I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of Sci-Fi movies

Alex Fitch interviews Louis Savvy, organiser of Sci-Fi London, the capital’s annual science fiction and fantasy festival about this year’s event. Sci-Fi London is held from the 3rd to the 6th of May and this year features such films as Recon 2022: The Mezzo incident and Plane Dead (a.k.a. Flight of the living dead), documentaries like Future by design and also runs concurrent with Cine-excess, a conference on cult cinema that includes screenings of David Mamet’s Edmond and Gyorgi Palfi’s Taxidermia. Alex and Louis discuss these films, the highlights of last year’s festival and (natch) the current state of sci-fi on the big and small screens.

Originally broadcast 26th April 2007 (mp3 format, 27.3mb)

Links: Sci-Fi London homepage
Cine Excess homepage
Taxidermia review at backprojection.com
If you’d like to buy any of the films that Louis Mentioned which showed in last year’s festival:
Die you zombie bastards!, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America and The Machinist are available to buy on PAL region 2 DVD, while
Subject Two and Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre are only available on NTSC Region 1 DVD…

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

To see a list of all episodes of I’m ready for my close-up that are available to download, please visit the archive page

N.B./ This year’s Sci-Fi London features a special 1950s Hammer quadruple bill on May 5th, all the proceeds of which go to help Resonance FM… So, if you were intrigued by my mention of Stolen Face on our Halloween show last year, now’s your chance to see it as well as: X the Unknown, Four Sided Triangle and the seminal British Sci-Fi film Spaceways! Click below for details…

Hooting Yard: Interrogated By Interrogators

The out-of-print pamphleteer had a deep and abiding reluctance to pay for gas, and often considered living somewhere powered entirely by electricity, or the wind or the sun, or indeed existing without being dependent upon any source of energy whatsoever. But, as Marigold Chew has noted, rail as Dobson might, he was drawn inexorably to the blue, blue flames of burning gas, a man mesmerised.

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  • The New Goat
  • It Was Dusk
  • The Bilgewater Elegies

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 31st January 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by ambientfusion.

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Marvin Suicide: 117 – Happy Shopper Orange Squash.

More of the same really. Just the usual high-brow selection of free things found on the internet. Why not quaff some port and eat continental cheeses whilst listening.

Here is the tracklist:

1. Cover Mouth by Millicent, Blue Break:
www.hippocamp.net

2. Sniff Snuff by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com

3. Qilko by Ceptual, Shifts Personal:
miasmah.com

4. Lifelong Fiction by Aphilas, Instrumentally Ill EP:
miasmah.com

5. Trucking Little Women by J.W. Warren, Life Ain’t Worth Living:
www.fatpossum.com

6. Feeling A Bit Dehydrated by 4SpeedSockShifter:
www.myspace.com
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This episode was broadcast on the 19th April 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: “How gay is the screen” part 2

Following the conclusion of this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Alex Fitch interviews director Malcolm Ingram about his documentary Small Town Gay Bar and then talks to Inigo Andersson (a film night and club promoter) and Michael Hall (a video shop manager) who are helping to encourage access to gay film-making the rest of the year when the festival isn’t on…

Originally broadcast 12th April 2007 (mp3 format, 28.7mb)

Links: The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
IMDb page on Small Town Gay Bar
Film Wotever‘s Myspace page
Michael’s band Nebraska‘s Myspace page
MSNBC article on how TV is ‘less gay’ this year
Read reviews of films showing at the LLGFF at backprojection.com
Listen to an episode of Midnight Sex Talk about gay bars
If you’re one of our Californian listeners, you can catch Small Town Gay Bar at Outfest on Wednesday
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide: 116 – Xylophones rule dude.

This weeks episode is 50% jazz stylings. Thats the only interesting thing I have to say about this episode. Its all freely and legally downloaded from the internet. Thats quite interesting I suppose.

Here is the tracklist with links to where all the musics were found:

1. Joga/Alligator Boogaloo by Greg Osby:
www.gregosby.com

2. Ultraroy by Happy Tosh!:
http://www11.nrk.no/urort/user/?id=17924

3. Di Rat Judgement by Tzii:
www.c8.com

4. Just One Of Many Pennies by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com

5. Starfleet by Datashat:
www.datassette.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 broadcast on the 12th April 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 @).

Hooting Yard: Crapwing

One day, after a huge breakfast, Ignapfando had a total eclipse of the heart, just like that songstress whose name escapes me. He did not look as if it was happening. Indeed to the untrained eye Ignapfando looked as if he was asleep, rather than in the throes of convulsive emotional turmoil accompanied by strident rock music. Adding to the disjuncture was the fact that Ignapfando resembled Clement Attlee, down to the finicky moustache and an inadvisable line in hats.

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Nevertheless, when he went to his priest for confession the following Sunday, there could be no doubt about the upheavals of his passion.

  • Total Eclipse
  • Claude
  • Massacre Of The Innocents At Hoon
  • Vaporetto Or Bus?
  • Then The Boisterous Man
  • And No Birds Sing
  • Whither Blenkinsop?

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 17th January 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by The Horned Jack Lizard.

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the heard world 47: bedroom band days

the bedroom band days are here…in a way they never started? i have to stress that you people listen to this show with headphones, preferably in a quiet room…maybe while in bed? this episode was recorded using stereo microphones in order to catch the acoustic properties of the room in which the audio un-crimes herein (suspects pictured below) were performed. enjoy the fm radio bumpers, they took forever to make relative to the rest of the show.

I’m ready for my close-up: “Shoot, shoot, shoot!” – the films of the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Richard Thomas presents a show on the work of experimental film-makers Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait who explore(d) nuances of the landscape when captured on film…

Originally broadcast 5th April 2007 (mp3 format, 28.1mb)

Links: Chris Welsby’s website
Lux Online biography on Margaret Tait
Article on the London Film-makers’ co-op
Lux Online article on landscape film-makers
Fundació Antoni Tàpies website about the exhibition that gave this show its name
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide: 115 – Get jiggy with the wiggy.

I don’t even know what I’m doing any more, so this all of the music this week has been supplied by 8-Bit Adventures Of A Bored Office Worker. If you haven’t done already, check out their podcast.

Here is the tracklisting for said music:

1. Vol De Nuit by Logic Bomb:
micromusic.net

2. Pull My Nipples Hard by Jellica:
micromusic.net

3. STereoid by DropDaBomb:
nl_hq.micromusic.net/stolengoods/

4. Grass by Mark Denardo:
www.8bitpeoples.com

5. Led Storm #1 by Tim Follin:
ym2149.oth4.com

6. Ragwerk by m-,-n:
micromusic.net

7. Funk Castle by Josstintimberlake:
josstin.dmusic.com

8. Magical 8bit Tour by YMCK:
www.sonicx.com/ymck/

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 broadcast on the 5th April 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 @).

Hooting Yard: Science Does Not Rest

From bulkhead to poop-hatch, instructions are being shouted back and forth by the ship’s crew.

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The mighty sun is gleaming bronze. Flags are flying and the sky is alive with auks and terns and guillemots. Below decks in the gloomy cabin, the two men reluctantly greet each other. This was the historic moment when Blodgett met Dobson.

  • Saint Mungo: Read And Learn
  • Quotation from The Strange Life Of Nikola Tesla by Nikola Tesla
  • In A Bog
  • Pontiff!
  • About Enchatons
  • Norwegian Wool
  • Jarvis And Cubbit
  • Quotation from Cosmic Friends by Jimmy Goddard

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 10th January 2007. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by the queen of subtle.

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