Archive for January, 2012



Sine Of The Times 14.01.2012

The cutting edge of London bass culture, hosted by Rita Maia. For the first show of the new year, she’s playing all the releases from December that were missed out on due to Resonance FM’s holiday closure, plus a whole bunch more slated for the coming months, tracks from Hotflush and Deep Medi. It’s an [...]

Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon

Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon A Q and A recorded at Bar Music Hall in East London as part of Comica Festival, 2010, Paul Gravett talks to Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about her semi-autobiographical graphic novel Dance by the light of the moon, published in the UK [...]

Wavelength – Musics in the Margins

Musik Oblik; latest addition to the musics in the margins series by sub rosa. Anthology of outsider music with tracks by Adolf Wolfli, Carlo Gesualdo, Othin Spake, Klaus Beyer, Normand L’Amour, Jacques Brodier, Baudouin de Jaer, Baudouin Oosterlynck and the Wild Classical Music Ensemble.

The Art of Improvisation

Cousins Adib (UK) and Mehdi Rostami (Iran) take the closeness of their family ties into the realm of improvisation, where trust and understanding between musicians is paramount to success. Prior to a London performance we talk to them in the studio about the preparatory process for an improvising musician, the instruments they play – the [...]

Panel Borders: Colliers War

Panel Borders: Collier’s War Continuing our month of shows on biography and autobiography, Alex Fitch talks to Canadian cartoonist David Collier about his work, from his Collier’s self published comics to graphic novels such as Chimo released by Conundrum Press and various titles distributed by Drawn and Quarterly. Alex and David also talk about the [...]

Clear Spot: The Pirates of Carthage

A play by UK based artist Daniel Kelly about the Arab Spring in Tunisia, as the story unravelled on Twitter. It is composed of Twitter messages from the weeks up to the deposition of President Ben Ali, which occurred a year ago this Saturday. The play reflects a personal discovery of the story of the [...]

Hello GoodBye Show: Best Sessions of 2011

Hello! We had a great year on the Hello GoodBye Show in 2011, with over 70 live performances on the show. This epic podcast compiles all the best tracks of the year, including performances from Mekons, The Monochrome Set, Jad Fair, Comus, Serafina Steer, Sexton Ming and more, plus a couple of tracks previously unbroadcast. [...]

Technical Difficulties 3:1

Discussion about the #spartacusreport, published earlier this week by disability activists, largely ignored by the broadcast and print media but trending no. 1 on Twitter for most of the launch day. We will be joined by one of the report’s co-authors Kaliya Franklin, and I hope you can join the discussion on Google + , Facebook and Twitter . [...]

Wavelength – Malcolm McLaren part 2

Tribute to Malcolm McLaren part 2: Malcolm told me once that he particularly liked Billy Fury so the show starts with a Billy Fury hit written by Goffin and King: Halfway to Paradise, 1961. Walking with Satie and Paris Paris from the CD Paris, 1994, the second track features Catherine Deneuve singing with Malcolm. More [...]

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation

Electric Sheep Podcast: Cult animation Alex Fitch talks to a pair of directors of innovative short animated films; to Oscar winner (2011 co-director Short Animated film) Shaun Tan about the adaptation of his acclaimed picture book The Lost Thing and to web animator Jonti Picking about his cult animated series Weebl and Bob as well [...]