A new story from Den Browne. “The romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, & the mysterious world between childhood & adulthood”. Sounds by Jane “the guv’nor” Maskew.

And he went on shouting through the window, ‘Pretty Vacant Maid Ibronka, what did you see looking through the keyhole?’ ‘And my friends cut a hole through the wall and went along the road when they took me to the churchyard where they buried me in the ditch – but to a dead and not [...]

I wonder what the future keeps in store for me… A psychopath out there fancies me… We are after perverting an already quite perverted Angela Carter fairytale on Radio Joy tonight. The Pretty Vacant Maid Ibronka part one is an hour long soundscape that features Inga on laptop, James on casio, Naomi on piano and [...]

Gavin Martin (Talking Musical Revolutions) tells the tale of Lee Dorsey, backed by the Band of Holy Joy Radio Orchestra on casios, laptops, pianos, cymbals and casios and laptops…

911 ‘let’s get it over and done with’ tribute by Mike Brandon.

Oz Obscenity Trial 40th Anniversary Special by Den Browne Fourty years ago one of the most ludicrous trials in the history of British jurisprudence reached its climax with the editors of a British underground magazine Oz being sentenced to up to 15 months’ imprisonment. Tony Palmer’s book The Trials of Oz transcribes a lot of [...]

Something Beginning With L are a bewitching trio made up of Lucy Parnell (Vocals, Guitar), Jen Macro (Vocals, Guitar) and Jon Clayton (Bass, Keys). The band juxtaposes scuzzy electric guitars and buzzing synthesizers with acoustic fragility and electro-beats, guided into the light by the salient crystalline vocals of Lucy Parnell and Jen Macro who offer [...]

Photo © Franek Strzeszewski I Have A Beautiful Shadow All You Have Is A Stupid Smile: a fairytale by Johny Brown featuring Jonny Mugwump, James S Finn, Cris Lapthorne, Johny Brown and Inga Tillere.

Barry MacSweeney grew up in the west end of Newcastle. He worked as a professional journalist throughout most of his life. He met poet Basil Bunting in the mid-1960s and formed part of a local group of poets including Tom Pickard, Jon Silkin and Jeremy Prynne. Aged 19, his first book of poetry The Boy [...]

‘This is How we Walk on the Moon’ by Cris Lapthorne is a one hour study of the late great NYC composer Arthur Russell and takes in Alan Ginsberg, Talking Heads, Larry Levan and many others. Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 – April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he [...]