Featured in this show is a homemade reverb pedal based on the PT2399 chip, a Roland Juno-60, a Yamaha AN200, and your’s trully drunk in a tub. There are laser pointer experiments, and more of the same ramblings of drunken misogyny scrawled in a little marble notebook, and poured over with the backup of totally kewl acid beats and bumps. did i mention i was in dallas texas for work last week?
Fooling around in Didcot, Yaw found some bones. Those bones were Bong’s bones.
Belt’s matron ate his cheese. Yaw muttered. He fell about in fits. At the waterworks, Belt broke corks. His elk was in a tent. It looked like Bong. Bread rolls and snacks were stacked in crates. Yaw put them by his flask. He threw up on some rudders.
This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 6th December 2006. 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 Pathfinder Linden.
As a belated follow up to his article on the subject, Alex Fitch talks to Times journalist John Clarke about the history of Black musicians on film from 1929’s Hallelujah to this year’s Dreamgirls. The show also features clips from Stormy Weather (1943), Shaft (1971) and The Blues Brothers (1980)…
Originally broadcast 15th March 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)
Links: BBC article on the Dreamgirls controversy
TimesOnline articles by John on The Gospel according to Al Green and the rebirth of soul label Stax
Indiana University’s Black Film Archive
UCLA article on Soundies
Optronica at the BFI
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
THE COMPETITION ENDS THIS SUNDAY 18TH MARCH. To win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM, please visit www.marvinsuicide.org and donate the money you were going to spend on your Mum’s crappy present to Resonance instead. She’ll love you no matter what you do so don’t worry about it.
Below is the tracklisting for this weeks episode with links to where all the jimminy-wotsits were found:
1. Vito Goes To The Dentist by Dinah Bird:
www.valiza-tools.com
2. Feelin Groovy by A.Pod:
www.c8.com
3. Amerigo’s Country Project (Rodeo Mix) by A Smile For Timbuctu, Manuale Atzeni EP:
www.audioaubergine.com
4. Spidertraps by Arctica:
www.myspace.com
5. Fancydress by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com
6. Climbing Ants by Cola Idol, Listen To The Sky:
www.17sons.com
This episode was broadcast on the 15th March 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 @).
Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and consoles and moans about work. 30 minutes of bleeps from the worlds best 8-bit musicians.
Produced and recorded by Richard Clark-Hill.
See www.kittenrock.co.uk for info.
First broadcast Thursday 18th January 2007.
On the 11th February, a large group of people gathered outside a video shop in South East London to protest about its closure and replacement by a proposed betting shop.
Alex Fitch was there to interview locals and their representatives about why the demise aroused such passion.
In contrast, this is followed by an interview with both the owner and the manager of a relatively new rental place in East London that looks potentially successful in this digital age and is intended to be more than just a video shop…
Originally broadcast 8th March 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)
Links: Sue Luxton’s blog about the closure of Homeview
Brockley entries at ‘Transpontine’ blog
List of archived versions of ‘homeviewvideo.co.uk’
Close-up Film Library, Brick Lane
The economic theory of The Long Tail
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
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Nick Luscombe interviews emerging artists and more established cutting edge musicians and producers.
http://www.myspace.com/nickluscombe
For the first Flomotion podcast Nick Luscombe is joined by Sideshow (aka Ninja Tune recording artist Fink) to check out tracks from the stunning download only album of the same name and to discover more about the new phenomenon of Dub House.
Win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for more information on how to win.
Yammer yammer yammer…this is the podcast of marvin suicide. With the exception of my sexy voice, everything else you hear in this programme has been downloaded freely and legally from the internet. Groovy.
Please find the tracklisting below with links to where everything was found:
1. Hirsutism (System Richter) by -1348-, Diary Of The Plague Years:
www.zeromoon.com
2. Switch by Autopsy Protocol, Umami:
www.entity.be
3. Blue Toys by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com
Catgut by Adam.
4. My Little Town by Bike, How Is That Possible:
www.mrfuriousrecords.com
5. Memory Sixty by The Caretaker, Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia:
www.brainwashed.com
This episode was broadcast on the 8th March 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 @).
So, yesterday it happened that I was accompanied by this Boswellboswell person. There I was, standing on the bridge in the rain, humming, and peering over across the fields to where the phlox and pansies and pinks, the hellebore and hollyhocks, the marigolds, verbascum and charlock and mimosa, spurge, gorse and erica, the lupins, the daffodils, the broom and japonica, the creeping jenny, the old man’s beard and the cow parsley, the speedwell and flax and dock and hops and oxlip and crocuses and teasel, and the geraniums and foxgloves and fleabane and jonquil and lobelia grow in such heavenly profusion, when the person from Potatovag drew up beside me in his death-trap jalopy, and shouted “When did you last clap eyes on the potatoes of Potatovag?”
This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 29th November 2006. 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 countrygirlatheart.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the venerable British periodical 2000AD, Duncan Nott and Alex Fitch present the second of two programmes about the popular comic book anthology. Tonight’s guest is Matt Smith, the current editor who talks about the present and future of the comic… (mp3 format, 27.2mb)
Links: 2000AD Online
Wikipedia pages on 2000AD and Matt Smith
Stream audio adventures of Strontium Dog and Judge Dredd from bbc.co.uk
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
