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GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL 2012
- Beats, Rhymes and Movies
Now in its fourth year, Glasgow Music and Film Festival 2012 (16–26 February) will
showcase an inspired and inspirational programme of live music events that
celebrate the special relationship between film and music, each an inventive fusing of
sound with imagery, curated by the always groundbreaking music aficionados at The
Arches. The events are complemented by an audacious programme of music-related
films and documentaries.
Glaswegian jazz giant Annie Ross is the subject of the intimate and revealing profile
No One But Me, while Bob and the Monster follows the story of another music
scene survivor: notorious American Rocker Bob Forrest, former addict turned drug
counsellor.
A Tribe Called Quest is regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of
hip-hop. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest explores the
toll that success has had on the New York band. Conversely, Everyday Sunshine:
The Story of Fishbone, charts Fishbone’s optimism in the face of break-ups and
breakdowns, and has been described by Variety as “an inspirational, happy film
about failure”.
The Reykjavik music scene is bursting with great bands and Backyard recounts a
story that began with a music fan issuing an open invitation to a small gathering in his
garden and ended as a thrilling music event. And what’s the story when a
generation’s ultimate rebels – punk rockers – become society’s ultimate
authoritarians – dads? Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Tony Adolescent (The
Adolescents) are just two of the famous interviewees in The Other F Word.
In 2008 Markéta Irglová and partner Glen Hansard won the best song Oscar for
‘Falling Slowly’, from their low-budget film Once. The Swell Season captures the
pressures of fame in the wake of that success, and their struggle to keep making
music together when the romantic relationship was no more.
Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee,
registered in Scotland No 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a
charity (No SCO05932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
GMFF partners with Southside Film Festival and Park Circus to present a very
special screening of a loving restoration of the stunning 1925 silent film The
Phantom of the Opera in Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, accompanied live by organist
David Gray on the Wurlitzer Cinema Organ.
Live events will take place at The Arches, Mono, SWG3, The Old Hairdressers – and
North Woodside Leisure Centre, which will see the return of Wet Sounds, which
went down a splash at last year’s Festival.
This year the Festival will also present High Places, a boy/girl duo whose multisensory partnership combines the homemade with the exotic to a backdrop of their
own visuals, and Umberto, master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic. After
supporting Italian supercult group Goblin last year, occult project OV return with A
Psychocinematic Ritual, and Serafina Steer and her brother Sam provide a fairy-tale
experience at The Arches.
GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – SCREENINGS
No One But Me, GFT Tuesday 21 February (17.00)
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest, Cineworld Wednesday
22 February (13.00), GFT Saturday 25 February (22.45)
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, CCA Wednesday 22 February (20.30),
GFT Thursday 23 February (13.00)
Backyard, Cineworld Tuesday 2 February (14.45) & Wednesday 22 February (21.15)
The Other F Word, GFT Thursday 23 February (11.30), CCA Friday 24 February
(18.45)
The Swell Season, GFT Thursday 23 February (21.00)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Pollokshaws Burgh Hall Sunday 26 February
(19.30)
Bob and the Monster, CCA Friday 24 February (20.45), GFT Sunday 26 February
(20.30)
GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – LIVE EVENTS
HIGH PLACES, The Arches, Thursday 16 February (20.00) £8
High Places is a collaboration between visual artist Rob Barber and orchestral
musician Mary Pearson, who met in Brooklyn and have combined their musical
backgrounds and aesthetics to great acclaim on albums High Places and Original
Colours. Multi-instrumentalists, Mary’s lilting vocal melodies and their percussive
sounds created from household objects are set against a backdrop of their own video
projections. High Places’ fusion of music and visual art is the quintessential GMFF
experience.
Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee,
registered in Scotland No 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a
charity (No SCO05932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
SERAFINA AND SAM STEER: A FOCUS LEFT SPECIAL, The Arches, Saturday
18 February (19.00) £6/£4
Multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented harpist Serafina Steer’s London-tinged
Victoriana folk stories, haunting melodies and captivating wordsmithery make her
one of the most unique and intriguing artists of the past decade; a sound confirmed
and enhanced by collaborations with everyone from John Foxx and Benge to
Chromehoof and Patrick Wolf. For this special gig, Serafina will perform her own live
scores using harp and vocals to the fairy-tale animations of her filmmaker brother
Sam Steer in what promises to be a magical and enthralling live experience.
WET SOUNDS, North Woodside Leisure Centre, Sunday 19 February, (Session
1: 17.30–19.00, Session 2: 20.00–21.30) £9, All ages. Tickets must be bought in
advance from Glasgow Film Festival.
A beautiful Victorian swimming pool is transformed into a live resonating art space for
this underwater deep listening experience. Two distinct sound systems – one above
and one below the water – emit a combination of Joel Cahen’s electronic
modulations and sound collage and La Horrox’s voice and live electronica. The result
is a surreal and cinematic sound experience. www.wetsounds.co.uk
A PSYCHOCINEMATIC RITUAL: OV, Psychogeographical Commission and The
Wyrding Module, The Old Hairdressers, Thursday 23 February (20.00) £5
After their spectacular warm-up for Italian horror soundtrack legends Goblin at last
year’s Festival, occult project OV returns – this time using ritual, coincidence,
numerology and a hefty dose of magick – to explore both the beauty and cruelty of
war. An unsettling collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and
Sons and Daughters, OV was born out of a shared fascination with the occult and the
otherworldly. Performing live film soundtracks alongside intriguing visuals, OV and
collaborators use the power of music and cinema to shock and disturb.
CRY PARROT PRESENTS: UMBERTO – Secret live film soundtrack, SWG3,
Saturday 25 February (20.00) £5
A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, Umberto's music is a hypnotic,
all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers,
haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling
progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter,
his acclaimed releases are as playful and experimental as they are expertly crafted.
Flying over from Kansas City, Missouri for this special performance, Umberto will be
providing a live soundtrack to a secret film of his choice in cutting-edge arts venue
SWG3. Independent promoters Cry Parrot co-present this creepy and otherworldly
performance.
ENDS
Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee,
registered in Scotland No 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a
charity (No SCO05932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.
Notes to editors: Tickets for all shows are on sale now from the Central GFF Box Office
at Glasgow Film Theatre, by phone on 0141 332 6535 and online via
www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or from The Arches Box Office, on 0141 565 1000 or
online via www.thearches.co.uk.
The full Glasgow Film Festival 2012 programme will be announced on Wednesday 18
January. Tickets go on sale on Thursday 19 January.
For more information or images please contact Alison Young, Press Coordinator at
festivalpress@glasgowfilm.org or on 0141 332 6535 ext 245.
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Glasgow Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). A company limited by guarantee,
registered in Scotland No 97369 with its registered office at 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB. GFT is registered as a
charity (No SCO05932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.