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Hello GoodBye Show 22 October 2011: Band of Holy Joy, Agathe Max and Trees & the Slipway

The Hello GoodBye Show enjoys a little inter-station, cross pollination this afternoon, with Mining For Gold host Johny Brown experiencing life from the other side of the control desk, performing live in session with his folk-punk outfit Band Of Holy Joy.

Also, making their live radio debut we have the psych-pop trio Trees & the Slipway. Plus a live gig recording from Agathe Max.

Band Of Holy Joy are fronted by Johny Brown and have been going – on and off – for nigh on 30 years now. They play punk infused folk music, the current (and rather scintilating) results of which, can soon be heard on their forthcoming album ‘How To Kill A Butterfly’ (released on Exotic Pylon Records on 28th October)

Plus, refracted through the psychedelic environs of Tamworth and Liverpool, then heading down to London when right and ready, the trio of Matthew Lees (Vocals, keyboard and guitar), Joss Cope (Vocals and bass) and Stephen Wood (Vocals, guitar) formed TREES AND THE SLIPWAY. They play guitar/Casio comedown anthems for the dispossessed, Kraut-y stompers for the still-flying, and in between, songs about mad kings and more earth(l)y things… all shot through with the outsider micro-cubed raga-pop sensibility that you will come to know and love…

Violinist Agathe Max uses loops and distortion to create densely layered ambient music which is at one moment delicate and orchestral, and the next visceral abstract noise. Agathe was in the UK from her native Lyon for two shows recently and on today’s show we bring you a live recording from her performance at XOYO.

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Track listing:
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Pushing Too Hard
Band Of Holy Joy – The Observers Book Of Birds Eggs (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – On The Ground Where John Wesley Walked (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – Oh What A Thing This Heart Of Man (LIVE SESSION)
Misty In Roots – Bail Out
Band Of Holy Joy – Interview
Agathe Max – Live at XOYO
Agathe Max – Interview
Eternal Tapestry – Cosmic Dream
Trees And The Slipway – Crash Pad Sister (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – Sunday Morning Come Down Song (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – Spaced Out Day (LIVE SESSION)
Trees And The Slipway – 20 Years Ago (LIVE SESSION)
Benjamin Shaw – Somewhere Over The M6
Trees And The Slipway – Interview

Engineers: Kacper Zienianin & Joe Oldfield.
Live sound at XOYO: Thom Hollands

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Hooting Yard: A Dislike of Inappropriate Buttons

On Easter Sundays and other Christian festivals the pointyhead detectives experimented with divan-arrangements somewhere between orderly and chaotic. They had never been able to settle upon an optimum disposition, for they were only too aware that some crimes were best solved with the divans lined up in a row, or in a stellar pattern, while other crimes were cracked when the divans were arranged haphazardly. The one thing they all agreed upon was the effectiveness of their cerebral approach, as pointyhead detectives, reclining upon divans, smoking their pipes, looking to the untrained eye as if they were half-asleep and lost in lassitude.

This episode was recorded on the 10th March 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 Storiesand Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

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Panel Borders: Peckham Invalids and The Thrill Electric

Panel Borders: Peckham Invalids and The Thrill Electric

Concluding this month’s series of shows about new British comics, Alex Fitch talks to the creators of a pair of new Edwardian set comics that mix classic comic book ideas with old and new storytelling techniques. Howard Hardiman discusses The Peckham House for Invalids, a new comic he’s written, illustrated by Julia Scheele and Sarah Gordon that features disabled homeless children with superpowers. Howard and Alex also talk about the return of the author’s beloved anthropomorphic title Badger, in a new zine / illustrated novella format and his recent experiences at art school.
Plus, in a pair of interviews recorded at the MCM Expo, Alex talks to Leah Moore, John Reppion and Emma Vieceli about their web comic, The Thrill Electric, which started this week on Channel 4?s website and tells the tale of sexual politics gang violence and the arrival of the telegraph in turn of the century Manchester.

The Peckham House for Invalids issue 1 by Howard Hardiman, Julia Scheele and Sarah Gordon / The Thrill Electric by Leah Moore and John Reppion - issue 2 art by Emma Vieceli and Windflower Studios

The Peckham House for Invalids issue 1 by Howard Hardiman, Julia Scheele and Sarah Gordon / The Thrill Electric by Leah Moore and John Reppion - issue 2 art by Emma Vieceli and Windflower Studios

For more info and a variety of formats you can stream or listen to this podcast in, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: The Thrill Electric website
Leah Moore and John Reppion’s website
Emma Vieceli’s website

The Peckham House for Invalids website
Buy Howard Hardiman’s other comics: Badger and The Lengths
Julia Scheele’s website
Sarah Gordon’s website

Recommended event:

Nobrow anthology launch

On Thursday November 3rd at the impossibly fashionable bar Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, the pubishers of Luke Pearson’s books Nowbrow press will be launching their new anthology from 6.30pm.

More info: www.comicafestival.com

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Electric Sheep Podcast: Wicker Man / Buried Land

Electric Sheep Podcast: Wicker Man / Buried Land

In this special Halloween themed episode of the Electric Sheep Magazine podcast, Alex Fitch talks to three directors who have made films about man’s relationship with the land.
At this year’s Frightfest, Robin Hardy discusses his classic horror film The Wicker Man and its new, belated thematic sequel The Wicker Tree, a pair of films about fertility and terrifying pagan rites, while Larry Fessenden talks about his eco-themed monster movies No Telling, Wendigo and The Last Winter. Also, in a Q and A recorded at the East End Film Festival, Alex interviews Steven Eastwood, co-director of Buried Land, a ‘mockumentary’ / docudrama about the real-life discovery in a small town in Bosnia of an ancient, buried pyramid which may reinvent mankind’s knowledge of pre-Christian architecture and empire building, but in the short term has changed the fortunes of people in the area.

Figures in a landscape: The Wicker Tree, The Last Winter, Buried Land

Figures in a landscape: The Wicker Tree, The Last Winter, Buried Land

For more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

In association with

Links: Official Buried land, The Last Winter and The Wicker Tree websites

Electric Sheep Magazine reviews of The Last Winter, The Wicker Tree and the songs of The Wicker Man

Info about the Buried Land screening at the East End Film Festival

Recommended events:

Mike and Laura Allred signing

At Orbital Comics on Great Newport Street in London, on Sunday 29th October, Mike and Laura Allred will be doing a signing of their work, including the pop art classics Madman and X-Statics

5pm, 29th October, Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street

Nobrow anthology launch

On Thursday November 3rd at the impossibly fashionable bar Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, the pubishers of Luke Pearson’s books Nowbrow press will be launching their new anthology from 6.30pm.

More info: www.comicafestival.com

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Technical Difficulties 2:26

Tom Pollard from Mind, leading mental health charity and a member of the Disability Benefits Consortium, joined us to discuss the Welfare Reform Bill – which will reshape the benefits system in this country. The DBC is a coalition of disability organisations pushing for a better path to the future of benefits.

The audio at the start of the programme is a script written by the DBC and delivered by Kaliya Franklin at the Hardest Hit march in Manchester and recorded by Graeme Lamb

Join the discussion on Google + , Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

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Wavelength – Ian Breakwell and Kevin Coyne

Friday 12th February sees the opening of an exhibition “The Elusive State of Happiness” a retrospective of the works of Ian Breakwell (1943-2005) at the Quad Gallery, Derby. A fellow student of Breakwell’s at Derby College of Art was Kevin Coyne (1944-2004) (as was artist Andrew Greaves). In 1977-79 Breakwell and Coyne made a film together called The Institution. Reading of an unpublished letter from Ian Breakwell to a former teacher asking for a job circa 1970. Poem; The Ape Age by Coyne from a catalogue for their first show after leaving Art School. Tracks from Marjory Razorblade by Kevin Coyne, originally released in 1973 and reissued in 2010 with previously unreleased material: Marjory Razorblade, Marlene, Talking to No One, Do Not Shout at Me Father and Marjory Razorblade Suite live at Hyde Park 1974.

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Frieze 2011 Clear Spot #2

Bik Van der Pol‘s Frieze Project, a ‘live’ literary scoreboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A panel discussion with Gasworks Director Alessio Antoniolli , Camden Arts Centre Exhibitions Programmer Anne-Marie Watson, Director of The Museum of Everything Jeremy Brett and Alex Deyzac, Gallery Assistant at Mica Gallery. Chaired by Fari Bradley the discussion points range from the physical space of the Frieze to the misconceptions that have naturally grown up around the Frieze itself. Originally broadcast in October 2011 from Resonance104.4FM studios in London.

Thanks to Sabine Schereck for the vox pops.

 

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Art Car Boot Fair

YBA Bob and Roberta Smith with Resfm manager Chris Weaver

A fantastically sunny day at the Truman Bewery.

Interviews with YBA Gavin Turk, fashion designer and musician Pam Hogg, the Disabled Avant Garde and their petting puppy, renegade art gallery and art publishers Trolley Books, the enigmatic Mark Wydler from The Treatment Rooms, Paul Biddle artist, 8 foot tall Satan, the wry and ingenious Emotional Baggage Handling Service, graffiti artist Miss Led, writer Anouchka Grose, Carter Presents and others for a Resonancefm piece on this year’s fantastic fair. This podcast also featuring a few excerpts of Pam Hogg’s latest CD plus an abundance of stereo ambiance. Originally broadcast in summer 2008

Peruse the rest of the day’s photos on Facebook. Art Car Boot Fair website.

 

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Book list: Romance, thrillers and real life crime

Book list: Romance, thrillers and real life crime

A new, hour-long, monthly show about authors, publishers and readers; in this first episode of Book List, Alex Fitch talks to Fiona Harper, author of Mills and Boon titles: Swept Off Her Stilettos, Three Weddings and a Baby, and Blind Dates and Other Disasters and to thriller writer John Rickards (a.k.a. Sean Cregan) about his new novel The Razor Gate.
Also in an extract from a presentation of his book at Westminster Library, Ed Hillyer (a.k.a Ilya) talks about his novel The Clay Dreaming, which retells the true story of the traffic of felons and kidnapped aborigines between England and Australia in Regency and Victorian London.

Covers of books by Fiona Harper, Ed Hillyer and Sean Cregan / John Rickards

Covers of books by Fiona Harper, Ed Hillyer and Sean Cregan / John Rickards

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other formats you can download / stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: John Rickards‘ blog – www.namelesshorror.com
Buy Sean Cregan books: The Levels and The Razor Gate from Hodder Headline

www.myriadeditions.com
Ed Hillyer page on wikipedia.com

Fiona Harper‘s website
Author’s page at www.millsandboon.co.uk

Listen to Ed Hillyer’s uncut talk about The Clay Dreaming at Westminster Library

Recommended events:

Mike and Laura Allred signing

At Orbital Comics on Great Newport Street in London, on Sunday 29th October, Mike and Laura Allred will be doing a signing of their work, including the pop art classics Madman and X-Statics

5pm, 29th October, Orbital Comics, 8 Great Newport Street

Nobrow anthology launch

On Thursday November 3rd at the impossibly fashionable bar Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Rd, Shoreditch, the pubishers of Luke Pearson’s books Nowbrow press will be launching their new anthology from 6.30pm.

More info: www.comicafestival.com

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Hooting Yard: The Tiny-Headed Boy.

As dawn breaks, up the slope of the hill toils the village wolfman, with his bucket of slaughtered squirrels and hamsters and mice, food for the wolf. He empties the bucket at the foot of the old rugged cross and while the wolf gobbles down its breakfast, he strides in his wolfman’s boots to the rill, and dips the bucket in, collecting water for the wolf. When the wolf has eaten its fill and slurped up all the water it wants from the bucket, back down the hill goes the wolfman, having first given a few tugs to the tether, to test its strength.

This episode was recorded on the 24th February 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 Storiesand Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

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