Ebi left Iran two years before the ’79 Islamic Revolution after recording six hit albums, and continued to work in the US. Later, he recorded another 13 albums and is still performing at sold-out concerts at prestigious venues around the world including the Sydney Opera House and Washington DC’s Kennedy Center.

In 2010 Ebi played his only UK concert for years at the Royal Albert Hall to help support the fight against Multiple Sclerosis (MS).  We recorded an interview with the man himself while he was in London. The song below, Tasmim, critiques the Iranian elections of 2009. The video features two glass bowls, one filled with worms the other cockroaches as a suggestive metaphor.

Continuing our trio of shows looking at international comics we have interviews with a couple of European adventure comics creators. In an interview recorded at last year’s BD & Comics Passion festival at the Institut Français, Dickon Harris talks to Yves Sente, one of the current authors of the classic Franco-Belgian strip Blake and Mortimer, who has penned stories set in the current chronology of the comic as well as flashback tales that depict the characters in their youth. Also, in a pair of interviews recorded at Gosh! comics and Laydeez do comics, Alex Fitch talks to Uli Oesterle about his graphic novel Hector Umbra, a surrealist detective story which follows the travails of a painter who investigates the underworld of modern day Munich.

Originally broadcast 13/05/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Buy Hector Umbra from Hector Umbra from Blank Slate books
Uli Oesterle’s blog

Official Blake and Mortimer website
Info about Blake and Mortimer at cinebook.co.uk

Recommended events:

Alter-Ego alt. comics art exhibition

7 indie artists depict their alter egos in this week long gallery show at the Red Bull Studios in London.

Artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT), Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and Warwick Johnson Cadwell, looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever… Worth attending for WJC and Robert Ball’s depictions of Marvel heroes alone!

10-16th May, 10th May private view starts at 6pm

More info: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/alter-ego-show

Red Bull Gallery, 155-171 Tooley Street, London SE1 2JP

UNSTABLE ART AT MAGGS BROS

Strange Attractor and Maggs Bros are proud to present ‘Unstable’, an exhibition of new and old work from Battle Of The Eyes (Savage Pencil and Eyeball), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All artwork will be for sale, as will new books and other materials from Strange Attractor Press.

Unstable: 8 May – 8 June 2012 (Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 5pm)
Maggs Counterculture and Gallery,
50 Hays Muse, W1J 5QJ, London, UK

Kapow! comics convention

For its second year, Kapow! returns to the Islington Design Centre on May 19th and 20th, celebrating Clint magazine and the best of international comics talent. Guests include Mark Millar, Joe Quesada, Jonathan Ross, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Ross, Scott Snyder, Sara Pichelli, Olivier Coipel, Terry Dodson, Charlie Adlard, Bryan Hitch, and Dave Gibbons.
Alex Fitch will be hosting a Q & A with Steve Parkhouse and Peter Hogan about their new Dark House comic Resident Alien which features a ‘grey’ alien becoming a doctor in small town USA, on Sunday 20th May, time TBC.

More info and tickets at http://kapowcomicconvention.com

Support Badger the movie

A London based documentary and animation team is bringing Howard Hardiman’s beloved comic Badger to life in a new animated film that will also contain footage of the process of making Howard’s comic and its relevance to mental health issues.
You can support fundraising for this project at http://www.indiegogo.com/Badgershortfilm with various incentives depending on the level of contribution.

1. Swell Maps, ‘Dresden Style’ (1980)
   From Train Out Of It, UK THE GREY AREA CD MAPS 3 (1991)
2. Dr Mix & The Remix, ‘No Fun’ (1979)
   From 1979-1982, FRANCE BONDAGE RECORDS ABCD 041 CD (1989)
3. 1/2 Japanese, ‘Tangled Up In Blue’
   From 1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts, UK ARMAGEDDON RECORDS A BOX 1 (1980)
4. The Adverts, ‘Television’s Over’ (1977)
   From The Punk Singles Collection, UK ANAGRAM CD PUNK 95 (1997)
5. Red Transistor, ‘Not Bite’ (1977)
   From New York Noise Vol 2, UK SOUL JAZZ RECORDS SJR CD 16 (2006)
6. Buzzcocks, ‘You Tear Me Up’ (1978)
   From Another Music in A Different Kitchen / Love Bites, UK EMI RECORDS 5099909529021 2 x CD (2001)
7. Demon Preacher, ‘Royal Northern’
   From Messthetics #107: D.I.Y. ’78-81 London III, USA HYPED 2 DEATH CD (2009)
8. Devo, ‘Be Stiff’
   From Hardcore Devo Vol. 2, USA RYKODISC RCD 20208 (1991)
9. Gang of Four, ‘Damaged Goods’ (1978)
   From Entertainment, UK EMI RECORDS 7243 8 32146 2 CD (1995)
10. The Slits, ‘FM’ (1979)
    From Cut, UK ISLAND REMASTERS IMCD 275 (2000)
11. Discharge, ‘A Hell On Earth’ (1981)
    From Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, UK CASTLE MUSIC CMRCD709 (2003)
12. Y Pants, ‘Favourite Sweater’ (1980)
    From New York Noise Vol 2, op cit.
13. The Twizzlers, ‘We Are The Twizzlers + Motorbike’
    From Messthetics Greatest Hiss, USA HYPED 2 DEATH CD (2008)
14. Metal Boys, ‘Carbone 14′ (1980)
    From Tokio Airport, FRANCE SEVENTEEN ST004 2 x CD (2004)
15. Fire Engines, ‘Meat Whiplash’ (1981)
    From Codex Teenage Premonition, USA DOMINO DNO 068 CD (2005)
16. Glenn Branca, ‘Jill’ (1977)
    From Songs ’77-’79, USA ATAVISTIC ALP43 CD (1996)
17. Dog Faced Hermans, ‘Cactus’ (1988)
    From Humans Fly / Every Day Timebomb, NETHERLANDS KONKURREL K133 CD (1991)
18. The Fall, ‘Slates, Slags, Etc’ (1981)
    From Slates, UK CASTLE MUSIC CMRCD1006 CD (2004)
19. Instant Automatons, ‘Gillian Is Normal’
    From Messthetics Greatest Hiss, op cit.
20. Stolen Power, ‘Little White Lies’
    From Messthetics #107, op cit.
21. The Stranglers, ‘Walk On By’
    From UK UNITED ARTISTS UP 36429 7″ SINGLE (1978)

The name we finished with is Wheelchair Sports Camp, and her name is Kalyn Heffernan. I apologise for mis-speaking on the audio.

Contact us at www.lightchronicles.info.

Obsequies For Lars Talc, Struck By Lightning was published in an edition of twenty-five copies in 1994, under the Hooting Yard Press imprint and – save for a brief, rewritten, extract posted  here some years ago – has never again seen the light of day. It was the last piece of prose I completed before my descent into the maelstrom, or the Wilderness Years, or whatever one wants to call that period of ruination from which I eventually emerged with the launch of the Hooting Yard website in 2003.

Two independent sound art pieces strike almost exactly the same note in this edition of Cassette. On side A of a C30 tape, sound artist John Wynne explains how he played the note A on forty boom boxes to demonstrate beat frequencies. Then on side B Dan Bennett from arts collective Bang the Bore explains its twelve tapes project; the note B on twelve cassettes. Along the way hear a gangster answer phone tape, and visit some of the country’s finest multi-storey car parks.

The dozen songs that comprise the new album each hit the giddy and wry euphoric pop heights of the groups very best work.

As 21st century Great Britain switches from analogue to digital, it is inspiring to discover that there is still something very magical broadcasting from this particular Monochrome Set.

Track list:
The Monochrome Set – They Call Me Silence (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – LSD (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – The Jet Set Junta (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Alphaville (LIVE SESSION)
Band Of Holy Joy – Wyrd Beautiful Thyme
The Monochrome Set – ‘interview’
Kinnie The Explorer – A Platonick Song
The Monochrome Set – Hip Kitten (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Waiting For Alberto (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Streams (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – The Devil Rides Out (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Fun For All The Family (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – B-I-D Spells Bid (LIVE SESSION)
Now – I
The Monochrome Set – ‘interview’
Duke Garwood – Sweet Mary Come Down
The Monochrome Set – I Can’t Control My Feet (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Cauchemar (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – The Ruling Class (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Cowboy Country (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Jacob’s Ladder (LIVE SESSION)
The Monochrome Set – Eine Symphonie Des Grauens (LIVE SESSION)

Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin & Tom Kemp

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Starting a trio of shows about international comics, Alex Fitch talks to a pair of Belgian graphic novelists about their work. Creator Ivan Petrus discusses The Neuport Gathering, his moving and harrowing tale of Allied soldiers during the First World War, and in an interview recorded at last month’s Comica Comiket, Alex talks to artist Maarten Van Wieleabout his ‘graphic trash novel’ Paris which features sex, drugs and degradation in the French fashion industry.

Originally broadcast 06/05/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Ivan Petrus’ website
Buy The Neuport Gathering from ACC Distribution
More publisher Lannoo Books

Maarten Vandewiele’s website
More info about Paris at knockabout.com
Review of Paris and other recent comics and graphic novels on the Forbidden Planet International blog

Recommended events:

Alter-Ego alt. comics art exhibition

7 indie artists depict their alter egos in this week long gallery show at the Red Bull Studios in London.

Artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT), Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and Warwick Johnson Cadwell, looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever… Worth attending for WJC and Robert Ball’s depictions of Marvel heroes alone!

10-16th May, 10th May private view starts at 6pm

More info: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/alter-ego-show

Red Bull Gallery, 155-171 Tooley Street, London SE1 2JP

Hugo Tate launch party

Eighteen years after the last panel was drawn, Nick Abadzis’ (Laika) Hugo Tate is reappearing on our shelves. Indie publisher Blank Slate of Nelson fame is finally collecting the entire six-year run of what The Comics Journal called “Britain’s Love & Rockets”.

Gosh! Comics are throwing a launch party for the book on Saturday the 12th of May from 7pm to 9pm. There will be booze and signed copies aplenty! Blank Slate Books are producing a a special bookplate edition for Hugo Tate. There will only ever be 150 copies and we’re going to have just 50 of them. If you’d like to reserve one send us an email to info@goshlondon.com and we’ll make sure you get it.

Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate Launch Party: Saturday 12th May, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR 7-9pm

UNSTABLE ART AT MAGGS BROS

Strange Attractor and Maggs Bros are proud to present ‘Unstable’, an exhibition of new and old work from Battle Of The Eyes (Savage Pencil and Eyeball), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All artwork will be for sale, as will new books and other materials from Strange Attractor Press.

Unstable: 8 May – 8 June 2012 (Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 5pm)
Maggs Counterculture and Gallery,
50 Hays Muse, W1J 5QJ, London, UK

Support Badger the movie

A London based documentary and animation team is bringing Howard Hardiman’s beloved comic Badger to life in a new animated film that will also contain footage of the process of making Howard’s comic and its relevance to mental health issues.
You can support fundraising for this project at http://www.indiegogo.com/Badgershortfilm with various incentives depending on the level of contribution.

Alex Fitch talks to Ilana Rein (director: We are all Cylons), Andrew Mark Sewell (producer: Blake’s 7 audio) and Ben Aaronovich (writer: Blake’s 7 audio / Doctor Who) about dystopian TV from The Time Tunnel to Battlestar Galactica; and to Elizabeth Karr (producer) and John Alan Simon (writer / director) of Philip K. Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth.

N.B./ There is an additional screening of Radio Free Albemuth at 2.30pm on Monday 7th May at Apollo Piccadilly Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London

For more info about this podcast and a variety of other episodes you can download, please visit the home of this episode at www.sci-fi-london.com

Links: More info about Blake’s 7 audio plays / We are all cyclons / Radio Free Albemuth

Recommended events:

Alter-Ego alt. comics art exhibition

7 indie artists depict their alter egos in this week long gallery show at the Red Bull Studios in London.

Artists involved: Waste, Cottonmouth (RichT), Guy McKinley, Klingatron, Robert Ball, Smug, and Warwick Johnson Cadwell, looking at the ideas of being someone else, hero, villain, whatever… Worth attending for WJC and Robert Ball’s depictions of Marvel heroes alone!

10-16th May, 10th May private view starts at 6pm

More info: http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2012/alter-ego-show

Red Bull Gallery, 155-171 Tooley Street, London SE1 2JP

Hugo Tate launch party

Eighteen years after the last panel was drawn, Nick Abadzis’ (Laika) Hugo Tate is reappearing on our shelves. Indie publisher Blank Slate of Nelson fame is finally collecting the entire six-year run of what The Comics Journal called “Britain’s Love & Rockets”.

Gosh! Comics are throwing a launch party for the book on Saturday the 12th of May from 7pm to 9pm. There will be booze and signed copies aplenty! Blank Slate Books are producing a a special bookplate edition for Hugo Tate. There will only ever be 150 copies and we’re going to have just 50 of them. If you’d like to reserve one send us an email to info@goshlondon.com and we’ll make sure you get it.

Nick Abadzis’ Hugo Tate Launch Party: Saturday 12th May, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR 7-9pm

UNSTABLE ART AT MAGGS BROS

Strange Attractor and Maggs Bros are proud to present ‘Unstable’, an exhibition of new and old work from Battle Of The Eyes (Savage Pencil and Eyeball), Joel Biroco, Julian House and Cathy Ward. All artwork will be for sale, as will new books and other materials from Strange Attractor Press.

Unstable: 8 May – 8 June 2012 (Monday – Friday, 10.30am – 5pm)
Maggs Counterculture and Gallery,
50 Hays Muse, W1J 5QJ, London, UK

Support Badger the movie

A London based documentary and animation team is bringing Howard Hardiman’s beloved comic Badger to life in a new animated film that will also contain footage of the process of making Howard’s comic and its relevance to mental health issues.
You can support fundraising for this project at http://www.indiegogo.com/Badgershortfilm with various incentives depending on the level of contribution.

1. Optical*8, ‘Penetration’
   From Bug, FRANCE LES DISQUES DU SOLEIL ET DE L’ACIER DSA 54048 CD (1997)
2. High Rise, ‘Ikon’
   From Live, JAPAN PSF RECORDS PSFD-48 CD (1994)
3. Omoide Hatoba, ‘Mirage’
   From Vuoy, JAPAN TRATTORIA POLYSTAR MENU 117 PSCR-5592 (1997)
4. Boredoms, ‘Fuanteidai’
   From USA PUBLIC BATH PB3 7″ (1990)
5. Sympathy Nervous, ‘Lace Master’
   From No More Expo, JAPAN NEGATIVE EMISSION NE-1002T CASETTE (ND, early 1980s)
6. Ground Zero, ‘Null & Void: TV-Q Missile’
   From Null & Void, USA TZADIK TZ 7204 CD (1995)
7. Brush!?, ‘Day Break (Bridge Is Drumming) / Tears of Child’ (1971)
   From Brush!?, GERMAN SHADOKS MUSIC SHADOKS 047 CD (2006)
8. Gaseneta, ‘The Ballad of After The Rain (Live)’
   From Sooner Or Later, JAPAN PSF RECORDS PSFD-17 CD (1991)
9. Yuji Takahashi, ‘Time’ (1963)
   From Early Dedicated Japan, J-TONE J1250
10. Marble Sheep and the Run-Down Sun’s Children, ‘I’m Just Staring at the Upside’
    From Big Deal, JAPAN CAPTAIN TRIP RECORDS CTCD-001 CD (1992)
11. UFO or Die, ‘Rader Eyes (Gods)’
    From Cassettetape Superstar, JAPAN TIME BOMB BombCD-02 / PUBLIC BATH PB CD4 (1996)
12. Guilty Connector Und Tabata, ‘Tempus Est Quaedam Pars Aeternitatis’
    From Guilty Connector Und Tabata, FRANCE EVEN STILTE RECORDS ES101 CD (2003)
13. Matsuo Ohno, ‘Yamatoji A’ (1982)
    From The World of Electro-Acoustic Sound and Music 1, JAPAN KING RECORDS KICP 2636 CD (2005)
14. Hasegawa-Shizu, ‘Direct Tube Rider’
    From I Know A Chord Buried Into The Ground…JAPAN HAANG NIAP HAANG-001 CD (2008)
15. Over Hang Party, ‘Now Emerges’
    From Tokyo Flashback 2, JAPAN PSF RECORDS PSFD-24 CD (1992)

Charity shop worker and musician Peter Smith discusses surprising audio tapes which arrive in the collection. Resonance FM listens in to an anonymous journalist’s 1976 interview tape featuring a known journalist, Paul Foot, some music never intended for release and stumbles on a hoax meditation tape on the way. All crammed onto two sides of a C30 cassette.

http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/the_shemp_medit.html

http://thetramadols.tumblr.com

http://soundcloud.com/tiger-walking-downhill

http://www.organdonner.com/

More info: http://cassetteradio.wordpress.com

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.

contact: cassetteradio@gmail.com.

Originally broadcast on 28th April 2012

jespák malý, Zwergstrandläufer, Dværgryle, Correlimos Menudo, pikkusirri, Bécasseau minute, Veimiltíta, Gambecchio comune, nishitounen, Kleine Strandloper, Dvergsnipe, biegus malutki, Pilrito-pequeno, Combatente, pobrežník malý, Småsnäppa, Mazaricu Nanu, S?rç?vari qumluq cüllütü, Ar sourouc’han bihan, Corriol menut, Redonell, Territ menut, Pibydd bach, Pibydd lleiaf, Premavera, malgranda kalidro, Playerito menudo, Väikerisla, väikerüdi, Txirri txikia, Dvørggrælingur, Gobadáinín Beag, Looyran beg, Žalar ciganin, Apró partfutó, Chnchghuk Kttsar, Youroppa-tounen, Stynt munys, Calidris minuta, Ereunetes minutus, Erolia minuta, Mažasis b?gikas, Trul?tis, Rivarel nanin, Kulik-vorobey, Uhcacovzoš, mali prodnik, Gjelaci i vogël, blataric patuljak, Tsititsiti-nyenyane, Chokowe Mdogo, Küçük kumku?u, D? nh?, or R? nh?.

• The Little Stint
• The Care And Feeding Of Pigtapes
• William Tell: Third Statement Of Particulars
• The Cruel Sea

This episode was recorded on the 11th August 2011. A complete transcript of this episode can be found on Frank Key’s Hooting Yard website. Accompanying Hooting Yard On The Air, the six publications We Were Puny, They Were Vapid, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars, Befuddled By Cormorants , Inpugned By A Peasant And Other Stories and Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

We will also be featuring a number of Record Store Day related gigs and releases.

Jack Hayter makes his solo return with “The Sisters Of St. Anthony” (Audio Anti Hero), a project that finds him set to release one single a month over the next twelve months.

Hayter is a unique songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who blurs the lines between his trad. folk influences and the London anxieties of Hefner with creaking fuzz, biting wit, indie-pop rhythms and lo-tech electronica.

St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost things. These songs are new and old, some lost and without a home. There is of course nothing especially new or remarkable about releasing twelve monthly singles, it’s just another way to enjoy his music. Each of the twelve singles will be available individually or as part of a low priced subscription series with exclusive subscription only material.

Plus, Olivia Chaney returns once more to the show. Classical taste with a modern ear; Olivia Chaney revives rambling boys and dark eyed sailors with her own, special touch. Expect to be moved by a virtuoso of unusual depth and passion. Her set includes unaccompanied Irish and English traditionals, and distilled arrangements of anything from 80’s pop to Renaissance opera, all coloured with Harmonium, guitar and her bold, young voice.

Track List:

Gallon Drunk – You Made Me
Jack Hayter – The Shackleton (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – The Lost Courier (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – Just As The Tide Was Flowing (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – The Seduction Of Nancy (LIVE SESSION)
Jack Hayter – I Stole The Cutty Sark (LIVE SESSION)
Blanket – Threats (HG archive)
Female Band – The Girl Who Fell In The Sea (HG archive)
Jack Hayter – ‘interview’
Olivia Chaney – Holiday (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Too Social (LIVE SESSION)
Gertrude – They Cut Him In Half (HG archive)
Private Trousers – Market Man (HG archive)
Pissin Boy – She’s The One
Olivia Chaney – Loose Change (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – False Lover (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – ‘interview’
Billy Childish & Sexton Ming – Dung Beatle Rolls Again
Sexton Ming – ‘interview’
Peter Sellers – My Old Dutch

Live sound engineer – Joe Oldfield.

We kick off at 11am this morning – an hour ahead of our usual slot at noon – as Hello GoodBye celebrates a full 10 years of broadcasting on Resonance FM with an extended two and a half hour long bumper edition live at Home Front in South London. That’s longer than The Godfather.

On-site at the gallery there will be an art installation by James Alec Hardy entitled Decadia Broadcast System, that commemorates 10 years of live radio sessions, featuring footage of countless bands who maybe didn’t last much longer than the show they performed on and others who went on to greater things!

While on-air there will also be the usual glut of live music, with contributions from Way Through and Jessica Cahill and we’ll be on from 11am for a full two and a half hour bumper edition of HG ending at our usual cut-off point 1.30pm, so expect reminisces and a look to the future!

Way Through

Jess Cahill

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Track List:

Sergeant Buzfuz – Irish Pubs (live @ Tate Britain 13.04.12)
Bib – Postal Workers Song (HG archive)
Debbie Lego – TV Eyes (HG archive)
Xerox Teens – Chasing Your Tail (HG archive)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (HG archive)
Thee Intolerable Kidd – Running In A Circle Blues (HG archive)
Flame Proof Moth – Thomas Rymer (HG archive)
House of John Player – Lake Pace / Radworthy
Advert – Stephanie (HG archive)
One Unique Signal – Hey Alchemist (HG archive)
Salt & Blue – Goblin Waltz (HG archive)
Jess Cahill – Cold Blows the Wind (LIVE SESSION)
Jess Cahill – La Sansonette (LIVE SESSION)
Jess Cahill – Bushes & Briars (LIVE SESSION)
Olivia Chaney – Barbara Allen (HG archive)
Jess Cahill – ‘interview’
Shimmy Rivers & & Canal – Winking Cowboy (HG archive)
Roy & The Devil’s Motorcycle – Intro
Robin ‘The Fog’ Warren – ‘chat’
Peggy Seeger – Heading For Home (HG archive)
Smack Miranda – ? (HG archive)
Way Through – Barleycorn (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Helpston (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Ruined Acre (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Corina Corina (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Visiting Mercia (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Ower (LIVE SESSION)
Way Through – Henry My Son (LIVE SESSION)
Jesus Licks – Tarzan (HG archive)
Wet Dog – Steal A Car (HG archive)

Live sound engineers: Kacper Zienianin, Leanne Bower & Joe Oldfield
Resonance FM HQ engineer: Tom Kemp

Thanks to everyone we have ever met! Blub blub, 10 years etc!

Mahendra Dangwol White Sukhasiddhi Yogini, 2009.

Robert Beer, has studied and practised Tibetan Art for the past forty years and is now recognized as one of the foremost scholars in this field. Author and illustrator of the “Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs“, and the “Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols“. He has illustrated Indian Mahasiddhas in his book “Buddhist Masters of Enchantment.” and Over the past fifteen years he has been working closely with the most talented Tibetan thangka painters of the Kathmandu Valley and Newar artists and is curating exhibition of his work, currently running at the October Gallery in Old Gloucester Street until 26^th May.

Robert is giving talks at the October Gallery

Saturday, 5th May, 2012 3:00PM
The Cosmology of the Outer and Inner Universe according to the Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

Tuesday, 8th May, 2012 6:30PM
Death and Rebirth in the Buddhist Traditions in the light of modern near-death studies and spiritual regression

Friday, 18th May, 2012 6:30PM
Wrathful Deities and their Symbolism, an introduction.
(in conjunction with Museums at Night)

Saturday, 26 May, 2012 3:00PM
The Legends of the 84 Mahasiddhas of early Indian Buddhism

Coates’ interactions with the amazing array of characters around the Elephant and Castle culminated in a vision-ritual performance with 16 piece disco-Prog group Chrome Hoof at the iconic Coronet theatre.

The subsequent documentary film Vision Quest: A Ritual for Elephant & Castle was screened in an empty shopping unit in the centre, long-since marked for demolition along with the estates and areas around them. “I asked them how would you represent this place in terms of an animal? [...] The council were amazing actually, the way they co-operated with the process [...] You don’t actually see this in the film, but afterwards I asked them to envisage in a very personal way what their personal vision was, ’cause you have corporate vision and these scripted visions but I wanted them to invest in their own personal vision of what the Elephant could be. ” said Coates “.”

In a pair of interviews looking at the crossover between comics and film, Alex Fitch talks to Stefan Hutchinson about his comic book Demons 3 – a sequel to Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava’s classic 1980s horror films – and to comic book artist Dave McKean about his film of the Port Talbot Passion play, The Gospel of Us. Alex And Stefan discuss the writer’s Haloween comics Nightdance and First Death of Laurie Strode plus his documentary, Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror. Alex and Dave also talk about the artist’s collaborations with Richard Dawkins and Michael Sheen, plus his earlier film MirrorMask.

Poster for The Gospel of Us, directed by Dave McKean / Panel from Demons 3 by Stefan Hutchinson and Jeff Zornow

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.

Links: Wiki pages on Stefan Hutchinson and Dave McKean
IMDb pages on Dèmoni / Demons (1985), Dèmoni 2 / Demons 2 (1986), La casa dell’orco / Demons 3: The Ogre (1988), La chiesa / Demons 3: The Church (1989) and Demoni 3 / Black Demons (1991)
Read the silent prologue of Demons 3 (the comic) and first six pages online
Buy Demons and Demons 2 from arrowfilms.co.uk

More info about The Gospel of Us at New British Cinema Quarterly
Dave McKean’s website
Articles on McKean at the Forbidden Planet International blog
Listen to Alex’s previous interview with Dave McKean

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