Artrocker is a UK-based collective involved in music promotion and publishing. It was started by Paul Cox and Tom Fawcett who had been co-promoters of a London night called The Sausage Machine. Having started life with an online newsletter and event promotion in 2001, it has since expanded into various endeavours including a monthly magazine , various websites, a record label, video production, and a weekly radio show. Artrocker has a reputation for talent-spotting and supporting bands before they become well known. They were the first promoters to bring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Black Keys to the UK and the first to put on concerts in London by The Datsuns , Maxïmo Park , and The Futureheads .
31-572: Artrocker launched a bi-weekly magazine in October 2004. It has since become a monthly title. Artrocker.com is the original Artrocker website and was created as an offshoot of the online newsletter in 2002. It split from the magazine in 2008 and now runs independently of that publication. Artrocker.tv is the official Artrocker magazine website. Artrocker hosts regular club nights in London and Brighton. It also participates in various large-scale events, notably
62-706: A four-year hiatus, the station returned on 1 May 2002 as part of the Ofcom Access Radio Pilot Scheme from studios on Denmark Street in the Soho area of London's West End . Resonance was awarded a five-year Community Radio licence in December 2005, enabling the station to broadcast 24/7. Ofcom extended the station's FM broadcasting licence in July 2010. Resonance FM resumed scheduled broadcasting in September 2007 after
93-547: A programme presented by the staff of the experimental music magazine The Wire to Calling All Pensioners , which aims to inform the elderly about local events and benefits entitlement. Live music sessions are featured on shows such as Hello Goodbye , You Are Hear , Hooting Yard on the Air, and Glass Shrimp . Other shows include foreign-language programmes aimed at communities in London that are not served by other broadcasters. In addition to locally produced programming, Resonance
124-421: A radical alternative to mainstream broadcasting. Resonance 104.4 FM features programmes made by musicians, artists and critics who represent the diversity of London’s arts scenes, with regular weekly contributions from nearly two hundred musicians, artists, thinkers, critics, activists and instigators; plus numerous unique broadcasts by artists on the weekday "Clear Spot". The station presents material ranging from
155-655: A second concert hall and an art gallery on the eastern part of the South Bank site previously occupied by a lead works and shot tower (and which had been earmarked as a site for the National Theatre ). It was another 12 years before the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the linked Purcell Room opened to the public. Together, they were to be known as South Bank Concert Halls. In 1968, the Hayward opened, under direct management of
186-536: A short hiatus whilst moving into a new studio building on Borough High Street , Southwark ; a short walk from the area where they launched in 1998. In 2011, Resonance presented a six-week exhibit at the Raven Row Gallery Exhibit in East London. The exhibition theme was the relation of sound to art, and included work from Max Eastley and Takehisa Kosugi . The station is broadcast from a transmitter on
217-663: A three-mile (4.8 km) radius on 104.4 MHz FM from a transmitter on the roof of Guy's Hospital at London Bridge . Its schedule includes nearly 100 shows catering to many sub-communities of the London area on a wide variety of subjects including a multitude of musical genres, local and foreign current affairs and subjects of local interest. Noted for its policy of giving broadcasters free rein of their creative outlet, it has been described by Time Out as "brilliantly eccentric". The station receives funding grants from Arts Council England . The station describes itself as "the world's first radio art station" which aims to provide
248-479: A wing running parallel to Waterloo Bridge behind the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium. Its features were to include a glass pavilion, new arts spaces, a literature centre, cafes and commercial units. The proposed alterations would have replaced the skate park which has developed in the undercroft , hailed as the birthplace of British skateboarding, with retail units to fund the new arts spaces. By May 2014,
279-1028: Is a complex of artistic venues in London , England, on the South Bank of the River Thames (between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge ). It comprises three main performance venues (the Royal Festival Hall including the National Poetry Library , the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room ), together with the Hayward Gallery , and is Europe’s largest centre for the arts. It attracted 4.36 million visitors during 2019. Over two thousand paid performances of music, dance and literature are staged at Southbank Centre each year, as well as over two thousand free events and an education programme, in and around
310-468: Is a member of Radia and a rebroadcaster of American news program Democracy Now! . Resonance FM has received a Sony Award nomination for The Good Drugs Guide , a documentary series presented by Piers Gibbon and David McCandless . The station has been profiled in the pages of The Guardian , The Independent on Sunday , The Daily Telegraph and the Morning Star amongst others. In 2006
341-588: The Arts Council . The new buildings had their main entrances at first floor level and were integrated into an extensive elevated concrete walkway system linked to the Royal Festival Hall and the Shell Centre . This vertical separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic proved unpopular due to the difficulty pedestrians had in navigating through the complex, and the dark and under-used spaces at ground level below
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#1732868746761372-480: The London Musicians' Collective (LMC). The station is staffed by four permanent staff members, including programme controller Ed Baxter and over 300 volunteer technical and production staff. Until September 2007, its studios were located on Denmark Street before moving to its second location at 144 Borough High Street , Southwark. The station is now located at 7 Risborough Street , Southwark, and broadcasts to
403-488: The South Bank Centre , curated by John Peel . The station operated from the Royal Festival Hall on a month-long Restricted Service Licence on 107.3 FM. Phil England, an organiser of the original broadcast, described the origins of the station in a text written to accompany the printed programme. The aim, he wrote, was "to raise the specter of radio art in a country where the notion has no common currency". After
434-769: The Women of the World Festival , Madani Younis (previously Artistic Director at the Bush Theatre ) was appointed to the new role of Creative Director from January 2019, to work alongside Gillian Moore, the Director of Music, and Ralph Rugoff , Director of the Hayward Gallery. Younis resigned in October 2019. The role of artistic director remained vacant until the appointment of the former creative director of Manchester International Festival , Mark Ball who took up his position at
465-515: The Jubilee Gardens Trust and the car park on the remaining land beyond Hungerford Bridge was sold in 2013, to extend the gardens as part of the Shell Centre redevelopment. The site is next to the National Theatre and BFI Southbank , but does not include them. The closest Underground stations are Waterloo and Embankment . Misan Harriman became chairman of the Board of Governors of
496-578: The Southbank Centre in 2022, succeeding Susan Gilchrist, who had held the role since 2016. Elaine Bedell was appointed as Chief Executive in 2017; from 2009 to 2016 that position was held by Alan Bishop, former chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi International and Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information . September 2005 saw the arrival of Jude Kelly as the centre's Artistic Director. After Kelly stepped down in order to devote herself to
527-721: The Southbank in January 2022. The history of Southbank Centre starts with the Festival of Britain , held in 1951. In what was described as "a tonic for the nation" by Herbert Morrison , the Labour Party government minister responsible for the event, the Festival of Britain aimed to demonstrate Britain’s recovery from World War II by showcasing the best in science, technology, arts and industrial design. It ran from May to September 1951, and by June
558-508: The Underage festivals. Paul Artrocker presents a weekly show on Resonance.fm which is also syndicated online. The Artrocker label is now defunct. It was host to such bands as The Gin Palace, Ten Benson, Mighty Fraff, Electric Shocks, The Hells and The Hotwires. Resonance fm Resonance 104.4 FM is a London based non-profit community radio station specialising in the arts run by
589-479: The campaign group strongly opposing the proposals called Long Live Southbank had gained over 120,000 members. As well as the skateboarders, the National Theatre also had objections. In early 2014, the scheme was put on hold when the Mayor of London, then Boris Johnson , said he would not support removal of the skateboarding area from the Queen Elizabeth Hall undercroft to under Hungerford Bridge. The development of
620-487: The east side of the RFH, running along Belvedere Road towards the Shell Centre was removed in 1999–2000, to restore ground level circulation. The Waterloo Site (the late 1960s buildings) has been the subject of various plans for modification or reconstruction, in particular a scheme developed by Richard Rogers in the mid-1990s which would have involved a great glass roof over the existing three buildings. This did not proceed due to
651-509: The following year most of it had been dismantled, following the victory of Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party in the general election of 1951. The Royal Festival Hall is the only building from the Festival of Britain that survives. From 1962 to 1965, the Royal Festival Hall was extended towards the river and Waterloo station and refurbished. The London County Council (later, Greater London Council ) decided in 1955 to build
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#1732868746761682-518: The high degree of National Lottery funding required and likely high cost. In 2000, a masterplan for the South Bank Centre site was produced. The main features were In line with the plans, in 2006-7 a new glass-fronted building was created to provide office space for Southbank Centre staff as well as a range of new shops and restaurants. This was inserted between the RFH and the approach viaduct to Hungerford Bridge . New restaurants and shops along
713-506: The low level Thames elevation of the Royal Festival Hall replaced an earlier cafeteria area and accompanied pedestrianisation of this frontage, achieved by removing the circulation road. Between 2005 and 2007 the Festival Hall auditorium was modified, the natural acoustic enhanced to meet classical music requirements. Seating was also reconfigured, together with upgrades to production facilities and public areas, with provision of new bar areas,
744-445: The performing arts venues. In addition, three to six major art exhibitions are presented at the Hayward Gallery yearly, and national touring exhibitions reach over 100 venues across the UK. Southbank Centre's site, which formerly extended to 21 acres (85,000 m ) from County Hall to Waterloo Bridge , is fronted by The Queen’s Walk . In 2012 management of Jubilee Gardens transferred to
775-448: The removal of most shops from foyer spaces, and refurbished lifts and WCs. In early 2013 the Southbank Centre unveiled plans, which soon became a source of vigorous debate, for alterations to the Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall dubbed the "Festival Wing", funded by Arts Council England . The proposal would have provided arts spaces in a new high level L-shaped building linking the Hayward Gallery and Purcell Room buildings and with
806-438: The roof of Guy's Hospital at London Bridge on 104.4 MHz FM. The transmission power is low compared with London's main radio stations due to the terms of its community radio licence. It can be received throughout central London but does not cover the whole Greater London area. Interference from local pirate radio stations, particularly at weekends, has been and is a problem in some areas. It can also be streamed from
837-655: The scheme was granted planning permission in May 2015. The Southbank Centre also received funding for the conservation and limited alteration scheme, known as "Let the Light In", from the Heritage Lottery Fund and was raising funds from individuals for the final £3 million required. This more conservation-orientated approach has also included joining with the National Trust to make the centre's 1960s buildings' contribution to
868-699: The station was nominated for "The Community Award" by the Sony Radio Academy Awards , but has won the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Award for London for three consecutive years between 2009 and 2011 Station manager Ed Baxter was nominated for "Programmer of the Year" by the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2010. The London Musicians' Collective originally put together a four-week programme of radio art as part of 1998's Meltdown festival at
899-478: The station's web site. Resonance uploads every show to its MixCloud account throughout each day. The station receives funding grants from Arts Council England as part of the national portfolio funding programme, which began in 2012. The grant for 2012–2013 was £160,000; 2013–2014 £163,680; 2014–2015 £167,936. 51°30′10″N 0°05′33″W / 51.50278°N 0.09250°W / 51.50278; -0.09250 Southbank Centre Southbank Centre
930-514: The undercroft area was a key commercial and financing feature of the Festival Wing new building proposal and the scheme could not proceed in its proposed form without the commercial development or substitute funding which was not available in the amounts required. Arts Council England awarded a £16m grant towards a two-year programme of repairs and conservation work on the Queen Elizabeth Hall , Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery in May 2014 and
961-615: The walkways. Following abolition of the Greater London Council in 1986, the South Bank Board was formed to take over operational control of the concert halls. The following year, the South Bank Board took over the administrative running of the Hayward from the Arts Council . Collectively, the arts venues, along with Jubilee Gardens, became the South Bank Centre, responsible to Arts Council England as an independent arts institution (after transitional arrangements). The walkway on