Interview with Yiorgis Sakellariou (Mecha Orga).
Recorded live in Denmark Street studio for Wavelength hosted by William English.
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Hooting Yard : Sextants And Astrolabes
Jean-Paul Sartre’s trilogy The Roads To Freedom has fallen out of fashion somewhat – as if that mattered – yet it remains a classic. But for a book with a bit more existentialist heft, I recommend Pebblehead’s bestselling paperback The Roads To Jaywick. That blighted, benighted, dilapidated seaside town, has of course, provided fodder for any number of potboilers, including Jaywick – West Of Clacton and The Sordid Sands Of Squalor, but Pebblehead’s is a fundamentally serious work, and there is a lot about cows in it, which is always a good thing.
The Bike Show: The Moulton Story (part two)
The concluding episode of a two-part feature on the story of Dr Alex Moulton and the reinvention of the bicycle. We pick up the story with the launch of the Moulton space frame design (pictured left) in the early eighties. Featuring interviews with eaturing interviews with Dr Alex Moulton, Shaun Moulton, Tony Hadland, Michael Woolf, Paul Villiers, George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Chris Mahon, Patrick Doocey and Mog from Brixton Cycles.
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Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape – Publishing Graphic Novels
Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape – Publishing Graphic Novels
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 04/09/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
This is a special extended podcast of the broadcast version of Alex Fitch’s talk with Dan Franklin, the head of Jonathan Cape. Alex & Dan discuss Cape’s range of ‘Classic British Graphic Novels’, their Graphic Short Story competition, their successes publishing Bryan Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and the recent reprint of The Tale of One Bad Rat and their past and future plans for printing albums of sequential art.
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Panel Borders: Jonathan Cape - Publishing Graphic Novels [ 42:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: Gilbert Shelton and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Panel Borders: Gilbert Shelton and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 02/10/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch constructs a microphone stand while Gilbert Shelton (and Groucho Marx) look on, bemused...
Alex Fitch talks to Gilbert Shelton, creator of the legendary counter culture comics The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s Cat, looking at the 40 year history of the titles. Gilbert did a brief tour of the UK with the new omnibus edition of his most famous comic and Alex caught up with him at the Groucho Club in London to chat about his career from the early days of running Rip Off Press to the latest news regarding the Freak Brothers movie…
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Panel Borders: Gilbert Shelton and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers [ 29:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadMarvin Suicide : 165 – Jeff Dion
Jeff Bridges: “Where does all this music come from?”
Celine Dion: “The internet.”
Wavelength – 2006 October 27th Mecha Orga, David Jackman, Volcano the Bear, Jack Smith, Handsome Family.
Mecha/Orga (Yiorgis Sakellariou) “from a piner”
“Flak†ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman
Volcano the Bear; Oslo Top from Volseptor recorded live 19.6.98 Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad’s soundtrack for Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures. Recorded early 1962, from the CD Jack Smith; Les Evening Gowns Damnees, Audio Artkive 01 Natalie Wood by The Handsome Family from the CD Smothered and Covered, a personal gathering of rarities including odd covers, bathroom demos and orphaned songs www.handsomefamily.com
Hooting Yard : Voodoo Pigs
I do not know who awaits me in the upper chamber, although I now know that whoever it is will half expect me to be carrying a wafer. I can use the filthiness of my gloves as an excuse for not doing so.
The Bike Show: The Moulton Story (part one)
The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical 1960s reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the way, continues to push the boundaries of cutting edge design. It has been feted by architects and designers, broken records and been taken to the hearts of its riders, the Moultoneers, many of whom consider it to be the best kept secret on two wheels. Over the next two weeks The Bike Show will cover the history of the Moulton bicycle, look towards its future and try to capture its unique spirit. Featuring interviews with Dr Alex Moulton, Shaun Moulton, Tony Hadland, Michael Woolf and a cast of Moultoneers. Image, left, shows the young Sheldon Brown on his Moulton Deluxe in 1971.
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Marvin Suicide : 164 – Whatever happened to Carpet Monster?
In this ever changing world of technology, politics, environment and so on, you can always rely on this programme to provide a stable and constant supply of mindless dirge which has been likened to “listening to the Top 40 music chart with your hands in a meat grinder”.