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Resources-
London Musicians Collective The hub of London experimental activity.
Hertz Lion David Cotner's exhaustive international avant garde resource.
English Folk Dance and Song Society "Ignorance of your culture is not considered
cool"-The Residents.
European Free Improvisation Pages Everything you'd
ever need to know.
British Humanist Association I'm a member.
Guardian Unlimited
Advertising Standards Authority shop your local faith healer/quack.
The Skeptic's Dictionary Brilliant.
The World of Richard Dawkins He's right you know...
The Wire Infuriating and compulsive, and still here after 20 years.
The Internet Museum of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records..and
you can listen to them too.
Celebrity Atheist List You are not alone!
James Randi Educational Foundation The antidote to Resonance FM's "Headroom-
Theatre of the Mind".
Transport 2000 Sensible ideas.
Living Streets sensible ideas.
Skeptics In The Pub"Britains only regular Skeptics event"...and where else would it be held?
Free Software-
Audiomulch Get those laptop sounds in moments.
The Proxomitron Kill those pop-ups, dead.
Lavasoft- Ad Aware clear out the spyware.
Venues-
12 Bar Club (London) Home of BagRec.
Camden People's Theatre (London) Chris Goode's adventurous theatre/music
space.
Consume (Glasgow) Loony bonkersness from Neck Doppler et al.
13th Note (Glasgow) Fantastic open minded space- under threat, help them!
Highly recommended.
The Sprawl (London) Long running electronic pleasuredome.
Frakture (Liverpool) Hard working improv/skronk promoters.
Burst Couch (Manchester) Premier avant-electronica
events..friends of...
aLECTROeCOUSTIC (Manchester) Daniel Weaver and chum's electro-improv
bolthole.
The Termite Club (Leeds) Long running improv, noise,
skronk enthuseniks.
Labels-
Grob German improv/electronica label (released
first Ticklish CD)
Diskono Great Scottish mobocracy actionists.
Bruce's Fingers Simon H Fell's dizzying cottage industry.
Textile Records French label, beautiful artifacts, great music.
Topic Records The oldest independant label (and possibly the best)
RSI Records Electronica from the people who bring you "Burst Couch".
R-Bennig Welsh, wonky, wasted and wonderful.
Ochre Records Cheltenham based suppliers of super chilled electronica and
instrumental oddness.
Audiostreams-
Resonance 104.4 FM The greatest radio station in the world, ever, bar
none. Period.
WFMU Long running US free-form wackiness- recommended.
BBC Radio 4 Auntie speaks.
BBc Radio 3 Auntie plays.
Music-
Jacques Bekaert Great composer of experimental works.
John Kirkpatrick The accordionist's accordionist.
Mindlobster Ambient laptop metal, or something.
Phil Durrant Electro-improv genius. And a great big
website/CV.
Kev Hopper Opinionated, funny and regularly updated. Quite
a good musician too...
Richard Sanderson Me.
Laura Nyro Great singer/songwriter
The Fall The quintessential British rock group.
The Hideous Replicas The quintessential
"tribute" band.
Ticklish Phil Durrant, Kev Hopper, Rob Flint and Richard Sanderson. Playing
together.
Mark Spybey an old, old friend from the North East- and a highly respected
and prolific avantist.(give us a ring whydoncha?)
Pantonal quality avantronica.
Artists and Characters-
Harley Richardson Graphics, cartoons and ear bleeding dronecore.
Timeslice "a DJ for a rationalist world" apparently, we might
have to wait a bit then...
Adrian R Shaw The most compulsive ever-changing, interactive oddball
site around. Genius.
Frank Key "last updated at some point in the 17th Century.
Fine British comic surrealism.
Text-
JG Ballard The only accurate "prophet".
Perfect sound Forever High quality webzine, knowledgable and explorative
pop-lovers.
William S Burroughs Grumpy old loon, often wrong...but
boy, he could write.
"Ronnie Rocket" Screenplay David Lynch's
never-made 2nd Feature Film.
Rubberneck Fine improv/avant-rock fanzine goes digital (but
I miss the tactile element).
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