Those of you familiar with the important Hooting Yard Book o’ Days will know that precisely six years ago today, the very first episode of Hooting Yard On The Air was broadcast on ResonanceFM. I will be celebrating by drinking a flask of aerated lettucewater and sacrificing a (vegan, marzipan) goat.
Once upon a time, of course, radio shows were fugitive, ephemeral things, but today, with the wonders of podcasting, untold hours of Mr Key’s babbling remain available for you to download from the ResonanceFM archive. Apparently, thousands of people do, certainly more than ever read this blog.
This seems as good a time as any, then, to note that a new podcast maestro has taken over the reins, whose self-appointed task is to increase the frequency of releases. Past programmes have been issued as podcasts generally about once a fortnight, but the plan now is for them to appear twice a week, until the backlog is cleared.
For an insight into the tremendous technical challenges of the process, I refer you to this piece from the 2006 archives. Little has changed, save perhaps for the metal from which the maestro’s hat has been welded.
My thanks are due to the podcast maestro and his predecessors, and you can make their dedication to this noble cause worthwhile by subscribing, downloading, and listening, for so long and so often that Mr Key’s voice haunts your dreams. And please remember that the very existence of ResonanceFM is a fragile and rickety thing, and your donations to the station will help it to survive.
This episode was recorded on the 15th April 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
Tags: Hooting Yard
Recorded at ”Publish and be Damned” on Sunday 3rd August; brief interviews, incoherent snatches of sound + tracks from a CD on the Ole label bought at the event.
Tags: Podcast · Shows · Wavelength
This episode contains strong language that some people may find offensive.
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Tags: Marvin Suicide · Music
Thus the irascible chain-smoking coach took up lodgings at the edge of an ant farm, and spent hours upon hours every day drilling the ants in all sorts of sporty disciplines. So fantastic was his rapport with the tiny insects that they came to worship him as a god, one who wore a Homburg hat and spat out much phlegm. Their weird alien insect brains underwent some kind of Old Haloby modification, and he became their single, simple focus, their one and only, their world.
This episode was recorded on the 8th April 2010. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the four publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase.
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Climate change activists Graham Thompson and Joss Garman discuss environmental current affairs with guests from politics, civil society and the media. This week they will be talking to award winning journalist Johann Hari about whether US green groups went bad and Diane Abbot about whether the environment is an issue in the Labour leadership contest.
Tags: Deep Fried Planet · Environment
Climate change activists Joss Garman and Ben Stewart discuss environmental current affairs with guests from politics, civil society and the media. This week they speak to Will Straw of Left Foot Forward and David Babbs of 38 degrees to discuss how blogging and online campaigns could transform the way the environmental community and the broader progressive movement works.
Tags: Deep Fried Planet · Environment
Interview with Alan and Steve Freeman, proprietors of Leicester shop: Ultima Thule, legendary outlet for recordings of ”Spacy” electronic music, Krautrock, experimental and progressive music including local outfits such as Volcano the Bear and Black Carrot. Alan and Steve also perform their own music in a variety of identities.
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In the third episode of Deep Fried Planet, Joss Garman discusses subsidies to big oil and big coal, and cuts to clean energy budgets. Joining him this week are Sarah Jayne-Clifton from Friends of the Earth and Colin Hines from the Green New Deal group.
Tags: Deep Fried Planet · Environment
I’m ready for my close-up: 3 Zombies, 2001 Maniacs and a Chainsaw Massacre!
Originally broadcast 30/07/10 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Alex Fitch talks to actor Bill Moseley about his career in the horror film genre, and the continuing occurrence of sequels and remakes in his work, from appearing in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Bruce Campbell vs. Army of Darkness in the 1980s, the remake of Night of the Living Dead in the 90s (and its forthcoming animated prequel), a trio of Rob Zombie films, including House of 1,000 corpses and The Devil’s Rejects and the recently released sequel to a Herschell Gordon Lewis ‘classic’: 2001 Maniacs – Field of Screams….
The many faces of Bill Moseley
To download / stream this radio interview in a variety of formats, please visit www.archive.org
Links: Wikipedia pages on Bill Moseley, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D
Official 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams website
Listen to Alex’s interview with Bill Moseley’s Army of Darkness co-star, Bruce Campbell
Tags: I'm Ready for my Closeup
Electric Sheep podcast: The films of Vincenzo Natali
Partially broadcast 23/07/10 as part of an episode of I’m ready for my close-up on Resonance 104.4 FM
To coincide with the release of the new Sci-Fi thriller Splice, in which scientists Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley create a dangerous half human hybrid via genetic manipulation, Alex Fitch talks to director Vincenzo Natali about the film and the other three movies he’s collaborated on with actor David Hewlett: Cypher, Nothing , the cult classic Cube and his forthcoming adaptation of William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer…
Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody being directed by Vincenzo Natali on the set of Splice
More for more information and a variety of formats you can stream / download, please visit the home of this podcast at www.archive.org
Links: Wikipedia pages on Splice, Vincenzo Natali and David Hewlett
Official Splice website
Splice trailers at apple.com
Read Alex’s reviews of Splice and Cube
Listen to Alex’s interview with David Hewlett about working with Vincenzo Natali
Tags: Electric Sheep Magazine podcast · I'm Ready for my Closeup
