Wavelength – 2006 October 27th Mecha Orga, David Jackman, Volcano the Bear, Jack Smith, Handsome Family.

Mecha/Orga (Yiorgis Sakellariou) “from a piner”
“Flak” ten inch vinyl record by David Jackman
Volcano the Bear; Oslo Top from Volseptor recorded live 19.6.98 Earthquake Orgy from Tony Conrad’s soundtrack for Jack Smith’s film Flaming Creatures. Recorded early 1962, from the CD Jack Smith; Les Evening Gowns Damnees, Audio Artkive 01 Natalie Wood by The Handsome Family from the CD Smothered and Covered, a personal gathering of rarities including odd covers, bathroom demos and orphaned songs www.handsomefamily.com

William English

Hooting Yard : Voodoo Pigs

I do not know who awaits me in the upper chamber, although I now know that whoever it is will half expect me to be carrying a wafer. I can use the filthiness of my gloves as an excuse for not doing so.

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The Bike Show: The Moulton Story (part one)

The first of a two-parter telling the story of Moulton bicycles: the radical 1960s reinvention of the bicycle by Dr Alex Moulton that, despite some commercial setbacks along the way, continues to push the boundaries of cutting edge design. It has been feted by architects and designers, broken records and been taken to the hearts of its riders, the Moultoneers, many of whom consider it to be the best kept secret on two wheels. Over the next two weeks The Bike Show will cover the history of the Moulton bicycle, look towards its future and try to capture its unique spirit. Featuring interviews with Dr Alex Moulton, Shaun Moulton, Tony Hadland, Michael Woolf and a cast of Moultoneers. Image, left, shows the young Sheldon Brown on his Moulton Deluxe in 1971.

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Marvin Suicide : 164 – Whatever happened to Carpet Monster?

In this ever changing world of technology, politics, environment and so on, you can always rely on this programme to provide a stable and constant supply of mindless dirge which has been likened to “listening to the Top 40 music chart with your hands in a meat grinder”.

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Le Menu Gastrophonique Ep.1


EPISODE 1 : A visit to the Indian market of Tooting, in south London, followed by the sounds of the preparation of Pakoras. Feed yourself with this delicious sounds ! For the first time, those famous greasy Indian friters are calorie free !

-Food art, Sound art : the sounds of food, digestion, excretion. Produced by Coraline Janvier-

The Bike Show: Bicycle Film Festival comes to town

The Bicycle Film Festival comes to London from 1-5 October. Laura Fletcher is the BFF’s London ambassador and she previews a handful of highlights from the seven screenings at the Barbican Cinema plus all the parties, art shows, polo matches and roller-racing that make the Festival a veritable jamboree of bicycle culture. Plus a very special message from the Founding Director, Brendt Barbur. Buy tickets online here.

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Panel Borders: Widening Genres

Panel Borders: Widening Genres
Originally broadcast as part of “Strip!”, 03/07/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Guest presenter Dickon Harris talks to humourist Hunt Emerson and publisher Chris Staros (Top Shelf Comics) at the Bristol International Comics Expo…

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Hooting Yard : Hideous Bat-god Fatso

Ordinarily, when we think of harpies we think of Aello, Ocypete, and Celaeno, or as she is sometimes known, Podarge, the three sisters of Greek myth, bird-women who kept stealing, and befouling, food from Phineus and were generally vicious, violent and cruel. Tennyson called them “These prodigies of myriad nakednesses, / And twisted shapes of lust, unspeakable, / Abominable, strangers at my hearth / Not welcome, harpies miring every dish” but that may be more a reflection of the poet’s fevered mental state than of the destructive wind-spirits themselves.

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Wavelength – 2006 October 6th Anatomy of Vision

Anatomy of Vision by Vitamin B12 from the double LP “badges” the fifth album by the vitamin b12 edition of 300 copies, followed by Adagio, section 5 from An Angel Moves too fast to See by Rhys Chatham.

William English