Here is the playlist and listings for our radio show on 11th December.

Podcast/MP3 of the show now available here: First Hour | Second Hour.

During the first hour, our guests were Jo Hodgson and Matt Lewis of BLOC projects and Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum talking about this Friday's bloc assembly & bloc Christmas party, both of which form part of the SCAF art crawl.

During the second hour we had our usual roundup of arts events in Sheffield.

Please contact us if you want to send us some music, produce a jingle or some radio art, or just get in touch about anything on the show.

Playlist

• Plus Tech Squeezebox - A Day in the Radio from Fakevox
• Buffalo Daughter - Socks, Drugs and Rock & Roll from New Rock
• Neil Webb - The Stars in us All from The Stars in us All
• David Bowie - Sound & Vision from Low: Remastered
• Sufjan Stevens - Get Behind me Santa from Songs for Christmas
• Don Tiki - An Occasional Man from The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki
• Billy Idol - Ready, Steady Go from Generation X
• Nilsson - Think About Your Troubles from The Point: Remastered
• Graeme Stonehouse - What has the Esmé Fairburn Foundation Ever Done for Us? (performance art piece)
• Plush & Plastix - Ahab (demo)
• Stock, Hausen & Walkman - Pizza Hut from Organ Transplants Vol.2
• Acolytes Action Squad - Yak Buttons pts. 3-4 from Winkle Time
• Todd Swift - The Man who Killed Houdini from Life Lines 2/Poets for Oxfam
• The Scaramanga Six - Baggage from The Dance of Death
• Army of Briars - Mist on the Barrows from Army of Briars
• Jah Wobble - Blueberry Hill from Betrayal: the Legend Lives on
• Jah Wurzel, AKA Morgan Fisher - Wuthering Heights from Hybrid Kids Vol.1: a Collection of Classic Mutants
• Chora - Bison Grass from The Baptist Grip
• Karlheinz Stockhausen - Vorstellung from Sirius

Art exhibitions, music and events:

• Bloc Assembly at Sylvester Works, followed by Christmas Party at BLOC, 14th December
• The Best of All Possible Worlds at The End Gallery, Psalter Lane, opening 11th December 6pm, continues until 14th December.
• Elizabeth Price's "Welcome to the New, Ruined Institute" at the Site Gallery 5th to 15th December
• Bridgid McLeer's Vexations at the Site Gallery, 19th December to 12th January 2008
• Six by Six photography at the Shakespeare, Gibraltar Street, 5th December
• Christmas Future at Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road Hillsborough until 12th January 2008
• Tom Hine's "Pieces and Portraits" at the London Road Gallery throughout December
• Mixed exhibits at the Café Bohemian on Chesterfield Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Old Sweet Shop , Nether Edge Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at Ecclesall Woods' Gallery 37, Ecclesall Sawmill, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Archipelago Gallery , Ecclesall Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Lola's Boutique , The Chapel Antiques Centre, Broadfield Road, ongoing
• Treehugger Gallery,Kelham Island - looking for artists!
• Coal, Frankincense and Myrrh: Yemen and British Yemenis at Weston Park Museum until 13th April 2008
• Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland at Millennium Galleries until 20th January 2008
• Where are we? Questions of Landscape at the Graves Gallery until 8th January 2008
• 21st Dec - Freeaction all-day festival of music & film including Sonny Simmons Trio, Z'ev and Aufgehoben

Pretty Taxing is a new project from the folks at Art Car Boot Fair: a range of limited edition tax-disc holders for your car, created by artists including Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas and Gavin Turk. Funky stuff, makes cool Christmas presents for the driver in your life.

There'll be a launch event (with glogg and cinnamon buns) on Thursday December 13th, 4pm to 8pm at The Nordic Bakery, 14 Golden Square,  London.

I live in LA.  Or close enough.  I live on CalArts campus, 30 miles north of LA.  I am a Brit abroad.  My first Thanksgiving in this country, I got invited along to a vegetarian dinner complete with salmon and tofurkey.  Least said about the latter, the better.  But said dinner was in New York.  I fought the ridiculous queues, added security measures and general mayhem that is travel on Thanksgiving for a 5 day break from school (most welcome, learning is hard!  I haven't done it in so long!).  My host generously gave me some time and space to chill out whilst giving me the opportunity to pound the NY pavements in search of clothing bargains and as much art as I could take - he's an artist - but I can take a lot of art - I out arted him!  The day before I left we visited the shows at the Guggenheim, the new photo acquisitions at MOMA, Kara Walker and Danny Lyon at the Whitney and Robert Capa at the International Center of Photography.  I really liked a lot of what I saw, in particular the Kara Walker exhibition was a amazing.  Walker punches, hard.  I think her work is very interesting, because in the material she works with, the punch is justified, useful even, necessary.  And I like the time period she has chosen to explore - pre-Civil War - pre-segregation, tracing the roots of the jazz style, the look, design and feel.  There's a lot I can say about the work, but I need to think more about it too, it takes some thinking about.  But Google her, the work is truly amazing.  

However, Richard Prince is who I really got my head around.  I half remember seeing a very, large photo of a cowboy on a horse, rearing up, on a restaurant wall, somewhere amongst the galleries in the West End.  And I also half remember his joke paintings.  I never quite squared the 2 projects in my head or figured out if they were the same person or how they fitted together.  Then, recently, we discussed his work in class.  His chauvinistic tendencies were apparent to me, but little else.  My expectations were pretty low before I saw the show, although I heard from other people that it was really interesting.  Seeing the work, I got it.  The one liners in the painting repeat, and bleed into one another, and seeing them en mass, a bad comic's gag routine becomes apparent.  His promo photos, that he signed himself as if they were signed by the celebrity, alongside his piece, 'Spiritual America' - a highly provocative photograph of a prepubescent Brooke Shields, question the legitimacy of representation and in my mind, connected the dots between Prince, Ricky Gervais and Chris Morris.  I have to concede Prince's mastery of his material.  He clusters his photographs into 'Gangs', rotates them, adds comic strip images on top of them and adds text to them in a style that makes it look easy.  From my own practice, I know that stuff is hard!  He resolves his work in really smart ways.  He makes it look effortless!   

Here is the playlist and listings for our radio show on 4th December.

Podcast/MP3 of the show now available here: First Hour | Second Hour.

During the first hour, our guest was Mark Mozaz Wallace (AKA 0742) of pretentiousartist.com and the Campaign Against Primate Change . 

During the second hour we had our usual roundup of arts events in Sheffield, plus a report from our London correspondent Sue Schofield on two photography exhibitions: Peter Hujar at the ICA and Antoine d'Agata's Insomnia at the Photographer's Gallery.

Please contact us if you want to send us some music, produce a jingle or some radio art, or just get in touch about anything on the show.

Playlist

• Sun Ra - They Dwell on Other Planes, from Blue Delight
• Slave Arc - Ode to Mother Earth
• The Kevorkian Solution - Untitled
• Livecoding - Untitled
• Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - Beat Street from The Greatest Hits
• Acolyte Action Squad - Letter to the Master from Winkle Time
• Sisterhood - Finland Red
• Evolution Control Committee - But I don't believe in Evolution from Gunderphonic
• William S Burroughs - Ah Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin's All-Purpose Bedtime Story from Dead City Radio
• William D Drake - Wolves from Briny Hooves
• Heartyeah - '84 Detroit Throwdowns from Traps
• Power Tools - Unchained Melody from Strange Meeting
• Sluts of Trust - Leave you wanting more from We Are All Sluts of Trust
• The Incredible String Band - Waltz of the New Moon from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
• Brass Monkey - Accordidrocca from Eine Kleine Thriftmusik
• Victor Gama - Huyra e Coma (from the Sonic Arts Network Summer 2007 edition Periférico: Sounds from beyond the bubble )
• Sonny Sharrock - Promises Kept from Ask the Ages

Art exhibitions, music and events:

• 20 Mistakes Make Me Wonder at The End Gallery, Psalter Lane, opening 4th December 6.30pm, continues until 7th December.
• Wavelength at Bloc 5th December, 8pm-11pm, £4, then moving to York on 6th December and Leeds on 8th December.
• Six by Six photography at the Shakespeare, Gibraltar Street, 5th December
• Elizabeth Price's "Welcome to the New, Ruined Institute" at the Site Gallery 5th to 15th December
• Members' Show at S1 artspace until 9th December
• Galvanize Sheffield at various locations until 9th December
• The Navigators: Notes and Sounds at the Red Deer, Pitt Street, 10th December, 8pm, £3
• The Best of All Possible Worlds at The End Gallery, Psalter Lane, opening 11th December 6pm, continues until 14th December.
• Bloc Assembly at Sylvester Works, followed by Christmas Party at BLOC, 14th December
• Christmas Future at Cupola Gallery, Middlewood Road Hillsborough until 12th January 2008
• Tom Hine's "Pieces and Portraits" at the London Road Gallery throughout December
• Mixed exhibits at the Café Bohemian on Chesterfield Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Old Sweet Shop , Nether Edge Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at Ecclesall Woods' Gallery 37, Ecclesall Sawmill, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Archipelago Gallery , Ecclesall Road, ongoing
• Mixed exhibits at the Lola's Boutique , The Chapel Antiques Centre, Broadfield Road, ongoing
• Treehugger Gallery,Kelham Island - looking for artists!
• Coal, Frankincense and Myrrh: Yemen and British Yemenis at Weston Park Museum until 13th April 2008
• Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland at Millennium Galleries until 20th January 2008
• Where are we? Questions of Landscape at the Graves Gallery until 8th January 2008
• 21st Dec - Freeaction all-day festival of music & film including Sonny Simmons Trio, Z'ev and Aufgehoben

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