Hello GoodBye Show 12 May 2012: Harry Merry, NOW and Ten

The Hello GoodBye team grasp the nettle this Saturday lunchtime with not two but three different sets of performers!

Expect live music from Harry Merry, Now & Ten.

Harry Merry is one of music’s true originals, a lyrically fascinating and melodically complex songwriter who has audibly been an inspiration for artists such as John Maus, Ariel Pink and Max Tundra. He channels his myriad of influences from 60s & 70s glam to French chansons and Eastern European folk, through his Roland keyboard to produce a music which is sweetly naive and wonderfully unpredictable. He is on a rare trip to the UK a handful of live dates, we are very pleased to welcome him to the Resonance FM studio for a session.

London based, avant-kraut-pop group Now prove as ever mercurial and playful in their musical explorations, gleefully defying logic and evading ones grasp with all the aplomb of a buttered eel!

Whichever combination happens to congregate from the rather elastic line-up that comprises the Leeds based outfit Ten, one is guaranteed that the resulting sound of piano, acoustic and electric instrumentation, sparse percussion, tape hiss and ambient field recordings, will all help to create a beautiful sound-scape that moves from slow, eerie and melancholic to pulsating and optimistic.

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Track list:

Now – With It (LIVE SESSION)
Now – I 4 Me (LIVE SESSION)
Teta Mona – Down By The River (HG archive)
Now – ‘interview’
Goodbye Leopold – A Picture Of You (HG archive)
Harry Merry – The Panorama Paper (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – The Appetite Each Bite (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – The Mollycoddled Scallywag (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – Sharkie Supermachine (LIVE SESSION)
Harry Merry – ‘interview’
Catatonic Youth – I’ve Had It
Ten – Cammy (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – Winter Light (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – Suspended In The Sky (LIVE SESSION)
Ten – ‘interview’

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Free Lab Radio – Trollstepper

Trollstepper by Fari  Hip teen American programmers, chat room trolls and producers vent their feelings in this new genre blend of rap, lo-fi game tunes and dark step. Dubstep’s offshoot Trollstep is the first generation of internet babies growing up. “Teehn Bwitches 12yr old wicca on H learning spells on youtube.”

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Hello GoodBye Show 5 May 2012: The Marbles Jackson and Jamie McDermott

The Marbles Jackson provide the live entertainment on this edition of The Hello GoodBye Show.

Plus, Jamie McDermott (The Irrepressibles) drops by the studio to discuss his involvement with the new Manga Opera ‘War Sum Up‘ ahead of its UK debut at the Brighton Festival later this month.

The Marbles Jackson amble down an urban folk track that meets at the crossroads of Mazzy Star and Mogwai. Formed by Terence Kirkbride and the artist NaoKo TakaHashi in 2009, the Hackney based creative duo were later joined by Simon Gwynne and Mikey Belfast Gibson in 2011. Their song ‘If Symptoms persist (Nothing wrong with me)’ is to be included on the ‘Vol. 01? compilation album on the Stella Mortos independent record label in July.

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Track List

Duke Garwood – The Sand, The Return
The Marbles Jackson – If Symptoms Persist (Nothing Wrong With Me) (LIVE SESSION)
Jude Hagg vs. The Hand of Stabs – My God (I. Anderson)
Alexander Tucker – Sitting In A Bardot Pond
The Marbles Jackson – Raffle Me (LIVE SESSION)
Now – Container Theory
Silent Front – Tactic A and Plunder
The Marbles Jackson – ‘Interview’
War Sum Up (extract) – Spy Super Hero
Jamie McDermott – ‘Interview’
War Sum Up (extract) – Finale
The Marbles Jackson – Murder Mile Sunshine (LIVE SESSION)
The Three Johns – Demon Drinker
Theatre of Hate – Do You Believe In The Westworld
Petra Jean Phillipson – Victorian Worship Song

Live sound engineering: Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp

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Panel Borders: Blue Pills and Sandcastles

Panel Borders: Blue Pills and Sandcastles

Continuing our month of shows on international creators, Alex Fitch talks to Swiss graphic novelist Frederik Peeters about his latest comic Sandcastle, published by SelfMadeHero and based on a script by filmmaker Pierre-Oscar Lévy. Sandcastle is a Twilight Zone style narrative about a group of strangers trapped on a beach where time moves at different rates; Alex and Frederik talk about the influence of science fiction on his work and his interest in autobiography which led to his award winning graphic novel Blue Pills – A Positive Love Story. (The interview was recorded at Gosh! Comics, London in October 2011)
Originally broadcast 20/05/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Excerpts from Sandcastle and Blue pills - a positive love story by Frederik Peeters

Excerpts from Sandcastle and Blue pills – a positive love story by Frederik Peeters

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Links: More info about Sandcastle at www.selfmadehero.com
Reviews of Sandcastle by Ernesto Priego and Richard Bruton
Interview with Frederik Peeters in The Guardian
Continue reading →

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Wavelength – Destruction in Art part 4 with Michael Landy

Latest in the series devoted to auto-destructive art; guest Michael Landy talks about Jean Tinguely, his Breakdown installation on Oxford Street and other auto-destructive topics.

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Six Pillars – Shallow Water, Deep Skin

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Still: political activist and entomologist Shahin Nawai in 'Shallow Water, Deep Skin'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nooshin Farhid, video artist, whose solo show Shallow Water, Deep Skin is now running at East London’s The Agency Gallery discusses her work and process with us back in 2008. Over the years Farhid has co-curated a number of exhibitions including “Use this Kind of Sky” and has exhibited the world over gathering together a considerable body of work and lengthy resumé.

Farhid’s videos employ different subjects and scenarios that thread together with a connecting sense of agitation and grit. We discuss her interests and how Fahid’s ideas form which interestingly harks back to her own experiences as an immigrant settling in the UK. The unwillingness to settle for what is on offer, something that is evident in all her work, reflects Farhid’s views on the current state of society, politics and ideology. Though not overtly political, (for this inevitably enables privileged authority to manipulate the artist into the cul de sac of irrelevance), her work picks away at those daily familiar stabilising forces within the space of the everyday and also within contemporary art itself.

Farhid’s work, eclectic and conceptually nomadic, uses the camera as a notebook collecting fragments of random events and chance meetings that collectively question the incessant drive towards normality and conformity. Farhid appropriates other ‘dumbing’ forms of popular media: soaps, reality TV, Bollywood, MTV, raw material welded together in fragments, each one activating and qualifying its predecessor. This process produces a contemporary surreal space that re-presents the familiar in that which is astonishing and invites the viewer to reconsider. In her most recent work Shallow Water, Deep Skin, featuring political activist and entomologist Shahin Nawai in ‘Shallow Water, Deep Skin’ Farhid reaches the apex of her observations of the human disconnect by melding together the swarming world of nature and human kinds’ own busy, teeming concerns.

Most of all, Farhid turns out to be a quirky and humorous talent, who works as both artist and curator, resident and outsider. This interview was first broadcast from the ResonanceFM studios in 2008.

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Outsider In – Dave Russell

Dave Russell – If you discover him – then you will not forget him. Dave is editor of Poetry Express, mainstay of Survivors Poetry and Core Arts.  This is a rare opportunity to hear some new songs by Dave, performed live, with all the unpredictable technical holdups – highly enjoyable I hope. Dave stops to have a chat with host James Tregaskis during the proceedings. Come and see Dave and other members of survivors poetry at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St WC2 on the second Thursday of every month.

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Hooting Yard: Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning Pt. II

Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning was published in an edition of twenty-five copies in 1994, under the Hooting Yard Press imprint and – save for a brief, rewritten, extract posted  here some years ago – has never again seen the light of day. It was the last piece of prose I completed before my descent into the maelstrom, or the Wilderness Years, or whatever one wants to call that period of ruination from which I eventually emerged with the launch of the Hooting Yard website in 2003.

F. Key.

This episode was recorded on the 25th August 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories and Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

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Technical Difficulties 3:10 (Suicidal feelings, coping + help)

Dolly Sen takes the helm to explore the difficult subject of suicide, to do some myth busting, explains what the warning signs are and how to get help.

Some of the resources available are:

NHS helpline list , Dawn Willis’s helpline list

Samaritans (08457 90 90 90 or jo@samaritans.org.uk)

The Compassionate Friends

Men’s Health Forum

Campaign Against Living Miserably for men between 15 and 35. (0800 58 58 58 / 5pm til midnight Saturday-Tuesday)

Young Minds , Papyrus for people under 35. Papyrus operate the HOPELINE on 0800 068 41 41

Hearing Voices Network  and http://soterianetwork.org.uk/ look at extreme states including psychosis.

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