Radio Clash Music Podcast

“Cos my sorrows did not drown my friend, they always learned to swim…” I’ve been taking a lot of early baths – in the middle of the night when the electricity is cheaper, and I created a playlist for that – over 300 tracks. As I was lying there I thought ‘this would make a good podcast’ and here we are – recorded in my bathroom! Paradoxically that’s where I used to record my podcasts not to disturb John, annoyed by the ever-present echo – now it’s a stylistic choice. Talking of John – he’s famous! He’s featured in a book about Switchboard (formerly Lesbian and Gay Switchboard) as he was one of the co-founders. One of the many things he did…and I am so proud. Halfway through reading it, and the book is great – but also you can also hear his voice on famous The Log Books podcast – Series 4, episode 1. Hearing his voice again was wonderful but also bittersweet. Ugly-cried when it came on.

A surprise not-totally-festive edition of Radio Clash, where I talk about a bird I think about a lot (the lost Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird – apologies for the transliteration but those special symbols will likely gum up the works in the feed and tags) and what Christmas means to me now… I play some new and old mashups and original music – some of which is my favourites of the year, but mostly older since I don’t listen to music in the same way anymore. Loving the new Saint Etienne and Lily Allen albums though, and K-Pop Demon Hunters (DERPY 4EVAH!) and new-ish music from B. Dolan, Hallmighty and Lankum. Buckingham Nicks album gets a timely re-release (are they talking again?) so talk about that and the legendary Coffee Plant demos – and visit Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert’s Christmas Ghost Stories album…and play the last of my choices from Tom Rasmussen’s amazing Body Building album. And some festive? festering? tracks that have been on ice stuck at the North Pole

For Paul. Black Memory Hole Summer (224Mb, 2:39)

A podcast of queer, non-binary and trans joy (and music by same), going out to my community who are facing a lot of bad things atm. A much belated podcast (I am not podfading, honest!) that was ready to go in January and then had no time to record it! I talk about what’s going […]

Over 2 months since my last podcast, the longest time away since the hiatus and 2008, but I’ve been busy with funerals, probate, and grieving. I think this will likely be my last podcast of 2024, good riddance to this year but unlikely to do a Xmas podcast for the first time ever because I […]

Four weeks ago, John my partner of 27 years died. I have the task of arranging the funeral, which is this afternoon 19th September 2024 at 2pm (I recorded this two days ago). This includes the music…the saddest gig for any DJ, let alone the saddest thing I’ve done for someone I loved so deeply. […]

A delayed podcast as I’ve been off in the woods – but we have a feature on the two ‘Songs of the Summer’, the new albums by G3RST and Mark David Hadley and talk Twisted Firestarters and Mashup Summer Camp, actual camping and hiking, and why July is always Summertime Sadness – with some songs […]

Apologies for the late podcast, just scraping in for May, and the last one was early April! I’ve been off walking the West Highland Way and the Great Glen Way in Scotland – all 170ish miles, so a LONG walk and a lot of wild camping, which seemed appropriate as it’s about to be Pride […]

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 […]

Sometimes you need a room full strangers to make you feel less alone, A place dark enough to make yourself unknown, unknowable,but…home somehow,A place to hide somehow, at least that’s how it feels. Antony Szmierek No murder on the dancefloor with a spoken word club mix about lhaving a place to hide with your rum […]

It’s been a while since I did a Deep Dive, but I finally got round to do another one, this time the joy of being bored in the 1980’s waiting for a loading screen, disco (sorry ‘jazz-funk‘ *cough*) on the radio, feeling like you are a robot in a robot’s world. You might think boredom […]

Happy 2024, and is it a Happy New Year? Not for me so far…a busted knee, burn out, and was out hiking in the Big Freeze – thankfully not Storm Isha! So a belated New Year episode of Radio Clash including some tracks I loved from 2023, a surprising amount of mashups, new wave electro […]

Happy Xmas from Radio Clash – and have a Perfectly Reasonable New Year, ok? We say goodbye to Shane MacGowan the only way we know how – with a TikTok meme, play lots of silly Christmas tunes, mashups, covers, and even some non-festive stuff like some selections from Mashed At The Sock Hop Vol 2 […]

We wreck the joint with an acid rain of Adonis, Type-303, Paul Funk, Hunter Lombard, Lambrini Girls, Courtney Barnett, Logan Lynn and Makoto with a strangely serious podcast made of acid house bangers new and old, punk, pop, liquid dnb and indie rock. I let the music do the talking about climate change, corruption and […]

A ghostly ‘not halloween’ edition of Radio Clash, more Halloween-adjacent than the plastic chinese proxy-Xmas junkfest that Halloween has become. Ghosts of Xmas Capitalism… So we have songs about ghosts, existence, falling out of planes, dark paths, a trance cover of Wendy Carlos, a hard house cover of Somewhere Over The Radio, feminist queer punk, […]

We say hello and wave goodbye to summer, holidays and camping, Autumn is here and so we have a autumnal podcast about change and endings with mashups from virtual camping with PDS Mix’s Mashup Summer Camp, and actual camping with music and chat relating to Jaunt 4 where I was walking along the Jurassic Coast. […]

From relatives in Ireland to making artworks down the river, FIFTY FIFTY stanning to Nick Drake covers, Alfred Noyes and nostalgic jungle, slide guitar breakcore and Fleetwood Mac doom metal, Kings of Spain and Bitch Queens, sea journeys, sloops, metal watermarks and shipwrecks, this podcast has it all like a long blue wide winding river. […]

Bagpipes are the new rock n’ roll, as is fiddles, accordions and folk is not a four letter word. From London to Scotland via Ireland, we visit hiphop, mashups, deep house, the new ANOHNI album, new Grove and new-ish AFX, and visit two kinds of Drakes (and don’t talk about one of them). And the […]

It’s a cruel, cruel summer leaving me here on my own…. A summer themed episode of Radio Clash, from track from recently released Summer Booty 2023 to a summer blues mix for driving along Outrun style by the beach with a Ferrari Testarossa (beware the large stone heads! Oh no, that’s Space Harrier)…also some tracks […]

It has only taken me a year and a half to get around to the second Deep DIve (!) – I was going to put this out in a few months after the first Deep Dive but never got around to it. The catalyst for this bonus podcast was a new controller – the five […]