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Halloween Society Present Velvet Underground Tribute And Blood Stereo Horror Mash Up
Halloween Society will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket infoHalloween return to the MediaMix tent at the Big Chill with a third year of over-18 shenanigans, mixing film, live music and performance to see out the Festival in bawdy and tawdry style:
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND EXPERIENCE (Featuring Jeremy Warmsley)
Singer songwriter Jeremy Warmsley (Transgressive Records) and Fay Buzzard (Buzzard Buzzard / Adem) present a tribute to Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable featuring The Velvet Underground Experience. Andy, Edie & Nico along with films, whip dancers and light shows will drive audiences to a frenzy at this unmissable event.
SPORK + “A Sister’s Kiss” live soundtrack
Drummer Ed Lush and bass player Matt Chilton formed spork after discovering they were both in fact closet guitarists with a liking for atmospheric space rock. Neither of them sing but there’s nothing missing here amongst the venus-bound guitars, glacial rhythms and echoes of early ‘70’s tangerine dream, effectively creating their own kind of man-made machine music. Live the line-up is extended to a five-piece band and at the Big Chill they perform a rousing live soundtrack to new Russian teenage lesbian film and YouTube phenomenon A SISTER’S KISS - so tonight, think T.A.T.U. meeting Mogwai in a field in Herefordshire….
WIERDING VESSEL + “Terror!” live soundtrack
Wierding Vessel is an experimental sound collective from Brighton, featuring members of Blood Stereo, Polly Shang Kuan Band, Bolide Awkwardstra and others. They will accompany Ben Rivers found-footage horror film TERROR! There will be bowed springs and strings, tortured vocals, tape loops, charged chasms of silence and the sudden rush of blood-pumping electronics, moving from huge steels of beautiful, slow-floating lung into fully charged slow-motion meat/brain spasms, making sound like some kind of hulking alien life-form breaking out of a rusty cryogenic deep-space chamber. TERROR! is a love letter to horror - films that Rivers saw when he was about 10 to 12 years old, due to a dodgy video shop owner in his village who seemed to enjoy pushing these films onto young minds.
ELECTRIC SHEEP presents “Sex and Fury”
What better way to finish off the 2008 Big Chill than with a healthy dose of sex & violence in this classic early 70’s Japanese masterpiece of “pinky violence”, courtesy of the UK’s best independent film magazine with it’s deviant view of cinema, and Fabulous Films. Join us tonight to see where Tarantino got the whole Kill Bill concept from. Electric Sheep, the film magazine for lovers of offbeat and left-field cinema, is proud to present the splendidly demented and rarely screened SEX AND FURY(courtesy of Fabulous Films). Queen of bad girls Reiko Ike is Ochô Inoshika, a gutsy female gambler out to get revenge for her father, brutally murdered by the local yakuza when she was just a child. One of the most over the top of the ‘pinky violence’ films to come out of 70s Japan, the film features spies, anarchists, yakuzas, poisoned perfume and nude sword fighting, all wrapped up in madcap inventiveness and surreal beauty. Shamelessly entertaining cinema!
SEX AND FURY is available coutesy of Fabulous Films. For more information go to www.fabulousfilms.co.uk.
Halloween Society - Biography
Philip Ilson co-founded the Halloween Society short film club in April 1994, as a regular showcase for short film. It was originally housed at Notre Dame Hall, a 1940s ballroom just off Leicester Square in the heart of London's filmland. The screenings ranged from short dramas, animations, and documentaries to experimental and guerrilla work and always included a live element, whether cabaret, DJs or bands, as well as a compere between the films. Since those heady days, Halloween has come on a long journey, culminating in the London Short Film Festival which it organised in January 2008, a 10 day multi-media extravaganza held at the ICA, Curzon Soho and other London venues. For those with a keen historical flavour, you can download the 2005 brochure in Acrobat PDF form (1.5 MB) by clicking here. Halloween brings a programme of it’s eclectic music and film tastes here to the Big Chill in 2008.
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Halloween Society will perform at The Big Chill festival 2008 A-Z line up | Ticket info
Written: 15th Apr, 08
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