It feels unsafe… Has the second series of Epistaxis Time come to a premature end? Yes, probably. This show wasn’t submitted with the usual accompaniment of feverish text and ingredient listings, and I am loath to supply bullet-pointed provisional song titles for fear of error. Conspiracy theories abound that our host was ‘pretending to die’, and was in fact recruited by Sainsbury’s secret Trolley Reclaimant Squad for his deep understanding of the Mandelbrot chaos that comprises local trolley displacement and the logic of it all. We don’t know!
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Square Sausage: Stewart Lee Interview
An extract from Resonance FM’s series “The Square Sausage” in which Richard Thomas interviews British stand-up comedian and theater director Stewart Lee. Stew talks about his latest project “Talk Radio”, his previous project “Jerry Springer the Opera”, and his personal Fringe highlights.
Hooting Yard: Surgeon’s Biscuit
Some people think Surgeon’s Biscuit is the name of a town near Kakadamm. Others believe it is an old parlour game popular in the boarding houses of seaside resorts during the 1930s. There are those who suspect it to be the name of a racehorse, or perhaps a racing pigeon, or some other bird or beast of swiftness. Surgeon’s Biscuit is, of course, none of these things. It is simply a biscuit that belonged to a surgeon.
But what a biscuit! And what a surgeon! As biscuits go, it was the finest specimen the surgeon had ever seen. Two thirds of the way down a perfectly ordinary-looking packet of digestive crumblies, there it nestled, a numinous, almost golden thing, some quirk in its baking making it unutterably different from its fellows in the batch. He remembered when he first handled it. He was not a man to transfer his newly-purchased biscuits into a so-called “biscuit tin” or similar container. He ate them straight from the packet, as he had been brought up to do by his rough, tough parents in their rough, tough hovel, who can never have expected little Vladimir to grow up to become an important surgeon.
- A note to our Chinese listeners
- Google.dbsn ( This exciting new search engine can be found on the Hooting Yard Web Page)
- Blotzmann’s Compartment Controversy
- Vox Pop: A Pang Hill Orphan Speaks
- Tiny Little Hands, Decisive Moustachios
- Another Vlasto (Vlasto Cuddy)
- Surgeon’s Biscuit
- Fifty Years Ago (Dobson on the Radio)
This episode was recorded on 1st Febuary 2006.
Cyber Chutney Arse Duck: Part 2
This is the Cyber Chutney Arse Duck Show, and you are listening to the Cyber Chutney Arse Duck Show. This is a show specifically designed for some person who might be walking down a country lane, at 3 in the morning listening to this show…
Part 2 delivers a brief yet highly enjoyable 7 minutes and 20 seconds of a song about a bandstand which interestingly includes a reference to the Sally-Anne Marching Barmy Army Band, and an insight into the mind of a person that thinks they are an egg. Additional material contributed by Marrow and Kaptain Rok.
e-mail: Poo Lord
Harmon e. Phraisyar: A Whiplashin’ Myth
This satirical edition takes a second swipe at “Kaffy”, previous winner of Awards For Idiots, portraying her as the host of a self-promoting infomercial. “Kaffy” tells the listeners what to do with their violins and invites some decidedly biased journalists to review her improvisation CDs, or, in her words, her “product”.
And speaking of product, “Awards For Idiots” is one of the episodes available on the Resonance Radio Collection CD of the Harmon e. Phraisyar Show, at the Resonance FM Shop!
Radio Gallery number 6: Propaganda
Authors: Jeremy Deller and Alex Farquharson
www.radiogallery.org
Broadcast date: August 7, 2006
PROPAGANDA
This exhibition explores the uses of the radio as a tool for propaganda during times of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ war. It begins in World War II with a compilation of German and Italian propaganda aimed at British and American troops and civilians (featuring, for example, Lord Haw-Haw (hanged for treason in 1946) and Ezra Pound). After this historical, archival introduction, the programme becomes live, eavesdropping on what’s being said on clandestine radio stations around the world while the exhibition is on air. To do this we will gather speakers of several languages (Farsi, Arabic, Mandarin, Korean and Spanish) in the Resonance FM studio to deliver simultaneous translations of broadcasts coming from states at war with (or regarded as a threat of to) America, Britain and their allies, e.g. Iran, Iraq, Syria, North Korea, China and Cuba. Resonance FM, for the hour of the ‘exhibition’, will devour the content of other radio stations across continents, producing radio from intercontinental radio.
Marvin Suicide: 80 – My Nan could have your Nan.
Below is the tracklist for the latest show. Its got some big hitters along with some tiny little sh*tters. I really enjoyed it. It is/was show 80 and was broadcast on 6th August 2006.
1. Pain Go Away by DaFluke, Bad Timing EP:
www.archipel.cc
2. Can’t Shake by Chenard Walcker, Archisex:
www.freesamplezone.org
3. Mouldy Old Electro by Cokernut Pigeon, Auraloffalwaffle Compilation:
www.brainwashed.com
4. Hello Dolly by Louis Armstrong:
www.jazzpromo.com
5. The Cock Looks Red by ANIMAL, Cock E.S.P. – Hurts So Good (The Painful Remixes) Compilation:
www.brainwashed.com
6. Discopathology by Noise/Girl, Discopathology:
www.brainwashed.com
7. Fix Up, Look Sharp by Dizzee Rascal, Boy In Da Corner:
www.matadorrecords.com
That is all for now. Bye.
Epistaxis Time – Slurgle
You’re in for an anti-treat! This Epistaxis thrusts us into a beautiful plush environment of slurgles, polythene oysters bearing mucous pearls, a trolley quivering in an alleyway, crazed metal and meat agape. Feel loneliness.
Oil fat is mixed with Nivea Visage Q10 plus (the world’s favourite anti-wrinkle cream) bubbling wildly, then fed into EM coils which induce an electrified shopping basket to resonate and tease out standing waves within the grille to dispense their periodicity and sonic cum. This eventually caves in to a rather disorientating tale of one agoraphobe’s mental preparations to hurl a bit of toilet roll into a record store (full of socially adept twats).
Lovely soothing stuff, and especially encouraging if you’re a gentle person in a horrid testosteroney world (BTW, I implore you to bathe in oestrogenised sequins with purple daffodils) coming to terms with steel, glass, concrete, etc.
Red Zero Radio: Dan Hekate
As part of the “HEKATENYEARS” all night sessions, back in June ’06, we featured the dirty, twisted, abrasive bass heavy sonics of electro kid Dan Hekate. His ‘Wireism’ mix was one of many excellent sets from that night. Check out their website for more from this unique european sound system :hekate sound system
I’m ready for my close-up: Digital post-production in TV and the cinema
Welcome to the first podcast of “I’m ready for my close-up”. The show goes out on Resonance every Thursday at 10.30pm and is presented alternately by Alex Fitch & Richard Thomas with occasional guest presenters. “I’m ready…” is about the world of film, TV and other broadcast media and comprises interviews, reviews and interaction with film-makers, artists, writers and critics.
In this installment: Alex Fitch talks to Richard Comline who works in digital post-production. Richard works at a ‘post house’ in Wardour Street and has worked on feature films, adverts, television and low budget shorts; they discusses the nature of his work and the world of modern digital manipulation.
Links: Wikipedia entry on compositing
Richard’s IMDb page / online gallery
Originally broadcast 23rd Febuary 2006 (24.4mb)