The video is an edited version of a 30 minute short film wiritten and directed by Adam Yauch called ‘Fight For Your Right Revisited’.  The film includes cameo appearances from a wealth of Hollywood stars including Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Kirsten Dunst, Mary Steenburgen, Chloe Sevigny, Ann Archer and the band themselves.

The film pays homage to The Beastie Boys first hit single, ‘(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)‘

The film includes a brilliant dance off between the ‘real’ Beastie Boys from the present and the ‘real’ Beastie Boys of the future in a very amusing ‘dance off’ with some hilarious results.

The Beastie Boys’ Fight For Your Right Revisited film will be screened in the Film & Music Arena at Latitude Festival 2011.

Launching in June 2011, Home of Metal founders Capsule, present a series of ambitious exhibitions and associated cultural programme under the banner of Home of Metal, exploring the foundations, social context and heritage of heavy metal culture, which has gone on to be a global phenomenon.

Informed by personal collections and iconic material from the Home of Metal digital archive, and featuring an original solo exhibition from acclaimed contemporary artist Mark Titchner, as well as work by French artist and grindcore fanatic Damien Deroubaix and Napalm Death founder Nicholas Bullen, the exhibitions will take place throughout The Black Country and Birmingham this Summer.

Focusing on the Midlands-born innovators of the genre and those that continued to develop it , the five key bands who inform the exhibitions are Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Napalm Death and Godflesh.

“Judas Priest have always been proud to fly the flag for British Heavy Metal on our tours around the world. We make a point of letting everyone know that we are from the Black Country and so for us to be included in the prestigious Home of Metal event is another solid way of showing the strong connection we share with Birmingham and local fellow metal musicians throughout the region. There has and will be a tremendous interest and importance surrounding the innovative music coming from our part of the UK that has continued to inspire and influence countless musicians…. A big thank you to the Home of Heavy Metal and of course the fans who are the ones that make all this possible” – Judas Priest

Home of Metal – an exhibition exploring 40 years of Heavy Metal and its birthplace. This will be the core exhibition at the prestigious Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, taking over the largest UK temporary gallery space outside of London from 18 June-25 September. Informed by original band artefacts and materials from the Home of Metal digital archive, the show is the first metal exhibition of its kind, bringing together unseen memorabilia sourced directly from the fans themselves, and placing it alongside iconic items from metal such as Black Sabbath’s Mob Rules stage cross and handwritten Napalm Death lyrics. The show will also explore the ingredients that together made Heavy Metal, offering an insight into the region’s industrial history, the early blues-rocks sound, the changing music industry, DIY politics and the global impact of the heavy metal.

As part of the Home of Metal season, The New Art Gallery, Walsall will also be presenting a solo exhibition by internationally renowned artist and former Turner Prize nominee, Mark Titchner, BE TRUE TO YOUR OBLIVION. The exhibition will feature newly commissioned work such as Be Angry but don’t stop breathing (II), in which visitors are encouraged to engage in a group primal scream exercise which visualizes the vibratory nature of sound.  The sounds produced by the screams are processed and used to vibrate trays of ink attached to loudspeakers. Influenced heavily by metal music and the associated aesthetics, Titchner’s Turner-nominated Ergo, Ergot will also be on display, which references the iconic Vertigo logo.

Opening in July, Wolverhampton Art Gallery will present You Should be Living: The Visual Language of Heavy Metal, an exhibition which explores the relationship between heavy metal and artists inspired by the genre, using typography, vintage t-shirts, sculpture and sound to explore the varying aesthetic of Heavy Metal and its relationship to contemporary art.   Thirty years after the formation of Napalm Death, French artist and grindcore fanatic Damien Deroubaix and Napalm Death founder Nicholas Bullen will present their sculptural construction containing text and abstractions, referencing the work of both artists and the first Napalm Death album ‘Scum’.

Also opening in July, Walsall Leather Museum will be displaying stage costumes worn by local heroes of the Heavy Metal scene as part of their exhibition Hell Bent for Leather: Judas Priest and the Heavy Metal Look. This will be a rare opportunity to see costumes from the private collection of the band. There will also be Home of Metal exhibitions at The Public, Bilston Craft Gallery and Dudley Museum & Art Gallery.

Bringing people together to share their passion for heavy metal music, Home of Metal’s ambitions include the development of heritage tours and ultimately a permanent collection dedicated to telling the story of Metal and its unique birthplace for fans to visit in the future.

These exhibitions form part of the 2011 programme, which will also include a touring film programme, concerts, further exhibitions and a heavy metal conference, with further details yet to be announced.

The Home of Metal project is to hold a fourth and final Open Day at The Public on Saturday 26 March, offering one last chance for fans of all ages to share their memorabilia and stories with the digital archive and help to tell the true story of the birthplace of Heavy Metal.

11AM – 4PM, SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2011. THE PUBLIC, WEST BROMWICH.

FREE – ALL AGES WELCOME

Epic is a one-off production for British television. The film – a homage to the live music experience – offers gig-goers a chance to have their perfect concert experience immortalised on film. It will also feature footage shot by audience members.

The production team are putting out a call to anyone going to a concert for a specific reason over the next couple of months. They’re particularly interested in hearing from anybody…

Going to their first ever gig
Seeing their all-time favourite artist
Who is a friend of the band and has Access All Areas
Whose job it is to review or photograph the gig
Working at a gig venue – as security, on the bar etc.

It doesn’t matter what type of gig it is… rock, pop, metal, rap… or where it is… a legendary London venue, a local one or even abroad. They would love to hear from anyone with a special gig coming up.

Anyone interested in being involved with the film should email epic@rsafilms.co.uk
or Tweet them @Epicthefilm

Leonard Cohen

Music fans with tickets for the Green Man Festival are in a for a very rare treat, organisers are rolling out the Green carpet and turning the ‘Far Out Tent’ into a 2,000 capacity cinema on Thursday night (August 19th) for the UK Premiere of the Tony Palmer directed film Bird On A Wire.

Almost four decades after it was first made, this is the strange tale of Bird On A Wire – a remarkably candid documentary captured across all 20 concerts of Leonard Cohen’s 1972 European Tour.

A hitherto unseen insight into the world of one of music’s genuine geniuses, this near-mythical piece of musical history was hijacked and hacked up upon its completion.

Reluctantly lost from director Tony Palmer’s hands, artistic wrangling and massive editorial cuts mean Bird On A Wire has never been seen as its makers intended.

Now, having languished in the vaults for 38 years, the original film has been salvaged, restored and pieced back together through a huge labour of love (and just a little luck) – and you can see it first at Green Man.

Director Tony Palmer, who has previously made films with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, said: “Maybe what is valuable about the film today is not only that it contains 17 of Cohen’s greatest songs performed by him in his prime, it has a real feel for the rough and tumble and difficulties of life on the road. I know of few other films where the backstage confusion comes so vividly to life, with Cohen apparently taking no notice whatsoever of the camera. I doubt if today we would be allowed such access.
The songs are haunting, unforgettably so. The poetry is extraordinary. But so is the man. Looking back after 38 years, my admiration for Cohen remains undiminished. The original film was made with love – I hope that quality once again shines through the restored film.”

Producer Stephen Machat, whose late father the famous industry stalwart Marty Machat managed the star until his death in 1988, added: “This film is the culmination of an epic journey. My father cajoled Leonard into documenting his tour even though Leonard didn’t want to. But my father could see what it would mean. At the time, I had no idea why he was interested in doing this. But on viewing the beautiful film that Tony has put together, I see it and feel it.”

This UK exclusive will take place on the Thursday night of this year’s festival – an extra special treat for all you Holiday Campers and early arrivals. What better way to raise the curtain on what promises to be the best-ever Green Man festival?

The sold out Green Man Festival takes place in the Glanusk Park, Usk Valley, Powys, Wales from August 19th to August 22nd.

new moon soundtrack

One of the most eagerly awaited movie soundtracks for a long time, The Twilight Saga : New Moon, is now available through Atlantic Records featuring an all original track listing totally exclusive to the New Moon soundtrack.

The first single to be taken from the album is Death Cab for Cutie’s excellent Meet Me On The Equinox which is released on October 26th but is already receiving plenty of radio air time having featured as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ a week or two ago.

The movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon is released in the UK on November 20th. The Twilight soundtrack has so far sold in excess of 170,000 copies in the UK and over 3.5 million world wide.

Full track listing as follows:

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
2. Band of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers – A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse- I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent- Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf- The Violet Hour
12. OK GO – Shooting the Moon
13. Grizzly Bear – Slow Life
14. Editors – No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

death cab for cutie single

This new track from Death Cab For Cutie was Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The World’ on his Radio 1 show last week, Meet Me On The Equinox is released on Monday October 12th on Atlantic Records.

Meet Me On The Equinox is the first single to be taken from the much anticipated soundtrack album to the film The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Death Cab For Cutie bassist Nick Harmer said;

“We wrote ‘Meet Me On the Equinox’ to reflect the celestial themes and motifs that run throughout the Twilight series, and we wanted to capture that desperate feeling of endings and beginnings that so strongly affect the main characters, this song marks the first attempt that Death Cab for Cutie has ever made at contributing new, unreleased material for a film.  It just seems a perfect synergy that a band from the Northwest would create a song for a series of novels set in the Northwest.  We are not only proud to be a part of the Twilight legacy but also honored to join so many other fantastic artists that have lent their amazing creativity to this soundtrack.”

The Twilight Saga: New Moon Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is released on October 19th, while the film opens in cinemas across the UK on November 20th.

This promo video for Meet Me On The Equinox features previously unseen footage from the film;

The full tracklisting for the soundtrack album is:

1. Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me On the Equinox
2. Band of Skulls – Friends
3. Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li – Possibility
5. The Killers – A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
7. Muse- I Belong To You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver & St. Vincent- Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf- The Violet Hour
12. OK GO – Shooting the Moon
13. Grizzly Bear – Slow Life
14. Editors – No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

Massive Attack have announced the release of their first new material in three years, a four track EP will be available on October 5.

The lead track Splitting The Atom features Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Horace Andy, while TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe guests on Pray For Rain. The EP also has remixes of two new tracks. Psyche featuring Martina Topley-Bird is given the re-rub by Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid who have recently remixed Bat For Lashes and The Big Pink, while the Guy Garvey fronted Bulletproof Love is stripped back to a minimalist reworking by Christoff Berg, who alongside Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid produced the Fever Ray eponymous album.

Massive Attack will be releasing their eagerly anticipated fifth studio album in February 2010. Can’t wait to hear the new work which includes collaborations with Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe.

Horace Andy returns for the album alongside founder members of Massive Attack, Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall. Del Naja has been particularly busy during the three years since the band’s last album Collected, he has been writing and producing soundtracks for films and documentaries and has won a David Di Donatello Award for best song for his work on the film Gamorra.

This year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. The band will be headlining at Bestival on Friday September 11, before taking on their first full UK tour for three years, starting in London on September 17.

Massive Attack Full UK Tour Dates:

17.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

18.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

19.09.09                   LONDON BRIXTON 02 ACADEMY (SOLD OUT)

21.09.09                   SHEFFIELD 02 ACADEMY

22.09.09                  BIRMINGHAM 02 ACADEMY

23.09.09                  READING RIVERMEAD

24.09.09                  LEEDS 02 ACADEMY

26.09.09                  MANCHESTER APOLLO (SOLD OUT)

27.09.09                 MANCHESTER APOLLO

28.09.09                 GLASGOW 02 ACADEMY

30.09.09                NEWCASTLE 02 ACADEMY

02.10.09               LEICESTER DE MONTFORT HALL

03.10.09               SWINDON OASIS (SOLD OUT)

Tickets are £28.50 regional / £30 London

www.gigsandtours.com 24hr credit card hotline: 0871 2200 260

Music Loves Video is part of the fifth London film festival

Birds Eye View celebrates international women filmmakers with its fifth London film festival at BFI Southbank, ICA, and Picturehouse cinemas.

Nine days jam-packed with over 70 events including top US indie features, hot Sundance docs, world-class shorts, exclusive director masterclasses and training, plus one-off live music-film events, moving image innovation, fashion films, parties and much more.

Music Loves Video is part of the fifth London film festival and takes place at the ICA on Saturday 7th March between 4-6PM.

Celebrating the best women filmmakers from around the globe, Birds Eye View will again be screening world-class films from world-class talent, with events taking place at the BFI Southbank, ICA, The Gate cinema (Notting Hill), and Picturehouse Cinemas across the UK on International Women’s Day (March 8th).

A specially selected crop of the best recent music promo videos celebrating the dazzling creativity of women in music video, including Trudy Bellinger (Girls Aloud, Sophie Ellis-Bextor), Kinga Burza (Katy Perry, Kate Nash) and Ali Taylor (Emiliana Torrini, Shitdisco) will be shown.

This music in video event offers an eclectic mix from this ever-innovative medium, from the latest low-budget debuts, through inventive animation to full-scale choreographed productions, including exclusive premieres and a directors Q&A session hosted by journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer.

The directors in conversation will be Trudy Bellinger, Kinga Burza, Ali Taylor and Shelly Love.

Trudy Bellinger
Few people have influenced the music video industry in the UK like Trudy Bellinger. Trudy’s directing strengths lie in beautifully developed colour palettes, stylised fashion details, and tight choreography. Her spectacular video for Girls Aloud Sexy No No No won the Virgin Media Award for Best Video of 2007.

Kinga Burza
Kinga has since shot videos for Katy Perry, Ladyhawke, Kate Nash, Calvin Harris and The Teenagers. Kinga’s first foray into the American market, for Katy Perry’s ‘I Kissed A Girl’, scored her a huge number one video in the US, as well as FIVE nominations at the 2008 MTV VMA Awards. Her work has been feature in i-D, Dazed and Confused, NME and Promo.

Ali Taylor
Ali has been commissioned as a filmmaker and artist by a variety of clients from Channel 4 to Vivienne Westwood. Alongside filmmaking she’s established herself as an illustrator and designer, having been published in various magazines from Dazed to NINSDOL.

Shelly Love
Shelly is an award winning prolific artist and director who was formerly Artist in Residence at The Place in London. Her films screen regularly on the international film circuit and have been described as ‘otherworldly’, ’suicarprising’, ‘magical’ and ‘beautifully dark.’

Music Loves Video – tickets £8 / £7 concessions / £6 ICA & BEV members

The Birds Eye View London Film Festival is on between 5-13th March 2009.

Watch The Birds Eye View Film Festival Trailer.

Visit the ICA website for more information.

The Boat That Rocked is a new film written and directed by Richard Curtis

The Boat That Rocked is a new film written and directed by Richard Curtis of Four Weddings & A Funeral & Black Adder fame.

The film includes a great ensemble cast including Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, the wonderful Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Gemma Arterton.

The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the ’60s and pop music.

It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz.

The Boat That Rocked – Synopsis

In 1966, arguably British pop music’s finest era, the BBC played only two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours a day. And 25 million people, more than half the population of Britain, listened to these pirates every single day.

The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the ’60s and pop music. It’s about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz.

The Boat That Rocked looks set to be one a big British comedy next year. The film also stars Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O’Dowd and January Jones.

The Boat That Rocked will be released in UK cinemas on 29th April, 2009.

Cold Water Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty

The Cold War Kids’ Film, ‘02.08 to 06.08‘ is airing on YouTube this week until Friday, so watch it for free while you can.

Directed by Vern Moen, 02.08 to 06.08 is a 34 minute film about Cold War Kids and the making of the album, Loyalty to Loyalty.

The film will be featured exclusively on Youtube for one week only and is available for purchase with the Deluxe Edition of the Loyalty to Loyalty CD release.

It’s a beautiful film which includes insight on the history of Cold War Kids, loads of behind the scenes studio footage, and interviews with the band and their families.

Loyalty To Loyalty is out now.

Watch 02.08 to 06.08 now

For more information visit the Cold War Kids website.