Thursday, 30 March 2023

Sat 1 April - Irish and Scottish Slow Airs

A wandering through Irish and Scottish airs, exploring the music and art of the Celtic lament, dirge and keen. 

Sunday, 19 March 2023

Sat 18 Mar - Cairo Cosmopolitan City

Cairo nightlife in the 1920s and 1930s, an essay on the city and looking at women who flourished there (briefly), and this disappeared era. With orientalist soundtrack from the period and extracts from a conversation with Stephanie Mireille Halser whose family and father lived in the city during these cosmopolitan years.

Saturday, 11 March 2023

Sat 11 Mar - Dennis Potter, 1920s & 1930s music, Pennies from Heaven

Dennis Potter, TV playwright and his three series 'Pennies from Heaven', 'The Singing Detective' and 'Lipstick on Your Collar'. Looking at the first of these series, 'Pennies from Heaven' and reflecting on the use of popular music to create a fantasy life juxtaposing with and interweaving with the gritty realistic drama.

Sat 4 Mar - Morris (Rheda's Dream)

having newly joined a Morris side, Rheda's Dream in St Leonards on Sea, to play fiddle and dance and having a plan to bring together live coding and Morris for a presentation at the International Conference of Live Coding, Jude explores some of the tunes and history of Morris dance in England.

https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-4-mar-2023-morris-rhedas-dream/

Sunday, 26 February 2023

Sat 25 Feb - Cathal Coughlan, Jacknife Lee, Telefís and Corrosive Nostalgia

 Jacknife Lee (ex-Compulsion and producer for U2, REM, Modest Mouse), Irish producer settled in the USA, talks about his work and collaboration as Telefís with the sadly recently departed artist Cathal Coughlan (Fatima Mansions, Microdisney). Playing tracks from Cathal's final solo album 'Song of Co Aklan' and'a Dó' (Telefís). In these last works Cathal Coughlan explores a 'corrosive nostalgia'.


https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-25-feb-2023-cathal-coughlan-telefis-jacknife-lee-2/

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

Sat 17 Feb - Alan Hempsall, Crispy Ambulance, Scissorgun, Manchester

 Alan Hempsall talks about Crispy Ambulance, Manchester and music in in the late 70s and early 80s and about his current electronic project with Dave Clarkson mixing synth, drum programming with treated guitars, vocals and prose, Scissorgun.


Sat 11 Feb - Bollywood composers Kalyanji-Anandji

Annual Resonance FM fundraising show and occasional Bollywood composer series with a study of musical duo Kalyanji-Anandji. Classic tracks include a song featured on The Simpsons episode 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore' and a party take of 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' alongside some brilliant thriller theme music from the 1960s and 1970s.


https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-11-feb-2023-resonance-fundraiser-show-bollywood-composers-kalyanji-anandji/