The killer moved in plain sight on the foggy morning of Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.
Hours after shooting his eight victims with what police believe was a .22-caliber pistol or rifle, he fired up the engines on the 58-foot fishing boat Investor, waving nonchalantly to a nearby skipper as he moved the vessel — with his victims’ bodies inside — to a secluded bay a mile outside of town.
He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor’s skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before...
Hours after shooting his eight victims with what police believe was a .22-caliber pistol or rifle, he fired up the engines on the 58-foot fishing boat Investor, waving nonchalantly to a nearby skipper as he moved the vessel — with his victims’ bodies inside — to a secluded bay a mile outside of town.
He motored back to the weather-beaten docks in the Investor’s skiff, returning the next afternoon with a can of gasoline to set the craft ablaze before...
- 12/12/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
It’s not a mystery how the Coulthurst family and a group of teenage deckhands were killed on their fishing boat, Investor, on Sept. 6, 1982, in the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig.
What remains unknown, more than 35 years later, is who did it — and why.
“You never stop thinking about them,” says Dave Freeman, who grew up with Jerome Keown and Dave Moon, two of the massacre’s eight victims.
“The shock of losing everyone really tore up our town,” Freeman tells People. “They all had their whole lives in front of them, and they were just blown away.
What remains unknown, more than 35 years later, is who did it — and why.
“You never stop thinking about them,” says Dave Freeman, who grew up with Jerome Keown and Dave Moon, two of the massacre’s eight victims.
“The shock of losing everyone really tore up our town,” Freeman tells People. “They all had their whole lives in front of them, and they were just blown away.
- 12/11/2017
- by Johnny Dodd and Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Thirty-five years have passed since the massacre of eight people on the fishing boat Investor first shocked the nation. For those whose lives were upended by the killings, the case remains a painful cloud that refuses to lift.
For John Peel, the former deckhand who police and prosecutors suspected of committing the grisly slayings, the mystery is something else: a question mark that still hangs over his head.
Peel was charged with the killings in 1984, but after two expensive, headline-grabbing trials, he was found not guilty. Decades later, the case is Alaska’s worst unsolved mass homicide.
“Somebody out there knows what happened,...
For John Peel, the former deckhand who police and prosecutors suspected of committing the grisly slayings, the mystery is something else: a question mark that still hangs over his head.
Peel was charged with the killings in 1984, but after two expensive, headline-grabbing trials, he was found not guilty. Decades later, the case is Alaska’s worst unsolved mass homicide.
“Somebody out there knows what happened,...
- 12/8/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The Finnish screenwriter employs his usual sensitivity to highlight the experiences of two men who flee their homes and form an unlikely friendship
“Always different, always the same”: John Peel’s famous description of The Fall applies equally well to the work of the melancholy Finnish minimalist Aki Kaurismäki. The 59-year-old has been writing and directing for more than 30 years, scarcely tweaking his formula of woebegone absurdism. His films, which include the knockabout Leningrad Cowboys Go America and the poignant Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Man Without a Past, are mostly set in the Finland that time forgot, where there is scant evidence that things have progressed beyond the 1950s. Vodka, rockabilly, Brylcreem and smokes are the order of the day; they are the only things that lighten life’s load. Along with kindness and companionship, which sprout unexpectedly in the gloom like spring daffodils in February.
Related: Le Havre – review
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“Always different, always the same”: John Peel’s famous description of The Fall applies equally well to the work of the melancholy Finnish minimalist Aki Kaurismäki. The 59-year-old has been writing and directing for more than 30 years, scarcely tweaking his formula of woebegone absurdism. His films, which include the knockabout Leningrad Cowboys Go America and the poignant Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Man Without a Past, are mostly set in the Finland that time forgot, where there is scant evidence that things have progressed beyond the 1950s. Vodka, rockabilly, Brylcreem and smokes are the order of the day; they are the only things that lighten life’s load. Along with kindness and companionship, which sprout unexpectedly in the gloom like spring daffodils in February.
Related: Le Havre – review
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- 2/14/2017
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Andrew Blair Sep 22, 2016
A salute to the unexplained story elements in Doctor Who, that leave us wondering who makes all the equipment for the Daleks?
Doctor Who raises many questions. What is the Doctor’s real name? What would he have said to Rose on that beach? And most important of all, who is it that designs hats for the Daleks?
Throughout the show’s history, right back to 1964’s The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, the Doctor’s greatest foe have demonstrated precisely cack-all aptitude for millinery. The Robomen in that story were humans converted into slaves and fitted with large helmet/neck-brace combos for mind-control purposes. By 1988’s Remembrance Of The Daleks they’d realised that putting a small chip behind Michael Sheard’s ear was much less conspicuous, but then in 2007’s Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution Of The Daleks they’ve decided hats aren’t enough and turn people into pig hybrids.
A salute to the unexplained story elements in Doctor Who, that leave us wondering who makes all the equipment for the Daleks?
Doctor Who raises many questions. What is the Doctor’s real name? What would he have said to Rose on that beach? And most important of all, who is it that designs hats for the Daleks?
Throughout the show’s history, right back to 1964’s The Dalek Invasion Of Earth, the Doctor’s greatest foe have demonstrated precisely cack-all aptitude for millinery. The Robomen in that story were humans converted into slaves and fitted with large helmet/neck-brace combos for mind-control purposes. By 1988’s Remembrance Of The Daleks they’d realised that putting a small chip behind Michael Sheard’s ear was much less conspicuous, but then in 2007’s Daleks In Manhattan/Evolution Of The Daleks they’ve decided hats aren’t enough and turn people into pig hybrids.
- 9/6/2016
- Den of Geek
This year marks the inaugural Tiff x Instagram Shorts Festival, a competition open to filmmakers across the globe to have their work seen by the likes of Ava Duvernay, James Franco, and the entire Toronto International Film Festival audience. Tiff will be screening three shorts a day on their Instagram account from now until August 18th, when they will announce the winning film and the audience favorite.
“When Instagram announced they were extending their videos to 60 seconds it seemed like a great time to collaborate with them to seek out new visual storytellers from around the globe,” Tiff Digital Director Jody Sugrue told IndieWire. “We were looking for filmmakers who leveraged the platform and time constraint in different and compelling ways.”
Read More: Tiff Announces Platform Titles, Including ‘Jackie,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Daguerrotype’ and More
Of the 30 finalists, 37% are female filmmakers, the films span a diverse array of genres, and there is...
“When Instagram announced they were extending their videos to 60 seconds it seemed like a great time to collaborate with them to seek out new visual storytellers from around the globe,” Tiff Digital Director Jody Sugrue told IndieWire. “We were looking for filmmakers who leveraged the platform and time constraint in different and compelling ways.”
Read More: Tiff Announces Platform Titles, Including ‘Jackie,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Daguerrotype’ and More
Of the 30 finalists, 37% are female filmmakers, the films span a diverse array of genres, and there is...
- 8/11/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
When it comes to that whole "dad at a music festival" type of vibe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper pretty much have it down. In fact, over the weekend, Cooper was spotted getting down at the 2016 Glastonbury Music Festival during John Peel's set, rocking a backwards Eagles cap and fist pumping the night away. So what exactly does that look like, you might ask? Well, thankfully an Instgram user by the name of sokovija caught the whole thing on video, admitting, "I'm glad homie had a good time (and got some evidence before I ended up even closer and was chill)." Yes, there you see him in his white backwards hat with no cares in the world other than the...
- 7/5/2016
- E! Online
This diverting documentary about Aidan Moffat’s mission to reinterpret the music of folk singer Sheila Stewart leaves one wanting more
For reasons I can’t precisely explain, this gloomy, funny film reminded me of the experience of listening to John Peel playing Ivor Cutler on his Radio 1 show in the 70s. It follows the Scots musician Aidan Moffat, formerly of the band Arab Strap, as he undertakes an intimate solo tour of Scotland on a mission to revive and reinterpret the work of traveller and folk singer Sheila Stewart, whose music is part of an oral tradition stretching back centuries. This is a labour of love – clearly a work in progress – and Moffat is wrestling with ways of rewriting Stewart’s music with an instrumental accompaniment, and he cheerfully admits he flounders sometimes in performance. The comedy comes in with Sheila herself, who frankly disapproves of what he is doing and crisply tells him he has got her work all wrong. While Aidan is struggling to keep her memory alive, Sheila will acidly tell the camera that her oral tradition will die with her. It’s a diverting little film, though it left me wanting more: more about Aidan, more about Sheila, more about the music itself.
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For reasons I can’t precisely explain, this gloomy, funny film reminded me of the experience of listening to John Peel playing Ivor Cutler on his Radio 1 show in the 70s. It follows the Scots musician Aidan Moffat, formerly of the band Arab Strap, as he undertakes an intimate solo tour of Scotland on a mission to revive and reinterpret the work of traveller and folk singer Sheila Stewart, whose music is part of an oral tradition stretching back centuries. This is a labour of love – clearly a work in progress – and Moffat is wrestling with ways of rewriting Stewart’s music with an instrumental accompaniment, and he cheerfully admits he flounders sometimes in performance. The comedy comes in with Sheila herself, who frankly disapproves of what he is doing and crisply tells him he has got her work all wrong. While Aidan is struggling to keep her memory alive, Sheila will acidly tell the camera that her oral tradition will die with her. It’s a diverting little film, though it left me wanting more: more about Aidan, more about Sheila, more about the music itself.
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- 6/16/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The New STYLEThis is the second year that the New York Film Festival has presented Projections, its extensive showcase of experimental film and video that for years had been called Views From the Avant-Garde. The name change (or "rebranding," in the parlance of our ugly times) corresponded, of course, to the departure of longtime programmer Mark McElhatten. Under his stewardship, Views became one of the premiere experimental film festivals in the world, a long weekend of high caliber dispatches from established masters, alongside bracing discoveries by up-and-coming makers whose work somehow caught Mark's eye. His programming partner, Film Comment's Gavin Smith, often brought along selections that complemented Mark's, even as they were out of his usual bailiwick.The Views era was not without its dissenters. Some complained that McElhatten rounded up the usual suspects year after year, sometimes without regard to the relative quality of their latest offerings. Others, most prominently Su Friedrich,...
- 10/2/2015
- by Michael Sicinski
- MUBI
A few words and thoughts on the life and work of Leonard Nimoy, who left us last week.
Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27th 2015. As we write this he is being laid to rest in a ceremony in Los Angeles. For everyone who was unable to be there, we at Den Of Geek would like to take a moment to appreciate all that he and his work meant to the geeks of the world whose lives he touched both personally and professionally.
Although Nimoy had a varied career that saw him work as an actor, director, singer and photographer, there's no question that he will forever be associated with the role of Spock, which he played on the original Star Trek TV series. Like many actors who pass through the franchise, his life and career was dominated by just three short years he spent acting in the show. It...
Leonard Nimoy passed away on February 27th 2015. As we write this he is being laid to rest in a ceremony in Los Angeles. For everyone who was unable to be there, we at Den Of Geek would like to take a moment to appreciate all that he and his work meant to the geeks of the world whose lives he touched both personally and professionally.
Although Nimoy had a varied career that saw him work as an actor, director, singer and photographer, there's no question that he will forever be associated with the role of Spock, which he played on the original Star Trek TV series. Like many actors who pass through the franchise, his life and career was dominated by just three short years he spent acting in the show. It...
- 3/3/2015
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
S&G/S&G and Barratts
Get yourselves along to ‘Scared to Dance’ at The Moustache Bar in East London, as the headliner is former Chelsea and Scotland midfielder DJ Pat Nevin.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Despite appearing as a no nonsense, dry humoured, old fashioned type of bloke on our television screens and Radios as a football pundit, the 51-year-old is making waves behind the decks.
Known for being a bit of a wing wizard in his time on the field, Nevin started spinning the discs in the 80’s and has seen his second career go from strength to strength.
He cites former BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel as his inspiration.
“I had been listening to John Peel since I was 14, every night lying on my bed with headphones on,” Nevin told Vice’s ‘Noisey’. “I was just a muso, that’s all I was.
“Eventually I started DJing.
Get yourselves along to ‘Scared to Dance’ at The Moustache Bar in East London, as the headliner is former Chelsea and Scotland midfielder DJ Pat Nevin.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Despite appearing as a no nonsense, dry humoured, old fashioned type of bloke on our television screens and Radios as a football pundit, the 51-year-old is making waves behind the decks.
Known for being a bit of a wing wizard in his time on the field, Nevin started spinning the discs in the 80’s and has seen his second career go from strength to strength.
He cites former BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel as his inspiration.
“I had been listening to John Peel since I was 14, every night lying on my bed with headphones on,” Nevin told Vice’s ‘Noisey’. “I was just a muso, that’s all I was.
“Eventually I started DJing.
- 3/2/2015
- by Ross Tweddell
- Obsessed with Film
The rebirth of Doctor Who in 2005 has sparked a revival in an area of Geekdom that was on the brink of extinction in the early 90s — American Doctor Who fan conventions. The hearty souls behind Gallifrey in Los Angeles kept the fan run scene alive during the wilderness era at the end of last century. In the last few years, the green shoots of a revived fan movement have begun to appear around the nation. Ken Deep’s New York state based L.I. Who was a blockbuster success when it debuted in 2013 and plans are underway for L.I. Who 3 later this year. Full disclosure here — I’m heavily involved in planning a Doctor Who fan convention myself — Time Eddy, in Wichita Ks this October. I’ve run conventions in the past — though it’s been a few years and those were in the UK. So I see myself...
- 2/7/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Ardal O'Hanlon and John Thomson are to star in a new Sky1 sitcom.
After Hours will be directed by The Royle Family's Craig Cash, and will be centred around growing up in a small Northern English town.
Jaime Winstone will also star in the six-episode series, alongside newcomer James Tarpey.
The show will follow Willow Hannigan (Tarpey), an 18-year-old music fan who has just had his first heartbreak. O'Hanlon will play his father Peter, who is an unemployed former milkman.
Thomson will star as Peter's best friend Geoff, while Winston will play Lauren, who runs the local internet station from a canal boat. The only thing that keeps Willow sane is listening to Lauren's radio show After Hours.
After Hours is written by Molly Naylor and John Osborne, who previously staged the Fringe show John Peel's Shed.
The series will launch on Sky1 in 2015.
Lucy Lumsden, Sky's head of comedy,...
After Hours will be directed by The Royle Family's Craig Cash, and will be centred around growing up in a small Northern English town.
Jaime Winstone will also star in the six-episode series, alongside newcomer James Tarpey.
The show will follow Willow Hannigan (Tarpey), an 18-year-old music fan who has just had his first heartbreak. O'Hanlon will play his father Peter, who is an unemployed former milkman.
Thomson will star as Peter's best friend Geoff, while Winston will play Lauren, who runs the local internet station from a canal boat. The only thing that keeps Willow sane is listening to Lauren's radio show After Hours.
After Hours is written by Molly Naylor and John Osborne, who previously staged the Fringe show John Peel's Shed.
The series will launch on Sky1 in 2015.
Lucy Lumsden, Sky's head of comedy,...
- 6/23/2014
- Digital Spy
The BBC has unveiled its broadcasting plans for this year's Glastonbury Festival.
It will broadcast over 250 hours via radio, TV, the red button and online streaming, with coverage from six stages.
Presenters include Chris Evans, Jo Whiley, Fearne Cotton, Dermot O'Leary, Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq, Greg James, Stuart Maconie, Pete Tong, Cerys Matthews, Mark Radcliffe, Gemma Cairney, Annie Mac, Toddla T, MistaJam, DJ Target, Yasser and Alex Jones.
Controller of BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network and director of BBC Music Bob Shennan said: "Glastonbury is one of the world's most famous music festivals, and once again the BBC will be providing audiences with a magical weekend of coverage, in a way that only the BBC can."
The full outline of coverage is as follows:
BBC TV
30 hours of coverage across BBC One (The One Show), BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four.
BBC Radio
50 hours of coverage...
It will broadcast over 250 hours via radio, TV, the red button and online streaming, with coverage from six stages.
Presenters include Chris Evans, Jo Whiley, Fearne Cotton, Dermot O'Leary, Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq, Greg James, Stuart Maconie, Pete Tong, Cerys Matthews, Mark Radcliffe, Gemma Cairney, Annie Mac, Toddla T, MistaJam, DJ Target, Yasser and Alex Jones.
Controller of BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network and director of BBC Music Bob Shennan said: "Glastonbury is one of the world's most famous music festivals, and once again the BBC will be providing audiences with a magical weekend of coverage, in a way that only the BBC can."
The full outline of coverage is as follows:
BBC TV
30 hours of coverage across BBC One (The One Show), BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four.
BBC Radio
50 hours of coverage...
- 6/6/2014
- Digital Spy
This British indie romcom suggests love in the workplace can be a tricky business, especially if you secretly live there
• Watch the trailer here
Matt Thorne's witty 90s novel Eight Minutes Idle has been reheated as a low-budget British indie: the result is a well-intentioned disappointment. Tom Hughes plays Dan, a twentysomething guy who has to move out of his parents' house and finds himself secretly squatting in the ceiling crawl-space above the toilets in a drab call centre where he is precariously employed – and falling in love with beautiful co-worker Teri (Ophelia Lovibond). The story is a potentially interesting satirical commentary on the subject of how workplaces are where we invest our entire identity, and in these times of economic trial, the film's ideas are no less relevant. But the "office" comedy doesn't exactly raise its game to match Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the acting and...
• Watch the trailer here
Matt Thorne's witty 90s novel Eight Minutes Idle has been reheated as a low-budget British indie: the result is a well-intentioned disappointment. Tom Hughes plays Dan, a twentysomething guy who has to move out of his parents' house and finds himself secretly squatting in the ceiling crawl-space above the toilets in a drab call centre where he is precariously employed – and falling in love with beautiful co-worker Teri (Ophelia Lovibond). The story is a potentially interesting satirical commentary on the subject of how workplaces are where we invest our entire identity, and in these times of economic trial, the film's ideas are no less relevant. But the "office" comedy doesn't exactly raise its game to match Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the acting and...
- 2/13/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
This British indie romcom suggests love in the workplace can be a tricky business, especially if you secretly live there
• Watch the trailer here
Matt Thorne's witty 90s novel Eight Minutes Idle has been reheated as a low-budget British indie: the result is a well-intentioned disappointment. Tom Hughes plays Dan, a twentysomething guy who has to move out of his parents' house and finds himself secretly squatting in the ceiling crawl-space above the toilets in a drab call centre where he is precariously employed – and falling in love with beautiful co-worker Teri (Ophelia Lovibond). The story is a potentially interesting satirical commentary on the subject of how workplaces are where we invest our entire identity, and in these times of economic trial, the film's ideas are no less relevant. But the "office" comedy doesn't exactly raise its game to match Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the acting and...
• Watch the trailer here
Matt Thorne's witty 90s novel Eight Minutes Idle has been reheated as a low-budget British indie: the result is a well-intentioned disappointment. Tom Hughes plays Dan, a twentysomething guy who has to move out of his parents' house and finds himself secretly squatting in the ceiling crawl-space above the toilets in a drab call centre where he is precariously employed – and falling in love with beautiful co-worker Teri (Ophelia Lovibond). The story is a potentially interesting satirical commentary on the subject of how workplaces are where we invest our entire identity, and in these times of economic trial, the film's ideas are no less relevant. But the "office" comedy doesn't exactly raise its game to match Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and the acting and...
- 2/13/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Caine's early films defined the look of an era, but with scores by John Barry, Quincy Jones and Sonny Rollins they also defined its soundrack
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
There is a kind of music in Michael Caine's voice: deceptively flat, barely inflected, emitting just the tiniest glints of detached insolence and laconic menace as it maps the area between the pre-war docklands community of Rotherhithe, his birthplace, and Elephant and Castle, where his family was rehoused in a prefab built on bomb-damaged land not far from the location of Shakespeare's theatres. Few people alive know more about the actor's craft than Caine, none is more gifted in the art of underplaying, and that voice is integral to his virtuosity.
But there is music of a more conventional kind in the films that made him famous – when the former Maurice Micklewhite rather unexpectedly became the model of a new kind of English leading man,...
- 1/31/2014
- by Richard Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
Add Charlotte Church to the ever-growing list of critics who disapprove of Rihanna and Miley Cyrus' provocative ways. While speaking at BBC 6 Music's annual John Peel Lecture, the Welsh singer took aim at the "male-dominated" music business which, she claims, has a "culture of demeaning women," according to published reports. "What this industry seems to want of its women increasingly is sex objects that appear childlike. 'Take your clothes off, show you're an adult,'" the 27-year-old beauty said at the Radio Festival in Salford. "The irony behind this is that the women generally filling these roles are very young, often previous child stars or Disney-tweens,...
- 10/15/2013
- E! Online
London, Oct er 15: Charlotte Church has accused the music industry of having a "culture of demeaning women".
The 27-year-old Welsh and British singer-songwriter revealed that she was "pressurized" into wearing revealing outfits in videos by male executive during her early days, the BBC reported.
Church blamed record labels for encouraging young singers "to present themselves as hypersexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects".
During the BBC 6 Music's annual 'John Peel Lecture', 'The Prayer' singer claimed that the music business is "a male dominated industry with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality".
The 27-year-old Welsh and British singer-songwriter revealed that she was "pressurized" into wearing revealing outfits in videos by male executive during her early days, the BBC reported.
Church blamed record labels for encouraging young singers "to present themselves as hypersexualised, unrealistic, cartoonish, as objects".
During the BBC 6 Music's annual 'John Peel Lecture', 'The Prayer' singer claimed that the music business is "a male dominated industry with a juvenile perspective on gender and sexuality".
- 10/15/2013
- by Rahul Kapoor
- RealBollywood.com
My friend Peter Richardson, who has died of cancer aged 51, was a graphic artist with a special talent for typography. Peter's designs were always elegant and considered, with a sensitive use of colour. His collage-based illustrations combined simple drawings, text and photographic elements. These varied design skills lent themselves well to animation, in particular the creation of TV titles and motion graphics, where Peter made his career.
He was born in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. After secondary school he started a degree in engineering at Manchester University, but then decided to transfer to an art foundation course at Bradford College, where he was encouraged by the tutors Grant Devine and Ian Taylor.
He went on to study illustration at Liverpool Polytechnic, where he developed his interest in drawing, collage, making handmade books, lino-cut printing and typography. While at Liverpool he played guitar for the Passmore Sisters, who released a number of...
He was born in Guiseley, West Yorkshire. After secondary school he started a degree in engineering at Manchester University, but then decided to transfer to an art foundation course at Bradford College, where he was encouraged by the tutors Grant Devine and Ian Taylor.
He went on to study illustration at Liverpool Polytechnic, where he developed his interest in drawing, collage, making handmade books, lino-cut printing and typography. While at Liverpool he played guitar for the Passmore Sisters, who released a number of...
- 9/30/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Directors Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn have defied the conventional sobriety of a film about 'the Troubles' in their Belfast-set music biopic, Good Vibrations (2012). Without shying away from the darker aspects of the city in the 1970s, their story is concerned with one man who believed music could make a difference in such distressing segregated times. That man is Terri Hooley, known affectionately as Belfast's 'godfather of punk', who not only opened a record store in the city centre during the height of the hostilities, but founded the label that gave the world The Undertones and their most famous hit, Teenage Kicks.
Hooley's (Richard Dormer) love of music sees him continuing his weekly DJ set in the now empty shell of a bar that, a few years earlier, would have been jam packed with Protestant and Catholic alike. Convinced his passion is a positive and unifying force, he decides...
Hooley's (Richard Dormer) love of music sees him continuing his weekly DJ set in the now empty shell of a bar that, a few years earlier, would have been jam packed with Protestant and Catholic alike. Convinced his passion is a positive and unifying force, he decides...
- 8/5/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Good Vibrations; Trance; Blancanieves
There's a special kind of magic involved in the creation of a really great pop movie, something that manages to capture both the electrifying thrill the music and the tangible air of the period. Like Steve Rash's The Buddy Holly Story, which still stands up to repeat viewing after 35 long years, Good Vibrations (2012, Universal, 15) is a nostalgic gem blending just the right amount of fact and fantasy as it tells the story of Belfast's "godfather of punk", Terri Hooley. Brilliantly played by Richard Dormer, Hooley is the budding DJ and owner of a proudly non-sectarian record shop whose life is transformed by seeing Rudi perform an ebulliently boisterous live gig and hearing the Undertones play Teenage Kicks. Believing that "New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason", Hooley starts his own fantastically ramshackle record label, a venture driven entirely by love,...
There's a special kind of magic involved in the creation of a really great pop movie, something that manages to capture both the electrifying thrill the music and the tangible air of the period. Like Steve Rash's The Buddy Holly Story, which still stands up to repeat viewing after 35 long years, Good Vibrations (2012, Universal, 15) is a nostalgic gem blending just the right amount of fact and fantasy as it tells the story of Belfast's "godfather of punk", Terri Hooley. Brilliantly played by Richard Dormer, Hooley is the budding DJ and owner of a proudly non-sectarian record shop whose life is transformed by seeing Rudi perform an ebulliently boisterous live gig and hearing the Undertones play Teenage Kicks. Believing that "New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason", Hooley starts his own fantastically ramshackle record label, a venture driven entirely by love,...
- 8/3/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s hard to explain the emotions and atmosphere that a good band at a festival like this can generate, one thing if for sure that no amount of BBC coverage could sum it up. With over 53 stages that covers rock, pop, dance to circus acts, comedians and poetry readings it’s impossible to write about all of them but here are some highlights from the main stages
Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye kick of proceeding to a packed field but nothing gets as much applause as the Oasis tracks. Haim open the main stage but diabetes nearly gets the better of Este, illness aside they are cheery enough to deserve a better slot next year. Anyone who didn’t catch the sisters on this stage will have multiple chance to see them as they perform on nearly every venue on the site. Jake Bugg fails to ignite the Pyramid...
Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye kick of proceeding to a packed field but nothing gets as much applause as the Oasis tracks. Haim open the main stage but diabetes nearly gets the better of Este, illness aside they are cheery enough to deserve a better slot next year. Anyone who didn’t catch the sisters on this stage will have multiple chance to see them as they perform on nearly every venue on the site. Jake Bugg fails to ignite the Pyramid...
- 7/3/2013
- by Amelia Harvey
- Obsessed with Film
Maybe you couldn't get a ticket. Maybe you hate camping. Maybe you're too old to do the mud, drugs and dancing in the Shangri-La until 4am. Whatever the reason you're not at Glastonbury this weekend, it doesn't meant that you can't do Glastonbury.
Thanks to the BBC's monstrous coverage, you can watch more on the TV than you could if you were there in your wellies. Turn up the volume, buy some dodgy cider, bring in some mud from the garden and cook yourself a dodgy cheeseburger for dinner and you'll have near enough the Pyramid Stage experience in your living room. Sort of.
Friday
After weeks of build-up, the BBC's TV coverage starts properly tonight with viewers having the choice of BBC Two, Three or Four, depending on your tastes.
The big hitters and highlights from Day One will be on BBC Two at 10pm-10.30pm and 11pm-2am...
Thanks to the BBC's monstrous coverage, you can watch more on the TV than you could if you were there in your wellies. Turn up the volume, buy some dodgy cider, bring in some mud from the garden and cook yourself a dodgy cheeseburger for dinner and you'll have near enough the Pyramid Stage experience in your living room. Sort of.
Friday
After weeks of build-up, the BBC's TV coverage starts properly tonight with viewers having the choice of BBC Two, Three or Four, depending on your tastes.
The big hitters and highlights from Day One will be on BBC Two at 10pm-10.30pm and 11pm-2am...
- 6/28/2013
- Digital Spy
Glastonbury Festival will have its most extensive TV and online coverage ever on the BBC this year.
More than 120 live performances will be broadcast and six stages - Pyramid, Other, John Peel, Jazz World, Park and BBC Introducing - will have live streaming. In total there will be 250 hours of live coverage and streaming.
Radio 2's Chris Evans will make his Glastonbury debut and help lead the coverage alongside festival veteran Steve Lamacq, Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw, Gemma Cairney, 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne, Dermot O'Leary, Mark Radcliffe, Jo Whiley and Craig Charles.
Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis said: "The BBC have stuck with us through thick and thin since 1997 and they've earned their stripes the hard way. It's been quite a journey since 97 and to have a complete record of what we've been up to over the years is music history gold dust."
BBC controller of popular music Bob Shennan said:...
More than 120 live performances will be broadcast and six stages - Pyramid, Other, John Peel, Jazz World, Park and BBC Introducing - will have live streaming. In total there will be 250 hours of live coverage and streaming.
Radio 2's Chris Evans will make his Glastonbury debut and help lead the coverage alongside festival veteran Steve Lamacq, Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw, Gemma Cairney, 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne, Dermot O'Leary, Mark Radcliffe, Jo Whiley and Craig Charles.
Glastonbury boss Michael Eavis said: "The BBC have stuck with us through thick and thin since 1997 and they've earned their stripes the hard way. It's been quite a journey since 97 and to have a complete record of what we've been up to over the years is music history gold dust."
BBC controller of popular music Bob Shennan said:...
- 5/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Trevor Bolder, a musician best known for his work with David Bowie and Uriah Heep, has died at the age of 62, after a bout with pancreatic cancer. The product of a musical family—his father was a trumpet player—Bolder teamed up with guitarist Mick Ronson for his first professional band, Ronno, in the late ‘60s. Bowie drafted the two of them to back him up during an appearance on John Peel’s radio show, then used them on his 1971 breakthrough album Hunky Dory, on which Bolder played bass and trumpet. Ronson and Bolder formed the core of ...
- 5/22/2013
- avclub.com
This cheerful film reconstructs the violent, deeply divided Belfast of the late 1970s and early 1980s through the career of the idealistic Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer), who opened a record shop called Good Vibrations to sell rock, folk and country music to express his belief in the redemptive power of popular music. He then went on to discover punk and publicise it as the sound that would unite rebellious, non-sectarian youth in Ulster, promoting it on his own label and ultimately receiving the blessing of John Peel and Joe Strummer. It's rather like an Irish version of Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People, and indeed both films are co-produced by Andrew Eaton. Richard Dormer is immensely likable as Hooley, and Karl Johnson brings a dour conviction to his father, an elderly disillusioned communist who finds spiritual victory in electoral defeat.
DramaPunkMichael WinterbottomJohn PeelJoe StrummerPhilip French
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DramaPunkMichael WinterbottomJohn PeelJoe StrummerPhilip French
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- 3/31/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
I first saw the Quo back in 1981 and although they said ‘goodbye’ in 1984 on their farewell tour we, the loyal fans, were delighted that they could not resist entering back into the recording studio and heading back on the road again...and again...and again. This year, like their semi centennial celebrating brothers The Stones, they rack up another milestone, in what has now become known as ‘the business’. However, unlike the Stones, the Quo were never cool but could always be relied on for a rawdy good night out.
Theirs is a very British type of pop pub rock which never found favour in the States. The Americans never took to the Quo. Having invited twelve bar blues they weren’t really interested in a bunch of Limeys speeding it up and feeding it back to them. Good...their loss; and it allowed the Quo to concentrate on providing...
Theirs is a very British type of pop pub rock which never found favour in the States. The Americans never took to the Quo. Having invited twelve bar blues they weren’t really interested in a bunch of Limeys speeding it up and feeding it back to them. Good...their loss; and it allowed the Quo to concentrate on providing...
- 10/24/2012
- Shadowlocked
★★★☆☆ Detailing the life of Belfast's Godfather of Punk, Terri Hooley (played with a compelling level of emotion by Richard Dormer), Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn's Good Vibrations (2012) is the story of a man with a very special dream. Hooley, amidst the chaos and confusion of the Northern Irish Troubles, decides that the answer to Belfast's woes is to open a record shop which he named 'Good Vibrations'. Despite the problems of protection rackets, daily riots and roadblocks, the shop went on to birth its own label, consequently representing John Peel favourite The Undertones - who gave us the tune to many an adolescence, Teenage Kicks.
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- 10/21/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Music biopics so often get it drastically wrong, from over enthusiastic hagiography to a complete lack of understanding of the subject of the film, the missteps often quickly mount up. Significant blunders in these films are far more common than redeeming qualities but, thankfully, Good Vibrations is one of the better ones.
Focusing not on a band or even really a particular musical movement – the focus is too narrow for this to be considered a film in which the Irish punk scene is the subject – Good Vibrations is about one man, Terri Hooley. Not perhaps that well-known to many Hooley was an incredibly important figure for a short amount of time in a small area, but the seeds of what he sowed had far wider implications.
The son of a socialist candidate, Hooley, played here with winning bombast by Richard Dormer, is a dreamer from a young age and all...
Focusing not on a band or even really a particular musical movement – the focus is too narrow for this to be considered a film in which the Irish punk scene is the subject – Good Vibrations is about one man, Terri Hooley. Not perhaps that well-known to many Hooley was an incredibly important figure for a short amount of time in a small area, but the seeds of what he sowed had far wider implications.
The son of a socialist candidate, Hooley, played here with winning bombast by Richard Dormer, is a dreamer from a young age and all...
- 10/14/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Things look a little brighter for the once-sumptuous Art Deco Odeon, but there are huge challenges. Irna Qureshi argues that the ten-year debate reflects concern about democracy as well as architecture
The vigorous campaign to save Bradford's historic Odeon cinema is gaining extra muscle, after winning a reprieve from the threat of imminent demolition.
The 1930s Art Deco building with its iconic towers is located in the centre of Bradford. To its detractors, it might be an eyesore just aching to be pulled down, but it means much more than that to thousands of Bradfordians who have, over the last decade, backed the campaign to save the former cinema. In fact, the future of the Bradford Odeon is one of the most emotive issues in the city today. Not only does it symbolise local heritage and pride, it has also come to represent the value of local democracy.
The historic...
The vigorous campaign to save Bradford's historic Odeon cinema is gaining extra muscle, after winning a reprieve from the threat of imminent demolition.
The 1930s Art Deco building with its iconic towers is located in the centre of Bradford. To its detractors, it might be an eyesore just aching to be pulled down, but it means much more than that to thousands of Bradfordians who have, over the last decade, backed the campaign to save the former cinema. In fact, the future of the Bradford Odeon is one of the most emotive issues in the city today. Not only does it symbolise local heritage and pride, it has also come to represent the value of local democracy.
The historic...
- 9/21/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
On a scale of 1 to 100, the former being hard and the latter being Kerry Katona after a couple of Irn Brus, hating Chris Moyles is somewhere along the minus scale. People far and wide congregate together to attack the ‘moronic wanker’ responsible for the ‘vapid, inconsequential guff‘ that his soon-to-be ex-station outputs, even if they don’t actually listen to his show. By the time you read this, he’ll be long gone from his morning show, so what better time to fire some last-minute parting shots? It’s easy. Go on. Have a go. You’ve got plenty to pick from.
You could opt for the physical appearance and his rotund figure, even if the guy has actually lost a shed load of weight and slimmed down into the best shape of his life. Failing that, try his anti-music policy, where no songs get played before 7am, a crime...
You could opt for the physical appearance and his rotund figure, even if the guy has actually lost a shed load of weight and slimmed down into the best shape of his life. Failing that, try his anti-music policy, where no songs get played before 7am, a crime...
- 9/14/2012
- by Mitchell Jones
- Obsessed with Film
Nico's fourth studio album The End will be re-released on October 1. The remastered 2Cd set features previously-unreleased John Peel Sessions and Old Grey Whistle Test performances. Also included are two live tracks from the show at London's Rainbow Theatre on June 1, 1974, which marked the launch of albums from Nico, John Cale, Brian Eno and Kevin Ayers. Nico was brought to Island by A&R man Richard Williams after regular collaborator Cale signed a new contract with the label. The End was recorded at Sound Techniques in London, with John Wood in 1973 with accompaniment from Eno and Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera. The reissue coincides with the upcoming super deluxe boxset edition of The Velvet Underground & Nico, also available from October 1. The full tracklisting (more)...
- 9/13/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
BBC 6 Music has announced details of a live compilation album. The radio station will celebrate its tenth year with the release of its best live sessions on a double CD. The LP - out September 24 - features performances including Florence + the Machine's 'Dog Days Are Over', Amy Winehouse's 'Stronger Than Me', and The Killers' 'All These Things That I've Done'. The station is renowned for championing the best in up-and-coming talent, with many celebrities and artists backing the 'Save BBC Radio 6 Music Campaign' including Coldplay and David Bowie. Bowie is quoted as saying: "6 Music keeps the spirit of broadcasters like John Peel alive and for new artists to lose this station would be a great shame." 6 Music was recently awarded 'National Station of the Year' at the Sony Radio (more)...
- 9/7/2012
- by By Robert Copsey
- Digital Spy
When John Peel decided to play a long instrumental album by an unknown musician on his radio show, he put the wheels in motion for a worldwide smash, and a whole business empire, reveals Sir Richard Branson.
Richard Branson remembers being blown away by his first listening of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells
According to Branson, Peel is the man to thank for everything.
The still much-missed music aficionado and longtime broadcaster decided to play Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in its entirety on his radio show after Branson played it to him over dinner...
“He said it was one of the most important albums he’d ever heard.”
Speaking to digital arts service The Space, Branson recalls the first time he heard the demo tapes of Tubular Bells, “I’d never heard anything quite so special.”
But the rest of the music industry didn’t concur and the young...
Richard Branson remembers being blown away by his first listening of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells
According to Branson, Peel is the man to thank for everything.
The still much-missed music aficionado and longtime broadcaster decided to play Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells in its entirety on his radio show after Branson played it to him over dinner...
“He said it was one of the most important albums he’d ever heard.”
Speaking to digital arts service The Space, Branson recalls the first time he heard the demo tapes of Tubular Bells, “I’d never heard anything quite so special.”
But the rest of the music industry didn’t concur and the young...
- 8/7/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Every week I'll round up the biggest arts stories from around the web, recommend a long read and look ahead at what's coming up
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
Each Thursday, I am going to round up the main arts stories of the week. Here's the first instalment.
• It was Turner prize shortlist week. Here's Adrian Searle's verdict on Spartacus Chetwynd, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, and Luke Fowler. Fowler is yet another Glaswegian – or, rather Glasgow-based artist. He studied in Dundee. (Trivia: Elizabeth Price was in the 1980s indie band Talulah Gosh, as was the philosophy editor of Oxford University Press and the chief economist and director of mergers at the Office of Fair Trading.)
• Arts Council England/the BBC launched the Space. The reports mostly focused on the fact that John Peel's record collection will gradually be made available to rifle through online, but perhaps you should think of it as a "YouTube...
- 5/3/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Partnership set to offer hundreds of hours of new and archived arts programming online, on mobile and on digital TV
John Peel's record collection, the first film by Ridley Scott and all 37 of Shakespeare's plays – each in a different language – are among the highlights of a new digital joint venture between the BBC and Arts Council England.
The Space, which went live on Tuesday, will offer hundreds of hours of arts programming online, on mobile, and on digital TV.
Alan Davey, the chief executive of Arts Council England, said it was an "extraordinary way of experiencing an exceptional summer of arts".
Davey said the arts world had "yet to fully realise the potential of bringing artistic creatives together with digital media and this is a real exploration. If we can get this right we can find new ways of connecting the arts to a wider audience".
For one of the project's collaborators,...
John Peel's record collection, the first film by Ridley Scott and all 37 of Shakespeare's plays – each in a different language – are among the highlights of a new digital joint venture between the BBC and Arts Council England.
The Space, which went live on Tuesday, will offer hundreds of hours of arts programming online, on mobile, and on digital TV.
Alan Davey, the chief executive of Arts Council England, said it was an "extraordinary way of experiencing an exceptional summer of arts".
Davey said the arts world had "yet to fully realise the potential of bringing artistic creatives together with digital media and this is a real exploration. If we can get this right we can find new ways of connecting the arts to a wider audience".
For one of the project's collaborators,...
- 5/1/2012
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
SIr Peter Blake has reworked his iconic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover to celebrate his 80th birthday. Choosing icons who have inspired his long and acclaimed creative career, Blake took inspiration for the new piece from his cover for The Beatles' Grammy Award-winning album. Among those featured are Amy Winehouse, Jk Rowling, Richard Curtis, Noel Gallagher, Elton John, Helen Mirren, John Peel, Mick Jagger, Vivienne Westwood and David Attenborough. Paul McCartney is the only Beatle to feature, and is joined by daughters Stella and Mary. "I've chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends," Blake said. "I had a very long list of people who I wanted to go in but couldn't fit everyone in - I think that shows how strong (more)...
- 4/2/2012
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
John Peel's huge record collection is to be made available as part of an interactive online museum. The late BBC Radio 1 DJ's personal archive of 25,000 albums, 40,000 singles and thousands of other CDs will become part of experimental online service The Space, which is funded by the Arts Council and supported by the BBC. Tom Barker of the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts said: "It is the first step in creating an interactive online museum with access to the entire collection, one of the most important archives in modern music history." Collaborator Eye Film and Television's Frank Prendergast explained: "The idea is to digitally re-create John's home studio and record collection, which users will be able to interact with and contribute to, while (more)...
- 2/23/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Joint venture between Arts Council England and BBC aims to transform the way audiences experience culture
It will feature John Peel's vast record collection, restored Hitchcock films, and a live string quartet performance in helicopters for what should be the most ambitious publicly-funded digital arts programme the UK has seen.
Arts Council England (Ace) and the BBC on Wednesday announced details of The Space, a project that will create hundreds of hours of original arts material between May and October.
Both organisations have high expectations. Ace is investing £3.5m and chief executive Alan Davey said he hoped it would transform the way people experience arts and culture, adding: "We believe it is one of the most significant interventions that the arts council has made in its history."
A total of 53 original commissions were announced, which will be made available to viewers free of charge this summer via a range of platforms.
It will feature John Peel's vast record collection, restored Hitchcock films, and a live string quartet performance in helicopters for what should be the most ambitious publicly-funded digital arts programme the UK has seen.
Arts Council England (Ace) and the BBC on Wednesday announced details of The Space, a project that will create hundreds of hours of original arts material between May and October.
Both organisations have high expectations. Ace is investing £3.5m and chief executive Alan Davey said he hoped it would transform the way people experience arts and culture, adding: "We believe it is one of the most significant interventions that the arts council has made in its history."
A total of 53 original commissions were announced, which will be made available to viewers free of charge this summer via a range of platforms.
- 2/23/2012
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Seems like the major labels will continue to mine the nostalgia angle with the hope that they can squeeze a few more ducats from aging music fans everywhere. Fine by me, if the music merits the "super-deluxe-never-before-heard-or-seen" treatment. And since I've been sucked into that black hole with the Dead, Stones, Rush, Hendrix, Jesus & Mary Chain, et al., I've missed some amazing music and culture this past year. No excuses now as I cram a full year's worth of culture down my gullet before Christmas. You can check out more of my favorite culture from 2011 in these Spring, Summer, and Fall articles.
Mia Doi Todd: Cosmic Ocean Ship (City Zen) - I was struck by her otherworldly vocals after copping her major label debut in 2002. Her ninth effort picks up where her critically acclaimed 2008 self-released effort Gea left off. And it's quite apparent that her time on the road opening...
Mia Doi Todd: Cosmic Ocean Ship (City Zen) - I was struck by her otherworldly vocals after copping her major label debut in 2002. Her ninth effort picks up where her critically acclaimed 2008 self-released effort Gea left off. And it's quite apparent that her time on the road opening...
- 12/25/2011
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
The director-turned-musician turns editor for this week's Film & Music
Five things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editor
Sometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cooked
The block-and-tackle is a mysterious and powerful device
Duran Duran ought to have scored a Hitchcock film
Precisely what will four 21-year-old men from the Ozarks make of Lynch's new album?
Or, for that matter, a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio?
In the news this week
Justin Bieber turns to Twitter to deny paternity claims
What are Juggalos and should we be scared of them?
The Cure to release Bestival live album
Flaming Lips announce collaboration with Nick Cave
MoMA commissions multimedia work by Antony and the Johnsons
Our readers recommend
Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
Five things we learnt from David Lynch's stint as editor
Sometimes a fish will tell you how it wants to be cooked
The block-and-tackle is a mysterious and powerful device
Duran Duran ought to have scored a Hitchcock film
Precisely what will four 21-year-old men from the Ozarks make of Lynch's new album?
Or, for that matter, a blond high-school girl from Columbus, Ohio?
In the news this week
Justin Bieber turns to Twitter to deny paternity claims
What are Juggalos and should we be scared of them?
The Cure to release Bestival live album
Flaming Lips announce collaboration with Nick Cave
MoMA commissions multimedia work by Antony and the Johnsons
Our readers recommend
Owlyross:
Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which is so stupidly overblown and "epic" that it goes through ridiculous and right back through to awesome.
- 11/4/2011
- by Adam Boult
- The Guardian - Film News
Pete Townshend, primarily known as the windmilling guitarist of The Who, came down hard on Apple's iTunes system while delivering his speech at the inaugural John Peel Lecture (honoring the late BBC DJ) on Monday, saying the company "bleeds" artists like a "digital vampire." He went on to suggest eight different ways the digital music industry can emulate the roles that record labels traditionally provided, to save the "dying" recording industry. That included Apple possibly hiring twenty talent scouts to discover talented, emerging musicians who they could then provide "creative nurture" for. The sixty-six-year-old Townshend made no bones about his opposition to unauthorized file-sharing, that great big gray area responsible for billions lost in earnings and tax revenue, saying the internet is "destroying copyright as we know it." "Is there really any good reason why, just because [...]...
- 11/1/2011
- Nerve
London -- The Who's Pete Townshend on Monday branded Apple Inc.'s iTunes a "digital vampire" that profits from music without supporting the artists who create it.
Townshend said that faced with the Internet's demolition of established copyright protections, iTunes should offer some of the services to artists that record labels and music publishers used to provide. These include employing talents scouts, giving space to allow bands to stream their music and paying smaller artists directly rather than through a third party aggregator.
The guitarist was delivering the first John Peel Lecture, named in honor of the influential British radio broadcaster who died in 2004.
Townshend asked if there was any reason iTunes "can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire" to make money.
ITunes declined to respond to Townshend's comments.
Apple's service is the market leader among legal download services,...
Townshend said that faced with the Internet's demolition of established copyright protections, iTunes should offer some of the services to artists that record labels and music publishers used to provide. These include employing talents scouts, giving space to allow bands to stream their music and paying smaller artists directly rather than through a third party aggregator.
The guitarist was delivering the first John Peel Lecture, named in honor of the influential British radio broadcaster who died in 2004.
Townshend asked if there was any reason iTunes "can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire" to make money.
ITunes declined to respond to Townshend's comments.
Apple's service is the market leader among legal download services,...
- 10/31/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Pete Townshend has accused Apple's iTunes of "bleeding" musical artists, comparing the company to a "digital vampire". Speaking at BBC 6 Music's inaugural John Peel Lecture, the Who rocker accused Apple of "destroying copyright" and claimed that services such as editorial guidance and "nurture" have been sacrificed as it has taken over the music business. "Is there really any good reason why, just because iTunes exists in the wild west internet land of Facebook and Twitter, it can't provide some aspect of these services to the artists whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire, like a digital Northern Rock, for its enormous commission?" he said, reports BBC News. Townshend also expressed (more)...
- 10/31/2011
- by By Jennifer Still
- Digital Spy
This week's edition of "album reissues that make you feel old" features the Smashing Pumpkins. The iconic '90s rock band (and somewhat confused new millennium band) is giving the deluxe treatment to their 1991 debut "Gish" and 1993's breakthrough follow-up "Siamese Dream." Two-disc versions of each album will be made available, due Nov. 29. The bonus material includes John Peel session, demos, alternative takes, single versions, 2011 remixes and more. Both "Gish" and "Siamese Dream" were originally recorded by Butch Vig -- who has been in headlines lately because of his contributions to Nirvana's "Nevermind" and its 20th annivesary. And although...
- 10/18/2011
- Hitfix
Example has complained about the Arctic Monkeys taking his parking space at Glastonbury. The 'Changed The Way You Kiss Me' chart-topper expressed his festival woes on Twitter ahead of his performance on the John Peel Stage later this evening. "I'm not allowed to park my bus behind the stage I'm playing because the Arctic Monkeys have taken our space. And they're not even playing," the London-born rapper stated. It's the first report that confirms that the Suck It And See band are in attendance, with online communities and festival-goers speculating (more)...
- 6/24/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
No other time, no other place sees a greater concentration of the world's film journalists than the Cannes Film Festival. If you've got an announcement to make, Cannes is the when and where to make it. Before what looks like a pretty raucous week gets rolling tomorrow, I thought I'd gather notes on a few of the most interesting made so far.
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough goes to work on the story that's probably made the biggest noise so far: "The creator of Antichrist and the helmer of Taxi Driver will collaborate on their next project. Danish director Lars von Trier and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a remake of The Five Obstructions, von Trier's 2003 documentary deconstructing the filmmaking process…. It's unclear which of Scorcese's films will form the basis of the Five Obstructions remake."
Jason Guerrasio for Filmmaker: "This news got me thinking about another project...
The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Roxborough goes to work on the story that's probably made the biggest noise so far: "The creator of Antichrist and the helmer of Taxi Driver will collaborate on their next project. Danish director Lars von Trier and Oscar-winner Martin Scorsese are teaming up for a remake of The Five Obstructions, von Trier's 2003 documentary deconstructing the filmmaking process…. It's unclear which of Scorcese's films will form the basis of the Five Obstructions remake."
Jason Guerrasio for Filmmaker: "This news got me thinking about another project...
- 5/15/2011
- MUBI
This Irish actor is too old:
This Irish actor is too young:
This English actor is too clean (and a little goofy):
But, this German/Irish actor is just right:
All you young whippersnappers out there, you rebels and lovers of anarchy, join me in taking a moment to acknowledge our forefathers: Punk bands. And hey, didja know that while The Ramones and The Clash and Sex Pistols were kicking it in New York and London, Belfast had its own music revolution breaking out via a record company called Good Vibrations? Founder and promoter Terry Hooley did his best to get new bands noticed outside of Northern Ireland; his greatest success was with The Undertones. Legendary radio personality John Peel loved their hit Teenage Kicks, giving it 28 stars (out of 5 and no, that's not a typo) and declaring it his favorite song.
So somewhat akin to 24 Hour Party People,...
This Irish actor is too young:
This English actor is too clean (and a little goofy):
But, this German/Irish actor is just right:
All you young whippersnappers out there, you rebels and lovers of anarchy, join me in taking a moment to acknowledge our forefathers: Punk bands. And hey, didja know that while The Ramones and The Clash and Sex Pistols were kicking it in New York and London, Belfast had its own music revolution breaking out via a record company called Good Vibrations? Founder and promoter Terry Hooley did his best to get new bands noticed outside of Northern Ireland; his greatest success was with The Undertones. Legendary radio personality John Peel loved their hit Teenage Kicks, giving it 28 stars (out of 5 and no, that's not a typo) and declaring it his favorite song.
So somewhat akin to 24 Hour Party People,...
- 5/13/2011
- by Cindy Davis
Hilarity peddler Steve Coogan rocked into stardom with "24 Hour Party People" and his portrayal of the British music scene's now legendary impresario, Tony Wilson. The Playlist (via ScreenDaily) reports that he's joined the cast of another UK music flick, this time about Belfast's godfather of punk, Terri Hooley.
Hooley's tale centers around the record store he founded in the early 70's called Good Vibrations, which naturally became a record label. The bands Hooley signed are now largely forgotten -- The Moondogs, Victim, The Outcasts, and The Shapes. But one night the highly influential John Peel got his hands on one of Hooley's acts and played their single on his infinitely popular radio show. The band was The Undertones, the song was "Teenage Kicks," and the rest is punk history.
Coogan joins Richard Dormer who plays Hooley along with Michael Fassbender, and Robert Sheehan. Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa who...
Hooley's tale centers around the record store he founded in the early 70's called Good Vibrations, which naturally became a record label. The bands Hooley signed are now largely forgotten -- The Moondogs, Victim, The Outcasts, and The Shapes. But one night the highly influential John Peel got his hands on one of Hooley's acts and played their single on his infinitely popular radio show. The band was The Undertones, the song was "Teenage Kicks," and the rest is punk history.
Coogan joins Richard Dormer who plays Hooley along with Michael Fassbender, and Robert Sheehan. Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D'Sa who...
- 5/12/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
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