Reality Check: Worlds of Wonder at the British Library
In a panel discussion entitled “Worlds of Wonder?”, recorded at the British Library as part of their events season to support the exhibition ‘Out of this World’, authors Neil Gaiman and Peter F. Hamilton, scientist Rachel Armstrong and critics Kari Sperring and Farah Mendlesohn (chair) discuss the current state of science fiction around the world and its relationship with the latest advances in science fact.
Farah Mendlesohn, Neil Gaiman, Rachel Armstrong, Peter F. Hamilton, and Kari Sperring at The British Library. Photo by Marjorie Taylor
Continuing our month of shows about genre, it’s a science fiction double feature as Alex Fitch chats to author Neil Gaiman about examples of SF in his work such as Doctor Who, American Gods, Babylon 5 and Sandman: Endless Nights. Plus, in an extract from a talk at the British Library, Neil discusses his experiences of the genre around the world from China to Tasmania.
Images from Sandman: Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman and Miguelanxo Prado
The monthly meeting Laydeez Do Comics links up again with Comica Festival to present special guests from Canada, the USA and Germany. Sarah Leavitt launches Tangles, her graphic memoir of her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, published by Jonathan Cape. MK Czerwiec, aka ‘Comic Nurse’, presents her unique medical comics and cartoons from a nurse’s perspective. German guests Mawil and Uli Oesterle discuss their careers and latest albums translated into English courtesy of Blank Slate.
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Where: The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage St, London E1 5LJ
When: Monday, November 21, 2011 – 6.30pm to 9.30pm Continue reading →
Tim Abbott talks to Peter Tan, a disability rights advocate in Malaysia about his experiences of becoming and being disabled, and ‘islands of accessibility’ in a sea of life.
FIRE! from Good Morning Vietnam, recorded in Vietnam by Claude Johner (Folkways 1972); Bang Bang by Vanilla Fudge (1967); Pistol Poem by Brion Gysin from lunapark 0.10; Shoot Out by Playgroup, Epic Sound Battles (On-U 1983); Machine Gun Fighting by David Jackman (Die Stadt DS29); Ultra Q from Ground-Zero plays Standards and another track from Good Morning Vietnam: The Abstract Universe of War.
As usual we have an exciting show planned this weekend; with live music on offer from the Joe Meek produced, 60s chart-toppers The Honeycombs, plus the original Punk poet Patrik Fitzgerald and as if that wasn’t already mouthwatering enough, we also have a pre-recorded interview and live concert recording from the West Coast psychedelic duo Date Palms.
THE HONEYCOMBS
The Honeycombs’ 1964 debut single Have I The Right? was one of just three singles to be produced by Joe Meek in his flat-cum-studio on Holloway Road which hit the UK number 1 spot (the others being John Layton’s Johnny Remember me and Telstar by the Tornados). Today on the show, a new line-up put together by founding member, guitarist Martin Murray, will play live in session. Expect reminiscences of Joe and his legendary studio by the first Hello GoodBye Show guests to be genuine chart-toppers.
PATRIK FITZGERALD
Acoustic punk troubadour fondly remembered for songs such as “Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart” and “Backstreet Boys”, independent releases which led to a short-lived deal with Polydor in 1979. His early records were short, sharp and sarcastic slices of life bashed out on a battered guitar and for an artist who never sold huge numbers of records, the extent of Patrik’s influence is remarkable – recent years have seen the completion of both a feature-length documentary film and a tribute album. He also has a new album in the pipeline entitled Subliminal Alienation to be released next year.
DATE PALMS
Based in California, Date Palms is a project of classically educated avant-garde musicians Gregg Kowalski and Marielle Jakobsons. Their latest LP Honey Devash on Mexican Summer records, is comprised of two, side long compositions, which take influences from classical Indian music, psychedelia, spaced out jazz, Krautrock and their California home. The lush, ambient soundscapes are fashioned from a wide array wires and boxes, which recalls the method of those founding fathers of electro the Silver Apples. Today we broadcast a recording from their concert this week at Cafe Oto.
Sergeant Buzfuz – God To Holloway
Patrik Fitzgerald – Company Bus (LIVE SESSION)
Patrik Fitzgerald – Dance Music, Late Nights (LIVE SESSION)
Patrik Fitzgerald – Gifts & Telegrams (LIVE SESSION)
Patrik Fitzgerald – Pop Star, Pop Star (LIVE SESSION)
Patrik Fitzgerald – Inside Me There Is Nothing (LIVE SESSION)
Attila The Stockbroker – Looters
Patrik Fitzgerald – ‘Interview’
Date Palms – ‘Interview’
Date Palms – Of Psalms (LIVE from Cafe Oto, 10.11.11)
Date Palms – Honey Dune (LIVE from Cafe Oto, 10.11.11)
The Honeycombs – Walk In The Room (LIVE SESSION)
The Honeycombs – Solid Gold (LIVE SESSION)
The Honeycombs – This Too Shall Pass Away (LIVE SESSION)
The Honeycombs – Have I The Right? (LIVE SESSION)
Joe Meek – Telstar 1st Stage Demo
The Honeycombs – ‘Interview’
Engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Zienianin & Joe Oldfield
Live sound at Cafe Oto: Antoine Bertin, thanks to Tom Relleen and Cafe Oto.
Hello GoodBye 12 November 2011: Patrik FitzGerald, Date Palms and The Honeycombs[ 1:29:56 ]Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This weekly programme is dedicated to film music, TV music, library music and related recordings, and is hosted by Jonny Trunk. Each week The OST Show welcomes a guest (a collector, composer, director, artist) or specialises in a specific film music genre or composer. Today Jonny is proud to be able to play the first ever full recording of Les Baxter’s score to The Man With X Ray Eyes. A mixture of exotics, oddness and bizarre instrumentation, this superb sci fi horror score for Corman’s 1963 classic (also known simply as “X”) is well worth the 48 year wait. He also has an unreleased Schifrin score but you’ll have to tune in to hear all about it!
The cutting edge of London’s underground dance music scene with Thomas Lee and Rita Maia.
All up in your grills this week:
Dntel – Anywhere Anyone (Pearson Sound Beatless Reduction)
Memotone- Four Minute Hallway Ft Leafcutter John
Idiot Savant-Self Reliance
Milyoo – Games
Vissionist – Cuba
Two Inch Punch Up in your mix
King Midas Sound – Goodbye Girl (Kuedo Rework)
Circle Traps- Fjord (Damu remix)
T. Williams – Analog Tour
Brenmar – Temperature Rising
Mosca -Jager
Gerry Read – All By Myself
Lee Jones – Duvel (Midland Remix)
Darling Farah -Division
Daphni – Ahora
Deadbeat – First Quarter (SCB edit)
Bok Bok & Tom Trago – Vector
Mike Huckaby – The Tresor Track
Delta Funktionen – Torpor
Seaside Houz Boyz – From a mans Journal
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But what of Chamfer Ticktape himself? How did he paint, in swathes of brightly-coloured emulsion, the hideous countenance of the deckhand, without himself succumbing to gibbering, and to insanity? For years, the noted Royal Academician has refused to speak of his painting, referring all enquiries to his PR toady, a master of obfuscatory fol-de-rol. At various times, this slippery fellow has hinted either that the artist was blindfolded as he painted, or that his brain was protected by a mysterious carapace, or that he prepared a “painting-by-numbers” grid and directed the execution from behind a screen, his assistants then being carted off one by one to the very same grim bleak windswept granite asylum, perched on the hillside, where they are kept in a separate wing, also locked, in which they gibber insanely while sucking on wafers. Not one of these tales is likely to be true. Some say the deckhand is a self-portrait of the painter, but how could that be? Chamfer Ticktape is a man-about-town, sweeping in and out of fashionable restaurants and nightspots, in cape and muffler, pursued by paparazzi, and he does not leave in his wake a trail of the gibbering and insane.
This week at the best Polish Deli in London we get a delicious mixture of Polish new folk, jazz, and experimental music by artists involved in Lifem Festival in London (Kapela ze Wsi Warszawa), Audio Art Festival in Krakow (Zenial) and Festival of Jazz and Experimental music from Poland taking place in London (Oles Duo, Piotr Kurek).
Panel Borders: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes
Continuing our month of shows about genre in comics, Alex Fitch talks to creators of small press and mainstream cowboy comics. Alex talks to veteran comics writer John Ostrander about his classic serialised graphic novel The Kents featuring the history of Superman’s great grandparents in 19th century Kansas and their encounters with the Luthers of the time, which is being re-released in three ‘100 page giants’ this winter. Alex and John also talk about Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes, Grimjack and his unrealized Doctor Who audio western.
Also in an interview recorded at this year’s Bristol Small Press Expo, Tim Keable and Andrew Cheverton talk about their ongoing comic West, which has recently included horror tropes and guest artists plus their future plans for the title and its graphic novel collections.
The Kents and Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes by John Ostrander / West - Justice and The Confederate Dead by Andrew Cheverton and Tim Keable
This year’s week long Thought Bubble festival, part of the Leeds International Film Festival, starts on 14th November 2011, with comic related screenings each day. From Wednesday 16th – Friday 18th there is also a three day academic conference called Comics Forum.
On Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th, there is a traditional comics convention at the Royal Armouries with additional talks, activities and workshops at Saviles Hall.
Panel Borders events:
Saturday 19th, 1pm, Alex Fitch will be hosting a Q and A on stage with Tim Sale (Heroes, Batman: The Long Halloween, Spiderman: Blue) about his work.
Sunday 20th, 2pm, Alex Fitch will be hosting a panel about the Image Comics Sci-Fi Noir Elephantmen with writer Richard Starkings and artist Boo Cook. Continue reading →
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