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Ben Thompson’s guest on The London Ear today are the The Department Of Eagles, nought to do with Marcel Broodthaers but according to Ben their appearance is no less illustrious:  “the tempting designation “Grizzly Bear side-project” does not do full justice to the array of symphonic delights contained within this enigmatic New York ensemble’s superb second album In Ear Park. And the idea that they might endeavour to perform semi-acoustic versions of these songs exclusively for our benefit seems almost too good to be true. Let’s hope it isn’t.”

The London Ear - Tuesday, 2 - 3pm (repeated Sunday, 7:30 - 8:30pm).

TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER*, Roxy Bar and Screen, 7:30pm, FREE: For the next Electric Sheep / Resonance FM film club we will be screening Memories of Matsuko, an exuberant bubblegum Japanese melodrama with a dark edge, which pieces together the tragi-comic tale of an eccentric woman who went looking for love in all the wrong places.

Memories of Matsuko

Saturated colour, moody lighting and musical interludes make the film a pure joy to watch, and it is no surprise that it received the audience award at the Tiger Festival in June 08. Adam Torel, head of Third Window Films, the distributors of the film in the UK, will be in attendance to introduce the film and do a Q & A with Electric Sheep magazine editor Virginie Selavy afterwards. This screening has been chosen as one of this week’s Time Out cinema Critic’s choices…
*the screening is usually on the second tuesday of the month, but is a week early this time due to the Roxy’s Christmas schedule…

Hectic Peelers

Guest on this weeks show is Mania Akbari.

Mania Akbari, leading actress in Abbas Kiarostami’s film “Ten”, has her first solo show in London at Xerxes art gallery until Dec 6th.

Here in London, Mania shows a series of pictures and films under the title of The “Many Faces of Eve”.

The work reflects her feminist views on how Iranian women, and women around the world, are treated. The first series of images depicts Mandana, a girl with Down’s syndrome in various female roles. The second series is called Mania Devastation, and documents her scars from her recent battle with breast cancer.

Also this Monday on Six Pillars to Persia we are giving away two pairs of tickets to not one, not two, not three but four consecutive art film screenings at the Barbican on Sat Dec 6th. This series is called the “Untitled series and looks at film and video art from Iran in four main ways. Starting at 13.00 each screening is followed by a Q & A with the artists who are mostly not from the UK.

To win these tickets email sixpillarstopersia at resonancefm.com with your answer to this question: what does the title Untitled say about a work? The best answers will be read out on the show and the top two answers win.

Read about the first screening HERE

Six Pillars to Persia - Monday 13:30 December 1st 2008

In a special programme, Ed Baxter talks to artists David Cotterrell and Alex Murdin about Arcadia Revisited, a new intervention in the seaside town of Jaywick, Essex. Friday 28 November, 3.30pm till 4pm. For more, including local audio, visit jaywicked

Art Spiegelman photographed by Seth Kushner

In this week’s episode of Strip! - the UK’s only weekly radio show about comic books, sequential art and related media - guest presenter Grant Rogers talks to Pulitzer prize winning author Art Spiegelman about his seminal work Maus and the 30th anniversary republication of Breakdowns, his sophomoric collection of underground strips which has now been reprinted in hardback format with a new 30 page autobiographical comic book called Portrait of the artist as a young %@?*!… The interview was recorded and edited by Alex Fitch.
(With thanks to Penguin books, the ICA and Paul Gravett for arranging this interview).
Resonance 104.4 FM, Thursday 27/11/08 5pm, repeated 11.30pm Sunday 30/11/08…

To hear Grant’s previous Strip! interview - with writer Pat Mills about Charlie’s War - please click here and for more info about the show in general, click here for our blog.

To see an extract of Portrait of the artist as a young %@?*!, please visit the Virginia Quarterly Review website…

In Wednesday’s Clear Spot - Nov 26th 2008, from 8 until 9pm - Sarah Seldon interviews Jennifer Herrema of RTX, (formerly of Royal Trux) about the new album, “JJ Got Live Ratx“, and life on the road with Primal Scream.

On November 25th in anticipation of William Blake’s 251st birthday on 28 November, AJ Dehany and Niall McDevitt commandeer the Clear Spot to present a maverick look at Blake via the prism of Shakespeare. They ask “who really is our National Bard…?” and “what does that actually mean?”, special emphasis is also placed on Blake and Shakespeare as songwriters.

Blakespeare
http://www.ProjectBlake.org

LIVE BROADCAST STARTS 8.30PM!

We are busy plugging everything in.. till then, our normal schedule.

A unique live-to-air radio concert led by the Resonance Radio Orchestra with special guests Otomo Yoshihide, DJ Sniff and Tam Dean Burn. The centrepiece of the night’s broadcast is a new radiophonic adaptation of RL Stevenson’s “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr.Hyde.” Tam Dean Burn plays Jekyll, Cliff McClune is Hyde, Sam Collings is Utterson and Erik Fuller is Lanyon. The work has been adapted by Ed Baxter and features a critical exegesis by Stevenson expert Robert Mighall. RRO musicians include Chris Weaver, Aleks Kolkowski, Ivor Kallin, James Dunn, Fari Bradley, Xentos “Fray” Bentos and Ted Barrow.

Also, on November 24th Resonance Projects presents a live concert with Otomo Yoshihide and guests Steve Beresford, Eddie Prevost, John Edwards, Ben Drew, Louisa Martin, DJ Sniff, Xentos and Tomas Korber. Otomo at Cafe Oto, 18 - 22 Ashwin Street, London E8 3DL. Tickets are £10 or £5 concessions.

To coincide with the special edition of the Atlantic Waves show (this Friday 4pm), we are giving away a pair of tickets to see Corvos and Verdes Anos in Saturday’s concert at the Astoria.

The question is:

What does the Portuguese word Corvos translate as in English?

Answers should be e-mailed to Miguel Santos aredorange@hotmail.com

This is their first concert in the UK

21 Nov 08: Resonance FM, London, UK [4pm-5pm]

22 Nov 08: Astoria 2, London, UK

Book on-line on http://www.wegottickets.com/event/37326

A world music/fado roots concert with two outstanding and highly acclaimed bands from Portugal that are part of an interesting and innovative wave of Portuguese musicians who have been spreading their blend of folk roots and other influences throughout the world.

Oscillatorial Binnage broadcast live from artist Toby Clarkson’s electro-mechanically altered Hackney flat, as part of the “Show Flat” series of open studio performances. Expect harmonically-related vegetable strainers, amplified partition walls and more processed domesticity.

Friday November 22nd to Friday November 30th 2008 10AM-6PM
8 The Mount, Mount Pleasant Lane, Clapton E5 9PD

http://showflat.org/toby_clarkson.php