Description

This week on The Bugcast: more legends depart, Eurovision is being boycotted, Ethan’s pigeons, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

• Fake Luxury – Late To The Party – from France – source
• None Shall Sleep – Pimps and Whores – from North Jersey, NJ – source
• Igor Pumphonia – Dance Dopamine – from St Petersburg, Russia – source
• Luca Caperna – Casa – from Italy – source
• Egor Budennyy – Low – from Russia – source
• Pierce Murphy – Persimmon – from Denver, CO – source
• Studio In The Sticks – Wondering – from USA – source
• Samie Bower – Where’s The Love – from Los Angeles, CA – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips

Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Sophie Kinsella, Joanna Trollope, Stanley Baxter, Camryn Magness

Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Iceland boycott the Eurovision Song Contest

… and now Switzerland hand their trophy back

Ethan’s Pigeons

Hacker Public Radio New Years Party

Upcoming events

Podcrawl Christmas 2025 on Saturday 20 December 2025 from 18:00 UK time

OggCamp will be on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April 2026, Manchester UK

Announcements

• Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
• The next show will be episode 880 which will be our Christmas show, streamed live on Friday 19 December 2025 at 21:30-ish UK time (UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Our supporters!

The artists for allowing us to play their music.

Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.

Internet Archive for hosting the media files

Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server

Paul (TopCat Radio) for the use of their Icecast server

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