Monthly Archives: December 2012

Panel Borders: Nelson

Panel Borders: Nelson

Continuing our month of shows looking at depictions of lives on the page, Dan Berry talks to four of his fellow creators who worked on the award winning anthology graphic novel Nelson, published by Blank Slate Books, including the book’s co-editor Rob Davis and artists Duncan Fegredo, Jonathan Edwards, Sarah McIntyre and Suzy Varty. Nelson depicts 54 days in the life of the titular character, a young and then adult female Londoner, who is born in the first chapter set in 1968 and we follow her life to middle age in the present day. Dan discusses the history of the project, the aspects of autobiography that were absorbed into each creator’s pages and the collaborative processes involved in working on a exquisite corpse method of storytelling. (Recorded at Thought Bubble Festival, Leeds 2011 and edited by Alex Fitch)

Panels from Nelson by Dan Berry, Duncan Fegredo, Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre, Jonathan Edwards and Suzy Varty

Panels from Nelson by Dan Berry, Duncan Fegredo, Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre, Jonathan Edwards and Suzy Varty

(Originally broadcast 9th December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Nelson page at Blank Slate Books website
Dan Berry’s website and podcast
Rob Davis’ blog
Sarah McIntyre’s website
Comic Book Database pages on Suzy Varty and Duncan Fegredo
Jonathan Edwards’ website

Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Woodrow Phoenix about Nelson and previous interviews with Sarah McIntyre and Dan Berry
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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 10

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show we are joined in the studio by the world-class mezzo-soprano Christine Rice who’ll be talking to us about dressing up as a man, being Bluebeard’s newest ill-fated wife and being half-sister to the murderous Minotaur.

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Originally broadcast on 6th December 2012

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Wavelength – Art and Artists on the Record.

Three spoken word tracks by artist Liam Gillick from the CD; An Idea Just Out of Reach; original recordings made in Berlin in 2009. Faster, Higher, Stronger by John Wynne from the 10″ vinyl E.P. Art + Factum (2009) which features artist responses to the Olympics site in London. Yes, New Birthday Song by Pipilotti Rist from The Cake is in Flames and finally Corporate Rock Must Die; a yellow vinyl 45rpm single by artist Jeremy Deller.

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Hello GoodBye – 01.12.12 – Dead Rat Orchestra, David Tattersall & Halo Halo

Hello GoodBye possibly bites off more than it can chew this Saturday lunchtime, with not 2 but 3 sets of live performers in the studio; Dead Rat Orchestra, Hallo Halo & David Tattersall.
Since forming in 2002, The Dead Rat Orchestra have played regularly throughout the UK and Internationally, always attempting to react or interact with their surroundings and the people and ideas that they come across – often crafting each performance for the particular space in which they find themselves (from former abattoirs to churches, concert halls to coppice woods). Dead Rat Orchestra are Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann.

Halo Halo take their name from a very tasty, multicoloured desert from the Philippines. They are Jack on drums, singing and Harmonica and Rachel on Banjo, singing and Gill on keyboards and bass. Halo Halo make music that careens, drawing on Appalachian folk rambles as well as the hyper melodic clattering Sinawi vibes of Korea’s shamanic past. Check out their debut 7? single ‘Manananggal’ on M’Lady’s records now.

The Wave Pictures frontman David Tattersall recorded his new solo album Little Martha in one day with Simon Trought at the old Soup Studio, underneath the Duke of Uke ukulele shop on Hanbury Street, just off Brick Lane in East London. There are no overdubs on the album, which was recorded live with one microphone. Franic Rozycki stopped by to play mandolin on a couple of tracks, but otherwise it’s entirely me playing acoustic guitar. There are no vocals on the album.

Playlist:
Duke Garwood – Tapestry of Mars?
Dead Rat Orchestra – Fram (LIVE SESSION)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – The Geshin and the Guga (LIVE SESSION)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – Kuridza (LIVE SESSION)?
This is the Kit – White Ash Cut (HG archive)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – ‘interview’?
Great Park – Lover Oh Lover?
Kitchen Winos – Mr. Innocent?
David Cronenbergs Wife – What were you doing with that man at the back of the woods?
The Wave Pictures – Just Like a Drummer?
David Tattersall – Great Dream from Heaven (LIVE SESSION)?
David Tattersall – ‘interview’?
David Tattersall – Living in the Country (LIVE SESSION)?
The Fisherman Three – Time to think about the morning once again?
Hallo Halo – Taro Taro Taro (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Sunshine Kim (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Wooden Box (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Coming Home (LIVE SESSION)?
Halo Halo – ‘interview’?
Slushy Guts – Trying to be more like you but failing

Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield
?Presenters: deXter Bentley & Ean Ravenscroft

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Panel Borders: Drawn Together – Aline and Robert Crumb

Panel Borders: Drawn Together – Aline and Robert Crumb

Starting a month of shows about ‘lives on the page’, Panel Borders looks at graphic novels which depict the travails of human existence with books that straddle the divide between autobiography and fiction. This week, we’re proud to present Alex Fitch’s interview with Aline Kominsky-Crumb and Robert Crumb about their collection Drawn Together, published by Knockabout, which collects 40 years of their collaborative autobiographical comics, including guest art by their daughter Sophie and other luminaries of the American indie comics scene including Art Spiegelman and Charles Burns.
Alex talks to Robert and Aline about the history of the project, how it displays the intersection of her feminism and his sex obsession and aspects of truth and fiction in autobiographical comics.

Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, interior and cover art from Drawn Together

Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky-Crumb, interior and cover art from Drawn Together

(Originally broadcast 2nd December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
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Wavelength – Studies for an Exhibition

Curator Mathieu Copeland in the studio to talk about his exhibition at the David Roberts Arts Foundation: which includes works by Gustav Metzger, Cally Spooner, Elena Bajo, David Medalla and others.

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