Panel Borders: Brown, Nao / Bagnold Summer

Panel Borders: Brown, Nao / Bagnold Summer

In the third of a trilogy of shows about depictions of lives on the comic book page, Alex Fitch talks to the authors of two of 2012’s most acclaimed graphic novels. Glyn Dillon discusses The Nao of Brown, his long awaited return to comics after much loved contributions to strips published by Deadline and Vertigo in the 1990s. Dillon’s graphic novel depicts the life of an OCD sufferer who channels her creativity into toys, relationships and storytelling…
Alex also talks to Joff Winterhart, writer / artist of Days of the Bagnold Summer, an affectionate, warts and all depiction of six weeks in the life of a dissolutioned 15 year old and his long suffering mother as they try to endure the summer holidays together. Joff discusses the history of the book, how it relates to his animation work and music, and his feelings about the book’s nomination as one of the first two graphic novels to be short listed for the Costa Book Awards.

Excerpts from The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart

Excerpts from The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart

(Originally broadcast 16th December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

(Panel Borders will return in January with a month of shows looking at the 25th anniversary of John Constantine: Hellblazer)

Links: Read the original Observer short story competition version of Days of the Bagnold Summer
Jonathan Cape Graphic Novels Tumblr
Bucky band website

Reviews of Days of the Bagnold Summer and The Nao of Brown

Nao of Brown website
Self Made Hero website including info on the FrgosLegs toy featured in the graphic novel
Interview with Glyn in The Comics Journal

Listen to Nicola Streeten’s interview with Mary and Bryan Talbot about their Costa Award nominated graphic novel Dotter of her Father’s Eyes Continue reading →

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Hello GoodBye – 15.12.12 – Unit, Keeley Forsyth, Victoria Yeulet and Sisters


This final episode of Hello GoodBye for 2012 promises be a big bumper box of treats!

Featuring live music from: Unit, Keeley Forsyth & Sisters.

Also, author Victoria Yeulet joins us in the studio to read an extract from ‘Women Make Noise’, a new book that documents the role of women within contemporary music.

UNIT have been in existence since 2000, irritating and annoying everyone with their curiously mutated pop songs and avant gardening. Until 2011 the group consisted primarily of Chinese teenagers plus a token white man as a sop to ensure ethnic diversity. In November 2012 we completed our 24th album which is due out before December 31st. Our group is now so ridiculously eccentric and off the wall that even we can’t be sure who’s in it now. As far as I am aware, I think I’m still a member but that may be just a malicious rumour.
Unit singer Andy Martin’s books – A History Progressive Rock – Chinese Cinema 1905-2005 – Faded Fragments Of Distant Dreams (an autobiographical account of my 4 years in Alton Secondary School) are also available from their website.

Keeley Foryth is an actor, singer, performer and keen collaborator working with artists and film makers on live projects and experimental performances in galleries, museums, old biscuit factories. ‘The Scuttler’ is a character born out of a workshop with art duo boyleANDshaw in 2009 whilst investigating a one act play ‘I Rise In Flames Cried The Phoenix’ based around the last hours of DH Lawrence’s life. ‘The Scuttler’ became an extension of the character Brett or Bertha in the play and has been a way to develop a sound that connects her rural Lancashire roots, folk tales, domestic noise, digital murmurs and vibrations. Keeley Forsyth’s forthcoming album is entitled The Scuttler.

Sisters are a new all female ensemble featuring Sylvia Saunders, Astrud Steerhouder (The Rayographs / Paper Dollhouse) and Victoria Yeulet.

Playlist:
Kitchen Winos – Horsethief
Unit – For Nick Wong (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – Innocence (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – In a sense (LIVE SESSION)
Unit – Tolerance is a mask for apathy (LIVE SESSION)
The Clash – Career Opportunities
Unit – ‘interview’
Jude Cowan & Wim Oudijk – Russian Ice Swimming
Roba Stanley – Single Life
Victoria Yeulet – Women Make Noise (extract) (LIVE READING)
The Carter Family – My Clinch Mountain Home
Keeley Forsyth – Time heals everything (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – Then they came a time (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – Trouble in my heart (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – When will I see you again? (LIVE SESSION)
Keeley Forsyth – ‘interview’
Art Trip & the Static Sound – Darlin’
Piper’s Son – Mining
Sisters – I’m going to that city (LIVE SESSION)
Sisters – I want Jesus to walk with me (LIVE SESSION)
Sisters – Living testimony (LIVE SESSION)

Presenters: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Wavelength – Bob Parks

Leicester market, Tuesday afternoon. Second hand record stall. I bought 3 records for £3: Gather in the Mushrooms by Benny Hill, Winklepicker Shoes by Bernard Cribbins and an E.P. by the Yodelling Comedians who hardly yodel and are not humorous. The 4 tracks on the E.P. are Glamorous Alpine World, My Sweetheart lives in a Chalet, Water from the Glacier and Yodelling is my Hobby. The illustrated paper sleeve is autographed by all 3 members of the troupe. Returning to London I visited the ICA Gallery showing an exhibition by Nathaniel Mellors until May 15th which includes a mechanical mobile sculpture of 2 almost identical, lifelike, male heads, one blue, one flesh-coloured connected by mutual long facial hair, that roll their eyes and talk, entitled “Hippy Dialectic”. Highly recommended! In 2007, Nathaniel Mellors was looking for 3 people to film shouting dialogue whilst strapped to trees. Robin Klassnik of Matt’s Gallery suggested Bob Parks, recalling some unusual performances Bob had realised when they were both art students in Leicester in the 1960s. Bob Parks: “I did loads of different things, such as the time I got a 15 foot No Parking sign which I carried on my head around Leicester for 2 weeks”. The following tracks are by Bob Parks from the limited edition L.P. on the Junior Aspirin label issued in 2008 called “The R&B Feeling

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 11

Opera singer Richard Scott explores opera through the prism of various themes – politics, power, greed, the abominable, magic, lust, comedy.

On today’s show it’s Christmas! What do The Three Tenors, Joni Mitchell, The Sixteen, Benjamin Britten, Paul Hillier, Diana Ross, Judy Garland and Alec Guiness all have in common? They’re all on The Opera Hour Christmas Special of course!

http://richardrmscott.tumblr.com/

Originally broadcast on 13th December 2012

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Hello GoodBye – 08.12.12 – David Cronenberg’s Wife and Kitchen Winos


Live music on The Hello GoodBye Show today from David Cronenbergs Wife and Kitchen Winos.

David Cronenbergs Wife will be performing a collection of songs from their new LP ‘Don’t wait to be hunted before you hide’ (Blang Records). Tom Mayne’s 21st century urban folk/blues, revels in macabre and taboo lyrical themes that bounce along effortlessly on an incessantly infectious motorik beat.

Kitchen Winos veer waywardly from baggy inflected indie pop one minute to monolithic slabs of instrumental experimental-ism the next.

Playlist:
Kostoglotov – Dictaphone 5
Kitchen Winos – Find the right line (LIVE SESSION)
Kitchen Winos – Mr. Innocent (LIVE SESSION)
Kitchen Winos – Horsethief (LIVE SESSION)
Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou – For a minute there
Kitchen Winos – ‘interview’
Shimmy Rivers & & Canal – Peepholes
Peepholes – The Overspill
Unit – Winter
Keeley Forsyth – Haggerston
Patrik Fitzgerald – Pilgrimage
Viv Albertine – Little girl in a box
Dirty Viv – Chainsaw
The Count of Chateau Noir – Mr. Fox
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Coriolanus in the bedroom (LIVE SESSION)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – Lonely man (LIVE SESSION)
David Cronenberg’s Wife – You can’t donate a heart (LIVE SESSION)
The Children’s Hour – SOS JFK
David Cronenbergs Wife – ‘interview’
Adam & the Antz – Catholic Day
Mud Sharks (extract) by Dave Barbarossa – read by Ean Ravenscroft

Presented by: deXter Bentley, Ean Ravenscroft & Dan Frost
Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp

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Panel Borders: Nelson

Panel Borders: Nelson

Continuing our month of shows looking at depictions of lives on the page, Dan Berry talks to four of his fellow creators who worked on the award winning anthology graphic novel Nelson, published by Blank Slate Books, including the book’s co-editor Rob Davis and artists Duncan Fegredo, Jonathan Edwards, Sarah McIntyre and Suzy Varty. Nelson depicts 54 days in the life of the titular character, a young and then adult female Londoner, who is born in the first chapter set in 1968 and we follow her life to middle age in the present day. Dan discusses the history of the project, the aspects of autobiography that were absorbed into each creator’s pages and the collaborative processes involved in working on a exquisite corpse method of storytelling. (Recorded at Thought Bubble Festival, Leeds 2011 and edited by Alex Fitch)

Panels from Nelson by Dan Berry, Duncan Fegredo, Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre, Jonathan Edwards and Suzy Varty

Panels from Nelson by Dan Berry, Duncan Fegredo, Rob Davis, Sarah McIntyre, Jonathan Edwards and Suzy Varty

(Originally broadcast 9th December 2012 on Resonance 104.4 FM)
Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Nelson page at Blank Slate Books website
Dan Berry’s website and podcast
Rob Davis’ blog
Sarah McIntyre’s website
Comic Book Database pages on Suzy Varty and Duncan Fegredo
Jonathan Edwards’ website

Listen to Alex Fitch’s interview with Woodrow Phoenix about Nelson and previous interviews with Sarah McIntyre and Dan Berry
Continue reading →

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The Opera Hour – series 2/episode 10

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 joined in the studio by the world-class mezzo-soprano Christine Rice who’ll be talking to us about dressing up as a man, being Bluebeard’s newest ill-fated wife and being half-sister to the murderous Minotaur.

http://richardrmscott.tumblr.com/

Originally broadcast on 6th December 2012

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Wavelength – Art and Artists on the Record.

Three spoken word tracks by artist Liam Gillick from the CD; An Idea Just Out of Reach; original recordings made in Berlin in 2009. Faster, Higher, Stronger by John Wynne from the 10″ vinyl E.P. Art + Factum (2009) which features artist responses to the Olympics site in London. Yes, New Birthday Song by Pipilotti Rist from The Cake is in Flames and finally Corporate Rock Must Die; a yellow vinyl 45rpm single by artist Jeremy Deller.

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Hello GoodBye – 01.12.12 – Dead Rat Orchestra, David Tattersall & Halo Halo

Hello GoodBye possibly bites off more than it can chew this Saturday lunchtime, with not 2 but 3 sets of live performers in the studio; Dead Rat Orchestra, Hallo Halo & David Tattersall.
Since forming in 2002, The Dead Rat Orchestra have played regularly throughout the UK and Internationally, always attempting to react or interact with their surroundings and the people and ideas that they come across – often crafting each performance for the particular space in which they find themselves (from former abattoirs to churches, concert halls to coppice woods). Dead Rat Orchestra are Daniel Merrill, Robin Alderton and Nathaniel Mann.

Halo Halo take their name from a very tasty, multicoloured desert from the Philippines. They are Jack on drums, singing and Harmonica and Rachel on Banjo, singing and Gill on keyboards and bass. Halo Halo make music that careens, drawing on Appalachian folk rambles as well as the hyper melodic clattering Sinawi vibes of Korea’s shamanic past. Check out their debut 7? single ‘Manananggal’ on M’Lady’s records now.

The Wave Pictures frontman David Tattersall recorded his new solo album Little Martha in one day with Simon Trought at the old Soup Studio, underneath the Duke of Uke ukulele shop on Hanbury Street, just off Brick Lane in East London. There are no overdubs on the album, which was recorded live with one microphone. Franic Rozycki stopped by to play mandolin on a couple of tracks, but otherwise it’s entirely me playing acoustic guitar. There are no vocals on the album.

Playlist:
Duke Garwood – Tapestry of Mars?
Dead Rat Orchestra – Fram (LIVE SESSION)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – The Geshin and the Guga (LIVE SESSION)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – Kuridza (LIVE SESSION)?
This is the Kit – White Ash Cut (HG archive)?
Dead Rat Orchestra – ‘interview’?
Great Park – Lover Oh Lover?
Kitchen Winos – Mr. Innocent?
David Cronenbergs Wife – What were you doing with that man at the back of the woods?
The Wave Pictures – Just Like a Drummer?
David Tattersall – Great Dream from Heaven (LIVE SESSION)?
David Tattersall – ‘interview’?
David Tattersall – Living in the Country (LIVE SESSION)?
The Fisherman Three – Time to think about the morning once again?
Hallo Halo – Taro Taro Taro (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Sunshine Kim (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Wooden Box (LIVE SESSION)?
Hallo Halo – Coming Home (LIVE SESSION)?
Halo Halo – ‘interview’?
Slushy Guts – Trying to be more like you but failing

Live sound engineers: Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield
?Presenters: deXter Bentley & Ean Ravenscroft

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