Hooting Yard : Forty Years Of Hell In A Bauxite Mine

Bring me a cuppet of foaming grog! And bring me some rags to mop up the spillage! Bring me a lantern to light my way through the gruesome lanes of your gruesome village!

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Wavelength – 2006 July 30th Congestion charge, Film editing equipment sent down a rubbish chute

Congestion charge telephone call. Film editing equipment is sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor, Ground Zero (Otomo
Yoshihide) Standards: A better tomorrow/I say a little prayer. Recording of an automated answering machine for registering for a congestion charge in London. Followed by the sounds of film editing equipment; heavy rewind handles, metal spools, film cans and other items which were sent down a rubbish chute from the 14th floor of a block of flats in EC1 London. Sony ‘Professional’ Walkman cassette recorder, microphone placed inside the rubbish chute.

William English

Electric Sheep podcast: (Re)visiting Dark City

Electric Sheep podcast: (Re)visiting Dark City

Dark City montage by Tom Humberstone / Vented Spleen
(Illustration by Tom Humberstone / Vented Spleen)

An episode of The Electric Sheep Magazine Podcast – Alex Fitch talks to Eagle Award winning comic book artist Tom Humberstone about Dark City – the underrated 1998 sci-fi film noir which has been recently rereleased in an extended director’s cut.

For more info, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org

Links: Read a print extract at Electric Sheep Magazine
Tom’s website ventedspleen.com
Official Dark City website

In association with: Electric Sheep Magazine logo

The Bike Show: Around the world the hard way (part two)

Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the second of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure: from Mexico to Alaska, through Siberia, Japan, China and central Asia.

Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is out now, published by Eye Books.

Play on links below, other file formats (e.g. Ogg Vorbis) over here.

Airwaves – Chicken El Diablo

With 10 years spChicken Diablo Album Artent conquering the roads and 3 of them also trying to piece together an album, Stockholm legends, Chicken El Diablo have finally seen the Swedish release of their hugely anticipated masterpiece “Love It Or Level it”. This show features an interview with band member William Carlstedt and 6 tracks culled from the album which is now out on Airwaves Music.

Recorded and produced by Fredrik MÃ¥nsson.

Interview by Gavin Maycroft.

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Wavelength – 2006 July 16th Maurice LeMaitre

Maurice LeMaitre vinyl EP “Maurice Lemaitre presente Le Lettrisme” ESRF 1171 1958; a very rare record by the maker of Le Film est deja Commence? and numerous Lettriste tracts and videos. Plus tracks by Isidore Isou and Jean Dubuffet.

William English

An Introduction to Airwaves

Airwaves Logo with borderSpecializing in post rock, updated krautrock, psychedelia and general weirdness there is no label quite like Stockholm’s Airwaves. Born from the frustrations of watching a series of great bands vanish into oblivion in the mid to late nineties, Airwaves has become a unique home for alternative musical talents. This show as our introduction to its genius residents; Chicken El Diablo, Tender Souveniers, Rökmorsa, Elias Krantz, Clark Nova, Mackaper, Currents, Fuglesang and Help Elp Elp Lp

Panel Borders: The state of Gay Comics (2008) part 2

Panel Borders: The state of Gay Comics ( 2008 ) part 2
Originally broadcast 07/08/08 on Resonance FM

The second part of a panel recorded live at this year’s Bristol International Comics Expo, Alex Fitch hosts a panel of creators and experts on Gay comics and Yaoi manga. Accompanying Alex on the panel are comics expert Paul Gravett, manga artist Yishan Li (Yaoi press) and graphic novelist / Guardian strip illustrator David Shenton (Get Her! / The Shentons). Audience members asking questions include Oli Smith (London Underground Comics / Weekend Friends), Richy Chandler (a.k.a. Tempo Lush) and Bevis Musson (Queen of Diamonds). This is an extended version of the panel recording as broadcast on Resonance FM.

For more info please visit the home of this podcast at archive.org

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