Alex Fitch talks to a pair of film-makers whose experiences outside of cinema have given them unique approaches to the medium. Shezad Dawood is a fine artist who, following a short film about westerns called Feature, is now tackling the SF genre with his movie Piercing Brightness, an extract of which is currently showing at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. Jim Monroe is a novelist and graphic novelist, whose excellent mockumentary Ghosts with shit jobs closed this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON festival and presents the lives of poor North Americans after the economy of the West collapses.
Stills from Piercing Darkness and Ghosts with shit jobs
In this episode of Outsider In; William English, presenter of Wavelength on Resonance104.4fm.
We hear some of the 800 texts exchanged over the past year between Mr. Tregaskis and Mr. English.
William English talks to James Tregaskis as well.
Joining us in the Resonance live room today are Jail and Mark Tingley from Wilberforce.
Jail started off as Jon Leone’s solo project when he was a student at Leeds University. Sounding like a cross between Syd Barrett and The Fall, they have since been compared to Blur, Stephen Malkmus and Half Man Half Biscuit.
The live set has included the themes from Doctor Who and Rhubarb & Custard, as well as covers by the Fall and Television Personalites. Mark E Smith, Stewart Lee and Stuart Murdoch all have copies of their 2003 album Riot at the Health Club, and that’s true.
The band is now seven-strong, and now it is not just Jon who writes the songs. They have played on the deXter Bentley show twice before and three of them are in the studio this Saturday.
Melodic, experimental pop band Wilberforce consist of Mark Tingley, and later Melody Spires, Wilberforce were named after a Prime Minister’s cat. Their debut album “Madame Fruitbowl” came out in 2002 and was named local album of the year. There followed a string of gigs in the UK and Holland. Their very long-awaited second album “What Drama Here” is due out this summer.
Because Wilberforce is a big lumbering band, Mark is currently playing songs solo, from the earliest days to ones written the day before, and has been busking around the streets of Britain.
He wrote his first song and fronted his first group Elastic Band at 16, followed by eight years and 3 albums with Blob Hotel. Now after nearly two albums and over 15 years with Wilberforce, he’s heading out on his own for the first time.
Mark has also played in various other groups including Trojan, the Hairy Penguins, the Bat Device, and the Spook Orchestra.
Track List:
Chips For The Poor – Fistula (Ladies Mix by Robin The Fog)
The Rebel – Ham House (i/ Elizabeth Marshall, ii/ I’m Imprisoned In Ham & iii/ Will Never Leave)
Jail – Knowing Me, Knowing You (LIVE SESSION)
Jail – Count Backwards (LIVE SESSION)
Jail – Billericky Fashion Forever (LIVE SESSION)
Jail – Irene (LIVE SESSION)
Jail – Coco (LIVE SESSION)
Poino – Strength Of A Cowboy
Buttonhead – Sing To The Cows
Jail – ‘interview’
Nought – Horse Shoe Face (HG archive)
Extradition Order – Canoe
Mark Tingley from Wilberforce – Patricia Row (LIVE SESSION)
Mark Tingley from Wilberforce – Far Away (LIVE SESSION)
Mark Tingley from Wilberforce – The Song They Tried To Ban (LIVE SESSION)
Serafina Steer – Ride Out
Little Sparta – Spring
Mark Tingley – ‘interview’
Rachel App – Reese
House Of John Player – Shyrite / Son Esqueet
In two talks recorded at Laydeez do comics, M.K. Czerwiec and Sarah Leavitt talk about their work, mixing autobiography and medical comics. M.K. discusses the strips produced by her alter-ego, Comic Nurse and Sarah talks about documenting her mother’s alzheimers disease in Tangles.
(Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch, Q and A session moderated by Nicola Streeten and Sarah Lightman)
Panels from a Comic Nurse strip by M.K. Czerwiec and Tangles by Sarah Leavitt
Nicky Hamlyn, author of Film Art Phenomena, filmmaker and lecturer talks about cellulose nitrate film, the self-destructive character of film, Tony Conrad and film performances by Annabel Nicolson, Lis Rhodes, and Taka Iimura.
The radio debut of The Mud and the Lotus with Sonja K Peterson and Tim Abbott, talking about endometriosis and infertility. www.mudandlotus.com for more information. We are on Twitter @lightchronic and Facebook
Its was a hot humid evening, the smell of the two dogs’ breath wafted up from under the desk. Facing me was the lovely Miss Roberts and her faithful slave Cos Chapman.
Miss Roberts defied all opposing forces, patiently answering questions prepared for her from a card index. There was no time to waste. Included in their live performance we heard “Mercury River” not heard before in this country. I think they might have played it in their tour of Germany last month.
The Hello GoodBye team grasp the nettle this Saturday lunchtime with not two but three different sets of performers!
Expect live music from Harry Merry, Now & Ten.
Harry Merry is one of music’s true originals, a lyrically fascinating and melodically complex songwriter who has audibly been an inspiration for artists such as John Maus, Ariel Pink and Max Tundra. He channels his myriad of influences from 60s & 70s glam to French chansons and Eastern European folk, through his Roland keyboard to produce a music which is sweetly naive and wonderfully unpredictable. He is on a rare trip to the UK a handful of live dates, we are very pleased to welcome him to the Resonance FM studio for a session.
London based, avant-kraut-pop group Now prove as ever mercurial and playful in their musical explorations, gleefully defying logic and evading ones grasp with all the aplomb of a buttered eel!
Whichever combination happens to congregate from the rather elastic line-up that comprises the Leeds based outfit Ten, one is guaranteed that the resulting sound of piano, acoustic and electric instrumentation, sparse percussion, tape hiss and ambient field recordings, will all help to create a beautiful sound-scape that moves from slow, eerie and melancholic to pulsating and optimistic.
Now – With It (LIVE SESSION)
Now – I 4 Me (LIVE SESSION)
Teta Mona – Down By The River (HG archive)
Now – ‘interview’
Goodbye Leopold – A Picture Of You (HG archive)
Harry Merry – The Panorama Paper (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – The Appetite Each Bite (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – The Mollycoddled Scallywag (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – Sharkie Supermachine (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – ‘interview’
Catatonic Youth – I’ve Had It
Ten – Cammy (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – Winter Light (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – Suspended In The Sky (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – ‘interview’
Trollstepper by Fari Hip teen American programmers, chat room trolls and producers vent their feelings in this new genre blend of rap, lo-fi game tunes and dark step. Dubstep’s offshoot Trollstep is the first generation of internet babies growing up. “Teehn Bwitches 12yr old wicca on H learning spells on youtube.”
The Marbles Jackson provide the live entertainment on this edition of The Hello GoodBye Show.
Plus, Jamie McDermott (The Irrepressibles) drops by the studio to discuss his involvement with the new Manga Opera ‘War Sum Up‘ ahead of its UK debut at the Brighton Festival later this month.
The Marbles Jackson amble down an urban folk track that meets at the crossroads of Mazzy Star and Mogwai. Formed by Terence Kirkbride and the artist NaoKo TakaHashi in 2009, the Hackney based creative duo were later joined by Simon Gwynne and Mikey Belfast Gibson in 2011. Their song ‘If Symptoms persist (Nothing wrong with me)’ is to be included on the ‘Vol. 01? compilation album on the Stella Mortos independent record label in July.
Duke Garwood – The Sand, The Return
The Marbles Jackson – If Symptoms Persist (Nothing Wrong With Me) (LIVE SESSION)
Jude Hagg vs. The Hand of Stabs – My God (I. Anderson)
Alexander Tucker – Sitting In A Bardot Pond
The Marbles Jackson – Raffle Me (LIVE SESSION)
Now – Container Theory
Silent Front – Tactic A and Plunder
The Marbles Jackson – ‘Interview’
War Sum Up (extract) – Spy Super Hero
Jamie McDermott – ‘Interview’
War Sum Up (extract) – Finale
The Marbles Jackson – Murder Mile Sunshine (LIVE SESSION)
The Three Johns – Demon Drinker
Theatre of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld
Petra Jean Phillipson – Victorian Worship Song
