Pre-election analysis with Paul Richards, Joseph Kassman-Tod and Katharine Hibbert. Today: the campaign to date and the outsiders’ chances in the forthcoming election. Jeremy Drinkall (Anti-Capitalist, Vauxhall) is among those interviewed plus the team catch up with Anthony Barnett about his Hang ‘em campaign.
Monthly Archives: April 2010
The Voice Of Americans With Lewis Schaffer Of Nunhead 19th April 2010
This week we welcome the return of co-host Lisa Moyle from vacation and ‘go native’ with Billy Chuquai.
The Voice Of Americans With Lewis Schaffer Of Nunhead 19th April 2010 [ 0:01 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPanel Borders: The art of The Losers
Panel Borders: The art of The Losers
Edited version broadcast 29/04/10 as an episode of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM
Concluding our month long look at the crossover between comics and film, Alex Fitch interviews Jock, the main illustrator of The Losers, a 32 issue comic book series that has just been turned into an action film of the same name, based on the first half dozen issues of the comic. Alex also talks to Jock about his career so far, working on such characters as Lenny Zero and Green Arrow with writer Andy Diggle as well as illustrating the world of Judge Dredd, both in print and on the forthcoming movie written by Alex Garland.
The Losers - in print by Jock and Andy Diggle and on film
For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Links: Jock’s website
Info about The Losers on wikipedia and the IMDb
Official website
Recommended events:
Sci-Fi London 9 – Life in 2050
Starting tonight at the Apollo Piccadilly on Lower Regent Street is Sci-Fi London, the twice yearly festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic film and there are a number of comics related events I’ve organised:
60 Years of Dan Dare
A panel on 60 years of the lantern jawed space pilot -Alex Fitch will be talking to:
Garry Leach, who drew Dan’s return to print in 2000AD, ten years after the end of the original Eagle, in the late 1970s and more recently covers for Virgin comics’ revival of the ‘Pilot of the future’ in 2008.
Rian Hughes who drew the Eagle inspired comic The Science Service in 1989 and then the Mekon’s final revenge in the Thatcherite satire Dare in the adult comics Revolver and Crisis a year later.
Gary Erskine who drew Dan Dare’s most recent official comic book adventures in the Virgin Comics periodical of the same name.
John Freeman, a comics historian and writer. He previous wrote The Science Service and now writes the strip Ex Astris in the 00s Dan Dare magazine Spaceship Away and
Rod Barzilay the editor and one of the writers of Spaceship Away,
10.30am Saturday 1st May
30 years of MARVEL UK
Alex Fitch hosts a panel on the British arm of the American Superhero publisher, featuring:
Dez Skinn, a pioneering Marvel UK editor who launched titles such as Hulk Comic and Doctor Who Magazine which featured early licensed work by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons.
Dan Abnett, who gave Captain Britain a new, darker spin in the 1990s by adding him to an Arthurian team of heroes with
Gary Erskine, co-creator of the Knights of Pendragon
John Freeman, who designed many of Marvel UK’s early 90s titles such as Death’s Head II, Warheads, Killpower and Motormouth, contributing strips to several issues as well.
Simon Furman, primary writer for Marvel’s Transformers, and a dozen issues of Doctor Who magazine. He created some of Marvel UK’s most memorable SF titles including Dragon Claws and Death’s Head.
11.45 am, Saturday 1st May
Continue reading
The Steve Parry Show: Totally Biased – April 27th 2010
Writer and comedian Steve Parry reviews the week, looking at the laughable, lovable and lamentable events of the past seven days.
Also, live from LA, comedian, writer and self-help enthusiast Ed Craisnick presents a weekly LA diary and conducts a master class in how to do the perfect Woody Allen impersonation. (TV trivia fans may also be interested to know that Ed was the resident comedian at The Bada Bing Club in The Sopranos, and has also played a friend of Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm).
Ian Bone’s By-Election Special – April 28th 2010
The inimitable Ian Bone, veteran agitator and anarchist, gives the election some scrutiny. Today’s guests are Andy Meinke, editor of Freedom, the oldest British anarchist newspaper and Martin Wright of the Whitechapel Anarchist Group. http://ianbone.wordpress.com/
http://whitechapelanarchistgroup.wordpress.com/
http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/
Hollingsville: Episode 2, Media The Extensions of God
Welcome to the second episode of ‘Hollingville’. My studio guests are Russell Davies noted cultural commentator and and Resonance’s very own Richard Thomas, graciously filling in at the last minute for Gary Lachman, who is stuck in Florida, waiting for a flight back to London. Expect unscripted ruminations on the ecology of live and dead media, digital dematerialization, lo-tech art forms in a hi-tech world, on-air cricket commentary as an ambient radio event and the communications potential of village halls and four-minute podcasts.
McLuhan’s Understanding Media was subtitled ‘the Extensions of Man’; while Freud famously described man’s condition in the mechanical age as that of ‘a god with artificial limbs’. Does our newfound ubiquity in the digital regime come at a price – especially at a time when we can’t even get a plane off the ground? Specially commissioned commercial breaks are by the ‘Hollingsville’ composer in residence, Graham Massey, with ins, outs and moods by Indigo Octagon. Radio is a medium too, you know.
After visiting Mars, where next? Welcome to Hollingsville: the new twelve-part series from writer Ken Hollings. A World’s Fair of the airwaves, the shows focuses each week on a different aspect of our historical relationship with technology. From machines to monsters, spaces to dreams, this Radio Expo offers an unscripted tour through the chosen theme, utilising voices and sounds from special guests and presented by Ken Hollings with his usual idiosyncratic flair.
Ken Hollings is the author of Welcome To Mars: Fantasies of Science in the American Century 1947-1959, available from Strange Attractor Press. For more information go to http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk or http://www.kenhollings.blogspot.com
In Search Of Inspiration – April 20th 2010
Sharon Gal discusses concepts of inspiration with scientists, politicians, artists and critics.
Sharon Gal continues her search for inspiration. This week she is joined by Emma Restall Orr to discuss and explore notions and ideas relating to inspiration, its relevance and manifestation. Emma Restall Orr is one of Britain’s foremost Druids. Former joint chief of the British Druid Order, she founded the international Druid Network in 2002. She is a priest, philosopher and poet and an author of several books on Druidry and ethics. She runs courses, lectures and workshops around the world.
In Search of Inspiration – April 13th 2010
Sharon Gal discusses concepts of inspiration with scientists, politicians, artists and critics.
Sharon Gal continues her search for inspiration. This week she is joined by poet John Stammers to discuss and explore notions and ideas relating to inspiration, its relevance and manifestation.
John Stammers read philosophy at King’s College London and is an Associate of Kings’ College. His first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001 and short listed for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice. He is a creative writing tutor and freelance writer. His new book, Interior night is published by Pan Macmillan.
http://www.myspace.com/sharongalmusic
http://www.archive.org/details/BreakingVoicesSharonGal_450
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/Sharon+Gal/165.html
In Search of Inspiration – April 6th 2010
Sharon Gal discusses concepts of inspiration with scientists, politicians, artists and critics. Sharon Gal embarks on a search for inspiration. This week she is joined by vocalist and musician Maggie Nicols to discuss and explore notions and ideas relating to inspiration, its relevance and manifestation.
Maggie Nicols has been singing and performing internationally for over 40 years.
In 1968 she joined John Stevens’ Spontaneous Music Ensemble and began running vocal workshops in the early 70’s, first at the Oval House Theatre and later at community Music. She was part of Keith Tippet’s “Centipede” and together with Phil Minton and Julie Tippet formed the vocal group “Voice”.
By the late ’70s, Maggie became an active feminist and co-founded the group OVA. Not long after, she started the Feminist Improvising Group, with Lindsay Cooper. She also organized Contradictions, a women’s workshop performance group which dealt with improvisation and other modes of performance in a variety of mediums including music and dance.
Over the years, Maggie has collaborated regularly with pianist Irene Schweizer and formidable bassist Joelle Leandre, as the trio Les Diaboliques. In addition to this is her ongoing duo with Ken Hyder.
In the late 80’s she was one of the founders and became the hostess of The London’s Gathering, a space for free expression and creative collaborations which is still going strong, 20 years later.
Hooting Yard: Disfigured Nuncio
I cast an eye over my visitor. He was horribly disfigured. Indeed, for a moment I thought he must have come into my chamber straight from one of Mr Lovecraft’s purpler passages. But then I recalled that Lovecraft’s works are fictions, and that his characters have no reality independent of the page. I dabbed at my lips with a napkin and asked the nuncio to state his business.
- Disfigured Nuncio
- In Dreams
- Atoll Via ASBO
- Kiss Of The WooHooHoodiWoo Woman
- Onions, Vulgarity, and Crime
This episode was recorded on the 8th October 2009. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.