Resonance FM

It’s nearly time for our monthly cinematic Resonance FM / Electric Sheep Magazine awareness club thing… Wednesday (due to football) 9th April, 7.30pm Roxy Bar and Screen, 128 Borough High Street,  SE1 1LB…

This month’s Hectic Peelers screening is the director’s preferred print of Lady Vengeance - the fade to (black and) white version, with an introduction and Q & A by Alex Fitch and Korean translator Mark Plaice…
With thanks to Tartan, in association with the cinema release of “I’m a Cyborg (but that’s okay)” at the ICA.

Big Potato Records are on the air in the Clear Spot, Tuesday 15th April 2008, 8pm - 9pm (not 8th April). Caz Mechanic, Neil Halstead, Rocket Records, Coley Park, Sonic Cathedral Records, Loose Salute, Holton’s Opulent Oog, Tome Records, The Left Outsides, President Sweetheart plus cookery, what’s going on underneath, [Read more →]

Brent Amaker & The Rodeo

“Sightings of black-clad cowboys will be common on April 7th and 8th as the
Rodeo spend a couple days performing live and appearing in a Bonanza Radio show special.
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Clear Spot – drama triple bill
The Clear Spot on 8 April 2008 at 8pm comprises three examples of new drama for radio. In the first half hour, Peter Blegvad presents Apprentice for Artists, in which we hear the winner and runners-up of a radio-drama challenge workshopped at Warwick [Read more →]

David Lynch’s Lost Highway deals rather obliquely with identity crises, lust, murder, Hollywood purgatory, doppelgangers, pornography, free jazz, saxophones, videotapes and much else besides. Composer Olga Neuwirth and librettist (Austria’s finest) Elfriede Jelinek have adapted Lost Highway for the stage, producing a molten, kinetic, operatic spectacle. Lost Highway is directed by Diane Paulus and is a co-production between English National Opera and The Young Vic. On Friday - April 4th 2008 - James DC and John Reilly preview Lost Highway on I’m Ready For My Close Up, Friday 500 - 530pm.

Bangal-Audio (Thursdays at 6pm from 3 April 2008) is a series of shows produced by sound artists Ross Knipe, Lina Lapelyte and Gavin Moon, who recently spent 3 weeks in Bangalore exploring environmental issues, tribal identities, habitat, noise pollution, and whatever else caught their attention.

Monday 31 March 2008: today on Creature Curious (2pm - 3pm) host Bridget Nicholls goes skimming with the World authority and Champion Stone Skimmer from Texas, USA Jerry McGhee. Tune in if you want tip top tips of how to get the best skip out of your stone and how to approach the water…

On the show this coming Monday - March 31st 2008

Fari Bradley talks to Payam Nabarz PhD esoteric author, mystic and practicing Dervish. Payam visits the studio to discuss one of his many specialist topics and two of his books: “The Mysteries of Mithras” and “The Persian ‘Mar Nameh’: The Zoroastrian ‘Book of the Snake’ Omens and Calendar & The Old Persian Calendar“

Payam Nabarz, a Persian-born Sufi and practicing Dervish, holds a Ph.D. from Oxford University and is carrying out postdoctoral research there on genetics and cancer. He is a Druid in the Grove of the Order of the Bards, Ovates, and Druids; a member of the Golden Dawn Occult Society; and a revivalist of the Temple of Mithras. He lives in England.

Tue, 25 Mar, 17:00 – 18:00 Diggers with Alfreda BengeThe second part of our conversation with artist and songwriter Alfreda (Alfie) Benge, who has been collaborating with husband , musician Robert Wyatt for over 30 years. In this show Alfie talks about her favourite flamenco music , the craft of songwriting, her artwork and her ongoing collaboration with Robert Wyatt. Presented by Sharon Gal & Edwin Pouncey

Sonic horticulturalist Mark Aitken presents I Can Hear The Grass Grow every Wednesday between 5 and 5:30pm. This week Mark is talking stinkhorn fungus, catclaw acacia, cheese bush, sandpaper plant, phallus impudicus and much else as Lindsay Wright leads us along the freakish path of plant nomenclature and biodiversity whilst pondering the case of the man whose head was a cabbage.