Resonance FM Blog

Monday: The Black Box
Turn on the twatbox, turn off the anti-virals, swallow another Strepsil and pick my way through e-mail like a man at a post-funeral buffet. Fortunately, the Weaver has the horror of the admin account. Lucy Furlong (The Shoe Show) tell’s me that “winklepickers are back in for men”. Am I alone in feeling that an extended pointy foot is both medieval and wrong?

Lunch.

On our return Mr.Ken Campbell (Pigspurt Monday 3 - 3:30) is at the door, a black box under his arm. The box contains two ceramic figurines (though they could be a robust plaster of Paris judging by texture). Angel/devil/gargoyle-like artifacts with peculiar hooks in their mouths. Anti-satan totems or black magick playthings…? I don’t know, Ken doesn’t know and neither does the British Museum. I eat another Strepsil.

Tuesday: CAN’T THINK OF SMART TITLE
Son Of Dave is live in the studio at the behest of Joe Cushley (Balling The Jack, Tuesday at noon). All Dave requires to perform is a slice of pepperoni pizza and a a bottle of Peroni. Cushley gets the slice right but the beer is a litre bottle of San Miguel… Which is acceptable for a man on a bike. Dave is a good humoured fellow… his wisecracks are almost as good as his harmonica blowing.

Wednesday: Je Ne Parlez Pas Francais
5 Congolese musicians, their Belgian manager, Vincent Luttman and Vincent’s wife in the studio. French, Lingala and English polyglots abound, despite multi-lingual chaos things settled and we were left with something delightful…extended, cyclical, chiming rhumbas and bossas performed consumately. Two Strepsil.

Late Lunch With Out… Watson and sprog are in, Ben entertains his baby by repeatedly hiding and revealing his face with the aid of a semi-inflated carrier bag. Hooting Yard… I’m at the helm and Frank is in fine fettle; discussed - brevity and the absence of poetry in modern book titles and buttercup allergies. I get to do some acting and play an interviewer.. which essentially means I just read out a couple of questions in a voice not to dissimilar to my own. Another Strepsil.

Thursday: Again, No Smart Title
Feels like I’ve swallowed hot broken glass shards whilst being strangled by a weak girl in welding gloves. Some joker offers me a crisp. Four Strepsil. Traditional Music Hour Reg drops some Orkney folk dub plates…

Friday: Blank Friday
Six Strepsil, two Ibuprofen, eight cups of tea. Competent engineers? Like the Kent water supply, limited. Ruth and Snake Wrestler of Black Friday are gonna commit murder. Municipal Waste and Mistress are their guests…In a fit of pique Municipal Waste graffiti their name on the jamb of our front door just beneath another bit of scrawl that says `I
love cock’…

Ta,

Petherton Toad

Yes we are busy bees-

Tonight on the You Are Hear show we have Tom from Bugbrand and Knowledge of Bugs in for a live session, he will also be talking about his wonderful sonic inventions.

http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/pages/sonicpieces.htm

Should be a great, we’ve just got back from a short trip to Norway and are celebrating being able to afford to eat again! strange it is as cold here in London!

Also do have a look at our website for latest podcasted sessions there are over 20 past live sessions for you to download, you lucky people.
its
youarehear.co.uk

Up for grabs is DJ Scotch Egg, OMMM, Asja Auf Capri, Oddfellows Casino, Romvelope, Germlin, Kutchi, Raagnagrok, The Man From Uranus, Carter Tutti, Ove Naxx, Robotobibok, Miss Hawaii, Cow’p + Deseptagon, Ninki V, Robotobibok, Jean Hervé Peron, Sculpture, Bohman Brothers, Miasma, Bruno and Michel Are Smiling and Skipperrr and Noblesse Oblige

You will also find information about a free week long radio art course we are hosting - for those of you who are signing on do have a look.

Also we’ve just started a myspace.com/youarehear page so send us your photos and music we are having a lot of fun with it so join in

become our friend You Are Hear My Space

youarehear.co.uk

keep in touch Magz X

Check this out - ultra rare footage of the seminal Monks live on the German “Beat Club” TV show. “Monk Chant” is incendiary…

Oh and this one goes out to You Are Hear’s Jim Backhouse, who pressed the Monks CD into my hands in 1996 or thereabouts and demanded I listen. Thank god he did too.

a sentiment I’m sure most of us at Resonance heartily endorse

Max Tundra’s friend Silverlink plays the ringtone of Peg by Steely Dan through the letterbox at Resonance FM:

The Bermuda Triangle has morphed into (not the bermuda triangle) Again. The show’s musical leanings have shifted and there shall no longer be any speech… The shadowy force behind this fantastic radio programme now wishes only to be known as Club 2012…

This Friday’s Scaledown radio show (24th) will include not one but two short live sessions featuring Keith John Adams & Ninki V.

Keith John Adam’s bouncy and unpredicatable songs are joyous and witty. One time leader of the glorious Zuno Men, his “Sunshine Loft” album was a classic of uncluttered pop - recorded live on a single microphone, in a loft. With a new album, “Pip” and a new 6 track EP just out Keith has plenty of new stuff to play.

Ninki V plays electro-spiritual music on the theremin whilst accompanying herself with cheesy casio beats, synths, toy instruments and duets with a dancing skeleton. In the pipeline this year is an EP for Sock Records, a launderette tour and numerous collaborations with musicians in the London Underground scene.

Tune into Resonance from 4.30 to 5.30pm to hear it.

www.theorchestrapit.com

And if you like what you hear why not pop along to the King & Queen in London’s West End for the latest FREE Scaledown gig featuring: Lyndsey Cockwell, Karen Haines, Memphis 45s, Mixed Porter and Nathalie Nahai. It starts at 7.30pm, full details (including a handy map) can be found here

presented this week by Snakelifter,  Ruth (aka Kev D’Ead) and Rej B*stardizer with a threatened appearance of CattleMauler

a double live music helping this week from 2 Earache records bands currently on tour together… Municipal Waste, a neo-thrash-core outfit from Richmond, Virginia - “fast, furious, and funny, each of Municipal Waste’s super-short songs is a memorable anthem to post-apocalyptic mutants, beer, thrash music, or all of the above”. if you loved DRI, Suicidal Tendencies and Nuclear Assault in the golden era of crossover in the 80s then these youngsters could be for you. thrashing is their business and business is good! www.facethewaste.com ; and the awesome Birmingham (England) hooligan-grindcore doom-merchants Mistress, makers of the recent violent, unpleasant & mentally ill album ‘In Disgust We Trust’ and strangely stars of ‘never mind the buzzcocks’ on boxing day (you’ll know if you saw it) - “a vile musical b*stard, a bilious, screaming, snot-faced sludge orphan with all the taste and decorum of a sexual encounter in Wormwood Scrubbs” www.myspace.com/mistress666

records as well from Decapitated, MyCrossToBare, One Man Army and the Undead Quartet and maybe even something from the new In Flames album - their hardest for a good while - other assorted goodies from Rej and ‘lifter as well

this Friday (Feb 24th) 10.30pm til midnight on Resonance104.4fm - it’s gonna shake the foundations.
blackfriday - keeping music evil
d’ead

…if you are at a loose end on the evening of Wednesday 1st of March between the hours of 8 and 9 PM then please do yourself a favour and tune into the ‘Daddy Said So Land’ show presented by Shimmy Rivers and And Canal big cheese Rod Hunt, on Resonance 104.4 FM. Here you will find the rather unsettling musical strains of Jesus Licks performing LIVE in session!

Better still, why not tune in a good 3 hours earlier and catch the gLASSsHRiMP show as well… you know it makes sense!

http://www.shimmyriversandandcanal.com/music.html

http://www.jesuslicks.co.uk/

http://glassshrimp.blogspot.com/

http://www.deXterBentley.com