Monthly Archives: February 2012

WOW Festival Preview

Joined by a group of dynamic women all well versed in the constant debate around gender and society, Fari Bradley discusses the pending take over of London’s Southbank Centre for WOW Festival 2012, marking International Women’s Day.

Guests are writer Hannah Pool, best known for her column “The New Black” in The Guardian and co-programmer of WOW, Lynne Parker, founder of Funny Women – one of One Hundred Unseen Powerful Women ‘who change the world’ for her outstanding work in the arts, Rachel Millward founder of Bird’s Eye View an organisation that work to help the mere 7% of all filmmakers who are women, plus Domino Pateman Arts Co-ordinator and Artistic Director Jude Kelly’s assistant on special projects.

We went last year on the winding March Across the Bridge with Annie Lennox, heard women with positions in Afghanistan’s government as well as many other groups explain their work and their situation. The warmth and urgency of the massively diverse crowd has stayed with us. This is the second WOW festival, aiming to put women fully at the centre of public life.

Listen to ResonanceFM’s podcast from last year HERE.

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Electric Sheep Podcast: Making films interactive

Electric Sheep Podcast: Making films interactive

In a pair of interviews about innovations in film-making, Alex Fitch talks to two directors who have embraced new technology. Alex talks to Alex Cox about Repo Man, computer generated backgrounds its sequel Repo Chic(k), interactive cinema and using CGI in the rerelease of his western Straight to Hell. Alex also talks to Julian Napier, director of Madame Butterfly 3D, a new film of the Royal Opera House’s production of Puccini’s classic tale, how filming the opera using 3D cameras makes the cinema presentation a more immersive experience.

Repo Man film poster and Blu-Ray cover, Repo Chick and Madame Butterfly 3D posters

Repo Man film poster and Blu-Ray cover, Repo Chick and Madame Butterfly 3D posters

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Listen to Alex’s additional interview with Alex Cox about his work in comic books, including the other Repo sequel Waldo’s Hawaiian Holdiay

Links: Alex Cox’s website
Masters of Cinema page on Repo Man
Buy Cox films from www.microcinemadvd.com
Watch the trailer for Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday
Official Madame Butterfly 3D and Carmen 3D websites
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Technical Difficulties – Switchover Special

Do you receive disability benefits or are you over 75 years old, read on…

TV is switching to digital all over the UK and the traditional TV signal is being switched off area by area. Everyone needs to be ready for the switchover or you will lose TV channels.

If you have 5 channels or fewer on any TV in your home, you will need to convert it to digital.

We spoke to the regional co-ordinator of the Switchover Help Scheme for London, Samantha Latouche for more.

 

The Switchover Help Scheme can be contacted at 0800 40 87654 or online at www.helpscheme.co.uk wherein you can also apply for help.

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Panel Borders: Buying and celebrating comics

Panel Borders: Buying and celebrating comics

Concluding our month of shows looking at non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to auctioneer Lon Allen of Heritage comics and collectables in Texas, the company that last week began the auction of the Billy Wright collection of 300 comics including the first Batman, Superman and Marvel Comics from the 1930s and the sale has raised nearly 3.5 million dollars so far. Also, Alex talks to stand-up comedian Rob Deb, to Lik + Neon gift shop owner Janice Taylor about stocking small press comics on Brick Lane in London and to Paul Harrison, a Doctor of Egyptian Archeology, who is giving a talk on representations of Egyptian culture in superhero comics next Thursday, 1st March, at The Petrie Museum, University College London.

Action and Marvel Comics sold by Heritage Collectables, Ibis the Invincible, Rob Deb and Zines and Comics at Lik + Neon

Action and Marvel Comics sold by Heritage Collectables, Ibis the Invincible, Rob Deb and Zines and Comics at Lik + Neon

Originally broadcast 26/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

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Links: More info about Heritage comics and collectables
Rob Deb’s facebook events page
Lik + Neon website
UCL museums events
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Art Saves Lives: Series 2 (Episode 4)

This week’s show features resident poet in the house Jazz Man John, artist Annalouise Oakland, poet Claudine Franks with music from Oli Bennett and Henry Darke of band The Only Pictures.
Produced and presented by Dean Stalham

http://artsaveslives.co.uk/

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Hooting Yard: Notes and Queries.

News just in that weedy versifier Dennis Beerpint has been appointed Poet In Residence at Beppo Lamont’s Travelling Big Top Circus. Chief among his duties is to write a life in verse of the circus strongman, Lars Tax, also known as The Mighty Lars. So strong is Mr Tax that he has been known to hoist o’er his head a container lorry cram-packed with smithys’ anvils while pulling a concert hall across a field with his teeth. For the duration of his residency, our fey poet has been billeted in Lars Tax’s caravan, a flimsy construction of balsa wood and straw regularly subject to ruinous damage when the strongman engages in such mundane activities as yawning or combing his hair. By more or less imprisoning him with his subject, it is hoped that Beerpint will dash off a vivid “Life” fairly quickly, after which he can concentrate on other Big Top topics, including clowns and bears and trapeze artists and lions.

This episode was recorded on the 7th April 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Storiesand Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

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Technical Difficulties 3:6

On this week’s show, we are joined by Lisa J. Ellwood, Disability and Mental Health campaigner to cast light into the relationship between out-of-work benefits, employment and sanctions and the rise of ‘workfare’ in the UK. More from her can be found at www.thecreativecrip.com and on Twitter .

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

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Wavelength – Beatlemania

Klaus Beyer sings The Beatles (out of tune and in German), Rodney Graham’s version of Blue Jay Way, Those Were the Days (Mary Hopkin/Paul McCartney/Apple single) from Ground Zero plays Standards with Otomo Yoshihide and Vanilla Fudge’s rendition of Ticket to Ride.

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Art Monthly Talk Show 10th February 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Omar Kholeif discusses his feature on western appropriation of art from the Arab world entitled Arabic Agendas and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art discussing his feature Out of this world.

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

Art Monthly magazine offers an informed and comprehensive guide to the latest developments in contemporary art.

Fiercely independent, Art Monthly’s news and opinion sections provide regular information and polemics on the

international art scene. It also offers In-depth interviews and features; reviews of exhibitions, performances, films and books; art law; auction reports and exhibition listings

Art Monthly magazine is indispensable reading!

Special magazine subscription offer for Resonance 104.4 listeners.Subscribe now and save 40% on the cover price at

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Hello GoodBye Show 18 February 2012: Mucky Sailor

Mucky Sailor have set sail from Leeds, and navigated the length of the M1 to be with us today. The 2 man three piece, they set their synthesisers, vocals and drums to extremely high distortion. We loved their split EP with the late, lamented Poltergroom from last year (not least because it came with a free pencil) and spun their side Requiem for Sports Car on the show a few times last year. Their upcoming album Early Lad (slated for release in January 2037, according to their website) also displays their musical virtuosity and ability to peck from different genres especially in the orchestrated “Albatross, Silly Albatross” which features full brass section and micro dub breakdown two thirds of the way through.

And we are very excited to hear they will be bringing their own, bespoke musical ship’s wheel! — 8 tunable oscillators are played in sequence when you spin the wheel! We love a band who bring a visual element to their radio session.

And this is I Love Resonance FM week — the long and short of it is that Resonance needs £30k and quick to feed the monkeys that power the transmitter. So we want you to show your love in the only gesture that really counts in this harsh world, yes, that’s giving money! But not money for nothing — there are on air auctions all week, so listen in and bid!

We – as last year – on the Hello GoodBye Show are selling off a show minute by minute at a rate of just £10 each! Use the time to promote your band/cause/political views/small business/megaglobal corporation. Email auction@resonancefm.com with the subject header “e5? and buy time on the Resonance airwaves. Last year we sold all 90 minutes and a bit more (we went over into the next week’s show) making just over £900 for Resonance FM, let’s see if we can beat that this year!

Track List:
BØREDØM – Lap Dance of Rats
Mucky Sailor – Harbingers of Taste (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – I Wanna Be Fat (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Reverse Scrumping (LIVE SESSION)
Hookworms – I Have Some Business Out West
Godsy – The Canyon Shadows Cry
Female Band – One Day The Sea Will Swallow Me
O-Arc – Hope (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – ‘Interview’
The Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – Belles of Beefy (aka Beefy Belles) (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – VN00001-20110803-1300 (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Trans Pennine Express (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – ITV Player

Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin, Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp

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