The Eurasian Scops Owl (Otus Scops) is the only European owl that undertakes a long migration from south of the Sahara desert up to southern and eastern Europe to breed in the early Spring. 

This recording was made late at night on the Old Golf Course of Mandelieu La Napoule. A number of Scops Owls were calling to one another from the trees around the golf course. 

Sound Devices Mix Pre 6 + 2 x Sennheiser MKH 8040s
11.04.2021

Image courtesy of Frank Vassen (Creative Commons)

Eurasian Scops Owls - Mandelieu La Napoule, France

Adam talks to author, actor and Python, Michael Palin about travel writing, Monty Python films and erm, death.
Thanks to Seamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support.

For links and pictures related to this episode visit adam-buxton.co.uk

EP.28 - MICHAEL PALIN

Adam talks to British stand up comedian Romesh Ranganathan about life in Los Angeles, race and diversity in comedy (funnier than that sounds) dealing with negative criticism (a favourite topic!) and the delicate business of exploiting your family for entertainment purposes. There’s also some freestyle rapping that should provoke some considerable insecurity for the so called giants of the hip hop community. 

Adam Buxton’s Old Bits DVD is out now from gofasterstripe.com

Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support. Music & jingles by Adam Buxton

EP.61 - ROMESH RANGANATHAN

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Adam talks with British writer, producer and presenter Charlie Brooker.
THIS EPISODE CONTAINS LANGUAGE AND THEMES THAT HAVE OFFENDED IN THE PAST AND MAY OFFEND AGAIN.
There was a problem with one of the mics on this episode hence roomy sound from back up recording. Apologies for any emotional distress caused.

Hello. Adam here with a few notes and links related to this episode for you.
My rambly conversation with Charlie was recorded in March of this year 2018, in the west London house where he lives with his wife Connie and their two young children. 
Charlie started his media career writing about video games in the 90s and we began by reminiscing about our childhood fascination with those blocky virtual worlds.
We also talked about Nathan Barley (Channel 4, 2005), Black Mirror (Channel 4, Netflix, 2011 - present), how comedic fury can be taken at face value, smoking, defecating, and how we would cope if we were on reality TV or facing armageddon and didn’t have Bear Grylls to advise us. Charlie also does an impression of comedian Jimmy Carr’s laugh which will improve your life.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support.
Music and jingles by Adam Buxton

ADAM BUXTON’S OLD BITS DVD/DOWNLOAD
https://www.gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/website.cgi?page=videofull&id=33226

THE FREE ADAM BUXTON BUXTON APP
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-adam-buxton-app/id1264624915?mt=8

CHARLIE CONVO LINKS

ADAM & JOE - PEOPLE PLACE 
https://youtu.be/IBjcHsRLSsc

TV GO HOME WEBSITE
http://www.tvgohome.com/

NATHAN BARELY EP 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqfkuc5mawg

‘WAKE IN FRIGHT’ 2012 ARTICLE IN THE NEW YORKER
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/wake-in-fright-prepare-to-be-disturbed-mate

‘WAKE IN FRIGHT’ HOW WAS THE KANGAROO SLAUGHTER FILMED?
http://screenprism.com/insights/article/in-wake-in-fright-how-was-the-kangaroo-scene-filmed

ARISTON AD FEATURING ROBOCOP VIDEO GAME MUSIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUVs7vXNZiw

PYE CORNER AUDIO YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPlEifkDHZgycqnDndOmkpNIjCiY1KYlW

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA LINKS (STILL GRIM!)

Q.E.D. - A GUIDE TO ARMAGEDDON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJttnC8PoA

PROTECT AND SURVIVE - 70s UK PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS ABOUT NUCLEAR WAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg

‘CHARLIE SAYS’ DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3FnCiRpdQ4

EP 76   CHARLIE BROOKER

The work is in two movements - Fraying and Prolonged. The first presents a sonic object that gradually disintegrates. The second reframes this object and slows it down, so that the process of decay is frozen, and the object appears almost immortal. The work grew out of reflections on 1 Corinthians 15 and Jiang Zhi's Love Letters (2014). In Jiang Zhi's photographs, flowers are on fire, but are not harmed by the flames.

Alto Flute - Isobel Doughty
Oboe - Caitlin Heathcote
Clarinet in B flat 1 - Heather Ryall
Clarinet in B flat 2 - Julia Raga Pascual
Horn in F - Karen Starkman
Trumpet in B flat 1 - Catherine Pollit
Trumpet in B flat 2 - Thomas Thornton
Tenor trombone 1 - Samuel Dye
Tenor trombone 2 - Jake Jones
Harp - Teresa Raff
Piano - Ábel Misha Gille Esbenshade
Violin 1 - Kanon Miyashita, Tilman Fleig, Yuriko Matsuda, Zora Orfgen
Violin 2 - Camille Saïd, Anastasia Egorova Wise, Zoe Hodi
Viola - Michaela Bartošová, Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Violoncello - Lucy Neil, Pieter-Jan De Smet
Double bass - Jess Martin, Cole Morrison
Conductor - James Hoyle

Recorded in October 2018.

Reframe (2017)

Adam talks with Nicky Wire, lyricist and bass player of The Manic Street Preachers.

WARNING: This podcast contains brief references to and a description of self harm.

Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Anneka Myson for additional editing.

RELATED LINKS

NICKY WIRE’S MOST MEMORABLE QUIPS (NME)
https://www.nme.com/list/nicky-wire-s-most-memorable-quips-1295

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS (1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gavcjNniIvk

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - THE MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES (2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vi7kCxMBTY

MANIC STREET PREACHERS - TOP TRACKS ON SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03X3BVJobZNWCQDfW3QZTU

POB SPITTING ON THE SCREEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqxZo_myyA

NEIL KINNOCK 1985 SPEECH (EDIT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9d7ahKWcsM

'EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE' JEREMY DELLER RAVE DOCUMENTARY (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr8PUAQuag

AN HOUR OR SO WITH SUE PERKINS PODCAST
https://audioboom.com/channel/perkins

MAX AND IVAN - FUGITIVES
https://play.acast.com/s/maxandivanfugitives/max-ivan-fugitives-trailer?autoplay

PODCAST EP.111 - NICKY WIRE

Adam enjoys a rambly conversation with American comedian and writer Sara Barron in front of a live audience at the London Podcast Festival, September 2019.

RELATED LINKS

ADAM BUXTON'S RAMBLE BOOK (AUDIO BOOK AT AUDIBLE) (2020)
https://www.audible.co.uk/ep/title?asin=0008293368&source_code=M2M30DFT1BkSH101514006S&&ipRedirectOverride=true
SARA BARRON LIVE AT THE APOLLO (2019, FACEBOOK)
https://www.facebook.com/bbctwo/videos/sara-barron-live-at-the-apollo/627770801299837/
BOOKS BY SARA BARRON (SARA'S WEBSITE)
https://sarabarron.com/buy/
EDDIE REDMAYNE IN JUPITER RISING (2015, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ckBIXZ044
MARK RONSON IN LADY GAGA DOCUMENTARY (2017, YOUTUBE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGhEzTQlCjM

EP.124 - SARA BARRON AT LONDON PODCAST FESTIVAL 2019

Monthly highlights from RED Hits. Have a listen to what we’ve been up to…

RED Hits Highlights - October 2020

December, 2010. Suss Müsik is walking the streets of Barcelona at night. It’s Christmastime, so the city is illuminated in celebration of the upcoming holiday. 

Suss Müsik notices a pattern in the decorations. One cobblestone street is lined with circular disks of white light; another has rainbow-colored rectangles hanging from the lampposts. The two streets meet at a public square just a few blocks from La Rambla. Suss Müsik determines this intersection to be the Chromogenic Nexus.

A man is photographing the holiday lights around the square. Suss Müsik watches the man from a distance as he stows his tripod and camera equipment and revs up his motorbike. Suss Müsik mentally assigns this gentleman the job title Keeper of the Chomogenic Nexus. It’s a big responsibility.

The Chromogenic Nexus is the metaphorical congruence that personifies this beautiful, fantastic city. It’s a place where new and old worlds mesh perfectly, where a tour of Casa Batlló concludes with a 3D hologram of Antoni Gaudí waving you goodbye. 

The Barcelona Sound Machine embraces this city’s Medieval origins, its Nouveau and Gothic architecture, its love of competitive sport, its cultural fluctuations, its nautical cuisine, its Catalonian nationalism.

It’s an audio landscape inspired by multiple generations of artists. If it were a gallery, it would display the surrealistic paintings of Joan Miró alongside prototypes built by Universitat Autònoma students, the two separated by 100 years and a mere 26 kilometers.

It’s a late-night ride on the FGC, where on the station wall a numeric display counts down incoming arrivals to within a microsecond of accuracy.

It’s the bronzed foam topping on a strong cup of coffee, enjoyed outside while gazing at a store mannequin that seems just a bit too realistic. Next door is a shop that sells nothing but scissors. 

To Suss Müsik, ultimately, the Barcelona Sound Machine is a glitchy, multilayered, counterpoint homage to the Keeper of the Chromogenic Nexus. Godspeed to the Keeper, he who balances our understanding of what has taken place and what yet may happen.

More on this 466th weekly Disquiet Junto project, [ ] Sound Machine (The Assignment: What sort of sound does your city make?), at:

https://disquiet.com/0466/

Project inspired by a December 2, 2020, tweet from George Wallace:

https://twitter.com/MrGeorgeWallace/status/1334274395938832387

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

https://disquiet.com/junto/

Subscribe to project announcements here:

https://tinyletter.com/disquiet-junto/

Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co:

https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0466-sound-machine/

There’s also a Disquiet Junto Slack. Send your email address to twitter.com/disquiet for Slack inclusion.

Barna [Disquiet0466]

Disquiet Junto Project 0469: [Missing in Caption]. The Assignment: Make music that pushes the constraints of descriptive television captions.

In one scene of this old war movie, the man is saying goodbye to go to another well-founded, short and successful war, and his wife is deeply worried.

The bells call to battle, the wife struggles to find parting words, and even the worn-out VHS tape is deeply moved.

Whispering provided by these two CC0 samples:
https://freesound.org/people/geoneo0/sounds/193818/
https://freesound.org/people/LadyImperatrix/sounds/503270/ <- the heartbreaking words!

Image based on David Monies: The Farewell
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monies-Farewell.jpg

More on this 469th weekly Disquiet Junto project:
https://disquiet.com/0469/
Project discussion:
https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0469-missing-in-caption/

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

[overly heartbreaking farewell music] ____ [disquiet0469]

British comedian Adam Buxton talks with interesting people. The rambly conversations are sometimes funny, sometimes more serious with funny bits. Adam records the intros and outros for most episodes while walking with his dog friend Rosie in the East Anglian countryside where he lives with his wife and three children. 

Adam has appeared in films such as ‘Hot Fuzz’, ‘Stardust’ and ‘Son Of Rambow’ as well as a variety of TV shows in the UK. Since 2007 he has hosted ‘BUG’, a live show that combines music videos and comedy that became a TV series on Sky Atlantic in 2012. From time to time he also does live shows featuring just his own material. Along with lifelong friend Joe Cornish he also is one half of award winning TV, radio and podcast duo Adam & Joe who have worked together since 1995. 

You can find many of the insanely catchy jingles Adam makes for the podcast as well as amazing bonus material, beautiful merchandise and a selection of his incredibly funny and brilliant YouTube videos on the free Adam Buxton app.

Adam is writing this himself using the third person.