It seems that this link erroneously plays the Messerschmitt programme. This will hopefully be corrected soon. Ten past six in the evening, a cafe on Nice beach. A hazy day has made the horizon disappear and the normally azure sea blends into a light grey sky. Occasional swimmers, stark and sharply focussed. A man with a close-cut beard, maybe thirty years old, is wading clumsily over pebbles into the water accompanied by a girl, maybe nine or ten, in a crimson swimsuit. He sits in the shallows to pull on plastic shoes. She splashes him, calls out “Papa” and remains close by his side. He stands upright again, takes a few more steps into the sea and then swims back to the shore, just three strokes, stands, the girl joins him again. Something about his movements, the direction of his face, the slight hesitation. She calls “Papa” and they both laugh. She takes his hand and now it’s obvious that he’s blind. La Chanson Dada by Tristan Tzara and Georges Auric performed by The Hafler Trio, Manoir de Mes Reves from Gitane by Charlie Haden and Christian Escoude, Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg by Christian Marclay and Ubiquitous by Dennis Coffey all played over/under recordings made in Nice.
The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 26
Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.
On today’s show we are off on holiday! The sun has come out so we’re taking an operatic trip around Greece and Cyprus.
We’ll hear from Britten’s magical forests just outside of Athens, from Monteverdi and Birtwistle’s dark and lonely Ionian seas and from Verdi’s jealous-crazed Othello as he stalks his Cypriot palace looking for proof of his wife’s infidelity.
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Originally broadcast on 2nd May 2013.
Book List: Celebrating Ephemera
Starting a new series of the bimonthly show on books, Alex Fitch talks to three authors whose work celebrates ephemera and pop culture detritus. ‘Graphic Novelist’ Graham Rawle discusses his latest novel The Card, which follows the journey of a man who believes he is being employed by the secret service to protect Princess Diana, via playing cards, bubble-gum cards and cigarette cards that are left in his path. Rawle is an author and University of Brighton lecturer who uses graphic design and typography in his work, including collage of text from magazines (Woman’s World) and photographic montages (Lost Consonants et al.). Also, Tim Pilcher talks about his crowd-funded memoir Comic Book Babylon which documents his time working at DC Comics’ London office in the 90s, meeting pop culture celebrities such as Grant Morrison, Jonathan Ross, The Spice Girls and Adam Ant; while Paul Magrs chats about his novels and audio plays set around the fringes of Doctor Who, including his latest release Vince Cosmos, Glam Rock Detective where a Ziggy Stardust style pop star turns out to be engaged in an on-going war with aliens on Earth. Magrs also discusses his popular ‘Brenda and Effie’ series of books about the Bride of Frankenstein and a white witch running a B+B in Whitby. (Originally broadcast Wednesday 1st May 2013, on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Covers of The Card by Graham Rawle, Brenda and Effie Forever / Vince Cosmos by Paul Magrs and Comic Book Babylon by Tim Pilcher
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Links: Paul Magrs’ blog
Graham Rawle’s website
Comic Book Bablyon Kickstarter campaign
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Help fund COMIC BOOK BABYLON: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs and Comics on Kickstarter
Tim (Erotic Comics) Pilcher’s memoir about the years he spent working at DC Comics’ Vertigo office in the mid-Ninties. The book has reached its target of raising £3,850, but the printer has increased costs since the kickster campaign began – the new “Stretch Target” is now £5,500.
“…For a few glorious years only, before cost-cutting set in, there was Vertigo’s ‘British Office’ – the comics equivalent of the Loaded HQ in the ‘90s. Vodka, mushrooms, Es, sex, money, travel and the pure unleashed creativity of young people having a good time together.”—Grant Morrison, author of Supergods, All Star Superman, Batman Inc. and The Invisibles.
There are three versions of Comic Book Babylon available: eBook (with additional images), paperback, and 200 limited edition hardbacks, with covers created by design genius and comic book artist Rian Hughes. “Rian’s out done himself,” said an impressed Pilcher, “The punky/acid house colours perfectly reflect the rave mood of the times in the book.” Hughes has also designed a limited edition print and three “Sex, Drugs and Comic Books” badges as incentives.
Comic Book Babylon: A Cautionary Tale of Sex, Drugs & Comics ENDS on Kickstarter on Thursday 3 May, 2013. See it here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2016810024/comic-book-babylon-a-cautionary-tale-of-sex-drugs Continue reading
OST 14.04.2013 – John Parish
Soundtracks, library and television music and other assorted jollies with ringmaster Jonny Trunk. Today’s guest is rock master and soundtrack composer John Parish. Infamous for his collaborations with PJ Harvey, Parish has been quietly forging his career in the world of independent film, creating inspired soundscapes and scores for a number of hip art-house movies. His first ever soundtrack compilation has just been issued on Thrill Jockey Records and we’re very chuffed to have him on the show. Get downloading…
Panel Borders: Shallowater, Your Days Are Numbered
Panel Borders: Shallowater, Your Days Are Numbered
Concluding a month of shows looking at small press and independent comics, we have a pair of interviews recorded in venues where such titles are stocked. Alex Fitch talks to Jenny-Linn Cole (in the gallery of Orbital Comics), about her graphic novel Shallowater, an epic tale of music, masculinity, TV detectives and existentialism that is being serialised in a series of small press comics. Also, in an interview recorded at the DIY Cultures festival, at Rich Mix cinema in East London, Dickon Harris talks to Jon Turner about the independent comics magazine Your days are numbered which mixes reviews and articles about sequential art with cutting edge graphic design.
Originally broadcast Monday 29th April, on Resonance 104.4 FM (London)
Your days are numbered cover by David Ziggy Green / excerpt from Shallowater by Jenny Linn-Cole
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Six Pillars – Saad Qureshi
You may have seen Saad Qureshi on British television challenging Tracy Emin over her opinions about art, in Saatchi Art School. His works range from sculpture to canvas edge paintings. Here Qureshi, represented at Art Dubai by Aicon Gallery, discusses the complexities and processes of his work
Borrowed From The Shadows, 2010
at the Eavesdropper radio booth at Art Dubai 2013. Eavesdropper/ Falgoosh Radio was created by sound artists Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley for Art Dubai Projects, sponsored by the British Council.
Hello GoodBye – 27.04.13 – Ft: The Wharves + Rosie Okae
Live sessions on Hello GoodBye from The Wharves and Rosie Okae
‘A wall of sound bigger than an elephant shape shifting through the cone of a speaker’
Hear the bursting finesse and melodic, fuzzed up, lo-fi, pop perfection of The Wharves.
Rosie Okae creates experimental pop, in collaboration with Now‘s Justin Paton and cello player Richard Thomas, imaginatively blending a diverse mix of styles and influences.
PLAYLIST
Billy Childish & Sexton Ming – Lovely Jubbly The Dung Beetle
The Wharves – Wood Chip (LIVE SESSION)
The Wharves – Fault Line (LIVE SESSION)
The Wharves – Renew (LIVE SESSION)
The Wharves – Unhand Me (LIVE SESSION)
Labasheeda – Police Song
The Wharves – ‘interview’
? – Happy Birthday Again
Ampersand – Express Level Down
Rosie Okae – I’ll believe what I can (LIVE SESSION)
Rosie Okae – Twice Born Son (LIVE SESSION)
Rosie Okae – ‘interview’
Rosie Okae – I’d like to fly (LIVE SESSION)
Rosie Okae – No Chance (LIVE SESSION)
Joanne Robertson – Ola
The Monochrome Set – waiting for Alberto
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp + Joe Oldfield
Presented by: deXter Bentley + Ean Ravenscroft
Wavelength – Let England Shake.
…back in Syston Health Centre, the muzak in the waiting room is now playing “Have you seen her” by The Chi-Lites. Fight the Flu with a quick simple jab. Your mystery pain could have a name. Low immunity, are you at risk? A voicemail from the Nu Swift fire extinguisher service engineer. Sorry about the fiasco last week, will I be in tomorrow morning? No. An email from my brother who is in New Orleans working on a remake of Point Blank starring Jennifer Lopez. The delay between analogue and digital. You need a scart cable, a set top box and a new remote control. Market Harborough has a short platform. Does it matter if it’s 15:05:00 or 15:05:01? MM’s Bar by Sandra Cross, Wall Street by Van Dyke Parks, Three Hundred Grams of Latex and Steel in One Day by Evol, 3 tracks from Let England Shake by P.J. Harvey.
Looking Good, Feeling Great Episode 4 – Clever Use Of An Interesting Quality
Hello. I want to talk to you. Are you in the mood for soft voices? Lovely hula hands? Let’s end our routine with the ‘leg-over’ movement. You are going to relax. You will relax. Make yourself comfortable. You are enjoying a massage, which is being skillfully applied. You walk naked. You get on this escalator. Down towards the floor. Gaze at it intently. Now don’t lose it. I don’t want you to be sick. Take it through the nose. Let the face go. Very soothing. Put it in a nutshell. You’re flat on the floor again. Blame the gypsies. Let them touch the body. Feels good.
We’re all the same.
Join Robin The Fog as he digs up a plethora of inspirationa
Looking Good, Feeling Great Ep04 - Clever Use Of An Interesting Quality [ 27:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadReality Check: the True Love of Arthur Sleep
Reality Check: the True Love of Arthur Sleep
Alex Fitch talks to graphic designer turned film-maker Sam Harris about his short silent film Arthur Sleep, a half hour Stygian odyssey that mixes elements of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and Eraserhead, as a trip on the London Underground takes a traveller into more mysterious destinations than he envisioned. Also, in a Q and A recorded at last year’s SCI-FI-LONDON, Alex talks to the writers and producer of True Love, an SF thriller that tests a couple’s devotion to each other as a set of innocuous questions in a surrealist prison turn to torture.
(Originally broadcast Friday 26th April on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Arthur Sleep is premiering at Deptford Old Town Hall, New Cross, London SE14 6AF on 28 April at 4pm with a live score performed by members of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and London art-rock bands – more info at www.freefilmfestivals.org / True Love is released in Japanese cinemas on 27th April and this year’s SCI-FI-LONDON festival takes place at various venues around London from 30th April – more info at www.sci-fi-london.com
Stills from Arthur Sleep and True Love
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