Monthly Archives: March 2011

Hooting Yard: Dobson’s Abortive Pliny

Now, imagine the scene. It was shortly after breakfast time on a cold and storm-tossed morning in the 1950s at the home of the twentieth century’s most magnificent pamphleteer. Dobson had eaten his bloaters. Marigold Chew had something eggy. They were still sitting at their breakfast table. Outside, hailstones were pinging.

“Marigold, o my darling dear,” boomed Dobson, “I have devised a marvellous plan! Listen carefully. You often comment upon what you consider to be my breathtaking ignorance of the natural world. And though I usually swat away your charges, as a giant may swat away a dwarf, I have, this day, found within myself a reservoir of humility, and I must admit there is a certain truth in what you say.”

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Six Pillars – Pearls on the Ocean Floor

This Torture
Why should we tell you our love stories
when you spill them together like blood in the dirt?

Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor,
…or a fire we can’t see,
but how does saying that
push us through the top of the head into
the light above the head?

Love is not
an iron pot, so this boiling energy
won’t help.

Soul, heart, self.

Beyond and within those
is one saying,
How long before
I’m free of this torture!

(by Hafez, C14th)

American director Robert Adanto visits the UK while making his new film. Pearls on the Ocean Floor is a documentary looking at Iranian women artists, born both before and after the revolution, inside and outside of Iran. The narrative is made up of images by the featured artists and other female Iranian artists, and the women speaking to the camera, which affords the film a certain honesty and directness.

The film is screening at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square with a panel discussion on March 7th 2011, 7-9pm, all welcome.

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Chips For The Poor Episode 1: Fistula

5 March 2011

First there was The Monkees living the d:rEam, then S Club 7 kem along like sun drenched squat-totzzers in yur haunted fishtank.

…Now in the year 20:11, the bronco-saw-arse wireless has been turned over like a dirty duvet to the sounds and minds of the rat burger shifty twitchers CHIPS FOR THE POOR.

We catapult your breadbox into the freshly turned over patio-OH-OH so switch hard to resonancefm.com at 10:30pm.

Episode 1 > Fistula
CFTP fly to Chicago next week and ahead of their appearance on kids’ TV show Chic-a-go-go! must record a lyrically clean version of their hit Fistula to mime to on the show.

Hear them play it live nine times back-to-back for 30 minutes with a live remix/reinterpretation/deterioration in the studio by James III.

Track listing:

Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula
Fistula (space version)
Fistula (double time)

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Hello GoodBye Show 26 February 2011: Design A Wave, Gerry Mitchell and Flame Proof Moth

Performing live in session on HG today we had Design A Wave, Flame Proof Moth and Gerry Mitchell.

Taking time off as keyboardist in the mighty Faust meets Sparks mash-up that is Cleckhuddersfax, Tom Hirst performs intense, hypnotic electro music as Design-A-Wave, all warm analogue synths and reverb vocals. Design-A-Wave sounds like what the future used to sound like, when it was still mysterious and magical, before it became the present and then the past.

Flame Proof Moth is Tim Siddall’s new project following the retirement of The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience. Whereas BCCE set out to save the world after over-dosing on Resonance FM’s Max Keiser (The Truth About Markets), FPM is just trying to enjoy what little time we have left. Despite the seemingly left-field nature of his new album Women Should Be In Charge, Flame Proof Moth is convinced he’s ready for a brush with the mainstream. Hard-talking managers should apply to flameproofmoth@gmail.com.

Also, our resident poet Gerry Mitchell phones up to recite his – hot off the back of a fag packet – epic poem entitled; ‘The Empire Of My Heart’.

Track List:

This Heat – SPQR
Design A Wave – ‘Medley’ (LIVE SESSION)
Nought – Wet Sex Anesthetic
Design A Wave – Interview
Cove – Show Me Your Nature
Baaneex – Jumpin’ Chinese Restaurant
Gerry Mitchell – The Empire Of My Heart (LIVE TELEPHONE LINK)
Dear Puppeteer – The Magician’s Assistant (Episode 8 – Outtake)
The Monochrome Set – Alphaville (HG Archive)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Knock Knock Knock
Flame Proof Moth – Retail Opera (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Thomas Rymer (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Song Commissioned By Dept. Of Energy & Climate Change (LIVE SESSION)
Flame Proof Moth – Women Should Be In Charge (LIVE SESSION)
The Magic Lantern – The Bridge
The Outshine Family – Seven Tongues Tasting The Night
Flame Proof Moth – Interview

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Six Pillars – The .Com Father

On a visit to the UK, the founder of the largest website for Iranians in the world, Iranian.com visits the studio. Jahanshah Javid devotes his life to the website, known for its user generated content, and the catch-phrase ‘nothing is sacred’. Here the interview moves into other topics with interviewer Fari Bradley playing devil’s advocate on certain issues to scuffle up a debate.

After all, that’s what comment led content is about these days….

This show was originally aired on 104.4FM in February 2010

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Technical Difficulties 2:4

Dolly Sen helms the Technical Difficulties ship through mental waters as the Skipper takes a rest. Transcript to come. More about Dolly at www.dollysen.com

Join the discussion on Google + , Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

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Panel Borders: The art of Glen Baxter

Panel Borders: The art of Glen Baxter

Starting a months of shows about Newspaper Comics, Alex Fitch talks to artist and writer Glen Baxter about his work from entering the world of self publishing in the 1970s to building an international audience via gallery shows in the 1980s and his first graphic novel – The Billiard Table Murders – in 1990, which has just entered preliminary preproduction as an animated film. Alex and Glen talk about the latter’s current exhibition, running at Flowers Gallery in Cork Street until March 5th and why he doesn’t like to be called a ‘cartoonist’…

Prints by Glen Baxter on display in Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, March 2011

Prints by Glen Baxter on display in Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, March 2011

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

The Hepworths might be slowing us down by Glen Baxter

The Hepworths might be slowing us down by Glen Baxter, on display in Cork Street, London, Spring 2011

Links: Wikipedia and Comic House pages on Glen Baxter
Flowers Gallery website
Review of Baxter’s second graphic novel Loomings over the Suet in The Observer
Buy Speech with Humans, Loomings Over the Suet, Trundling Grunts and Blizzards of Tweed from amazon.co.uk

Recommended events:

Glen Baxter: Immured in Hessian, exhibition on Cork Street

Beloved British newspaper cartoonist Glen Baxter has a new exhibition in London of his inimical one panel gags of whimsy and surrealism.
Flowers Central Gallery, 21 Cork Street London W1S 3LZ
8th Feb – 3rd March 2011
More info at: www.flowersgalleries.com and www.glenbaxter.com

London Comic and Small Press Expo March 12th, 2011

“The capital’s Bohemian comic show” brings you “all the best that the Indie, Small Press and Web Comix world has to offer.” – David Hine and Shaky Kane will be talking about their work and exhibitors include Yuri Kore, Timothy Winchester, David O’Connell, Sarah McIntyre, Hugh Raine, Luke Pearson, Edward Ross, Rob Jackson, Dan Berry, Douglas Noble and many more…

Goldsmiths University, New Cross, London
March 12, 2011- 10am to 5pm – more info: www.thefallenangel.co.uk

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Wavelength – Nothing

NOTHING. The Nothingists was a group created at the end of 1919 in Moscow echoing the internationalisation of the Dada movement although they didn’t use that word because in Russian Dada means “yes yes” contradicting their nihilism. They stopped all activity in 1923; Manifesto From Nothingism 1920, and Decree About the Nothingists of The Poetry 1920, both from CDs accompanying the book Baku: Symphony of Sirens.

A Colour named Nothing by Contraption 37 from A Consonant Vowel, anthology of audio art and sound poetry recorded in 1988.
3’34” by Pavel Buchler; transparent vinyl single lasting 3’34” and issued in an edition of 334 copies; compilation of unrecorded parts and transitions between tracks of 10 John Cage records from the collection of Pavel Buchler, 2006.
Perhaps the ultimate Nothingness record was produced by Yves Klein in 1959 with the LP Prince of Space which is entirely silent; the only sound being the contact between the stylus and the vinyl record, unlike Buchler’s record which is a recording of stylus meeting vinyl and therefore a recording unlike Klein’s which is actually an object… but this leads to comparing silence with nothingness and as apparently there is no such thing as silence I’ll get on with the next track:
Nothing by The Fugs from The Fugs First Album ESP 1965.
Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra from The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1 ESP 1965.

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