Tuesday 2 June 2015
Pop Grenade
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"Black Angel' to be made into a full length feature
Building on its powerful 35 year legacy and mythology, Black Angel: The Feature Film will be shot in an earthy and authentic style combining high adventure with high drama hot on the heels of fantasy icons, Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games. Already attached1 as part of an A-list cast is Lord of the Rings’ star John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King) and Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Batman Begins, Sin City). Production is slated for September 2015, with filming locations to include Hungary, Belgium, Morocco and Scotland. The film will be directed and written by Academy Award and Oscar winner, Roger Christian (Nostradamus, Underworld, Masterminds) who also penned and directed the original short, Black Angel. Christian won an Academy Award for set decoration on director George Lucas’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) and was hand-picked by Lucas to direct the second unit on Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Christian is widely acknowledged as a key part of the ‘Star Wars family’ of writers, directors, cinematographers and crew who have been involved in the billion-dollar franchise since the beginning.
Recognising the film’s appeal with Star Wars fans, a powerful force with an insatiable appetite, Christian has thrown down the gauntlet and invited fans the world over to be a part of the film by donating via crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
The 45-day campaign goes live from today with a fundraising target of £66,000. Contributors will be given the chance to snap up exclusive perks, from an invite to the red-carpet premiere, to a part in the film as an extra in the Demon King’s army, an all expenses paid one-week mentorship with the audio department during the post-production process, and even the chance to own a piece of the actual film negative from the original Star Wars: A New Hope, gifted to Roger Christian by George Lucas himself. Fans and contributors are urged to act fast if they want to be a part of this unmissable cinematic voyage.
Originally commissioned by George Lucas, Black Angel, is a short film attached to screenings of the most beloved Star Wars film of all time, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, in Europe and Australia in 1980. Shot in spectacular locations in the Scottish Highlands, the 25 minute short film was produced on a shoestring budget of £25,000 in 1979. It was loved by fans and industry tastemakers the world over including Steven Spielberg who said it was “one of the most enigmatic films he’d ever seen.” Black Angel is also accredited as having significant cinematic influence on subsequent fantasy films, such as John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981). After only a brief time in theatres, all copies of the short film were somehow lost. That is, until an archivist at Universal Studios surprisingly found a negative in December 2011. The prints had wound up in the US following the collapse of UK studio Rank which, it turned out, had stored the prints along with other film negatives in World War II bunkers. Some 33 years later in October 2013, after a visual effects company restored the film frame by frame, Black Angel had its world ‘re-premiere’ as the closing film of the Mill Valley fest in California. It was also screened at the Glasgow Film Festival in Scotland and finally re-released digitally in early 2014 through iTunes, where is quickly ranked as ‘#1 short film’.
Black Angel: The Feature Film is an epic fantasy based on a Knight who undertakes a classic hero’s journey to fight the Black Angel, the Demon Kings commander in the lands of Serandal. Guided by the sorcerer Myrddin and aided by Princess Kyna, the daughter of a rival King, they take on an epic adventure to stop the darkness from taking over the lands and allowing the demon king to reign supreme.
Director, Roger Christian, said: “I wrote Black Angel as an epic adventure inspired by the great Samurai films. For the feature film I want the audience to experience the intensity of the battles where life or death is the only prize. Like the first Star Wars and Alien we are going for absolute reality, engaging the audience in the drama so they feel like they are really there in this ancient world, shot in staggeringly beautiful landscapes, ancient cities and castles. With flying demons and sorcerers, princesses and Knights, armies of the undead and an evil god of the underworld, we are filming down and dirty; ultimate realism that audiences hunger for and the world I am passionate to create on film again.”
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Steve Cobby - Guardian Mix
Tracklist:
Steve Cobby - Big Wow (Déclassé)
Penelope Antena - Tradewinds | Cobbymix (Aficionado)
Beatspoke - Lately | Cobbymix (BBE)
Steve Cobby - Phatic Communion (Déclassé)
Jon Kennedy - Tonto Rides The Gain | Cobbymix (JKR)
Hey, Rube! - Tumblefish - (Throne Of Blood)
Steve Cobby & Trudie Dawn Smith - We Start Over | Apiento and LX remix ( International Feel)
Steve Cobby - Settling Days (Déclassé)
Steve Cobby & Isobel Helen - Clamour (Secret Life)
Steve Cobby - The Sirens Help Me To Sleep (Déclassé)
Anchorsong - Flamingoes | Cobbymix (BBE)
Hawke - Cantoma | Cobbymix (Whiskey Pickle)
Steve Cobby - Heeds (Déclassé)
JJ Fuchs - Stick It In The Middle (Déclassé)
Flash Atkins - Forbidden Flesh | Cobbymix (Paper)
The Solid Doctor - Tek Jaz (Déclassé)
Tricky D - Fight You With The Love | Cobbymix (BBE)
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Monday 1 June 2015
Psychic TV short film directed by Genesis P'Orridge in Beck Road in 1984
With Paula P'Orridge & John Gosling
Fury Road
A graphic tale: the visual effects of Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Editing of MAD MAX: Fury Road
...and finally here's nine and a half minutes I won't get back again
Crass interview at Dial House in 1984
There is a twenty three second interruption to this Crass interview. Footage of the M11 motorway. This interruption in the footage comes in at 3.17 and lasts until 3.40
Saturday 30 May 2015
Richard Treece R.I.P.
Miley Cyrus & Melanie - Look What They've Done To My Song Ma
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Founded by Miley Cyrus, The Happy Hippie Foundation is a nonprofit organization that rallies young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations.
Click here to find out more: http://happyhippies.org
Friday 29 May 2015
23 Skidoo - Amfunkamine (Rehearsal 1981)
Fritz has just uploaded this excerpt from a rehearsal in the shed behind Honky Tonk Records in Kentish Town, London in 1981. Skidoo were Fritz, Sam, Thom, Alex & Johnny
I could well have been working in the shop at front at the very same time
A very powerful anti rape message from 2003
The pro bono ad was done by Lowe Bull Calvert Pace in 2003 for South Africa for POWA (People Opposing Women Abuse) and recieved a Cannes Lion Press Silver award
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In Memorium
Rocco Acerra (29)
Bruno Balli (50)
Alfons Bos
Giancarlo Bruschera (21)
Andrea Casula (11)
Giovanni Casula (44)
Nino Cerrullo (24)
Willy Chielens
Giuseppina Conto (17)
Dirk Daenicky
Dionisio Fabbro (51)
Jaques Francois
Eugenio Gagliano (35)
Francesco Galli (25)
Giancarlo Gonnelli (20)
Alberto Guarini (21)
Giavacchino Landinni (50)
Roberto Lorenzini (31)
Barbara in Margiotta Lusci (58)
Franco Martelli (46)
Loris Massore (28)
Gianni Mastroiaca (20)
Sergio Bastino Mazzino (38)
Luciano Rocco Papaluca (38)
Bento Pistalato (50)
Patrick Radcliffe
Demenico Ragazzi (44)
Antonio Ragnanese (29)
Claude Robert
Mario Ronchi (43)
Domencio Russo (28)
Tarcisio Salvi (49)
Gianfranco Sarto (47)
Mario Spanu (41)
Amedeo Giuseppe Spolaore (55)
Tarcisio Venturin (23)
Jean Michel Walla
Claudio Zavaroni (28)
Luigi Pidone (31)
I was born in Liverpool and am a lifelong Liverpool supporter. Thirty years ago I spent the day travelling from Amsterdam to Liverpool via Belgium and then watched the Huysel tragedy unfold on my Nan's TV.
My love for the 'beautiful game' has never been the same since
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