Hooting Yard : Whirling Tangle Of Peasants

“Now and again, it will do you a power of good to spend a Wednesday morning tramping along a high ridge, blowing a trumpet and waving a banner. If you can persuade others to join you, so much the better. It will not matter if you are tuneless and raggle-taggle – the experience itself can pump vital energy into your blood, oxygenating your brain and feeding crucial nutriments into your integuments.”

A Note On Pigs
The Unspeakably Squalid Becrumplement Of Tadzio Gobbo
Trumpets And Banners
Mansfield
The Rotation Of The Globe
A quotation from The Monkey God by Seabury Quinn

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 9th 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 trevorparker.

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I’m ready for my close up: Stuart Gordon and the cinema of the extreme

Concluding directors month on IR4MCU, Alex Fitch interviews director Stuart Gordon about his new film ‘Edmond’ based on the play by David Mamet. Having made his name with classic H.P. Lovecraft adaptations ‘Re-animator’ and ‘From Beyond’ in the eighties and sci-fi B movies in the nineties, Gordon has now returned to his experimental theatre roots with this adaptation that may garner his biggest audience yet…
Originally broadcast 10.30pm 5th July ’07 (mp3 format, 26.6mb)

Links: Official movie website
IMDb pages on Edmond, Stuart Gordon and David Mamet
Wikipedia pages on Edmond, Stuart Gordon and David Mamet
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

Panel Borders: How Gay are comics? pt.2

In the second pilot episode of Panel Borders, Alex Fitch concludes his interview with Patricia Jeres about gay representation in comics both on the page and behind the creator’s pen, looking this week at the new Batwoman and transgender Skrulls in Young Avengers!

Patricia is an advisory board member of Prism comics – a company that promotes LGBT creators in the medium and previously worked for DC comics.
Original broadcast: 5th July ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 14.5mb)

Links to info on some of the creators discussed in the programme:
Prism comics’ website and page on Patty Jeres
dykes to watch out for.com – Alison Bechdel’s blog
Allan Heinberg’s myspace page
Greg Rucka’s website
Brian K Vaughan’s website
Zeb Wells’ bibliography at Marvel.com
Wikipedia pages on Prism Comics, Alison Bechdel, Allan Heinberg, Greg Rucka and Brian K. Vaughan
‘Adventures of a Gay Geek’ blog about diversity in comics
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

Marvin Suicide : 127 – Hello its me, Kraken

Once again another splendid episode of freely downloaded musical goodness for you to enjoy. That is all I feel worth mentioning.

Here is the tracklisting for all ya’ll:

1. The Standard Chant Part 2 by Jonathan Borofsky:
www.ubu.com

2. Nr.1 by Sel & 12bitPhil, Sel Meets 12bitPhil EP:
www.ideology.de

3. Push The Dancing Datas by Nightnoise, 10 Ways To North LP:
www.supersix.de

4. Interlude Of The Acceptable And Unacceptable Suspensions by Mike Richard, Affections, Affects 1-4:
www.mymeanmagpie.com

5. Captain Badass by Songs: Ohia, Axxess & Ace:
www.secretlycanadian.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 originally broadcast on the 28th June 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 @).

Art house Cinema: Podcast #3

It’s finally time for this month’s Art House cinema podcast featuring reviews of films released this month at ‘Art House’ cinemas in London… Presented by Alex Fitch and Jessica Fostekew, a member of the comedy improv group The Institute, who has recently completed an acclaimed 6 week run in the reknowned News Revue and will soon be appearing at the Edinburgh festival…

Films reviewed include Water, Black Gold and Tell no one / Ne le dis a personne.

Links: You can read print versions of the reviews at backprojection.com
(mp3 format, 23mins / 32.8mb)

Hooting Yard : A Man Without A Ditch

We all know that there was an age known as the Epoch of Snares, but it is surprising how little is generally known about it. This was a time when giant badger-like beings roamed the hills of the earth, when the oceans were deeper, darker, and more terrifying than they are now, and when only the very bravest of souls volunteered to crew the enormous primitive container ships that plied across those seas.

Rose Garden
Epoch Of Snares
Far Far Away

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 2nd 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 Dr. Smarties.

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Panel Borders: How Gay Are Comics? Pt.1

Alex Fitch talks to Patricia Jeres about gay representation in comics, both on the page and behind the writer / artist’s pen. Patricia is an advisory board member of Prism comics – a company that promotes LGBT creators in the medium – and previously worked for DC.

This is the first episode of Resonance FM’s new show about the world of comics… Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott talk to writers, artists and publishers about sequential art, graphic novels and four colour periodicals. Also: episodes presented by comic creators interviewing colleagues about their inspirations and love of the art form. At 15 mins / week, it’s the length of time your average 32 page comic takes to read!

Visit our website at www.panelborders.com

Original broadcast: 28th June ’07 on 104.4 FM (mp3 format, 13.5mb)

I’m ready for my close-up: Making a new Picture of Dorian Gray

In the second of today’s shows leading up to Pride Weekend and continuing director’s month on IR4MCU, Alex Fitch talks to British director Duncan Roy about his new movie. Following his terrific debut A.K.A., Roy returns to the topic of the social classes (albeit relocated to the New York art scene) with his adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel…
N.B. Dorian Gray is showing next at The Cambridge film festival (download a PDF of the programme – it’s on page 31) on the 12th & 14th of July…

Originally broadcast 28th June 2007 at 10.30pm (mp3 format, 28.7 mb)

Links: Official movie website
IMDb page on The Picture of Dorian Gray
Duncan’s myspace page
Interview with Duncan in Indie Wire magazine
Wikipedia list of Dorian Gray adaptations
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

Flomotion Podcast #4: Jamie Woon

Nick Luscombe hooks up with Jamie Woon to discuss his influences, music production methods and future plans. Includes exclusive live tracks from this extraordinary young musician.

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Marvin Suicide : 126 – Ramping it up

I was particularly embarrassed to learn that my colleague of the show actually used to be a rather well known Super DJ, and wasn’t too pleased when they found out my idea for this episode.

Regrettably we are no longer speaking and I now have to produce the programme on my own. Poor me.

Here is the tracklisting:

1. Mugger by Gunnar:
www.bevlarmusic.com

2. Padded Shoulders Marathon by Dumb Dan:
www.bevlarmusic.com

3. Arponia by Drumlake, Aqua Genic EP:
www.monohm.com

4. Move Adjunkt by DJ Wrong speed:
www.redzeroradio.net

5. Me Or Reality by Pat Carey:
www.jazzpromo.com