... under the influence of Yours Truly.
Sent to me by Ben Watson:
[Relaunch!!!
Late Lunch With Out To Lunch
2pm Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Resonance 104.4FM, London, U.K.
Back after a six-week summer break, Ben Watson's "Late Lunch With Out To
Lunch" hits the airwaves again. A controversial music critic, Ben Watson's
byline has been suppressed in print media, but he continues to voice his
"unacceptable" opinions on air. This show introduces a new format.
Children - an integral part of the show for the last five years - will be
absent from the studio. Watson will still be talking and playing music, but
discographical detail is reserved for the conclusion. Watson's words, on the
other hand, shall be continually present, dispensing with any connection to
argued frames of reference or current media chatter, to any known critical
consensus or any established political position. Instead, his scripts shall
explore the repercussions of a point made by Bob Dobbs, the Marshall McLuhan
archivist and e-media prankster.
Billed as "The Bob & Ben Show: Marshall McLuhan versus Karl Marx over the
oeuvre of Frank Zappa", Bob Dobbs and Ben Watson's hilarious dialogues made
36 hours of late-night radio here at Resonance FM. One evening, as the
volatile pair discussed what went wrong with the 60s revolution, Dobbs came
up with the formula: Rolling Stone, the leading journal of the rock
counterculture, couldn't understand electronic media, or rock, its most
vital product, because its writers (Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, etc.) never
read James Joyce's FINNEGANS WAKE! This notion - that an iconic publication
misled an entire generation because its writers never read the most bizarre
and unreadable book ever published - may well strike you as preposterous.
But then, counters Watson, if anything in the world is preposterous, it's
the current state of global media culture, and we're going to need something
preposterous to analyse it. So "Late Lunch" has now become the organ Rolling
Stone would have been, if its writers had seriously - or indeed playfully -
engaged with James Joyce's latest and greatest work. For old time's sake,
Watson still uses Marc Guillermont's "Make a Blues Noise Here" as the Late
Lunch theme tune. The episode on 15 September features six tracks from
Odds/Sods/Bits/Bobs, the latest release by Evil Dick & the Banned Members on
Polemic Music. This transmission is hence titled "Me 'N' Evil Dick"…]
Here's the show:
http://www.archive.org/details/MenEvilDick15-ix-2010Bob Dobbs
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