Monthly Archives: May 2007

I’m ready for my close-up: The worlds of Bryan Talbot

In this episode of “I’m ready for my close-up”, Alex Fitch’s guests are Bryan Talbot & Mark Wright, creator and adaptor respectively of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright… In an interview recorded at the Bristol Comics Expo, Alex talks to Bryan about his career in comics, focusing on Luther and Alice in Sunderland and in a seperate interview, asks Mark about the challenges of converting a graphic novel to the audio medium…
Originally broadcast 24th May 2007 (mp3 format, 28.6mb)

N.B./ The competition mentioned in the show has now closed.

Links: Find details about Bryan’s Alice in Sunderland signing tour
Read a review of Alice in Sunderland in comic strip form
Wikipedia pages on The Adventures of Luther Arkwright
and Bryan Talbot
More info on Bryan’s exhibition at The Cartoon Museum which runs to the beginning of July
Buy / sample The Adventures of Luther Arkwright web comic
Buy / download the trailer for The Adventures of Luther Arkwright audio adaptation
More info on Bryan’s next project Cherubs
…which is drawn by former close-up guest Mark Stafford
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide : 122 – Smoke a 40 ounce.

30 minutes of music and sounds downloaded freely and legally from the internet. This week, a floaty boaty vibe. Mmmmmm.

Tracklist and links below:

1. I Came To Scoff But Stayed To Pray by K.M. Krebs, The Light Will Fill The Darkness And Obliterate It:
www.webbedhandrecords.com

2. Removing The Last Pieces by Darren McClure, Unmoored:
www.monocromatica.com

3. Kev Hopper Knows by Kev Hopper aka Spoombung, I Saw Spoombung’s Daughter Consumed By Kirby Dots LP:
www.spoombung.co.uk

4. Littlestars by Monstre, Sucre 3:
www.alien8recordings.com

5. IIIa by ry-om, -:
www.ry-om.net

6. Balloonism by Kev Hopper aka Spoombung, I Saw Spoombung’s Daughter Consumed By Kirby Dots LP:
www.spoombung.co.uk

7. Peupliers Au Lac En Hiver (Calmes Dans La Brume) by Faune, Regards Choisis:
www.pathmusik.hermetech.net

8. Cr by Jari Pitkanen, Time Exp:
enoughrecords.scene.org

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 originally broadcast on the 24th May 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 : Embedded With Floral Motifs

Dobson’s Six Lectures On Fruit were among the most highly-regarded of his works, held in an esteem that the contemporary reader finds unfathomable. Revisiting these pamphlets, it swiftly becomes apparent that Dobson has no idea what he’s talking about. The revised view of the Lectures is put best by one upstart young Dobson scholar, who dismisses them as “bloviating and orotund”.

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  • Celebrity Flibbertigibbet Attic
  • Six Lectures On Fruit
  • Where Eagles Dare
  • Emboldened, In Gumboots
  • Vagrant Goat God
  • My Brother’s Cistern And My Sister’s Cistern
  • At Long Last, An Answer To The Blodgett Duffel Bag Query

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 14th March 2007. 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 Chris B in SEA.

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I’m ready for my close-up: Blake’s 7 redux

Recorded at this year’s Bristol international Comic Expo – Alex Fitch interviews the makers of the new Blake’s 7 internet radio series – writer Ben Aaronovitch, actor Owen Aaronovitch who plays ‘Gan’, sound designer / actor Alistair Lock who plays ‘Zen’ and producer Andrew Sewell. Originally broadcast 17th May, 2007 (mp3 format, 28.3mb)

Links: Listen to the new Blake’s 7 at www.blakes7.com
Wikipedia pages on Blake’s 7 and Ben Aaronovich
IMDb page on Owen Aaronovich
Outpost Gallifrey page on Alistair Lock
Interview with Andrew Sewell at www.blakes-7.co.uk
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Marvin Suicide : 121 – Would you like to wear my pants?

If you would like an alternative method of listening to and obtaining alternative music, then by George I think you might have come to the right place.

All the music and sounds and works and pieces and so on played on marvin suicide have been found, and carefully downloaded, freely and legally from the internet. Each piece is freeze-dried within 30 minutes to lock in that freshly downloaded flavour without loosing a single kilobyte.

Here is the tracklisting for this weeks episode:

1. Snowshoes by Precious Fathers:
www.whitewhale.ca

2. John Wayne by Catgut:
www.catgutmusic.com

3. Counter Clockwise Chant Pattern by Terminal 11, Cock Rock Disco 2006 Compilation:
www.cockrockdisco.com

4. Sounds Of The Tropical Noise Forest by A_dontigny, Electromagressive Butch:
www.notype.com

5. Boring Device by Tom Ellis, Sitting Ducks Compilation:
www.trimsound.co.uk

6. Twin (Dublee Remix) by Dublee, Deviation:
www.epsilonlab.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 originally broadcast on the 17th May 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 : Cramp Medication

I stared at the cows, and the cows stared back.

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They showed no sign of letting me pass. And then it dawned on me that they must have been sent as emissaries to stop me returning to the prog rock bewilderment home where Primrose tended to ghouls. The cows were trying to save me from becoming a ghoul myself, and urging me, in their quiet, cow-like way, to turn around, and to return in the direction of the horrible cave!

  • The Horrible Cave : Part One
  • The Horrible Cave : Part Two
  • The Horrible Cave : Part Three
  • The Horrible Cave : Part Four

This episode of Hooting Yard was first broadcast on the 7th March 2007. 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 I-Man–10N.

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I’m ready for my close-up: The current state of anime

Alex Fitch interviews Helen McCarthy, author of ‘Hayao Miyazaki – Master of Japanese Animation’, ‘500 Manga heroes and villains’ and co-author of ‘The Anime encyclopedia’ about the season of Japanese animated films she’s curated at the Barbican which coincides with the 90th anniversary of the medium. The season continues this month with a sold-out screening of Satoshi Kon’s new film Paprika, so Alex and Helen talk about the director as well as the work of his predecessors and contemporaries such as Miyazaki and Ôtomo plus the continuing influence of manga artist Osamu Tezuka.
Originally broadcast 10th May, 2007 (mp3 format, 28.7mb)

Links: If you want to queue for returns, here’s info on the Barbican Japanimation season… …plus next month’s ‘Animate the World’ season
Wikipedia pages on Satoshi Kon, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro ÅŒtomo, Osamu Tezuka and anime in general
For the latest Anime news, why not check out otakunews.com
Buy 500 Manga Heroes and Villains and The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 from amazon.com
For more info and a selection of different file formats you can download or stream, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

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 1st February 2007

Marvin Suicide: 120 – I don’t do this for fun you know.

Marvin suicide plays music and sounds found on the internet that you probably won’t enjoy hearing. Don’t bother listening because its complete rubbish.

Here is the tracklisting:

1. Thank You Jesus For Making Me So Hippy by A Smile For Timbuctu, Manuale Atzeni EP:
www.audioaubergine.com

2. Saint Catherine (Idiot’s Waltz) by Molasses, Trilogie – Toil And Peaceful Life:
www.alien8recordings.com

3. Incest (Tantrum Remix) by Ely Muff:
www.deadpig.co.uk

4. Air WAr de by Crystal Castles:
www.myspace.com

5. California Dreaming by 386 DX:
www.easylife.org

6. Taka Takata by Moog Party Time, ChazzershopCore:
www.datassette.net

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 originally broadcast on the 10th May 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 @).