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Wavelength – Maurice Seddon’s injunction

jtreg — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:32:02 +0000

Captain Maurice Seddon in telephonic conversation. He was faced with an injunction at the Royal Courts of Justice to silence his numberless pack of dogs but thanks in no small part to his Mackenzie friend (me) the case has been adjourned for 3 months. Interpretations of the music for two Adolf Wolfli paintings by Baudouin de Jaer.

Polish Deli 15 1 2012

kaziem — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:41:15 +0000

Introduction to Polish Deli for 2012. My only New Year Resolution was to improve the programme, which I failed to do very soon… (next week I was down with a flu)

But I played you some nice music by Polish artists including: Arszyn, Nucleon, Bajkoczytacz, Aloes and Zbigniew Karkowski

Language in this episode: Polish

Comics and conflicts: Pat Mills on Charleys War

alexfitch — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:50:29 +0000

Comics and conflicts: Pat Mills on Charleys War

Imperial War Museum educator Grant Rogers talks to Pat Mills about his seminal wartime strip Charley’s War, serialised in Battle Action comic in the 1970s and 80s. Grant and Pat Mills discuss the history of the strip, working with Joe Colquhoun and the real life events that influenced the comic. (Recorded in front of an audience at the 2011 Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London.)

Charleys War by Joe Colquhoun and Pat Mills

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Wikipedia pages on Charley’s War and Pat Mills
Grant’s website
Listen to Alex’s interviews with Grant about his career working on great British Cartoons and his favourite film of 2006
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s interview with Pat Mills about 2000AD
Listen to Grant’s 2008 interview with Pat
More Comics and Conflicts podcasts

Recommended events:

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Panel Borders: DJ Food’s Search Engine Splatter

robin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:03:30 +0000

Starting a month of shows about non practitioners’ love for comics, guest presenter Robin The Fog talks to graphic designer and music producer Strictly Kev, better known as DJ Food. A lifelong comics fan, Kev tells us about engaging legendary 2000AD artist Henry Flint to make the artwork for his new LP ‘The Search Engine’ and also for the three EPs that make up the release; and also how a love of comics in his formative years compliments not only his graphic work but his musical productions today.

Covers of The Search Engine and constituent EPs by Henry Flint and DJ Food

http://www.panelborders.com
http://www.robinthefog.com

The art of The Search Engine by Henry Flint and DJ Food is on display at Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH until the end of February 2012.
(Originally broadcast 05/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: DJ Food’s website
Henry Flint’s blog
Info about Pure Evil Gallery
More info about Broadcast: The TV Doodles of Henry Flint
Robin’s website and new album

Recommended events:

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Wavelength – 2010 May 21st Beatlemania

jtreg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:30:59 +0000

Beatlemania. Klaus Beyer sings The Beatles (out of tune and in German), Rodney Graham’s version of Blue Jay Way, Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin/Paul McCartney/Apple single) from Ground Zero plays Standards with Otomo Yoshihide and Vanilla Fudge’s rendition of Ticket to Ride.

OST 21.01.2012 – Fred Judd, Ian Helliwell & Public Information

robin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:21:53 +0000

Soundtracks, library and television music with Jonny Trunk. Today Ian Helliwell is coming onto the OST Show. Ian lives in Brighton, is somewhat of an archivist and dare we say it, a polymath. He has spent the last few years, investigating (amongst many other things) the life and work of a certain F.C. Judd. Frederick Judd was responsible for some very early electronic music in the UK, wrote extensively on the subject and much of his musical work was issued on the Studio G library label. Ian has also made a full length film about this great, inventive man, ‘Practical Electronics’ and a new compilation of his Judd’s work ‘Electronics Without Tears’ is about to be released on the rather marvellous Public Information label. And pretty fabulous they both are too. The stage is set for a journey into the deeply strange and utterly wondrous soundworld. And don’t be fooled by the skip in the first few seconds, this is actually a lovely high-quality 320kbps mp3 file, which as you will know is CD quality. We really are too good to you…

Hello GoodBye Show 28 January 2012: Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse

Michael — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:43:44 +0000

A bit of a Radiophonic theme on the show today with live music on the show today from both Alexander Tucker and Paper Dollhouse.

Alexander Tucker began his musical career as singer in punk and post-hardcore bands and since the early part of this century his solo music has channelled widely varied influences from folk to musique concrète-style tape experimentation to the English psychedelia of the Cardiacs. From his earliest records Old Fog and Furrowed Brow on ATP Recordings to his latest song-cycle Dorwytch on Thrill Jockey, his records are at once brooding and intense, joyful and humourous. Deceptively simple, the harmonies are heavily layered and often use accidental ambient sounds (Victoria Line trains rumbling by are audible on his first two albums). His discography is spiralling out of control, having released at least 9 albums since 2004, often in collaboration, including Stephen O’Malley of Sun O))) and previous guest on this show, Duke Garwood.

Alexander will perform live in the Resonance FM studio today and also talk about his latest record, the second released in collaboration with electronic musician Daniel Beban under the name Imbogodom, out this week on Thrill Jockey. Using vintage analogue equipment and recorded at the BBC’s Bush House, Imbogodom recreates the techniques and textures of those early pioneers of electronic sound at the Radiophonic Workshop.

“… when I got it home to a pair of monolithic 1970s stereo speakers [Dorwytch] transformed into a pool of potential deep listening. A relatively still surface daring you to dive in, its sharp, cold depth containing bindweed, or maybe worse… things that threaten to drag you under, away from surface beauty into a totally different, forbidding world.” – John Doran, The Quietus review of Dorwytch

Paper Dollhouse is the work of Astrud Steehouder; dark minimal gothic folk which comprises haunting vocals, acoustic guitar, effects pedals, found sounds, slide projector and minimal electronic atmospherics. Her debut album ‘A Box Painted Black’ was recently released on Bird Records, the femme-folk off shoot of the Finders Keepers family.

Inspired by early 60s electronic pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Eliane Radigue, bleak British television soundtracks, minimal dark electronica, Arthur Russell, Christine Harwood and France Galle, the music combines simple folk songs with environmental and electronic textural sounds and visuals to create a pared down, beautiful experience.

Named after the 1988 cult horror film Paperhouse “I watched the film when I was about 10 and was really drawn in by it. Something about the quality and tone of it, the psychology and aesthetic has stayed with me ever since. I’m into actual dollhouses and models of things as well. I used to make these little viewfinder boxes containing little scenes in them as a child for fun, I found them magical.”

‘A Box Painted Black’ was recorded entirely in the kitchen and garden of her London home amongst the incidental sounds of trains passing, children playing, door slams and running water, “the album’s like a Pandora’s box of messages. It was kind of a dark solace for me, the slight way the album happened. Almost hidden.”

Track list:
Imbogodom – Borogmog’s Clock
Alexander Tucker – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Imbogodom – Heir Looms
Alexander Tucker – ‘Interview’
FC Judd – Steel Particles
Daphne Oram – Hamlet Youth Theatre
Li De La Russe/Nikki St George/Don Harper – Liquid Energy
Frieder Butzmann – No Title
Paper Dollhouse – Daisies (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – Golden Ships (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp.

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Book List: Childrens book illustrators

alexfitch — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:00:13 +0000

Book List: Children’s book illustrators

In an hour long show about children’s book illustration, Alex Fitch talks to three generations of illustrators: David McKee, creator of Mr Benn, King Rollo and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant; Dave McKean, artist of of young adult books by David Almond, graphic novels and picture books by Neil Gaiman and Richard Dawkins’ first science book for children The Magic of Reality; and Jim Kay, illustrator of Patrick Ness’ A Monster Calls and Toby Forward’s Flaxfield Quartet of novels about dragons.
Also includes an extract from Dave McKean’s presentation of his work from The Magic of Reality at the book launch in Foyles, September 2011.

Mr Benn by David McKee, The Magic of Reality by Dave McKean and Richard Dawkins, and A Monster Calls by Jim Kay and Patrick Ness

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other formats you can download / stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Random House titles by David McKee
Richard Dawkins / Dave McKean / Jim Kay websites
Info about The Illustration Cupboard / events at Foyles

If you enjoyed this show, why not try Mary and Bryan Talbot talking about their Joycean graphic novel Dotter of her father’s eyes

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery will be hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from February 2 to March 2.

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at Gosh! Comics, 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Hello GoodBye Show 21 January 2012: Temperatures and Tiger Walking Downhill

Michael — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:32:40 +0000

We have a good and wholesome, double dosage of pure and unadulterated noise planned for this lunchtime with live performance’s from Temperatures and Tiger Walking Downhill.

Jetting in from up the Kingsland Road we have Dalston’s Temperatures, the improvised avant rock duo comprised of Peter Blundell (bass) and James Dunn (drums/synth). Temperatures’ sound (no ‘The’) is a guttural, dense and relentless unleashing of some intense unspecified emotion (is it anger, is it hate, is it love?), by turns hypnotically repetitious and wildly tangential.

“Mankind’s destiny is played out in primal terms on this exciting LP, a blistering recorded performance.” Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector / Resonance FM.

“It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into– which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things” – Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth (from OhNoTheyDidnt.LiveJournal.com)

Also, hear our regular Hello GoodBye Show sound engineer Kacper Zienianin navigate an on-air roll reversal, leaping from behind the scenes to centre stage with his Noise-Improv outfit; Tiger Walking Downhill.

Track list:
Mucky Sailor – Requiem for a Sports Car
Temperatures – Zen Brick (LIVE SESSION)
Tylehurst Children’s Arkestra – Four Hours in the Lettuce Factory
Temperatures – ‘Interview’
Imbogodom – Bvsh Hovse Ghost
Paper Dollhouse – Moon
One Unique Signal – Villains
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Lime-Headed Dog – Barcelona
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

Our website * Facebook * Richard’s Twitter * Michael’s Twitter

Panel Borders: Habibi Blankets

alexfitch — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:30:56 +0000

Panel Borders: Habibi Blankets

Concluding our month of shows looking at biography and autobiography in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the multiple award winning (and Grammy nominated) cartoonist Craig Thompson about his epic new graphic novel Habibi (My beloved). Alex and Craig discuss the 672 page book’s reworking of themes from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’, mixing in modern concerns about gender politics and pollution in the Middle East and how his previous autobiographical works Blankets and Carnet de Voyage, with their themes of sexual awakening, religion and travelogue, led to his latest work.

Habibi, Blankets and Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 29/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Links: Habibi page at www.faber.co.uk
Info about Craig’s graphic novels at www.topshelfcomix.com
Craig’s website: www.dootdootgarden.com

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at Gosh! Comics, 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Technical Difficulties 3:3

Tim Abbott — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:53:27 +0000

This week, Tim talks to the co-founder of Disabled People Against Cuts, Linda Burnip about the current state of play in the Welfare Reform Bill, discontent amongst disabled people and a joint protest with UK Uncut (which we will also be witnessing for later broadcast). We can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus.

Details on www.lightchronicles.info – tune in, feedback, wear your scars with pride.

Wavelength – Denise Hawrysio

jtreg — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:29:45 +0000

Multi-disciplinary artist Denise Hawrysio in the studio talking about her Spotlight Project and artistic practice. Hawrysio:

Hello GoodBye 12 January 2012: Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences and Black Spot

Michael — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:25:52 +0000

Our first show of 2012 kicks off with live music from Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences and Black Spot.

We will also be re-airing a selection of our favourite pieces of music recorded live here on Hello GoodBye throughout 2011.

Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences formed in 2006 as a collaboration between maverick singer-songwriter Hawkins and Death in Vegas guitarist turned producer Ian Button and have gradually expanded into a six-piece. The band have released two albums and numerous singles and have built up a loyal cult following, with fans as far afield as Holland, France, Belgium and America. Their last EP ‘The Wrong Life‘ (Audio Antihero) was released in July 2011 and their new album will be released later this year.

Black Spot is the new solo moniker of ex-Congregation guitar player and singer with The Tap Collective, Benjamin Prosser. Black Spot acts as a place where the territory Benjamin’s early solo work (released on Sexton Ming’s Rim Records) left off. Though still demoing onto tape recorders and dictaphone’s Benjamin has now upped the analogue stakes recording the final versions of his new material at Gizzard Studio in the east-end. Combining an intricate finger picked intimacy with instrumentation including rythmn generator, Oscillator and found sounds Benjamin’s latest work is in his own words “the closest I’ve ever come to truly valuing, giving credence to what I do most naturally, to really speaking, saying what I believe is worth saying.”

Track List:
Horse Brothers – Good Umbridge (HG archive)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – I’ve Left The New World Order (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – Somewhere I have To Be (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – How We Lost The War (LIVE SESSION)
Design A Wave – Remedy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – ‘Interview’
Poino – Bad Bag (HG archive)
One True Dog – It’s A Delay (HG archive)
Delphic Vapours – Pink Floyd European Tour 1968 (HG archive)
BlackSpot – Cremation (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Your Ox Will Carve (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The Watcher In The Night (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Jewel (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The 11th Commandment (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Heaven’s Gate (LIVE SESSION)
Hamilton yarns – When Times Are Good (HG archive)
BlackSpot – ‘Interview’
The Monochrome Set – He’s Frank (HG archive)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (HG archive)

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Zienianin & Tom Kemp.

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Art Monthly January 2012

artmonthly — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:48:50 +0000

Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern

John Douglas Millar discusses his review of Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern .

“The show is vast; there is the work that spars with Marcel Duchamp, the landscapes that investigate German Romanticism, September, 2005, his mournful and considered reaction to the attacks on the World Trade Center, the tender but always questioning domestic portraits of his wife and children. I cannot discuss them all here. In the end, the satisfaction of this show comes from the sense that you are constantly in the presence of an intelligence that is both effervescent and probing. A painterly mind that is able, fascinatingly, to think against itself”.

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.

Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the

international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at

www.artmonthly.co.uk

Panel Borders: Dotter of her fathers eyes

alexfitch — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:30:00 +0000

Panel Borders: Dotter of her fathers eyes

Continuing our month of shows about biography and autobiography, guest presenter Nicola Streeten interviews Bryan and Mary Talbot about their forthcoming graphic novel, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which contrasts two coming of age narratives: Lucia, daughter of James Joyce, and author Mary Talbot, daughter of the Joycean scholar James S Atherton. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch) (Recorded live in front of an audience at the University of Sussex as part of the First Fictions Festival).

Image from Dotter of her fathers eyes by Bryan and Mary M Talbot

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 10/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Links: Info about First Fictions Festival
Mary Talbot’s website
Official Dotter page at www.randomhouse.co.uk
Previous interviews with Bryan Talbot

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at Gosh! Comics, 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

An introduction to creating your graphic memoir

FREE WORKSHOP
Saturday 28 January 2012
2-4pm
Ages 18+
Presentation and practical workshop with Nicola Streeten, illustrator and author of the highly praised graphic memoir ‘Billy, Me and You’.
No experience necessary, materials will be provided

Idea Store Chrisp Street, 1 Vesey Path, East India Dock Road, London E14 6BT
Tel 020 7364 4332

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Technical Difficulties 3:2

Tim Abbott — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:20:46 +0000

A rant about the state of government benefit reform and the effect on disabled people.

Find us on Twitter @lightchronic , Facebook and Google Plus

Wear your scars with pride.

Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon

alexfitch — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:51:31 +0000

Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon

A Q and A recorded at Bar Music Hall in East London as part of Comica Festival, 2010, Paul Gravett talks to Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about her semi-autobiographical graphic novel Dance by the light of the moon, published in the UK by Self Made Hero.
(Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch, introduced by Sarah Lightman)

Excerpt from Dance by the light of the moon by Judith Vanistendael

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Review of Dance by the light of the moon on the Forbidden Planet International blog
Info about the book at selfmadehero.com
Original event listing at comicafestival.com

Recommended events:

GOSH! – UPCOMING EVENTS

CRAIG THOMPSON signing copies of Habibi, Blankets and more, 5pm-7pm,
Saturday 21st January

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

First Fictions Festival

As part of Myriad Press’ First Fictions Festival at Sussex University, there are several graphic novel related events:

Saturday 21 January 2pm Judging a Graphic Novel Winner of the First Graphic Novel Competition will be announced at the First Fictions Festival. Paul Gravett will scratch the heads of the panel of judges (Ian Rankin, ILYA, Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman but not Steve Bell cos he’s on holiday) asking how DO you judge a graphic novel? Pages from the shortlisted works will be shown and the winner announced.

Saturday 21 January 6pm Bryan and Mary Talbot‘s first outing to talk about and show pages from their gorgeous-looking new graphic novel Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes. Laydeez Do Comics creator Nicola Streeten will be asking some very direct questions.

Sunday 22 January 11.30am Autobiography and fiction: graphic novelists Nicola Streeten and Nye Wright will join forces with novelist Sue Eckstein to investigate how their work is informed by their lives.

Fulton Building, Sussex University, Brighton
More info at www.firstfictions.com

An introduction to creating your graphic memoir

Idea Store Chrisp Street, 1 Vesey Path, East India Dock Road, London E14 6BT
Tel 020 7364 4332

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Wavelength – Musics in the Margins

jtreg — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:28:51 +0000

Musik Oblik; latest addition to the musics in the margins series by sub rosa. Anthology of outsider music with tracks by Adolf Wolfli, Carlo Gesualdo, Othin Spake, Klaus Beyer, Normand L’Amour, Jacques Brodier, Baudouin de Jaer, Baudouin Oosterlynck and the Wild Classical Music Ensemble.

The Art of Improvisation

sixpillarstopersia — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:35:18 +0000

Cousins Adib (UK) and Mehdi Rostami (Iran) take the closeness of their family ties into the realm of improvisation, where trust and understanding between musicians is paramount to success. Prior to a London performance we talk to them in the studio about the preparatory process for an improvising musician, the instruments they play – the relatively new shurangiz - and their ambitions for the future of their duo, split as they are between Iran and UK.

We sample some of their sublime music in the show, but nothing can compare to a live performance where the players literally take you on the ‘journey’ with them. Buy the CD here.

Panel Borders: Colliers War

alexfitch — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:28:50 +0000

Panel Borders: Collier’s War

Continuing our month of shows on biography and autobiography, Alex Fitch talks to Canadian cartoonist David Collier about his work, from his Collier’s self published comics to graphic novels such as Chimo released by Conundrum Press and various titles distributed by Drawn and Quarterly. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s experiences serving in the army and getting advice from Robert Crumb. (Recorded live in front of an audience at the Imperial War Museum, London)

Panel from Chimo by David Collier, published by Conundrum Press

Links: Info about Chimo at www.conundrumpress.com
Work by David Collier published by Drawn and Quarterly
More podcasts recorded at the Imperial War Museum, London

Recommended events:

GOSH! – UPCOMING EVENTS

CRAIG THOMPSON signing copies of Habibi, Blankets and more, 5pm-7pm,
Saturday 21st January

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

Other comics events:

Course: Drawing For The Graphic Novel
Stephen Marchant’s 11-week course on Thursday evenings run by Birkbeck College in association with the Cartoon Museum.
Where: Cartoon Museum, London
When: January 12, 2012

Rethinking the History of Childhood: Narratives, Sources, Debates
The history of childhood is now ripe for re-evaluation. The conference will
debate existing paradigms while welcoming the work of new scholars.
Where: University of Greenwich, Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation
When: January 14, 2012

For more info: www.paulgravett.com

Clear Spot: The Pirates of Carthage

Michael — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:46:20 +0000

A play by UK based artist Daniel Kelly about the Arab Spring in Tunisia, as the story unravelled on Twitter. It is composed of Twitter messages from the weeks up to the deposition of President Ben Ali, which occurred a year ago this Saturday. The play reflects a personal discovery of the story of the revolution as it happened and our fragmented, chaotic understanding of the world through the Internet.

The Twitter messages are juxtaposed with text from Gustave Flaubert’s 1862 novel Salammbo, the epic story of the Mercenary War in Ancient Carthage.

After the play, in the last 20 minutes of the show, we added to the text live on air, with Twitter messages from listeners using the hashtag #pCarthage. Podcast listeners can still Tweet to us using the hashtag!

Written by Daniel Kelly and performed by Aimee Parkes, Helen Marshall, Paul Williams and Pedd Ramm.

Directed by Ben Kidd and produced by Lucy Knight.

The Clear Spot for Resonance FM was produced and presented by Michael Garrad.

Hello GoodBye Show: Best Sessions of 2011

Michael — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:00:15 +0000

Hello!

We had a great year on the Hello GoodBye Show in 2011, with over 70 live performances on the show. This epic podcast compiles all the best tracks of the year, including performances from Mekons, The Monochrome Set, Jad Fair, Comus, Serafina Steer, Sexton Ming and more, plus a couple of tracks previously unbroadcast. Also included in full is the best session of the year (as chosen by Richard, Michael and our engineers Leanne and Kacper), The Oscillation.

All songs, unless noted, were recorded live in Resonance FM’s cosy Borough St studio by Leanne Bower and Kacper Ziemianin.

Happy new year from Richard and Michael, we look forward to what delights 2012 has in store for us…

GoodBye!

Track list:

22 Jan – Hamilton Yarns: Hello
15 Jan – Smoke Fairies: Hotel Room
05 Feb – Ulysses Storm: Genie Looks to the Skies
12 Feb – Pheromoans: Derby Joan & Fosters
29 Feb – Monochrome Set: He’s Frank
26 Feb – Design-A-Wave: Remedy
12 Mar – Chips for the Poor tour diary (excerpt, recorded to cassette on the streets of Chicago)
12 Mar – Poino: Bad Bag
02 Apr – Comus: Song To Comus (engineer James Torrence)
16 Apr – Baaneex: Jumping Chinese Restaurant
07 May – Dominic Felix: Nessun Dorma
21 May – Mekons: Corporal Chalkie
28 May – Skinjobs: Money in the Pocket v Money in the Bank (pre-recorded session in the band’s kitchen!)
28 May – Gerry Mitchell and Ten: Die To Love/Faker Quaker
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Soundcheck
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Night Before the Mutiny
04 Jun – Lime-Headed Dog: Labrador
10 Sep – Emily & The Faves: This Time
10 Sep – Sexton Ming: Feed the Bread to the Byrds
17 Sep – Bob Rafkin: Changes
17 Sep – Fighting Kites: Cat is Egg
24 Sep – Delphic Vapours: Pink Floyd European Tour 1968
01 Oct – Zappopin’: Calves & A Hymn For Eton After The Apocalypse
08 Oct – One True Dog: It’s A Delay
15 Oct – The Protagonists of David Gadson: My Private Anarchy
22 Oct – Band Of Holy Joy: Oh What a Thing This Heart of Man
22 Jan – Duncan McAfee: Your Voice Travels, ep 1 (
22 Oct – Agathe Max: Live at XOYO (Live sound: Thom Hollands)
29 Oct – Eternal Tapestry: Live at Corsica Studios (previously unbroadcast! Live sound by: sound by Amir Shoat, thanks to Adrian Jones at Corsica)
29 Oct – Way Through: Henry My Son
05 Nov – No Cars: Geisha Girl in a Sentimental Mood
12 Nov – Patrik Fitzgerald: Inside Me There is Nothing
12 Nov – Date Palms: Honey Devash (Previously unbroadcast! Live at Cafe Oto, live sound by Antoine Bertin)
19 Nov – Horse Brothers: Good Umbridge
03 Dec – Jad Fair: I’ll Change My Style
10 Dec – The Oscillation: Waste The Day, Third Harmonic, Hear Your Sadness
17 Dec – Piney Gir: Say GoodBye

* Hello GoodBye Website * Facebook * Richard’s Twitter * Michael’s Twitter *

Technical Difficulties 3:1

Tim Abbott — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:24:10 +0000

Discussion about the #spartacusreport, published earlier this week by disability activists, largely ignored by the broadcast and print media but trending no. 1 on Twitter for most of the launch day. We will be joined by one of the report’s co-authors Kaliya Franklin, and I hope you can join us too, on-air, on Twitter @lightchronic, facebook.com\lightchronicles and Google Plus at Technical Difficulties.

Glorious hard work and collaboration by a group of people to bring the transcript for this podcast at http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/articles/kaliya-franklin-interview

Wavelength – Malcolm McLaren part 2

jtreg — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:27:25 +0000

Tribute to Malcolm McLaren part 2: Malcolm told me once that he particularly liked Billy Fury so the show starts with a Billy Fury hit written by Goffin and King: Halfway to Paradise, 1961. Walking with Satie and Paris Paris from the CD Paris, 1994, the second track features Catherine Deneuve singing with Malcolm. More tracks from Buffalo Gals Back to Skool featuring the voice of Malcolm and the World Famous Supreme Team, sounds from 1982 and 1983 remixed etc. in 1998. A snatch of I Like you in Velvet from Waltz Darling by Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra which includes Jeff Beck and Bootsy Collins from 1989. Remembrance Mix from the green vinyl single The Bell Song 1997 and Death of Butterfly (Tu Tu Piccolo) from Fans 1984.

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation

alexfitch — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:50:58 +0000

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation

Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors of innovative short animated films; to Oscar winner (2011 co-director Short Animated film) Shaun Tan about the adaptation of his acclaimed picture book The Lost Thing and to web animator Jonti Picking about his cult animated series Weebl and Bob as well as his adverts for Cadbury’s Creme Eggs (is it that time of year already?) and Anchor Butter.

Alex Fitch interviews Shaun Tan / Weebl and Bob re-enact Raiders of the Lost Ark

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 10/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Watch an extract of the Shaun Tan interview / Listen to Alex’s 2009 interview with Tan

Links: Wikipedia pages on Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Eric Khoo, Shaun Tan and Jonti Picking
Eric’s website
Jonti’s website
Shaun’s website
Official Soda Pictures Tatsumi website
Illustration Cupboard website

Recommended events:

GOSH! – UPCOMING EVENTS

COMIC GOSH!P
Free ‘Thinking Comics’ reading group discusses Phonogram: The Singles Club & Hitsville Uk by John Riordan and Dan Cox. All welcome.
January 11, 2012 – 7.15-9pm

CRAIG THOMPSON signing copies of Habibi, Blankets and more, 5pm-7pm,
Saturday 21st January

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

Other comics events:

For more info: www.paulgravett.com

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk