Archive for April, 2007

Marvin Suicide: 118 – Half penny for your thoughts?

WARNING This episode of marvin suicide contains rude and naughty words. If you are easily offended or would prefer not to hear bad language please do not listen. But please tune in next week though, it will be much more grown up… Here is the tracklisting with links to where all the songs were freely [...]

Hooting Yard: Ruritanian Princedom

“Hearken ye, stooped mendicant at my gate! I am Good King Wenceslas, and I am looking out, and I can see you, poor and shivering in your rags, for the snow is deep and crisp and even. There are not even any tracks in the frozen white expanse, such as would be made by wolves [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of Sci-Fi movies

Alex Fitch interviews Louis Savvy, organiser of Sci-Fi London, the capital’s annual science fiction and fantasy festival about this year’s event. Sci-Fi London is held from the 3rd to the 6th of May and this year features such films as Recon 2022: The Mezzo incident and Plane Dead (a.k.a. Flight of the living dead), documentaries [...]

Hooting Yard: Interrogated By Interrogators

The out-of-print pamphleteer had a deep and abiding reluctance to pay for gas, and often considered living somewhere powered entirely by electricity, or the wind or the sun, or indeed existing without being dependent upon any source of energy whatsoever. But, as Marigold Chew has noted, rail as Dobson might, he was drawn inexorably to [...]

Marvin Suicide: 117 – Happy Shopper Orange Squash.

More of the same really. Just the usual high-brow selection of free things found on the internet. Why not quaff some port and eat continental cheeses whilst listening. Here is the tracklist: 1. Cover Mouth by Millicent, Blue Break: www.hippocamp.net 2. Sniff Snuff by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP: www.catgutmusic.com 3. Qilko by Ceptual, Shifts Personal: [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: “How gay is the screen” part 2

Following the conclusion of this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Alex Fitch interviews director Malcolm Ingram about his documentary Small Town Gay Bar and then talks to Inigo Andersson (a film night and club promoter) and Michael Hall (a video shop manager) who are helping to encourage access to gay film-making the rest [...]

Marvin Suicide: 116 – Xylophones rule dude.

This weeks episode is 50% jazz stylings. Thats the only interesting thing I have to say about this episode. Its all freely and legally downloaded from the internet. Thats quite interesting I suppose. Here is the tracklist with links to where all the musics were found: 1. Joga/Alligator Boogaloo by Greg Osby: www.gregosby.com 2. Ultraroy [...]

Hooting Yard: Crapwing

One day, after a huge breakfast, Ignapfando had a total eclipse of the heart, just like that songstress whose name escapes me. He did not look as if it was happening. Indeed to the untrained eye Ignapfando looked as if he was asleep, rather than in the throes of convulsive emotional turmoil accompanied by strident [...]

the heard world 47: bedroom band days

the bedroom band days are here…in a way they never started? i have to stress that you people listen to this show with headphones, preferably in a quiet room…maybe while in bed? this episode was recorded using stereo microphones in order to catch the acoustic properties of the room in which the audio un-crimes herein [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: “Shoot, shoot, shoot!” – the films of the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Richard Thomas presents a show on the work of experimental film-makers Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait who explore(d) nuances of the landscape when captured on film… Originally broadcast 5th April 2007 (mp3 format, 28.1mb) Links: Chris Welsby’s website Lux Online biography on Margaret Tait Article on the London Film-makers’ co-op Lux Online article on landscape [...]