“Pre-millenium British television was a lot weirder than you remember. One obsessive has dedicated his life to hilariously dissecting it for your pleasure…”
A feature on writer and video-essayist Stuart Millard.
Radio: 2 October 2023
Recorded for Oscillate Live in Colchester, UK
My final show for Oscillate, which moved on to focus on live events.
Gary Wilson – October Nights (Marshmallow Man, Cleopatra Records)
LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Night or Day (single, self-released)
Bas Jan – At The Counter (Back To The Swamp, Fire Records)
Richard Carr, Joakim Lartey, Chris Lane – Twirling Dollop (Shokoloko, self-released)
Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra – The Hurdy-Gurdy Song (Mothers of the New Stone Age remix) (The Hurdy-Gurdy Song Remixes, Heavenly Recordings)
Belbury Poly – Highways and Byways (The Path, Ghost Box)
Rita Braga – Chien Mystérieux (Illegal Planet, Groovie Records)
Elizabeth Parker – The Killing Skies (Future Perfect, Trunk Records)
Harry Perry Band – Time Travel Freaks (Video Commander, Kama Kosmic Krusader Inc.)
The Junkman – Abracadabra Again! (single, Moo Records)
Lana Del Rabies – A Plague (STREGA BEATA, Gilgongo Records)
Piotr Kurek – Noa (Smartwoods, Unsound)
Kristeen Young – Sara Get The Baby (The Beauty Shop, Test Tube Baby)
Bleedingblackwood – The Kiss That Opened The Void ((If You See The Sky) You’re Almost There, Mai Lei Bel)
BRIK TU-TOK – Horsing Around (Hot Glue, self-released)
Lucas Abela & Zach Hill – Bug House (NEVER, Dual Plover)
Black Tempel Pyrämid – Amplifier Oblivion (Meditations On Consequences, Cruel Nature Records)
eleOnora – Voice improv at stairwell in Tallin Old Town (2023 edit) (tuuljamuud, Cruel Nature Records)
Kai Whiston – UNDERSTATED (XUL1, self-released)
The Armed – Modern Vanity (Perfect Saviors, Sargent House)
Jantra – Khadija (Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds From The Fashuda Underground, Ostinato Records)
Octo Octa – Let Yourself Go! (Dreams of a Dancefloor EP, T4T LUV NRG)
Lathe of Heaven – Moon-Driven Sea (Bound By Naked Skies, Sacred Bones Records)
Ziúr – Cut Cut Quote feat. Elvin Brandhe (Eyeroll, Hakuna Kulala)
Andrew Hung – Love Is (Deliverance, Lex Records)
Let’s Paint TV – Play that music! (Riding the sound waves, self-released)
Michael Barrymore ft. Remission – See You When You Get There (YouTube video)
Transcendence in Art Pop, with Pulp and Sparks
“One Man Underground thinks reviewing gigs like these is pointless. So allow him instead to talk about the moments that made him lose himself…”
A failed attempt to review 2 shows in 2 days.
“When her tw*t begins to twitch…” – The wretched birth of porn parody
“One Man Underground thought he had seen the worst that cinema could possibly offer. Then he saw Bat Pussy.”
Review of the worst movie ever made, and arguably the first ever porn parody.
Radio: 11 September 2023 (Classical special)
Recorded for Oscillate Live in Colchester, UK
Marking the fact I was briefly the 14th most heard classical show on Mixcloud.
JG Thirlwell & Mivos Quartet – Ozymandias (Dystonia, Cantaloupe Music)
Kelly Moran – Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil Birds (Origin EP, Warp Records)
Florence Foster Jenkins – The Magic Flute: Queen of the Night Aria (A Florence! Foster!! Jenkins!!! Recital!!!!, Trunk Records)
Lubomyr Melnyk – A Little Meditation (The ClearLightSound Concerts 12/10/2006, self-released)
Harry Partch – Cloud-Chamber Music (The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1, New World Records)
Alex Paxton – Londonglum (Music for Bosch People, Birmingham Record Company)
John Barry – Beddy-Bye For Howard (Howard The Duck (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Intrada)
Venetian Snares – Felbomlasztott Mentökocsi (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született, Planet Mu)
Clara Rockmore – Rachmaninoff: Vocalise (The Art of the Theremin, Delos)
Rakhi Singh & Laura Cannell – Zahira (Echolocation: Resonate From Here, Brawl Records)
Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (single edit) (A Portrait, Phillips)
Entertainment Choir – Ave Maria (Daughter Of My Dreams) (Music From Entertainment, A Film By Rick Alverson, Numero Group)
Portsmouth Sinfonia – Classical Muddly (single, Springtime)