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sometimes a piece of music just grabs the moment and right now for me it is la vie moderne by Léo Ferré,who was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France…

Isotopica’s second thoughts on Bowie

Rough Episode notes….. lemmy, fruit machines, hawkwind, lsd, my first heroin overdose, post bomber tour christmas party after hammersmith odeon gig (1980?) hauntology points to brazil being possibly the last film ever made, even featuring Scarfolk style posters including ‘ we are all in this…

What do you get when you place a 5.5 ft rabbit (marina sossi) in a 54 year old light aircraft with a famous photographer turned academic (spencer rowell), a maverick artist and broadcaster (simon tyszko), fly it up to 48,…

Free of One’s Melancholy Self Often prescribed to nervous housewives, a quaalude was something between a sleeping pill and a sedative. First synthesized in the late fifties, by 1965 ’ludes were being manufactured by William H. Rorer Inc., a Pennsylvania…

What a treat for me……. Isotopica at 3pm – Stuart Brisley, Godfather of British Performance Art May 7th, 2013 Cultural sonic detours with artist Simon Tyszko in Isotopica at 3pm. Today: the eternal and subversive Godfather of British Performance Art,…

A Fine treat with friend and comrade in (artistic) arms Mr Bob Kingdom. Bob is the one man show, he conceives, he researches, he writes, he presents and performs, holding the stage in an intense and intimate audience with his…

Relationships, causality, isotopes, Psychoanalysis playlist in incorrect order i) Alap ii) Jorh iii) Jhalla im in love with a german film star the passions Architecture of Loss Valgeir Sigurdsson Angels And Demons At Play Sun Ra Another Time, Another Place…

Is an extended minimalist mediation on the nature of class, revolution, and the creation of the perfect Martini, in which master film maker Luis Buñuel’s magnificent musings on the perfect recipe for this classic cocktail, conflates the vitally judged addition of…

Stage Legend Dudley Sutton talks us through the politics and the joys of face paint and footlights circa 1957, we travel to Russia on a train, spit fish scales on the floor of a workers bar and learn the truer…

This is the episode that hovers in the deliciously seedy depths of sixties strip-club culture with the first screen appearance of NICO (velvet under ground etc etc ) with music by Serge Gainsbourg and style beyond in the 1963 French…