Marvin Suicide : 130 – Juice

Good morning, good morning, good morning. I feel on top of the world today, how about you?

If, like me, you can be a bit silly now and again then you might appreciate this weeks episode of marvin suicide. Not only is the freely downloaded music of its usual high quality but you will also enjoy the benefits of added vitamin B12 and omega 3 oils.

Here is the tracklist:

1. Ciowderlock by Solvent, Woodworking:
www.alien8recordings.com

2. Walking by Izmar, Conscious EP:
www.monotonik.com

3. Frost by Agent 101, Rough Sketches:
www.comatronic.net

4. Breaker by Low:
www.subpop.com

5. F**kin Up My Christmas by MC Chris, Life’s A Bitch And I’m Her Pimp:
www.mcchris.com

5. A Girl In The Pub by Catgut:
www.catgutmusic.com

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was not broadcast, so there. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Panel Borders: Transformers – then…

Simon FurmanWith a week to go until the release of the new Transformers movie, Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott interview the writer (Simon Furman) and one of the most acclaimed artists (Geoff Senior) of the seminal British Transformers comic from the 1980s which helped cement a love of the robots in disguise for our generation as much as the cartoons and toys the franchise was based on.

In other comics news: The Observer has launched a competition to find new comics artists and writers so if you think you can create a short story using pictures, word balloons and captions that fits on a single page of A4, visit Random House’s Graphic Novels website for more details…
Almost transmitted on Resonance FM on Monday 23rd July 2007 (mp3 format, 13.8mb)
Links – Wikipedia entries on: Transformers comics, cartoon, Simon Furman and Geoff Senior
Simon’s blog
Geoff’s website
Titan Publishing’s new UK Transformers comic by Simon & Geoff
Dynamite Entertainment’s new Terminator 2 comic by Simon
Underground Online‘s guide to Transformers
Monzo and Jhiaxus’ guide to obscure Transformers comics

Hooting Yard : Glassy-eyed Noodlehead

I think we were meant to see the captain as a kind of Ahab figure, obsessed and mad as well as sinister, but for me this effect was flawed by the fact that it was a rented tugboat. Bagshaw/Shawbag did not own it. Every week he had to slip some coinage into the waiting palm of a seaside bureaucrat, representative of a dull organisation stuffed with accountants and administrators.

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Their main business seemed to be civic coastline management and prettifying, with renting out a tugboat to a sinister begloved madman as an afterthought. Somehow that made him less the master of his vessel, for me, and I remember tutting ruefully as I read the paragraph in which this was explained. Whoever wrote the story clearly felt it was important, for it was a very long paragraph, leaden with detail, and I skipped past it on my subsequent rereadings.

  • Tugboat Tales, Number One
  • Crouch And Kaka
  • Annals Of The Frankish Kings
  • A Message From Beyond
  • Mrs Gubbins Throws A Fit

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 23rd May 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by Chris J.

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Marvin Suicide : 129 – Funk off.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, marvin suicide.

The tracklist:

1. Did You Find Hawkins? by Ebola, Predator (Shwarzenegger Series):
www.net-lab.co.uk

2. Sleep Well by Rich.vom.Dorf, Misinterpret Yourself:
www.notype.com/nishi

3. Where It Falls (Suz’s Rip Up The Rug Remix) by David Last, Whatwhat?:
www.unfoundsoundrecords.com

4. So Said by Joe Ellis, Six Of One, Half A Dozen Of The Other EP:
www.trimsound.co.uk

5. TV by Feuerbach, Ask Us No Questions And We’ll Tell You No Lies:
www.sundaysinspring.net

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was not broadcast, so there. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Panel Borders: 1001 comics by Peter David pt.2

Paul CornellIn the second episode of Panel Borders in its regular slot, guest presenter Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) concludes his interview with the prolific and popular American comics writer Peter David about continuing Stephen King’s epic saga The Dark Tower in comic book format and the ever present challenge of continuity…
Original broadcast: 16th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 13.8mb)

Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell and The Dark Tower
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Hooting Yard : Local Gaar-pot Drinking Hut

Autumn. Shipwreck. Curtains. Exile. Frost. Balconies. Pandaemonium. Hedgerows. Banisters. Carpets. Hinges. Remembrance. Hair. Custard. Dribble. Fanfares. Dampness. Bauxite. Trousers. Canals. Boskage. Lasciviousness. Tunics. Spigots. Iron. Cranks. Floozies. Doppelgangers. Tin. Bales. Agony. Loss. Lust. Love. Crack. Bang. Crunlop. Lars Talc is dead.

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  • A reading from Characters; or Witty Descriptions of the Properties of Sundry Persons by Sir Thomas Overbury
  • What’s On In Mustard Parva
  • Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning
  • Punter Hoonjaw
  • Dobsonia
  • A Person From Porlock
  • Today’s Recipe
  • Important Lark Information
  • Personality Profile

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 16th May 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the two publications Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars and Befuddled By Cormorants are available for purchase. Photo by Mil.

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Marvin Suicide : 128 – Don’t talk to me

Please find below the very lengthy tracklisting for this weeks episode. Don’t get too tired whilst taking the time to wade your way through it…

Tracklisting:

1. Revery by Various Artists, 8E Phalanx : Revery:
www.entity.be

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was originally broadcast on the 5th July 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

I’m ready for my close up: Novelizing the small screen

Continuing his discussion from Monday’s episode of Panel Borders, author Paul Cornell interviews sci-fi writer Peter David about his Star Trek novels and episodes of Babylon 5. Peter’s Next Generation novel Imzadi was an inspiration for Paul’s Doctor Who novel Human Nature (recently adapted for TV) and so the two authors discuss themes of love and loss in science-fiction and the joys of working for a sympathetic show runner…
Today’s show is edited by Alex Fitch with digital noise reduction by Steve Clark… Original broadcast: 12th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 29.7 mb)

Links: Peter and Paul’s blogs
Wikipedia pages on Paul Cornell, Peter David and Babylon 5
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Sunday Play: The Theif

On the morning of the 29th November 2005, a black plastic case containing an amanoiwabue (a natural stone flute) belonging to the sound artist Akio Suzuki disappeared from the luggage rack of an Amsterdam bound train from Paris Gare du Nord. The seat number was 55, carriage number 18. By the time the theft was noticed the train had already passed Antwerp but the case may have been stolen before the train left the Gare du Nord. This is the tale of the theif.

A play written by Johny Brown. For more info please visit johny@johny.co.uk or contact: johnybrown46@yahoo.co.uk

  • The Theif was performed live in the ResonanceFM studio on 7th April 2007.
  • The Theif was played by Joanna Pickering
  • The Angel was played by Samuel Collings
  • The music was provided by Howard Jaques and Johny Brown and it was produced by Alisdair McGregor

At time of broadcast, the stone flute remains missing. This play was written and performed in the hope that it can jog someone’s memory and reunite the stone with it’s rightful guardian.

Shine on.

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Panel Borders: 1001 comics by Peter David pt.1

Peter DavidIn the first episode of Panel Borders in its regular slot, guest presenter Paul Cornell (Doctor Who) interviews the prolific and popular American comic book writer Peter David about his work on Marvel comics such as The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel! [In the Timely / timeless tradition of comic book cross-overs, the next part of this interview in which Peter and Paul talk about writing for and novelizing TV shows, will be broadcast on Thursday as an episode of I’m ready for my close-up]
Original broadcast: 9th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 13.5mb)

Wikipedia entries on:
Peter David, Paul Cornell
The Spectacular Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk,
Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com