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Compliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

Ben, Phil and Matthew remember the good old days.

Copliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

Compliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

Piper at the New Gateway to Nottingham's Eastside

Compliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

Triffid of the Day.

Compliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

The first rule of Extra Fruit Club...

Compliment Sandwich 'Out 'n' About'

Nobody Puts Baby in the Ikea Storage Container

Like the new My Bloody Valentine album, it's taking a while to get the next lot of podcasts ready. While you wait, why not enjoy 'Compliment Sandwich - Out 'n' About', a photo diary of things we have seen through the lenses of our cameraphones...

Decent Proposal II - no longer provincial

As part of 'Going Public' at Tate Britain, we will be recording another version of Decent Proposal - the fun interactive podcast experience which recreates the harrowing arts proposal and interview process.

Join us at 4pm on Sat 20 March '10 to have a chance of winning one of the many prizes we are hurriedly making right now.

Decent Proposal: The Musical

We're back! We've been away working on our other enterprises - musical pies, computer beetles, cars, touchscreens in waiting rooms, cape hill asda pavilion etc etc - but now, strong on sherry and german biscuits, we've reset our funny bones to bring you:

A PODCAST RECORDED TWO MONTHS AGO!

In this special 'Headphones' edition, recorded at Eastside Projects' Comedy Night, you can listen to the results of our hilarious scheme 'Decent Proposal' in lo-definition stereo.

Thanks to Gavin Wade, Karen Guthrie, Bedwyr Williams, Adam Sutherland, Maria Benjamin, the good people of Birmingham, the bad people of solihull.

The podcast ends with Adam Sutherland's one man battle against the sixties.

Enjoy! New Year, New Yeah!

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Decent Proposal

Thanks to Sebastian Coe and friends there is no more money for arts funding.

Gone are the days of actually being asked to show at a gallery. Now you have to compete ruthlessly with your former friends and tutors from art school by making proposals and being interviewed about them.

Join us at Eastside Projects, Birmingham, and bring your proposals. You will be given the opportunity to put forward your ideas to a board of top Arts professionals who will offer feedback and maybe a tax free R&D budget, who knows...


'Decent Proposal' will be podcast as part of the Compliment Sandwich outreach initiative.


Part of:

Abstract Cabinet Comedy Night
Featuring:
Grizedale Arts, Bedwyr Williams, Juneau Project

Thursday 8 October, 7pm

Part of Birmingham Comedy Festival
2 - 11 October 2009
www.bhamcomfest.co.uk

Join us for a night of comedy at Eastside Projects featuring Bedwyr Willams performing his sermon 'Methodist To My Madness' and Grizedale Arts will be doing a comedic John Ruskin style presentation supported by Juneau Projects.

Events: Comedy Night: 7pm Thursday 8 October (Birmingham Comedy Festival 2-11 October 2009 www.bhamcomfest.co.uk)
Mother of All Book Launches: 6.30 – 7.30pm Thursday 22 October
The Event: Launch night: 8 - 12pm Friday 6 November (The Event 5 - 8 November 2009 www.the-event.org)

Eastside Projects
86 Heath Mill Lane,
Digbeth
Birmingham B9 4AR

Cardboard Wars Update

Are you interested in cardboard, or fighting, or both? Then why not have a look the images from Cardboard Wars: here

Juneau Projects are looking for participants for this event/artwork - Birmingham 22 Aug

Expand Your Widget

In this episode we give 'shout-outs' to our listeners, have a go at some 'role-reversal' and discuss the kind of 'porn' a mac user would like.


get complimented on your sandwich here or if you are the kind of dirty mac user who uses pinch technology to hide your hot corners then go to iTunes and download the shiny filth.

thanks to steve shure and tom behringer for providing the excellent microphone technology employed in our 'What Hi-Fi?'approved introduction.
thanks also to all the people working slavishly behind the scenes to ensure that we bring you only the best in stumbling inarticulacy.
Jingle: 48661__Deathx1__Segue_Organ from www.freesound.org, hosted at the internet archive, ta!

Smarties Quiz - A Game For Tubes

Phil and Ben do a quiz to make them happy . Smarties are the prize money. Then they talk openly about their preconceptions of what the other one would do in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

If anyone is out there and reads this we will be at the foot of the Rotunda from Midday to Dusk each day, over. You are not alone over. We have supplies and rations, over.

we speak into your ears via the interthingy here

hosted at the internet archive, but I don't think they've listened to it

Sample in quiz section 8156__kollege__systemstart from www.freesound.org thanks! Also thanks to Wagner.

Ben is Late

Ben is always late to the studio so Phil tries to find a way to use this time by doing secret podcasting - but will he be discovered?


as you know, we park 'compliment sandwich' here, courtesy of the very kind people at the internet archive, who work tirelessly to archive the whole of the internet

http://ia331405.us.archive.org/2/items/ComplimentSandwich06BenIsLate/ComplimentSandwich06BenIsLate.mp3

but we are not outside fashion or the age we live in, so we demand that you download it from itunes

Go To Woolworths: A Millennial Insult

Compliment Sandwich podcast 05 is now edited and ready to hit the information waves.

This episode was recorded live at Stanley Picker Gallery in February 2009. What began as a fun pub quiz soon devolved into a tortuous experience for all involved. Many of the rounds had to be left out, champagne was stolen from fridges and wet sponges were thrown at one and all.

Quiz team names included:
- Untitled (predominantly made up of Arts Professionals)
- The Bap Tizered (predominantly made up of art students)
- The Lovers (a couple)
- Team Tollywood (glamorous ladies)
- The Wank Stains (keeping it real)

Quiz team names not used:
- Quizteam Aguillera
- Quizzy Rascal
- Quizmas Time, Mistletoe and Wine
- I Just Want Your Extra Time and Your ......... Quiz!

Prizes included:
- Sparkling wine
- Bacardi Breezers
- Snowballs
- Chocolate coins
- A mug

Many Thanks to the judging panel and to all the participants. It was a killer evening. General Knowledge is still recovering from the event. It was so awesome he had to miss drill practice the next day.

Compliment Sandwich 05 is here:

http://ia331413.us.archive.org/3/items/ComplimentSandwich05PubQuiz/ComplimentSandwich05PubQuiz.mp3

But get it from iTunes because it is shiny

Uber Kunstler

There are a lot of artists in the world. Some of them look quite a lot like each other. Some look like younger versions of older artists. And vice versa. Each artist could have a long line of look-alike understudies to carry on their work.

This being the case perhaps we should begin to consolidate this mass of beards, themes, hangups, esoteric interests, rare LPs, impenetrable press releases, social skills etc into 12 UBER KUNSTLERS, like the 12 signs of the zodiac:

They include:

- Naked Performance Uber Kunstler, including live action painting, performances with food, unrehearsed dance and bodily fluids

- Graphic Designer as Artist artist will design the catalogue as their contribution to a group show

- Provincial Kunstler, regional to the end

- Reflexive Reference artist, linking terrorists to Bauhaus to Antonioni to Hungry Hippos, the hipness is in the obscurity

- Technology and Glasses artist, best viewed full screen at 1244x890 pixels on Lynx 4.1.1, the true believers in web based art projects

- Nature Imagery Kunstmiester, antlers on everything

- Participation Artcaptian gets children to make their work for them, CRB checked

- Collaborative duo/team democrartists incorporating nomadic practice, let's talk it out, let's hive

You can make up the rest.

Did You Spill My Becks?

Are you worried about art gallery private view etiquette?

Why not cultivate the specific look of a more successful European or American artist. You will soon be surrounded by a crowd of admirers who have mistaken you for the fiscally independent art star and will tell you how much they liked your piece at Frieze or offer their email address written on a flyer for an exhibition at a local artists run space. Perhaps you could collaborate on something? They have a title but no ideas for the content yet. The title is usually 'Sad Meat'

Alternatively you could find out which pub everyone is meeting in afterward and leave the opening before the speeches or performances start. Find a seat in the corner and try to look casually violent. Also be rude and obnoxious.

Who Commentates on the Commentators?

Beer and Wine? Fine. Wine and Beer? Splendid.

In this episode we discuss quietly amongst ourselves such topics as real ale (the pitfalls of), coffee (the pitfalls of), beards (the pitfalls of), your voice (the intricacies of) and the previous podcast (how reflexive!).

Guest jingles provided by a slowed down midi version of Snap's 'Rhythm is a Dancer'.

Compliment Sandwhich 04 is here:

http://ia310815.us.archive.org/1/items/ComplimentSandwich04/ComplimentSandwich04.mp3

But get it from informationTunes or somewhere because we are all about checking the stats

Pick Your Favorite Note and Sing it

Top of the Pods

In this episode we explore the music of young through the format of a questionnaire.

Q 14. Why did the mullet stop being a popular haircut and why?

It is still a popular haircut in my eyes.

Q 16. What is your favorite beat?

Sugar



Compliment Sandwhich 03 is here:
http://ia331406.us.archive.org/3/items/ComplimentSandwich03/ComplimentSandwich03.mp3

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Dead Men Wear Plaid

As the final survivor in a post-apocalyptic society populated by flesh-eating zombies:

Ben would:

- live in Dudley Zoo
- befriend animals giving them names such as Reasonable Gareth, Grandad and Chelmsley Wood
- build an enormous unfinished scalextric track/ fantasy wargame
- shave off his beard as there would be no-one left to mock his weak jaw line and round face

Phil would:
- relocate centre of operations to pub
- devote a number of buildings to his collections of interesting handicrafts
- drive a number of vehicles, hand-painted with made-up emblems
- record endless podcasts, referring to the many notes stored upon his mobile phone

Message ends.

Money money money money....money

HI,

I HAVE TO WRITE THIS IN UPPER CASE AS I FEEL SLIGHTLY INSANE TODAY. YESTERDAY WAS OFFICIAL 'JUNEAU PROJECTS FILLING IN YOUR TAX FORM IF YOUR NAME IS BEN DAY'. THIS APPLIED TO ME AND SO I FILLED IN MY TAX FORM. I HAVE WOEFULLY UNDERESTIMATED HOW MUCH I OWE AND MUST NOW LIVE ON DUST AND RAIN WATER FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. THIS IS GOOD. THIS IS CHARACTER BUILDING.

I ALSO DISCOVERED A BEARD ALPHABET THAT INDICATES I AM A BEARD LETTER 'A'. WHAT BEARD LETTER ARE YOU? A FUN GAME FOR ALL THE FAMILY NO? I AM STILL YET TO TELL PHIL THAT I FEEL LIKE A BEARDLESS CHILD IN A BEARDED MAN'S BODY. BYE BYE.

Listener Survey!

We have reached 10 listeners, during some timeslots on some days, so we thought it was high time we conducted a listener survey. Here are some of the results:

iTunes (Windows) [10%] said: I listened to all of episode two and half of episode one but i didn't hear my name mentioned once.

iTunes (Mac) [10%] said: I have listened to side A three times now but not side B yet.

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Ale will cure you

It takes a lifetime of letdowns to make bitter men...

We recently discovered a drink that will not give you a hangover. Ale. Under the tutelage of the wizards who prop up the bar at our local CAMRA pub - who will tell you which ale to drink by conducting a short questionnaire about your usual drinking habits - we have discovered that we are able to drink either the darkest or lightest ales with impunity. I suppose this is because lager has chemicals which give you a headache, specially added after market research.

For what ales you...

I have always been a bit suspicious of real ale, especially when drunk by young people. The much-too-young connoisseur is a particular kind problem. Real ale is the thin end of the wedge. Other topics frequented by the early adopter include the haiku, clove cigarettes, sake, jazz and smoking a pipe.

Beards - a millennial problem

As someone who only ever has 'long stubble', I have always tried to distance myself from the world of beards - I am never keen to join in with activities which encourage other people to discuss or compliment any aspect of my physical appearance. Ben, as you know, has a medium to large beard most of the time and I understand from him that such discussions are commonplace from both men and women in the pubs and art venues of Birmingham and London. I am awaiting reports from Sheffield.

I always imagine a beard is a physical manifestation of some kind of personal episode such as no longer being able to use the darkrooms at Vivid as a place to hang out, or a love failure of some sort. But that's just me - it is in fact a kind of social lubricant or fellowship - a hipster badge of honour which makes your face into a little furry logo. Why not, eh?

Have you ever left a comment in a comments book? I have several favorites including 'The menu stated sandwiches served with chips - but what we were served are CRISPS - this is a vulgar Americanism!'. I hope one day to publish a collection of comments from such books. It is my vision.

Marx and Engelsbert

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Episode 3 is in the can. It was recorded at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames last week and features the audiences answers to a questionnaire about modern music, from the Bash Street Kids to L.A.T.E.S.T A.C.R.O.N.Y.M, with hilarious results.

We will be posting it up AYBABTU,

regards

jp