This week on [edit] radio, Tom Crook, Paul Whitty and Ben Smith return to talk about new Geordie bank holidays, the death spiral of the neoliberals, a debut album released decades after the band split up and share their favourite tracks both new and used.
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The U21 squad are supporting local community and music initiatives by crowdfunding for their shirt sponsorship this season. #utw@Camerados_org@thisisballroom @Band_of_Hope
And of course, today is also the birthday of the This is Highfield Road #binaural sound archive https://t.co/n5yOSsrhx5 🥳 The project started in 2004 and was completed with support of @saru_brookes featuring in @getsomechalk exhibition
In 'Listening to the Past, Sound', his piece for the aural section of #OnCommemoration, @paul_whitty considers the memories of football sounds (& the sounds of memories) & the potential of playback for dissident commemoration (& commemorative dissidence): https://t.co/gbi1e6hVAs
.@paul_whitty with some great sound archaeology! 'as the goalkeeper banged his plastic studs against the metal goal post, I began to consider the sounding history. If keepers were doing this in 1892 what did leather studs on wooden goalposts sound like?': https://t.co/X3flesaUxy
@paul_whitty @GaryLineker Bundesliga uses quite a sophisticated automating mixing system 4 their mic array apparently, maybe that's the difference. But yeah, sounds of football pls not piped SFX it's not a computer game
‘...a game without fans is a kind of category mistake...’ (Simon Critchcley). Sweeping the kitchen floor and listening to the resonance of the empty Westfalenstadion... https://t.co/atn49DbHm3
Listening to the sound of football not happening at Blewbury Recreation Ground former home of North Berks League side Blewbury FC; the distant surge of tyres on asphalt; rookery noise; the firm clap of wood pigeon’s wings; hedgerow babble.