Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Loose Lips Sink Ships is the new mag from Steve Gullick and the folks that brought you Careless Talk Costs Lives. It's a cracking looking beast indeed and while, like it's predecessor, I can't say that I dig anything like all of the subject matter, this really ups the ante in terms of both presentation and content. The writing is the absolute polar opposite of the advertorial crap that we're fed day to day and that in itself is a most worthy endeavour. It's a bit pricey at £4 maybe but I know the cost involved in assembling such an artefact and I'm telling you that nobody is coining it in at that. Also there's no free cdful of crap because we have way too many mug coasters already, right? Everett True is involved here and is looking to launch a mag by the name of Plan B in the not too distant future.
Copped from today's e-mole, a message from Ken Fox... Here are some confirmed FLESHTONES dates. Please announce, promote and post on all appropriate web sites. This being one of those, here's da info...
Fri 4/16/04 Arlington VA Iota Cafe
Sat 4/17/04 Baltimore MD Mojo Room & Lounge
Thu 4/29/04 Buffalo NY Mohawk Place
Fri 4/30/04 Hamilton ONT Corktown Tavern
Sat 5/1/04 Toronto ONT Horseshoe Tavern
Fri 4/16/04 Arlington VA Iota Cafe
Sat 4/17/04 Baltimore MD Mojo Room & Lounge
Thu 4/29/04 Buffalo NY Mohawk Place
Fri 4/30/04 Hamilton ONT Corktown Tavern
Sat 5/1/04 Toronto ONT Horseshoe Tavern
The one and only David Scott Esq. provides this snapshot of Brain Wilson's opening show at The Festival Hall in London on Friday past.
the good guys won or pop is art and vice versa
Late 1965. Imagine Brian Wilson's "California Girls" - now spin forward a couple of months to the sonic spangle of "Pet Sounds". Take a breather, proceed another few months on to "Good Vibrations" then enter the uncharted waters of, officially, "the most famous unreleased album of all time", "SMILE".
It's mid 1967. Is it any wonder that Brian Wilson crashed and burned at such speed? Being surrounded by morons didn¹t help either.
2004. Brian Wilson is currently surrounded by 18 musicians giving life to the most audacious pop experiment of it's day or our day, a kaleidescoped music collage which leaves you breathless in it's spin.
Tom Mix, Laurel And Hardy, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Existential Vaudeville, a mesmerising portrait of America in tiny shattered fragments. It's a music you've never heard before. It¹s beautiful and hilarious.
Polaroid, Royal Festival Hall 21 Jan 2004. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks hands joined and raised in victory. the good guys won.
the good guys won or pop is art and vice versa
Late 1965. Imagine Brian Wilson's "California Girls" - now spin forward a couple of months to the sonic spangle of "Pet Sounds". Take a breather, proceed another few months on to "Good Vibrations" then enter the uncharted waters of, officially, "the most famous unreleased album of all time", "SMILE".
It's mid 1967. Is it any wonder that Brian Wilson crashed and burned at such speed? Being surrounded by morons didn¹t help either.
2004. Brian Wilson is currently surrounded by 18 musicians giving life to the most audacious pop experiment of it's day or our day, a kaleidescoped music collage which leaves you breathless in it's spin.
Tom Mix, Laurel And Hardy, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Existential Vaudeville, a mesmerising portrait of America in tiny shattered fragments. It's a music you've never heard before. It¹s beautiful and hilarious.
Polaroid, Royal Festival Hall 21 Jan 2004. Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks hands joined and raised in victory. the good guys won.
Adele Hartley heps y'all to...
Cult Weekend at Filmhouse (Edinburgh),Friday 5th to Sunday 7th March 2004
"Cult! invites you to a weekend of genuinely exhilarating, alternative cinema. A short, sharp antidote to all that has become so banal about recent cinema. Largely genre based, these are movies which experiment heavily with generic conventions and finally emerge as utterly unique works. Here, then, are a handful of titles which aggressively push the envelope of filmmaking, embracing the irrational and the extreme, taking us to the outer limits of cinematic experience.
In all these films resides the tangible sense of an irrepressible energy and passion - a determination that each movie had to be made (even though it now seems incredible that some of them do exist). This is visceral cinema. It is also progressive, highly individual and accomplished cinema - full of intelligence, wit, style and intensity. Cult! offers you an extremely rare opportunity to see these handpicked gems on the big screen. Some of these films have not been screened in Britain for at least a decade. Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku, a jaw dropping classic of Japanese horror cinema, has never before been screened in the UK.
The film packages includes: Possession, Punishment Park, Whipped and Abused: A Secret History of American Exploitation Cinema, Liquid Sky, Thundercrack!, La Rupture, Short Night of Glass Dolls Malastrana and Jigoku.
Filmhouse is delighted that film archivist, Jack Stevenson, will be appearing in person to present Whipped & Abused, an introduction to the history of American exploitation cinema told via an outrageous mix of trailers, clips, out-takes, shorts, pseudo-documentary newsreels and home movie erotica."
And while yer at it, check out DEAD BY DAWN.
Cult Weekend at Filmhouse (Edinburgh),Friday 5th to Sunday 7th March 2004
"Cult! invites you to a weekend of genuinely exhilarating, alternative cinema. A short, sharp antidote to all that has become so banal about recent cinema. Largely genre based, these are movies which experiment heavily with generic conventions and finally emerge as utterly unique works. Here, then, are a handful of titles which aggressively push the envelope of filmmaking, embracing the irrational and the extreme, taking us to the outer limits of cinematic experience.
In all these films resides the tangible sense of an irrepressible energy and passion - a determination that each movie had to be made (even though it now seems incredible that some of them do exist). This is visceral cinema. It is also progressive, highly individual and accomplished cinema - full of intelligence, wit, style and intensity. Cult! offers you an extremely rare opportunity to see these handpicked gems on the big screen. Some of these films have not been screened in Britain for at least a decade. Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku, a jaw dropping classic of Japanese horror cinema, has never before been screened in the UK.
The film packages includes: Possession, Punishment Park, Whipped and Abused: A Secret History of American Exploitation Cinema, Liquid Sky, Thundercrack!, La Rupture, Short Night of Glass Dolls Malastrana and Jigoku.
Filmhouse is delighted that film archivist, Jack Stevenson, will be appearing in person to present Whipped & Abused, an introduction to the history of American exploitation cinema told via an outrageous mix of trailers, clips, out-takes, shorts, pseudo-documentary newsreels and home movie erotica."
And while yer at it, check out DEAD BY DAWN.
So, The Stooges are headed for Glasgow as part of that mess? I doubt if the party faithful with have the stomach to put up with that but anyways, let's hope they have the sense to make another sweep.
Bjorn Nording drew my attention to this. Look out for The Long Ryders hitting up Europe during July. Meanwhile... "Sid spent a large part of 2003 working on a documentary about Gram Parsons. This is now finished and will be premiered in the UK on BBC4 TV on 5th March 2004 at 10pm (GMT). The film will possibly be scheduled for a BBC Two showing sometime in April or May with showing on a North American cable channel to be arranged ASAP. A co-production between the German Film Commission and the BBC, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, will be released as a DVD in late spring/early summer with extra footage. " FURTHER DETAILS.
Bjorn Nording drew my attention to this. Look out for The Long Ryders hitting up Europe during July. Meanwhile... "Sid spent a large part of 2003 working on a documentary about Gram Parsons. This is now finished and will be premiered in the UK on BBC4 TV on 5th March 2004 at 10pm (GMT). The film will possibly be scheduled for a BBC Two showing sometime in April or May with showing on a North American cable channel to be arranged ASAP. A co-production between the German Film Commission and the BBC, Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel, will be released as a DVD in late spring/early summer with extra footage. " FURTHER DETAILS.
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