Posts by Planet Mondo
Podrophenia 6 ~ Try This For Size
Who is she and what is her connection to My Life Story? Find out in Podrophenia...The latest podcast from Piley and I comes fitted around the theme of sizes and sees us squeeze in ten tunes tailored for all types: Fatboy Slim, Little Barrie, One Inch Rock and Big Ten Inch.There's all the usual natterings and banter touching on ~ celebs spotted in unlikely locations, a Wood Watch update, Cynthia...
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Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
So what's new on the Big Boss Menu? Full English Beat Breakfast, that's what. An all you can eat buffet of gut-busting beats, full fat fruggery, hot footed floor-fillers and continental flavours from the Latin vibes of Full Brazilian to the Riveria cool of Black Eye and C'est Moi's . FEBB is an urelenting rush of concorde riffing, jazz percussion and neatly-trousered, swish-hipped shakedowns...
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Freaky Friday - Podroscreamia
A grab-bag of ghoulish goodies feature in the Halloween Podcast from Piley and I. Local tales of terror from chilling urban myths to Essex hauntings, Southend werewolves to estuary based vampirism (did you know Dracula was an Essex boy - yes really!) Along with some recommended reads, fright night viewing and a playlist summoning up Nina Simone, Donovan, The King and a mystery band in their pre...
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Lazy Sunday - Autumn Falls
Did you put your clocks back - and what are your plans for that extra hour? If you've nothing doing, lend an ear to one last blast of autumn colour by way of this homemade seasonal stew. A soft, smoky mellow blend harvested from autumnal acoustics, outtakes, alt.takes, oddities and obscurities. You could cosy up around a crackling fireside with a glass of something fruity to the suit the tone ...
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Freaky Friday - Lift Up Your Skirt And Fly
It's a Pop Quiz - 'lift up your skirt and fly' is the last line of single, banned by the BBC for this saucy sounding statement (although in reality, it was actually reference to witches). But who were the band that recorded it, and the soon-to-be glammer wot wrote it? We've had Wolfmen doing dark duets, tales of terror, spiders, snakes (and a Halloween podcast Podroscreamia is on it's way), bu...
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Like the Cocteau Twins at Christmas
That's what The Wolfmen's new single Jackie, Is It My Birthday? sounds like to me. A swirling dervish of ghostly notes, Marco's guitars arpeggiating like the midnight chimes of church bells and snowfalls of slow-shifting synth washes swaddling Sinéad O'Connor and Chris Constantinou as they waltz-in-black through this dark duet like ghost-dancers at the Overlook Hotel.But don't just take my word..
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Freaky Friday - T is for.....
Tales From The Crypt - if you've never seen an Amicus anthology horror 'Tales' is the place to dip in. All the codes and conventions of a classic Amicus production(seventies contemporary styling, a repertory of British screen icons) are in place over the five portmanteau set pieces - Joan Collins and the psycho Santa, Ian Hendry doing the loop of terror and Peter Cushing at his most ghostly. A...
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