Monthly Archives: March 2007

I’m ready for my close-up: “How gay is the screen?” part 1

To coincide with this year’s London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and the return of Doctor Who on Saturday, Alex Fitch interviews BFI librarian Emma Smart about whether there have been any significant developments in gay film-making and TV programme making since last year’s LLGFF. Also included in the show is an interview Alex recorded last year with sci-fi writer and critic Kim Newman about the gay following that genre shows like Doctor Who and The Avengers generate…

Originally broadcast 29th March 2007 (mp3 format, 28.5mb)

Links: The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Listen to last year’s show on the LLGFF
Listen to the rest of my interview with Kim about Doctor Who
The official BBC Doctor Who website
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide: 113 – I mowed my lawn on Wednesday.

I went to school this week. This is what I learned:

music + (internet + download + free) = good

Please see below for this weeks tracklisting with links to where all the songs were found:

1. Set You Free by The Black Keys, Thickfreakness:
www.fatpossum.com

2. Empty by D.A.F., Artificial Fibres:
www.laverna.net

3. Rat Water by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com
This weeks Catgut submission was sent in by goibhniu.

4. Central Dubbing (Version) by Disrupt, Central Dubbing Unit 7inch:
www.jahtari.org

5. Love Me, Hold Me, Save Me by Strange Fruit Orchestra:
skylined.org/ageema

6. Need Your Song by The Instant, Philippe Aries Single:
skylined.org/ageema

7. I Wanna Die by Jolie Holland, Catalpa:
www.anti.com

Resonance needs your support. Please help raise some desperately needed funds and donate. “You don’t know what you’ve got until its gone…”

This episode was broadcast on the 22nd March 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

Hooting Yard: Discombobulate The Grizzled Marine Person

Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Up in the playroom, still cowering behind the arras, the Infanta Gertrude was startled to receive a message on her metal tapping machine. It was from Professor Sigismundo, the wild-haired, wild-eyed boffin who had been banished from the princedom a year before, and who was now based at an important research laboratory far, far away.

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The Professor suggested to Gertrude that she get her laptop and look up his website, where she would find an essay subtitled Paupers’ Drool A Quack Potion And No Substitute For Rational Explanation When Emboldening Tiny Ones Terrified By Electrical Storms.

  • Quayside Harpy
  • Pauper’s Drool
  • Cake And Pastry Person

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 13th December 2006. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Night Owl City.

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the heard world 46: Dallas

Featured in this show is a homemade reverb pedal based on the PT2399 chip, a Roland Juno-60, a Yamaha AN200, and your’s trully drunk in a tub. There are laser pointer experiments, and more of the same ramblings of drunken misogyny scrawled in a little marble notebook, and poured over with the backup of totally kewl acid beats and bumps. did i mention i was in dallas texas for work last week?

Hooting Yard: Little Alphonso The Memory Man

Fooling around in Didcot, Yaw found some bones. Those bones were Bong’s bones.

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Belt’s matron ate his cheese. Yaw muttered. He fell about in fits. At the waterworks, Belt broke corks. His elk was in a tent. It looked like Bong. Bread rolls and snacks were stacked in crates. Yaw put them by his flask. He threw up on some rudders.

  • Dobson And Longevity
  • About Belt, Bong & Yaw
  • Tales Of The Marshes

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 6th December 2006. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website, and the perfect Hooting Yard On The Air companion Befuddled By Cormorants is available for purchase. Photo by Pathfinder Linden.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Black Musicians on film

As a belated follow up to his article on the subject, Alex Fitch talks to Times journalist John Clarke about the history of Black musicians on film from 1929’s Hallelujah to this year’s Dreamgirls. The show also features clips from Stormy Weather (1943), Shaft (1971) and The Blues Brothers (1980)…

Originally broadcast 15th March 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)

Links: BBC article on the Dreamgirls controversy
TimesOnline articles by John on The Gospel according to Al Green and the rebirth of soul label Stax
Indiana University’s Black Film Archive
UCLA article on Soundies
Optronica at the BFI
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide: 112 – I dare you to grow a beard.

THE COMPETITION ENDS THIS SUNDAY 18TH MARCH. To win the entire back-catalogue of music played to date on the marvin suicide programme, and help save Resonance FM, please visit www.marvinsuicide.org and donate the money you were going to spend on your Mum’s crappy present to Resonance instead. She’ll love you no matter what you do so don’t worry about it.

Below is the tracklisting for this weeks episode with links to where all the jimminy-wotsits were found:

1. Vito Goes To The Dentist by Dinah Bird:
www.valiza-tools.com

2. Feelin Groovy by A.Pod:
www.c8.com

3. Amerigo’s Country Project (Rodeo Mix) by A Smile For Timbuctu, Manuale Atzeni EP:
www.audioaubergine.com

4. Spidertraps by Arctica:
www.myspace.com

5. Fancydress by Catgut, Nursery Rhymes EP:
www.catgutmusic.com

6. Climbing Ants by Cola Idol, Listen To The Sky:
www.17sons.com

This episode was broadcast on the 15th March 2007. Please visit www.marvinsuicide.org for previous shows and more information. Plus I would love it if you were to send an e-mail to: marvin’AT’marvinsuicide.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).

8-Bit Adventures: Episode 2

Jake and Andrew present it straight from the chip. Expect to hear fresh joints from your favourite obsolete computers and consoles and moans about work. 30 minutes of bleeps from the worlds best 8-bit musicians.

Produced and recorded by Richard Clark-Hill.

See www.kittenrock.co.uk for info.

First broadcast Thursday 18th January 2007.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Disseminating movies – “Your local video shop”

Photo of Homeview Entertainment, BrockleyOn the 11th February, a large group of people gathered outside a video shop in South East London to protest about its closure and replacement by a proposed betting shop.

Alex Fitch was there to interview locals and their representatives about why the demise aroused such passion.

Interior photo of Close-up video, Brick LaneIn contrast, this is followed by an interview with both the owner and the manager of a relatively new rental place in East London that looks potentially successful in this digital age and is intended to be more than just a video shop…

Originally broadcast 8th March 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)

Links: Sue Luxton’s blog about the closure of Homeview
Brockley entries at ‘Transpontine’ blog
List of archived versions of ‘homeviewvideo.co.uk’
Close-up Film Library, Brick Lane
The economic theory of The Long Tail
For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

 

Flomotion Podcast #1: Fink

Nick Luscombe interviews emerging artists and more established cutting edge musicians and producers.

http://www.myspace.com/nickluscombe

For the first Flomotion podcast Nick Luscombe is joined by Sideshow (aka Ninja Tune recording artist Fink) to check out tracks from the stunning download only album of the same name and to discover more about the new phenomenon of Dub House.

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