Chat with creator of Kickass & comic writer Mark Millar
Mark Millar, comic writer and creator of Kickass, chats about Glasgow film festival, plus hear more from Gruff Rhys' Most Played tracks.
Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer. Millar was the highest selling British comic-book writer working in America in the 2000s. His best known works include The Authority, The Ultimates, Wanted, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, and Kick-Ass. In August 2007, he won the Stan Lee award at Wizardworld in Chicago. Millar announced a new British comics magazine anthology in early May 2010 to be launched in September with the name CLiNT. It will feature a sequel to Kick-Ass, as well as work from Jonathan Ross and Frankie Boyle. He'll be talking to Nemone about the Glasgow Film Festival
Tune in each day to hear tracks chosen by Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys. Gruff Rhys checks in with third solo album, Hotel Shampoo, his most ambitious and fully realized yet. As well as the intentions above, Hotel Shampoo is inspired by, and takes its title from, Gruff's extensive collection of mini shampoo bottles and complimentary hotel products acquired whilst touring the world. "Having never kept a journal these items have become like diary entries, triggering memories of all those buildings and random people I've met and inspiring songs on the album.
Plus Video of the Week is She Wants by Metronomy, an electronic music group formed by Joseph Mount in Totnes, Devon, England in 1999. Their music consists of instrumental electronic music and more recently, with the release of Nights Out, vocal electronic pop music. Mount also releases remixes under the name Metronomy, and has remixed many artists including.
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R.E.M.
Mine Smell Like Honey
- Warner Bros..
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Sly & Robbie
Boops (Here To Go)
- 4TH And Broadway.
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Peter Bjorn and John
Second Chance
- Cooking Vinyl.
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The Members
Sound Of The Suburbs
- Virgin.
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Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
Your Dogs
- CD SINGLE.
- NONESUCH.
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Veruca Salt
Seether
- Scared Hitless.
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Elbow
Neat Little Rows
- CD SINGLE.
- Fiction.
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Roni Size / Reprazent
Brown Paper Bag
- Talkin' Loud.
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Deerhunter
Desire Lines
- CD SINGLE.
- 4AD.
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Nana Mouskouri
Soleil Soleil
- Fontana.
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La Roux
In For The Kill
- CD SINGLE.
- Polydor.
- 1.
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Longpigs
On And On
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Ringo Deathstarr
So High
- So High (Single).
- CLUB AC30.
- 1.
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The Undertones
My Perfect Cousin
- Virgin.
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Belle and Sebastian
I Want the World to Stop
- CD SINGLE.
- ROUGH TRADE.
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Ennio Morricone
Per Qualche Dollaro In Piu
- White Label.
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Hole
Malibu
- DGC.
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J Mascis
Not Enough
- CD SINGLE.
- SUBPOP.
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Led Zeppelin
Rock And Roll
- Atlantic.
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The Teardrop Explodes
Treason
- ISLAND.
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Arcade Fire
City With No Children
- CD SINGLE.
- MERCURY.
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Y Niwl
Undegun
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Lene Lovich
Lucky Number
- MCA.
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The Only Ones
Oh Lucinda
- STRANGE FRUIT.
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Wye Oak
Civilian
- CD SINGLE.
- City Slang.
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When Saints Go Machine
Fail Forever
- k7 Recordings.
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Mumford & Sons
Little Lion Man
- CD SINGLE.
- Universal Island.
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Holy Ghost!
Do It Again
- CD SINGLE.
- DFA/Cooperative.
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EPMD
Strictly Business
- COOLTEMPO.
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Electric Light Orchestra
All Over The World
- Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
- Epic.
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Empire of the Sun
We Are The People
- CD SINGLE.
- VIRGIN.
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Tony Williams & The Boat
Get Older
- CD SINGLE.
- Wire Boat Recordings.
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Sex Pistols
EMI
- VIRGIN.
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Mogwai
White Noise
- Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
- Rock Action Records.
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Editors
Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors
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Mystery Jets
Serotonin
- CD SINGLE.
- Rough Trade.
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Broadcast
- Thu 17 Feb 2011 13:00麻豆社 Radio 6 Music