Name: Action Man With A Giraffe's Head by Graham Graham Beck in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 223
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: Taken from the new album, Reversing Sideways In An Upward Direction, This track is all about 'indentity'....That, & a terrible accident between Action Man & a giraffe. Be prepared to dance rather fast!

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SEVEN BILLION LIKE YOU

THE RETURN

The Return

I have been mistaken for looking like two celebrities - one is Pete Townsend (across a darkened club, from quite a distance), & the other is that of Kevin McCloud (the Channel 4 presenter blokey & designer/architectural guru from the programme, 'Grand Designs'). This is a brand new song, in it's early stages of mixing, & getting ready to appear on GGB's 2024 album, 'IT'S NICE TO BE NICHE'. Short & sweet, & heavy to the beat! I've tried to keep it as 'raw' as possible. It could change.

Some People Think I Look Like Kevin McCloud

Instrumental track, taken from my next GGB album, 'IT'S NICE TO BE NICHE' (release date: 13th Oct. 2024). A Spatial Oddity is one of those tunes that came about accidentally - just improvising on the piano, & then adding other keyboards & rhythmic parts. The title, apart from being a sly nod to David Bowie, is because there's an extra beat in there, which shouldn't have been (but somehow, it just works). There are various styles melded together, but then that's just me!

A Spatial Oddity

Loop The Loop is another track taken from the upcoming album, IT'S NICE TO BE NICHE (released Oct. 13th). Quite a laid-back song, that references both skate boarding & tranquillity (& why not?!).

Loop The Loop

Here is a 'track in progress', where it could change, or it could not. It probably will change. Anyway, it will eventually appear on the next GGB album (which isn't due until 2026), so this is an early EXCLUSIVE! The song is about organising - I like organising things, otherwise everything becomes chaotic & I can't find anything. It's time to dance in a strange fashion!

Mish Mash Thrash Crash

I'm just a warm meaty lump mixing the music I love to support the artists who made it. Reach out and tell them if you like their work. Share and comment, and spread these wonderful sounds to anyone who loves to hear wonderful sounds.

Tracks and Artists in the this mix:

1. Music and Words for Money - Tim McInnes
2. The Jazzmaster - Matt Finucane
3. Keep the balance - Roller Disco Death Party
4. Humming - You dirty blue
5. Steals My Sleep - Girobabies
6. BRZL (Will Farr Remix feat. Lo Tea) - Meat and Prawns
7. What Happens Now - The Empty Page
8. Suddo Tonnau - Worldcub
9. Holding Up - Wyse
10. Living Arrangements - Hot  Air
11. Life - Mistrust
12. I Feel - Good Hugg
13. You're My Favorite Drugs - The Shops
14. Nicer - Low Bridge
15. Highlighter Pens Will Keep The Chaos At Bay - Gaylips
16. Nervous Bird - Popfuture
17.  Your Thing - Head Gardener
18. Achieved very little but felt peaceful - Astrakan
19. Jazz Cafe - Vickram Bhamra
20. All the good times - Driftwood
21. When the wind blows - Rochelle Rochelle
22. You & Me - Retro Kid
23. Lucy in the sky with Dolphin - South Acid Mimi
24. The Incredible Shrinking Man - Exposed Brick
25. S(he)'s a Rake - Vanessa Van Ness
26. Mandem Say ft. DJ Black Low - Apple Digital Master 2448 - King Nilote
27. Nevergreen - Andrew Anderson 
28. FLIES - DohB
29. Hiding Through Fear (VIP Dub) - Spectre Horsemen Pale With Dust
30. The Old Gardener - Richard Trethewey
31. Alienation - Negative Response
32. Crawl (M2) - Julia Dales
33. Ghost Man - Soli Vive
34. where are we now - daniel iorio
35. Croydon Fox - Strange Flesh
36. Dirac Sea - Particle Drift
37. Automation Nation - Mike Pendegast
38. Dark Matter - W^(Will Arneil)
39. Make it Matter (Radio Edit) - Malibu Hot Flush
40. Heaven Knows mp3 - David Stanley
41. Nostalgic for the violence of his youth - Victor Serge
42. Amygdala Algorithm - We Have Ghosts
43. The Meditation - Debrison
44. Bonnie & Clyde - the kahunas
45. Diamonds and Pearls - Ben P Williams
46. Contain Control - Fibres
47. Hermosa Vida en Verano - Jimena Fama 
48. Low Song - Subordinate Clause
49. Sadist - BIG big SKY
50. The Ship - Superboo
51. Strange One - Man at Q & M
52. It Starts Again - Band Spectra
53. Wake Up! Its Another Day mp3 - GO VOLTA
54. Bee Side - Shrube
55. Advance [Radio Edit] - Gates of Light
56. England’s Glory - Johnny Panic & the Bible of Dreams (Jimmy Andrex)

Will Farr's Eclectic Mix Volume 3

Aogán Ó Rathaille poems translated and read by Brian O'Connor (Feb 2025).

Aogán-Ó-Rathaille translations by Brian O'Connor

Recorded the first hour of my 4hr set at Blueprint on Sunday, and here it is. 

Sometimes I let kids play with the decks, so I can't rule out mad hands happening in this mix somewhere...

 Mostly chilled Sunday lunch sounds. 



Will Farr's Sunday Social Live @ BLUEPRINT Falmouth 09/03/25

Please share this with people who like hearing new things, and tell the artists if you like their music. I'll encourage them to tag their own tracks x

Set List: 

1. Roly Poly  by Stergin
2. The Lion's Share by Lee Pierre
3. Away Sometimes by Camille Baziadoly and The Filthy Honey
4. zed zero by Flyswatter Maestro
5. ZAUBER FRAU by Mimi and That Guy
6. Found another year by Sidebanks
7. thisisDJSHAYA4 by Jeff Adams ft DJ Shaya
8. Azure by Raised by Puritans
9. You're So Good by Retro Kid
10. Oh Smile by The Equatoreal Group
11. 8 by Paine Paul
12. Tomorrow by The Shops
13. Bobo by Escape Hatch
14. MadHouse (Jiggy with it) by Honkey Bitch
15. Levi by Leva for King
16. Sideways by Camille Baziadoly and The Filthy Honey
17. The Catch by Girobabies
18. Find Your Tribe  by Lewis Daniel
19. Anuran Magic (Extended Mix) by St3v3L33
20. Return of the Masked Marauder by Junkyard of Silenced Poets
21. Walk a Mile In My Shoes by Alexys
22. HMS Albion by KID SCARAMOUCHE
23. I'm too goth by Pet Twin
24. The Hand That Did the Deed by Erotic Secrets of Pompeii
25. Time Stands Still  by Gitika Partington
26. john simpson by dead things
27. The Future Is Leisure by Thomas Truax
28. He by Rochelle Rochelle
29. I'm Glad Its Not Sunny by Novelty Island
30.  Morro Bay by Combover Beethoven
31. Roboto by Shugorei
32. Fake Teenage Romance (Single Version) by Grungy Bill
33. The Truths You Collect by Prodbear
34. Yaya by Anichi
35. Be There by Arpraxis
36. Cobra by Lamia 
37. KINGOFHEARTS by Blaise MC
38. Brave New World by The Ethal Skinners
39. Why Mi Gwaan Suh by Tha M3
40. WHITE WEDDING by Bloody Tourist
41. The Drought Is Coming by Andy Smythe
42. Birds aren't real by Baffo d'Oro
43. Ataxia mp3 by Secret Rivals 
44. Cherry tree by Katarina Kitka
45. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Ozone mix by Pulses 
46. I Wake Up Slowly by Oslo Twins
47.  honey locusts w plant thief (prod. n0vals) by n0vals
48. The Standing Stones of Stenness by Ant Smith
49. Scatterbag by Peter McDonnell
50. Moonbeam by Robert Maitland
51. Hai-Am-Koo by Marble Stars
52. Bossa Doll by Nylon Nyeshi
53. Girl in the Bar by The New Music Sculptors
54. FREE by Andonie
55. rooks by lost signal 
56. Say it like you mean it by Stephen Folkes
57. Hisayasu Satō Voyeurism Blues by Spectre Horsemen, Pale With Dust
58. Made In Heaven by Lex Vervain
59. On Love by Battery Point
60. Pedestrian Sex by Machine Music
61. National Hero by Televised Mind
62. Stella by All Mad Here

Will Farr's Eclectic Mix Volume 4

In June 1969 a police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village exploded into a night of violent protest. What followed was a week of rioting with pitched battles between the New York gay community and riot police. It was a watershed in gay history which inspired a new militant phase in the gay rights movement. Forty years on, Tom Robinson asks why the word Stonewall still has such a powerful resonance for gay people around the world.

During the 1960s homosexuality was still classified as a mental illness in the US, with "sufferers" subject to frequent victimisation from the police and society at large. As a private members bar, the Stonewall offered a refuge of sorts where gay people were allowed to dance freely together. When police entered the bar shortly after midnight on a hot and humid Friday night in 1969, it exploded in unprecedented fashion.

Contributors include Seymour Pine, the policeman who led the raid; and Howard Smith, the journalist stuck inside when the crowd turned on the police and attempted to set fire to the Stonewall Inn. There are also eye-witness from the rioters themselves and we learn how the rallying in subsequent months led to a sea change in gay rights activism and the establishment of the annual Gay Pride parade to mark the riots.

Also featuring previously unheard archive interviews with late activists Craig Rodwell and Barbara Gittings. And we return to the Stonewall Inn, as it is today, to find out what resonance the word Stonewall has for the next generation of gay people. In 2009 has the battle been won?

Programme based around the 2010 book Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered the Gay Revolution by David Carter who acted as programme consultant for this radio documentary. Produced by Joby Waldman.

Tom Robinson kickstarted his own musical career with the notoriety of Glad To Be Gay and rounded it off twenty years later with an album cheerfully titled Having It Both Ways. He presented new music shows on BBC Radio 6 Music show for 23 years from 2002-2025.

Stonewall: The Riots That Triggered The Gay Revolution

From First Tiger's debut album, Dedicated.
Contact: firsttigermusic@gmail.com

Songs by Stephen McCormick and Peter McGinty
Produced and mixed by Stuart McCredie

Smiley's Funeral

Single released 16/11/2016

Produced and Engineered by Dean Edward Thompson at Blast Studios, Ousburn, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Mastered by DoctorMix.com

Goodnight, Vienna!

Taken from the new album, Reversing Sideways In An Upward Direction, This track is all about 'indentity'....That, & a terrible accident between Action Man & a giraffe. Be prepared to dance rather fast!

Reversing Sideways In An Upward Direction

Action Man With A Giraffe's Head

Review at Louder Than War: http://louderthanwar.com/one-way-song-dr-spraza-lies-track-review/

Review at Velvet Sheep: http://velvet-sheep.com/song-for-ewe/luke-gilfedder-of-one-way-song-song-for-ewe/

Vocals: Angus Macalister // Drums: Keiron Melling // Guitar & Bass: Mat Arnold // Produced by Hilltown Studios

Dr. Spraza Lies (Single Edit)

How To Start A Revolution - Some Velvet Morning

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Motto: Two's company, three's an audience (if I'm lucky!).

Action Man With A Giraffe's Head

Graham Graham Beck

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