Sounds Film Festival
Sounds Film Festival / G12
Date: Friday 17 October 2008 - Sunday 19 October 2008
Time: Various
Venue: Gilmorehill G12 Cinema
Category:
Fri 17th October
Double Bill
Musikprogammet - Rockcity Glasgow @ 8pm Denmark, 2006 (15) 30 mins.
Featuring: Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Isobel Campbell, The Pastels, Mother and the Addicts and 1990's.
Made by, and with thanks to, Danish Broadcasting Corporation Channel DR2. This music documentary is set in Glasgow - the Scottish Mecca for indie rock or pop. The mission is to find out how, and why, the city's music scene has grown so strong. The documentary promises a guided tour around the city and interviews with local indie acts such as Franz Ferdinand, Mogwai, Arab Strap, Isobel Campbell and The Pastels.
Tickets £5/4
Ballads of the Book @ 8.30pm, Directors: Claire McCluskey, Margaret Shankland, Julie McCrone, Scotland, 2007 (15) 50 mins.
Full-length documentary Ballads of the Book covers a unique arts project in which the cream of Scottish contemporary music and writing talent co-operated to create a very modern work of national art.
The brainchild of Idewild's singer Roddy Woomble, the Ballads of the book initiative got writers such as Alisdair Gray, Ian Rankin and Hal Duncan to provide lyrics for musicians such as Aeroeogramme and Sons and Daughters, who then wrote the accompanying music. This creative love affair resulted in an album released on March 2007 by Scotland's biggest independent record label Chemikal Underground. The movie is produced by Glasgow production company, Polite.
Tickets £5/4
Tickets to both screenings and concert £7/6 (conc) Friday only. (after both screenings there will be a concert in the Gilmorehill G12 Theatre)
Confirmed Bands:
Sounds Film Festival 2008 proudly presents Zoey Van Goey and Stevie Reverb and The Reverberations
Sounds Film Festival, in association with King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and Reverb, is delighted to announce that experimental pop band Zoey Van Goey and Belle and Sebastian's Stevie Jackson, in his solo guise as Stevie Reverb and The Reverberations, will perform at the festival's premiere night on Friday 17 October 2008.
Zoey Van Goey (Matt Brennan, Michael John McCarthy, and Kim Moore) who hail from Canada, Ireland, and England respectively, met in Glasgow and started making music together in 2006. In 2007, Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian produced the band's debut single, Foxtrot Vandals. It was chosen as Single of the Week by Jim Gellatly on XFM Scotland, and the band got to play a live session on BBC Radio Scotland. The band has recently released another single, Sweethearts In Disguise, and a 2009 LP release, both of which were produced by Paul Savage.
For more information about Zoey Van Goey, please visit www.myspace.com/zoeyvangoey or www.soundsfilmfestival.com/bands.htm
Stevie Jackson, loved for his distinctively retro and melodic guitar playing, songwriting and vocals for internationally celebrated indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, will perform exclusively under the stage name Stevie Reverb and The Reverberations at the inaugural Sounds Film Festival. The writer behind pop pearls such as Jonathan David and Step Into My Office, Baby, Stevie's solo project promises the same catchy 1960?s sound which wowed the crowds at this year's Hey You Get Off My Pavement! festival at Mono in Glasgow.
For more information about Stevie Jackson, please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Jackson or www.soundsfilmfestival.com/bands.htm
Both bands will perform at University of Glasgow's Gilmorehill G12 venue following the festival's opening screenings of two documentaries that provide alternative takes on the Glasgow music scene - the World Premiere of Ballads of The Book, and UK Premiere of Danish music documentary Glasgow - Indierockens Mekka.
In between, festivalgoer's will be able to quench their thirst with beverages courtesy of the event drinks sponsors Kopparberg and relax to the seductive sounds from Swedish and German all-girl DJ collective and promoters Dolly Mixture.
For more information about Dolly Mixture, please visit www.myspace.com/dollymixclub
Weekend passes for all listed films (including opening night concert) are available at £40.
Sat 18th October
The Filth & The Fury @ 1pm Directed by Julien Temple,UK, 2000 (15) 108 mins.
A highly entertaining documentary about The Sex Pistols. The film highlights the Punk era while telling the story of the band through interviews and comments from those that knew them.
Tickets £4/£3
The Magic Lantern @ 3pm - Short Film Screenings by Glasgow's Magic Lantern. Tickets £4/£3
http://www.soundsfilmfestival.com/magic-lantern.htm
Tonite Let's All make Love in London (London is a Swinging City) @ 6pm Directed by Peter Whitehead, USA, 1967, (PG) 70 mins.
Peter Whitehead's Swinging London documentary, subtitled "A Pop Concerto," comprises a number of different "movements," each depicting a different theme underscored by music: Sandwiched between are clips of Mick Jagger (discussing revolution), Andrew Loog Oldham (discussing his future) - and Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin, and novelist Edna O'Brien (each discussing sex). The best part is footage of the riot that interrupted the Stones' 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.
Tickets £4 / £3
Bound For Glory @ 9pm -Directed by Hal Ashby, USA, 1976 (15) 147 mins.
This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers.He left his dust-devestated Texas home in the 1930's to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Tickets £4/3
Sunday 19th October
Double Bill - The Gospel Truth @ 12.50pm - Directed by Christopher Walker, UK, 2005 (15) 50 mins.
A fascinating documentary which questions if the true origin of American Gospel music can be traced back to Scotland.
plus Johnny Cash: Christmas in Scotland: 1981 @ 1.40pm - Directed by stan Harris, USA, 2005 (15) 49 mins.
A unique television special set in Scotland that features rare performances by Johnny and his wife June Carter Cash and Andy Williams.
Tickets £5/£4
That'll Be The Day @ 3pm - Directed by Claude Whatham, UK, 1973 (15) 87 mins.
In 1959, two grammar school boys take different paths: one acheives academic success, the other becomes a drifter working in a holiday camp and on fairgrounds, before deciding that his destiny lies in rock 'n' roll. With David Essex and Ringo Starr.
Tickets £4/£3
The Harder They Come @ 6pm - Directed by Perry Henzell, Jamaica, 1972 (15) 120 mins.
Based on a true story with outstanding reggae soundtrack underscoring the plot, this iconic film centres on a 1970's anti-hero who comes to the city to make it big. However, things are much harder than he thought and he ends up on the wrong side of the law.
Tickets £4/£3
Surprise Closing Film @ 9pm (15)
Sounds Film Festival, in association with Chemikal Underground Records, is delighted to reveal the Closing Night Surprise Movie - a rare screening of Quadrophenia.
Quadrophenia, which has not been widely screened in the UK since 1997, will close this year's Sounds Film Festival at 9pm on Sunday 19 October 2008 in the University of Glasgow's Gilmorehill G12 cinema.
Directed by Franc Roddam in 1979, the film is set in 1960's London and tells the story of Jimmy Cooper (Phil Daniels), a fashion-obsessed, troubled teenager who listens to soul, take drugs and rides a Vespa for fun. Disillusioned by his parents' dead-end life, and loathing his job in an advertising firm, Jimmy escapes reality by heading off to a bank holiday weekend to Brighton with his Mod friends.
The weekend starts off with decadent partying and Jimmy finally gets to meet his Vespa-riding hero Ace Face (Sting), battle some Rockers and get lucky with Steph (Leslie Ash), the girl he has a crush on.
Sadly, after the weekend, reality and disappointments crowd in all the more and Jimmy decides to do something drastic!
Based on The Who's 1973 rock opera album Quadrophenia, the film caused outrage for the way it portrayed British youth culture, which only encouraged teenagers too young to go and see it. In the 1990's, Phil Daniels collaborated with Britpop band Blur on their hit single Parklife, which caused a whole new generation of young people to discover the film. Today it is considered a much-loved cult classic with unforgettable quotes and thrilling performances.
Sounds Film Festival aims to bring all Quadrophenia fans together for this one-night-only exclusive opportunity to see the film on the big screen again.
Tickets £5/£4