Technical Difficulties 3:2

A rant about the state of government benefit reform and the effect on disabled people.

Join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

Sine Of The Times 14.01.2012

The cutting edge of London bass culture, hosted by Rita Maia. For the first show of the new year, she’s playing all the releases from December that were missed out on due to Resonance FM’s holiday closure, plus a whole bunch more slated for the coming months,
tracks from Hotflush and Deep Medi. It’s an hour and a half crammed choc-full of new product, with little room for interruption.

Get digging:

Juju & Jordash – African Flower Cosmic Dub
Memotone – Chew
Memotone – Small Good Things
Neon Cloud – Knit (Sun Glitters Remix)
Little Dragon – Crystalfilm (Close Remix)
Scuba – Never (Close Remix)
Octo Octa – Blush (House Mix)
Octo Octa – Float Keys
Locked Groove – Rooted (Forthcoming Hotflush)
Graphics -There’s A Way Back (Dam Mantle Remix)
XI – Squeeze
In The Meadow Under The Stars (20.16.12.21.19.16.12.21.19 Remix)
Goth Trad – Mirage (Forthcoming Deep Medi)
Taz – Ebb Flow
Klic & Lokiboi – Won’t – Funkystepz Remix
DrexCiya – Lardossen Funk
Throwing Snow – Too Polite
Co La – Smooth Solidarity
Co La – Turned Twice

Thanks for listening!
Sine Of The Times with Rita Maia – Saturday 9 – 10.30 PM.
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Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon

Laydeez do podcasts – Judith Vanistendael: Dance by the light of the moon

A Q and A recorded at Bar Music Hall in East London as part of Comica Festival, 2010, Paul Gravett talks to Flemish cartoonist Judith Vanistendael about her semi-autobiographical graphic novel Dance by the light of the moon, published in the UK by Self Made Hero.
(Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch, introduced by Sarah Lightman)

Excerpt from Dance by the light of the moon by Judith Vanistendael

Excerpt from Dance by the light of the moon by Judith Vanistendael

For more info about this podcast and a variety of formats you can stream or download, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.org

Links: Review of Dance by the light of the moon on the Forbidden Planet International blog
Info about the book at selfmadehero.com
Original event listing at comicafestival.com
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Wavelength – Musics in the Margins

Musik Oblik; latest addition to the musics in the margins series by sub rosa. Anthology of outsider music with tracks by Adolf Wolfli, Carlo Gesualdo, Othin Spake, Klaus Beyer, Normand L’Amour, Jacques Brodier, Baudouin de Jaer, Baudouin Oosterlynck and the Wild Classical Music Ensemble.

The Art of Improvisation

Cousins Adib (UK) and Mehdi Rostami (Iran) take the closeness of their family ties into the realm of improvisation, where trust and understanding between musicians is paramount to success. Prior to a London performance we talk to them in the studio about the preparatory process for an improvising musician, the instruments they play – the relatively new shurangiz –  and their ambitions for the future of their duo, split as they are between Iran and UK.

We sample some of their sublime music in the show, but nothing can compare to a live performance where the players literally take you on the ‘journey’ with them. Buy the CD here.

Panel Borders: Colliers War

Panel Borders: Collier’s War

Continuing our month of shows on biography and autobiography, Alex Fitch talks to Canadian cartoonist David Collier about his work, from his Collier’s self published comics to graphic novels such as Chimo released by Conundrum Press and various titles distributed by Drawn and Quarterly. Alex and David also talk about the latter’s experiences serving in the army and getting advice from Robert Crumb. (Recorded live in front of an audience at the Imperial War Museum, London)

Panel from Chimo by David Collier, published by Conundrum Press

Links: Info about Chimo at www.conundrumpress.com
Work by David Collier published by Drawn and Quarterly
More podcasts recorded at the Imperial War Museum, London

Recommended events:

GOSH! – UPCOMING EVENTS

CRAIG THOMPSON signing copies of Habibi, Blankets and more, 5pm-7pm,
Saturday 21st January

EDDIE CAMPBELL signing at 6:30pm, Friday 3rd February
1, Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR / www.goshlondon.com
Nearest tube: Picadilly Circus / Leicester Square

Other comics events:

Course: Drawing For The Graphic Novel
Stephen Marchant’s 11-week course on Thursday evenings run by Birkbeck College in association with the Cartoon Museum.
Where: Cartoon Museum, London
When: January 12, 2012

Rethinking the History of Childhood: Narratives, Sources, Debates
The history of childhood is now ripe for re-evaluation. The conference will
debate existing paradigms while welcoming the work of new scholars.
Where: University of Greenwich, Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation
When: January 14, 2012

For more info: www.paulgravett.com

Clear Spot: The Pirates of Carthage

A play by UK based artist Daniel Kelly about the Arab Spring in Tunisia, as the story unravelled on Twitter. It is composed of Twitter messages from the weeks up to the deposition of President Ben Ali, which occurred a year ago this Saturday. The play reflects a personal discovery of the story of the revolution as it happened and our fragmented, chaotic understanding of the world through the Internet.

The Twitter messages are juxtaposed with text from Gustave Flaubert’s 1862 novel Salammbo, the epic story of the Mercenary War in Ancient Carthage.

After the play, in the last 20 minutes of the show, we added to the text live on air, with Twitter messages from listeners using the hashtag #pCarthage. Podcast listeners can still Tweet to us using the hashtag!

Written by Daniel Kelly and performed by Aimee Parkes, Helen Marshall, Paul Williams and Pedd Ramm.

Directed by Ben Kidd and produced by Lucy Knight.

The Clear Spot for Resonance FM was produced and presented by Michael Garrad.

Hello GoodBye Show: Best Sessions of 2011

Hello!

We had a great year on the Hello GoodBye Show in 2011, with over 70 live performances on the show. This epic podcast compiles all the best tracks of the year, including performances from Mekons, The Monochrome Set, Jad Fair, Comus, Serafina Steer, Sexton Ming and more, plus a couple of tracks previously unbroadcast. Also included in full is the best session of the year (as chosen by Richard, Michael and our engineers Leanne and Kacper), The Oscillation.

All songs, unless noted, were recorded live in Resonance FM’s cosy Borough St studio by Leanne Bower and Kacper Ziemianin.

Happy new year from Richard and Michael, we look forward to what delights 2012 has in store for us…

GoodBye!

Track list:

22 Jan – Hamilton Yarns: Hello
15 Jan – Smoke Fairies: Hotel Room
05 Feb – Ulysses Storm: Genie Looks to the Skies
12 Feb – Pheromoans: Derby Joan & Fosters
29 Feb – Monochrome Set: He’s Frank
26 Feb – Design-A-Wave: Remedy
12 Mar – Chips for the Poor tour diary (excerpt, recorded to cassette on the streets of Chicago)
12 Mar – Poino: Bad Bag
02 Apr – Comus: Song To Comus (engineer James Torrence)
16 Apr – Baaneex: Jumping Chinese Restaurant
07 May – Dominic Felix: Nessun Dorma
21 May – Mekons: Corporal Chalkie
28 May – Skinjobs: Money in the Pocket v Money in the Bank (pre-recorded session in the band’s kitchen!)
28 May – Gerry Mitchell and Ten: Die To Love/Faker Quaker
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Soundcheck
04 Jun – Serafina Steer: Night Before the Mutiny
04 Jun – Lime-Headed Dog: Labrador
10 Sep – Emily & The Faves: This Time
10 Sep – Sexton Ming: Feed the Bread to the Byrds
17 Sep – Bob Rafkin: Changes
17 Sep – Fighting Kites: Cat is Egg
24 Sep – Delphic Vapours: Pink Floyd European Tour 1968
01 Oct – Zappopin’: Calves & A Hymn For Eton After The Apocalypse
08 Oct – One True Dog: It’s A Delay
15 Oct – The Protagonists of David Gadson: My Private Anarchy
22 Oct – Band Of Holy Joy: Oh What a Thing This Heart of Man
22 Jan – Duncan McAfee: Your Voice Travels, ep 1 (
22 Oct – Agathe Max: Live at XOYO (Live sound: Thom Hollands)
29 Oct – Eternal Tapestry: Live at Corsica Studios (previously unbroadcast! Live sound by: sound by Amir Shoat, thanks to Adrian Jones at Corsica)
29 Oct – Way Through: Henry My Son
05 Nov – No Cars: Geisha Girl in a Sentimental Mood
12 Nov – Patrik Fitzgerald: Inside Me There is Nothing
12 Nov – Date Palms: Honey Devash (Previously unbroadcast! Live at Cafe Oto, live sound by Antoine Bertin)
19 Nov – Horse Brothers: Good Umbridge
03 Dec – Jad Fair: I’ll Change My Style
10 Dec – The Oscillation: Waste The Day, Third Harmonic, Hear Your Sadness
17 Dec – Piney Gir: Say GoodBye

* Hello GoodBye Website * Facebook * Richard’s Twitter * Michael’s Twitter *

Technical Difficulties 3:1

Discussion about the #spartacusreport, published earlier this week by disability activists, largely ignored by the broadcast and print media but trending no. 1 on Twitter for most of the launch day. We will be joined by one of the report’s co-authors Kaliya Franklin, and I hope you can join the discussion on Google + Facebook and Twitter . Wear your scars with pride, and remember. We all have Technical Difficulties.

Glorious hard work and collaboration by a group of people to bring the transcript for this podcast at http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/articles/kaliya-franklin-interview

Wavelength – Malcolm McLaren part 2

Tribute to Malcolm McLaren part 2: Malcolm told me once that he particularly liked Billy Fury so the show starts with a Billy Fury hit written by Goffin and King: Halfway to Paradise, 1961. Walking with Satie and Paris Paris from the CD Paris, 1994, the second track features Catherine Deneuve singing with Malcolm. More tracks from Buffalo Gals Back to Skool featuring the voice of Malcolm and the World Famous Supreme Team, sounds from 1982 and 1983 remixed etc. in 1998. A snatch of I Like you in Velvet from Waltz Darling by Malcolm McLaren and the Bootzilla Orchestra which includes Jeff Beck and Bootsy Collins from 1989. Remembrance Mix from the green vinyl single The Bell Song 1997 and Death of Butterfly (Tu Tu Piccolo) from Fans 1984.