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 since Xmas two years ago. Joy to the world and all that, there’s a theme about wanting 2026 to be a lot less shit…but not that hopeful, concentrating on what Xmas is supposed to be about, rather than all the capitalism, food and tradition. Peace on earth for all would be a nice place to start?

• Captain Obvious – What Believing Sounds Like (Huntr/x vs Journey)
• Bill McClintock – Sleigh Bitch –Explicit– (Carpenters and Buckcherry)
• B Dolan – Fight Naked
• Lambrini Girls – God’s Country
• Problem Patterns – Christmas Number One
• Obscurest Vinyl – The Secrets Your Asshole Keeps
• Instamatic – Cranes In The Waterfall (Solange vs Stone Roses)
• Saint Etienne – Sweet Melodies
• Lewis Scarole – Moonlight Banquet (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly vs Bloc Party)
• Lankum – Ghost Town
• Xinon – Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (One Gameboy Remix)
• Mike Anthony – Why Can’t We Live Together
• Tom Rasmussen – Joy
• Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert – Weihnachtsstimmung
• HallMighty – Drive Home Alone For Christmas (The Cars vs. Chris Rea ft Olivia Rodrigo)
• Jenny Stardust – My Arms Are Just Fuckin’ Stuck Like This
• Piers Faccini , Ballaké Sissoko – One Half Of A Dream
• One True Pairing – The World Said No [Domino Recording Co]
• Black Box Recorder – Do You Believe in God?
• Ben Folds – Still (Reprise)
• Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks – Crystal
• Minor Arth – This Used To Be My Playgound Love (Air vs Madonna)
• Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert – Ode to Plastic Mistletoe
• Buckingham Nicks – Nomad (aka Candelbright)
• David Gilmour – Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour)
• Tom Rasmussen – This Is How We Walk on the Moon
• SOPHIE & Hannah Diamond – Always and Forever
• Lily Allen – Fruityloop
• tbc aka Instamatic – Happy Novacaine Year (Green Day vs ABBA)
• tbc aka Instamatic – Chasing Epilogues (Snow Patrol vs Daft Punk)

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 month as well.

So we have a slightly camp disco edit and queer acid tastic mix in the Kitchen Bathroom Disco, a few mashups and tunes I was singing while I was hiking, and listening to on the coach there and back, and a downtempo section where it goes a little Cabin In The Woods with strangers acting weirdly in remote locales.

And to those who follow me on HearThis, they’ve done a Mixcloud and restricted the accounts suddenly to 40 public uploads and 5Gb per account (the latter is definitely new since I am apparently over at 7.6Gb?), so I won’t be uploading there anymore. Please follow me here, on iTunes/Spotify or Amazon Podcasts – I think Google Podcasts is going, and I’m not uploading this to YouTube for anything, too much copyright aggro.

Kind of glad, since it’s another step and I’m trying to reduce my workload on these podcasts – hence no SEO/AI transcripts either. Too much faff for no return.

• Pullover – Holiday
• tbc aka Instamatic – Baby You’re On Your Own Kid (Taylor Swift vs Arctic Monkeys)
• Sir Hank – Love’s Theme Style (Taylor Swift & Love Unlimited Orchestra)
• Layo & Bushwacka! – Love Story (vs Finally) (Paul Woolford 2023 Extended Remix)
• Mark Knight, Gene Farris – I Can’t Go For That (Extended Mix)
• Queer On Acid – Black Hole
• LF SYSTEM – Dancing Shoes (Extended)
• Queer On Acid – My Religion (Original Mix)
• Carl Cox & Fatboy Slim – Speed Trials On Acid feat. Dan Diamond (LF SYSTEM Remix)
• LF SYSTEM – Lift You Up (Extended)
• Modern Rocketry – No More Tears (Broadway Hotel Mix)
• Nark – Queer Acid Energy (Hard Ton Remix)
• London Elektricity – Why Are We Here (feat. Liane Carroll)
• Wots My Code – Dubplate (Sikka Remix)
• Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew – The Spark
• Mato – Summer Madness
• iWillBattle – Feeling Beautiful Control (Benson Boone vs Teddy Swims vs Muse)
• Peggy P – The Vengeful Eye (Disturbed x Metronomy)
• Aesop Rock – Mindful Solutionism
• B Dolan – Selfie Sub
• Death In Rome – Lambada
• Milky Chance – Tainted Love
• 10000 Spoons – When I Be The One (Dua Lipa vs Fever Ray)
• Mannequin Pussy – I Don’t Know You
• Low – Lies
• Dusty Springfield – Soft Core
• AGGRO1 – Poison “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” vs Portishead “Glory Box”
• Karine Polwart & Kris Drever – Northern Sky
• Meg Washington – Lazarus Drug (from Bluey ‘The Sign’)