Omar Kholeif discusses his feature on western appropriation of art from the Arab world entitled Arabic Agendas and Paul O’Kane redefines outsider art discussing his feature Out of this world.

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And we are very excited to hear they will be bringing their own, bespoke musical ship’s wheel! — 8 tunable oscillators are played in sequence when you spin the wheel! We love a band who bring a visual element to their radio session.

And this is I Love Resonance FM week — the long and short of it is that Resonance needs £30k and quick to feed the monkeys that power the transmitter. So we want you to show your love in the only gesture that really counts in this harsh world, yes, that’s giving money! But not money for nothing — there are on air auctions all week, so listen in and bid!

We – as last year – on the Hello GoodBye Show are selling off a show minute by minute at a rate of just £10 each! Use the time to promote your band/cause/political views/small business/megaglobal corporation. Email auction@resonancefm.com with the subject header “e5? and buy time on the Resonance airwaves. Last year we sold all 90 minutes and a bit more (we went over into the next week’s show) making just over £900 for Resonance FM, let’s see if we can beat that this year!

Track List:
BØREDØM – Lap Dance of Rats
Mucky Sailor – Harbingers of Taste (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – I Wanna Be Fat (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Reverse Scrumping (LIVE SESSION)
Hookworms – I Have Some Business Out West
Godsy – The Canyon Shadows Cry
Female Band – One Day The Sea Will Swallow Me
O-Arc – Hope (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – ‘Interview’
The Protagonists of David Gadsdon – My Private Anarchy (HG archive)
Mucky Sailor – Belles of Beefy (aka Beefy Belles) (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – VN00001-20110803-1300 (LIVE SESSION)
Mucky Sailor – Trans Pennine Express (LIVE SESSION)
Astrakan – ITV Player

Live sound engineers: Kacper Ziemianin, Leanne Bower & Tom Kemp

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Joe Murphy fronts the band Sergeant Buzfuz who hail from all over these islands but are based in South London. April 9th 2012 will see the release of the 5th Buzfuz LP: “Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself” (Blang Records) in which he chronicles the first fourteen centuries of the history of the papacy. This project all began when Joe tried telling a potted history of the papacy within the confines of a 5 minute pop(e) song, he eventually stopped when the song clocked up a full 7 minutes (and had only just reached the end of the first millennium!) The first half of the new album is loosely rooted in the traditional folk/pop song style, while the second half becomes a more experimental mix of post-punk, dub, ambient and improv.

Sergeant Buzfuz will be performing “Go To The Devil And Shake Yourself” as a one-man show for sixteen nights at the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe in August 2012.

In 2002 Joe became the first person outside the US to promote Anti-Folk when he started his monthly Blang nights at London’s 12 Bar Club featuring many acts from NYC. These nights became a focal point for the nascent London Anti-Folk community and sparked the formation of the Blang record label (which Joe co-runs with JJ Crash). Antifolk is modern folk music with an emphasis on story-telling. Other Blang acts include Thomas Truax and David Cronenberg’s Wife.

While the members of the contemporary, Celtic folk-noir group Slate Islands are currently based in South London, they all originally hail from far further afield (their lead singer Polly MacLean grew up on a small island in the Inner Hebrides.) Their songs grow in the gaps between places: Scotland and England, the island and the mainland, the country and the city, past and present, reality and fantasy.

Track List:

Johnny Dankworth his Orchestra & Guests – Serjeant Buzfuz
Sergeant Buzfuz – Hole In The Wall (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Gregory XII Vs. Benedict XIII (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Benedictus The Fake (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Council Of Pisa (LIVE SESSION)
Sergeant Buzfuz – Unholy Trinity (LIVE SESSION)
Piney Gir – Miss Havisham
Sergeant Buzfuz – ’Interview’
Jack Day – I Have Been Conveyed
Binko Swink – Body Naked
Bleak House – Oil Burner
Keshco – Like Home
Mucky Sailor – Albatross, Silly Albatross
Thomas Truax – February What ya Doin To Me
Slate Islands – Iron Brew (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – Small Hours (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – The Poison Cup Of Love (LIVE SESSION)
Slate Islands – The Rules Of Engagement (LIVE SESSION)
Spike Milligan – On the Ning Nang Nong
Slate Islands – ’Interview’
Uriah Heep – Bird Of Prey

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

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Continuing our month of shows looking at the work of people who aren’t known for their involvement in sequential art, Alex Fitch talks to film director Alex Cox and celebrated toy designer James Jarvis on the importance of comics to their work.

Alex and Alex talk about the prehistory of his classic film Repo Man as a comic book, why its proposed sequel Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday was turned into a graphic novel and the influence of Dick Tracy on Death and the Compass. Alex and James talk about the latter’s first graphic novel De Profundis and how the style and narratives of comics have influenced his Amos Toys designs and work in general.

(Originally broadcast 12/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM / The second half of Alex’s interview with Alex Cox continues in this month’s Electric Sheep Magazine podcast)

Repo Man booklet + comic by Alex Cox / World of Pain + De Profundis by James Jarvis

Visit www.archive.org, for more info and formats you can stream / download.
Links: Alex Cox’s website
Masters of Cinema page on Repo Man
James Jarvis’ website
Picturebox books page on De Profundis

Recommended events:

Laydeez do Comics NEXT MEETING…

Monday 20 February 2012
Time: 6.30 – 9.30pm
Venue: The Rag Factory 16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ

Guests: Karrie Fransman, Comics artist
Dr Ann Miller, Academic, writer Joint editor of European Comic Art
Emma Mould, Writer and comics collaborator

Recommended Read:
The House that Groaned by Karrie Fransman

More info: www.laydeezdocomics.com

London Super Comic Convention

The Capital’s newest comic convention, taking place at a familiar location – ExCel Centre, Docklands – features an all star line-up of great comic book guests including Simon Bisley, Brian Bolland, Mark Buckingham, Howard Chaykin, Paul Cornell, Al Davison, Mike Deodato Jr., Glenn Fabry, Jock, David Lloyd, David Petersen, George Perez, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bernie Wrightson and in his first British UK convention appearance in decades: Stan Lee!

February 25th / 26th – all tickets must be bought in advance, more info at http://www.londonsupercomicconvention.com/

Orbital comics…

To coincide with the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery is hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from until March 2, 2012.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/events

Gosh! Comics…

The Comix Reader, celebrates the release of its triumphant third issue with a showstopping exhibition and launch party in-store with one of its flagship retailers, Gosh! Comics, in their luxurious Berwick Street premises. Grab an early copy of the new edition, gaze in awe at the original artwork lining the walls and meet the authors behind this beautiful and diverting new paper.

Comix Reader #3 Exhibition and Launch Party, Friday 2nd March, 7pm

Gosh!’re properly chuffed to be hosting the launch of Tom Gauld’s new graphic novel Goliath, a stripped-down, reworking of the David and Goliath myth, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

On Friday the 9th of March, Gauld will be here to sign copies of the book from 6:30pm, then at 7pm we’ll get down to the important business of wetting the baby’s head. Come along and shake his hand! Not only is he one of the finest cartoonists in Britain, he’s a thoroughly lovely chap too. We’ll even have an exclusive Gosh! Bookplate Edition available on the night which we’ll reveal very, very soon.

Goliath signing and Launch Party, Friday 9th March, 6.30pm

Gosh! Comics, 1 Berwick Street, London W1F 0DR

www.goshlondon.com

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

Originally broadcast on 19th February 2012

It is not known how much money Dobson received for his poptart puffery. The records show that, although the swans-and-pebbles-related fine was paid in full, his gas supply was cut off on St Creak’s Day of that year, and not reinstated until the first day of Vice President Nixon’s visit to Venezuela, as recounted in Six Crises (1962).

• Rock n’ Pop News
• Things Beginning With B
• Extract From The Encyclopaedia of Eggs
• The Funnel, Volumes One & Two
• About The Funnel
• Dogs & Frogs & Toad-Like Creatures
• In Heaven

This episode was recorded on the 31th March 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 Storiesand Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke are available for purchase

Co-presenter Tim Abbott

1. Dokaka, ‘Dance Dance Dance’
   From Human Interface, AUSTRALIA DUAL PLOVER ATR-001 CD (2009)
2. The Bird Names, ‘Grotesque Women’
   From Wooden Lake / Sexual Diner, USA UNSOUND RECORDS UNS004 CD (2007)
3. Phlegm, ‘Late Night Gelato’
   From Poppin’ & Milkin’, AUSTRALIA JERKER PRODUCTIONS SKUN 2 CD (1997)
4. 101 Strings, ‘Where Were You in 1982?’
   From Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000, UK RIGHTEOUS PSALM 23:8 CD (2009)
5. Units, ‘Go’
   From History of The Units: The Early Years 1977-1983, USA COMMUNITY LIBRARY CL16 CD (2007)
6. Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila, ‘Voimakassuolasita Voita’
   From Where Are They Now, N&B RESEARCH DIGEST NBRD-08 CD (2007)
7. Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Ghedalia Tazartes, ‘J’Attendrai’
   From Superdisque, BELGIUM SUB ROSA SR3211 CD (2011)
8. Masonna, (Track 19)
   From Ejaculation Generater, JAPAN ALCHEMY ARCD-087 CD (1996)
9. People Like Us / Ergo Phizmiz, ‘Fat Henry’s Mambo’
   From Perpetuum Mobile, USA SOLEILMOON SOL 156CD (2007)
10. Gerald Hawk, ‘Some People Know Right From Wrong…But I Don’t’
    From The Honey Guide Bird, USA ABDUCTION ABDT026 CD (2004)
11. Ritualistic School of Errors, ‘Pancakes Soaked, Started Bucking’
    From Sweat Stained Fancy Heaps for First-Rate Ladies, USA RESIPISCENT RSPT029 CD (2009)
12. Ros Bobos, ‘Kiss The Goat’
    From Mandatory Astral Projections, USA NO LABEL CD (2009)
13. Hearts Of Palm, ‘Smokestack’
    From Hearts Of Palm, USA PALMETTO RECORDS NO. I CDR (2007)
14. George Korein, ‘Singsong Corpse II’
    From Another Corpse, USA MAJMUA 1 CDR (2008)
15. Doug Michael, ‘Before Sundown’
    From Extracted Celluloid, USA ILLEGAL ART 002 / SEELAND RECORDS 509CD (1999)
16. Acolytes Action Squad, ‘Music For Perspex’
    From Winkle Time, UK EARLY WINTER RECORDINGS EWR5 CD (2007)
17. Heliogabalus, extract from Tourette Is Normal (Excerpt 2), W.M.O/R 12 CD (2004)
18. Ergo Phizmiz, ‘Ursula Fahrt Ski (Ergo Phizmiz Mix)’
    From Frithden EP, UK MUKOW PRODUCTIONS KOW005 CDR (2003)
19. Mats Gustafsson And Yoshimi, ‘Soundless Cries With Their Arms In The Air’
    From Words on the Floor, NORWAY SMALLTOWN SUPERJAZZ STSJ114CD CD (2006)
20. {{{Sunset}}}, ‘Diamond Studded Caskets’
    From Bright Blue Dream, AUTOBUS AUTO007 CD (2008)
21. Reinhold Friedl, extract from Xenakis [A]Live!, USA ASPHODEL ASP 3005 CD (2007)
22. Smegma, ‘Thru The Watery Evening’
    From Nattering Naybobs of Negativity, UK HARBINGER SOUND HARBINGER051 CD (2007)
23. Black Lodge Ensemble, ‘A Set Apart Life’
    From Jim Bum, USA BLACK LODGE PRODUCTIONS CD (2008)
24. Arrington de Dionyso, ‘The Naked Future Part Two’
    From I See Beyond The Black Sun, USA K KLP 200 CD (2008)
25. Andrew King & Brown Sierra, ‘The Captain’s Apprentice’
    From Thalassocracy, UK EPIPHANY RECORDS 05 CD (2008)
26. A Kombi, ‘Moonlight Serenade Part 2′
    From Music To Drive-By, AUSTRALIA DUAL PLOVER IMR 551BRD CD (1996)
27. Earth Trumpet, ‘Earth Trumpet VIII’
    From Earth Trumpet, USA CENOTAPH AUDIO CT-004 CD (2000)
28. The Shadow Ring, ‘Fish & Hog’
    From Life Review (1993-2003), USA KYE 03 2 x CD (2009)
29. Masayuki “Jojo” Takayanagi & New Direction Unit, ‘Mass Hysterism’
    From Live At Moers Festival 1980, JAPAN THREE BLIND MICE TBM CD 1823 CD (2000)

Barbara Schwepcke discusses the difficulties and importance of publishing authors like Dowlatabadi and the role of literature in revolutionary times.

This programme was originally broadcast Monday 12th September 2011 from the ResonanceFM studios.

After her debut as an actress in Barry Adamson’s movie “Therapist“, started to work on her solo project as a singer and composer, cooperating with polish improv musicians Marek Rogulski, Andrzej Izdebski, Michal Gos, Irek Wojtczak and classic violonist Ewa Kaszuba. She returned to acting, playing a role in the punk-rock group Vulgar in their music video for “Tschenstahau”, which premieres in early 2012.

Izes is an artist that experiments within many areas of art. She has worked with photographers Sylwia Makris and Christian Weiss and clothing designer/artist Bartholomäus Wischnewski. As well as creating visualisations and short films she also composes music for shows (most recently for the Theaterkontor in Bremen (Germany) for the project Urban Desert, collaborating with director Tobias Pflug.)

Goodbye Leopold combine the ethereal sound of three blended voices, choreography and a unique aesthetic to communicate their ideas, intrigues and passions. Their holistic approach to delivering music stimulates all the senses. Their focus is to create alluring atmospheres within which the audience is easily connected to the concept the piece is illustrating whilst being given the freedom to imagine their own meaning. Their work is either self- composed or their original arrangements of obscure songs from across the globe. They experiment with the extremities of the human voice with improvisation, adopting abstract sounds and techniques and playing with tension and release in their dynamics. Each Goodbye Leopold set explores a different concept. At the moment Goodbye Leopold are experimenting with singing Christmas Carols in reverse.

Track list:
Unit – The Signals*
Izes – Execution (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – No Future (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – Purgatory’s Gate (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – White Devil (LIVE SESSION)
Izes – Blood (LIVE SESSION)
Barry Adamson – Aaa Kotki Dwa (from soundtrack to ‘Therapist’)
Izes – ’Interview’
One True Dog – Dog
Lime Headed Dog – Proof
Slate Islands – Trial Seperation
Sergeant Buzfuz – God To Holloway
Goodbye Leopold – My Ach Ba (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – A Picture Of You (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Yovano (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Yarsh (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Sonnet (LIVE SESSION)
Goodbye Leopold – Chant (LIVE SESSION)
Flameprooth Moth – Thomas Rhymer (HG archive)
Goodbye Leopold – ’Interview’
Peepholes – Step One

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

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Originally broadcast live on 12th February 2012

Produced and presented by Dean Stalham

http://artsaveslives.co.uk

Continuing our month of shows about about non practitioners’ love of comics, Alex Fitch talks to Lord Baker of Dorking about The Cartoon Museum‘s latest exhibition ‘Her Maj: Sixty years of unofficial portraits of the Queen’ and to John Huddy, founder and curator of The Illustration Cupboard about the gallery’s history.
Also, from last week’s Manga Jiman awards ceremony at the Embassy of Japan in London, Cultural Officer Simon Wright and Minister Hiroshi Suzuki, the director of the Japan Information and Culture Centre, introduce this year’s winning entries to the comic book competition.

Art from Her Maj / Lord Baker at the exhibition opening / Kevin O Neil on display at the Illustration Cupboard / Manga Jiman Winner Elena Vitagliano: The Deep Needs Train

(Originally broadcast 12/02/12 on Resonance 104.4 FM)

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

Links: The Illustration Cupboard’s website
Info about The Cartoon Museum
Info about Manga Jiman winners on the Japan Embassy website / Haiku Girl blog
Listen to interviews with the 2008 / 2010 Manga Jiman winners

Recommended events:

Confessions of an Otaku – David Blandy in conversation with Japanese manga artist Inko

Video artist David Blandy unravels his obsession with Chinese and Japanese popular culture. From philosophical conversations with Bruce Lee to the quandary caused by loving Anime and being the grandson of a veteran of the Japanese concentration camps, Blandy will discuss the misrecognitions, mistranslations and revelations in Kung-Fu flicks, Manga and computer games.

Blandy uses video, performance and comics to address how identity is constructed, investigating our relationship to the mass media and cultural heritage. Blandy won the Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award in 2010.

Inko was born in Kyoto, Japan, and has been working as a Manga artist, and as a culture and language ambassador with SOAS.

Ticket Price (£6 / £8 / £10) includes a glass of wine

Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 6:45 PM

Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP

Orbital comics exhibition

To celebrate the release of Mary and Bryan Talbot’s long awaited Dotter of her Father’s Eyes, the Orbital Gallery is hosting an exhibition with original artwork from the book from until March 2, 2012.

8 Great Newport Street
London WC2H 7JA

www.orbitalcomics.com/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. Noah Creshevsky, ‘I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now’
   From The Twilight of the Gods, USA TZADIK TZ 8069 CD (2010)
2. JB Floyd, ‘Variations – 1979′
   From Another Time and Place, USA MUTABLE MUSIC MUTABLE 17546-2 CD (2011)
3. Aisha Orazbayeva and Peter Zinovieff, ‘Five Bagatelles from OUR violin and computer concerto’
   From Outside, UK NONCLASSICAL NONCLSS013 CD (2011)
4. Paul Baran, ‘The Corrector’
   From Panoptic, SWEDEN FANG BOMB FB013 CD (2009)
5. Tom Hamilton, ‘Crimson Sterling Mvt. I’
   From Formal & Informal Music, USA KVIST RECORDS KVIST 006 2 x CD (2009)
6. David Brynjar Franzson, ‘The Principals of Order’
   From A Guide for the Dead through the Underworld, USA CARRIER 012 CD (2011)
7. Yannis Kyriakides, ‘Chaoids’
   From Antichamber, NETHERLANDS UNSOUNDS 21U 2 X CD (2009)
8. Michel Guillet, ‘Slumping’
   From Behind Nothing, FRANCE ING-ON 03 CD (2011)

But I played you some nice music by Polish artists including: Arszyn, Nucleon, Bajkoczytacz, Aloes and  Zbigniew Karkowski

Language in this episode: Polish

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/