Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: Richard is joined at The Science Museum by the artist Edwin Burdis, who has been on a sonic pilgrimage around the U.K collecting material for his latest opera Light Green and Dark Grey. Edwin will be talking to Richard about his journey, his process and also playing some excerpts through Denman’s Exponential Horn.
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Originally broadcast on 29th May 2014
This show’s all about the sleeve notes, in the age of the mp3 that comesPanel Borders: Surviving The Crow
Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, in the programme’s 365th episode, Alex Fitch talks to James O’Barr, creator of the seminal American independent comic The Crow. Fitch and O’Barr discuss the latter’s battles with drug addiction, nearly drawing Batman for DC Comics and the long gestation of his most famous creation. Recorded in front of an audience at Bristol Comics Expo, Spring 2014. (Originally broadcast 26th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
James O’Barr in conversation with Alex Fitch (inset, art from The Crow: Curare) / covers of Dead World 10 and The Crow no.1 by O’Barr
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: The Crow fan website
James O’Barr’s typepad site
Buy the latest Crow graphic novel and digital comics from IDW
Recommended events:
Comics at the AusNZ literary festival
Various Australasian comic book creators are in London and are featured in documentary screenings for the Australia and New Zealand festival of literature and the arts taking place from 30th May – 1st June. These include:
Screening: THE SHARP EDGE – The Art of Martin Sharp (Oz magazine illustrator)
Eccentric. Outsider. Artist. Genius. Martin Sharp shaped pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century.
Friday May 30th, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Talk: GRAPHIC LIVES – Sarah Laing, Dr Mary Talbot and Evie Wyld
What does working with graphic novels to remember great lives add to the biography genre?
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Opera singer and poet Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: What The Horn Would Have Heard. Broadcasting live from The Science Museum through Denman’s Exponential Horn Loudspeaker, Richard plays operas written, recorded and premiered between 1929- 1939 by Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, Weill, Paul Abraham, Schoenberg and Strauss; these are the melodies the horn would have originally broadcast, every day throughout the 30s, until the outbreak of WWII.
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Originally broadcast on 22nd May 2014
Live music on The Hello GoodBye Show today with: Raf and O + Ed Laurie.
PLAYLIST
St. Just Vigilantes – Panzer Vs. Arrow
Ed Laurie – Wildflowers (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie – Albert (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie – Thin Line (LIVE SESSION)
Ed Laurie and Straw Dog – Forever’s Untrue
Ed Laurie (& Paul Wassif)- ‘interview’
Dog Chocolate – Tell Too Much
Phobophobes – No Flavour
Mamman Sani – Zara Zarakoy
Orchestra du Mont Plaisant – Bull
Bunty – What We Are Here For
Spaceheads Dirty Planet
Raf and O – You Made Me (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – Saturated Dreams (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – Lady Grinning Soul (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – The Fog (LIVE SESSION)
ESG – Watching
Raf and O – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley
Live sound engineers: Lisa Geurts + Tom Kemp
Panel Borders: Exploring The Murder Mile
Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, Alex Fitch talks to graphic novelist Paul Collicutt about his book The Murder Mile, published by SelfMadeHero, which sets the occurrence of a murder against the spectacle of Roger Banister running the four minute mile, an event that has reached its 60th anniversary this month. Alex and Paul discuss how the book combines the latter’s interests in running and film noir and how the author used a real life event to tell a tale of organised crime and sports betting. Recorded at Cartoon County, Brighton. (Originally broadcast 19th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
Excerpt from The Murder Mile by Paul Collicutt
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Paul Collicutt’s blog
Article on selfmadehero.com about the 60th anniversary of Bannister’s record
Cartoon County website
Listen to Alex’s previous interviews with Paul Collicutt about Brighton: The Graphic Novel and Robot City Adventures
Recommended events:
Comics at the AusNZ literary festival
Various Australasian comic book creators are in London and are featured in documentary screenings for the Australia and New Zealand festival of literature and the arts taking place at King’s College from 30th May – 1st June. These include:
Screening: THE SHARP EDGE – The Art of Martin Sharp (Oz magazine illustrator)
Eccentric. Outsider. Artist. Genius. Martin Sharp shaped pop art and culture in Australia and around the world for half a century.
Friday May 30th, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Talk: GRAPHIC LIVES – Sarah Laing, Dr Mary Talbot and Evie Wyld
What does working with graphic novels to remember great lives add to the biography genre? Chaired by Alex Fitch (Resonance FM)
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Live music on Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye Show with vibrant, melodic and often vitriolic garage pop from Wreckless Eric and quirky and twisted modern folk from former Jesus Licks singer Dominique Golden.
PLAYLIST
Wreckless Eric – Tell Me I’m The Only One (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Wishing My Life Away (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Depression (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – It’s A Sick Sick World (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – Sarah (LIVE SESSION)
Wreckless Eric – ‘interview’
Raf and O – Chasing
Ed Laurie and Straw Dog – Urban Sand
Poino – Ienod
Phobophobes – Make A Person
This Is The Kit – Nits (Hello GoodBye Show live session archive)
Rachael Dadd – Make A Sentence
Dominique Golden – Pockets (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – 10 Women On A Raft (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – Limby Thing (LIVE SESSION)
Dominique Golden – Old Cluck Hen (LIVE SESSION)
Arthur Brick – Viva La Pedestrian
Dominique Golden – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Lisa Geurts
Panel Borders: A Cartoon History of Private Eye
Continuing a month of shows about comics and controversy, guest presenter Tom Sutcliffe talks to Nick Newman (author of Private Eye: A Cartoon History) and magazine editor Ian Hislop about memorable and controversial cartoons and strips in the fortnightly periodical. The trio discuss the history of cartoon art in Private Eye from the days of scurrilous Gerald Scarfe covers to the present day, which images have proved unacceptable and potentially libellous and how Hislop’s commissioning process for the magazine works. Recorded at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 2013 and edited by Alex Fitch. (Originally broadcast 12th May 2014 on Resonance 104.4 FM, London)
A classic Gerald Scarfe cover from 1965 / Private Eye: A Cartoon History book cover / recent cartoon by Alexander Williams / inside spread from A Cartoon History
For more info and a variety of different formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Private Eye website
Nick Newman’s profile on procartoonists.org
Tom Sutcliffe’s profile on bbc.co.uk
Info about the event and Ian Rakoff’s comic book blog on the Victoria and Albert Museum’s website
Listen to Alex Fitch’s 2010 interview with Gerald Scarfe about his work / with the curators of the Rakoff collection of comics at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Recommended events:
Graphic Brighton one day festival
A one day event, being held at the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, May 24th 2014, curated by Paul Slater, Barbara Chamberlin and Alex Fitch. Guests include Chris Riddell, David Lloyd, John Higgins, Nicola Streeten, Hannah Berry, Corinne Pearlman, Daniel Locke, Joe Decie, Neil Evans (a.k.a. Nelson Evergreen), Lawrence Elwick, Ian Williams, Paul O’Connell, Nye Wright, Hannah Eaton, Paul Collicutt and Tim Pilcher.
The day will comprise talks, panel discussions, workshops and much more, and is only a five minute walk from the sea front for a lunchtime barbeque!
Tickets are £8 / £5 concessions and must be bought in advance from http://arts.brighton.ac.uk
9.30 – 5.30, Saturday 24th May 2014,
University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, 56-58 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Resonance FM‘s Hello GoodBye featuring live music The Melodic, Yo Zushi + Wildflowers.
PLAYLIST
The Melodic – Come Outside (LIVE SESSION)
The Melodic – Hold On (LIVE SESSION)
The Melodic – It Don’t Take Long (LIVE SESSION)
The Melodic – On My Way (LIVE SESSION)
The Melodic – ‘interview’ (conducted by Dan Frost)
Yo Zushi – Send Your Love To Me (LIVE SESSION)
Yo Zushi – First Love (LIVE SESSION)
Yo Zushi – Bye Bye Blackbird (LIVE SESSION)
Raf and O – Mad And Brilliant
Dominique Golden – 10 Women On A Raft
Wreckless Eric – 33’s and 45’s (Hello GoodBye live session archive – 20.11.04)
Wreckless Eric – Just For You
Las Kellies – Boy, Sweet Boy
Joey Fourr – Boyz II Girlz
The Comet Is Coming – Neon Baby / Lady Neptune – Theme Song + I Dunno (ACCIDENTLY PLAYED OVER THE TOP OF EACH OTHER)
Yo Zushi – ‘interview’
Wildflowers – Let It Go (LIVE SESSION)
Wildflowers – Tell Them I’m Your Woman (LIVE SESSION)
Wildflowers – Nobody Loves My Baby (LIVE SESSION)
Wildflowers – ‘interview’
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Dan Frost
Live sound engineer: Lisa Geurts assisted by Beth Rogers
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. On today’s show we meet witches, hags, sayers and seers as Richard invokes opera’s fascination with witches. From Purcell to Birtwistle, composers have been besotted with a particular type of woman – one who is intelligent, powerful and sexual.
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Originally broadcast on 8th May 2014, Resonance FM, London
