*NB: Due to a family bereavement Viv Albertine was unable to be our guest today, we hope to re-schedule her appearance soon, watch this space!
PLAYLIST
Skinny Girl Diet – Nadine Hurley
Feature – Memory (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Psalms (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Twins (LIVE SESSION)
Feature – Realing (LIVE SESSION)
Pheromoans – Hearts Of Gold
Feature – ‘interview’
The Slits – I Heard It Through The Grapevine
The Fish Police – The Fish Police Theme
Journalist On Wheels Lilly Cook’s documentary on tour with The Fish Police for Heart and Soul Radio
Lucy Claire – Stille (ft: Alev Lenz)
Olga Bell – Primorsky
King Eider – The Deeper The Water (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Whisky (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Healthy Boy (LIVE SESSION)
King Eider – Frozen Air (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Too Social (Hello GoodBye live session archive 02.03.13)
House Band – Clown In The Moon
King Eider – ‘interview’
ESG – Be Good To Me
Presented by deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Lisa Geurts + Tom Kemp
Starting a month of shows looking at the work of female comic creators, Alex Fitch talks to German scratch board artist Line Hoven, and Belgian cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about their family drama graphic novels Love looks away published by Blank Slate Books and When David lost his voice, published by Self Made Hero. Hoven discusses her meticulous technique used to render the biography of three generations of her family, including a member of the Hitler Youth, while Vanistendael explores how her various graphic novels have each used a different artistic style, depending on the subject matter she is bringing to the page, in this case about a grandfather who reconnects with his family when diagnosed with throat cancer. Recorded at the British Library exhibition ‘Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK’. Originally broadcast 2nd June 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Cover and interior art from Love looks away by Line Hoven / from When David lost his voice by Judith Vanistendael
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Comic book events at Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Cartoonist and comedienne Josie Long interviews Mark Kermode
Gala Opening Evening featuring Mark Kermode and an Arts Emergency showcase, hosted by one of our favourite comedians, Josie Long. Arts Emergency take to the stage at 7pm with performances by Joe Dunthorne (Submarine, Wild Abandon), Nikesh Shukla (Meatspace, Coconut Unlimited), Schmoovy and more. After an interval, at around 8:15pm, Mark will talk about his brilliant new book Hatchet Job: Hate Critics, Love Movies.
Dobson was no stranger to controversy, but rarely did he create so tumultuous a brouhaha as was caused by his pamphlet Hints And Tips For Intrepid Explorers In The Polar Wastes (out of print). Dobson himself had of course never been anywhere near either the Arctic or the Antarctic, and one of the many puzzles he left behind for the unwary biographer is the question of why he ever thought he was qualified to address the subject. He was only too ready to admit to his ignorance of certain matters, made plain in pamphlets such as My Blithering Ignorance Of Vast Swathes Of Ornithology and When It Comes To Ice Hockey, I Have No Idea What I Am Talking About, both of which are tragically out of print.
Yet he felt able to compile a list of hints and tips for polar exploration, and ensured that Marigold Chew ran off more copies on the Gestetner machine in the potting shed than she did of almost any other pamphlet he ever wrote. Indeed, a number of their breakfasts were ruined during a period in the 1950s when the pamphleteer insisted that his inamorata gobble down her kedgeree in double quick time so she could hurry off to the shed to crank out another dozen copies. Oddly, he does seem to have actually had some success in selling them, though this may have been due to the breathtakingly gorgeous mezzotint of a polar bear, by the noted mezzotintist Rex Tint, which was used on the cover. There was a sort of polar bear fad at the time, occasioned by the popular radio serial The Adventures Of Martin The Polar Bear, starring Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. The historian and cultural commentator Bevis Sebag has suggested, compellingly, that most of the people who bought Dobson’s pamphlet tore off the cover, placed the mezzotint in a frame and hung it on the wall of their parlour, and chucked the pamphlet itself into the bin.
This episode was recorded on the 5th April 2012. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Frank’s new eBook By Aerostat to Hooting Yard is now available for purchase.
PLAYLIST
Spaceheads – Spooky Action (at a distance)
Phobophobes – Miniature World (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – Advertise Your Life (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – No Flavour (LIVE SESSION)
Phobophobes – Bite The Apple (LIVE SESSION)
Pheromoans – Dried Out Dreams
Phobophobes – ‘interview’
Viv Albertine – The Madness Of Clouds
Feature – Twins
King Eider – Reverse Cowgirl
Yo Zushi – Moonlight
Annette Berlin – Bubblegum
ESG – Six Pack
Dog Chocolate – Some Kinda Summer (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Jonno Filling Binbags (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Everyday’s The End Of The World For Someone (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Bookmarks (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Plastic Canoe (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Emotionally Buff (LIVE SESSION)
Dog Chocolate – Roundabout (LIVE SESSION)
AK/DK – Morning Dragpipe
Dog Chocolate – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Beth Rogers
Concluding a month of shows about comics and controversy, Alex Fitch talks to Tony Bennett (Knockabout Books) and Rick Veitch about comic book censorship in a special exclusive podcast edition of Panel Borders. Tony discusses the various brushes with censorship law that he’s endured as a publisher of independent comics and Rick explores the titles he’s worked on that have attracted controversy from Miracleman to Swamp Thing. Recorded at Whitechapel Library Ideas Store as part of their Banned Books festival.
Knockabout Comics #4, Fresca Zizi by Melinda Gebbie, Miracleman #9, Swamp Thing sketch by Rick Veitch
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Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, in the programme’s 365th episode, Alex Fitch talks to James O’Barr, creator of the seminal American independent comic The Crow. Fitch and O’Barr discuss the latter’s battles with drug addiction, nearly drawing Batman for DC Comics and the long gestation of his most famous creation. Recorded in front of an audience at Bristol Comics Expo, Spring 2014. (Originally broadcast 26th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
James O’Barr in conversation with Alex Fitch (inset, art from The Crow: Curare) / covers of Dead World 10 and The Crow no.1 by O’Barr
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Various Australasian comic book creators are in London and are featured in documentary screenings for the Australia and New Zealand festival of literature and the arts taking place from 30th May – 1st June. These include:
Screening: THE SHARP EDGE – The Art of Martin Sharp (Oz magazine illustrator)
Eccentric. Outsider. Artist. Genius. Martin Sharp shaped pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century.
Friday May 30th, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Talk: GRAPHIC LIVES – Sarah Laing, Dr Mary Talbot and Evie Wyld
What does working with graphic novels to remember great lives add to the biography genre?
PLAYLIST
St. Just Vigilantes – Panzer Vs. Arrow
Ed Laurie – Wildflowers (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie – Albert (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie – Thin Line (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie and Straw Dog – Forever’s Untrue
Ed Laurie (& Paul Wassif)- ‘interview’
Dog Chocolate – Tell Too Much
Phobophobes – No Flavour
Mamman Sani – Zara Zarakoy
Orchestra du Mont Plaisant – Bull
Bunty – What We Are Here For
Spaceheads Dirty Planet
Raf and O – You Made Me (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – Saturated Dreams (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – Lady Grinning Soul (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – The Fog (LIVE SESSION)
ESG – Watching
Raf and O – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Lisa Geurts + Tom Kemp
Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Paul Collicutt about his book The Murder Mile, published by SelfMadeHero, which sets the occurrence of a murder against the spectacle of Roger Banister running the four minute mile, an event that has reached its 60th anniversary this month. Alex and Paul discuss how the book combines the latter’s interests in running and film noir and how the author used a real life event to tell a tale of organised crime and sports betting. Recorded at Cartoon County, Brighton. (Originally broadcast 19th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
Excerpt from The Murder Mile by Paul Collicutt
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Various Australasian comic book creators are in London and are featured in documentary screenings for the Australia and New Zealand festival of literature and the arts taking place at King’s College from 30th May – 1st June. These include:
Screening: THE SHARP EDGE – The Art of Martin Sharp (Oz magazine illustrator)
Eccentric. Outsider. Artist. Genius. Martin Sharp shaped pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century.
Friday May 30th, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Talk: GRAPHIC LIVES – Sarah Laing, Dr Mary Talbot and Evie Wyld
What does working with graphic novels to remember great lives add to the biography genre? Chaired by Alex Fitch (Resonance FM)
PLAYLIST
Wreckless Eric – Tell Me I’m The Only One (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Wishing My Life Away (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Depression (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – It’s A Sick Sick World (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Sarah (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – ‘interview’
Raf and O – Chasing
Ed Laurie and Straw Dog – Urban Sand
Poino – Ienod
Phobophobes – Make A Person
This Is The Kit – Nits (Hello GoodBye Show live session archive)
Rachael Dadd – Make A Sentence
Dominique Golden – Pockets (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – 10 Women On A Raft (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – Limby Thing (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – Old Cluck Hen (LIVE SESSION)
Arthur Brick – Viva La Pedestrian
Dominique Golden – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Lisa Geurts
Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, guest presenter Tom Sutcliffe talks to Nick Newman (author of Private Eye: A Cartoon History) and magazine editor Ian Hislop about memorable and controversial cartoons and strips in the fortnightly periodical. The trio discuss the history of cartoon art in Private Eye from the days of scurrilous Gerald Scarfe covers to the present day, which images have proved unacceptable and potentially libellous and how Hislop’s commissioning process for the magazine works. Recorded at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 2013 and edited by Alex Fitch. (Originally broadcast 12th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
A classic Gerald Scarfe cover from 1965 / Private Eye: A Cartoon History book cover / recent cartoon by Alexander Williams / inside spread from A Cartoon History
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A one day event, being held at the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, May 24th 2014, curated by Paul Slater, Barbara Chamberlin and Alex Fitch. Guests include Chris Riddell, David Lloyd, John Higgins, Nicola Streeten, Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Daniel Locke, Joe Decie, Neil Evans (a.k.a. Nelson Evergreen), Lawrence Elwick, Ian Williams, Paul O’Connell, Nye Wright, Hannah Eaton, Paul Collicutt and Tim Pilcher.
The day will comprise talks, panel discussions, workshops and much more, and is only a five minute walk from the sea front for a lunchtime barbeque!
