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Over The Edge DO or DIY with People Like Us – Monday, 19 June 2017 – 6pm https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl From 1981 to 2015, Negativland‘s Don Joyce hosted Over The Edge, the longest running block of freeform live mix collage radio in broadcast history — a program which continues today, having been inherited by long time show …
The collage artist also known as People Like Us talks about her beginnings in experimental radio broadcasting in the second instalment of The Wire’s oral histories series. Vicki Bennett’s People Like Us began life as a three hour radio show on Brighton’s Festival Radio in 1990 called Gobstopper. She went on to release around 20 …
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We are very pleased to inform you that Radio Boredcast has now been archived in its entirety at WFMU. Given that Radio Boredcast is a 744-hour online radio project, we consider today (20 June), The Longest Day, a most appropriate time to make this announcement. Curated by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) with AV Festival, …
The Schedule for Radio Boredcast, running from Noon on 1st March 2012 to Midnight 31st March is now up and is broadcasting online! Listen at Basic.fm If you have problems listening through a browser because you are at work etc, you can listen to the mp3 stream here – Just open iTunes, go to Advanced …
Sonic Arts Network is proud to announce the release of our latest CD publication. Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) curates “Smiling Through My Teeth”, a compilation exploring the use of humour in music and sound art and bringing together an assortment of humorous songs, amusing ditties and deranged sound works. Buy the CD or get …
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Over The Edge – Baby is Three II 10 October 2002 https://peoplelikeus.org/OTE_20021010_Baby_is_Three_2.mp3 Guests People Like Us and Wobbly drop in for an extended cancellation concert of unexpected music, mixed, in this case, with an extensified, supercharged completion of the Sturgeon story begun two weeks ago. This is a nice show for all-around modern interest. It’s truly …
Your work reminds me of two of my favourite (visual) collage artists, John Heartfield and Max Ernst. So, are there any real parallels? Collage has always been my way of looking at the world and it was through photographic collage that I discovered working with video, film and then sound. It is the most important …
Over The Edge – 2000 Announcements 13 January 2000 https://peoplelikeus.org/OTE_20000113_2000_Announcements.mp3 Edited version (by Vicki) here: 2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA We join together to mix 2000 announcements. These range from several announcements from General Injectables concerning all their current mergers, to fractured and re-edited public service announcements of all kinds. Dr. Harold …
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People Like Us, The Jet Black Hair People, Wobbly and Don Joyce 2000 Announcements on Over The Edge on KPFA – 2000 01. Woman As Sexual Criminal 02. Bright Giant Love Balls 03. Steel Pole 04. Nice Music 05. Finale 06. Credits An edit from a 3 hour show. In constant memory of Don Joyce. …
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Over The Edge – Another UFO – Disclosure 23 December 1999 https://peoplelikeus.org/OTE_19991223_Another_UFO_-_Disclosure.mp3 Examples from the way the press USED to report this stuff, and numerous very convincing eyewitness reports, most by commercial airline pilots, which don’t leave much doubt that there sure is SOMETHING out there in the air lanes that doesn’t conform to anything …
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Over The Edge – Thanksgiving Leftovers 25 November 1999 https://peoplelikeus.org/OTE_19991125_Thanksgiving_Leftovers.mp3 With various leftover tapes that never finished playing out on recent OTEs and two other Neglanders on board, this is a show with no plan at all. But it’s very good anyway with the Weatherman walking around the streets of Berkeley in the wee hours …
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