Reality Check: John Reppion’s Haunted Liverpool
Originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com
Alex Fitch talks to author John Reppion, about his book 800 years of Haunted Liverpool and the many issues it raises. Alex and John talk about the nature of hauntings, the variety of other phantasms seen in Merseyside from Witches to Mermaids and the phenomenon of “Time Slips” observed in various parts of the city.
One of the prizes for a Resonance fund raising auction was to have a piano tuned by Art Terry, presenter of Is Black Music on Resonance104.4fm. I don’t have a piano but placed a winning bid and asked Art if I could film him tuning a piano which he agreed to. This is the soundtrack of that video film recorded on a mini dv camera superimposed on a recording made at Marcus Campbell Art Books 43 Holland Street, London SE1, of a creaking floor and demolition of the building opposite.
A look at Googoosh, ‘the daughter of Iran’ introducing her to those who’ve never heard of her, celebrating her for those who love her, and talking with the documentary maker who made the only film about her. Farhad Zamani managed to do this while Googoosh was still in Iran and still banned from singing or appearing in public. The film was released at the very moment the government were thinking of letting her leave in 2000, a landmark date. This intensely psychological film contains rare footage and interviews with those around Googoosh, building up an in-depth picture of someone who though alive, does not appear. At the same time Zamani uses experimental editing techniques to relay the tension and underline certain issues, all the while doing as Googoosh had done for many years: speaking through that which cannot be spoken.
Six Pillars to Persia is an English Language program celebrating Iranian outsider arts and modern Persian heritage. Mondays 1.30pm GMT, Sundays 8.30pm GMT
This program was broadcast on March 3rd 2008 from the Audio Visual 08 festival Museum Of Modern Art Middlesborough.
“Stand-up Comics” * part 2
Originally broadcast 14/08/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
The second half of the final one hour edition of Resonance FM’s weekly comic book show Strip!** is a special ‘zine-style show curated by Gemma Cantlow, editor of the ‘zine Layby Perk and features a variety of small press creators performing music and spoken word pieces on the radio.
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1 ) Daniel Locke (Green) / Ian Murphy – “It was always burning”
2 ) Attack Wave Pestrepeller featuring Savage Pencil – “These with the ash of spiders”
3 ) Mystery Dick / Ed Pinsent and Harley Richardson (Sound Projector) – “St. Joseph of Copertino”
4 ) Matthew Thurber (1-800 Mice) – “Hiawatha’s Underwater Bird”
5 ) Sylvie Winn (The Director of Tall Buildings) – “Bipolar Bear”
6 ) Dan Lester (Monkeys Might Puke) – “Usagi Yojimbo”
7 ) Jimi Gherkin (Jimi Gherkin Comics) – “It ain’t gonna work out fine” (+ slight reprise)
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“Stand-up Comics” * part 1
Originally broadcast 14/08/08 as part of Strip! on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
The first half of the final one hour edition of Resonance FM’s weekly comic book show Strip!** is a special ‘zine-style show curated by Gemma Cantlow, editor of the ‘zine Layby Perk and features a variety of small press creators performing music and spoken word pieces on the radio.
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1 ) Gareth Brookes (Appalling Nonsense) – “Smell of the wild”
2 ) Steven Tillotson (Banal Pig Comics) – “‘Round Michael Douglas’ House” (performed by Dan Lester / Monkeys Might Puke)
3 ) Gareth Brookes – “Jolly Bear”
4 ) Ambergris / Matthew Thurber (1-800 Mice) – “Anti-Matter / Alma Mater”
5 ) Ambergris / Matthew Thurber – “Ice Water”
Strip! (Clear Spot) – The strange world of Steve Ditko
Originally broadcast at 8pm, 14/08/08 on Resonance 104.4 FM
James DC hosts a 1 hour special round-table discussion about the recent book Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko, released by Fantagraphics books. James is in discussion with comic book artists and Ditko experts Steve Marchant, Mark Stafford and the author of the book, Blake Bell.
Ditko is best known as the co-creator, with Stan Lee, of Spider-Man, Dr. Strange, and other classic Marvel and DC characters. But, in the context of Steve Ditko’s 50-year career in comics, his creative involvement with Spider-Man is merely the tip of the iceberg. Strange & Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko is a lavish coffee table art book tracing Ditko’s life and career, his unparalleled stylistic innovations, and his strict adherence to his Ayn Rand inspired philosophical principles, along with illustrations – some rarely printed – of some of the obscure artwork from Ditko’s ouevre.
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org
Edgard Varese; Ionisation (1931) for 3 bass drums, 2 side drums, 2 snare drums, tarole, 2 bongos, tambourine, tambour militaire, crash cymbal, suspended cymbals, 3 tam tams, gong, 2 anvils, 2 triangles, sleigh bells, chimes, celesta, piano, Chinese blocks, claves, maracas, castanets, slapstick, guiro, high and low sirens, lion’s roar (Nonesuch 1974).
Bow Gamelan Ensemble; Black Betty/Pyrotechnics ‘Offshore Rig’. From the vinyl LP Great Noises that fill the Air (Klinker Zoundz 8804 1988).
Musique Akara. Tambours de bois. From Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinee (Ocora OCR 86).
Luis Agudo; Agudu from the LP Afrosamba (Red Record VPA 172).
Kip Hanrahan/Jack Bruce: You can tell a guy by his anger, from Exotica 1992.
Slipping out of a den of vice through a side door, slinking with surprising elegance along a night alley thick with the leavings of debauchery, he whistled Oh Danny Boy, attracting the attention of police officers.
Panel Borders: The state of Gay Comics ( 2008 ) part 1
Originally broadcast 07/08/08 on Resonance FM
The first 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. Accompanying Alex on the panel are comics expert Paul Gravett, manga artist Yishan Li 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).
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Alastair Humphreys has cycled round the world ‘the hard way’: four years, sixty countries and forty-six thousand miles. In the first of a two part special he tells the story of his epic adventure from Yorkshire to South Africa and Chile to Colombia. Thunder and Sunshine, the second volume of his travelogue is out now, published by Eye Books.
The studio at Resonance FM is closed on 18th and 25th August so there will be no show on those dates. The second part of this two-show special will be broadcast on 1 September.
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