For too many years to count I travelled the world visiting bottomless viper-pits. I studied them, sketched them, photographed them, and wrote up lengthy and detailed descriptions of each and every one. My patience is almost inhuman, and it needed to be, because sooner or later some well-meaning numbskull would ask, in relation to this [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Hooting Yard: How I Plunged Into the Bottomless Viper-Pit of Gaar
Published by March 29th, 2006 in Hooting Yard. 0 CommentsMidnight Sex Talk: The Decline of the Gay Bar
Published by March 21st, 2006 in Midnight Sex Talk. 0 CommentsMidnight Sex Talk – Decline of the Gay Bar? Back in the 1990s, gay bars and clubs were the places to be. Everyone there seemed to be partying faster and harder, and more attractively, than anyone else. But everything’s changed a bit since then. What we’re asking this week is: have hook-up sites like Gaydar [...]
Midnight Sex Talk: Porn versus Erotica
Published by March 21st, 2006 in Midnight Sex Talk. 4 CommentsMidnight Sex Talk – Porn Versus Erotica Vintage Midnight Sex Talk! This is your second chance to hear one of our earliest shows, Porn versus Erotica. With guests Robert Posner and Lou Errington, we tease out the similarities between these two supposedly dissimilar concepts. And watch out for the hand-selected worst porn movie titles ever. [...]
“In spite of the fact that he had fed his scribblings into the fire, the mere act of writing the words sport and sports two or three times sent Dobson whirling off on a new track. It was a morning of torrential rain, as usual, but Dobson donned a mackintosh and stomped out of the [...]
Hooting Yard: The Rules of the Game
Published by March 15th, 2006 in Hooting Yard and Uncategorized. 1 CommentLittle is known of the origins of football, a game which is today one of the most popular sports throughout the Northern Lands. According to De Smet [see The Punnet, Vol XVI No.9], football began when tribal elders in the hinterland around Hoon took to mucking about after the annual ritual ostrich-battering. Thumper, on the [...]
This live session of Ardisson was first heard live on Magz Hall’s You Are hear Show on Resonance 104.4 FM on Jan 16th 2006. “Ardisson is none other than the one man beat smith and breaks maniac, Charles Matthews. A master at getting the audience revved up and ultimately hooked on butt crunching bass and [...]
Out fifth podcast in the mighty Rhythm Incursions podcast series is another live mix session, this time from New York’s DJ Olive. In September last year, Olive was over to play The Barbican in London with Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. While he was in town we hooked up, and at super short notice (about [...]
This live session of This is the Kit was first heard live on Magz Hall’s You Are hear Show on Resonance 104.4 FM on Jan 9th 2006. This is the Kit is Kate Stables who hails from Winchester (England) currently living in Paris. She is also in several other bands including Whalebone Polly and Morningstar [...]
Taking a more restrained spin this month redZEROradio explores the dark, shrouded & reverberant textures of the Whispering Minority. This mix has input from some crafty underground figures on the London beatz scene. Track listing Where do I come from? – The Whispering Minority Document 3.3 – Performing Wrongs Society Statefunded digital experiments – Binary [...]
Hooting Yard: The Book of Gnats (re-loaded)
Published by March 7th, 2006 in highlights and Hooting Yard. 2 CommentsSo was a tempest loosed upon the city, and its very fabric uprooted from the mud. Whirling and howling, the city was dispersed upon the firmament, coming to rest none knew where. And the mud spawned all manner of noisome pests, squirming and wriggling to escape the gigantic puddles which were left in the wake [...]