If anyone has any spare tickets for Jarvis on the 23rd of June I’d love you forever…

Anyone know where I can get this? Ill Chemist - Breakbeatles EP according to the tracks posted over at Steinski’s blog.

I’ve been looking for this for years - any more tracks out there?

Illustration by the mighty Chris Foss

Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Crap! This Strangely Space themed podcast beams down and takes all your M&Ms in the middle of the night.

And hides your video remote.

And stuff that only bored greys ever seem to do….

For any new listeners this podcast always has an Explicit rating in iTunes for very good reason…

All fazers fire at Maximal Warpspeed Nonce!: (66Mb, 1:33) http://media.libsyn.com/media/radioclash/rc_120.mp3

Notes

• Ten Masked Men - Genie in a Bootle (from Puritan Blister)
• Aggro1 - Katie Enlow The Chain v. Rammstein
• Sway Feat Chamillionaire - Up Your Speed (Pt II)
• RIAA - Sexy Caravan (from Sounds for the Space-Set)
• Gershon Kingsley and Maureen Forrester - Swing A La Turca (from WFMU)
• dj lobsterdust - do ya think im decepti?
• DJ Moule - Dance to my Humps
• Alanis Morisette - My Humps (video)
• Peaches - My Dumps (video)
• RIAA - Mechanical Robot Man (from Sounds for the Space-Set)
• Juxtaposeur - Moonconversation
• Beatbox Saboteurs - Star Trek
• Leonard Nimoy - If I Had a Hammer
• solcofn - Glamorous Colours
• RIAA - The Wonder Is All Around Us (from Sounds for the Space-Set)
• Emily In Love ft Ricardo and Pia - Lullaby (from CorpId 21 )
• Strung Out on OK Computer - Paranoid Android
• Michael Nyman - The Garden Is Becoming A Robe Room (off Draughtsman’s Contract OST)
• Who Boys - Strange Pyramid (off Good The Bad and The Who Boys)
• FU Jack White + other rambles
  
• OMD - The Beginning and the End (off Architecture and Morality)

Well for the next couple of months it’s Pride season, traditionally June because of Stonewall but London Pride is in July and Brighton is in August. Prides in this country are fun mostly apolitical affairs (I’ve commented on that in the podcast before now). But spare a thought for those in countries where it’s still stuck in the 1960s/1970s attitudes - places like Poland and Latvia as mentioned in this article.

Gay rights still have to be fought for in many parts of the world, ironically though the assumption is that the main fight is in places like Africa, Asia and the Carribean with human rights abuses, but it looks like in our very own European Union we have countries like Poland who have not only brought in their version of Clause 28, but also have followed Jerry Fallwell’s line about Tinky Winky! It’s absurd and shows a disturbing level of homophobia…and the irony is that a lot of their super-Catholic values are being challenged as workers leave to work in other countries, and find the cultures there very different.

And it’s being wrapped up in an anti-EU stance by these parties (sound familiar, taking a minority and using it for political gain?) making EU action difficult, but the idea that places like Warsaw just instantly gained a gay scene and homosexual ‘propagandists’ when they joined the EU is frankly preposterous. But that’s the angle they are taking, and it reminds me of the Islamophobia since 9/11, political opportunism through prejudice.

That’s not to say all Eastern European people think like that - look at Romania’s attempts to improve things, for example - but I do think if Turkey can be refused entry partly on human rights concerns, then why have we let such countries into the EU, or why do we keep them in the Union when they commit abuses against the very EU legislation they signed up to when they joined?* They get the benefits of membership, so why should they shirk the responsibilities to EU citizens?

Anyway I think action is needed now, by the EU putting pressure on the governments, and even UK government. Otherwise I think there’s eventually going to be a riot at one of these prides that makes Stonewall look like a walk in the parade.

* Actually I can guess the answer to that one on mostly religious grounds…