Art. Music. Film. Experimentation. The shock of the new!
Music
AMM, Laurie Anderson, Martin Archer, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Artery, Atoness, Baby Long Legs, The Bad Plus, Derek Bailey, The Barnacles, Syd Barrett, Tim Berne, Big Black, Iva Bittová, Björk, Blind Idiot God, Boards of Canada, Bocman, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Boredoms, Peter Brötzmann, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, William S Burroughs, Butthole Surfers, Cabaret Voltaire, Captain Beefheart, Cardiacs, Johnny Cash, James Chance, Billy Childish, Circulus, Clock DVA, Ornette Coleman, Dälek, Claude Debussy, Delia Derbyshire, Devo, Dog Faced Hermans, Bob Drake, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Ebony Bones, Alec Empire, The Ex, Faust, Fennesz, Fred Frith, Serge Gainsbourg, Gated Community, Gentle Giant, Davy Graham, James Green, Pierre Henry, Matthew Herbert, Hotsnack, Inner City Unit, Jaga Jazzist, Billy Jenkins, Kid Acne, Kings Have Long Arms, Kraftwerk, Kronos Quartet, Last Exit, Bill Laswell, Yusef Lateef, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, György Ligeti, The Lounge Lizards, Magma, Material, MC5, McLusky, Merzbow, MIA, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Monkey Swallows the Universe, My Bloody Valentine, Naked City, Ooberman, Os Mutantes, Plus Tech Squeezebox, Pole, The Pop Group, Popol Vuh, Praxis, Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Psychic TV, Mark Ribot, Terry Riley, Rothko, Saltpeter, Erik Satie, The Scaramanga Six, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, Sluts of Trust, Smokers Die Younger, The Soft Machine, Spring Heel Jack, Squarepusher, Carl Stalling, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stock Hausen and Walkman, The Stranglers, Igor Stravinsky, Morton Subotnick, Sun Ra, Swell Maps, Cecil Taylor, That Fucking Tank, They Might Be Giants, Henry Threadgill, Throbbing Gristle, Tortoise, Thomas Truax, Vienna Art Orchestra, Violent Femmes, Tom Waits, Wevie Stonder, Whitehouse, Hal Wilner, Robert Wyatt, Xinlisupreme, XTC, Hector Zazou, Frank Zappa, Zoogz Rift, John Zorn, ...
Movies
Michelangelo Antonioni, Darren Aronofsky, Ingmar Bergman, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Vincent Gallo, Terry Gilliam, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Alfred Hitchcock, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, Shane Meadows, F.W. Murnau, The Brothers Quay, Jean Renoir, Jan Svankmajer, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Truffaut, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Michael Winterbottom, ...
Television
Some of it. Not much though.
Books
M John Harrison, Alasdair Gray, Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, George Saunders, William S Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, ...
Heroes
John Peel, Charlie Gillett, Jez Nelson + Chris Philips (Somethin' Else on Jazz FM), Mark Russell + Robert Sandall (Mixing It on Radio 3)
About me:
Empty Space is a radio show broadcast every Tuesday morning, 10am to midday (UK time), on Sheffield Live 93.2FM, hosted by Dan Sumption.
You can listen to us anywhere in the world via sheffieldlive.org, and you can view playlists and hear all our previous shows via fadwebsite.com.
Every week we try to have at least one studio guest, somebody related to the arts or experimental music in Sheffield, who will chat for a bit and play a few of their favourite tracks.
We also play an eclectic and eccentric selection of music - jazz, folk, punk, pop, electronic, classical, rock, hip-hop, free-improv, avant-garde to avant-garde-a-clue - any and every genre but generally genre-busting, boundary-pushing music.
From time-to-time we ask artists to make works specifically for the medium of radio, which we then broadcast. Any proposals for radio artworks will be gratefully received.
Each show includes a round-up of art events happening in and around Sheffield (this usually broadcasts about halfway through the show, just after 11am), plus a short report from London correspondent Sue Schofield on cultural goings-on in the nation's capital.
If you want to send CDs/vinyl or other material for us to consider playing on the show, please post them to the following address:
The Old School Hall
79 Commonside
Sheffield
S10 1GF
UK
..Our latest single is out soon! It's a split single with a new SPC band, Standard Fare, and features two of our new songs "Angel of Death" and "Tricks":
Download now or pre-order the 7" from our profile or www.theespc.com ..
CIAN NUGENT 'Childhood, Christian Lies & Slaughter' CD Cian Nugent is a 19 year old guitar player from Dublin who combines squicky pre-war blues, Appalachian string band music, and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. This cd documents a great live set, produced by Jozef Van Wissem.
Les Sons du Nord returns to the UK! An exchange programme of sorts between Northern France, Belgium and Sheffield established since 2006. The event takes over the excellent Shakespeare pub, Gibraltar Street, Sheffield, from the 28th - 30th August. Expect top bands, amazing sausages and nice booze. Sheffield is represented by Nat Johnson, Champion Kickboxer, the Yell, Yo-Yo Static and Rotary Ten whilst Curry & Coco, Frank Shinobi, Soy un Cabalo and the Appleseeds cross the channel.
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