Lara David has been a resident on NARR for almost a year now, presenting us with a wobbly installment of her Table Jelly Dishes show every month. She's picked 15 full albums for the NARR Buy Music Club, covering experimental, piano-laden ambient, bashment, finely tuned electronica & glitchy emo-pop .... :~~)

What do you do in your life apart from making Table Jelly on NARR?

Stack shelves, sleep, cook, and frolick transsexually : )

When did you first start making radio?

This show on NARR is actually the first I’ve hosted by myself. I was always too afraid of making mistakes in the past so leaned towards studio mixes, with the occasional (angsty) guest spot on others’ live shows (though I could never bring myself to listen back) I’m a little past giving a fuck about ‘mistakes’ when deejaying now; getting through coves, transitioning and getting sober all forced me (to try) to accept myself as a whole, including the parts that fuck up!

What are your other favourite shows to listen to? 

To be honest, I am terrible at listening to mixes these days. I’m always pretty amazed that anyone listens to mine! I’m an album girl so usually I’m listening to ATL-style rap, Autechre, pop music, or anything that tries to combine the three

What is your favourite meal to cook in winter?

Any kinda stew rly – cooking is one of my only hobbies that doesn’t involve screentime so I indulge the hyperfocus and get kinda intricate with prep when I can

Are you reading anything at the moment?

I just rushed through all four editions of https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/v405s9603 – a series of trans zines from Toronto in the ‘90s and maybe an analogue precursor to our beloved catgirl thirstposters? It both warms and breaks my heart to find so much in common with those girls’ experiences and our own today

Through those zines, I’ve been scouring the https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ a lil for northern history. So far, I’ve come across a newspaper clipping from 1986 about a T4T husband and wife from Seacroft and a now-defunct annual transfem meetup in Scarborough in the early ‘90s

Quick shout-out also to http://fuckingtranswomen.org/ – a wonderful zine from 2010, whose author, Mira Bellwether, sadly passed in December (RIP)

Do you have any exciting plans, things you are looking forward to in 2023?

I moved to South London at the end of last year, so I’m looking forward to settling in a bit more and finding more friends for transgendered capers. Also trying to work through the many many demos I’ve written over the last two years : )