Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 11:36 Morning. After a few days of flashing, I'm now packing a 22 incher. #
• 11:48 Pet Shop Boys? Next month? Oh, I think so... #
• 17:08 I've said it before and I'll say it again. I make no secret of it. I like Wonder Woman in pants. #
• 17:27 Equal opportunity demands that if Diana gets pants, Batman has to get a thong. #
• 17:34 "CLARKE LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES TO PRISONS." Given the Tory's usual response to law and order, I'm going to predict the answer: Hanging. #
• 17:46 The variant cover for "One Moment in Time"
  ;. A cover I can't look at without feeling the need to yell "Oh, FUCK YOU." bit.ly/azV2C0 #
• 19:37 You know, hate on X3 all you like, at least Beast was wonderfully cast. Nothing I hear about X-men: First Class fills me with confidence. #
• 19:38 Take the rumors of Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee. He's a 20 year old Texan. Sooo... uh... wut? Ken Branagh was not available, I guess. #

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Mark Radcliffe's to Blame

I've discovered, through listening to the Radcliffe and Maconie Show on BBC Radio 2 over the past few weeks, that Mark Radcliffe can still be relied on to deliver new and interesting sounds straight into my brain. The Mark and Lard Show on late night Radio 1 was the soundtrack to my teenage years and it was through them I first heard The Verve (Richard Ashcroft singing Drugs Don't Work years before it made any album), Oasis, Placebo, Ash, Vic Chesnutt, White Town, The Cardiacs, Pulp, Babybird, The Cardigans, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Belle & Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Supergrass, Teenage Fanclub... Oh, wow, there's a huge chunk of my musical education that comes from them, the more I think about it. They weren't just all comedy phone-ins and the least successful breakfast show ever.

Anyway, I've started irregularly listening to Mark Radcliffe's show with Stuart Maconie and they've also had some gems. I've already waxed lyrical about Hafdis Huld. I challenge anyone not to bop around the room to this anti-love song.

Even more randomly, last night's guests were Coope, Boyes & Simpson, an a Capella trio from northern England who sing traditional folk as well as their own compositions. What I didn't expect to hear was an a capella folk trio singing a tribute to Kurt Cobain from Nirvana, but they do, and slip in their own take on In the Pines, covered by Nirvana in their Unplugged session, in the process.

It's... unique. And just the kind of stuff I love. Something I'd never have heard anywhere else.

So, a glass raised to Mark Radcliffe. Providing ear worms for me for 16 years.