This week on The Bugcast: sad news, theatre performances, is AI music a crisis, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.
Songs played
- Morween – The Weight Of It All – from France – source
- The Stereo Inspectors – Hyperspeed (feat. Snowflake) – from Earth – source
- Ozella – Dreams – from USA – source
- Igor Pumphonia – Shameless – from St Petersburg, Russia – source
- Richie Glover – Separate Ways – from UK – source
- Loveshadow – The Sky’s Changing Colour (feat. Orris) – from Birmingham, UK – source
- Two Bullets For The Devil – Two Bullets – from Spain – source
- Micki McDonald – Over – from USA – source
Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking
Topics
Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Cambridgeshire_train_stabbing">2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing</a><br />
Rotherham Theatres: <a href="https://rotherhamtheatres.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173657428">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a><br />
Royal Ballet & Opera: Orf to the Ballet – <a href="https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/la-fille-mal-gardee-frederick-ashton-details">La Fille mal gardée</a><br />
We have a crisis of conscience – discussion of AI music<br />
Patreon: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/cw/pixiepunkmusic/posts">PixiePunk Music</a>
Upcoming events
<a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">Podcrawl Early Winter 2025</a> on Saturday 15 November 2025 from 18:00 UK time<br />
<a href="https://ogg.camp/">OggCamp</a> will be on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 April 2026, Manchester UK
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Announcements
- Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
- The next show will be episode 875 which will be streamed live on Friday 14 November 2025 at 21:30-ish UK time (UTC).
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Special thanks go to
Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
Yannick (FrenchguyCH) for the use of his Shoutcast server<br />
Paul (TopCat Radio) for the use of their Icecast server
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