• tbc aka Instamatic – the Golden Mirror (Elbow vs Fleetwood Mac)

    tbc aka Instamatic – the Golden Mirror (Elbow vs Fleetwood Mac)

    Not sure if this should belong in the tbc or the Instamatic realm, it’s ambient so filed it under tbc. I’d thought I’d posted this, actually it was only posted on Twitter and Facebook just before I left for Egypt in November. This is a rarity for me – an Elbow bootleg (!) given my…

  • Captain Obvious – The Light of Pleasure (Scissor Sisters vs FGTH)

    Captain Obvious – The Light of Pleasure (Scissor Sisters vs FGTH)

    Third act: Our hero Captain Obvious travels to Ancient Greece and Babylon in search of Dionysus, Apollo, Silenus and Bacchus for a Bacchanal and to Xanadu where did Kublai Khan a pleasure dome erect (trans: a right royal knees up). OK it’s not as pretentious as it sounds, but then again not many bootlegs contain…

  • DJNoNo – Those Were the Drums (Mary Hopkin vs Aphrodite)

    DJNoNo – Those Were the Drums (Mary Hopkin vs Aphrodite)

    DJNoNo‘s frankly quite worrying love affair with Aphrodite (not as dodgy as his obsession with Julie Andrews, the stalking court hearing is in a few weeks) continues with this ode to the Asylum ‘Those Were the Drums’ mashing Mary Hopkin’s 1968 classic ‘Those Were the Days’ with ‘London Massive’ by Aphrodite – and craftily sneaking…