In this episode of “I’m ready for my close-up”, Alex Fitch’s guests are Bryan Talbot & Mark Wright, creator and adaptor respectively of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright… In an interview recorded at the Bristol Comics Expo, Alex talks to Bryan about his career in comics, focusing on Luther and Alice in Sunderland and in [...]

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30 minutes of music and sounds downloaded freely and legally from the internet. This week, a floaty boaty vibe. Mmmmmm.
Tracklist and links below:
1. I Came To Scoff But Stayed To Pray by K.M. Krebs, The Light Will Fill The Darkness And Obliterate It:
www.webbedhandrecords.com
2. Removing The Last Pieces by Darren McClure, Unmoored:
www.monocromatica.com
3. Kev Hopper Knows by [...]

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Dobson’s Six Lectures On Fruit were among the most highly-regarded of his works, held in an esteem that the contemporary reader finds unfathomable. Revisiting these pamphlets, it swiftly becomes apparent that Dobson has no idea what he’s talking about. The revised view of the Lectures is put best by one upstart young Dobson scholar, who [...]

 

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Recorded at this year’s Bristol international Comic Expo - Alex Fitch interviews the makers of the new Blake’s 7 internet radio series - writer Ben Aaronovitch, actor Owen Aaronovitch who plays ‘Gan’, sound designer / actor Alistair Lock who plays ‘Zen’ and producer Andrew Sewell. Originally broadcast 17th May, 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)
Links: Listen to [...]

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If you would like an alternative method of listening to and obtaining alternative music, then by George I think you might have come to the right place.
All the music and sounds and works and pieces and so on played on marvin suicide have been found, and carefully downloaded, freely and legally from the internet. Each [...]

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Join Alex Fitch and Jessica Fostekew as they review what’s coming up this month at the Curzon Cinema network.

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I stared at the cows, and the cows stared back.

They showed no sign of letting me pass. And then it dawned on me that they must have been sent as emissaries to stop me returning to the prog rock bewilderment home where Primrose tended to ghouls. The cows were trying to save me from becoming [...]

 

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Alex Fitch interviews Helen McCarthy, author of ‘Hayao Miyazaki - Master of Japanese Animation’, ‘500 Manga heroes and villains’ and co-author of ‘The Anime encyclopedia’ about the season of Japanese animated films she’s curated at the Barbican which coincides with the 90th anniversary of the medium. The season continues this month with a sold-out screening [...]

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Jeroen Tel - Golden axe
Colon Open Bracket - hunt
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Forest
EAT RABBIT - International Workers
MISTER BEEP - ONE BIT SOUND
Dispyz - We came to overtake!!!
AY Riders - Hung Up

Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and consoles and moans about [...]

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Marvin suicide plays music and sounds found on the internet that you probably won’t enjoy hearing. Don’t bother listening because its complete rubbish.
Here is the tracklisting:
1. Thank You Jesus For Making Me So Hippy by A Smile For Timbuctu, Manuale Atzeni EP:
www.audioaubergine.com
2. Saint Catherine (Idiot’s Waltz) by Molasses, Trilogie - Toil And Peaceful Life:
www.alien8recordings.com
3. Incest [...]

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