Category: video
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The Unthanks – King of Rome (at the Radio 2 Folk Awards)
Highlight of last night’s Folk Awards for me. You can see the back of my head in the wide shots here – front right!
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Alternative National Anthems
Watching the Queen not singing the National Anthem at the Royal Wedding on Friday made me wonder what anthems she would be able to sing… The obvious one. Very bombastic and triumphalist. And a great way to spread the word about one of our greatest ever poets. Could we do…
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Lykke Li – Sadness is a Blessing
What an amazing intro to a music video. You really feel every awkward creak of each chair. Beautifully captured. Lots of debate over on the Youtube site about what it MEANS. My favourite comment so far is this one: The video is definitely about cats. I don’t get how you…
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Film Weddings with Great Soundtracks
Is that a bandwagon I see before me? The big day is tomorrow, so here’s some films with great soundtracks to make you feel warm and gooey about white dresses… (or not!) Clearly the ultimate wedding film. Full to the brim of ABBA. Getting married to The Beatles – how…
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TV On The Radio – Will Do
Is there a more compelling return to form than this? I love the layered woozy vocals and melancholy guitars. Very glad they are back from their hiatus, and getting high rotation on 6 Music. Can’t wait to get the album. I have a feeling it’s going to be all kinds…
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Great British Food Revival: Cheese-making in our spare room
This may strike you as odd, but my lovely boyfriend makes actually edible cheese at home in our spare room. Although maybe it’s not as weird as it sounds, as highlighted by this rather lovely clip from last week’s Great British Food Revival, featuring said boyfriend and our spare room…
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April Fools
Favourite so far include: Another lovely one came from Signal Radio in Stoke, who claimed that to widen their appeal, the Staffordshire oatcake was to be re-named the oatpancake – which might not mean much to a non-local, but people in Stoke were OUTRAGED. All my friends from home were…
Heather Davies 