MedCultPods

This is the second Seasonally Effect Podcast, from the Dot Cafe, Rochester on the 27^th March 2013.

Featuring – writing from Barry Fentiman, music from Abigail Ziering, a short play from Sarah Herhir with soundtrack from Hand of Stabs, music from Dave Pickett of the Flowing, local history from Phil Kane, music from Russ Grooms and poetry from the James Worse Public Address Method.

The full event also included two short animations from Laura Callaghan, available at http://www.veoh.com/iphone/#_Watch/v469949Bq3rNaAy and http://www.watershed.co.uk/dshed/content/six-things-summery?show=2 and music from The Only Sun and RaD9 – unfortunately these are missing as they did not record.

The next event will be on the 24^th April 630pm-9pm – more detail available at www.seasonallyeffected.wordpress.com - if you would like to book a spot email me at seasonallyeffected@gmail.com

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This is the first Seasonally Effected Podcast, recorded on the 27th February at the Dot Cafe in Rochester.  Sadly, the sound quality isn't great on this one, and for this reason I have decided to remove music performances (I had turned the sound desk up to high, so It sounded ok at the event, but the recordings were too distorted.)  Anyway, hopefully will get it right for next time.

This podcast includes performances from: Sean AKA Mayhem of the MLT, Barry Fentiman, Nigel Adams, Phil Kane, Roy Smith and Mark Quinn - the music performances were by Stuart Turner and Nick Rice , Porlie Eidolon and 3D (Thomas Kelly and Dean Clarke.)  There was also a short film called 'Upwards' from Mdhamiri A Nkemi which is available here: https://vimeo.com/57752310

As commented at the time, the line up could benefit from a touch more estrogen  -  which will hopefully be addressed at the next event on 27th March.  If you would like to book a 10 minute spot, email me on: seasonallyeffected@gmail.com - for more information visit:  www.seasonallyeffected.wordpress.com

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This is a podcast of the ME4 Writer's Letters Home live event at Rochester Library on 10th November 2012.

'No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.’ (PD James)

Letters Home’ is a project curated by ME4Writers, which invited residents of Medway (and further afield) to write a letter to the place they think of as home,this has resulted in a collection of evocative and emotional writing, forming the basis for an exhibition of creative letter writing. Here is the podcast from an event to launch the exhibition on 10 November 2012. Find out more about ME4Writers at: me4writers.wordpress.com

Readers and writers:

Barry Fentiman read his own letter, and those of Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, Andrew Day and Arthur Orpin.

Sam Hall read letters from children from the Bulgarian community in Rochester.

Steph read letters from Nancy Springate, Sam Hall, Gemma Quinnell and Tara Moyle.

Sarah March D’angelo, Irina Fridman, Nigel Cuming, Roy Smith, Sean Meaney + Carmel, Sarah Jenkin, Jaye Nolan and Philip Kane read their own work.

Traditional folk songs in Polish translated and sung by Anonymous.

Our next project – Sam Hall, Barry Fentiman, Roy Smith and Sarah Jenkin read extracts from The Encyclopaedia Citaecephale.

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Welcome Short Encounters, presented by ME4 Writers. This is the third of three shows collecting Sci-Fi short stories inspired by the Medway Towns.

This weeks podcast features stories from:

Roger Tooth, Andrew Day, Michael O'Connor and Barry Fentiman

featuring music from:

with additional reading from Nicola Price, Mdhamiri Nkemi and Roy Smith.

Find out more about ME4 Writers at www.me4writers.wordpress.com

Please note that this edition contains language that some may find offensive

Enjoy

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Welcome Short Encounters, presented by ME4 Writers. This is the first of three shows collecting Sci-Fi short stories inspired by the Medway Towns.

This weeks podcast features stories from:

PR Pope, Sam Hall, Porlie Eidolon and Roy Smith

as well as music from Porlie Eidolon and James Feist

and additional reading from Nicola Price and Stephanie Anderson.

Find out more about ME4 Writers at www.me4writers.wordpress.com

Enjoy

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Welcome Short and Nasties presented by ME4 Writers. This is the final of three shows exploring the darker side of the Medway Towns.

As the danger passes and the panic settles, people adjust to their business. But in the corner of every eye is a suspicion that something will never be quite right. A nervous twitch at the bus stop, when a pigeon takes off in the rain or that sense so isolation as you are the last person to lock up. Horror lives sideways of this place, invisible, but never so far as cannot be felt or heard when the moment is right. Look around for long enough and you will find that which fuels us, we are an engine of fear – panicked into action, pumping raw emotion through crystallising veins and spewing out the sewerage of human error.

This weeks podcast features stories from:

Michael O'Connor, Andrew Day, Fizzer Rippon and Roy Smith

Thanks to dreamSTATE www.dreamstate.to

Featuring

'The Last Soiree' by Los Salvadores - www.lossalvadores.co.uk

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Welcome to the ME4 Writers Short and Nasties podcast. This is the second of three shows exploring the darker side of the Medway Towns.

Sometimes, when the wind is right you can smell the rot seeping through the cracks in the ground. Down New Road or close to the river, where the crust is thin and the occasional tentacle breaches the surface. We keep it quiet, don't like to talk about it, but no matter how they patch it up, we all know it will eventually devour us all. In the meantime its best to get on with it, forget those troublesome headaches and nasty nose bleeds, its normal, isn't it?

This weeks podcast features stories from:

Liz Canning, Barry Fentiman and Clive Radford

Thanks to dreamSTATE www.dreamstate.to

Featuring

'The Vampire Flick 10' by Andrew Day

Download our accompanying magazine at: http://me4writers.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/podcastno2.pdf

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Welcome to the ME4 Writers Short and Nasties podcast.  This is the first of three shows exploring the darker side of the Medway Towns.

These tales are as the flicker of an amber street light on rain soaked tarmac, the remnants of peeling posters on boarded up shop fronts.  This is for all the alleyways that made you look backwards and  trees that scratch against your window late at night.  Imagine a settlement on the banks of a cruel river, never meant for habitation, but suffered with an indignant rage.  Refusing to move on and digging deeper into the heart of the beast, we struggle for sense in a time of constant opposition.  Then in the silent places; on the roofs of car parks, towering above and locked in buried tunnels deep below they wait for whats to come.

This podcast features stories from:

Stephen Morris, Sam Hall and Roger Tooth

For more information visit www.me4writers.wordpress.com

Thanks to dreamSTATE www.dreamstate.to

and featuring

'Daddy's Chair' by Porlie Eidolon

Download a printable version at:  http://me4writers.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/podcastv21.pdf

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