Archive for February, 2009

Six Pillars – The Iranian Funk Scene

When you hear this stuff you are transported. So much energy and such a fine example of east-west musical balance.  On hearing these tracks the mind is drawn down images of side streets throbbing with nightclubs and bright fashion, in a setting of affluence and passionate youth.  The 70′s was a culture boom of fashion, [...]

Wavelength – 2007 December 7th Christie’s Auction

Recording from a Christie’s Auction, King Street London + Georg Baselitz lecture “The Painters’ Equipment” A lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts 1987. (Audio Arts LP, recorded by William Furlong and William Archer) William English

Marvin Suicide : 183 – Chicken and Bees

It’s becoming apparent that my once furtive imagination is steadily deteriorating. I’m quite sure that in a few months time the most abstract and irrelevant thought my brain will produce is likely to be a slight variation on an actual event or factual information. Wish me luck.

The Bike Show: Bicycle Polo and No Bike Week

Bicycle polo. It’s the latest sensation that’s sweeping the nation. After an account of bicycle polo played with Hungarian counts in 1934 from Patrick Leigh Fermour’s classic Between the Woods and the Water, we travel to De Beauvoir Town to find out how the game is being played in 2009. The European Hard Court Bicycle [...]

Reality Check: Being Bruce Campbell

Reality Check: Being Bruce Campbell Originally broadcast 19/02/09 on Resonance FM as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up Alex Fitch talks to legendary ‘B’-movie actor Bruce Campbell about his new film My name is Bruce which sees the actor directing, producing and playing a fictionalised version of himself on screen. My name is [...]

Panel Borders: The work of David Baillie

Panel Borders: The work of David Baillie Originally broadcast 19/02/09 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM Continuing Indie comics month on Panel Borders: Alex Fitch talks to writer and artist David Baillie about his experiences in the comics industry. David has been self publishing comics since the beginning of the 2000s and [...]

Wavelength – 2007 November 30th The Red Suede Jacket

“The Red Suede Jacket”: Bob Hughes remembers the 1960s in Leicester. Cut into the interview is a rare track by The Farinas later to become Family, and also Country Line Special by Cyril Davies and his Rhythm and Blues All Stars (1963). The red suede jacket became a fixation for me; worn in the 1960s [...]

Le Menu Gastrophonique Ep.16

EPISODE 16 : Dry turkey, fairy lights, Champagne, Foie Gras, Oysters, family diner…..indigestion or culinary orgasm ? This is Christmas ! -Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier- http://papier.brouillon.free.fr

Marvin Suicide : 182 – Geodesic Shapes

When most are asleep, at peace with their thoughts, marvin suicide is creeping about the internet collecting trinkets for his sideboard.  Most of these keepsakes are put on display for his occasional visitors, whilst some are stored in boxes for a rainy day. Very occasionally marvin suicide will find a dark and nightmarish track heading [...]

Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art

Electric Sheep podcast: Experimental film as performance art Interviews originally broadcast as a Clear Spot, 30/10/08 and I’m ready for my close-up, 12/02/09 on www.resonancefm.com Alex Fitch talks to Tania Glyde and Kim Morgan about the films of Jeff Keen and to Wajid Yaseen about Ear Cinema and Late Noon Sun…