Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.
Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.
Mix tape
“On Side B of an imagined C60 cassette tape Naomi Christie speaks with Sinead Doyle about the mix-tapes her parents used to make when they lived in Nigeria. Scott Bradbury and Michael Garrad from band Chips for the Poor return to talk about their love affair with tapes and Will Evans from Tape Club Records is once again in the studio to play some cassettes from his personal collection on the Resonance 104.4FM tape-deck.”
Soundtracks, library and television music with Jonny Trunk. Something of a curveball for you this week, as rather than bring you the recent DJ Food episode (don’t worry, it’s coming!), the man otherwise known as Mr. Strictly Kev has been kind enough to send us a copy of his original OST appearance way back in 2004. We’re more than delighted to have it, partly because we weren’t terribly good at archiving ourselves back then, but mostly because at the time Kev was knee-deep in a project unearthing long-lost gems from deep within the vaults of the former Children’s Television Workshop. Yes, this week it’s all about Sesame Street and Kev brings us a selection full to bursting with tracks that you simply haven’t heard. The seven-minute performance of ‘Superstition’ is worth it alone, but that’s barely the tip of the iceberg. We’ve given you Sesame Street specials on these podcast pages before, but THIS is the original and the material here is largely unreleased. Indeed Robin The Fog was so excited that he had to sit down for a week…
Multi-national London based trio Pissinboy perform live in session with a selection of tunes taken from the new album ‘Emily‘.
Pissinboy’s sound is dirty and low-fi, with elements of pop, folk, garage and bored British punk.
Also, in celebration of 10 Years of The deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye Show the artist & filmaker James Alec Hardy visits the studio to discuss his ‘Decadia Broadcast System’ exhibition taking place at the Home Front gallery in Herne Hill, South London from Saturday 14th April until the end of the month.
Decadia Broadcast System is an archive of video footage shot behind the scenes at Hello GoodBye over the years and shown as a temporal monument, in the form of a totemic street sound system.
NB* On Saturday 14th April Hello GoodBye will broadcast live from Home Front, as part of the opening event of the exhibition, and further celebration of a decade of broadcasting.
Track List:
Unit – Hup Soon Heng
Design a Wave – Remedy (HG archive)
The Pheromoans – The Children of the Beatles (HG archive)
One True Dog – It’s a Delay (HG archive)
Khaos Alberto – Wizard Launch (HG archive)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Hole In The Wall (HG archive)
The Skinjobs – Money In The Bank (HG archive)
Way Through – Your Hand Hold, For I Have No More (excerpt)
Pissinboy – Six for a Fiver (LIVE SESSION)
Pissinboy – Left Temple (LIVE SESSION)
Pissinboy – You are Never There (LIVE SESSION)
Pissinboy – Gentlemen of Leisure (LIVE SESSION)
Pissinboy – She’s the One (LIVE SESSION)
Julia Holter – Try To Make Yourself a Work of Art
Pissinboy – ‘Interview’
Brickface – White Witch Hunt (James Alec Hardy’s HG archive)
James Alec Hardy – ‘Interview’
Team B – Have You Got a Pulse (James Alec Hardy’s HG archive)
James Alec Hardy – ‘Interview’
James III & B.C. – ? (James Alec Hardy’s HG archive)
Live sound engineering: Kacper Ziemianin, Leanne Bower & Joe Oldfield
Our Resonance FM fundraising drive for 2012 culminated with the Pay-As-You-Go Hello GoodBye Show, where we asked our listeners to purchase air-time – at the rate of £10 per minute – for their music, ads etc.
We managed to raise over £800, thank you all so much for your contributions!
Much love, dB x
Track List:
R.W.M. Hunt – Home and Awa
Elephant Man Walking Tours ad.
Protagonists of David Gadsdon ad.
Chips for the Poor ad.
Calling Clowns ad.
Scott ‘Chips’
Slate Islands – You Are The One
Guy J. Jackson & Robin the Fog – How To Sell 50 Orange Cassettes Without Really Being Trying
Jensen Code – Under White Satellites
Datasette – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Haruko Seki – Toccata op.111
Little Sparta – Branch Water
Jude Hagg vs. The Hand of Stabs – Old Bluster Saw The Beauty ad.
Sergeant Buzfuz – Palais Des Papes, Deserted
Automato – Punk No. 1
Trolleypark – Music For A Room And Harp
Hendrik Huthoff – The Friday Side of Sunday (LIVE SESSION) written by Jed Mowshowitz
Hendrik Huthoff – Loudmouth (LIVE SESSION) written by Jed Mowshowitz
French House – Stop The Clocks
French House – Last Post For A Doomed Youth
Dirty Viv – Space Cadet
Dirty Viv – Disappearing
Unit – Eagle
Unit – Ming Hai
Unit – The Sword of Erin
Unit – Hup Soon Heng
When faced with such quandaries I have stalked off into the deep dense dark woods of Woohoohoodiwoo and sought the counsel of the Woohoohoodiwoo Woman. That freakish crone is a dab hand in the arts of recovered memory syndrome, and more than once she has brought bubbling to the surface of my cranium material which might otherwise have remained forever obscure and buried. On this occasion, however, my people learned from her people that the Woohoohoodiwoo Woman had gone on her holidays, to some benighted and dilapidated seaside resort, to suck sticks of rock and commune with seagulls in bird-language from the balcony of her seashore chalet. It came as something of a surprise to me to learn that the eldritch hag took holidays, like normal people do, and as I am ill-equipped to deal with surprises of any nature, I took to my bed for forty-eight hours, tossing and turning and whimpering weakly, as illusory phantasms gambolled and frolicked across the ceiling of my boudoir
Continuing our month of shows looking at British comics, we have a pair of interviews about artists who examine their personal life and feelings as a subject for their art. Cartoonist Richy K. Chandler talks to Simone Lia about her new graphic novel, Please God, find me a husband!, which explores Simone’s faith and search for a partner. Critic and writer Columba Quigley talks to fine artist Josephine King about her paintings which combine self portrait with text and references to Renaissance narrative art.
Originally broadcast 15/04/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM
Paintings by Josephine King on display in Riflemaker Gallery / panel from Please God, find me a husband! by Simone Lia
Soliloquies by Gabriel Severin 2008. Another Sub Rosa release in their series of Outsider Music; Music in the Margins. Last track; She’s Alright by Muddy Waters from Electric Mud 1968. This was my birthday.
Cassette covers the history, culture, and future of the audio cassette tape. Each episode takes a cassette-based theme and brings together enthusiasts and experts to shed further light on it.
Produced and presented by Naomi Christie.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
“In the noughties the press was filled with news of the demise of the audio-cassette tape, but the obituary may have been written too soon. Bands like Chips for the Poor are still releasing music on tape, and record labels such as Tape Club Records continue to produce albums using the format. Naomi Christie uses enough Resonance 104.4FM airtime to fill Side A of a C60 tape chatting to Scott Bradbury and Michael Garrad from band Chips for the Poor about their decision to release music on cassette. And she speaks with Will Evans from Tape Club Records about how he came to help bands release their music on tape.
I would sing to you of Tarleton, of the gleets, of the balcony, if I could. If I could sing I would. But how can I sing, mouth crammed with pebbles, penned in a pound, atop the tor? And what an irony that it was Tarleton who bustled me hence, arms flapping, half blinding me with the glint of his shiny shiny epaulettes? I would have sung of him surely, and without smirking. Cars passed below as we climbed the tor. I would have waved to them, to their drivers, for help, if I thought help would come. My mind was a chaos. The higher we climbed, the tinier the cars appeared, until they seemed like motes of dust. They put the pound at the top of the tor to discourage attempts to escape. As further discouragement, the fence was electrified. Tarleton had keys to the panel upon which a lever or knobs or whatever could be pulled or depressed or whatever to cut off the circuit, temporarily, to allow the gate to be opened. He crammed my mouth with pebbles before he pushed me into the pound. I thought of the gleets, and of Krakatoa.
