A seasonal greeting from Esteban Antonio. Speaking via mobile telephone, the musician, philosopher and inventor shares some of his thoughts and previews music from his new repertoire.
For more information please go to:
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Produced by Lee Stapleford
Originally broadcast on 25th December 2012
As yet, I haven’t found any connection between this week’s subjects and Leicester. The following tracks are from a CD on the sub rosa label called Survival Research Laboratories, an outfit founded by Mark Pauline in 1978. Since its inception the SRL operated as an organisation of technicians staging over 50 performances in the USA, Japan and Europe which have been imitated by various cable TV channels, Robot Wars being one example. Mark Pauline was joined in 1979 by noisician; GX Jupitter-Larsen, founder member of post punk crew The Haters who started by tearing paper and eventually blew up hillsides. The tracks on this CD date from 1992 to 1998, recorded in Graz, Austria, Austin Texas and San Francisco. There are several videos of SRL performances on YouTube including links to Weird Weapons of World War 2. Survival Research Laboratories:
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show, since it’s very nearly Christmas, he is playing the entirety of Menotti’s Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors! This humorous and moving classic was written for American television in the 1950s and tells the story of Amahl, a young boy who delights in telling lies, and his encounter with three bizarre kings who knock on his door one night whilst following a star ‘as big as a window’ in the night sky.
Originally broadcast on 20th December 2012
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Ajay Hothi opens the magazine that was a box- Aspen Magazine 1965-71
Questioning the successes, or otherwise, of its own form allowed Aspen to become a series of individual art objects.
Michael Hampton discusees his feature Human Nature on contrasting views of outdoor art
Recent exhibitions, including ‘Garden of Reason’ and ‘Wild New Territories’, have presented art in pastoral settings. How have artists, such as Gordon Cheung, Alexandre da Cunha, Kathleen Herbert, Alan Kane, Michael Landy, Simon Periton and Daphne Wright, responded to nature and mankind’s determination to shape it?
‘Hermit-in-residence Harold Offeh’s Arcadia Redesigned, 2012, a seasonal consultancy in a glass-fibre grotto at the bottom of Ham’s Kitchen Garden, was supplemented by a series of fantastical spectacles.
The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.
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Mahmood Enayat from Small Media speaks to Six Pillars to Persia about the new Small Media report “Satellite Jamming in Iran – A War Over Airwaves.” After presenting the report to parliament, Small Media are pushing for new regulations, where none currently exist, on global satellite jamming. Here Mr. Enayat explains how figures clearly show that satellite jamming is a form of censorship that effects far more people in Iran than internet censorship currently does.
Panel Borders: Brown, Nao / Bagnold Summer
In the third of a trilogy of shows about depictions of lives on the comic book page, Alex Fitch talks to the authors of two of 2012’s most acclaimed graphic novels. Glyn Dillon discusses The Nao of Brown, his long awaited return to comics after much loved contributions to strips published by Deadline and Vertigo in the 1990s. Dillon’s graphic novel depicts the life of an OCD sufferer who channels her creativity into toys, relationships and storytelling…
Alex also talks to Joff Winterhart, writer / artist of Days of the Bagnold Summer, an affectionate, warts and all depiction of six weeks in the life of a dissolutioned 15 year old and his long suffering mother as they try to endure the summer holidays together. Joff discusses the history of the book, how it relates to his animation work and music, and his feelings about the book’s nomination as one of the first two graphic novels to be short listed for the Costa Book Awards.
Excerpts from The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart
(Originally broadcast 16th December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.
(Panel Borders will return in January with a month of shows looking at the 25th anniversary of John Constantine: Hellblazer)
Links: Read the original Observer short story competition version of Days of the Bagnold Summer
Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels Tumblr
Bucky band website
Reviews of Days of the Bagnold Summer and The Nao of Brown
Nao of Brown website
Self Made Hero website including info on the FrgosLegs toy featured in the graphic novel
Interview with Glyn in The Comics Journal
Listen to Nicola Streeten’s interview with Mary and Bryan Talbot about their Costa Award nominated graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes Continue reading
This final episode of Hello GoodBye for 2012 promises be a big bumper box of treats!
Featuring live music from: Unit, Keeley Forsyth & Sisters.
Also, author Victoria Yeulet joins us in the studio to read an extract from ‘Women Make Noise’, a new book that documents the role of women within contemporary music.
UNIT have been in existence since 2000, irritating and annoying everyone with their curiously mutated pop songs and avant gardening. Until 2011 the group consisted primarily of Chinese teenagers plus a token white man as a sop to ensure ethnic diversity. In November 2012 we completed our 24th album which is due out before December 31st. Our group is now so ridiculously eccentric and off the wall that even we can’t be sure who’s in it now. As far as I am aware, I think I’m still a member but that may be just a malicious rumour.
Unit singer Andy Martin’s books – A History Progressive Rock – Chinese Cinema 1905-2005 – Faded Fragments Of Distant Dreams (an autobiographical account of my 4 years in Alton Secondary School) are also available from their website.
Keeley Foryth is an actor, singer, performer and keen collaborator working with artists and film makers on live projects and experimental performances in galleries, museums, old biscuit factories. ‘The Scuttler’ is a character born out of a workshop with art duo boyleANDshaw in 2009 whilst investigating a one act play ‘I Rise In Flames Cried The Phoenix’ based around the last hours of DH Lawrence’s life. ‘The Scuttler’ became an extension of the character Brett or Bertha in the play and has been a way to develop a sound that connects her rural Lancashire roots, folk tales, domestic noise, digital murmurs and vibrations. Keeley Forsyth’s forthcoming album is entitled The Scuttler.
Sisters are a new all female ensemble featuring Sylvia Saunders, Astrud Steerhouder (The Rayographs / Paper Dollhouse) and Victoria Yeulet.
Playlist:
Kitchen Winos – Horsethief
Unit – For Nick Wong (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – Innocence (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – In a sense (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – Tolerance is a mask for apathy (LIVE SESSION)
The Clash – Career Opportunities
Unit – ‘interview’
Jude Cowan & Wim Oudijk – Russian Ice Swimming
Roba Stanley – Single Life
Victoria Yeulet – Women Make Noise (extract) (LIVE READING)
The Carter Family – My Clinch Mountain Home
Keeley Forsyth – Time heals everything (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – Then they came a time (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – Trouble in my heart (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – When will I see you again? (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – ‘interview’
Art Trip & the Static Sound – Darlin’
Piper’s Son – Mining
Sisters – I’m going to that city (LIVE SESSION)
Sisters – I want Jesus to walk with me (LIVE SESSION)
Sisters – Living testimony (LIVE SESSION)
Presenters: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield
Leicester market, Tuesday afternoon. Second hand record stall. I bought 3 records for £3: Gather in the Mushrooms by Benny Hill, Winklepicker Shoes by Bernard Cribbins and an E.P. by the Yodelling Comedians who hardly yodel and are not humorous. The 4 tracks on the E.P. are Glamorous Alpine World, My Sweetheart lives in a Chalet, Water from the Glacier and Yodelling is my Hobby. The illustrated paper sleeve is autographed by all 3 members of the troupe. Returning to London I visited the ICA Gallery showing an exhibition by Nathaniel Mellors until May 15th which includes a mechanical mobile sculpture of 2 almost identical, lifelike, male heads, one blue, one flesh-coloured connected by mutual long facial hair, that roll their eyes and talk, entitled “Hippy Dialectic”. Highly recommended! In 2007, Nathaniel Mellors was looking for 3 people to film shouting dialogue whilst strapped to trees. Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery suggested Bob Parks, recalling some unusual performances Bob had realised when they were both art students in Leicester in the 1960s. Bob Parks: “I did loads of different things, such as the time I got a 15 foot No Parking sign which I carried on my head around Leicester for 2 weeks”. The following tracks are by Bob Parks from the limited edition L.P. on the Junior Aspirin label issued in 2008 called “The R&B Feeling
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show it’s Christmas! What do The Three Tenors, Joni Mitchell, The Sixteen, Benjamin Britten, Paul Hillier, Diana Ross, Judy Garland and Alec Guiness all have in common? They’re all on The Opera Hour Christmas Special of course!
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Originally broadcast on 13th December 2012
Live music on The Hello GoodBye Show today from David Cronenbergs Wife and Kitchen Winos.
David Cronenbergs Wife will be performing a collection of songs from their new LP ‘Don’t wait to be hunted before you hide’ (Blang Records). Tom Mayne’s 21st century urban folk/blues, revels in macabre and taboo lyrical themes that bounce along effortlessly on an incessantly infectious motorik beat.
Kitchen Winos veer waywardly from baggy inflected indie pop one minute to monolithic slabs of instrumental experimental-ism the next.
Playlist:
Kostoglotov – Dictaphone 5
Kitchen Winos – Find the right line (LIVE SESSION)
Kitchen Winos – Mr. Innocent (LIVE SESSION)
Kitchen Winos – Horsethief (LIVE SESSION)
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – For a minute there
Kitchen Winos – ‘interview’
Shimmy Rivers & & Canal – Peepholes
Peepholes – The Overspill
Unit – Winter
Keeley Forsyth – Haggerston
Patrik Fitzgerald – Pilgrimage
Viv Albertine – Little girl in a box
Dirty Viv – Chainsaw
The Count of Chateau Noir – Mr. Fox
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Coriolanus in the bedroom (LIVE SESSION)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Lonely man (LIVE SESSION)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – You can’t donate a heart (LIVE SESSION)
The Children’s Hour – SOS JFK
David Cronenbergs Wife – ‘interview’
Adam & the Antz – Catholic Day
Mud Sharks (extract) by Dave Barbarossa – read by Ean Ravenscroft
Presented by: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp
