Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

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.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 17 Feb 2011 13:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music

More episodes

Previous

Chat with Lunch Time Loves Ringo Death Starr

Next

Chat with comedian Jason Byrne

See all episodes from Nemone

Music Played

  • R.E.M.

    Mine Smell Like Honey

    • Warner Bros..

  • Sly & Robbie

    Boops (Here To Go)

    • 4TH And Broadway.

  • Peter Bjorn and John

    Second Chance

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • The Members

    Sound Of The Suburbs

    • Virgin.

  • Ben Folds & Nick Hornby

    Your Dogs

    • CD SINGLE.
    • NONESUCH.
    • 1.

  • Veruca Salt

    Seether

    • Scared Hitless.

  • Elbow

    Neat Little Rows

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Fiction.

  • Roni Size / Reprazent

    Brown Paper Bag

    • Talkin' Loud.

  • Deerhunter

    Desire Lines

    • CD SINGLE.
    • 4AD.
    • 1.

  • Nana Mouskouri

    Soleil Soleil

    • Fontana.

  • La Roux

    In For The Kill

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Longpigs

    On And On

  • Ringo Deathstarr

    So High

    • So High (Single).
    • CLUB AC30.
    • 1.

  • The Undertones

    My Perfect Cousin

    • Virgin.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    I Want the World to Stop

    • CD SINGLE.
    • ROUGH TRADE.
    • 1.

  • Ennio Morricone

    Per Qualche Dollaro In Piu

    • White Label.

  • Hole

    Malibu

    • DGC.

  • J Mascis

    Not Enough

    • CD SINGLE.
    • SUBPOP.
    • 1.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Rock And Roll

    • Atlantic.

  • The Teardrop Explodes

    Treason

    • ISLAND.

  • Arcade Fire

    City With No Children

    • CD SINGLE.
    • MERCURY.
    • 1.

  • Y Niwl

    Undegun

  • Lene Lovich

    Lucky Number

    • MCA.

  • The Only Ones

    Oh Lucinda

    • STRANGE FRUIT.

  • Wye Oak

    Civilian

    • CD SINGLE.
    • City Slang.
    • 2.

  • When Saints Go Machine

    Fail Forever

    • k7 Recordings.

  • Mumford & Sons

    Little Lion Man

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Universal Island.
    • 1.

  • Holy Ghost!

    Do It Again

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DFA/Cooperative.
    • 1.

  • EPMD

    Strictly Business

    • COOLTEMPO.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    All Over The World

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • Empire of the Sun

    We Are The People

    • CD SINGLE.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 1.

  • Tony Williams & The Boat

    Get Older

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wire Boat Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Sex Pistols

    EMI

    • VIRGIN.

  • Mogwai

    White Noise

    • Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will.
    • Rock Action Records.
    • 1.

  • Editors

    Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors

  • Mystery Jets

    Serotonin

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 17 Feb 2011 13:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 6 Music