June 17th, 2004 Thursday ThackerMtnRadio: Oxford Film Festival Edition Live from the Gertrude C. Ford Performing Arts Center on the University of Mississippi campus. 5:25-6:30 p.m. * After the show, join us for the after-party at Off Square Books, where Patrick McGrath will sign copies of his work. Related link: OxfordFilmFest.com. Guest Author: Patrick McGrath London-born novelist Patrick McGrath has earned international regard as the principal writer of New Gothic, a literary genre evolved from classics like Bram Stoker’s DRACULA and Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN, with roots that extend to 18th-century British literature. His novels and stories play on complex psychological fears, earning him comparisons to old masters like Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James rather than contemporary horror writers. McGrath’s novels — including MARTHA PEAKE, ASYLUM, SPIDER, THE GROTESQUE and DR. HAGGARD'S DISEASE — find their settings in decrepit mansions and ominous mental institutions, populated by obsessive characters driven to despair and madness. Fellow writer Tobias Wolff calls his work “fiction of a depth and power we hardly hope to encounter anymore.” He comes to Thacker Mountain Radio to read from his seventh book, PORT MUNGO (Knopf), a novel about an eccentric artist's emotional dissolution in a Honduran port town and the mysteries that haunt his family. Liz Jensen of London’s The Independent proclaimed, “Perhaps novels this disturbing should carry a health warning. When I had finished reading Port Mungo, I felt queasy, haunted, polluted, disoriented and defiled by a work of utter brilliance.” McGrath will sign at an after party to be held at Off Square Books following Thacker Mountain Radio. Musical Guests: The Bo Keys You've got to hear this blistering new Memphis band to believe them. The Bo Keys boast an all-star section of Stax sidemen: Ronnie Williams (The Bar-Kays, David Porter) on Hammond B-3 organ, drummer Willie Hall (The Bar-Kays, the Blues Brothers), and Charles “Skip” Pitts (Isaac Hayes) on wah-wah guitar, joining garage rock prodigy Scott Bomar (Impala) on bass to lay down deep funk grooves for a mighty horn section consisting of Memphis’ finest young players. Their new album, THE ROYAL SESSIONS, is a hard-hitting and authentic modern take on Memphis’ original soul-stew sound – a mixture of original instrumental and vocal features that fuse R&B fundamentals with elements of modern hip-hop. Recorded and mixed at Willie Mitchell’s (Hi Records, Al Green) Royal Studios, The Royal Sessions is steeped in the Memphis tradition.  Visit their website and sample the sound, and whatever you do, don't miss them on Thacker Mountain Radio and at their full-length concert at the Library in downtown Oxford, beginning at 9 p.m. Related link: Find our more about the Bo Keys. Guest Filmmaker: Andy Sacks ANDY SACKS is the Oscar-winning producer of TWO SOLDIERS, a short film based on the William Faulkner short story. Sacks, who recently worked on Spike Jonze's film 'Adaptation,' will stick around after Thacker Mountain Radio to screen the film, which lasts around 20 minutes, and answer questions.