Bob Parks and The Recreationals live at Raven Row Gallery, Artillery Lane, London. As part of the exhibition curated by Ed Baxter at Raven Row: Gone with the Wind; Max Eastley, Takehisa Kosugi and Walter Marchetti and broadcasts from the gallery by Resonance 104.4fm, Wavelength became Ravelength for the duration of the show. This week’s guest was Bob Parks and his band playing live followed by an interview with Bob whose diverse career moves include Leicester Art College, The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), The Gong Show, extra in New York New York by Scorsese, Auctioneer’s assistant and much more. Since 1991 Bob has worked as a Host at the South Bank and the 6 piece band The Recreationals also work as Hosts at the same venue.
Category Archives: Shows
OST 15.09.2012 – Summer Special
Soundtracks, library music and other assorted jollies with Jonny Trunk.
After a ‘well-earned’ summer break (that’s what it says here), Jonny returns with a 2 hour beats of a show examining the awesome releases of the Olympic summer. He also uses the word ‘chillax’ for which he will be disciplined later.
Headphones on…
Hooting Yard: Art Squad!
Obviously I am going to have to ascertain the precise nature of the Poultry Guidance Bureau’s business before I can make a proper fist of the Art Squad. It might be, for example, that our art will consist simply of beautifully-painted directional pointing devices, designed to appeal to the optic nerves of poultry, in which case I will just need to gather about me a bunch of sign-painters. On the other hand, we may need a team of actors to facilitate role-playing exercises for traumatised hens as part of the counselling service. Or, if the Bureau is indeed mainly for human benefit, then an oompah band playing stirring anthems might be more appropriate, although having just written that I can’t think why.
- Two Dinners
- In Which Mr. key Contemplates Moving To North Korea
- Art Squad
- Letter from Mr. Nick Wilsdon Relating to Art Squad Goings On
- Guns Before Butter
- Camp Dabbler
This episode was recorded on the 20th of October 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke and Brute Beauty And Valour And Act Oh Air Pride Plume Here Buckle! are available for purchase
Panel Borders: Inhumanity and darkness in literature
Panel Borders: Inhumanity and darkness in literature
Continuing our month of shows about comics and literature, Alex Fitch talks to a trio of graphic novelists about adapting classic 19th century novels as sequential art. In a panel discussion recorded at Comica Comiket in 2011, David Hine and Mark Stafford discuss their adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Man who Laughs, a tale that has already cast a long shadow over comics, as the lead character Gwynplaine was supposedly an influence on the creation of The Joker. Also, fine artist Catherine Anyango discusses her visual approach to her 2010 adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, best known as the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, which sees her intricate pencilling style married with both text from the original novel and also Conrad’s The Congo Diary. (Originally broadcast 17/02/13 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Cover of The Man who Laughs / sketch of Gwynplaine by Mark Stafford / interior art and cover of Heart of Darkness by Catherine Anyango
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness adapted by David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango is available now from SelfMadeHero / Victor Hugo’s The Man who Laughs adapted by David Hine and Mark Stafford is released in April 2013.
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: SelfMadeHero’s website, including pages on Heart of Darkness and The Man who Laughs
Websites: David Hine / Mark Stafford / Catherine Anyango
Recommended events:
The Hulk by David Lloyd
Resonance FM is currently running its annual fundraiser to help pay for the station’s continuing programme of refurbishments. As well as variety of film and music related items in the auction, comic books and graphic novels include a hardcover omnibus of Marvel Superheroes Secret Wars which includes a unique sketch of The Hulk by David Lloyd, a 1st edition UK TPB of Watchmen including a sketch by John Higgins and framed signed comics by Gail Simone, Dave Gibbons, Jonathan Ross, Frazer Irving and many more. Please visit resonancefm.com for more info.
Hello GoodBye – 16.02.13 – Pay-As-You-Go Resonance FM fundraiser
Resonance FM’s fundraising drive continued this afternoon with The Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show, where contributors purchased prime-time FM airtime at the rate of £10 per minute, helping to raise over £900 for the greatest radio station in the world.
deXter Bentley would like to thank everyone involved for their generous support!
PLAYLIST:
Dog Chocolate – Hello Goodbye Show (x 2)
St. Just Vigilantes – Cola Noir
Hendrik Huthoff – Evil Baby
J. Temperance – Go Away
J. Temperance – Tell You What
Teta Mona – Love
Ross Blake – House of Miracles
Settles Street Band – New Life
Alex Hamilton – Arches and Seizures
Steve Rushton aka The Excremental Poet – Toilet Collector
Skinjobs – Cargo Cult Parade (Triple Condensed Version)
Roguish Stranger – Sophie Sunshine
Being 747 – Make Things Happen
Jail – I Got You
Rob Cryer – Paddy McGee
Blindside – Femme Fatale
Chris Wallbank and the Cowards – The Living Daylights
Bradbury’s Breme Egg – Pipex Dream
Ace Face – Something About You
Milk Kan – Bedders Stop Drinking White Ace
Corporal Machine And The Bombers – The Days Of White Lightning
Lucy’s Diary – The Party Line
David Cronenbergs Wife – You Should Have Closed The Curtains
Polly McClean – Missing
Dirty Viv – 60ft Snake
Unit – Resonance Rocks Out
Robin The Fog – All Cow No Poke
Presenters: deXter Bentley & Dan Frost
Wavelength – Ravelength from Raven Row
Dieter Roth: Die R adio Sonate, The R adio Sonata. The original LP was published in 1978 by Lebeer-Hossmann, Brussels and Hamburg and edition Hansjorg Mayer in a signed edition of 300. In 1995 Diter Roth produced a signed and numbered CD edition of 100 which vanished in mysterious circumstances. For this he rewrote two texts added a few words and fitted them to the CD format.
Polish Deli 10 2 2013
More Polish art and music presented by Kacper Ziemianin.
In this episode:
11 Kinoteka Polish Film Festival
The link seems to be broken so here is the original link if the player doesn’t work:
http://ia701503.us.archive.org/28/items/PolishDeli1022013/Polish%20Deli%2010%202%202013.mp3
OST 26.02.2011 Andy Partridge of XTC
Film soundtracks, library music and tank top appreciation with Jonny Trunk.
Back in 2011 the OST Show travelled to Swindon to meet the great Andy Partridge. Here’s how it went.
Panel Borders: The Amazing Adventures of Fraction and Chabon
Panel Borders: The Amazing Adventures of Fraction and Chabon
Continuing a month of shows looking at the connections between sequential art and literature, Alex Fitch talks to writers Matt Fraction and Michael Chabon about their friendship, reading experiences outside of graphic novels and mutual love of comics. Matt Fraction is an award winning writer who has become one of the most important contributors to Marvel’s range of superhero comics, with runs on Iron Fist, Thor and Iron Man under his belt, his new assignment is the continuing adventures of The Fantastic Four and their extended family. Fraction also has indie credentials from his ongoing European style spy series Casanova. Michael Chabon is the Pulitizer Prize winning author of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, a chronicle of the comic book industry in the middle decades of the 20th Century, which he continued in the pages of the comic book series The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, that saw the author write his first comic book script, plus the publication of Will Eisner’s final story to feature The Spirit.
(Originally broadcast in an edited form on Resonance 104.4 FM (London), 10/02/13
Covers of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay / …of The Escapist by Michael Chabon, Casanova / Fantastic Four / FF by Matt Fraction et al.
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Michael Chabon‘s website
Info about The Escapist on www.darkhorse.com
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Michael Chabon about his novel Telegraph Avenue
Matt Fraction‘s website
Info about Matt Fraction’s work on comicvine.com
Kieron Gillen’s podcast interview with Fraction Continue reading
Panel Borders: The Amazing Adventures of Fraction and Chabon [ 49:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadHello GoodBye – 09.02.13 – Ft: Pepe Belmonte + The Balloons
Live music on Hello GoodBye; with absurdest-rock trio The Balloons and folk-blues troubador Pepe Belmonte.
CJ Proud, Dave Swift and Rik Irvine have been breathing new life into The Balloons for the best part of last four decades.. Slapped senseful by Beefheart, Devo, Henry Cow and Led Zeppelin, The Balloons remain dark and cheery purveyors of juddery, shuddery, jittery, jottery, abstract rockery!
Having grown up in rural south west Ireland, it is hardly surprising to find that Pepe Belmonte has a taste for Irish folk music as well as for old blues and traditional folk. With his distinctive vocal, guitar and harmonica style Pepe’s sensitive songwriting has a strong sense of imagery, melody, rhythm and rhyme.
PLAYLIST
Olivia Chaney – Swimming In The Longest River
Pepe Belmonte – Blues Before Sunrise (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – Mountain With A Moving Peak (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – Foolish (LIVE SESSION)
Pepe Belmonte – America (LIVE SESSION)
Declan Q. Kelly – Eat Them Hawk
Brigid Power Ryce – She Moved Through The Fair
Pepe Belmonte – ‘interview’
Jack Cheshire – Copenhagen
Fireworks Night – The Gold Leaves
Serafina Steer – Machine Room
Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters – The Tackro
Sleaford Mods – Right Back To You
The Balloons – Virus Morality (LIVE SESSION)
The Balloons – Where’s Willey Flatts? (LIVE SESSION)
The Balloons – ‘improvised piece’ (LIVE SESSION)
Toys – Tally Ho
The Balloons – ‘interview’
Presenter: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp