Ross Sutherland

Last night I discovered that the villain of Vigil season 2 is called Ross Sutherland. So... that solved my podcast trailer problem. Really excited to be back making audio again. Show returns 8th January 2024 x

I'm trying to expand my voice actor database for an upcoming project. If you've listened to a good audiobook recently, please drop the details below! Alternatively, if you're a voice actor and you happen to see this, please send me a link to your portfolio! (PS. For this callout, I'm specifically looking for American voices.) THANKS LOVES!

by Bill Knott

took til 46 but i'm a glasses boy now. in unrelated news, this morning I headbutted the tap in my garden

I recently started watching I, CLAUDIUS, the BBC adaptation from '76 w/ Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, et al. I'm absolutely loving it so far. To add to my riches, I've just discovered that two of my favourite podcasters have already made a watch-along show for the series. This is a bizarre yet truly welcome suprise and naturally I expect every other podcaster to follow suit. More watchalong pods for cult british television from the 1970s! isn't it time for a Mackelroy brothers deep dive into Grasshopper Island? or a Chapo Trap House miniseries on Sapphire and Steel? We're just leaving MONEY ON THE TABLE here guys. Let's give the public* what they want * me. possibly only me

very natural smile. very casual. absolutely doing fine here

Recently I’ve been going back through old hard drives, trying to pull together an archive of my video poem work… This one was part of a 2015 commission from The Poetry School: I was asked to make 30 video poems in 30 days (I am a slag for this kind of punishment). This was one of my favourites from the batch: a poem written to synchronise with Alan Kitching’s great early computer-animation “Pythagoras in Sixty Seconds”. I was on tour at the time, writing and recording these video poems in depressing Travelodges up and down the country (hence the subject-matter). Partly because of these conditions, it’s not a great vocal reading from me. But I still like the poem, mostly because the final line pretty much sums up the central thesis of all my video-poem work. Ie. that video is such a dense medium that you can take LITERALLY any source material and twist it to prove any demented point you want. “Anything can mean anything if you spend too much time in the box.”

Digging out some old bits of video poetry recently... This one was made in collaboration with the BFI Archive. I found this video from 1901 labelled "Procession of children by Tyldesley Church" & wrote the poem in response.

Mask by @lizzydening i couldnt fit into the full costume but know that I would if I could

arriving through my letterbox today: the latest collected volume of BRINK. i'm very much a comics noob, but this series has quickly become my favourite of all time. I found it through a Best of 2000AD compendium & then hoovered up the first 5 books in a couple of days. the story is set after the destruction of Earth, across a series crowded space stations, w/ cops investigating emerging religious cults. if you like True Detective S1, cyperpunky noir stuff, then I recommend giving it a go. each book is a standalone story, slowing building towards a bigger mystery. ....and if amyone wants to recommend another comic for me, Id like that very much. i might have to wait another 5 years for Brink book 7, so I have some time to kill

The home recorded VHS held a lot of power for what was once such an ordinary product. It captured a zeitgeist, an encyclopedia of culture and consumerism from the day of recording. It was also a portrait of the recorder not unlike an FBI psychological profile. Beyond a simple array of interests but delving deeper into their manic recording habits, an inability to show up on time, the tracking errors a window into the scenes rewound and watched repeatedly. Popping in one of these tapes could be more embarrassing than a family photo album. STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP, written and directed by Ross Sutherland, is a stream-of-consciousness VHS memoir. No home movies--- just episodes of Fresh Prince of Bel Air, bizarre game shows, a frustrating football match. Will Smith's blue and yellow hat during the show's opening credits unleashes a Proustian flurry of memories, musings, and repressed feelings. These thoughts are organized through various random recordings on one tape, delivered poetically and with painful self-awareness. Presented on VHS alongside VIDEO HOME SYSTEM (dir. Sharlene Bamboat, 2018) TOMORROW (WEDNESDAY) FEBRUARY 18TH @7PM at CINEMA CINOCHE Copies of both films will be available for sale on, you guessed it, VHS!

Helios by Luke Jerram