Tonight's event: Happiness of the Katakuris

Screening at the Roxy Bar & Screen: The Happiness of the Katakuris 7.30pm

It's time for this month's Hectic Peelers Cinema Club, so why not come down to the Roxy Bar & Screen on Borough High Street and watch Miike Takashi's delirious horror musical The Happiness of the Katakuris which mixes The Sound of Music, Psycho & The Evil Dead to great aplomb. A remake of the Korean black comedy The Quiet Family, ...Katakuris is one of Miike's most popular films (after Audition) and there will be an introduction and post-screening Q&A by Electric Sheep Magazine critics Richard Thomas, Virginie Selavy & Alex Fitch...
Doors open at 6.30pm.

Links: Roxy Bar & Screen
Electric Sheep Magazine
IMDb and Wikipedia pages on The Happiness of the Katakuris
Listen to Joel Karamath & Virginie Selavy's presentation of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song at September's Hectic Peelers

N.B./ October's presentation of Belleville Rendezvous by Alex Fitch and Vincent Woodcock will be broadcast as this thursday's I'm ready for my close-up

We apologise for this distruption to the usual schedule... (redux)

No show this week, I'm afraid. As Resonance is in the middle of moving to a new studio, it's become too difficult to arrange scheduled programming. Hopefully regular transmissions will resume next week...
In the meantime, why not tune in and listen to a selection of choice repeats from the archive - there's every chance Richard or Alex will be on one of them!

Tonight's show: Alejandro Jodorowski and the art of the sublime

Continuing directors month on IR4MCU guest presenter Virginie Sélavy (Electric Sheep magazine) interviews legendary Mexican director Alejandro Jodorowski about his career focusing on his admiration of eerie sound effects, Sam Peckinpah and the ‘Conquest of Mexico’...
The show is introduced by Alex Fitch and was edited by Richard Thomas...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Pages on Jodorowski from from Wikipedia and the IMDb...
Article on Jodorowski from The Independant
Buy Jodorowski comics from Forbidden Planet International
Electric Sheep magazine

Today's show: Schock! Horror! vol.8

In the last of the current series, Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movies... Like all the great movie monsters, Schlock! Horror! will return...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
*Wikipedia page on Japanese Giant Monster Movies
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! vol.7: Creatures that time forgot!

Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movies which includes this week, trailers for:
Dinosaurus! Never before seen on the big screen, a 60 foot monster tamed by a small boy!
The Land that time forgot! Discover a fantastic world exactly as it was at the dawn of time!
Gorgo! From the depths of prehistoric time... The headlines scream the story of the skin-divers who capture the creature...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
*Wikipedia page on Japanese Giant Monster Movies
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! vol.6 - Androids from the Atomic age

Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movies... Hear King Kong battle his monstrous metallic doppleganger created by the evil Dr. Who! Fear the Aliens who have come to enslave us and Destroy all monsters! Clear a path from the enveloping miasma of the Smog Monster!

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
*Wikipedia page on Japanese Giant Monster Movies
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! vol.5 - Daikaijū Eiga*

Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movies including the trailers for Atragon, King Kong Escapes, Ghidorah, the three headed monster... A giant meteor crashes into the mountains and the three-headed, fire-spitting space dragon King Ghidorah emerges...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
*Wikipedia page on Japanese Giant Monster Movies
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! vol.4 - The revenge of science!

Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movies including the trailers for such incredible monsters as Rodan, Mothra & Varan the unbelievable! Plus, the inevitable showdown: King Kong vs. Godzilla!!...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! - vol.3

Richard Thomas continues his look at the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movie trailers ...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Today's show: Schock! Horror! - Cold blooded...

As it's the afternoon of Walpurgisnacht, why not tune into Richard Thomas' new weekly bite sized (15 min) show, as he presents the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movie trailers... Today it's the turn of primordial landscapes and lost continents and the beasts that roam within
them...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

N.B./ This year's Sci-Fi London features a special 1950s Hammer quadruple bill on May 5th, all the proceeds of which go to help Resonance FM... So, if you were intrigued by my mention of Stolen Face on our Halloween show last year, now's your chance to see it as well as: X the Unknown, Four Sided Triangle and the seminal British Sci-Fi film Spaceways! Click below for details...

We apologise for this distruption to the usual schedule...

No show this week, I'm afraid...

Richard has this to say on the subject:

Due to structural damage to the studio ceiling, we are obliged to close the studio effective immediately until further notice. All programmes from Thursday 19 April are cancelled including pre-recorded material. The scale of the work we need to undertake over the next few days will leave little time to arrange repeats. The nightloop will be the sole broadcast during this period. Many apologies for this. We have taken expert health & safety advice concerning this matter and they have advised us to take this course as a matter of urgency.
We hope to move to a new premises at the very earliest opportunity.
Until then, please bear with a schedule of repeats and disrupted programming.


More news as soon as I have it!

Now, more than ever(!):

Today's show: Schock! Horror! - Kong

In this new weekly bite sized (15 min) show, Richard Thomas presents the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movie trailers starting with the Eighth Wonder of the World TM Kong!

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Podcast: "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" - the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Last week's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.1mb)

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" - the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Richard Thomas presents a show on the work of experimental film-makers Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait who explore(d) nuances of the landscape when captured on film...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Chris Welsby's website
Lux Online biography on Margaret Tait
Article on the London Film-makers' co-op
Lux Online article on landscape film-makers
Fundació Antoni Tàpies website regarding the exhibition that gave tonight's show its name

Tonight's special: Jason Oddy - photographing simulation and protection

But hang on... It's a Wednesday! Why yes, but as a special advent treat we're broadcasting an IRFMCU hour-long special in today's clear spot at 7pm (and if you think that's a special treat, wait 'til you hear tomorrow's Christmas Celebrity Edition!). This would have been last week's show but Richard was torn between broadcasting it in two halves or putting it out as a full hour...

Richard Thomas produces and introduces: Craig Burnett in conversation with the writer/photographer Jason Oddy. Oddy's most recent project 'Playas' was just exhibited at Brixton's photofusion gallery about a former mining town in New Mexico that was purchased by the department of homeland security for the purpose of simulating terrorist assaults in urban America. Jason has also photographed unique sites such as the Pentagon, Guantanamo Bay, and American Cryogenics facilities to name but a few.
Craig Burnett is a writer and a curator at the White Cube gallery.

Links: Photofusion Gallery
Jason's homepage

Podcast: Structualist cinema

Last week's repeat is now ready to download...
(mp3 format, 25mb)

Tonight's show: Structualist cinema (repeat)

Richard Thomas talks to Ed Pinsent about the history of structuralist cinema from its beginnings in America in the 1960s to its development in Britain a decade later and beyond. Ed is the editor of Sound Projector magazine and hosts a related show on Resonance 104.4 FM (Fridays 5.30-7pm) on the subject of ecclectic music.
Originally broadcast 16th March 2006

Links: Ed's show - www.thesoundprojector.com/radioshow.html
Ways of seeing article on Structuralist cinema - www.waysofseeing.org/struct.html

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In "I'm ready for my close-up" related news: Fans of the Light Surgeons might like to check out 'Articulated' at the Oxo Tower from last Friday 'til this Sunday (10th), everyday from 11am to 7pm. An exhibtion on travel and human connections, with video installations by onedotzero, it features behind the scenes research by our very own Alex Fitch...

Links: Oxo Tower info
Onedotzero info

Tonight's show: The 50th London Film Festival (part one - the films)

Alex Fitch and Richard Thomas discuss this year's London Film Festival including reviews of the films they've seen so far, previews of films and events next week plus audio clips...

10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Links: LFF website
Alex's reviews of the Festival so far
Sunday's 50 screens event

Tonight's show: Expanded Cinema

Richard Thomas talks to William English about 16mm, silence, expanded cinema and school science experiments...
William also produces the bi-weekly radio art experiment Wavelength on this very station - 15:00 every other Sunday.
10.30pm Resonance 104.4 FM / streamed at resonancefm.com and will be available to podcast here soon after. This site is available both in HTML or as an RSS feed...

Podcast: Doctor Who - The Two Garys

In the last of our shows on Doctor Who, we explore the world of Doctor Who fandom. Each month at a certain bar in central London, Doctor Who fans and professionals meet to talk about their favourite show. So back in February, Richard Thomas, Alex Fitch and James De Carteret went down to the pub to record some interviews and encountered the likes of Clayton Hickman - the editor of Doctor Who magazine, Paul - a theatre director who had travelled 50 miles to come to the gathering and Gary - a member of the Greenwich Doctor Who fan club...
Originally broadcast 27th July 2006 (mp3 format, 25.4mb)

Links:
Type 40 owners club of Great Britain
Outpost Gallifrey
Wikipedia entry on Doctor Who Magazine