THE NEWS AGENTS ..... Jude Montague's creative news-arts show Saturday 2.30pm-3.30pm Resonance 104.4FM ...... EXPERIMENT AND JOURNEY 'On a rainy Saturday in cold old February it was a delight to be chatting about music and arty things and having a bit of a sing with Jude Montague' JUDY DYBLE She creates poetry which finds the humanity amid the horror of our times.' BILL NEELY 'Jude Montague has gone where I've never seen a jobbing journalist tread before.' JON SNOW
More explorations into Latin music, concentrating on musics developed in post-revolutionary Cuba and featuring songo from Juan Formell and Los Van Van plus nueva trova as sponsored by politician and post-revolutionary heroine Haydée Santamaría.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-organ-presents-the-other-rock-show-26-may-2024/
Mexican psychedelic music, Melanie Safka and sounds from the Onda Chicana or Chicano Wave. Hammond organ, guitars, cumbia and songwriting from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-18-may-2024-mexican-psychedelia-and-cosmic-latin/
Spirit of Invention is a new festival in Hastings to commemorate one hundred years since television was invented in the town by John Logie Baird. Almost thirty artists are taking part at Electro Studios Project Space in a show co-curated with Chris Simpson. Thinking about some of the artists taking part and their work, and playing tunes and audio suggested by their participation. Includes a plunderphonics piece made specially for the show by Lucia Scazzocchio of Social Broadcasts.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-11-may-2024-spirit-of-invention/
WHAT'S IN THE AIR?
A New Graphic Novel by Jude Montague
Set in the forgotten days of pioneer radio, as the BBC came into being in 1922.
Sydney Wright is a young 'cellist graduating from college. The story of how he became one of the first musicians on Manchester's '2ZY' and one of the very first generation of broadcasters on the BBC as 'Uncle Sydney' is told from the point of view of his romantic relationship with Marjorie Earnshaw from Haworth, the Bronte's home in Yorkshire, who imagines herself as a heroine in Wuthering Heights and who looks to her ancestors for guidance.
Messages from the beyond, the transforming world of electromagnetic waves and the little-sung role of Manchester and the North West of England in the history of music, technology and communication are all themes that run through this novel.
The plot is a rom com with Marjorie and Sydney based on the true story of the author's own grandparents who met at the early radio studio in Manchester.
LAUNCH FEB 2025
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Email - judemontague@outlook.com
About the author:
As an illustrator I describe myself as 'John Glashan's Reckless Daughter' as I am hugely influenced by both John Glashan and Joni Mitchell.
I have previously published two graphic novels, 'Love on the Isle of Dogs' (Friends of Alice Press) and 'Breakfast in Shoreditch' (Kings Road Press). I am a regular broadcaster on Resonance FM and am a media historian and former archivist for Reuters Television News.
Studies in bossa nova with tracks from Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, Elza Soares, Ry Cooder, Manuel Galbán, Nouvelle Vague and looking at the soundtrack and concept behind the Netflix series 'Girls from Ipanema' in which a wealthy young woman from São Paulo sets up a music club in Rio de Janeiro. The series reimagines the attitudes of women and the racism surrounding the origins of bossa nova and is a luxurious study of female friendship in urban beach life.
https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-news-agents-4-may-2024-bossa-nova-studies/
