Electric Sheep podcast: Terry Gilliam and Ted Kotcheff, The Fright Theorem

Electric Sheep podcast: Terry Gilliam and Ted Kotcheff, The Fright Theorem

Alex Fitch talks to Ted Kotcheff, the director of a ‘lost’ cult classic – Wake in Fright (1971) – and to Terry Gilliam, director of another cult title in the making, The Zero Theorum (2014). Fitch and Kotcheff discuss how Wake was recovered by its editor, how it depicts issues of masculinity in crisis and has an unreliable narrator. Gilliam, in an extract from the London Film Festival Q and A, talks about how his new film responds to issues of NSA spying, continues his strand of casting actors against type, and represents a ‘full fat’ viewing experience!

Stills from Wake in Fright and The Zero Theorem

Stills from Wake in Fright and The Zero Theorem

Visit www.archive.org, for more info + formats to stream / download.

Links: Wikipedia pages on Wake in Fright and The Zero Theorem
Electric Sheep Magazine reviews of Wake in Fright and The Zero Theorem
Official Wake in Fright and The Zero Theorem websites

Recommended events:

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 at SCI-FI-LONDON

The MST3K all nighter is a regular attraction of SCI-FI-LONDON (The London International Science Fiction and Fantastic Film Festival), and this year the festival would like to bring along two of the actors from the series to ‘riff’ in person at the film screenings. Dr. Forrester and Frank’s appearance will hopefully be funded by an indiegog campaign where you can also purchase a signed Cinematic Titanic DVD by the duo.

More info here / festival website Continue reading →

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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 9

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Handel Vs. Villa-Lobos. On today’s show Richard talks about Handel singing with the winner of The Handel Singing Competition Rupert Charlesworth and soprano Lorena Paz Nieto talks about Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos.
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Originally broadcast on 6th March 2014

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Panel Borders: Will Eisner week

Panel Borders: Will Eisner week

Starting a month of shows about comics and graphic novels which depict ordinary life on the page, Alex Fitch talks to a quartet of comics experts and historians about Will Eisner’s autobiographical comics to coincide with International Will Eisner Week, which celebrates the author’s work. Richard Reynolds (Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins), Ian Rakoff (Lecturer, Victoria and Albert Museum), Guy Lawley (contributor: 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die) and Steve Edgell (co-author: The Complete Cartooning Course) discuss Eisner’s seminal graphic novel A Contract with God and its sequels, the cartoonist’s work for the army on P.S. Magazine: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly and his final work The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Extracts from A Contract with God, P.S. Magazine and The Plot by Will Eisner

Extracts from A Contract with God, P.S. Magazine and The Plot by Will Eisner

(Originally broadcast 03/03/14 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

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: Info about Richard Reynolds on Central Saint Martins website
Ian Rakoff’s blog
Info about Guy Lawley on Paul Gravett’s website
Guy Lawley’s bibliography on goodreads.com
Will Eisner week website

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W.A.S.P. 2014

This year’s Web Artist Swap Project is in full swing with the likes of Rebecca Burgess, Richy K. Chandler, Francesca Dare, Zarina Liew, David O’Connell, Jade Sarson, Nicola Streeten, Paul Shinn and many more taking turns in drawing each others’ webcomics.
Find out more by going to www.tempolush.com/wasp

British Comics Month at Gosh!

Special events celebrating British Comics are taking place throughout March at Gosh! Comics in Soho, London. These include:

Selfmade Hero Spring Party, featuring ILYA, Mark Stafford, and Reinhard Kleist, Friday, the 7th of March, from 7pm to 9pm. Also, from the 3rd through to the 9th of March, customers will be able to get 25% off all Selfmade Hero books! Continue reading →

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Listen again: Hello GoodBye – 01.03.14 – Ft: Momus and Kero Kero Bonito

Momus
Kero Kero Bonito

Momus and Kero Kero Bonito perform live on Hello GoodBye on Resonance FM.

PLAYLIST
Unit – Asian Avenue
Kero Kero Bonito – Sick Beat (LIVE SESSION)
Kero Kero Bonito – My Party (LIVE SESSION)
Kero Kero Bonito – Kero Kero Bonito (LIVE SESSION)
Kero Kero Bonito – Homework (LIVE SESSION)
Kero Kero Bonito – No Graduation (LIVE SESSION)
Kero Kero Bonito – Small Town (LIVE SESSION)
Flamingods – Kinich Ahau
Kero Kero Bonito – ‘interview’
Sephine Llo – I, Your Moon
Gaggle – The Power Of Money
Unit – Workers Autonomy
Dirty Viv – Where’s Dave?
Unit – David C. Goes Jailing
Paul Hawkins And The Awkward Silences – The Precautionary Principal
Band Of Holy Joy – Weird Beautiful Time
Momus – The Ephebophobe (LIVE SESSION)
Momus – Erase (LIVE SESSION)
Momus – Hypnoprism (LIVE SESSION)
Momus – The Shape Of A Pear (LIVE SESSION)
Momus – ‘interview’

Presented by deXter Bentley
Live sound engineer: Lisa Geurts assisted by Sarah Nichol and Beth Rogers

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The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 8

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today: There is a live performance by the cast of Arianna in Creta, The London Handel Festival’s new production, which is as much a tale of love and jealousy as it is of monsters and murder. So tune in to find out exactly what happens in Handel’s emotional and mythological labyrinth.

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Originally broadcast on 27th February 2014

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Panel Borders: Rabbis and Humanoids

Concluding a month of shows about French comics or Bande dessinée, Alex Fitch talks to Tim Pilcher about his new role as UK Liaison at Humanoids Publishing, bringing translations of French graphic novels to Britain, and to Graphic Novelist and filmmaker Joann Sfar about his titles The Rabbi’s Cat (Le Chat du Rabbin) and Tokyo.

Fitch and Pilcher discuss the launch titles available from Humanoids UK in the Spring, including work by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Nicolas de Crecy, and Sfar discusses how he adapts his style for different audiences and age groups, as well as for the cinema as the director of Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque (2010). (Originally broadcast 24/02/14 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Extracts from The Rabbis Cat and Tokyo by Joann Sfar and covers of three forthcoming releases from Humanoids UK

Extracts from The Rabbis Cat and Tokyo by Joann Sfar and covers of three forthcoming releases from Humanoids UK

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: Humanoids UK facebook page
Joann Sfar’s website

Recommended events

W.A.S.P. 2014

This year’s Web Artist Swap Project is in full swing with the likes of Rebecca Burgess, Richy K. Chandler, Francesca Dare, Zarina Liew, David O’Connell, Jade Sarson, Nicola Streeten, Paul Shinn and many more taking turns in drawing each others’ webcomics.
Find out more by going to www.tempolush.com/wasp

British Comics Month at Gosh!

Special events celebrating British Comics are taking place throughout March at Gosh! Comics in Soho, London. These include:

Selfmade Hero Spring Party, featuring ILYA, Mark Stafford, and Reinhard Kleist, Friday, the 7th of March, from 7pm to 9pm. Also, from the 3rd through to the 9th of March, customers will be able to get 25% off all Selfmade Hero books! Continue reading →

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Free Lab Radio – West Town Goes East

West Town Goes East by Fari

This episode we we sampled the sounds of Nour Festival 2013 and gave away tickets to see Jah Wobble live. Plus audio by two Iranian female composers who were applicants for the Six Pillars UK-Iran Sonic Residency Project. We also open and close this new releases by Lebanese singer and writer Yasmine Hamdan, who was performing in Shepherd’s Bush, West London that month.

The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 7

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes. Today’s guest is award-winning poet and librettist David Harsent.

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Originally broadcast on 20th February 2014

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Listen again: Hello GoodBye – 22.02.14 – Ft: Haiku salut + Bitten By A Monkey

Haiku Salut
Bitten By A Monkey
The Hello GoodBye Show returns to business as usual with a lunchtime menu of live music, featuring Haiku Salut and Bitten By A Monkey.

PLAYLIST
Trash Kit – Skin
Grimm Grimm – Kazega Fuitara Sayounara
Unit – Final Fantasy
Bugman Ex-Offender – Art Of Discretion
Dirty Viv – Chainsaw
Haiku Salut – You Dance A Particular Algorithm (LIVE SESSION)
Haiku Salut – Glockelbar (LIVE SESSION)
Haiku Salut – Los Elefantes (LIVE SESSION)
Chips For The Poor – Fistula
Haiku Salut – ‘interview’
Momus – Yes
Kero Kero Bonito – Sick Beat
Dirty Viv – Where’s Dave?
Bark Studio – Advert 2
Unit – Mob Violence
Unit – Mordecai Watson
Bitten By A Monkey – Prelude To Worms (LIVE SESSION)
Bitten By A Monkey – Worms (LIVE SESSION)
Bitten By A Monkey – Ants (LIVE SESSION)
Erik Satie – Gnossienne No.1 (played by: Daniel Varsano)
John Renbourn – Sarabande
Bitten By A Monkey – ‘interview’

Presented by: deXter bentley and Dan Frost
Live sound engineer: Tom Kemp assisted by Lisa Geurts and Beth Rogers

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On The Plains of Gath

And the Lord came unto the plains of Gath. And he was footsore, having walked for many days without rest. And he sat him down upon one of the tussocks which grow upon the plains of Gath. Then there came a widow woman driving before her a goat. And the goat was thin and bony and of Satanic mien. And the Lord said unto the widow woman:

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“Woman! I am your Lord and I am footsore having walked for many days without rest. I have great thirst. Succour me with milk from your goat. This I command.”

This episode was recorded on the 8th March 2012. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Frank’s new eBook By Aerostat to Hooting Yard is now available for purchase.

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