The Clint Show
James Oldham’s weekly radio show is broadcast on Wednesday 8pm (repeated on Thursdays at 10am) on Resonance 104.4 FM and Resonance Extra in London. Each week, Clint interviews guests, plays synthpop records and performs alongside guests live on air. Oldham thinks of these episodes as improvised portraits using broadcast as a medium.
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22nd July 2026
Episode 19
Neil Luck
Clint and Neil dicuss taste, leaf blowing, and avocado stones. With Clint’s executive producer Jack Synnott in the studio and Resonance FM newcomer Iris Flint.
tracklist:
Syreeta – Can’t Shake Your Love
DJ SMILEY BOBBY – Drum Exercise For Sound System (90-110 bpm mix)
Adam de la Cour – Holy Tolendo
Sugai Ken – Gendaihooooougaku
Neil Luck – Unmeasured Prelude 4
Celtic Roots – Lord of the Dance
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15th July 2026
Episode 18
Howard Skempton
Clint and Howard are live commentators on the Fifa World Cup Semi Final between England and Argentina. Occassionally the coverage segues into discussions of cricket, slowness, Morton Feldman. With guest producer Stella Corrá.
tracklist:
Vicious Pink – Spooky
Eve Couturier - Feel So
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 4
The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
Howard Skempton - In Cuba They Play With Maracas [LIVE]
Howard Skempton - First Prelude [LIVE]
1st July 2026
Episode 17
Themba Mvula
Clint and Themba talk about the potential of opera.
tracklist:
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy
Cameo - Candy
Dirty Freud - Break Slow Fast
Benjamin Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings: Pastoral - The Day’s Grown Old
Lingua Ignota - MAN IS LIKE A SPRING FLOWER
Joe Cutler - Music for Cello & Strings: II. Unstoppable. With Flair
Beverly Glenn-Copeland - La Vita
Du Yun - The Angel’s Bone: Scene IV: I’ve Been Blessed
Waste Paper Opera - Free to Choose: Tose Aria
19th June 2026
Episode 16
Angela Wai Nok Hui
Clint and Angela talk about bells, the absence of sound of wind, and radio time. With Clint’s executive producer Jack Synnott.
tracklist:
Desireless - Voyage voyage
Video Sex - Detektivska priča
Hidden Keileon - Plum Crumble
Max Tundra - Lights
Fay Wong - 曖昧 (Album Version)
Frank Sinatra - The World We Knew (Over And Over)
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Clint - Clint Show Theme (Pink Suit)
Miles Davis - Stella By Starlight
Sarah Vaughan - I Feel Pretty
10th June 2026
Episode 15
Phone in Special
Clint’s first phone in show. With Clint’s executive producer Jack Synnott + engineer/glockenspielist Eleni Morgan.
tracklist:
Slagsmålsklubben - Speedboats
Supergrass - Sometimes You Make Me Sad
Deerhoof - Super Duper Rescue Heads !
Sergei Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87, Act 2: No. 38, Midnight
Stereolab - Metronomic Underground
James Oldham - From the Bald Soprano [PERFORMED LIVE BY CLINT]
Moondog - High on a Rocky Ledge [PERFORMED LIVE BY CLINT]
Portishead - Plastic
Sidney Bechet - Summertime
Sidney Bechet - Blame it on the Blues
Dorcha - Black Streams
3rd June 2026
Episode 14
GUEST HOST Jack Synnott
Jack guest hosts The Clint Show!
tracklist:
The Joubert Singers – Stomp
Vig Mihály - Eső, Pt. 2
Mimi and Richard Fariña – Reno Nevada
Derek Bailey - G.e.b. - (In Memory of My Father George Edward Bailey)
DJ Rashad (feat. Freshmoon) – Everybody
Dave Van Ronk – House Carpenter
The Yoyodyne Corporation – Airstrip One [Performed Live]
The Fall – New Face in Hell
John Fahey – Sligo River Blues
Jorge Ben Jor – Taj Mahal
Leonard Cohen – In the Eyes of Men He Falls
I Dreamed I Dream – TinTin Haircut
Duke Ellington – Dancers in Love
Exuma – Monkberry Moon Delight
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Child of a Few Hours Is Burning to Death
Canned Heat – Going Up the Country
27th May 2026
Episode 13
Clint
Just Clint!
tracklist:
Michael Jackson – The Way You Make Me Feel
Erasure - A Little Respect
Malcolm McClaren – Shall We Dance? (Introducing Pretty Fatt)
Cameron Graham - Joy
DJ Rashad (feat. Freshmoon) – Everybody
Brahja Waldman – Sniffing Tears
Oskar Schönning – JAG VILL BYTA UT MINA MINNEN
David Byrne – Empire
Aaron Dilloway – After the Showers
David Byrne – In Heaven (From Eraserhead)
Hanns Eisler – Das Vorbild: III. Symbolum “Des Manes Wandeln”
Howard Skempton – Chamber Concerto: III. Grazioso
Missy Mazzoli – Vespers for a New Dark Age: III. Interlude 1
Jean-François Dutertre – L’amante du dauphin
Jan Valta – Poverty and Famine
Alice Coltrane – Govinda Jai Jai
20th May 2026
Episode 12
Chloe Roe + Jack Lynch
An interview at Chloe and Jack’s apartment surrounded by many producers in suits, featuring guest interview with Carly Ecstasy and her manager Phil Tone.
tracklist:
Vicious Pink – Cccan’t You See
Melody’s Echo Chamber – I Follow You
Jack Lynch – Night Blooming Jasmine
Yoink – Promoter Bashing
Robert Ashley – Improvement: The Big City (Sc. 13)
Decor – Bake Sale
Howard Skempton – Feuille d’album for organ
Different Plants – Synthetic Cages
13th May 2026
Episode 11
Joseph Keckler
Clint goes to Joseph’s apartment for strong coffee and daytime candlelit conversation talking about The Broadway Triangle, John Moran, lieder, Lydia Lunch, and Joseph reads excerpts of his writings.
tracklist:
Molly Nilsson – A Slice of Lemon
Moondog – Stamping Grounds
Joseph Keckler – Believer
Joseph Keckler – Der Tod [by Schubert] from Für Joseph
John Moran + Joseph Keckler – The Hallway Song from Für Joseph
John Moran – Herbert the Saddening Clown
Lydia Lunch + Clint Ruin – Serpentine
Lydia Lunch + Joseph Keckler – [EXCERPT] Backwater
Joseph Keckler – Navigator (recorded live at the MET Museum)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – International
activity
UPCOMING EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]
2026
15 July
[radio show]
The Clint Show on Resonance FM, with Howard Skempton. 8pm BST on 104.4fm or via resonancefm.com
17 July
[solo performance]
A performance of solo comedy and music material for ‘Hope So’: a fundraiser for Lebanese Red Cross at The Ivy House, London
22 July
[radio show]
The Clint Show on Resonance FM, with Neil Luck. 8pm BST on 104.4fm or via resonancefm.com
2 August
[Reading]
Readings About Laughing
Readings About… is a new literary event in which writers respond to a theme. This time, it’s LAUGHING.
🤣😜😆🤭😝😹😂🤣😜😆🤭😝😹😂🤣😜😆🤭😝😹😂🤣😜😆🤭😝😹😂
🗓️ Sunday 2nd August
📍 Joyce, 294 Brockley Road
⏱️ From 6 PM
Readers: Holly Pester, Asprey Liu, Fintan Calpin, James Oldham, Husna Rizvi, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo. Hosted by Amelia Horgan.
RECENT PAST EVENTS [composition] [performance] [workshop]
2026
7 - 12 March
[UK & Ireland tour]
At a Safe Distance tour 2026 with Ellie Westbrook, Natacha Diels and guest artists in each location. Ellie and I will be performing the Human Scene from Waste Paper Opera’s 2020 production Syrup Tracing; or on the significance of rising and/or falling. We will also perform new work and sequences alongside a new set by Natacha Diels, which comprises At a Safe Distance. Dublin, Cork, Oxford, Hastings, London
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27 January
[chorus session]
I’ll be leading the first Waste Paper Opera Chorus session of the year, featuring projects and exercises from Milo Thesger-Meacham, Collette Sheddick, Dan Rhys Wakefield, and WPO directors Klara Kofen and myself. From 6:30-9pm at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Peckham, London
[UK & Ireland tour]
At a Safe Distance tour 2026 with Ellie Westbrook, Natacha Diels and guest artists in each location. Ellie and I will be performing the Human Scene from Waste Paper Opera’s 2020 production Syrup Tracing; or on the significance of rising and/or falling. We will also perform new work and sequences alongside a new set by Natacha Diels, which comprises At a Safe Distance. Dublin, Cork, Oxford, Hastings, London
27 January
[chorus session]
I’ll be leading the first Waste Paper Opera Chorus session of the year, featuring projects and exercises from Milo Thesger-Meacham, Collette Sheddick, Dan Rhys Wakefield, and WPO directors Klara Kofen and myself. From 6:30-9pm at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Peckham, London
4 February
[radio show/hosting]
The Clint Show is a brand new radio series on Resonance FM. Weekly episodes on Wednesdays at 8pm and repeated on Thursdays at 10am.
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[radio show/hosting]
The Clint Show is a brand new radio series on Resonance FM. Weekly episodes on Wednesdays at 8pm and repeated on Thursdays at 10am.
2 February
[performance]
Leo Elia – Scarecrows of SASKAN: Live Action Remake, Playbill Prologue, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
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[performance]
Leo Elia – Scarecrows of SASKAN: Live Action Remake, Playbill Prologue, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg
2025
29 March
[performance]
Appearance with Anat Ben-David on the Hello Goodbye Show with deXter Bentley on Resonance FM talking about our process and performing live on air
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[performance]
Appearance with Anat Ben-David on the Hello Goodbye Show with deXter Bentley on Resonance FM talking about our process and performing live on air
10 March
[writing]
I am making an experimental 5-part radio series with Neil Luck and Milo Thesiger-Meacham, which will be launched in 2026. The ‘writers’ room’ session at upstairs at The Kings’ Arms in Borough was a drinking and writing session with invited writers to create a radio episode where the writing is a texture of the broadcast, London
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[writing]
I am making an experimental 5-part radio series with Neil Luck and Milo Thesiger-Meacham, which will be launched in 2026. The ‘writers’ room’ session at upstairs at The Kings’ Arms in Borough was a drinking and writing session with invited writers to create a radio episode where the writing is a texture of the broadcast, London
22 February
[curation/hosting]
I programmed and hosted an experimental performance event called Radio Killed the Video Star bringing together music, comedy, performance art, video and DJs. This was a fundraiser event for Resonance FM produced collaboratively with Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Spike Silverton at Spanners Club, London
21 February – 11 May
[composition/screening]
Free to Choose screening with new installation by Bahar Noorizadeh at FACT, Liverpool
2024
19 December[performance]
A set of songs written with Anat Ben-David, performed at Signature Dish, a Resonance FM fundraiser event at All is Joy, London
17 October – 14 December
[installation/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce installation by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera at Soft Ground, Sheffield
20 November
[chorus]
Waste Paper Opera chorus session R&Ding new works by Steve Potter, George Ridgway and João Ruivo. 6-9pm – all with an interest in singing are welcome. The session took place at The Old Nunshead pub, London
31 October
[performance]
Performance of Robert Ashley’s The Wolfman at Music We’d Like to Fear, London
12 October
[composition/performance]
Dead Cat Bounce performance with Waste Paper Opera at Soft Ground, Sheffield
25 July
[composition/performance]
Dead Cat Bounce performance with Waste Paper Opera at Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
4 July
[composition/performance]
New Waste Paper Opera show abstracts, with love at Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster
21 June
[composition/performance]
All the Whistlers performance with Aliaskar Abarkas at CAPC, Bordeaux
19 April
[composition/performance]
Dead Cat Bounce performance with Waste Paper Opera at Eastside Projects, Birmingham
7 April
[composition/performance]
Performance of songs and comedy at The Piper, St. Leonards
11 March
[composition/performance]
Performance of Jeremiah + Assassins scenes from Dead Cat Bounce for Resonance FM takeover at Cafe OTO, London
9 February
[composition/performance]
Free to Choose at Open Lab #03 at Matadero, Madrid
18 November 2023 – 24 March 2024
[composition/screening]
Free to Choose at Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
11 January
[composition/performance]
Live performance of Free to Choose at Iklectik
2023
3 December[composition/performance]
New devised work with Waste Paper Opera Chorus wearing Moina Moin’s sculptures at Lewisham Arthouse, London
22 November
[performance]
Performing Anytime Return by Milo Thesiger-Meacham at Iklectik, London
29 September
[original music]
Premiere of The Tourist by Gary Zhexi Zhang at Art Gallery of York University (AGyu), Toronto
15 August
[composition/performance]
Performance of new improvised set with Martin Thomlinson at Somers Gallery for the opening of Anna Suwalowska’s exhibition Psychogical Landscapes Journey Within as part of Camden Inspire, London
28 July
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at AMOK, Artefact, Birmingham
19 July
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
4 July
[performance]
Performance of Somewhere Beautiful by Natacha Diels with Plus Minus Ensemble at Cafe Oto, London
26 June
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at Depot 48, Dehli
23 June
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Beirut Art Center, Beirut
21 June
[composition]
Performance of 10 Songs of Limited Context by Paul Zaba at Bangalore International Centre, Dehli
5-27 May
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at The Brick Theater, New York
23 May
[composition/performance]
Performance of solo routine for Salon at Brick Aux, New York
4 May
[composition/screening]
Screening of Free to Choose by Bahar Noorizadeh at Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
14-15 April
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Indexical, Santa Cruz
13 April
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Stanford University, California
30 March
[performance]
Launch of Anat Ben-David’s Conversations EP, London
16-17 March
[performance]
Performances of HOUSECONCERT with Object Collection at Cafe Oto, London
9 March
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop Create the World at Central Saint Martins, London
1 March
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 4: Bodies, budgets and things on stage in opera at London Performance Studios, London
22 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 3: Continuity and Discontinuity: History and Musical Timing at London Performance Studios, London
17 February
[composition/performance]
New work at AMOK at Artefact Projects, Birmingham
15 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 2: Immovable Dramaturgical Objects: working with physical and ephemeral structures at London Performance Studios, London
8 February
[workshop]
Waste Paper Opera workshop series Approaches to New Music Theatre: time, space, movement – Session 1: Language and Music on Stage at London Performance Studios, London
29 January
[composition/performance]
Radio performance of extracts of Dead Cat Bounce and new material on Resonance Extra, live from Resonance Extra project space, London
2022
12 December
[performance/clown]
Live performance of Good Soup with Ensmeble Molière at NCEM, York
13 October
[performance]
Video performance in Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down, peformed live at Cafe OTO, London
[performance]
Video performance in Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down, peformed live at Cafe OTO, London
6 October
[screening/composition]
Online screening of Dead Cat Bounce on As We Leave The Window Open, Basel
29 September
[screening/composotion]
Open Rehearsal with Anat Ben-David and Sean Ashton. Sharing film of our recent collaborative work Backwater. At Somerset House, London
16 September
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at cabaret night Seen Any Monsters Lately? at Anzengruberin, Berlin
11 September
[Performance]
Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down at Guadeamus Musikweek, Utrecht
16 August
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at art-comedy night SEAMONSTERS - NEW CAR SMELL EDITION, London
29 July
[performance]
Good Soup with Ensemble Moliere at Sands Films, London
14 July
[performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Somerset House, London
3 July
[perfomance]
Clint solo set, alongside Lisa and the F.I.X. and Judy Brush at Fox and Firkin, London
[screening/composition]
Online screening of Dead Cat Bounce on As We Leave The Window Open, Basel
29 September
[screening/composotion]
Open Rehearsal with Anat Ben-David and Sean Ashton. Sharing film of our recent collaborative work Backwater. At Somerset House, London
16 September
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at cabaret night Seen Any Monsters Lately? at Anzengruberin, Berlin
11 September
[Performance]
Neil Luck’s Whatever Weighs You Down at Guadeamus Musikweek, Utrecht
16 August
[performance/composition]
New solo bit at art-comedy night SEAMONSTERS - NEW CAR SMELL EDITION, London
29 July
[performance]
Good Soup with Ensemble Moliere at Sands Films, London
14 July
[performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Somerset House, London
3 July
[perfomance]
Clint solo set, alongside Lisa and the F.I.X. and Judy Brush at Fox and Firkin, London
19 June
[performance/talk/online]
Eratic Objects: a lecture-performance on musical interruptions at Music Since 1900 conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham
[performance/talk/online]
Eratic Objects: a lecture-performance on musical interruptions at Music Since 1900 conference, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham
17-26 June
[performance]
Performances of Look Out Shithead, Episode 3 with Object Collection at La MaMa, New York
[performance]
Performances of Look Out Shithead, Episode 3 with Object Collection at La MaMa, New York
6 May
[installation/performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce installation with 8.2 surround sound at Open Lab, Matadero, Madrid
[installation/performance/composition]
Dead Cat Bounce installation with 8.2 surround sound at Open Lab, Matadero, Madrid