Concluding our month of shows looking at non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to auctioneer Lon Allen of Heritage comics and collectables in Texas, the company that last week began the auction of the Billy Wright collection of 300 comics including the first Batman, Superman and Marvel Comics from the 1930s and the sale has raised nearly 3.5 million dollars so far. Also, Alex talks to stand-up comedian Rob Deb, to Lik + Neon gift shop owner Janice Taylor about stocking small press comics on Brick Lane in London and to Paul Harrison, a Doctor of Egyptian Archeology, who is giving a talk on representations of Egyptian culture in superhero comics next Thursday, 1st March, at The Petrie Museum, University College London.
Action and Marvel Comics sold by Heritage Collectables, Ibis the Invincible, Rob Deb and Zines and Comics at Lik + Neon
News just in that weedy versifier Dennis Beerpint has been appointed Poet In Residence at Beppo Lamont’s Travelling Big Top Circus. Chief among his duties is to write a life in verse of the circus strongman, Lars Tax, also known as The Mighty Lars. So strong is Mr Tax that he has been known to hoist o’er his head a container lorry cram-packed with smithys’ anvils while pulling a concert hall across a field with his teeth. For the duration of his residency, our fey poet has been billeted in Lars Tax’s caravan, a flimsy construction of balsa wood and straw regularly subject to ruinous damage when the strongman engages in such mundane activities as yawning or combing his hair. By more or less imprisoning him with his subject, it is hoped that Beerpint will dash off a vivid “Life” fairly quickly, after which he can concentrate on other Big Top topics, including clowns and bears and trapeze artists and lions.
On this week’s show, we are joined by Lisa J. Ellwood, Disability and Mental Health campaigner to cast light into the relationship between out-of-work benefits, employment and sanctions and the rise of ‘workfare’ in the UK. More from her can be found at www.thecreativecrip.com and on Twitter .
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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.
Omar Kholeif discusses his feature on western appropriation of art from the Arab world entitled Arabic Agendas and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art discussing his feature Out of this world.
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Mucky Sailor have set sail from Leeds, and navigated the length of the M1 to be with us today. The 2 man three piece, they set their synthesisers, vocals and drums to extremely high distortion. We loved their split EP with the late, lamented Poltergroom from last year (not least because it came with a free pencil) and spun their side Requiem for Sports Car on the show a few times last year. Their upcoming album Early Lad (slated for release in January 2037, according to their website) also displays their musical virtuosity and ability to peck from different genres especially in the orchestrated “Albatross, Silly Albatross” which features full brass section and micro dub breakdown two thirds of the way through.
And we are very excited to hear they will be bringing their own, bespoke musical ship’s wheel! — 8 tunable oscillators are played in sequence when you spin the wheel! We love a band who bring a visual element to their radio session.
And this is I Love Resonance FM week — the long and short of it is that Resonance needs £30k and quick to feed the monkeys that power the transmitter. So we want you to show your love in the only gesture that really counts in this harsh world, yes, that’s giving money! But not money for nothing — there are on air auctions all week, so listen in and bid!
We – as last year – on the Hello GoodBye Show are selling off a show minute by minute at a rate of just £10 each! Use the time to promote your band/cause/political views/small business/megaglobal corporation. Email auction@resonancefm.com with the subject header “e5? and buy time on the Resonance airwaves. Last year we sold all 90 minutes and a bit more (we went over into the next week’s show) making just over £900 for Resonance FM, let’s see if we can beat that this year!
Track List:
BØREDØM – Lap Dance of Rats
Mucky Sailor – Harbingers of Taste (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – I Wanna Be Fat (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Reverse Scrumping (LIVE SESSION)
Hookworms – I Have Some Business Out West
Godsy – The Canyon Shadows Cry
Female Band – One Day The Sea Will Swallow Me
O-Arc – Hope (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – ‘Interview’
The Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – Belles of Beefy (aka Beefy Belles) (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – VN00001-20110803-1300 (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Trans Pennine Express (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – ITV Player
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin, Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp
A Blang Records special on Hello GoodBye today, featuring live music from: Sergeant Buzfuz & Slate Islands.
Joe Murphy fronts the band Sergeant Buzfuz who hail from all over these islands but are based in South London. April 9th 2012 will see the release of the 5th Buzfuz LP: “Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself” (Blang Records) in which he chronicles the first fourteen centuries of the history of the papacy. This project all began when Joe tried telling a potted history of the papacy within the confines of a 5 minute pop(e) song, he eventually stopped when the song clocked up a full 7 minutes (and had only just reached the end of the first millennium!) The first half of the new album is loosely rooted in the traditional folk/pop song style, while the second half becomes a more experimental mix of post-punk, dub, ambient and improv.
Sergeant Buzfuz will be performing “Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself” as a one-man show for sixteen nights at the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe in August 2012.
In 2002 Joe became the first person outside the US to promote Anti-Folk when he started his monthly Blang nights at London’s 12 Bar Club featuring many acts from NYC. These nights became a focal point for the nascent London Anti-Folk community and sparked the formation of the Blang record label (which Joe co-runs with JJ Crash). Antifolk is modern folk music with an emphasis on story-telling. Other Blang acts include Thomas Truax and David Cronenberg’s Wife.
While the members of the contemporary, Celtic folk-noir group Slate Islands are currently based in South London, they all originally hail from far further afield (their lead singer Polly MacLean grew up on a small island in the Inner Hebrides.) Their songs grow in the gaps between places: Scotland and England, the island and the mainland, the country and the city, past and present, reality and fantasy.
Track List:
Johnny Dankworth his Orchestra & Guests – Serjeant Buzfuz
Sergeant Buzfuz – Hole In The Wall (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Gregory XII Vs. Benedict XIII (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Benedictus The Fake (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Council Of Pisa (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Unholy Trinity (LIVE SESSION)
Piney Gir – Miss Havisham
Sergeant Buzfuz – ’Interview’
Jack Day – I Have Been Conveyed
Binko Swink – Body Naked
Bleak House – Oil Burner
Keshco – Like Home
Mucky Sailor – Albatross, Silly Albatross
Thomas Truax – February What ya Doin To Me
Slate Islands – Iron Brew (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – Small Hours (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – The Poison Cup Of Love (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – The Rules Of Engagement (LIVE SESSION)
Spike Milligan – On the Ning Nang Nong
Slate Islands – ’Interview’
Uriah Heep – Bird Of Prey
Live sound engineers: Leanna Bower, Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield
Panel Borders: Movies, toys and graphic design with Alex Cox and James Jarvis
Continuing our month of shows looking at the work of people who aren’t known for their involvement in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to film director Alex Cox and celebrated toy designer James Jarvis on the importance of comics to their work.
Alex and Alex talk about the prehistory of his classic film Repo Man as a comic book, why its proposed sequel Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday was turned into a graphic novel and the influence of Dick Tracy on Death and the Compass. Alex and James talk about the latter’s first graphic novel De Profundis and how the style and narratives of comics have influenced his Amos Toys designs and work in general.
(Originally broadcast 12/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM / The second half of Alex’s interview with Alex Cox continues in this month’s Electric Sheep Magazine podcast)
Repo Man booklet + comic by Alex Cox / World of Pain + De Profundis by James Jarvis
It is not known how much money Dobson received for his poptart puffery. The records show that, although the swans-and-pebbles-related fine was paid in full, his gas supply was cut off on St Creak’s Day of that year, and not reinstated until the first day of Vice President Nixon’s visit to Venezuela, as recounted in Six Crises (1962).
