Surplus Bulbs
Here lies the radio show surplus bulbs.
A collection of short stories, vignettes, experiments and oddities by mural artist Ed Hicks.
AS podcasts get more bland and irrelevant, here is something considered and worked into.
Check out the new illustration zines that accompany the show and contain many of the stories https://edhicks.bigcartel.com/
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Influences - Joe frank, Tom Waits, Kevin Barry,
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2021
CAVE MAN - a short story
CAVE MAN - A short story
The longest short story yet fills the whole of this one off episode.
Based in the town of Mansfield where I grew up,
it charts the fall of a man with too much time on his hands.
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QUARENTINE
QUARENTINE
Mostly written back in 2020 when it was all kicking off something rotten. The world was going to hell but on a personal level, I had a great time.
I would wake up in the morning, do a 5k ru…
TO THE DOGS
DOGS
What are dogs? No one really knows. They dont exist in the wild.
They are getting smaller every year. Their shit makes children blind, but people let them lick their own face.
Do YOU have a dog in…
The Park
PARKS.
That green and pleasant space.
In this episode we enquire about the nature of this public space, receive complaints, daydream, talk to a park warden about his ongoing battle with vandalism and…
In Dreams
DREAMS.
Various ideas and stories about our night mind perambulations.
including;
- Ochie Nightmare
- Her Breathing
- Fran - dreams
- flood
- Girl/Park
- Ochie nice dream
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THE DATING EPISODE
DATING, The second ever show.
Welcome to SURPLUS BULBS.
This episode we hear some stories about love and not love. Mostly not love.
Actually, entirely not love.... I'll do another episode on love.
Th…
HOTELS
This one is about hotels I suppose,
The first episode. No trailer, just straight in.
I am Ed Hicks. I am a mural painter and general purpose artist.
This is a new project, I hope you like it.
In this …