(The Self Help Radio Empire circa never. Original image here.)
The empire show rose & then it fell. With not very much art or culture to show for it. Just an entire empire of regret & rue. It makes you wonder what held it together for the two hours it existed. Spite? Dread? Delusion? Whatever it was, it left a record, or at least a couple of mp3s, so other radio empires can laugh at its folly & probably also forget it ever happened.
Is that you as well? Yes? Well, in case you change your mind, you can relive all one hundred & twenty minutes of the Self Help Radio empire show at the Self Help Radio website. You don't need a visa or passport or anything to enter, but you'll need to know secret words: username SHR & password selfhelp . We're a pretty old show empire. The empire lasted two hours & each hour gets its own volume, or, well, mp3 file. What's in those files is listed below.
Enjoy the imperial sounds!
(part one)
"Songs Of Empire" Push Kings _Push Kings_
"Empire" Jack Frost _Snow Job_
"Art/Empire/Industry" Bill Nelson's Red Noise _Sound On Sound_
"Victoria" The Kinks _Arthur Or The Decline & Fall Of The British Empire_
"Sawdust & Empire" Attila The Stockbroker _The Pen & The Sword_
"Take Down The Union Jack" Billy Bragg & The Blokes _England, Half English_
"Empire" Bomb The Bass _Clear_
interview with author David Fruchter
"Empire Song" Killing Joke _Revelations_
"One Of Our Submarines" Thomas Dolby _The Golden Age Of Wireless_
"Empire Of The Senseless" The Mekons _The Mekons Rock 'N' Roll_
(part two)
"Empires" Jack Hardy _Noir_
interview with
"Scythian Empires" Andrew Bird _Armchair Apocrypha_
"Lizard Empire" Chemtrails _Cult Of The Sacred Cow_
"I Don't Want To Be An Emperor" Hugo Kant _I Don't Want To Be An Emperor_
"End Of An Empire" The Henry Clay People _Somewhere On The Golden Coast_
interview with the Emperor of the Black Empire
"Fake Empire" The National _Boxer_
"Roaming Empire" Maritime _Magnetic Bodies/Maps Of Bones_
"Vamps" Prism Tats _Mamba_
"Lucretia My Reflection" The Sisters Of Mercy _Floodland_
"Nobody's Empire" Belle & Sebastian _Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance_
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