Occasional excursions into poetry, drama and sound art aside, the show revolves around the one thing that excites the Bentleys most… MUSIC! Whether your thing is electro-punk, avant-pop or good old free-folk it will be heard on the Hello Goodbye show. Each week at least 2 acts perform live in session.

If there is a general ethos to the show it is to champion the unsung heroes of the underground music scene: those marginalised & unclassifiable mavericks who might otherwise find themselves with little or no exposure elsewhere. With a distinct leaning towards people of a DIY disposition, dB are proud to be witnessing a whole host of former guests starting to move onwards and upwards. Having said that, the show is not averse to an occasional appearance by already established musical pioneers. A visit from folk legends Pete and Peggy Seeger (LISTEN)
was a particularly memorable case in point.

With five year olds among the presenters and the age of guests ranging from 16 to 86, the show has no door policy or dress code...if you have something to say and are striving for something unique then you will definitely be welcome on Resonance 104.4 FM every Saturday between noon and 1.30pm on the deXter Bentley Hello Goodbye show.

Current Listings

Saturday 26th July 2008

The hello goodBye shows very own poet laureate Mr. Gerard Mitchell brings his familiar dulcet tones once more to the 104.4FM wavelength, only on this occasion in the the less familiar guise as lead singer of his new outfit, the prog/kraut/post-poetry groovers; Debbie Leggo.

...and putting in a debut appearance on the show, dB proudly presents the incendiary, iconoclastic British hip-hop punk onslaught of Sleaford Mods.

Saturday 19th July 2008 LISTEN

Live music in store for us today provided from the Stolen Recordings stable in the form of the international, London based psychedelic punk trio Screaming Tea Party.

Nag Vladermersky will be joining dB in the studio to talk about the London International Animation Festival, which takes place later this summer, providing a platform for more than 200 animated films from a wide range of countries, along with workshops and discussions with leading animators.

We’ll also be asking Nag about The Door and the Window, the band he formed with his friend Bendle in March 1979. Armed with a cheap guitar, a Wasp synthesiser and a collection of second hand tape recorders, the pair were more interested in sound and noise than music and wilfully flaunted not only their lack of musical experience, but also their determination not to gain any. To prove the point, their first rehearsal didn’t come about until AFTER they had played their first gig and recorded their first single. As well as embracing lo-fi experimentation in its purest form, the band were staunch devotees to the DIY cause, and pain-stakingly hand-made the labels and sleeves to their first single themselves, managing to self-distribute all 1000 copies. They also produced a fanzine called ’Common Knowledge’ dedicated to the politics of record reproduction and DIY pioneers such as the Desperate Bicycles, who had kick started the DIY movement with their debut single’s call to arms “It was cheap. It was easy. Go and do it!” The Door and the Window went on to play gigs with an impressive list of post-punk luminaries including the Pop Group, Scritti Politti, Delta Five, Swell Maps and Raincoats. In late 1979, Mark Perry, of Alternative TV and Sniffing Glue fame, joined the band as drummer and co-songwriter and together they recorded the now classic LP ‘Detailed Twang’, which we’ll play a track or two from in the show.

Saturday 12th July 2008 LISTEN

East London noise-nics Factory Floor join dB in the studio this afternoon - ahead of their ’1/1 presents: Chapter 1’ gig, soon taking place @ E9 Space and also featuring; Faust, Lydia Lunch, Blurt & S.I.N.S. Inspired by the works of Joseph Beuys and Christian Boltanski and as fans of Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Stars of the Lid, Factory Floor combine this with a love of The Fall, Talking Heads, James Chance, early pioneers Public Image Limited, Cabaret Voltaire and Wire, and the sheets-of-white-noise from Bristol group Flying Saucer Attack. German krautrock is something that’s also very close to the collective group’s heart, perhaps best reflected in the repetitive drive of their current single ‘Bipolar’ (Outside Sound.)

Plus, a solo live acoustic session from London based Aberdonian Kat Flint ahead of her gig this coming Thursday 17th July @ Acoustic Suicide (The Gladstone 64 Lant St, Borough) along with The Straw Bear Band - FREE ENTRY!

Saturday 5th July 2008 LISTEN

Ahead of The Waterloo Carnival that culminates with a grand finale this coming Friday 11th July on Lower Marsh (London, SE1), The deXter Bentley hello goodBye show opens its doors to a host of performers due to be taking part in the festivities. Expect live music from The Pepper Cake Melody Orkestra, The Sundae Kups, Lulu and the Boy and Prints of Whales.

Saturday 28th june 2008 LISTEN

Concept folk trio The Straw Bear Band return once more to the hello goodBye show, bringing with them songs about folklore, myth, history and fiction.
Their current project is an A-Z of British Eccentrics entitled ’Eccentric Heart'. Frontman Dom is also a musical collaborator with Steven Collins of The Owl Service and a partner in their Hobby Horse label. Other upcoming projects include working with Alison O’ Donnell (formerly of Mellow Candle), and Nancy Wallace (of The Memory Band)

Plus, a debut session from Pyramid<<<<>>>>Pyramid, performing his delightful drone flavoured, krautrock, minimalist, instrumental ditties!

Saturday 21st June 2008 LISTEN

TV Smith returns once more to hello goodBye to wake us up from our 21st Century malais!. TV was the thinking mans punk who fronted the seminal 2nd wave punk outfit The Adverts. Still going strong, he (arguably) has more to rail against in this current political climate than he ever had in his pomp back in the late '70's. VITAL!!!

Plus, all the way from Amsterdam we have Knalpot.
'THIS = NU GENERATOR TRACTOR MUSIC IT = NOT QUITE LIKE 1'S FAVOURITE CLUB DJ NOR YOUR NR 1 WICKED JAZZ BAND KNALPOT COMES AS 1 DUO AND DELIVERS THE NECESSARY PORTION OF LOW-FI STUMBLIN' GROOVE ALARM!'

Saturday 14th June 2008

NO hello goodBye show today as Resonance celebrates 10 years of broadcasting! A series of archival shows taken from the inaugral broadcast that featured as one part of John Peels' Meltdown Festival (this took place at The Southbank Centre in London in 1998), when Resonance could be found on the 107.3 bandwidth.

Saturday 7th June 2008 LISTEN

Charly Morris drops in to perform live in session. Young Ms. Morris is the ever ebullient bass player from the scintillatingly powerful pop/punk trio Le Tetsuo. Today you can witness Charly down her 4 stringed instrument in favor of performing a short solo set of her melodic, delicate & soul searching acoustic pop songs.

Also, putting in their first stint on hello goodBye are Thingamu*jigsaw. 'Thinguma*jigSaw are a self-proclaimed “splatter-folk” duo hailing from Norway who now reside in Ireland. They call themselves Little Myth Ephiphanymph and the Severed Headmaster, but are really named Martha Redivivus and Seth Horatio Bunrombe, respectively. With their invented style, they combine elements of folk and avante garde music with horror movie sensibilities. The key elements are banjo, saw, and flute with ethereal vocals to top them off. There is a barebones, lo-fi quality to the music, yet the group creatively arranges itself to make the most of its various parts.' (Foxy Digitalis / Deserted Village)

Saturday 31st May 2008 LISTEN

Skitanja trek up to the big smoke from their South coast HQ to bombard the airwaves with their own peculiar hybrid of electro, jazz punk, ahead of their comprehensive UK tour alongside the U.S. based mutant soul outfit EYES!

While also joining dB in the studio for her debut hello goodBye appearance is Brigid Power-Ryce. Brigid possesses a voice that will cut you to the quick, her achingly plaintif yet raunchy and raw tunes provide the perfect tonic in this soulless age of sanitized 'perfection'. A true talent!

Saturday 24th May 2008 LISTEN

This afternoon hello goodbye focuses its attention on the song writing genius of Rebecca Gillieron , with live performances from 3 of her projects; Wet Dog, The Plan and Private Trousers. With a set of songs that teeter tantalisingly on the brink of disintegration, the London based all girl trio Wet Dog succeed in conjuring up the most joyous and unbridled Pop/Punk music that one is ever likely to hear.

Saturday 17th May 2008 LISTEN

Performing live in session this afternoon are both MeMeMe and Joanne Robertson.

Sporadic Pop-Art/Punk group have an astute ear for a good tune and a penchant for brevity. MeMeMe are a 3 piece london based band comprised of Jo Robertson, Celia Hempton and Jim Dixon. They formed for an exhibition in 2005 and have played a number of small venues around london since then including Nog gallery and The black gardenia. Influences include Sonic Youth, Gravy Train etc. Live performances from MeMeMe are as rare as hens teeth and are consequently worth the entry fee alone!

Joanne Robertson's debut album, The Lighter, produced by David Cunningham, is a direct outgrowth of her solo work, in which she received help from schoolmates Franz Ferdinand playing Glasgow, London, and New York, along with her visual art being included in Becks prestigious 2006 Futures show. The Lighter is a collection of intimate interior portraits, reminiscent in spots of Sybille Baier, Barbara Manning, even Hope Sandoval, but all performed with an addictive off-kilter grace that suspends time in a very special way. A devotee of serious art theory, Joanne would (I'm certain) like to place all of this in a theoretical context, but it's such a goddamn wonderful listen, I suggest we all just pull up some chairs and some fires and some drinks, and lift a toast (or a series of 'em) to The Lighter's magnetic magic. A dark room, and empty bed and you. That's all it takes. --Byron Coley

Saturday 10th May 2008 LISTEN

Benjamin Prosser is no stranger to the hello goodBye show through his numerous appearances as one half of the blues duo Congregation, however, this afternoon we find him making his debut live performance with his own outfit The Tap Collective.
THE TAP COLLECTIVE IS AN INTERNATIONAL VENTURE WITH MEMBERS FROM ENGLAND, USA & SERBIA. BENJAMIN PROSSER (CONGREGATION) BENJAMIN SWANK (SEE SEE, SOLEDAD BROTHERS)
ED DEEGAN (HOLLY GOLIGHTLY) & STOJAN JANKOVIC COMBINE TO FREE THEMSELVES OF THE STRICT BLUES STRUCTURES OF THEIR OTHER BANDS TO PRODUCE MALEVOLENT BO DIDDLEY-FUCKING-CAN JAMS. THIS MUSIC OWES ITS REPETITIVE, PULSATING INSISTANCY AS MUCH TO PROSSER'S INTEREST IN AFRICAN BLUES (WHICH HE TAKES A TRANSFORMS INTO HYPNOTIC SHEETS WHITE NOISE) AS IT DOES TO THE DOUBLE DRUMMER ASSAULT OF SWANK & JANKOVIC. HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER IS DEEGAN. PROBABLY THE BEST BASS PLAYER IN LONDON WHO PLAYS EFFORTLESS ROLLING LINES ALL THE WHILE MANIPULATING THE DRONE OF A BATTERED VOX CONTINENTAL. HE IS ALSO OWNER OF THE GIZZARD STUDIO WHERE THEY RECORD. THEY ARE AWESOME & VERY NICE GENTS TOO. RECENTLY DESCRIBED AS 'HAVING RAW TRUTH NAILED TO THEIR SPEAKERS' - MABLE LINK

Also making her first appearance on hello goodBye we have Alice Gun. Alice Gun plays cello, guitar, keyboards, kitchen equipment and sings with Mr David Viner, The Kittens, Duke Spirit and past bands of her own including Alice and the Enemies and The Sunset Gun. Most recently she finished a tour with the Viner band supporting the White Stripes round Europe. (She also does vocals for dance tracks that you can hear on Pete Tong's Radio 1 show but won't tell you which ones!) 'Alice Gun' is for all the other things she makes, sometimes alone and sometimes in the illustrious company of the supremely talented Al Mobbs of Ambiguous Records, Sam Sunset Gun and Mr Jay Elwes.

Saturday 3rd May 2008 LISTEN

Vearing sharply away from last weekends entirely 'acoustic' fodder, this afternoon hello goodBye serves up a healthy helping of meaty electronica on the lunchtime menu. Featuring a debut LIVE performance from Gentle Friendly. Gentle Friendly bring their own particular sonic assault to the airwaves, playing a hotch-potch of instruments that they liberated from various skips.

Saturday 26th April 2008 LISTEN

The legendary Andy Hankdog returns to the hello goodBye show. Andy is the congenial host of the long running South London based institution, The Easycome Acoustic Club (every Wednesday evening at The Old Nuns Head, Nunhead Green, Nunhead Lane, Nunhead), a breading ground for some of the capitals hottest acoustic talents!.

Also putting in appearances on todays show to perform live are an entire host of Easycome Acoustic Club regulars, including; Jason McNiff and his band also drop by to perform live in session as they reach the final stretch of their UK tour, promoting his new anthology LP 'In My Time'. Plus, Prints of Whales, Trevor Moss & Hannah Lou (Indigo Moss) and Petra Jean Phillipson.

Saturday 19th April 2008 LISTEN

Gypsy Girl Filth bring their own brand of Poetic Beat-Core to the airwaves. GYPSY GIRL FILTH Street poet Gypsy Girl teams up with former XX Teens drummer. Nottingham born Gypsy Girl (aka Joanne) has been working the poetry scene in London since arriving there in 2001 aged 18. Her first gig offer came whilst standing on a bench on the South Bank reciting hip-hop verses to a small crowd. Seb was formerly known as the notoriously intense drummer "Pinstripe" from the XX Teens. He says, "when I heard Gypsy I really wanted to work with her straight away, I had been working on some sort of dirty-bass-dance music and I knew she would sound great on it." Together they call themselves Gypsy Girl Filth. "The lyrics are 100% improvised, it’s totally off the top of my head," says Joanne. The result is a brutally honest form of song writing, which can be both fluid and stuttering. This is paired with a beat driven and sampler based bass throng with bongos and strange percussion. "It’s a contemporary sounding type of hip-hop, but going back to improvisation of ’the battle’," says Seb. Their debut single ’SYMMETRY’ is pending on 7" but the download is free on their BurnBabyBurn label. "Noone needs to pay for music these days, if anyone emails me on beatsgeneration@hotmail.com I send them the mp3... when it’s finished. It’ll be free to download on Myspace too."

Saturday 12th April 2008 LISTEN

Spin Spin the Dogs and Mr. David Viner each make their debut performances on hello goodBye this afternoon.

Mr David Viner says; 'I was born with red eyes and purple skin due to the fact I had the umbilical corn wrapped firmly round my neck. I didn’t do much talking after that till I recorded my first album in 2003 for The Hollywood Dimmak label. In 2004 I recorded my second album “This Boy Don’t Care” for James Oldhams’ Loog label. Since then I have toured mainly non stop with the likes of Spiritualized, Dr. John and at the end of last summer, with the White Stripes on a European tour.. Under the watchful eye of Ed Harcourt I recorded my third album “Among the Rumours and the Rye” for which I will be releasing the single “ Go Home” on the 24th of March which The Gaurdians’ Laura Barton calls “the most pleasingly woebegone song you’ve heard in ages”. The album will be out later this year.
I have been called a blues player and although my heroes include Skip James and Rev. Gary Davis I always thought it easier to try and emulate say, Fred Neil or the Monkees due to fact they were more commercial and a lot whiter. Being a middle class jew it’s a lot easier to copy Dylan than it is Mississippi John Hurt.
That’s not to say I can’t play like them and nodding approvals from Bert Jansch made me realise I was doing something right.'

Saturday 5th April 2008 LISTEN

Joining dB this lunchtime for live sessions are both Le Tetsuo & Fireworks Night.

Le Tetsuo make their debut appearance on hello goodBye this afternoon (ahead of the release of their debut 6 track 'Your Elbow' EP that hits the shops this coming Monday 7th April through Parlour Recordings.)

Le Tetsuo met at art school in 2002, when it was fashionable to wear plastic grapes around your neck and drink lager through a straw. These things may or may not still be in fashion, but since then this delightful noise-pop riot-boy/grrrl three-piece have gone on to win the largest music competition in the Eastern region, share sell out stages with the likes of Prinzhorn Dance School, Screaming Tea Party, Kaito, PRE and Bearsuit, stun festival audiences in Holland, not to mention the skinny be-jeaned hipsters at last year’s Tales of the Jackalope.

A move to London over a year ago has seen the band grab the attention of countless gig goers, dancing shoes first. All that sweat, applause and yelping has guided them safely into the hands of Parlour Records, for their first release proper.

Also, returning to the show once more dB have the downbeat lush arrangements, simple, powerful songs and brooding presence of Fireworks Night. Akin to Low or a very low-watt Calexico, with a deathly resonance that Will Oldham would no doubt approve of. With sparing use of pianos and guitars, Fireworks Night weave simple vignettes, maudlin tales of dissolved love, depression and darkness. There is nonetheless real beauty here if you choose to find it and while they may well kick you into the gutter, they also invite you to take a peek at the stars.

Saturday 29th March 2008

Today on hello goodBye deXter Bentley is pleased to welcome back to the fold Captain Blood Blood & the Sea-dogs (who have for the benfit of the listeners promised to be in full sea worthy regalia) performing an entirely unplugged session.

Also, putting in their debut appearance on the show are The Astrakan Collective. Astrakan are a South London based experimental Jazz/electronica quintet (featuring sax, guitar, drums, bass, accordian, vibraphone and electronics), who perform a variety of material involving equal elements of composition and improvisation, composed by founding member Michael Garcia.

Saturday 22nd March 2008

Performing live in session on the hello goodBye show this Saturday lunchtime dB has both The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience & Le Shark.

The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience is simply one of the best singer-songwriters around today. Tim Siddall’s songs are caustic, funny, surreal and mundane and have been described as "Mark E Smith meets Jake Thackray". Siddall has got something to say and he says it with wit and warmth whilst grappling with a mesmerising Mississippi-via-Peckham guitar.

Le Shark need no introduction!.

Saturday 15th March 2008

dB is thrilled to have CONGREGATION return to perform live in session once again on hello goodBye, while making their debut live appearance we also have the utterly superb EXTRADITION ORDER.

’Hailing from the New Cross bedsit scene looking like a couple of gangsters from the depression era, Congregation have lately been injecting the Blues and R&B genre with a heavy dose of class and soul. Benjamin Prosser (Slide Guitar, Bass drum) and Victoria Yeulet (vocals, leg bells) play the kind of raw, slinky and seductive blues that have the power to restore one’s faith in the genre. I know because they did it for me. On record and on stage Prosser is a dark presence, wavering in the background, playing slide riffs and thumping a bass drum with his foot. Victoria wails away with a voice that never fails to chill. This is a voice that manages to conjure up all of her fallen sisters in arms back from the dead (or used record bins), yet it’s still very much her own. The overall effect of these two’s music is moving in a way that is both remorseful and joyful at the same time. They are so deep that it would hurt if you could stop smiling at the beauty of it all. English White Boy R&B has a lot to answer for and these two are going a long way to re-dressing the issue. My new favorite band.’ (Ben Swank)

EXTRADITION ORDER are an audacious Northern trio, feet now flexed into the impotent belly of the capital, singing songs on the Peterloo Massacre, penetration, war and weightlessness. Part psychoblues, part technofolk, all trouble. Having bought off ebay the rights to the songs of an old and long-forgotten post Socialist Order based in Swansea, the band learnt of the songs’ history and the former members connection to the Spanish Civil War. So the youngster took the old organisation’s ideas, added their own dystopian bread and dripping and ran the flag of the Order up high once more.’Some of their songs sound like The Fall on laxatives and some sound like The Monks overdosing on Red Bull.’ - Captain Buzfuz

Saturday 8th March 2008

An octane fueled program of the highest order lies in store for you today on the deXter Bentley hello goodBye show featuring both Agaskodo Teliverek + Hazlitt.

AGASKODO TELIVEREK ( which means "the rearing stallions" in Hungarian) are a London based four piece band, with a passion for tight fitting football uniforms who produce a unique mashed-up style of guitar based music which they call "Psycho Goulash", which combines heavy guitar & keytar riffage with manic beats and schizoid vocals. Their line-up features the Hungarian guitar playing duo of Miki Kemecsi and Tamas Szabo, Japanese vocalist & keytar player Hiroe Takei, as well as recent addition ex-NOISETTES & occasional SEB ROCHFORD stand-in, Scots/ Nepalease drummer Pharoah Smeaton-Russell. AGASKODO have extensively toured the UK & Europe playing alongside acts like Lightning Bolt, Max Tundra, Trencher, DAT Politics and Les Georges Leningrad, and recently performed with Siouxsie Sioux at the BBC Electric Proms for the 2007 John Peel memorial concert. A new album from AGASKODO TELIVEREK is due for release on ADAADAT spring 2008.

Hazlitt was born in 1980 and has grown up playing music from aged 7. She has worked with musicians from the Kodaly School, Mediaeval Baebes, The Irrepressibles, Tiger Force, London Bach Choir, The London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras. 2008 will see her working in LA with David Norland, appearing on the soundtrack for the new Narnia movie, and making a video in Barcelona for 'Requiem Aeternam'. She writes and plays everything on the new album and hopes to bring classical music to new audiences.

Saturday 1st March 2008

Performing l ive in session on hello goodBye this afternoon we have Serafina Steer & also Miss Sills. London based abstract pop musician Serafina is a beguiling songstress who performs with harp in hand and tongue in cheek. ‘Serafina sings of the delicacies of her day-to-day life with a keen attention to detail and a dry as bone self-deprecating humour’ (Dazed Digital). Serafina’s debut LP ’Cheap Demo Bad Science’ is out now on Static Caravan.

Plus, the warm soulful tones of Miss Sills and her band. "Miss Sills conjures up images of raindrops on a windowpane on a cold November day, smells of bonfires and wet leaves outside. Inside the radiators smell warmly of dust and the central heating makes a familiar noise that use to comfort you as a child." - 12 Bar Club

Saturday 23rd February 2008

Performing live in session this afternoon on hello goodBye - after a criminally long 2 years absence - dB is delighted to welcome back Shimmy Rivers and and Canal. A constant struggle between instinct and intellect may well be the reason for the above average ‘staff turnover’ within the ranks of Shimmy Rivers and And Canal. However, perhaps it is this very ingredient that allows the band to produce some of the most resplendent, cantankerous and de-constructed pop music that one is ever likely to have the pleasure of hearing!

Plus, making a debut appearance on the show (though no stranger to the station) is Simon Breed. Simon Breed Simon Breed has been playing under his own name and steam around the UK and Europe for a decade, powered by a faithful following and the respect of his peers. The Bad Seeds, The Magic Numbers, P.J. Harvey and Thomas Truax, to name a motley but fabulous few, have all sung Simon’s praises. New album ’The Smitten King’s Laments’, is released on 4th February on Re-Action Recordings - this is one not to be missed! "Melodically beautiful, lyrically barbed." Time Out

Saturday 16th February 2008

Keshco make their debut appearance on the 104.4 fm wavelength this afternoon (ahead of their performance this coming Friday 22nd February at the hello goodBye evening taking place at The Half Moon in Herne Hill, also ft: Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, The Straw Bear Band & Hamilton Yarns.) Gadgets clutched and provisions packed, London based band Keshco's musical journey has taken in swirly psychedelia, tatty folk and electronic squigglepop. This trio is at turns sparkly, green, tender and absurd, with frequent stops for chai and biscuits. Expect songs about broken equipment, broken hearts and our broken planet.

Also making a return to the show, with his swarthy good looks and chiseled cheek bones, Thee Intolerable Kidd looks uncannily similar to Alain Delon in his pomp! However, not only does he look rather tolerable but with his 'William Burroughs influenced, carnival lullaby blues and swamp cabaret gypsy music' he actually sounds rather quite tolerable too!

Saturday 9th February 2008

Joining dB this today to perform live in session on the hello goodBye show is Supreme Vagabond Craftsman.
Supreme Vagabond Craftsman is Will Goddard - he is a founder member of musical collective Toah Dynamic, and along with Add N to X's Barry 7 and DJ Cherrystones a member of the band Prey. 'Just You Me And The Baby' the current SVC album features 13 songs of garage forecourt confrontations and ghost visits. Performed and recorded in the Analogue Catalogue Studio, 'Just You, Me And The Baby' features Supreme Vagabond Craftsman singing, shouting and playing most of the instruments, backed up by Earl Shilton on drumming duties, with a few professional cellists and viola players thrown in for good measure.

Plus, all the way from Denver Collarado we have George Inai, playing for us a couple of his gothic flavoured tex-mex tunes.

Saturday 2nd February 2008

There will be NO hello goodBye today due to an outside broadcast taking over the programming schedule.

Saturday 26th January 2008

deXter Bentley are utterly thrilled to - at last! - have YEBOROBO performing live in session for you this afternoon. A one stop shop for edgy and maniacal splatter gun pop! Yeborobo are the leading lights from the ever bourgeoning Mentalist Association scene (an arts and music collective) that has - over the past few years - been steadily outgrowing its original Kent/East Sussex environs. Their erratic and ecstatic live performances are said to verge on the evangelical. Yeborobo have recently succeeded in translating their seemingly untameable and glorious music onto limited edition 7” vinyl with the release of their debut 3 track E.P. ‘Im magick gimmie a fiver’ (Slightly off Kilter Records)

Saturday 19th January 2008 LISTEN

Making their debut appearance live in session on the deXter Bentley hello goodBye show this afternoon are The Resonance Association (who despite their name have no association with Resonance FM). The Resonance Association have been beguiling listeners since early 2006, and have just released their first full album, ’Failure Of The Grand Design’ on the art rock label Burning Shed. The album brings together the band’s many influences from extreme metal to acid house via krautrock, industrial, post-rock, psychedelia, drone and progressive rock – of which some, all or indeed none may become apparent during the session.

Saturday 12th January 2008

deXter Bentley kick off their first show of 2008 in style, with 2 superb performers appearing live in session; Lead
singer from orchestral art ensemble The Irrepressibles,
JAMIE McDERMOTT returns once again hello goodBye.
After much focus given to exploring 'performance art pop' with 10-piece orchestra THE IRREPRESSIBLES, singer
songwriter Jamie McDermott turns again to his past as an intensely cathartic solo performer to
explore new material and maybe something from pre-Irrepressibles days...

Also appearing in session are David Cronenberg's Wife.
David Cronenberg's Wife have been amusing and disturbing audiences since they formed in 2004 with songs that have
drawn comparisons to John Cooper Clark and Billy Childish. Often considered a prime-mover on London's rising lo-fi
'antifolk' scene, DCW have been winning over some new fans, including renowned Dylanologist Michael Grey
who recently described one of their songs as 'thrilling for its freshness, its full-on musical self-confidence
and ... brilliantly witty lyrics - in which the wit came from expressing dangerously honest thoughts rather than
from any desire to be amusing.' They released their
first single in 2007 on the independent Blang label; a second single 'My Best Friend's Going Out with a Girl I Like' is out in March, with their first album to follow
soon after!

Saturday 22nd December

This weekend your Resonance related festive cheer begins right here! Thanks to donations contributed from YOU our lovely Resonance FM listeners, the station was able to move studios earlier this year from the rapidly decomposing windowless hole that we had occupied in Tin Pan Alley to our now new tasty surroundings located right in the very heart of London’s fashionable Bankside. Please join us on this the final deXter Bentley hello goodBye show of 2007, as we take a trip down memory avenue and reminisce over the past 12 months of upheaval and technical difficulty, and what better way to convey this rollercoaster ride than through an illustrative choice of ’LIVE’ session tracks recorded for the show, cherrie picked by dB’s superb sound engineers; Robin ’The Rabbit’ Warren and Michael ’Radar’ Garrad.

Saturday 15th December

This afternoon dB are delighted to have folk legend in the making Sam Beer join them in the studio. Sam Beer Combining timeless song writing, inspiring energy and a warm presence Sam Beer is a regular face on the folk circuit. With a self released EP and his debut album ‘Evening Songs’ already behind him 2007 has seen Sam Beer gigging and steadily writing new material in anticipation of his next release. Sam’s music is evolving into a musical force that can do nothing but assert itself upon the listener; “Musically I am now walking into new territories and this is terribly exciting, I am not doing this alone as I am lucky enough to play with incredible musicians.”
“Genuine, timeless songwriter” - Time Out
“Amazing” - The Guardian

Saturday 8th December

Joining us today to perform live in session and to generally chew the fat is the legendary second wave punk rock chameleon Spizz (Spizz 77/Spizz Oil/Spizz Energi/Athletico Spizz 80/The Spizzles/Spizz Sexual/Green Spizz etc) celebrating his 30 years in showbiz!

Saturday 1st December

Today dB is excited to welcome back onto the hello goodBye show the extraordinary musicianship of guitarist Spoono. Spoono performs in Brighton this evening (@ The Westhill Community Centre) alongside Bela Emerson with whom he has just released a joint CD/LP of improvisational music - available on the ’Slightly Off Kilter’ record label.

Maurizio Ravalico pops by to perform a live improvised piece ahead of the Appliances event (an evening of improvisational and experimental music) that is held at Scooterworks every first Thursday of the month.

Also, over from the U.S. we have the jazz/folk music of Kevin House. If there were some forgotten Delta where the chanson and folk blues traditions congregated it might sound something like this. 

Saturday 24th November

The Straw Bear Band lyrically mix folklore, myth, history and fiction. Musically they’re just as eclectic. The sound ranging from delicate acoustic song to scratchy electronica, ending up like a Joe Meek production of Tim Buckley. Recently the sound has taken another turn, and live they create a kind of Medieval Krautrock. Dom Cooper, Lewis Hill and Adam Lambert form the current band, joined occasionally by Euan Hinshelwood aka Young*Husband. Along with guests, Dom recorded and released their debut album in 2007. ’From The Sea To The Stars’ is a story based album in ten short bursts. Of which Terrascope said ’... this mix of modern technology and acoustic songs is realised with certainty and belief, creating a wonderfully textured free-flowing collection of songs that are damn near impossible to prize off the stereo’. The next project ’Eccentric Heart, An A-Z of British Eccentrics’ is underway. Dom is also a musical collaborator with Steven Collins of The Owl Service and a partner in their Hobby Horse label. Other upcoming projects include working with Alison O’ Donnell (formerly of Mellow Candle), and Nancy Wallace (of The Memory Band)

Saturday 17th November

Joining us live in session today following on from appearaning at last nights Hello GoodBye spectacular (that took place at The Half Moon in Herne Hill), we have both The Wave Pictures and - all the way down from Scotland - Iona Marshall.

The Wave Pictures are a prolific London based trio who play pop music that is infused with a healthy, heady rush of youthful abandon. Front person David Tattershall is an amazingly gifted guitar player, whose lyrics have a stream of consciousness quality that is both melodic and playful. The group conjure up a sound that is slightly reminiscent of the New York new wave scene of the late ‘70’s (with both early Television and Talking Heads springing to mind.) The Wave Pictures’ debut double a-sided 7’ single featuring ‘We Dress Up Like Snowmen’ and ‘Now You Are Pregnant’ is available on Moshi-Moshi Records.

Iona Marshall is an imaginative and very original songwriter who uses strong themes of nature, love, politics and spirituality in her creations. Her beautiful songs come with a Celtic tinge and the intricate finger picking used compliments her angelic Scottish voice like a guitar should. Iona was already showing flair for the piano even as a toddler and since then has developed her unique guitar and song writing skills. Iona has already independently produced 2 solo albums this year; ’I’.M. PULSE’ and ’GHUR’.

Saturday 10th November

The Crisps join deXter Bentley to perform live in session on Hello GoodBye this afternoon. Alex Bowen was a former Berlin based accordian salesman who now resides in sunny South London. He originally formed his ramshackle acoustic pop group The Crisps, in the comfortable confines of his Kitchen. Having now grown accustomed to the bright lights of the stage, The Crisps are rapidly gaining a great live reputation for their charming and wonderfuly melodic performances.

Also joining us ahead of their appearance at this coming Fridays Hello GoodBye extravaganza at The Half Moon in Herne Hill (also ft: The Wave Pictures, Monday Club, deXter Bentley & Iona Marshall) are The Smoke Fairies. The Smoke Fairies have been playing together since they were 13. Having grown up in the countryside in the south of England, their musical roots are that of tradition English folk. But following time spent living in New Orleans & Vancover their music is greatly informed also by influences of country and of the Deep South.

Then last but by no means least we have the female troubadour Emma Tricca popping in to perform a few of her folk gems.

Saturday 3rd November

Performing live in session this afternoon on hello goodBye are Uncle Rabbit + John & Jehn. The combination of talents that combine together to create the inprovisational trio Uncle Rabbit results in a slightly spare and spikey style that sometimes flies off in completely unexpected directions, careening unsteadily between genres, and just a little tipsy on the impulse of the moment.

Melodic pop duo John & Jehn also make their debut appearance on the show. John says; "I don’t necessarily see what we do as John & Jehn as a rock ’n’ roll thing at all. It’s more about us choosing the way in which we want to deal with life, every day life and expressing ourselves in some sort of form. The big reason is for us to live, to do something and to grow. We simply like to make our lives a little bit more interesting." while Jehn says; "Yeah, it’s for us to get better in what we do. It’s very much a channel, a direction...a faith in something that we believe in."

Saturday 27th October

The Burning Leaves & Spinmaster Plantpot join deXter Bentley to perform live in session.
The sweeping undercurrents of The Burning Leaves' melodies conspire with spacious vocals of Indie Mae (18) and harmonies of Craig Lee-Williams (22). Provocative lyrics and haunting rhythms hearken to a tradition of folk and country, while Indie's voice blankets you with a warm hopefulness as the tales unfold. While the pair's recordings are overcast with the fullness of the places they have lived, their live performance is luminous in exposing the playfulness between life and their dwelling. With only a Telecaster, harmonica and close vocal harmony, The Burning Leaves' beautifully crafted songs and minimal arrangements makes for a really intimate and special show. The Burning Leaves' sound is rich, spacey, folky, country and a little bit spooky!

Spinmaster Plantpot is a one man human tornado who spits out his acapella country/punk pros with all the subtlety of a crazed Rhino on heat.

Saturday 20th October

L'il Lost Lou and her trio join dB in the studio to perform her raucous country-punk music live in session on Resonance FM.

Saturday 13th October

No hello goodBye due to outside broadcast from the Frieze Art Fair!

Saturday 6th October

Both Monday Club & Spoono join deXter Bentley to play live on the Hello GoodBye show this afternoon.
Monday Club are Astrud Steehouder on guitar and vocals, Jessamine Tierney on bass and vocals and Amy Hurst on drums and occasional vocals. The idea that has glued the band together has been the attempt to create a sound that satifies a combined aesthetic. It is frequently rough sounding which is in part accidental and in part choice. The songs are ideas-based and cropped observational narratives, stark impressions of strange histories, dark blue cinematic lynchian atmospherics cut with sharp drums and curious basslines. Right now, harshness and subtlety seems to be the balance in which this band hangs.

Spoono is a South London based guitarist who lends his virtuoso skills to his mind-boggling, self penned, left-of-centre instrumental compositions. He is also a founding member of the Artist/Musician collective; The Mentalsit Association.

Saturday 29th September

BACK WITH A BANG! deXter Bentley's Hello goodBye show returns to the airwaves with a session from Merchant, ft: Alec Kronacker (drums), Heather Roche (bass clarinet) & Thomas Stone (double bass.) Drawing from elements of both drone metal & doom jazz, Merchant produce dark, acoustic, instrumental post-classical textural improvisations and compositions. Formed after Thomas damaged his hearing the trio create tense sonic environments based around the lower registers.

Also Jess Bryant, The young London based artist Jess Bryant creates seductive, 21st century, Gregorian Lullaby Laments. Her plaintif, brooding songs have a distinct otherworldly quality to them, while her live performances have also been gaining rave reviews across the UK.

Plus; New Yorker Preacher Boy. "Preacher Boy crosses the traditional country blues of haunted legends like Robert Johnson and Son House with a modern, rock-influenced perspective similar to Jon Spencer or Jack White of The White Stripes, branding the sound with his own distinctive mark" (The All-Music Guide.)

Resonance 104.4 FM is currently uprooting itself to new premises!

This fantastic news means that all live broadcasting is temporarily suspended.

Until the move is complete the station will be airing a series of repeats sourced from its extensive archives.

July 29th 2007

deXter Bentley and electric pedals proudly present...

open bike night

please come along and help pedal power a series of live performances from;

boyle AND shaw
melinda bronstein
a man telling stories
the hankdogs
spoono
bad badgers badges
the boycott coca-cola experience
king! and the olive fields
gerry mitchell
plus…
a presentation of royles incredible record playing grammatricycle!

this spectacular event marks the final instalment in the 'month of sundays' series and will be broadcast live on
resonance 104.4 fm from the corsica art studio
(5 elephant rd, elephant & castle, london se17 1lb)
on sunday 29th july 2007.
doors 7.30pm with the first performance begining at 8.00pm prompt!
entry is £5.

...following on from 'open bike night' the entertainment continues up until midnight, with contributions from; Marvin Suicide, "The Rod of Run-Awayes" (Ted Barrington & Jim Xento$$), Simon Munnery, Strange Attractor and Little Atoms.

July 7th 2007

Joining deXter Bentley today (ahead of their appearance at the Hello GoodBye presents gig taking place at The Betsey Trotwood this evening - also ft: Hands on Heads and Wet Dog) are Arthur Brick, a London based quartet who manipulate drums, double bass, charango and theramin whilst singing songs about Bermondsey war veterans, night buses to Catford, 1950s homosexuals and religious fervour in the home counties.

Also, Nic Dawson Kelly joins us with his acoustic guitar and harmonica to perform a handful of songs ahead of his appearance at Acoustic Suicide (FREE ENTRY @
The Gladstone, 64 Lant Street, Borough/London Bridge) this coming Thursday 12th July. Nic Dawson Kelly’s haunting brand of acoustic folk matches his mysterious persona, sitting him somewhere between Ryan Adams, Devendra Banhart and Anthony & The Johnsons. Originally hailing from Brighton, Nic has recently been setting tounges wagging playing intimate sets at some of Londons best venues... And having just confirmed details of his debut single (Out in September on Radio 1’s Rob Da Banks ‘Sunday Best’ label), 2007 is already beginning to shape up well for this 23-year-old troubadour. A performance and vocal not to be missed!

June 30th 2007

Making a welcomed return to Hello GoodBye this afternoon are the Leeds based chamber/improve group 7 Hertz. With their huge array of instrumentation (including; violin, mandolin, clarinet, accordion, trombone, trumpet and glockenspiel), 7 Hertz create improvised music that effortlessly leaps from folk to contemporary classical, from free improv to jazz and then from punk to just plain odd!

Also, making his debut appearance on the show we have the experimental folk musician Benjamin Wetherill. Citing Noel Coward and George Formby as major influences, Benjamin fits comfortably into the mould of the true British eccentric. Although drawing inspiration from the past, Ben is without doubt a very forward looking artist, with a superb collection of songs that spin off in all manner of unexpected directions. NB* both of these artists are performing at the SSH Festival all-dayer taking place at The Spitz today.

June 23rd 2007

Mentalist Association stalwarts and all round good eggs
Team B bring their free form, synth driven, progressive arch pop music onto the Hello GoodBye show once again.

June 16th 2007

Today on Hello GoodBye we have the Japanese Noise/Ant-Rock/Post Punk band Breakneck Static. Breakneck Static have just released a spilt 7" EP on the Vacuous Pop/Freakscene imprint, they are also currently working on their forthcoming album for the Leeds based indie British Wildlife Records.

June 9th 2007

Today, Wet Dog clock up their 3rd appearance on the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye show. With a sound that tantalisingly teeters on the edge of disintegration Wet Dog play the most joyous and unbridled pop-punk music that one is ever likely to have the pleasure of hearing!

June 2nd 2007

At last! This afternoon the Hello GoodBye show celebrates the current phenomenon that is The Mentalist Association; an ever bourgeoning collective of artists and musicians that have - over the past few of years - been rapidly outgrowing their original Kent and East Sussex environs. Representing the MA live in session will be
‘Gasp! Cracking Eggs’, Les Enfants & Hexicon.  
Also expect to hear bootleg tracks from ‘Yeborobo’ (leading lights from the Mentalist Association) recorded at the Hello GoodBye presents evening that took place at the Betsey Trotwood (Farringdon) 20.04.07.

May 26th 2007

There will be no Hello GoodBye today as Resonance FM sets aside the entire weekends schedule for 'The Long Weekend' outside broadcast taking place at Tate Modern.

May 19th 2007

Returning once again to Hello GoodBye (ahead of her 
concert this evening at The Horse Hospital) is the American avant-garde blues songstress Sandy Dillon. 
Accompanying Sandy today are The Speakeasy's, featuring: Ed Harcourt - percussion/stuff,  Michael J Sheehy - banjo & Ray Majors - dobro. 

Performing live in session this afternoon on Hello GoodBye we have Hands on Heads. HoH write abrupt, non-repetitive songs about unrequited friendship, romantic potential, the supernatural everyday, righteous joy and expectation. Hands on Heads don’t believe in reiteration, they make a point with emphasis, then move on to the next fractured song of double-speed dynamics with feral abandon.

Also - ahead of her appearance this coming Thursday 17th May at Acoustic Suicide - we have Petra Jean Phillipson joining us. Petra is an exceptionally talented woman in possession of an achingly seductive and powerful voice. Her self penned, melodic blues songs are musically dynamic and at times, lyrically unsettling. Petra's debut album 'Notes on Love' is currently available on the Gronland record label.

May 5th 2007

Performing live in session on Hello GoodBye this afternoon is the emotionally charged but creatively driven collaboration of Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta. Performing a collection of songs taken from their forthcoming LP, The Ragged Garden (Fire Records). Their current release 'Feasting on my Heart' was formerly 'Single of the Week' in Playlouder.

April 28th 2007

Hello GoodBye returns to your eardrums!

Performing live in session this afternoon on Hello GoodBye is the Bristol based artist SJ Esau. Having only just returned from a short tour of Italy, SJ will be playing a selection of tracks taken from his current LP - 'Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse' (Anticon Records), a superb amalgam of experimental pop and twisted folk music.

We also have the harmonious scruntch pop duo Pissinboy appearing on the show - ‘you can have your eggs frozen, I can have my sperm frozen too!’

...and expect to hear bootleg tracks by both Lianne Hall & Rae Spoon recorded at the Acoustic Suicide VIII event that took place at The Gladstone (Borough/London Bridge) on Thursday 26th April.

April 21st 2007

Hello GoodBye will next be broadcast on Saturday 28th April and will feature Pissinboy live in session.
 

April 14th 2007

Tune in, turn up and drop out as Nag Vladermersky and Hugh Dellar discuss their event at the ICA on 21st April commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 14-hour Technicolor Dream, a massive psychedelic happening which took place in Alexandra Palace, North London in April 1967. One of the most infamous acid freak-outs to ever take place in London, it was headlined by Pink Floyd and featured bands, poets, artists, freaks, hipsters, mods, mockers, and the in-crowd of the day. Members of psychedelic neo-medieval folk rock combo Circulus, who will be appearing at the event, will also be dropping in to play a couple of acoustic numbers.

… and with a criminally long 2 years and 96 days since their last appearance on the Hello GoodBye show, deXter Bentley welcomes back with open arms the prodigal band; Blanket. With an adeptly multi-instrumental line-up operating from twin bases in Brighton and London, Blanket’s music might be expected to be a rather complex affair. In fact they specialise in quivering simplicity, with their sumptuously bearded members crafting a delicate lo-fi urban country backdrop to Vicky Steer’s exquisitely melancholic and wistfully English voice.
'While the mattress of life is infested with bed bugs, Blanket are definitely keeping us warm!' - dB

April 7th 2007

Joining deXter Bentley to perform live in session in the Resonance FM studio this afternoon is a band who can proudly boast to having both Herman Dune and Jeffrey Lewis amongst their biggest fans. The Wave Pictures are a prolific London based trio who play pop music that is infused with a healthy, heady rush of youthful abandon. Front person David Tattershall is a superb guitarist (though he appears to be hell bent on doggedly underplaying this fact) whose lyrics have a stream of consciousness quality that are both melodic and playful. The group conjure up a sound that is slightly reminiscent of the New York new wave scene of the late ‘70’s (with both early Television and Talking Heads springing to mind.)

Also, making a welcome return to the Hello GoodBye show is one of South London’s finest exponents of the Alt-Country genre; Andy Hankdog. Andy has been hosting the Easycome Acoustic Club at The Ivy House (an astonishingly atmospheric and reassuringly traditional pub, found tucked away in a shady corner off Peckham Rye) on a once-a-week basis for the past 14 years, and has consequently been heralded as the leading progenitor for the entire Nu-Acoustic movement.

March 31st 2007

Marking their 1st birthday with a live performance on the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye show, we have the experimental, electro-core collective known as BRICKFACE. The ideology behind BRICKFACE was formed at Camberwell Art College where the minds of Nic Pogrom, Danny Dog Cock, Andy Donnelly, Gunnar Stiennes and Alec Kronacker all met. All members of BRICKFACE are practicing artists.

March 24th 2007

Having just returned from touring Germany, electro pop/punk artist, Theoretical Girl joins dB on the Hello GoodBye show to perform live in session. Though often found playing in a solo capacity Theoretical Girl is today accompanied by her band; Sam, Rosalie and Steph. Her latest single Red Mist is currently available through Half Machine Records. "In theory she's very good. In reality she's absolutely brilliant." - THIS IS FAKE DIY

Also in the studio is Ill Ease, a solo act who (with the aid of some serious looping) comes across more like a seething, sultry mass of rock & roll. When Elizabeth Sharp found an old 8-track, a haunted piano and a dysfunctional guitar amp in an abandoned auto shop in Brooklyn Ill Ease was born. Ill Ease can currently be found touring through Europe in ‘a flurry of intoxication’.

March 17th 2007

Experimental musician and sound artist Mikhail drops by to perform live in session. Having formerly collaborated with Björk and Graham Massey (808 State) Mikhail is due to release his debut LP Orphica (Sub Rosa/Quatermass) in May 2007.

Also dropping by to soothe us with a dose of their cosmic country music are Airport Girl, performing a couple of tracks taken from their recently released 2nd LP ‘Slow Light’ (Fortuna Pop).

March 10th 2007

Joining us to perform live in session this afternoon are The Mount Cherries, an energetic South London based Anglo/French combo, comprising of two girls and three boys. The MC’s brandish a variety of instruments (including; accordion & Hammond organ) as they embark upon a musical odyssey that bounces joyously from Folk to Disco and beyond without ever pausing for breath.

tHE bEALE will also be joining dB in the studio to offer up their furious, post-punk, kitchen-sink surrealism, while front man Adrian R Shaw rants and raves with comical provincial belligerence over a twisted set of repetitive and infectious tunes.

March 3rd 2007

Surging forth from the remnants of the superlative - though now sadly defunkt - Suitable Case for Treatment, come the experimental, nursary-core duo Mephisto Grande to perform live in the Resonance studio. Mephisto Grande build minimal music from slow, meandering tunes into rip-roaring, heavy barrages of gothic folk revelry. A heady mix of drum and string, decorated with brass and accordion that switches from a catchy, jaunty Bavarian jig to an atonal, discordant assault. A captivating sound that crosses both generational and stylistic boundaries.

February 24th 2007

Fronted by the feisty yet fragile pop-princess Helen, the East Sussex based garage band Shrag today head inland to offer up a selection of their own deceptively catchy and endearingly ramshackle tunes.

Citing jazz, blues, folk, punk, classical, flamenco, Indian, world and electronic music as part of his eclectic palette of influence, Dave Russell joins us to play live in the Resonance FM studio. Dave has been performing on the London folk/poetry scene for the past 5 decades and has just released his latest LP 'Kaleidoscope Concentrate' (Rim Records.)

February 17th 2007

In celebration at the release of their stunningly dramatic new single ‘My Friend Jo’, deXter Bentley is truly delighted to welcome back once again The Irrepressibles. It has been a full 10 months since Irrepressible front man Jamie McDermott last graced the Hello GoodBye show and in that time he has gone on to expand the group into a staggering 10 piece orchestra (ft: voice, guitar, piano, orchestral percussion, violins, cello, double bass, oboe, cor anglais, clarinet, saxophone & flute.) If you revel in bold and uncompromising music then be certain not to miss this!

Making a rare excursion to the big smoke (ahead of appearing at the ‘Lost Vagueness Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre’ event @ The Coronet) is the Glastonbury based, psychedelic pop outfit Flipron.

Also joining us to perform songs that sound akin to ‘Moroccan sands falling out of an espadrille shoe on the Piccadilly line in late September’ we have singer/songwriter Daniel Orcese.

...and performance poet Uke Stanza pops by to give a sample of his 'Innuendocore' music ahead of appearing at the 12 Bar Club this evening as part of the Winter Anti-Folk festival.

February 10th 2007

Live in session this afternoon are the Folktronica outfit Woodcraft Folk. Not only will they be performing a couple of songs taken from their mesmerising debut LP ‘Trough of Bowland’ (Earworm) but they have also threatened to throw a cover version of an old Fall hit into the mix!

Also, making a welcomed return to the Hello Goodbye show we have the conceptual sea shanty punk trio Captain Blood Blood and the Sea Dogs, whose motto reads; "We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are"

February 3rd 2007 LISTEN

deXter Bentley is honored to have the American avant-garde blues songstress Sandy Dillon performing live in session on the Hello GoodBye show. Sandy has collaborated with such luminaries of the music world as; Mick Ronson, Man Parrish, Hector Zazou and Dieter Meier and her current LP 'Pull the Strings' (One Little Indian) was produced by the superb multi-instrumentalist David Coulter.

Also listen in vague disbelief as this Brighton based duo The Sticks wrestle with their inexpensive musical instruments to produce a hideous torrent of badly played, primitive rock’n’roll party numbers! (The Sticks are also playing The Hello GoodBye presents gig tonight at The Betsey Trotwood along with Bib and The Bronsteins.)

January 27th 2007

Performing live in session on the Hello GoodBye show this afternoon are Bloody Heels who bring together musicians from Brazil, Poland and Sweden to play kick ass Punk Rock. The band have recently completed a tour of Scandinavia and Germany and their debut seven track CD, ‘The Blood Is Dripping Down' is a Rock'n'Roll tour-de-force.

Also in the studio is Men Diamler. 'Men Diamler is a star, no two ways about it. Admittedly, he's a star in some macabre parallel universe where negro field spirituals, Victorian freakshows, Glaswegian drinking songs, German expressionist art and Italian opera have fused and become the dominant culture, but this is indicative of the poverty of our own global monoculture. This is truly music from beyond the comfort zone.' - Carl Dolan, Decode

January 20th 2007

Performing their experimental / psychedelic / mariachi / dystopian-drone music live in session on the Hello GoodBye show this afternoon are the London based group Teeth of the Sea. Inspired in equal measure by such ne'er-do-wells as Liars, Boredoms, Skullflower, This Heat and Acid Mothers Temple, their mission is ritualistic, rhythmic and reckless abandon at all costs.

Mathew Sawyer & the Ghosts will also be delighting us with a handful of brittle/sweet pop songs taken from their debut LP ‘Blue Birds Blood’ (Catbird Records). 'Hank Williams is at the ronettes house putting up some shelves with mo tucker and gossiping about johnathan richman while townes van zandt sings raincoats covers.'

January 13th 2007
Performing his angry Delta-Punk live in session on the Hello GoodBye show this afternoon is the one-man boogie terror army D-66.

Also, hailing from Leeds, we have 7 Hertz. With their huge array of instrumentation (including; violin, mandolin, clarinet, accordion, trombone, trumpet and glockenspiel), 7 Hertz create improvised music that effortlessly leaps from folk to contemporary classical, from free improv to jazz and then from punk to just plain odd!

January 6th 2007 LISTEN

After their performances at The Electricity Bill (Tate Britain) last night, the Hello GoodBye show is proud to herald in the new season with 2 very special live guests. Momus, the Scottish born/Berlin based musician, artist, journalist and serial blogger will be performing his own brand of odd-ball electronic folk live in session. His latest LP ‘Ocky Milk’ (Cherry Red), he rather beguilingly describes as 'Absurdist Asian Torch'.

Plus, joining us all the way from Gothenburg are the experimental group The Skull Defekts, who bring their ‘deep feedback / drone magic’ to the airwaves. Anticipate music of warmth and delirium combined with disturbing, heavily rhythmic electronic tones and distortion

January 5th 2007

The Electricity Bill
LIVE outside broadcast from Tate Britain!
A special, two and a half hour edition of the deXter Bentley Hello GoodBye show. An aural excursion through a world where the throb and hum of static and distortion are propelled through myriad wires and boxes creating music that would at once fall silent if not aided and abetted by the power of electricity.

Featuring:
Jeremy Smoking Jacket - LISTEN
The Skull Defekts - LISTEN
James III & the Courtesan - LISTEN
Momus - LISTEN

Click here for pic's : 'Tate what you do it's the way that you do it!'

December 23rd & 30th 2006

During the Christmas schedule on Resonance 104.4 FM there will be NO Hello GoodBye show on either Saturday 23rd or Saturday 30th December!However, if you fancy a FREE festive fix in the form of some MP3 file musical downloads, then visit these sites:

Where it's at is where you are!
Merry Christmas from Mr Hysterical Arms
Anal Gore Terror

December 16th 2006

South East London quintet Chik Budo will be performing their unique blend of 21st Century Electro Jazz Punk live on the deXter Bentley Hello Goodbye show this afternoon. Chik Budo combine the Jazz experimentalism of John Zorn with the unbridled energy of Post-Punk luminaries Fugazi, with the end result being a hugely accessible blast of contemporary electronic dance music.

Also appearing in session will be Hans Blix, a displaced New Zealander (of Germanic origin) who along with his band The Inspectors conjures up a unique blend of misanthropic country punk. Their music is Banjo led, lyrically inspired and morally reprehensible. Imagine if you will, a ghastly mutated monster, comprised of the vocal chords of Hank Williams, the addled brain of Mark E. Smith and the testicles of The Bad Seeds.

December 9th 2006      

Xerox Teens fulfil their obligatory annual visit to the deXter Bentley Hello Goodbye show. This East London based quintet, happily bills itself a ‘Punk’ band, however, this rather one dimensional tag fails to fully capture both the mischievousness and menace found lurking at the heart of the Teens’ wonderful, vibrant and intoxicating sound. Elements of Hip-Hop, Kraut-Rock, Calypso, Disco, Electro, Rock’n’Roll and Power Pop are also evident in their music. A true renaissance band, Xerox Teens manage to promote regular concerts, curate art exhibitions and find enough hours in the day to release a diverse roster of bands on their own ‘Big Billy’ record label. Today Bow, tomorrow the world!
(To view film of Xerox Teens (Dir: James III) performing 'Onkawara' live in session at Resonance FM click here!)

Ed Mule, singing drummer with the unclassifiable group 
The Mules, today discards his usual 2 sticks and 5 skins, in preference of 1 plectrum and 6 strings! 
This rare un-plugged performance finds Ed hollering out a few choice tunes taken from The Mules debut LP 'Save your face' (Organ Grinder Records).

All female trio The Bronsteins, have affectionately been described as ‘mental-institution-folk fronted by a Swedish robot’. Their delightful and melodic songs ponder upon such idiosyncratic themes as; umbrellas, comas and the speed of light.

December 2nd 2006

London based duo Lot Lizards will be performing live in session on the deXter Bentley Hello Goodbye show this afternoon. Formed in early 2006 Lot Lizards feature both GG (Subway Slims / Kill Kill Kill) on guitar and Megumi (Subway Slims / Seven Boyfriends) on drums, playing no wave blues they combine the minimal arrangements of The Contortions and Wire with the loose desperate thud of the Cheater Slicks and Pussy Galore. 

Also joining us with her acoustic guitar in hand will be the Brighton based singer/songwriter Lianne Hall, playing a selections of tracks taken from her debut solo LP, ‘Abandon Ship’ (Local Kid). Lianne’s music, although largely Country-esque and Folk-inspired, belies a soul that is most definitely built on a DIY and Punk Rock foundation. 

25th November 2006

A rare outing for Brighton’s Crayola Lectern finds him performing live in session on the Hello Goodbye show this afternoon, with his songs and instrumentals of otherworldly beauty. English pastoral psychedelics accompanied on Casiotone by Jon Poole. Crayola’s solo output is largely inspired by the work of Robert Wyatt although to draw sonic comparisons might be misleading. The lyrical songs are sometimes sorrowful but retain a sense of humility, humanity and humour; others are instrumental with vocal murmuring where words only seem to detract from the underlying spirit of the music and so are left abandoned.

Finally, Nina Walsh will be putting in an appearance to weave her simple yet honest industrial folk songs amid a backdrop of finger picked acoustic guitar.

18th November 2006

The Hello Goodbye show plays host to a rare live performance from the enigmatic outfit Nighttime and Damien Raison. This (reportedly) 'Neo Pagan' duo has chosen to reject the influences of fashion and glamour that previously dominated their lives, to concentrate wholeheartedly on the celebration of nature through song. Their quasi-medieval/electro flavoured music conveys a strong narrative that is joyous and revelatory.

Today’s show will also feature an interview with original punk poet and lo-fi pioneer Patrik Fitzgerald, recorded in August 2006 during his first visit to the UK in over 10 years. Initially armed with only an acoustic guitar, Patrik stood out as an anomaly in the punk class of 1977 but was soon regarded as an original of his genre and released a series of classic EP's on the Small Wonder label. The songs on these records, including 'Safety Pin Stuck in my Heart', were caustic and whimsical pieces of urban folk and as punk in spirit as anything produced by his noisier peers. Patrik recorded several subsequent albums and continues to write and record from his adopted home in New Zealand, where he is also busy compiling collections of unreleased material from his substantial archives.

Also joining dB in the Resonance studio is the Harrow born and bred Country Rock pioneer (and former Rockingbirds front man) Alan Tyler, along with his new band, The Lost Sons of Littlefield. Their eponymous album is a southern American-inspired odyssey and is currently available through Hanky Panky Records. Tyler's songs deal in universal themes and although they take the form of traditional Country music lyrically they are unmistakably English. 

11th November 2006

In session this afternoon on the Hello Goodbye show are the sleazy Hungarian surf guitar duo Agaskodo Teliverek, sounding something like a cross between Captain Beefheart, Public Enemy & Venetian Snares, with trashy jazz guitar leads and twisted electronic hard-rock jungle-bebop break beats. The band, whose name translates from Hungarian as The Rearing Stallions, consists of Miklos "The Accountant" Kemecsi and Tamas "Karamazov" Szabo. Their recently released eponymous debut album features guest appearances from Man from Uranus, The Rebel, Max Tundra and MC Big Cheese.

Also dropping by (en route to their gig at The Pleasure Unit tonight!) are the Welsh psychedelic pop group The Loves, who’s ‘X’s & O’s’ EP is currently available on the Fortuna Pop label.

Last but not least is Jason McNiff, who together with Emily Barker will be performing live.

4th November 2006

Joining us LIVE in session today (ahead of appearing at our Hello GoodBye gig at the 12 Bar Club tonight) are; Salt & Blue, Tea & Toast Band and the Brighton based 'Free-folk’ ensemble Hamilton Yarns. Hamilton Yarns' music is a sweeping canvas of seemingly spontaneous atmospherics concocted from harmonium, cornet, clarinet and flute, beautifully combined with wonky pop lyricism. Ambling nonchalantly through the themes of their songs are a motley crew of grubs, bugs, badgers and foxes, all hell bent on their mission to explore the subconscious, superstition and the weather. The band have recently released their 6th LP in 4 years, the superb ‘The Show-Boat, Over’.

Also popping in to perform live are Virgin Passages who's debut LP 'Mandalay' has recently been released on Fire Records.

28th October 2006

LIVE in session this afternoon on the Hello Goodbye show is 4tRECK (AKA Sam Callow). Utilising piano, guitar, violin, accordion, percussion and voice (along with some idiosyncratic home-made stringed instruments), 4tRECK creates music of an essentially melancholic nature. Born out of spontaneous improvisation and chance, his compositions can at times sound a little illogical but are always inventive and most importantly entertaining.

Also putting in a performance with his ‘dark, cabaret, blues’ will be Thee Intolerable Kidd. Performing a set of songs taken from his eponymous debut LP (this hot off the press 9track album is FREE OF CHARGE! if you e-mail your address to: theeintolerablekidd@googlemail.com)

dB were honoured to have an impromptu visit from the Missouri based trio The Experimental Instrument Orchestra, who dazzled the listeners with alternative uses for frying pans, chair legs, plastic plates and the like!

21st October 2006

Performing LIVE in session on the deXter Bentley Hello Goodbye show today with his folk-punk quintet is Sergeant Buzfuz, whose sharp edged songs of modern life are finely embellished with the aid of blanging guitars, soaring strings and ethereal dulcimer. Sergeant Buzfuz is one of the leading lights of the British Anti-Folk scene and runs his own monthly gig night ‘BLANG!’ where over the past few years he has helped to nurture many other like minded artists.

Also live in session is A-Line who are Gemma Tortella, Caryl Mann and Sam Barton. The songs are written by Gemma who has recently acquired a ukulele and has found some blues and psychedlia in its (black) strings. With flutes and trumpets, harps and harmonies A-Line are a bit like Nancy Sinatra, Coco Rosie and Tom Waits. They wear matching outfits whenever possible. They are all Welsh. Gemma is also in Burly Q, London's best in every way burlesque troupe. She is also known as Miss Anna Kronist, everyone's favourite 1930's country singer.

14th October 2006

NO HELLO GOODBYE SHOW DUE TO OUTSIDE BROADCAST FROM THE FRIEZE ART FAIR.

7th October 2006

Joining deXter Bentley on the Hello Goodbye show this afternoon are both Victoria Yeulet & Benjamin Prosser, who together make songs that draw from their mutual loves of old-time, blues, country, folk, gospel, r'n'b and rockabilly, which they practice on wooden floors with tape players, voices, pedals and tea. Victoria Yeulet currently sings with the Television Personalities and has toured providing backing vocal's with San Francisco's The Husbands, as well as working on her own solo vocal projects. Benjamin Prosser has been writing and recording songs for many years, self releasing his tunes and also having released a solo LP 'Blues for Harpo' on Sexton Ming's 'Rim' label. Most recently he released a 7" on the Fitzrovian Phonographic label, one side featuring his current band The Tap Collective.

Also live in session is the French chanteuse Vale Poher of whom it has been said, ‘strikes her guitar with a passion verging on the vitriolic’. VP is currently touring her debut LP ‘Mute’ throughout the UK.