Monday 30 January 2012

This week's repeat: show eight

This week's repeat show, show eight, features interviews with two veterans of independent music, Anja Huwe, singer for Xmal Deutschland, and Viv Albertine, guitarist for The Slits. The interviews were conducted in 2009, after both women had left the music scene for other creative and life pursuits. Huwe is now an artist, and I visited her in her studio in Hamburg, while Albertine has returned to music as a solo performer.

Here is Xmal Deutschland back in the day.

Friday 27 January 2012

Odd Girl Out podcast 2

Freshly uploaded, here is podcast 2, featuring Dee Rees (director of Pariah), electronic music whiz Caro Snatch, polymath Miranda July and Shooting People's Helen Jack.

Monday 23 January 2012

This week's repeat: show seven

This week's repeat, show seven, features a two-part interview with Jule Juergensohn of Ruby Tuesday, the Berlin collective that staged the first German Girls Rock Camp in 2009.

Here is a film I made about the preparations for that camp.

Ruby Tuesday Rock Camp for Girls from Val Phoenix on Vimeo.

Monday 16 January 2012

This week's repeat: show six

This week's programme is a repeat of show six, featuring interviews with photographer Jaine Laine and artist Cornelia Schleime.

Here is the trailer for ostPUNK!, which features Cornelia (the blonde woman) talking about her punk days in East Berlin. If anyone has this film, do drop me a line. I would love to see it in full.

Monday 9 January 2012

This week: show five repeat

So, this week's repeat will be show five, featuring a Slits feature and an interview with Bettina Köster.

Here is a clip of The Slits in all their chaotic glory, including their appearance in Jubilee.

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Back on air: show four

Optical's server has reanimated, and so we are back to repeats, this week's being show four, featuring interviews with artist Verena Kyselka and musician Elizabeth Fraser.