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12th February 2002

'...and each new year, to me, is like the beginning of a new start of commencing possibilities...emerging from the birth of a fresh end of..er, something...' - Craven

FILM: Credits for 'Last Conversation' Music Promo and links to contributors' websites can now be found at junk-tv.com. Check out the links: a world of audio-visual wonder awaits you. Co-Producer of the 'Last Conversation' music, Tim Saul, has finally got his music online at timsaul.com, as has leading man, iam, at musiciam.co.uk.

Designer, graphic artist and typographikal terrorist, Amoeba has just finished a brace of video remixes of Last Conversation out-take footage which will be available on the VHS and DVD of the piece. It should also pop up at his labyrinthian website: theestateovcreation.co.uk, amongst several hundred bits of 22nd Century M-Eye-nd Candy.

The next Junk TV nights will be held during the Brighton Festival in May and at the Groovy Movie Picture House, Glastonbury Festival: 28th-30th June.

WORKSHOPS: Junk TV are halfway through their 'First Light' commission from the Film Council. They are making 6 creative films with 6 community groups over three months. The resulting films will be shown at the Brighton Festival in May. For more in-depth information check out the news page on junk-tv.com.

7th December 2001

FILM: Following the cancellation of the Rouen gig (see below) 'Last Conversation' - the long overdue and utterly bloated music promo/psycho thriller premiered this week at the Cinematheque in Brighton. At 14 minutes and taking in ghost deaths, William Tell Pranks gone wrong, Burroughs references, Johnny Ray singing 'The little white cloud that cried', 2 incredibly strange look brothers called Clive and Hugh Blank, and an entire front room destroyed by an axe...you could say the video is finished. Cut to music by Producer Tim Saul (Earthling, Portishead, Intik) and J.C. Concato (US3, Flux), clips of the film will be appearing on junk-tv.com shortly.

This film will be showing at a FREE JUNK TV PARTY at the Sanctuary Cafe, Brunswick Street East, Brighton, on Wednesday 19th December 2001, 8.30-Midnight. Also featuring the final version of transvestite vigilante film, 'Bait' (clips viewable on junk-tv.com), the Dance for Camera 2001 award winner, 'Red Dolly', in its orginal and remixed forms, Ignition Network's 'Animal' - about a man who attempts to turn his back on the human race by joining the animal kingdom; some 'i-can't-believe-I'm-seeing-this footage of the new Microsoft CEO prancing about, in some kind of chemically altered, dervishness at a Microsoft 'Rally', and ingenuious trick films from Bertran Berenger and Fabrice Bertran from Rouen, France, and a beautifully slanted film from Norway.

Baltimore Sleaze Steele's new slapstick, Gothic horror epic, 'Eel and the Haunted Icebox' split the Cinematheque audience like a pickaxe through coconut. Some felt that its maniac story of Dog thievery and an refridgerator that becomes overloaded with Dog corpses - and, inevitably, becomes haunted - was a little to deranged, overlong and disgusting for their tastes. Others felt this was a 'Buster Keaton meets John Waters' flick for the Gummo age.

WORKSHOPS: The Nine Lives project (www.ninelives.tv) has finally finished, work continues on DVDs for the new Brighton Museum. In the new year Junk TV will be making 5 factual based dramas with 5 community groups in Sussex. This project has been funded, primarily, by the Film Council through the Hi8tus scheme. This project should take us up to April 2002.

WEBSITES: www.junktv.org has been captured and is coming soon.

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17th October 2001

'Tardiness is the right of the mobile' - Chegwin

FILM: After a spell when BIF online went into one month-long freeze frame, East/West relations went into Meltdown and the BIF offices were ransacked by the new breed of pirates otherwise known as the Property Developer we have finally relocated and can bring you news a-fresh. Only a couple of showings have happened in Brighton and Baltimore since April. Junk TV made regular appearances at AAA's regular Sunday night rooftop cinema at Manumission's El Motel in Ibiza. Junk TV's next screening will be at Cafe Curieux, Rouen, France on 25th November alongside Brighton stalwarts, REQ, DJ Quantick, Electrolaine and Iam. Kato Lazan will be beaming down by Taliban controlled satellite and french subtitles will be on had to help audiences - English, French or Western Samoan - decipher Morgan's deep Glaswegian accent in the deeply overdue premiere of 'Last Conversation': A promo of prog-rock proportions for Bristol-Paris Outfit, Flux, and Sleeze Steele's Detroit Style voice-over for BIF's transvestite revenge/murder fantasy, 'Bait'.

WORKSHOPS: Junk TV are currently editing the video diaries for Brighton and Hove City Council's Nine Lives Project (www.ninelives.tv). Where 9 residents aged 20 - 77, take up the challenge of making their lives more substainable - economically, environmentally, healthily: you name it - over nine weeks.

We have nearly completed work on a DVD for the Body Gallery at Brighton Museum. The Museum's re-opening has now been pushed back to April 2002. The DVD features 10 people reacting to objects in the gallery and talking about their experiences with, and views on, tatoos, piercing, Jean Paul Gaultier 'Six pack' jackets, Chinese bound feet and wigs made of metal. The DVD will remain on a loop in the gallery until it crumbles to dust.

Junk TV are currently making a film with the Sahara group and the Mosaic Multi-ethnic group in conjunction with Hi8tus and Brighton Police. The film concerns young multi-ethnic people's views of police treatment of them and how this relates to their race. Also a video made for the Crew Club on the Whitehawk Estate has nearly been completed. The video will go towards a new bid for a new and bigger Youth Club for young people on the estate.

WEBSITES: www.junk-tv.com is finally getting the overhaul it has been crying out for. The new site will feature clips and stills from the 100-strong BIF catalogue and monthly news. The Digital Arts Development Association will be on line later this month at www.da-da.tv. Projects currently underway are a new music technology exchange scheme linking a township school in Durban, SA with a media arts secondary school in Brighton. Both groups will be remixing and adding to each other's music. Also DADA is producing an audio documentary on Fela Kuti with Development Education group, D.,A.R.E and several English-based Nigerians who grew up with FELA and his music in Lagos in the late 1960s/1970s. They provide a fascinating insight into the afro-funk pioneer's music and politics perhaps missed by a new generation of British Clubbers dancing to his music in 2001. Downloads, transcripts and streams available at the end of the month.

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13th April 2001

JUNK TV Friday 27th April 2001. At Cinematheque, Brighton Media Centre, Middle Street, 8pm. 1 hour 30 min £2.50.

Junk TV celebrates the making of its 100th film with a series of screenings of new absurd comedies, pop promos, anti-ads and dark Digital moments. Featuring new Channel 4/Coldcut commission and freaky message film 'Ansaphone', 'Mootrix' - a supershort 3D animated cow version of the Matrix, 'Tutu' - suicide ballet transvestitism, 'Hello Pudding' - a comedy about a cannibalistic 4 year old who listens to fish. 'Quiet Mary Fish Momma' - a quiet film about Mary, suicide, mermaids and abandoned children starring Aaron Schwartz (fresh from working with Nic Roeg, Portishead and Meatloaf). The evening will end with a UK premiere of US Sleaze Steele's latest smear of video trash poetry 'True Reality': concerning an alcoholic doctor's attempt to hacksaw a hellish thanksgiving turkey from the forearm of an emergency room patient.

Expect to see mad men hunting wild cakes in the Black Forest, Mongolian Council Estate Poetry, shockingly fake beggars, the legendary Marty as a revolutionary pensioner, lonely boy knicker sniffing, and the latest in Flash animation, DV music promos and visual mixing.

Junk TV & the Radio Sqat Sound System will also be hosting the main bar at the Concorde II, Madeira Drive, Brighton on Saturday 12th May as part of the monthly Experiments Night, and holding a FREE party and film show at the Sanctuary Café, Brunswick Street East on Wednesday 23rd May from 8.30pm.

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26th February 2001

MAGAZINE: BIF's online magazine, 23 pages, based around a dartboard, is up at www.buckinfudgy.com/magazine/mag. Click on the magazine button to your left for absurd articles on the A-Z of Geezer, Wifeschool, Punk Rock Spice Girls Demos, Strum-along-a-Free Jazz Chords, Sly Stone, Degenerate Cricket, and the rather saucy BIF XXX.

FILM: Junk TV have been busy finishing off new films. 'Quiet Mary Fish Momma' shown in demo form at the Old School Xmas Shindig (see below) has now been trimmed to a glossy 18 minutes. The first part of the 'Internals' trilogy entitled, rather concisely, 'In Every Big Man a Little Boy in awe of his Mother' (see picture left) has now been finished and features a rather unsettling 2 minute scene of a man sniffing his wife's knickers. The subsequent two films concern a woman who decides to live out the rest of her life in her closet, and a group of men who, quiet literally, believe that they have become trapped inside a woman.
It's all strange, it's all funny.
The first part will be premiering at the forthcoming Junk TV shows: April/May at the Cinematheque, Brighton, May at the Red Rooms, Baltimore, and Saturday 12th May at the Concorde where Junk TV will be showing news films and visuals in the front bar as part of the monthly 'Experiments' night.

Junk TV have begun shooting 'Last Conversation', a DV Music Promo for Flux (Tim Saul ex-Earthling) which concerns an odd character called Clive Blank finding out the hard way that he doesn't exist. Warning: this film will feature gratuitous and extended scenes of TVs, VCRS and CD players being pummeled into micro-pieces. The piece should be finished in late spring.

On the other side of the murky pond, our US/East Coast Rep, Steve 'Sleeze' Steele is applying final touches to his Gothic Slapstick trailer park masterpiece, 'Eel Leonard and The Haunted Icebox'. The story goes something like this: While Eel Leonard is sitting on a mattress in the back lot behind the plumbing supplies store, waiting for drunk old Madge LeBouef to show up for their weekly Friday afternoon tryst, The Damballa Kid is relating the story of how his Uncle Paul, the dogthief, convinced his friend Norm J. Flutey to let him use his empty icebox for dead dog storage because Paul was so fast at contract dogstealing that he needed somewhere to keep the overflow of chiens. After a few weeks of this the icebox became haunted and had a radical personality change that drove Norm J Flutey quite mad ... mad enough to go on a blood frenzy with a machete. After this [and after snorting copious lines of Tinactin], the dogthief and his accomplice would never be the same again.

Got that straight?

WORKSHOPS: Junk TV are currently working on an anti-bullying project in Whitehawk, multimedia days on the Knoll Estate, filming interviewee's for a film called 'What about my body?' to be exhibited in Brighton Museum and Art Gallery upon its re-opening in October; making a promo film about a mentoring project in Hackney, holding regular video clubs at Bevendean School, and finishing off projects with the Komedia Theatre, Coalition for Youth and One Brighton and Hove.

We're in the process of setting up the Digital Arts Development Association (DADA) that will be used to put on regular video, animation, web and music technology workshops for everybody in the local community at subsidized rates. Check back for details or get on our mailing list for future information.

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26th October 2000

Just a quick post to inform all vaguely interested parties that Buck in Fudgy is still rolling on. JUNK TV spent the summer and early autumn building three edit suites, viewing and workshop spaces in Old School Studios, 28 Gloucester Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 4EW, England. Telephone 01273 600811.

WORKSHOPS: The boys are running a weekly video club at the studio where young people (6 -18 year olds) can experiment with video, editing, animation, music technology and plain, old fashioned mucking around. The club runs from 5.30 - 8.30pm on Thursday evenings and costs £10 a session. To book a place send a £10 deposit by post (cheques made out to 'Junk TV') or email us on junktv@hotmail.com. The autumn run has come to an end now but we are taking bookings for 2001, beginning on 11th January.

SCREENINGS: Junk TV have a new screening of Digital films, anti-adverts, pop promos, sketches and visual fluff ready for December. The screening will hit the Experiments night at The Concorde 2, Madeira Drive, Brighton on Saturday 9th December, the Old School Party on 22nd December, the local Big Issue office, The Red Rooms, Baltimore, and, in February, The Cinematheque, Middle Street, Brighton (see www.cinematheque.org) Where possible the screening will be free. If you would like to run your own screening please email us.

FILM: We are currently working on revamping the Junk TV part of the web site. The new version will contain clips and stills from the 100 films in the Buck in fudgy catalogue. Keep your eyes with you. It's going to be a long haul but you should see some changes by the end of the year.

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15th May 2000

WORKSHOPS: Junk TV Workshops are currently in the middle of projects with The Big Issue, Kandu Arts network, Brighton Festival's Poetry in Motion Project and Hove Museum. Junk TV will be holding a one day workshop in St. Anns Wells Gardens, Hove, East Sussex on Saturday 27th May, followed by a Special FX workshop for kids on 28th. Open to all this will run from 11am to 5pm. Contact us for tickets (£5). Having secured new premises we will be setting up a three edit suites, alongside a workshop and office space in Old School Studios, Gloucester Street, North Laine, Brighton, opening on the 2nd week in June. Check back for contact details.

FILM: The last JUNK TV screening in Brighton until the end of the year will be held at the Sanctuary, Brunswick Street East, Brighton on Tuesday 23rd May, 8pm-Midnight. The event will be free, all blaggers are welcome. 60 minutes of new Digital short films will be showing including the UK premiere of Steve 'Sleeze' Steele's production of Blaster Al Ackerman's 'True Reality': the one about the doctor who attempts to prize a thanksgiving chicken from a patient's arm before unwittingly entering the very bowels of the underworld. Yep, the Steele is back. Also Willow Ritchie's debut short 'Hello Pudding' will be airing. It's about a young girl who decides to get her own back on her father's love of eating fish by asking him to supply human flesh for dinner. It is a glowing black comedy in the finest Grimm fairy tale fashion. Willow will be 5 years old tomorrow. She is officially Buck in fudgy's youngest director. Other films up for downstroke are BIF's 'In every Big man a little boy', 'Dissolver', 'Basil & heidi's World of love part 2', Graham Ball's 'Jack the Bastard', and the long awaited computers in love story first heard on Radio Sqat transmission 4: 'Kathy and Ralph'.

Shooting has begun, with our visiting US ambassador Steve Steele, on 'The Chaos Theory of Bad Moods'. This comedy follows a bad mood as it ravages a small town. The film should be finished in the Autumn.

MUSIC: Electronic beats and chanteuse mongers POLA will be appearing at JUNK TV on 23rd May (see FILM above) with a new string section. Despite their excellence we can confidently predict that they will be blown out of Europe by the debut UK performance of nu R'n'B god, KATO LAZAN. Kato will be appearing with Brother Devro Lazan, MC Ekwajun, and vocalist Arma Geddinit live via a satellite link up. An in-house band may accompany him.

As part of their set, POLA will be premiering a single-shot video for a new song, 'Digital Sugar'.

The first voting round for the new BIF compilation CD has begun. The BIF democratic panel are casting votes on the 25 tracks put forward for the CD. 15 will make it. The possible marks are as follows: '0' - if you put that on the compilation I'm burning my copy. '1' - 'Okay, but if I never hear that again It'll be no skin off my nose. '2' - Mmmn, nice, I'd sure like to you to rewind that one selector. '3' - that ish is the bomb, if that doesn't make the cut I'm going loco!

On the first round the 2s and 3s flew whilst a few scathing 0s sizzled by. Delicate egos stand well back. Ouch! The final results will be posted at the end of the month.

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7th April 2000

Okay, I know we've been sleeping on this news thing for a moment but give it up...we're back...and here is the news.

For last night's Junk TV show at the Sanctuary, Brighton, Buck in Fudgy's first ever (and much feared) Opera comedy, 'BUSK', was premiered to much critical and drunken acclaim. Do not fear - this is not a new direction just a one-off. The film was also BIF's 90th film release. Also premiered was '67': a five minute documentary about a revolutionary pensioner, a pile of visual trash ranging from Chris Morris' Porn Star Gush sketch, to Uncle Goddam, Salvador Dali Ads, some hilarious Gap and Calvin Klein Anti-Ads and the launch of JUNK TV's first VIDEO E.P: 30 minutes of DVF (Disposable Video Fluff). The video (VHS PAL or Video CD only at moment, DVD and VHS NTSC to follow) is the first of a series featuring short absurd comedies, mad pop videos, anti-ads, skits and sketches. All for £2.95 including postage. Go to JUNK TV page for more info, (stills and eventually clips) from the entire JUNK catalogue.

MUSIC: Follow Swarinami Adrian Hawkline's return from touring the Indian continent with the Dalai Lama, work has begun on releasing the HAWKLINE ORCHESTRA's 2nd CD: a four track E.P featuring a remix of one of the excellent videos that accompany their live shows. To get to their site click on www.thehawklineorchestra.homepage.com. Hip Hop Jazz band DEFINTIVE ARTICLE are currently auditioning MCs, scratch DJs and vocalists for their next phase. Interested parties should go through their website: www.def-art.com. Smooth-like-butter Nu- R'n'B god, KATO LAZAN will be appearing via satellite, live from the R'n'B city at the FREE JUNK TV night, 23rd May at Sanctuary, Brunswick Street East, Brighton, 8pm-12. See Events page for details. Accompanied by an in-house band this will be the K man's first UK appearence. POLA will also be appearing backed by video sampling and a string section. The night is a launch part for BIF's 2nd sampler CD. Check record label for downloads, and below for news.

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16.2.2000

MUSIC: RADIO SQAT presents BUCK IN FUDGY SAMPLER 2 will feature 'All that glitters ain't gold' YELLAH - a new thing with brooding analogue drones and some fine lyricism. 'Uninstrumentalism' MARV versus DEF ART - MARV's remix-in-a-day of Hip Hop Jazzbos treatment of a J-LIFE rap and a Mingus loop. You with me? 'Pleasant Street' MOOKIE - the (now defunct) future jazzers fat blast through the Tim Buckley classic. We saw this one played out in Brighton last year and the roof came off. Believe me. 'Rein me in' FUDGEPACKER - every label has got to have some bad boys and we'd need look no further. Sounds like a chainsaw being dragged through your head whilst an MC5 rawk out duels with an exploding drum machine 'Skating Rink Dub Star Remix' POLA - that lush teutonic, anthemic treatment that sadly didn't make the cut for the single in all of its cheesy wonder. 'The Lech' - a previously unreleased RADIO SQAT sketch about an Oxbridge graduate who is lured by a builder's cleavage into a life of wolf whistles and hod carrying. Also some Old Skool Electro Funk from PLANET AZROD, KATO LAZAN's awesome 'Dissolver' cut featuring Busta & Q-Tip, and a track from Tim Saul (ex-EARTHLING) previously only available on French import. The full 74 minute lick will be available through the site from 6th April. Kato and Brother Devro Lazan are cutting demos for Kato's forthcoming Mini LP along with Ekwajun. The brothers are promising pure R'n'B sex from the left side. Should we take this seriously? Ekwajun? Check out some work in progress downloads some time in March and decide for yourself.

DEFinitive ARTicle have got their website up and flowing at www.def-art.com. Previews of 8 tracks (new and old) are available for streaming on your Real media gizmos.

FILM Marv has just finished a new 5 minute film/moving photograph featuring only two camera shots. It is called Dissolver and features a soundtrack from the super hot 'D'Angelo'. Also a demented epileptic inducing video has been completed for MARV versus DEF ART's (not forgetting Charles Mingus) mix up 'Uninstrumentalism'. IF you don't flip, fit and dribble during a screening the makers guarantee your money back.

This Sunday, 20th February the crew will be gathering in a makeshift film studio in town to shoot the promo for POLA's Skating Rink/This Culture single. We'll post it up after post-production.

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22.01.2000

MUSIC: Still buzzin' from being freed up from Solo duties, MARV (check out the excellent, flowing 'The M Stands for Marvelous' E.P - downloads on the record site) has returned to work on the long awaited SUPER SPATIAL BISCUIT BAND Jazz LP with various MOOKIE members. The CD is due out in the Spring. As a further distraction Marv is threatening a raw sex 'n' grind r'n'b e.p' at some time in the naughties. He is representing the music on behalf of the strange and extremely elusive KATO LAZAN. More sauce as it drips our way.We have it on good authority that Missy Elliot, D'Angelo and Q-Tip are quaking in their special issue Versace Timberlands (with the superfly sequined Gucci laces.)

Marv has enlisted the programming skills of TIM SAUL who is working on another VERY LARGE R'n'Bish project with OTHER PEOPLES in other notable UK & US cities that we are at no liberty to disclose. Tim's last project: producing French / Algerian Trash Reggae Rappers, INTIK for Sony France is currently splashed all over the Gallic glossies to some acclaim.

Following a juicy and Pro(creative) post-New Year reunion after a 5 week separation, the POLA duo, Rochelle and Simon are currently lost in the Lubrizone. When they emerge they will begin collecting the mixes for their debut four song 12". Dub Star's Steve Hillier has turned in a lush, 80s anthemic, Kraftwerk mix of 'Skating Rink' whilst Producer Phil Bodger - soiled by recent associations with Mel B and M People - is trying to fit a re-production mix in between Big Apple trips for those Benjamins. Alarming initial reports that a free white handbag would be given away with the 12" proved unfounded and I can report that the single is sounding Fat, Melodious and Future Funky. Check the record label downloads for a sneak preview. Meanwhile 4 tracks for the second 12" are nearly complete, revealing new twists and rhythms.

Live Spoken Word, Violin, Bass and Drums four-piece, YELLAH, are working on a new mini-LP following bassist, Rupert's, sound beating at the hands of one of Brighton's more agro taxi drivers. The incident is far to sordid to recount but does involve Rupert's notoriously 'closed' wallet. Obviously we'll keep you all updated on the hue of his swollen shiner. The black eye has now passed into a more blood purple stage.

DEFinitive ARTicle are currently editing down a new bunch of tracks for future releases. One includes a treatment of a J-LIVE rap, which the man from Philadelphia's The Unspoken Heard crew gave his blessing at a recent Brighton gig. What a lovely bloke. Marv's remix of said track 'Uninstrumentalism' can be heard on 'The M stands for Marvelous E.P'. (see above). For the direct lick get yourself down to the DEF ART boys' new website at www.def-art.com.

BUCK IN FUDGY is currently in talks with eclectronic musak pioneer FUTURE BEARD aka ALPEN SCALPEK. We're trying to get him to commit a dozen of his thousand or so recordings to what could only be described as a frazzled eruption of an LP. Adrian

THE HAWKLINE ORCHESTRA is still trekking across India mixing sound for the Dalai Lama. Hopefully the venerable Tibetan one will lay down some holy vocals on the boy's portable Mini-disc player for mixing upon his return to England. Tracks finished before his departure are being fiercely guarded by Rochelle although should surface at some point early this year.

Radio Sqat presents BUCK IN FUDGY Sampler 2 out soon. Track details to follow soon.