People Like Us tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2012://1 2011-11-04T09:54:13Z Movable Type 3.35 Biography tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2009://1.8 2012-06-02T17:39:54Z 2011-11-04T09:54:13Z Since 1991 Vicki Bennett has been making CDs, radio, and A/V multimedia under the name People Like Us. By animating and recontextualising found footage collages Vicki gives an equally witty and dark view of popular culture with a surrealistic edge. People Like Us broadcasts an ongoing experimental arts radio and podcast show on WFMU, called "DO or DIY", which, since it began in 2003, has had over a million "listen again" downloads. Vicki has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, The National Film Theatre, Purcell Room, The ICA, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Sonar in Barcelona, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Barbican, Maxxi in Rome, the BBC and Channel 4. She has also performed radio sessions for the BBC's John Peel, Mixing It, and also CBC, KPFA and many more in the US. There have been features in The Observer, The Wire, NME and BBC website. People Like Us have been commissioned by The Arts Council England, The BBC, AV Festival, Sonic Arts Network, Forma, LUX and Lovebytes amongst others. The almost entire People Like Us back catalogue is also available for free download, which has been generously hosted by UbuWeb in conjunction with PennSound, and also WFMU. PLU has been released on labels such as Illegal Art, Tigerbeat6, Soleilmoon, Sonic Arts Network, Touch and For Us Records (Rough Trade), both solo, and also collaborating with Matmos, Ergo Phizmiz, Wobbly and Christian Marclay. Vicki had her first solo London show "The Doors of Perspection" at Vitrine Gallery... UbuWeb in conjunction with PennSound, and also WFMU. PLU has been released on labels such as Illegal Art, Tigerbeat6, Soleilmoon, Sonic Arts Network, Touch and For Us Records (Rough Trade), both solo, and also collaborating with Matmos, Ergo Phizmiz, Wobbly and Christian Marclay. Vicki had her first solo London show "The Doors of Perspection" at Vitrine Gallery in Bermondsey Square in July-September 2011. A new People Like Us CD "Welcome Abroad" was released in May 2011 on Illegal Art. People Like Us have just completed a new live a/v set "The Magical Misery Tour" commissioned by Sound and Music, premiered at The Sound Of Fear at London's Southbank Centre in September 2011. Currently, Vicki Bennett is curating Radio Boredcast, a 744 hour radio station for AV Festival 12. Press Quotes: "... a freeform, unfolding imaginary landscape that is liberally peppered with slapstick." - Phil England, The Wire "Bennett has continued to impress us with her technical ability and her wonderful sense of the ridiculous." - Olli Siebelt, BBC "... beautiful, compelling, funny, crazy stuff. I listen to [People Like Us] while sitting at my drawing board." - Matt Groening "... it is that delirious adventure to tune in Disney cartoons while we administered a strong dose of amphetamines, LSD, and any other lysergic cocktail." - J. Carlos Vellamueva, Rolling Stone (Mexico) "... after prolonged exposure to the alchemical work of Vicki Bennett, we see and hear our own everyday world as one big joke which is already cut to pieces. You'll laugh, you'll cry." - Drew Daniel, Matmos "... warped-out easy easy-listening goddess and sample abuser extraordinaire." - Ben Willmott, NME "Bennett has taken Eisenstein's montage collisions and refashioned them as bumper cars at a seaside carnival." - Jim Supanick, Film Society of Lincoln Center]]> ]]> Artist statement for People Like Us tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2009://1.7 2012-06-02T17:39:27Z 2011-05-26T10:02:16Z Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, The Barbican, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi in Rome and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb.... Since 1991 British artist Vicki Bennett has been an influential figure in the field of audio visual collage, through her innovative sampling, appropriating and cutting up of found footage and archives. Using collage as her main form of expression, she creates audio recordings, films and radio shows that communicate a humorous, dark and often surreal view on life. These collages mix, manipulate and rework original sources from both the experimental and popular worlds of music, film, television and radio. People Like Us believe in open access to archives for creative use, and have made work using footage from the Prelinger Archives, The Internet Archive, and A/V Geeks. In 2006 she was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive. People Like Us have previously shown work at Tate Modern, The Barbican, Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre, Maxxi in Rome and Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The ongoing sound art radio show 'DO or DIY' on WFMU has had over a million "listen again" downloads. since 2003. The People Like Us back catalogue is available for free download hosted by UbuWeb. ]]> DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2009://1.139 2012-05-10T16:03:24Z 2011-02-20T14:16:55Z Since Autumn 2003 People Like Us have been doing a weekly show on WFMU, called DO or DIY. The aim of the show is to mix highbrow with lowbrow to challenge whether there is much difference. Also, many artists played on DO or DIY get very little radio play (a google search for many of these bands brings the show's airplay at the top of the results). Each weekly show has been known to have excess of 75,000 listens per year (based on average Realplayer stats archives collected over the space of one year). Here are the archived playlists and realaudio streams of at least 200 shows from 2003 to the present day. www.wfmu.org/peoplelikeus Subscribe to the Podcast of DO or DIY by clicking here - it will prompt your iTunes program to open, where you will receive the podcasts. People Like Us' radio show DO or DIY is now also a separate 24 HOUR DO or DIY Stream on WFMU! Yes indeed - DO or DIY is available all day, every day. 24 hours of All Things Avant Retard. You can listen to the stream through iTunes, by clicking here - it will download a file that you can then click on to play the stream. DO or DIY biog DO or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast weekly by Vicki Bennett (project name People Like Us) on WFMU. The philosophy behind the show is simple. That within the realms of avant-garde and experimental sound art... Vicki Bennett www.wfmu.org/peoplelikeus Subscribe to the Podcast of DO or DIY by clicking here - it will prompt your iTunes program to open, where you will receive the podcasts. People Like Us' radio show DO or DIY is now also a separate 24 HOUR DO or DIY Stream on WFMU! Yes indeed - DO or DIY is available all day, every day. 24 hours of All Things Avant Retard. You can listen to the stream through iTunes, by clicking here - it will download a file that you can then click on to play the stream. DO or DIY biog DO or DIY is a freeform sound art radio show broadcast weekly by Vicki Bennett (project name People Like Us) on WFMU. The philosophy behind the show is simple. That within the realms of avant-garde and experimental sound art the goalposts defining "accessible" and "inaccessible" are constantly moving. As the radar rises and dips, fragments and shards of underground creations unearth, and popular culture and artist resonate, shifting shapes accordingly with one another in reflections of changing spotlights. The avant-garde and popular culture rely on each other's energy. People Like Us collage both "hard to listen" works and popular listening matter, showing that in fact, beyond the restrictions of genre, genre IS the restriction and it is possible to like many kinds of art and music. The key is finding the door - DO or DIY leads the way into new and unusual realms of listening and hope to show the way in. Each show consists of collages made of sound works from the 20th and 21st century, often layered and looped many times over, resulting in an album type effect on each show. The pun "All Things Avant-Retard", a rhyme with "All Things Avant-Garde" literally means All Things Forward-Backwards. Essentially by using sonic extremes and apparent opposites we find some sort of central point or balanced perspective on music and sound. Suggested Listening: DO or DIY fill in for Ken. New Free WFMU iPhone/iPod Touch app! Also, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch we are also pleased to announce that you can listen to not only the regular WFMU stream on the move at a glorious 128k, but also all of our special streams, recent DJ show archives and DJ podcasts including all of DO or DIY! You can download the much improved updated free WFMU app right here. ABOUT WFMU WFMU are very influential to NYC area record buyers, particularly ones who search for music out of the ordinary. The station was listed as #1 station in the USA by Rolling Stone critics for 4 consecutive years, was voted #1 station at 1999's Gavin Convention, subject of a New York Times magazine feature, and has gotten accolades from the WIRE, John Peel, Matt Groening & other luminaries. The format covers anything from home cassettes, noise, old country, rockabilly, electroacoustic, experimental, electronic, metal, out-jazz, krautrock, schlock, hip-hop, collage, garage, and pop from all decades. They've hosted Senegalese rappers, Japanese black metal bands, Tuvan psychedelic rock groups, Brit folk legends, indie rock darlings, and played about 2000 other genres they can't even begin to list. "WFMU is known as an oasis in the airwave desert. While most stations practice one-dimensional 'narrow-casting', WFMU embraces everything in the wonderful world of sound." - SPIN "WFMU is the best freeform radio station in America." - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS "Fantastic website, great archives. It is truly eclectic programming, unlike other stations, which claim to be eclectic." - MATT GROENING, SIMPSONS CREATOR "There's nothing better late at night in this town than climbing into the car and turning on and tuning into WFMU cracklin' across the river with whatever weird shit they're playin' tonight." - LEE RANALDO, SONIC YOUTH "Romping through the history of recorded sound, WFMU's disc jockeys often come up with unbelievable artifacts, revelatory juxtapositions and songs you thought you'd never hear again." - NEW YORK TIMES "This is one full-on Limey who believes believes believes that when it comes to transformation through sound, we should support WFMU for their percipient ur-cultural bravado. It's the 21st century and WFMU is here to celebrate our coming of age!" - JULIAN COPE, MUSICIAN/AUTHOR/HISTORIAN Pledge to the WFMU Marathon! ]]> Pledge to the WFMU Marathon! WFMU radio art at alt.gallery, Newcastle ]]> Off The Page - The Wire / Sound and Music tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2012://1.321 2012-02-25T12:17:38Z 2012-01-19T12:22:59Z Date: Friday 24 - Sunday 26 February 2012 Venue: The Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable Produced by: Sound and Music and The Wire People Like Us will be participating in a panel discussion at Off The Page, an event co-produced and curated by The Wire and Sound and Music, in Whitstable, UK on Saturday 25th February 2012. Off The Page is the UK's only literary festival devoted to music criticism and audio culture. Taking place in the seaside town of Whitstable in Kent, this unique weekend-long event looks to expand the discourse surrounding contemporary sound and music by bringing together leading critics, authors, musicians and artists in a programme of talks, presentations and panel discussions. Panel debate Collateral Damage: Music in a Digital Economy In recent years, the internet and a raft of new technologies have transformed the ways in which we produce, perceive and consume music. And as the reality of music's new digital economy starts to bite, musicians and labels are having to rethink both philosophy and practice, addressing the issue of how they create and disseminate work - while some decry the free movement of music across file sharing networks and the collapse of traditional record industry models, others look to exploit the new possibilities offered by crowd sourcing and social networking. For this panel discussion chaired by The Wire's Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Tony Herrington, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Chris Cutler (ReR Records) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) discuss possible responses to the challenges posed by music's changing eco-system... Vicki Bennett Date: Friday 24 - Sunday 26 February 2012 Venue: The Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable Produced by: Sound and Music and The Wire People Like Us will be participating in a panel discussion at Off The Page, an event co-produced and curated by The Wire and Sound and Music, in Whitstable, UK on Saturday 25th February 2012. Off The Page is the UK's only literary festival devoted to music criticism and audio culture. Taking place in the seaside town of Whitstable in Kent, this unique weekend-long event looks to expand the discourse surrounding contemporary sound and music by bringing together leading critics, authors, musicians and artists in a programme of talks, presentations and panel discussions. Panel debate Collateral Damage: Music in a Digital Economy In recent years, the internet and a raft of new technologies have transformed the ways in which we produce, perceive and consume music. And as the reality of music's new digital economy starts to bite, musicians and labels are having to rethink both philosophy and practice, addressing the issue of how they create and disseminate work - while some decry the free movement of music across file sharing networks and the collapse of traditional record industry models, others look to exploit the new possibilities offered by crowd sourcing and social networking. For this panel discussion chaired by The Wire's Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Tony Herrington, Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), Chris Cutler (ReR Records) and Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) discuss possible responses to the challenges posed by music's changing eco-system ]]> AV Festival Programme now up, Boredcast Schedule to follow... tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2012://1.322 2012-01-19T12:48:04Z 2012-01-19T13:06:49Z Just a quick update to tell you that the AV Festival 12 Programme is now up at http://www.avfestival.co.uk/ The Radio Boredcast schedule is still being foldered and typed up after initally putting together with post-its and an A2 notepad. It will be published in the coming weeks, probably the beginning of February. There will also be a Radio Boredcast podcast to subscribe to from some point in February, all depending on how long the schedule takes to complete first! For background information on Radio Boredcast please go to our initial post.... Vicki Bennett http://www.avfestival.co.uk/ The Radio Boredcast schedule is still being foldered and typed up after initally putting together with post-its and an A2 notepad. It will be published in the coming weeks, probably the beginning of February. There will also be a Radio Boredcast podcast to subscribe to from some point in February, all depending on how long the schedule takes to complete first! For background information on Radio Boredcast please go to our initial post. postits ]]> Interview about Radio Boredcast with Pixel Palace/Basic.fm tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.320 2011-12-24T20:22:33Z 2011-12-24T20:26:39Z Pixel Palace, who co-commissioned Radio Boredcast along with AV Festival, recently interviewed Vicki to see how she is getting on with creating a one-month long radio station to compliment AV Festival 12 and the festival them As Slow As Possible. http://www.thepixelpalace.org/basicfm... Vicki Bennett Radio Boredcast along with AV Festival, recently interviewed Vicki to see how she is getting on with creating a one-month long radio station to compliment AV Festival 12 and the festival them As Slow As Possible. http://www.thepixelpalace.org/basicfm]]> Radio Boredcast and AV Festival 2012 Programme Preview tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.319 2011-12-11T20:58:21Z 2011-12-13T18:52:41Z http://www.avfestival.co.uk/... Vicki Bennett http://www.avfestival.co.uk/

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]]> Coming soon... Radio Boredcast tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.318 2011-12-04T10:07:53Z 2011-12-11T20:58:01Z Vicki Bennett is currently curating a 744 hour long radio station called Radio Boredcast, to run for the duration of AV Festival 12. ">http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2012 "AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible is a Festival in slow motion. For the first time the Festival runs for a whole month from 1-31 March 2012. It's the most adventurous edition to date including over 15 major exhibitions, more than 50 film screenings and music events, weekend walks and an online radio broadcasting for 744 hours. The programme takes place at different speeds, paces and times of day across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including an accelerated 24 Hour Launch. Programme highlights and our new website will be launched in November, sign up to our email list to keep in touch and follow us on facebook and twitter".... Vicki Bennett avlogo

Vicki Bennett is currently curating a 744 hour long radio station called Radio Boredcast, to run for the duration of AV Festival 12. http://www.avfestival.co.uk/programme/2012 "AV Festival 12: As Slow As Possible is a Festival in slow motion. For the first time the Festival runs for a whole month from 1-31 March 2012. It's the most adventurous edition to date including over 15 major exhibitions, more than 50 film screenings and music events, weekend walks and an online radio broadcasting for 744 hours. The programme takes place at different speeds, paces and times of day across Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, including an accelerated 24 Hour Launch. Programme highlights and our new website will be launched in November, sign up to our email list to keep in touch and follow us on facebook and twitter".

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]]> Magical Misery Tour at Brighton Film Festival tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.314 2011-11-19T18:03:32Z 2011-11-03T16:47:57Z People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour" Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre 8pm Cinecity / Brighton Film Festival, UK Saturday 19th November 2011 People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Cinecity, part of Brighton Film Festival. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/films/the-magical-misery-tour-people-like-us-live-set/... Vicki Bennett People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour" Brighton Sallis Benney Theatre 8pm Cinecity / Brighton Film Festival, UK Saturday 19th November 2011 People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Cinecity, part of Brighton Film Festival. http://www.cine-city.co.uk/films/the-magical-misery-tour-people-like-us-live-set/]]> Bristol Encounters International Film Festival tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.317 2011-11-17T17:34:53Z 2011-11-19T13:31:09Z People Like Us - Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival. Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, UK BS2 8NQ 20:00 17/11/2011 Doors 7:30 £6:00 advance (watershed only) £8:00 on door. Bristol Encounters People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival 2011. Look Behind You!..... She Is Back! Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us raids the tombs of HORROR films, plundering the Un-Dead and cutting up scared suburban teenagers amongst many victims into a delicious perverse A/V set which premiered at The Sound of Fear at the Southbank Centre under the working title of Horror Collage. The source material is 95% from horror movies, with the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences. It is not true to say you do not relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever, see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenarios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate you from the swamp. Also on the same night: AKI ONDA Aki Onda is an artist whose musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. He captures field recordings with the cassettes and then physically manipulates the tape machines with electronics in his performances to mesmerising effect. Strikingly poetic with ghosts of the physical, and invisible captured in his sound... Vicki Bennett People Like Us - Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival. Cube Cinema, 4 Princess Row, Bristol, UK BS2 8NQ 20:00 17/11/2011 Doors 7:30 £6:00 advance (watershed only) £8:00 on door. Bristol Encounters People Like Us will perform The Magical Misery Tour at Bristol Encounters International Film Festival 2011. Look Behind You!..... She Is Back! Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us raids the tombs of HORROR films, plundering the Un-Dead and cutting up scared suburban teenagers amongst many victims into a delicious perverse A/V set which premiered at The Sound of Fear at the Southbank Centre under the working title of Horror Collage. The source material is 95% from horror movies, with the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences. It is not true to say you do not relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever, see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenarios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate you from the swamp. Also on the same night: AKI ONDA Aki Onda is an artist whose musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. He captures field recordings with the cassettes and then physically manipulates the tape machines with electronics in his performances to mesmerising effect. Strikingly poetic with ghosts of the physical, and invisible captured in his sound world, Onda re-examines moments of time he has spent wandering and recording. Maximising the micro-narrative/diary-like elements contained in his performances Onda fits perfectly a film festival. Onda started making music with the sampler and computer, and formed Audio Sports with Eye Yamatsuka (of The Boredoms) and Nobukazu Takemura in Osaka in 1990. He then became a sought after producer before starting his travels and recording his cassettes, taking photos and collaborating. http://www.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#6203]]> The Magical Misery Tour! tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.305 2011-11-12T18:23:20Z 2011-11-15T09:41:16Z Introducing an excerpt of the new People Like Us live set entitled "The Magical Misery Tour". This 45 minute concert was created between June and September 2011 and premiered at "The Sound of Fear" at London's Southbank Centre on 3rd September 2011, under the working title of "Horror Collage". Now that the full length live set has been completed we have changed the name to something more fitting with the content. The source material is 95% from horror movies, with the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences. It is not true to say you do not relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever, see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenerios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate you from the swamp. Press size version of above picture here Magical Misery Tour collage for press Interview with Vicki about this project here: http://www.soundandmusic.org/features/sound-film/five-questions-people-us... Vicki Bennett Introducing an excerpt of the new People Like Us live set entitled "The Magical Misery Tour". This 45 minute concert was created between June and September 2011 and premiered at "The Sound of Fear" at London's Southbank Centre on 3rd September 2011, under the working title of "Horror Collage". Now that the full length live set has been completed we have changed the name to something more fitting with the content. The source material is 95% from horror movies, with the content portraying not so much a scary nightmare but a journey through the underworld of everyday human experiences. It is not true to say you do not relate to this kind of horror movie. Truth is stranger than fiction. Having said this, People Like Us, as ever, see the positive and sometimes humorous side of the most ghastly scenerios, and by accompanying the edited found feature film footage with new sample collage pop songs, elevate you from the swamp. Magical Misery Tour Press size version of above picture here Magical Misery Tour collage for press Interview with Vicki about this project here: http://www.soundandmusic.org/features/sound-film/five-questions-people-us Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour Magical Misery Tour]]> Magical Misery Tour at Cork Film Festival tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.313 2011-11-11T17:47:35Z 2011-10-15T17:02:55Z People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour" Corona Cork Film Festival Friday 11th November 2011 We are very pleased to present The Magical Misery Tour at Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Details of time and venue to follow shortly. Cork Film Festival... Vicki Bennett People Like Us "The Magical Misery Tour" Corona Cork Film Festival Friday 11th November 2011 We are very pleased to present The Magical Misery Tour at Cork Film Festival, Ireland. Details of time and venue to follow shortly. Cork Film Festival]]> People Like Us on WFMU tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.316 2011-11-02T16:50:26Z 2011-11-03T15:18:48Z Wednesday November 2nd from 9.30am to 11.15am NY time (that's from 1.15pm, UK people!!) on Ken Freedman's show on WFMU wfmu.org Ken airs two videos live on the air and the website. From 9:30 to 10am, listeners can watch and listen to People Like Us's new horror collage The Magical Misery Tour. Then, at 10:15 Ken previews Radio Soulwax's new Brazilian video/audio mashup-sterpiece, Batutas Disco. Listeners can listen over the radio, or watch and listen over the website. Links will appear at wfmu.org when each video goes live. People Like Us and Radio Soulwax will each discuss their work following their videos.... Vicki Bennett Wednesday November 2nd from 9.30am to 11.15am NY time (that's from 1.15pm, UK people!!) on Ken Freedman's show on WFMU wfmu.org Ken airs two videos live on the air and the website. From 9:30 to 10am, listeners can watch and listen to People Like Us's new horror collage The Magical Misery Tour. Then, at 10:15 Ken previews Radio Soulwax's new Brazilian video/audio mashup-sterpiece, Batutas Disco. Listeners can listen over the radio, or watch and listen over the website. Links will appear at wfmu.org when each video goes live. People Like Us and Radio Soulwax will each discuss their work following their videos.]]> RadioVision + Record Fair NYC tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.315 2011-10-29T08:30:36Z 2011-11-01T16:53:51Z RadioVision Festival 28th, 29th and 30th October, 2011 Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NYC WFMU presents a festival celebrating radio's future as it takes on new forms in the digital age for the medium's fans, tinkerers and future thinkers. A special opening night performance with Radio Legend Joe Frank, a day of talks, panel discussions and performances, and a hack day for programmers and digital media makers. The festival runs concurrent with the WFMU Record Fair. Vicki will be speaking at the conference on Saturday 29th October. Full details at http://radiovision.wfmu.org Sunday 30th October - People Like Us present The Magical Misery Tour at WFMU Record Fair, NYC 3.15pm The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC http://wfmu.org/recfair/rf_livebcasts.html... Vicki Bennett RadioVision Festival 28th, 29th and 30th October, 2011 Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street, NYC WFMU presents a festival celebrating radio's future as it takes on new forms in the digital age for the medium's fans, tinkerers and future thinkers. A special opening night performance with Radio Legend Joe Frank, a day of talks, panel discussions and performances, and a hack day for programmers and digital media makers. The festival runs concurrent with the WFMU Record Fair. Vicki will be speaking at the conference on Saturday 29th October. Full details at http://radiovision.wfmu.org Sunday 30th October - People Like Us present The Magical Misery Tour at WFMU Record Fair, NYC 3.15pm The Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC http://wfmu.org/recfair/rf_livebcasts.html]]> Please pledge to WFMU and DO or DIY this month tag:www.peoplelikeus.org,2011://1.311 2011-10-26T18:30:33Z 2011-11-01T16:55:25Z Shock & Awetober on WFMU - Please Pledge to DO or DIY Support Do or DIY on WFMU! This month of October we are doing an online/mail-only fundraiser at WFMU. To mark this, there will be an extra special bunch of events going, including Singles Going Steady week (Oct 24-30) where WFMU DJs play nothing but 7 inch singles, the WFMU Record Fair (Oct 28-30) and WFMU's RadioVision Festival (Oct 28-30). In fact there are special events going on every day, with more being added to the schedule all the time: http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/ Regular listeners will know that DO or DIY has been on the air every June-October (Summer Schedule) since 2003, with archives that cover every show since it started, and without wanting to toot my own alphorn, I'm playing a lot of things that you just wouldn't hear elsewhere - and if you do a google for it it's my show that comes up as the first result in playing it! DO or DIY also does a 24-hour audio stream which can be accessed from the WFMU frontpage and also on the free WFMU iphone app. Just this season alone we've had DO or DIY Specials from JG Thirlwell, Daniel Menche, Brian Joseph Davis, Wobbly, Gwilly Edmondez, Alex Drool and Nico Teen, Jennifer Walshe, Irene Moon, Osymyso, Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkmen), Carl Stone and on Wednesday 5th October from Graham Duff, creator of BBC TV's "Ideal" (amongst many other things!). WFMU is never a dull place, earlier... Vicki Bennett Shock & Awetober on WFMU - Please Pledge to DO or DIY

This month of October we are doing an online/mail-only fundraiser at WFMU. To mark this, there will be an extra special bunch of events going, including Singles Going Steady week (Oct 24-30) where WFMU DJs play nothing but 7 inch singles, the WFMU Record Fair (Oct 28-30) and WFMU's RadioVision Festival (Oct 28-30). In fact there are special events going on every day, with more being added to the schedule all the time:

http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/

Regular listeners will know that DO or DIY has been on the air every June-October (Summer Schedule) since 2003, with archives that cover every show since it started, and without wanting to toot my own alphorn, I'm playing a lot of things that you just wouldn't hear elsewhere - and if you do a google for it it's my show that comes up as the first result in playing it! DO or DIY also does a 24-hour audio stream which can be accessed from the WFMU frontpage and also on the free WFMU iphone app.

Just this season alone we've had DO or DIY Specials from JG Thirlwell, Daniel Menche, Brian Joseph Davis, Wobbly, Gwilly Edmondez, Alex Drool and Nico Teen, Jennifer Walshe, Irene Moon, Osymyso, Andrew Sharpley (Stock, Hausen & Walkmen), Carl Stone and on Wednesday 5th October from Graham Duff, creator of BBC TV's "Ideal" (amongst many other things!). WFMU is never a dull place, earlier this year I ruined my clothes and other peoples appetites covering fellow WFMU DJ Bryce with mayonnaise and baked beans. Where else would have us? We need you to help us continue this kind of ridiculous programming!

In previous years have had specials and exclusives from Ergo Phizmiz, Dave Soldier, Felix Kubin, Rank Sinatra, Blanketship, Borful Tang, Freddy McGuire and RIAA as well as having co-hosted with Kenny G on numerous occasions and putting albums and albums worth of FREE DO or DIY mixes online, without asking for anything except that you share further!

WFMU is a wonderful place to be treasured and not taken for granted. We ARE listener sponsored, and we do need your support. However dedicated we are as DJs and you are as listeners this is NOT enough unfortunately, this thing will not look after itself alone.

Some of you may remember that on WFMU we also did the lovely and ever-so-informative Codpaste podcast on WFMU in collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz!

Since I only broadcast during the Summer Schedule each year, this will actually be my first opportunity to raise money for my own show while on air in quite some time, so please consider donating to DO or DIY for this reason also!

Without listener support we would not exist, and it would be impossible to build something like this up again should it be allowed to fade away.

DONATE NOW - we have some new swag too!!! For instance if you pledge $50 you will get this brand new design WFMU t-shirt:

Feast your eyes on the full list of swag here http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml

So far this month DO or DIY's extra-curricular activities will be a Graham Duff Special on Wednesday 5th October, a 7"-only show on Singles Going Steady Week on Wednesday 26th October, participation in WFMU's RadioVision conference on Saturday 29th October, a free People Like Us concert in the AV Lounge at WFMU Record Fair on Sunday 30th October, and just after the marathon People Like Us will appear on Ken Freedman's show with a video special of The Magical Misery Tour, a streaming radiovision premiere!

If you are an active listener to my show then really... don't be passive with your support - please help us continue.

Please go to my show page now and pledge. http://wfmu.org/playlists/PL

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