Imperial War Museum educator Grant Rogers talks to Pat Mills about his seminal wartime strip Charley’s War, serialised in Battle Action comic in the 1970s and 80s. Grant and Pat Mills discuss the history of the strip, working with Joe Colquhoun and the real life events that influenced the comic. (Recorded in front of an audience at the 2011 Comics and Conflicts conference at the Imperial War Museum, London.)

Charleys War by Joe Colquhoun and Pat Mills

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

Links: Wikipedia pages on Charley’s War and Pat Mills
Grant’s website
Listen to Alex’s interviews with Grant about his career working on great British Cartoons and his favourite film of 2006
Listen to Alex Fitch and Duncan Nott’s interview with Pat Mills about 2000AD
Listen to Grant’s 2008 interview with Pat
More Comics and Conflicts podcasts

Recommended events:

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

http://artsaveslives.co.uk/

Covers of The Search Engine and constituent EPs by Henry Flint and DJ Food

http://www.panelborders.com
http://www.robinthefog.com

The art of The Search Engine by Henry Flint and DJ Food is on display at Pure Evil Gallery, 108 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH until the end of February 2012.
(Originally broadcast 05/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

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

Links: DJ Food’s website
Henry Flint’s blog
Info about Pure Evil Gallery
More info about Broadcast: The TV Doodles of Henry Flint
Robin’s website and new album

Recommended events:

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

1. Fab Trio, ‘Implications’
   From History of Jazz in Reverse, FINLAND TUM RECORDS TUM CD 028 (2011)
2. Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination, ‘Marinèt’
   From Route De Frères, FINLAND TUM RECORDS TUM CD 027 (2011)
3. Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio, ‘The Grey Adler Returns Again’
   From Clustrophy, FINLAND TUM RECORDS TUM CD 025 (2011)
4. BCR, ‘Afroklez’
   From Off-World Beat, USA CITY SPARK CDJ334 CD (1995)
5. Bucketrider, ‘Événement 11′
   From L’Événements, AUSTRALIA DR JIM’S RECORDS DRJIM35 CD (2004)
6. Fab Trio, ‘History of Jazz in Reverse’
   From History of Jazz in Reverse, op cit.
7. Andrew Cyrille & Haitian Fascination, ‘Isaura’
   From Route De Frères, op cit.
8. Paul Flaherty, ‘Little Death’
   From Voices, USA WET PAINT 3002 CD (2003)
9. Mikko Innanen & Innkvisitio, ‘Detto The Magician’
   From Clustrophy, op cit.
10. Olavi Trio & Friends, ‘No. 69B’
    From Triologia, FINLAND TUM RECORDS TUM CD 026 (2011)
11. Eugene Chadbourne with Joe Williamson & Uli Jenessen, ‘Light in the Darkness’
    From Ayler Undead, GERMANY GROB 321 CD (2001)
12. Joe McPhee, ‘Klatu’
    From Mister Peabody Goes To Baltimore, USA RECORDED 005 CD (2001)

Alexander Tucker began his musical career as singer in punk and post-hardcore bands and since the early part of this century his solo music has channelled widely varied influences from folk to musique concrète-style tape experimentation to the English psychedelia of the Cardiacs. From his earliest records Old Fog and Furrowed Brow on ATP Recordings to his latest song-cycle Dorwytch on Thrill Jockey, his records are at once brooding and intense, joyful and humourous. Deceptively simple, the harmonies are heavily layered and often use accidental ambient sounds (Victoria Line trains rumbling by are audible on his first two albums). His discography is spiralling out of control, having released at least 9 albums since 2004, often in collaboration, including Stephen O’Malley of Sun O))) and previous guest on this show, Duke Garwood.

Alexander will perform live in the Resonance FM studio today and also talk about his latest record, the second released in collaboration with electronic musician Daniel Beban under the name Imbogodom, out this week on Thrill Jockey. Using vintage analogue equipment and recorded at the BBC’s Bush House, Imbogodom recreates the techniques and textures of those early pioneers of electronic sound at the Radiophonic Workshop.

“… when I got it home to a pair of monolithic 1970s stereo speakers [Dorwytch] transformed into a pool of potential deep listening. A relatively still surface daring you to dive in, its sharp, cold depth containing bindweed, or maybe worse… things that threaten to drag you under, away from surface beauty into a totally different, forbidding world.” – John Doran, The Quietus review of Dorwytch

Paper Dollhouse is the work of Astrud Steehouder; dark minimal gothic folk which comprises haunting vocals, acoustic guitar, effects pedals, found sounds, slide projector and minimal electronic atmospherics. Her debut album ‘A Box Painted Black’ was recently released on Bird Records, the femme-folk off shoot of the Finders Keepers family.

Inspired by early 60s electronic pioneers Delia Derbyshire and Eliane Radigue, bleak British television soundtracks, minimal dark electronica, Arthur Russell, Christine Harwood and France Galle, the music combines simple folk songs with environmental and electronic textural sounds and visuals to create a pared down, beautiful experience.

Named after the 1988 cult horror film Paperhouse “I watched the film when I was about 10 and was really drawn in by it. Something about the quality and tone of it, the psychology and aesthetic has stayed with me ever since. I’m into actual dollhouses and models of things as well. I used to make these little viewfinder boxes containing little scenes in them as a child for fun, I found them magical.”

‘A Box Painted Black’ was recorded entirely in the kitchen and garden of her London home amongst the incidental sounds of trains passing, children playing, door slams and running water, “the album’s like a Pandora’s box of messages. It was kind of a dark solace for me, the slight way the album happened. Almost hidden.”

Track list:
Imbogodom – Borogmog’s Clock
Alexander Tucker – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Imbogodom – Heir Looms
Alexander Tucker – ‘Interview’
FC Judd – Steel Particles
Daphne Oram – Hamlet Youth Theatre
Li De La Russe/Nikki St George/Don Harper – Liquid Energy
Frieder Butzmann – No Title
Paper Dollhouse – Daisies (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – Golden Ships (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ’Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Paper Dollhouse – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp.

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In an hour long show about children’s book illustration, Alex Fitch talks to three generations of illustrators: David McKee, creator of Mr Benn, King Rollo and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant; Dave McKean, artist of of young adult books by David Almond, graphic novels and picture books by Neil Gaiman and Richard Dawkins’ first science book for children The Magic of Reality; and Jim Kay, illustrator of Patrick Ness’ A Monster Calls and Toby Forward’s Flaxfield Quartet of novels about dragons.
Also includes an extract from Dave McKean’s presentation of his work from The Magic of Reality at the book launch in Foyles, September 2011.

Mr Benn by David McKee, The Magic of Reality by Dave McKean and Richard Dawkins, and A Monster Calls by Jim Kay and Patrick Ness

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

Links: Random House titles by David McKee
Richard Dawkins / Dave McKean / Jim Kay websites
Info about The Illustration Cupboard / events at Foyles

If you enjoyed this show, why not try Mary and Bryan Talbot talking about their Joycean graphic novel Dotter of her father’s eyes

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery will be hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from February 2 to March 2.

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

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

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Jetting in from up the Kingsland Road we have Dalston’s Temperatures, the improvised avant rock duo comprised of Peter Blundell (bass) and James Dunn (drums/synth). Temperatures’ sound (no ‘The’) is a guttural, dense and relentless unleashing of some intense unspecified emotion (is it anger, is it hate, is it love?), by turns hypnotically repetitious and wildly tangential.

“Mankind’s destiny is played out in primal terms on this exciting LP, a blistering recorded performance.” Ed Pinsent, Sound Projector / Resonance FM.

“It’s really this dark-hole of noise-playing. It’s actually really distinctive in a way amongst that genre, because there’s a lot of standardized tropes in the noise genre that people fall into– which I don’t mind, I like the idea that this is traditional way of playing in that world, but it’s always cool to hear something like this where you can’t really slot it into those things” – Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth (from OhNoTheyDidnt.LiveJournal.com)

Also, hear our regular Hello GoodBye Show sound engineer Kacper Zienianin navigate an on-air roll reversal, leaping from behind the scenes to centre stage with his Noise-Improv outfit; Tiger Walking Downhill.

Track list:
Mucky Sailor – Requiem for a Sports Car
Temperatures – Zen Brick (LIVE SESSION)
Tylehurst Children’s Arkestra – Four Hours in the Lettuce Factory
Temperatures – ‘Interview’
Imbogodom – Bvsh Hovse Ghost
Paper Dollhouse – Moon
One Unique Signal – Villains
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Untitled’ (LIVE SESSION)
Lime-Headed Dog – Barcelona
Tiger Walking Downhill – ‘Interview’

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Tom Kemp & Joe Oldfield

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Originally broadcast on 30th January 2012

Concluding our month of shows looking at biography and autobiography in comics, Alex Fitch talks to the multiple award winning (and Grammy nominated) cartoonist Craig Thompson about his epic new graphic novel Habibi (My beloved). Alex and Craig discuss the 672 page book’s reworking of themes from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’, mixing in modern concerns about gender politics and pollution in the Middle East and how his previous autobiographical works Blankets and Carnet de Voyage, with their themes of sexual awakening, religion and travelogue, led to his latest work.

Habibi, Blankets and Carnet de Voyage by Craig Thompson

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 29/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Links: Habibi page at www.faber.co.uk
Info about Craig’s graphic novels at www.topshelfcomix.com
Craig’s website: www.dootdootgarden.com

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery will be hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from February 2 to March 2.

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

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

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

Guest appearance from Tim Abbott

1. Crystal Hell Pool, ‘Life In Silence’
   From Domain, USA DEBACLE RECORDS DBL066 CD (2011)
2. Heroin In Tahiti, ‘Spaghetti Wasteland’
   From Death Surf, ITALY BORING MACHINES BM036LP (2011)
3. Nick Pynn, ‘Friends In Comedy’
   From Talktapes, UK ROUNDHILL MUSIC RHLCD011 CD
   (2011)
4. Charnel House, ‘Erosive’
   From Contagion, USA SYGIL RECORDS 008 CD (2011)
5. Erland Dahlen, ‘Piratman’
   From Rolling Bomber, NORWAY HUBRO CD2512 (2011)
6. Rella The Woodcutter, ‘Dead Star’
   From The Golden Undertow, ITALY BORING MACHINES BM037 LP (2012)
7. Bonnie Barnett Group, ‘Set In Stone’
   From In Between Dreams, USA PFMENTUM PFMCD063 CD (2011)
8. Wade Matthews & Alfredo Costa Monteiro, ‘Aconite’
   From Winter, USA COPY FOR YOUR RECORDS CFYR009 CD (2011)
9. Hum Of Gnats, ‘Hey, Rube!’
   From Purge The Weevil From Yer Midst, ITALY STRUNGAPHONE RECORDS SPR01 CD (2011)
10. Layers of the Onion, ‘In The Land of Sona-Nyl’
    From Hal-An-Tow, NORWAY OHM RECORDS 2.4 OHM / APARTMENT RECORDS APAREC030 / DRONING-ON RECORDS DRONCD15 CD (2011)
11. Poisucevamachenille, (Track 01)
    From Poisucevamachenille, ITALY OUTLINE RECORDS CD (2010)

Details on www.lightchronicles.info – tune in, feedback, wear your scars with pride.

We will also be re-airing a selection of our favourite pieces of music recorded live here on Hello GoodBye throughout 2011.

Paul Hawkins & The Awkward Silences formed in 2006 as a collaboration between maverick singer-songwriter Hawkins and Death in Vegas guitarist turned producer Ian Button and have gradually expanded into a six-piece. The band have released two albums and numerous singles and have built up a loyal cult following, with fans as far afield as Holland, France, Belgium and America. Their last EP ‘The Wrong Life‘ (Audio Antihero) was released in July 2011 and their new album will be released later this year.

Black Spot is the new solo moniker of ex-Congregation guitar player and singer with The Tap Collective, Benjamin Prosser. Black Spot acts as a place where the territory Benjamin’s early solo work (released on Sexton Ming’s Rim Records) left off. Though still demoing onto tape recorders and dictaphone’s Benjamin has now upped the analogue stakes recording the final versions of his new material at Gizzard Studio in the east-end. Combining an intricate finger picked intimacy with instrumentation including rythmn generator, Oscillator and found sounds Benjamin’s latest work is in his own words “the closest I’ve ever come to truly valuing, giving credence to what I do most naturally, to really speaking, saying what I believe is worth saying.”

Track List:
Horse Brothers – Good Umbridge (HG archive)
Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – I’ve Left The New World Order (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – Somewhere I have To Be (LIVE SESSION)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – How We Lost The War (LIVE SESSION)
Design A Wave – Remedy (HG archive)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – ‘Interview’
Poino – Bad Bag (HG archive)
One True Dog – It’s A Delay (HG archive)
Delphic Vapours – Pink Floyd European Tour 1968 (HG archive)
BlackSpot – Cremation (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Your Ox Will Carve (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The Watcher In The Night (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Jewel (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – The 11th Commandment (LIVE SESSION)
BlackSpot – Heaven’s Gate (LIVE SESSION)
Hamilton yarns – When Times Are Good (HG archive)
BlackSpot – ‘Interview’
The Monochrome Set – He’s Frank (HG archive)
Jad Fair – I’ll Change My Style (HG archive)

Live sound engineers: Leanne Bower, Kacper Zienianin & Tom Kemp.

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern

John Douglas Millar discusses his review of Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern .

“The show is vast; there is the work that spars with Marcel Duchamp, the landscapes that investigate German Romanticism, September, 2005, his mournful and considered reaction to the attacks on the World Trade Center, the tender but always questioning domestic portraits of his wife and children. I cannot discuss them all here. In the end, the satisfaction of this show comes from the sense that you are constantly in the presence of an intelligence that is both effervescent and probing. A painterly mind that is able, fascinatingly, to think against itself”.

The programme is hosted by Matt Hale who has worked at Art Monthly since 1991.

Previous episodes are available on Art Monthly’s website www.artmonthly.co.uk/events.htm

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Continuing our month of shows about biography and autobiography, guest presenter Nicola Streeten interviews Bryan and Mary Talbot about their forthcoming graphic novel, Dotter of Her Father’s Eyes, which contrasts two coming of age narratives: Lucia, daughter of James Joyce, and author Mary Talbot, daughter of the Joycean scholar James S Atherton. (Recorded and edited by Alex Fitch) (Recorded live in front of an audience at the University of Sussex as part of the First Fictions Festival).

Image from Dotter of her fathers eyes by Bryan and Mary M Talbot

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download. (Broadcast 10/01/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

Links: Info about First Fictions Festival
Mary Talbot’s website
Official Dotter page at www.randomhouse.co.uk
Previous interviews with Bryan Talbot

Recommended events:

Orbital comics signing and exhibtion launch

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery will be hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from February 2 to March 2.

On February 3rd, the Talbots will come to Orbital for a signing, starting at 5pm.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

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

An introduction to creating your graphic memoir

FREE WORKSHOP
Saturday 28 January 2012
2-4pm
Ages 18+
Presentation and practical workshop with Nicola Streeten, illustrator and author of the highly praised graphic memoir ‘Billy, Me and You’.
No experience necessary, materials will be provided

Idea Store Chrisp Street, 1 Vesey Path, East India Dock Road, London E14 6BT
Tel 020 7364 4332

Storytelling for Comics and Graphic Novels course

You will learn about comic and graphic novel storytelling techniques, and how to create your own visual narrative. Everyone will end the course with one completed comic page, and the skills to continue their work for themselves. We will look at comic and graphic novel art styles, the use of text and images, the “grammar” of comic art, use of sound effects, abstraction, and styles. You provide a story from your own experience, or one you wish to adapt into the medium.

West Dean College, Chichester (Suitable for all levels)
2nd – 4th March 2012
Details here: www.westdean.org.uk

1. Anders Hana, ‘Iskoras’
   From Dead Clubbing, NORWAY DRID MACHINE RECORDS DMR2 LP (2011)
2. Strongly Imploded, ‘Signs of liberation for Wandering souls’
   From Twilight of Broken Machines, USA EH?58 CD (2011)
3. No UFOs, ‘Evidence / Century Park’
   From Soft Coast, AUSTRIA SPECTRUM SPOOLS SP 011 CD (2011)
4. Sutcliffe Jugend, ‘Carnage’
   From With Extreme Prejudice, UK COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR143CD CD (2011)
5. Astro, ‘Slow Slide’
   From Creative Destruction, UK HYPNAGOGIA GIA07 2 x CD (2011)
6. Defektro, ‘Bite and Spit’
   From Creative Destruction, op cit.
7. Mark Van Hoen, ‘I Remember’
   From The Revenant Diary, AUSTRIA EDITIONS MEGO EMEGO 136 CD (2012)
8. Rothkamm, ‘German Film Star’
   From Reno, USA FLUX RECORDS FLX15 CD (2011)
9. Foust!, ‘Astounding Data’
   From Space Sickness, USA EH?60 CDR (2011)
10. Vega (with Bart de Vrees), ‘Light Code’
    From Wormsongs, NETHERLANDS ARTEKSOUNDS ART001 CD (2011)
11. PMT, ‘THEFCKWT TWO’
    From Frosty Lee / THEFCKWT EP, UK SLIGHTLY OFF KILTER SOK035 CD (2012)
12. Alla Zagaykevych and Electroacoustic’s Ensemble, ‘Part I’
    From Nord/Ouest, UKRAINE NEXSOUND NS67 CD (2011)
13. Ensemble Pamplemousse, ‘Symbiosis’
    From Raanna Jedaku, USA CARRIER RECORDS 013 2 x CD (2012)