Welcome to the only official site for People Like Us and Vicki Bennett
Vicki from People Like Us will be doing a fill-in show for Ken Freedman:
🗓 24 December 2025
📻 Live on WFMU
DO or DIY with People Like Us
🕘 9am–12 noon (NY time)
Live playlist + comments during the show already here: Wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159286
Warning and possible reassurance: NO Xmas music here!
People Like Us fill in for Station Manager Ken not once but twice in December on WFMU!
Here’s where you’ll find the show, both live with a playlist and comments, and then as an archive afterwards. https://wfmu.org/playlists/pl
Happy to announce that we will return to our weekly radio show DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU for the Summer Schedule 2023 :). Mark your calendar for weekly shows through the season starting Wednesday 7 June, 7-8pm NY Time (that’s midnight-1am Wednesday night in the UK). Shows are, and have been archived in perpetuity for over 20 years now, which is exactly how long DO or DIY has been on WFMU, and is returning to its original slot after Seven Second Delay.
Follow the Listen link at the time: wfmu.org and then listen to the archive(s) here.
People Like Us return to WFMU for 3 hours on 28 December 2022, filling in for Station Manager Ken. It broadcasts live from 9-Noon NY time, that is 2-5pm UK time. Live playlist and comments here when it’s on.
People Like Us fill in for Station Manager Ken this Wednesday 17 August from 9am to noon, NY time (that’s 2pm to 5pm UK time) on our favourite radio station, WFMU.
Join our playlist and comments board while the show is on https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/118657
The show is archived afterwards on our playlist page at https://wfmu.org/playlists/PL
DO or DIY with People Like Us will fill in for Station Manager Ken on WFMU on 22nd December 2021. NY time 9am to Noon, that’s 2pm to 5pm UK Time. Listen live locally on the radio in the tri-state area of NY, or online at WFMU.org
Follow our live accuplaylist and comments while the show is on.
The People Like Us radio show DO or DIY returns to WFMU for the 2021 Summer Schedule starting Monday 7 June, every Monday night right through to September – 7pm EDT (that’s midnight Monday evening UK). https://wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
People Like Us have returned to the radio on WFMU for a 3-hour radio show from 9-Noon EST (that’s 2pm-5pm UK) for 4 CONSECUTIVE THURSDAYS filling in for DJ Trouble.
Listen: http://wfmu.org / DO or DIY http://wfmu.org/playlists/PL
Playlist and archive for Week 1 (26 November 2020): https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/98773
Playlist and archive for Week 2 (3 December 2020):
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/98923
Playlist and archive for Week 3 (10 December 2020):
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/99138
Playlist and archive for Week 4 (17 December 2020 – Matmos Special)
https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/99330
DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to the radio for three hours on Wednesday 19 August 2020, filling in for Ken Freedman from 9-Noon NY Time, that’s 2-5pm UK. Tune in at http://wfmu.org and join us on the live playlist/comments at https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/95740
DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to the airwaves for 3 hours on Wednesday 19 June from 9am-Noon (NY Time) ((which is 2pm-5pm in London)). This will be filling in for Station Manager Ken. You can tune in online and on the air (if local to New York) and follow a live playlists and comments through the front page here: http://wfmu.org
We broadcast an hour-long Stuart Maconie Freak Zone Playlist for BBC 6 Music on 24 February 2019 at 00:00 (that’s Midnight Saturday night/Sunday morning) UK time. Iit will be archived on the Freak Zone Playlist page for a few weeks after.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002rct
Since 1991, British artist Vicki Bennett has been working under the name People Like Us, creating audio-visual collage across music, film, radio, live performance and immersive installations. Drawing on the vast archive of popular culture, she repurposes familiar sounds and images to create unexpected connections, often with a dark sense of humour and an interest in the absurd. Through the process of collage, fragments are removed from their original contexts and brought into new relationships, producing meanings that are more than the sum of their parts.
Vicki sees collage as a form of contemporary folk art, drawing on the shared palette of media and technology, with all the borrowing, sharing and cross-referencing that implies. Central to her practice is the premise that everything is interconnected, and that claiming ownership of an entirely “original” or isolated idea is both preposterous and redundant. Sampling is not simply a compositional technique but a way of thinking about how meaning emerges through association, juxtaposition and the rearrangement of what already exists.
Her work ranges from the long-running DO or DIY radio programme on WFMU and large-scale experimental broadcasts such as Radio Boredcast, to the immersive cinema installation Gone, Gone Beyond and the live audiovisual performance The Library of Babel. In 2006, she became the first artist granted unrestricted access to the BBC archives, having previously recorded a session for John Peel in 2003. People Like Us has presented work internationally at venues, galleries and festivals including Barbican, Whitechapel Gallery, MACBA (Barcelona), MAXXI (Rome), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo), HMKV (Dortmund), Sheehan Gallery (Walla Walla), Gray Area (San Francisco), Venice Biennale, Sónar, transmediale, Café OTO, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts and donaufestival (Austria).
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