Monthly Archives: March 2012

Hello GoodBye Show 10 March 2012: Female Band and Little Sparta

Little Sparta and Female Band are live in the studio!

LITTLE SPARTA are a London based three piece featuring Alan D. Boyd (guitar), Susie Honeyman (violin) and Scott Skinner(drums). From having been described as ‘bittersweet and unpretentious’ by Pitchfork (7/10) for their first release Scalpel Slice (Fire Records) the band have continued to explore the out of the ordinary while maintaining the ‘Elegant, waning violins and craggy folkisms..” (NME) that have come to define their sound.
And re-scheduled due to illness we at last have Female Band bringing their reverb drenched, atmospheric song-scapes live to the Capital’s airwaves. Female Band say: ‘We’re more interested in talking about our music than ourselves. We are very excitable young ladies and perhaps a few beers would settle our nerves before the show if this is at all possible we would be entirely grateful.’

And in conjunction with Resonance FM’s current fundraising drive the Hello GoodBye Show is selling off a show minute by minute – at the rate of £10 per minute!Use the time to promote your band/cause/political views/small business/megaglobal corporation. Email us at: dexterbentley@hotmail.com to find out how to buy time on our ‘Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show 2012? (scheduled for broadcast on Saturday 31st March between noon and 1.30pm)

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:

Unit – People: for policemen, bouncers, security guards & other arse holes.
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – Doom radio (HG archive)
Female Band – Intro (LIVE SESSION)
Female Band – Kidnapping of a Troublesome Mind (LIVE SESSION)
Female Band – Mother & Clown (LIVE SESSION)
Female Band – The Girl Who Fell Into The Sea (working title) (LIVE SESSION)
Blurt – Hat
Female Band – ‘Interview’
Teeth Of The Sea – Sentimental Journey (HG archive)
Teta Mona – Love
Tilehurst Children’s Arkestra – The Horse That Never Loses
Arrows Of Love – The Knife (HG archive)
Joseph Porter – The Bugle Boys From Company B (HG archive)
Little Sparta – One More Then Home (LIVE SESSION)
Little Sparta – The Moment Undone (LIVE SESSION)
Mary Epworth & the Jubilee Band (HG archive)
Little Sparta – ‘Interview’
Acolytes – The Music of Erich Zann

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp

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Hooting Yard: Hop With Tongs

No longer at a loose end, I tracked down, within my quarters, a pot and some soil. The soil was dry, so I added, from a spigot, a spot of water to endamp it, and I placed the pot of soil on a shelf. Then I pressed the bud into it, to reverse iceberg depth. That is, one-eighth of the bud was submerged in the soil while seven-eighths remained visible. Now I would wait for it to grow. Reasoning that it might be intimidated by the glint in my eye if I peered at it for hours upon end, I took off my jacket and hung it upon its hallway hook and went upstairs to bed, where I soon enough fell into a deep sleep, troubled only by a couple of occasions, in the depth of night, when I woke suddenly, barking and howling.

Hop With Tongs

The King’s Speech

The Worm In The Bud

The Worm In The Bud: Notes For Your Reading Group

Those Reading Groups

Useless Phrases.

This episode was recorded on the 2nd June 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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Panel Borders: Klaus Janson – Superhero Noir

Panel Borders: Klaus Janson – Superhero Noir

Continuing our month of shows about iconoclastic American comic book artists, Alex Fitch talks to German-American artist Klaus Janson about his work such as inking and eventually providing most of the art for Frank Miller’s run on Daredevil and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns in the early 80s to his more recent returns to the characters in Batman: Gothic and Daredevil: The End of Days. Klaus also talks about his love of teaching new artists and his experiences at comic book conventions over the years. (Recorded at Comics Launchpad, Birmingham 2011)

Inks and pencils by Klaus Janson - The Hulk, Daredevil, Batman and Wolverine

Inks and pencils by Klaus Janson - The Hulk, Daredevil, Batman and Wolverine

Links: Klaus Janson pages on Wikipedia and comicartcommunity.com
Summary of Klaus Janson’s lecture at comics launchpad
More info about Comics Launchpad, Birmingham, 2011
Listen to Alex’s interview with Klaus’ frequent collaborator John Romita Jr.
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Hello GoodBye Show 3 March 2012: Astrakan, Tanya Auclair, Bird’s Eye View

Both Astrakan and Tanya Auclair return to Hello GoodBye this Saturday lunchtime to perform live in session.

Astrakan are undoubtedly influenced by jazz and progressive music the band has been described by some commentators as continuing a line of British bands started by the likes of Henry Cow and earlier Soft Machine (Third and Fourth). The band see themselves as multi-influenced post-fusionists with an open ear for any and all means to convey their ideas however. Familiar descriptive labels either seem to be inadequate or inaccurate, so they prefer to let listeners do their own categorising.

Hailing from West London, via Canada and Rwanda – Tanya Auclair’s musical upbringing straddled very different worlds. Her lo-fi adventures in experimental pop are a beguiling mix of playful DIY drums, layers of voice, intricate uke and guitar melodies and touches of electronica. Citing influences as wide-ranging as “Bongo Joe”

Coleman, Fever Ray, Matthew Herbert, Juana Molina and E.S.G, her open instinctive approach shows in the territory she covers from the 60s doowop, delicate folk, to feverish rhythms and oscillating synths.

An excitement for music made from ‘minimal means’ has given rise to her distinctive sound and compelling one-woman-band show. She builds her songs live, sampling her voice with a loop pedal and playing different instruments.

The multi-instrumentalist has worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert’s Big Band Ensemble, Charlie Dark, Yult and Arista Hawkes, featured on Brownswood Bubblers 7 and is currently working on a film score commission for the Birds Eye View Festival.

And in conjunction with Resonance FM’s current fundraising drive the Hello GoodBye Show is selling off a show minute by minute – at the rate of £10 per minute!Use the time to promote your band/cause/political views/small business/megaglobal corporation. Email us at: dexterbentley@hotmail.com to find out how to buy time on our ‘Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show 2012? (scheduled for broadcast on Saturday 31st March between noon and 1.30pm)

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!

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Track list:
Catatonic Youth – I’ve Had It
Baaneex – Weird Dance 8
Astrakan – The Giver You Get (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – Over Flooded (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – Spell (LIVE SESSION)
O-ARC – Dear Friend (HG archive)
Astrakan – ‘Interview’
Circuit Breaker – Syrinx
Now – Horsham
Jeffrey Lewis – Dog Eat Dog
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – I’ve Left The New World Order
Roshi & Pars Radio – Lor Bache (HG archive)
Interview with Rachel Millward (co-founder of the Birds Eye View Festival)
Tanya Auclair – Tough Nut To Crack (LIVE SESSION)
Tanya Auclair – Origami (LIVE SESSION)
Tanya Auclair – Sverige (LIVE SESSION)
Jude Hag Vs. The Hand of Stabs – We Need Two Each
Tanya Auclair – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Kacper Zienianin & Tom Kemp

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Technical Difficulties 3:8

This week’s show looked at Work/Benefits Balance, the winning submission from Benefitscamp, with Lisa Ellwood in Glamorgan, Lisa Egan in the studio and Nancy Farrell in the Isle of Wight on a scratchy microphone via Skype. We also heard about Lisa Ellwood’s Rise Up UK project for enabling disabled entrepreneurs.

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

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Book list: The problem with autobiography

Book list: The problem with autobiography

In a panel discussion recorded at the First Fiction festival (Sussex University, January 2012) author Sue Eckstein discusses the problems inherent in creating autobiographies with graphic novelists Nicola Streeten and Anuerin Wright and how creators can subvert and overcome these. Nicola’s book Billy, me and you and Aneurin’s Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park couldn’t be more different in their approaches, with the former combining cartoons, diary drawings and scrapbook montage and the latter depicting the author’s friends and family as anthropomorphic creatures in domestic settings. (Recorded by Nicola Streeten, edited and introduced by Alex Fitch)

Covers of Interpreters and The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein, Billy, me and you by Nicola Streeten and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Aneurin Wright

Covers of Interpreters and The Cloths of Heaven by Sue Eckstein, Billy, me and you by Nicola Streeten and Things to do in a retirement home trailer park by Aneurin Wright

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other formats you can download / stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Info about Interpreters, Billy, me and you and Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park
More info about the First Fiction festival (Sussex University, January 2012)

If you enjoyed this show, why not try Judith Vanistendael talking about her autobiographical comic Dance by the light of the moon
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Polish Deli 4 3 2012 with Piotr Czerwinski

This time on Polish Deli we have a special guest – Piotr Czerwinski. Why special? Well, he is the first writer to appear on our programme. Piotr is a Polish writer living in Dublin, Ireland. He is an author of three novels and his most recent book ‘Miedzynarod’ has been published recently and we take this opportunity to talk to him about it and about the reasons why he had left his beautiful country…

to find out more about our guest go to:

http://piotrczerwinski.com/

Language: Polish

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Hooting Yard: Sensible Quiz Time

I am fairly sure that Dobson was at one time a member of his local Moorhen Appreciation Society. The out of print pamphleteer joined it for reasons we can only guess at, for as we know the space in the human brain devoted to ornithological matters was in Dobson’s case either utterly vacant or so clogged up the synapses misfired. He was forced to resign his membership when it became clear that he could not tell the difference between a moorhen and a heron, and embroiled the Society in legal entanglements in the bird courts. His pamphlet Well, They Both Have Beaks And Feathers, For Christ’s Sake! (out of print) recounts the whole sorry saga, though it is quite an exasperating read for those of us who are more engaged with the avian world than Dobson was.

This episode was recorded on the 19th May 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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Free Lab Radio ….::M:A:X:I:M:A:L::…

Cock an ear to the u:ber cross-genre form that’s been exploding dancefloors over the world with such bravado.

Strangely I came across this music form (most commonly incarnate as maximal-electro) while hunting Iranian dance music, so thanks to Ramtin from the group Monosurround and artist/filmmaker Daryus Shokof. Most tracks in this episode explore tensions between maximal and minimal style.

Panel Borders: Laura and Mike Allred – Pop art comics

Panel Borders: Laura and Mike Allred – Pop art comics

Starting a month of shows about iconoclastic American comic artists, Alex Fitch talks to husband and wife art team Mike and Laura Allred about their work together from their long running Madman comic, to X-Statics and I, Zombie. The Alldreds’ style has been often described as pop art and Alex discusses the development of this as well as its representation in adaptations of their work such as Christopher Coppola’s film G-Men from Hell.
Originally broadcast 04/03/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

X-Force, Madman and I, Zombie art by Laura and Mike Allred

X-Force, Madman and I, Zombie art by Laura and Mike Allred

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