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I’m ready for my close-up: 2000AD …and now

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the venerable British periodical 2000AD, Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch present the second of two programmes about the popular comic book anthology. Tonight’s guest is Matt Smith, the current editor who talks about the present and future of the comic… (mp3 format, 27.2mb)

Links: 2000AD Online
Wikipedia pages on 2000AD and Matt Smith
Stream audio adventures of Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd from bbc.co.uk
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide: 110 – Kill me now.

Win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for more information on how to win.

This would have been a nice 40 minutes of hypnotic noise if it weren’t for the atrocious mixing. Please find below the tracklist for this episode along with links to where all the songs were freely and legally downloaded:

1. Night by Martin Schulte, Mono EP:
www.therathole.alfamoon.com

2. Reactor3 by Marko Furstenberg, Classics:
thinner.cc

3. Café Abyss by Killahertz, Café Abyss:
www.fragmentmusic.net

4. Ecrous by Nuthre, Vis de Mechanique:
www.panospria.com

5. Waiting Rooms by Ekkohaus, NoBudget&NoGadget EP:
www.after-dinner.net

6. I am…you! (Someone Else Remix) by Fusiphorn, You Am I EP:
www.foundsoundrecords.com

7. Rangoon by Starch Boy, Pesto Pasta EP:
www.textone.org

8. Steps For Kids by Lazzich, Just Seen Nights:
www.fragmentmusic.net

This episode was broadcast on the 1st March 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

8-Bit Adventures: Episode 1

Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and consoles and moans about work. 30 minutes of bleeps from the worlds best 8-bit musicians.

  • Produced and recorded by Richard Clark-Hill.

    See www.kittenrock.co.uk for info.

    First broadcast Thursday 11th January 2007.

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Hooting Yard: When Is The Feast Day Of St. Mungo?

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  • A Poem
  • An Abandoned Zoo
  • Bilgegrew’s Bible

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 15th November 2006. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Meatshield.

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I’m ready for my close-up: 2000AD – Then…

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the venerable British comic book 2000AD, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott present the first of two programmes about the popular anthology. This week’s guest is Pat Mills, the founder and original editor of the comic who has written such great strips as Judge Dredd, Sláine, Nemesis the Warlock and A.B.C. Warriors.

Links: 2000AD Online
Wikipedia pages on 2000AD and Pat Mills

N.B./ Downloads are now housed at www.archive.com, so click on the link for more info on this show.

I’m ready for my close-up: The Current state of Silent cinema

Continuing our spurious anniversary month, tonight’s show coincidently coincided with the 8oth anniversary of the release of Hitchcock’s film ‘The Lodger’, so, to celebrate: having teased you with excerpts of our interview with Matthew Sweet – the writer and presenter of Silent Britain and Shepperton Babylon – for the past two weeks, “I’m ready for my close-up” is proud to podcast Alex Fitch’s full interview with him on the subject of silent movies.
If you’re wondering whether the title of tonight’s show is a contradiction in terms… Well, you’ll just have to tune in to find out!

Links: BFI page on ‘Silent Britain’
Matthew’s episode of Back Row on Radio 4
Article by Matthew on the late Ernest Dudley
Transcript of BBC Four interview with Matthew
Wikipedia page on Hitchcock’s ‘The Lodger’

N.B./ I’m ready… podcasts are now housed at archive.org, so click on the link for more info on this show.

Marvin Suicide: Wot no wang?

Win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for more information on how to win.

Once upon a time in a land far far away, lived a little boy. Over the years the little boy grew and grew until one day, he realised that he’d lost all his fun. “I must have dropped it somewhere” he thought. No matter how hard he looked, it would never be found again:

1. I Sniff Within Because I’m Stuck by Batfinks, Peach Route EP:
www.hippocamp.net

2. Grave Robber by Catgut:
www.catgutmusic.com
Catgut submission by Dave

3. 16 Great Turn Ons by John Armleder, Audio By Visual Artists Compilation:
www.ubu.com

4. Kurtis Remixxx:
www.c8.com

5. Yankaswirl by Big City Orchestra, Boom Crash Crash:
www.comfortstand.com

6. So Much To Say by GAF, Sinergy Drones Compilation:
www.sinergy-networks.com

This episode was broadcast on the 22nd February 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Hooting Yard: Graveyard Poets Of Pointy Town

Imagine you are in Ancient Greece, taking a stroll on Mount Parnassus. One of the Gods of Greek mythology suddenly appears in front of you. Imagine too that you are not of a placid and thoughtful nature (as I am sure you are) but a temperamental hothead prone to violence.

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Surprised by the sudden appearance of a Deity – it does not matter which one – your first instinct is to lash out in terror and alarm. You sock the God on its jaw, cutting its lip. Now, it is not blood which flows from the wound, but ichor, a colourless ethereal fluid which ran through the veins of all the Greek Gods. If you are of a vampiric bent, be sure not to suck the ichor oozing from the God’s cut lip, for though it confers immortality on the Deities, it will be ruinous to you as a mere human, for it will poison you.

  • Untitled Work In Progress
  • A Refutation Of Some Of The Less Plausible Claims Made by Dennis Cargpan In His Woeful Lecture Delivered From The Balcony Of The Civil Hall At Bodger’s Spinney On Thursday Last During A Hailstorm To A Gathering Of Ingrates And Orphans
  • Fictional Substance Of The Week
  • A Series Of Unfortunate Cows
  • A story featuring Tony Buzan

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 8th November 2006. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Steve Crane.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Scoring silent movies

It’s the one year anniversary of “I’m ready for my close-up“, so to celebrate the occasion we have a couple of shows about the birth of cinema and how it is still relevant and appreciated today.
In the first show, Alex Fitch is talking to Alex Hogg from the band Minima who are touring the country with a print of the 1928 film ‘The Seashell and the Clergyman’ written by Antonin Artaud. The film was infamously banned on first release in this country with the BBFC quoted as saying: “This film is so obscure as to have no apparent meaning. If there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable“.
Minima provide a terrific new soundtrack to the film and there will be extracts in tonight’s show which concludes with the start of an interview with Matthew Sweet, author of Silent Britain and Shepperton Babylon, and this will be continued in the next installment.

Links: Info about tonight’s performance at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol
Watch excerpts of The Seashell… with music performed by Minima
Watch the 30 min silent version of The Seashell… on youtube
Minima’s myspace page which has info on forthcoming performances
IMDb page on ‘The Seashell & the Clergyman’
Wikipedia page on Artaud
Director Germaine Dulac’s battle for authorship

Originally broadcast 1st February 2007 (mp3 format, 27mb)