Monday 13 April 2015

" THE STATE FUNERAL OF JOE MEEK" at GLASGOW RADIOPHRENIA




Really pleased  to be on the bill of  Glasgow Radiophrenia , curated by Barry Burns and Mark Vernon ( see preceding post) and running from April 13-19.  A new edit of  my piece "The State Funeral Of Joe Meek" on at 8.30 on Tuesday the 14th.  Its a fantastic programme of work for Radio, including several commissioned  Live -To- Air pieces, and there's a lot of people we know through FON and Octopus including the great Felix Kubin, and the equally great Robinthefog..

https://soundcloud.com/bifocals2013/the-state-funeral-of-joe-meek-for-radiophrenia

Read more and listen here...

http://radiophrenia.scot/on 

http://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/

http://radiophrenia.scot/listen-2/

Thursday 2 April 2015

MARK'S GARAGE 1 MIAMI 0. THE POLYPHONIC BASS PIPE.

Mark Latimer  is a  Cinema and Church Organist, Cinema Projectionist and custodian of the mighty and majestic Polyphonic Bass Pipe, powered by air pump and recorded here: 

https://vimeo.com/123944856 

by Mark Vernon and Jenn Mattinson as part of the R n D for their FON Festival project. Here we are in Mark L's garage the other week, getting some bass in the place, as it were.




More on Mark Vernon radio artist, tape archivist etc etc here...http://www.meagreresource.com/,

"500 ALBUMS YOU WONT BELIEVE TILL YOU HEAR THEM" featuring The Cardboard Lung.

How good is this? Neil Nixon's trawl through the unusual and unmentionable includes the Beatles,  Wesley Willis, Elvis, Richard Skelton, and me. There's a nice piece on my " Black Patch" collection ( in this blog somewhere). Very chuffed indeed. And its a great book, very funny, very sharp.