It's our "Carnival Of Light"

a 'hidden' podcast at the end of 125.
Let it play long enough & you'll hear Hepworth and Lewry inciting the Massive to worship Sting to the sound of a backwards(7) guitar.

It's Our "Carnival Of Light".

Chapel Street Market is doing a roaring trade in bootleg copies

It's Our "Carnival Of Light"??

what, it's only previously been heard by mashed up hippies in an old engine turning shed?

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/the-podcast-126-mystery-holmes-stu...

Holmes!

Like the second Stone Roses album or Guns & Roses' long-awaited Chinese Democracy, Podcast 126 has acquired a level of mystique and accompanying public expectation that cannot possibly be met.

You have two options:

You can start recording podcasts in random order, opting for a non-linear Lost-style narrative. If you go down this road you might as well have a polar bear in the studio as a guest, followed the next week by someone pretending to be Marc Bolan.

The second option: Recording podcast #126 so that it fits into standard chronology, will require the kind of attention to period detail that has the set designers on Mad Men tearing out their hair.

You will have to source authentic furnishings from late-February 2010, that will not modernise the ambient background noise. Fraser will have to write some kind of vocal-modulating software that makes all the participants sound several weeks younger than they are.

There can be no mention of current events. No talk of Oscar winners or sales of the new Gorillaz album If Mr Ellen wishes to furnish us with details of what he has been up to, he must confine his monologue to things that happened several weeks ago and refer to more contemporary events in the future tense, e.g: "I will attend a charity auction at the US Embassy and fully expect that I will end up spending a small fortune on a pair of Bob Dylan's monogrammed pyjamas..."

Jools Holland records his Hootenanny several months in advance, with all the guests having to pretend that it's new year's eve. I suspect that recording Podcast 126 will be a bit like that, only in reverse.

investigated it may have been, but solved it it not. We have a clue and the clue is 'Carnival of Light'. Ancient legend (okay - Wikipedia) has it that the 'Carnival of light' appeared on a Russian bootleg - "a supposedly authentic 13 minute and 48 second version can be found on the 2009 Russian bootleg album Now and Then, issued by Raskol Records" - which is where we must look to find Podcast 126 - spookily enough exactly 13 minutes and 48 seconds long.

may it be safely recovered.

I'm still here and have not assumed a new identity...

I have it on good authority that #126 is sub judice, non sequitur and ars longa vita brevis. It concerned an amusing anecdote about a famous knighted rock star, a welsh ewe and a golden trumpet. Max Clifford was involved. Need I say more?

That was the last studio album by Ride wasn't it?

The "Russian bootleg" that just happens to be 13:48 is not original at all. It consists of various songs stolen off of youtube dubbed "Carnival of Light". How do I know? Because I can hear one of my songs playing!

At one time my version(not that I heard the Beatles' one or tried to mimic the description) was very popular on Youtube. I've since removed it after hearing people have been pressing it up on compact discs along with various other songs. Several people helped themselves to the song. It was only available for streaming. Little did I know with browsers like Firefox a person could easily download the song from Youtube. I only recently found out my version of Carnival of Light along with several others are now being shared on thousands of computers.

I created my version of Carnival of Light as a sonic parody. I believe it was the morning of November 16th 2008 I read on CNN a story about Paul McCartney and COL. He seemed to be lobbying for it's release. I wasn't too knowledgeable of rare unreleased Beatles tracks so I googled around to see what I could find. I found some Lord Buffoonery and some guy doing a cover version of COL.

I didn't like either one and wanted my own interpretation that would suggest it was from 1967 but leave the listener with a fair amount of uncertainty that it wasn't. I also wanted to poke a little fun at several things.

The Beatles have released all sorts of demo tracks with minimal standards. So what was the real fuss about COL? I thought ego was where the fray was at so I created a sonic conflict that went on and on.

I had to address the Beatle Police as well. The Beatle Police are authoritative fans who feel it necessary to school others on Beatle history. Why they'll even go so far as to argue with Paul McCartney about his own life. Paul only lead his life. The Beatle Police studied it. So to stir them up was my version of a Monty Python sketch attacking authority.

My track was obviously not COL and I never really lead people on too long. Oh I made up bazaar stories and added question marks but that's entertainment. I provided a little bit of light when one realized the carnival was not coming to town. That was the evening of November 16th 2008.

I'd like to know more about this Raskol Records though.

The so called Russian Bootleg was created by a 20 year old Bulgarian. He either took the files from various youtube pages and or discovered then on the various file sharing networks he is associated with.

Not much info about Raskol Records other than they are a Scottish label that seems invisible now. I don't see any strong connection between the Bulgarian and the Scottish Label which could be synonymous with the UK punk/ska band Orko(which just disbanded which does explain why the record label doesn't have much of an internet presence these days but might of over the span of the last 9 years).

The band simply came across the Bulgarian pirate's file on one of the file sharing sites and released it. I can't seem to find it's release though??? Was this a virtual CD/compilation of tracks? Or did they press actual discs?