet wet quite a few times.



01:41:48.440 –> 01:41:51.360 It got to a point where I don’t need wellies.



01:41:51.360 –> 01:41:52.360 I need waders.



01:41:52.360 –> 01:41:54.200 It’s too deep.



01:41:54.200 –> 01:41:56.200 And so then I was like, no, it’s just silly.



01:41:56.200 –> 01:42:00.160 I was fed up of camping by roads and walking along roads.



01:42:00.160 –> 01:42:03.000 It was just, it was just too stressy.



01:42:03.000 –> 01:42:05.520 Lots of bad places and lots of good places.



01:42:05.520 –> 01:42:06.520 Well, then one.



01:42:06.520 –> 01:42:09.760 But yeah, I’m going to play a track by Working Men’s Club.



01:42:09.760 –> 01:42:10.760 I love this greatly.



01:42:10.760 –> 01:42:13.360 It doesn’t really fit for the rest of it.



01:42:13.360 –> 01:42:15.880 It’s very sort of new wave.



01:42:15.880 –> 01:42:19.160 This is Circumference.



02:12:38.840 –> 02:12:42.520 I almost didn’t make the ending because I fell asleep to my own mashup, which is, I’m



02:12:42.520 –> 02:12:45.080 not sure that’s a good thing or a bad thing.



02:12:45.080 –> 02:12:49.080 That TBC aka Instamatic with Whisper Forever



02:12:49.080 –> 02:12:51.000 George Michael versus the Spice Girls



02:12:51.000 –> 02:12:55.120 I always wanted to do a mashup with Viva Forever.



02:12:55.120 –> 02:12:59.480 I’m not a massive Spice Girls fan, but I do like the feel of that.



02:12:59.480 –> 02:13:02.520 I mean, it was like a whole Geri leaving at that point.



02:13:02.520 –> 02:13:05.960 And you know, I don’t know.



02:13:05.960 –> 02:13:07.520 There’s a whole kind of feel of that.



02:13:07.520 –> 02:13:11.480 Even though it’s supposed to be like the end of a summer romance.



02:13:11.480 –> 02:13:13.960 It’s quite a sad song.



02:13:13.960 –> 02:13:17.680 Then before that, we had Goldie and the Gingerbreads with Walking in Different Circles.



02:13:17.680 –> 02:13:22.680 That’s some classic psych sort of garage from 1967.



02:13:22.680 –> 02:13:27.560 And before that, we had iWillBattle with Feeling Beautiful Good Things, Benson Boone



02:13:27.560 –> 02:13:28.720 versus Muse.



02:13:28.720 –> 02:13:31.520 I didn’t know the Benson Boone song at all.



02:13:31.520 –> 02:13:36.080 It’s always a good sign of a mashup when you really connect to a mashup, but you don’t



02:13:36.080 –> 02:13:37.080 know one of the songs.



02:13:37.080 –> 02:13:40.640 And you’re kind of like, it just works.



02:13:40.640 –> 02:13:45.880 I’ve not heard the original version of the Benson Boone track at all.



02:13:45.880 –> 02:13:50.280 So I don’t know it, but yeah, it just works really well.



02:13:50.280 –> 02:13:56.640 And then before that, we had ah! Alan Hurley with Black Frog Peace One.



02:13:56.640 –> 02:14:00.280 Again, I think that’s one of my favorite mashups of the year.



02:14:00.280 –> 02:14:03.440 That’s the Doors versus Thom Yorke.



02:14:03.440 –> 02:14:05.440 And I don’t know.



02:14:05.440 –> 02:14:10.200 You know, in some senses, I suppose, Radiohead, Tom York versus the Doors might be slightly



02:14:10.200 –> 02:14:11.960 obvious, but it’s not really.



02:14:11.960 –> 02:14:15.920 It feels very intertwined.



02:14:15.920 –> 02:14:22.640 It’s certainly not an obvious choice, the two songs together, but they work so well.



02:14:22.640 –> 02:14:25.160 So that’s the important thing.



02:14:25.160 –> 02:14:28.840 And then before that, we had Danny Macabre with Vampire Creep.



02:14:28.840 –> 02:14:30.920 There’s Olivia Rodrigo versus Radiohead.



02:14:30.920 –> 02:14:36.440 I question myself whether to put that in because the Radiohead is too fast, that really weird



02:14:36.440 –> 02:14:37.880 break in it.



02:14:37.880 –> 02:14:43.400 And I don’t know why the extra drums sound odd, but the combination is brilliant.



02:14:43.400 –> 02:14:51.840 The Vampire Olivia Rodrigo versus Creep, it’s kind of like more than half of a good



02:14:51.840 –> 02:14:54.040 mashup is the song selection.



02:14:54.040 –> 02:15:00.040 The Alan Hurley as well is like the one from iWillBattle.



02:15:00.040 –> 02:15:03.960 The two things just meshing.



02:15:03.960 –> 02:15:05.800 And that’s kind of more than half the battle.



02:15:05.800 –> 02:15:09.480 It’s just choosing two things that sync together really well.



02:15:09.480 –> 02:15:15.360 At the end of the day, the technical side is not as important as having two good tracks



02:15:15.360 –> 02:15:17.840 that work really well together.



02:15:17.840 –> 02:15:19.520 You can kind of overlook some of the bits.



02:15:19.520 –> 02:15:20.520 It’s like, “Hmm.”



02:15:20.520 –> 02:15:24.280 That’s still, yeah, I don’t know if that’s going on with that first break, but anyway,



02:15:24.280 –> 02:15:25.400 first drop.



02:15:25.400 –> 02:15:28.360 And then before that, we had Totom’s.



02:15:28.360 –> 02:15:33.320 Everybody would drown and You’d Too Y.O.U.D. Too.



02:15:33.320 –> 02:15:39.160 How to Destroy Angels versus Billie Eilish versus Culoe Da Song.



02:15:39.160 –> 02:15:44.600 I don’t know the How to Destroy Angels or the Culoe Da Song, but it just works so



02:15:44.600 –> 02:15:45.600 well.



02:15:45.600 –> 02:15:49.040 I know the Billie Eilish and it just is a complete mood.



02:15:49.040 –> 02:15:50.720 A complete mood.



02:15:50.720 –> 02:15:52.560 Hashtag vibe.



02:15:52.560 –> 02:15:57.800 Then before that, we had Working Men’s Club with Circumference.



02:15:57.800 –> 02:15:59.560 And as you might have guessed, that’s selection.



02:15:59.560 –> 02:16:02.640 Yeah, not exactly happy, happy, joy, joy.



02:16:02.640 –> 02:16:05.720 My mental health has been a bit weird since I got back.



02:16:05.720 –> 02:16:08.520 I think it’s just sitting indoors editing.



02:16:08.520 –> 02:16:13.880 I edited the South Downs Way Part 3 last week and now I’m working on the editing for the



02:16:13.880 –> 02:16:17.240 Thames Path stuff and just going through all my old photographs.



02:16:17.240 –> 02:16:20.200 And it’s just been a bit of a kind of like a drudge I think.



02:16:20.200 –> 02:16:26.440 But luckily I’m going out next weekend on another collaboration trip in Felixstowe and



02:16:26.440 –> 02:16:27.440 Harwich.



02:16:27.440 –> 02:16:31.040 So it’s a coast I don’t know well, walking around the estuary.



02:16:31.040 –> 02:16:34.920 Yeah, that should be hopefully good.



02:16:34.920 –> 02:16:35.920 Hopefully interesting.



02:16:35.920 –> 02:16:38.400 But yeah, I think really getting out would be good for me.



02:16:38.400 –> 02:16:43.360 I’ve been trying to keep myself busy because yeah, things have been a bit like, I think



02:16:43.360 –> 02:16:48.080 it’s just probably because I’m about to reach 51.



02:16:48.080 –> 02:16:51.440 It’s always weird about that sort of time and so looking at my achievements and the



02:16:51.440 –> 02:16:55.320 YouTube channel and stuff and just thinking it’s not really where I want it to be.



02:16:55.320 –> 02:16:59.520 I mean, that’s what the two week walk thing was about was just a bit like, you know, I’m



02:16:59.520 –> 02:17:02.760 going to do something big and sort of really push it.



02:17:02.760 –> 02:17:05.760 But it’s a lot of work, a lot of footage.



02:17:05.760 –> 02:17:06.760 A lot of editing.



02:17:06.760 –> 02:17:11.360 I don’t know how long the series hopefully won’t be daily.



02:17:11.360 –> 02:17:14.080 If it’s daily, it’s going to be 12 parts, which is right.



02:17:14.080 –> 02:17:15.080 That’s crazy.



02:17:15.080 –> 02:17:17.880 I’m hoping to do it every couple of days.



02:17:17.880 –> 02:17:21.760 My computer is having to use external drives and stuff.



02:17:21.760 –> 02:17:22.760 Computer’s fall on it.



02:17:22.760 –> 02:17:26.400 It’s just like, a lot of tech issues.



02:17:26.400 –> 02:17:30.000 I’ve been going through all my old photographs and that’s quite fun.



02:17:30.000 –> 02:17:32.840 But also the scanner won’t scan the slides.



02:17:32.840 –> 02:17:37.640 So I can’t include any of the slides unless I get the other scanner in and it’s all that



02:17:37.640 –> 02:17:38.640 sort of stuff.



02:17:38.640 –> 02:17:43.440 It’s just like, oh, so yeah, there’s a lot of that going on and it’s not helping.



02:17:43.440 –> 02:17:45.040 So I hope you’re all well.



02:17:45.040 –> 02:17:50.760 I’m going to play out with a classic from Lee Spoons, 10,000 Spoons.



02:17:50.760 –> 02:17:57.520 Again, I think I heard this on his Megabllast radio show from Noisebox Radio.



02:17:57.520 –> 02:17:58.880 I think it was that.



02:17:58.880 –> 02:18:00.520 I think he played on that.



02:18:00.520 –> 02:18:01.520 I had not heard it before.



02:18:01.520 –> 02:18:03.440 It’s from way back in the day.



02:18:03.440 –> 02:18:08.640 And I have to say, I love it, but it does have that weird kind of, because I’m pretty sure,



02:18:08.640 –> 02:18:13.440 I’m really not sure what time signatures Charots of Fire is in.



02:18:13.440 –> 02:18:18.000 And I think it’s kind of a weird kind of almost Waltz time.



02:18:18.000 –> 02:18:19.160 I’m not sure.



02:18:19.160 –> 02:18:20.160 So there an element of that.



02:18:20.160 –> 02:18:24.800 But even that, it just, it does, it does work even though bits are on like, yeah, where



02:18:24.800 –> 02:18:27.080 is the snare there?



02:18:27.080 –> 02:18:29.920 So this is Chariots Killed The Radio Star, Buggles.



02:18:29.920 –> 02:18:32.240 Yeah, again, Buggles versus Vangelis.



02:18:32.240 –> 02:18:35.600 Speak to you soon.