Bobby Nixon - Pork Chops

MONDAY, 25th of  Janurary, 2016
Stephen Morton looks at a new portfolio of prints by artist Bobby Nixon. Bobby Nixon's new portfolio of prints 'Pork Chops' portrays imagery of the artists ever continuing foray into the dark undercurrent of human endeavour. A journey into an abattoir of madness, peering down blackened mank alley-way's where neighbouring street lights highlight scenes of rape, murder, ritual and dismemberment into view and back again onto the streets where people gather in desperate yearning for salvation from the postulating hell hole's they inhabit 'Call 855 4 Truth', 'Call 885 4 Flith'. Nixon highlights the confused psychosis of the human condition where the plight for some kind of desperate hope is baited in vain to the drooling jowel's of prostitutes, junkys, preachers and serial killers. These five screen-printed drawings invoke thoughts of Pieter Bruegel, George Grosz and Joe Coleman among others as a continuation in the tradition of apocalyptic prophecy that ever too clearly reflects the world we live in. Life stretching out for growth only to be severed and chopped off again, choppy chop chop.
-Stephen Morton (24/1/2016) -------------
'Pork Chops' is now available online from bobbynixon.com here: http://www.bobbynixon.com/shop-vtzu/print-portfolio
And a print recently on show at the Saatachi Gallery In London available here: http://www.jealousgallery.com/artist.asp?ID=407&F=Top%20artist
A recent article on Bobby Nixon from FLOORR magazine : http://www.floorrmagazine.com/jan2016t/2015/12/3/bobby-nixon   

Vogelbat presents 'Sound Hole Vol. 1: Red Scare' (Updated & Expanded for Cashmere Radio)

MONDAY, 18th of  Janurary, 2016

Vogelbat presents an overhauled and expanded edition of 'Sound Hole Vol. 1: Red Scare' commissioned for Berlin's Cashmere Radio.
Originally broadcast on the 14th of Janurary, 2016.

Vogelbat presents Sound Hole Vol.1 - The Red Scare by Cashmere Radio on Mixcloud

SOUND HOLE VOL. 1: RED SCARE

Excerpt from 1950s The American Adventure propaganda video entitled “Responsibilities of American Citizenship” with former president of Harding University, Clifton L Ganus Jr., speaking.

Excerpt from Armed Forces Information Video (A.F.I.F. No. 5) “He May Be A Communist”

Excerpt from John Foster Dulles call to new president Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29th, 1963

Excerpt from interview with Allen Dulles in 1965

Excerpt from American propaganda newsreel film on the 1954 US government and CIA-backed coup in Guatemala that deposed democratically-elected President Jacobo Árbenz

Peter Thomas Orchestra - Bolero on the Moon

Scott Walker - The Old Man’s Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime) 

Excerpt from “Seven Days to Remember” documentary on the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia ordered by Leonid Brezhnev

Einstürzende Neubauten - 12305(te Nacht)

Excerpt from television interview with John Foster Dulles in 1952

Excerpt from Salvador Allende’s final speech, broadcast live on Chilean radio in the moments before his death during the American-backed coup of Chile (masterminded by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon) on the 11th of September, 1973

Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz

Excerpt from Augusto Pinochet’s speech during the military junta’s address to the Chilean people in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 military coup

Im Namen des Volkes - Ich War Da, Leergebrannt

Martin Dupont - Doron Doron

Excerpt from ITN coverage of the funeral of Leonid Brezhnev on November 15th, 1982

The Wake - O Pamela

Excerpt from Barry Goldwater’s “Extremism-versus-Moderation” speech in acceptance of the Republican nomination for President of the USA in 1964.

Excerpt from President Harry S. Truman’s announcement of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in August 1945.

Excerpt from John Donne’s poem “Batter my Heart, Three-Person'd God” 

The Magnetic Fields - Tokyo A-Go-Go

Excerpt from Barry Goldwater Presidential Campaign Ad in 1964

Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection

Excerpt from José Toribio Merino’s speech during the military junta’s address to the Chilean people in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 military coup

Excerpt from ITN report on Margaret Thatcher’s sympathetic face-to-face meeting with Gen. Augusto Pinochet while he was under house-arrest in London, in March 1999

Sparks - Falling in Love with Myself Again

The Neon Judgement - Miss Brown

Iron Curtain - The Condos

Excerpt from “Crusade for Freedom” newsreel presented by Ronald Reagan concerning Radio Free Europe

Berlin Express - Die Russen Kommen

D.A.F. - Was Ziehst du an Heute Nacht

Excerpt from information film This is Radio Free Europe (1964)

Add N to (X) - Fyuz

Vogelbat - [=] CASHMERE EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED TRACK*

Vogelbat - Quince CASHMERE EXCLUSIVE UNRELEASED TRACK*

Mark Stewart - The Resistance of the Cell

Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO

Excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address to the 100th congress

Excerpt from Ronald Reagan speech in support of the Contras of Nicaragua

Excerpt from Bill Moyers commentary on the creation of the Contras by the CIA and others

Excerpt from Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say ‘No’” campaign featuring Clint Eastwood

Jeff & Jane Hudson - PCP

Portishead - We Carry On

Excerpts from 60 Minutes’ 1972 interviews with Lyndon B. Johnson and J. William Fulbright

Scott Walker - Cossacks Are

Excerpt from Malcolm X speech on American and European Imperialism

Excerpt 1 from Vietnam War veterans’ testimonies in 1971 during the investigation of "Winter Soldier"

Fall of Saigon - She Leaves me All Alone

Excerpt from Richard Nixon’s call to Lyndon B. Johnson, assuring the President that he had not personally intervened in the Paris Peace Talks of 1968 between the US and Vietnam. It was much later made public that Nixon had struck a private, treasonous deal with the Vietnamese which he later reneged on, thereby prolonging the war by seven years

Torn Hawk - Blindsided

Excerpt from interview with Rudi Dutschke responding to Franz-Josef Strauss of the CSU/CDU

Excerpt from Universal Newsreel on the protests of June 2, 1967 in Berlin against the Shah of Iran 

Baader Meinhof - Meet Me at the Airport

Devo - Booji Boy’s Funeral

Tindersticks - Low Life

Jason Molina - It Costs You Nothing

Excerpt from Tom Brokaw’s report on the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 11th, 1989

The Walker Brothers - Make it Easy on Yourself

Excerpts from various news reports about the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis, which started on the 21st of September and lasted until the 4th of October, nearly sending Russia into civil war. 

Scott Walker - The Farmer in the City

Excerpts from NBC Nightly News broadcast on the December 17th, 2014 regarding the potential normalisation of US-Cuban relations

Excerpt from interview with former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger regarding JFK’s purchase of 1,200 Cuban cigars in the days before enacting the US trade embargo against Cuba

Kenny Graham and His Satellites - Lullaby

Excerpt from interview with Noam Chomsky where he discusses the real and perceived motives for US normalisation of its relations with Cuba

Das Ding - Makimono

Excerpt from William Prochnau’s essay “The Military and the Media” (2005) concerning the US government’s banning of news media from Grenada during the US-led invasion of 1983

Excerpt of John Negroponte (US Ambassador to Honduras) talking about his learning of the invasion of Grenada

Excerpt from Gen. Alexander Haig (US Secretary of State under Reagan) on March 22nd 1981, speaking about the supposed Soviet “hit list” of states in taking over Latin America

John Roberts - Chalkdust

Excerpt from Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy to Ronald Reagan

Excerpt from Donald Trump’s speech in October 2015 wherein he calls Democratic Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, a “Commie,” “Maniac” and a “Socialist-slash-Communist”

Nick Nicely - Headwindaheadwind

Excerpt from a 2012 interview with Joseph Stiglitz about income inequality in the USA

Excerpt from a 2011 address to Republican leaders by John Boehner on the topic of taxes on the wealthy

Joan Baez - Oh, Freedom

Excerpt from Donald Trump’s response to a question regarding his donations to politicians asked during the August 6th 2015 Republican Presidential Debate on Fox News. 

John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown

Grischa Lichtenberger - 0111_05_z Red

Excerpt from interview with Noam Chomsky on the subject of Neoliberalism

Excerpt from CBS News report on Martin Shkreli’s reneging on the promise of lowering the price of his life-saving AIDS and cancer medication which had been raised from $13.50 to $750 per pill. 

Excerpt from Richard V. Secord’s testimony to the Iran-Contra hearing committee followed by commentary from journalist Bill Moyers

Moomin - She Said She Won’t Be That Long Away

Excerpt from Charles Krauthammer’s 1990 essay “The Unipolar Moment” which argued for unilateral American international action in a post-Cold War world

Excerpt from 1991 CSPAN interview with Christopher Hitchens on the subject of the First Gulf War and its origins and potential legacy

Yuya Uchida & The Flowers - Summertime

Excerpt 2 from Vietnam War veterans’ testimonies in 1971 during the investigation of "Winter Soldier"

Moondog - All is Loneliness 

Excerpt of Noam Chomsky on the subject of American identity and ‘fear’

Kim Jung Mi - Haenim

Excerpt from George W. Bush’s speech announcing the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003

Joe Meek - I Hear a New World

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