William E. Badgley’s Rebel Dread protagonist Don Letts with The Slits' Ari Up
Bill Badgley’s (aka William E Badgley) Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits (associate producer Guy Maddin), with Tessa Pollitt as our guide, features on-camera interviews with former band members Viv Albertine (author of Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys and star opposite Liam Gillick in Joanna Hogg's Exhibition), Paloma Romero, Neneh Cherry, Budgie, Bruce Smith, and Steve Beresford, Cut LP producer Dennis Bovell, 99 Records recording artist Vivien Goldman (author of Revenge of the She-Punks), Adrian Sherwood (On-u Sound Records founder and producer of 99 Records Singers & Players War of Words LP which has Ari Up on keyboards, engineered by...
Bill Badgley’s (aka William E Badgley) Here To Be Heard: The Story Of The Slits (associate producer Guy Maddin), with Tessa Pollitt as our guide, features on-camera interviews with former band members Viv Albertine (author of Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys and star opposite Liam Gillick in Joanna Hogg's Exhibition), Paloma Romero, Neneh Cherry, Budgie, Bruce Smith, and Steve Beresford, Cut LP producer Dennis Bovell, 99 Records recording artist Vivien Goldman (author of Revenge of the She-Punks), Adrian Sherwood (On-u Sound Records founder and producer of 99 Records Singers & Players War of Words LP which has Ari Up on keyboards, engineered by...
- 3/1/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Celeste Bell on her film with Paul Sng, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché: “What we set out to do is address universal themes that we can all relate to, whether you’re a fan of X-Ray Spex, Poly Styrene, punk music or even interested in music at all …” Photo: BBC Arena
Celeste Bell and Paul Sng’s Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (BIFA Best Independent Documentary and Discovery Award winner), co-written with Zoë Howe, with Poly voiced by Ruth Negga (Rebecca Hall’s Passing and Oscar nominated for Jeff Nichols’ Loving) features some of the most creative talent of the late Seventies, early Eighties London, including X-Ray Spex members Paul Dean and Lora Logic; Neneh Cherry, Don Letts, Pauline Black, Vivien Goldman, Ana Da Silva, Gina Birch, Thurston Moore, Youth, and Vivienne Westwood sharing their remembrances of Poly Styrene off-camera, while we see brilliantly chosen and socially...
Celeste Bell and Paul Sng’s Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché (BIFA Best Independent Documentary and Discovery Award winner), co-written with Zoë Howe, with Poly voiced by Ruth Negga (Rebecca Hall’s Passing and Oscar nominated for Jeff Nichols’ Loving) features some of the most creative talent of the late Seventies, early Eighties London, including X-Ray Spex members Paul Dean and Lora Logic; Neneh Cherry, Don Letts, Pauline Black, Vivien Goldman, Ana Da Silva, Gina Birch, Thurston Moore, Youth, and Vivienne Westwood sharing their remembrances of Poly Styrene off-camera, while we see brilliantly chosen and socially...
- 2/2/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Ziggy Marley remembered late reggae and dub great Lee “Scratch” Perry’s “genius, uniqueness, courage and freedom,” in a tribute following the musician’s death Sunday, August 29th, at 85.
In a tribute shared with Rolling Stone, Marley said Perry’s death brought memories of venturing to his home studio in Kingston, Jamaica with his father, Bob Marley. “It was always a unique experience being around him,” Marley said. “He opened minds with his creativity and his personality. Some people thought it was madness, but I recognized it was genius, uniqueness,...
In a tribute shared with Rolling Stone, Marley said Perry’s death brought memories of venturing to his home studio in Kingston, Jamaica with his father, Bob Marley. “It was always a unique experience being around him,” Marley said. “He opened minds with his creativity and his personality. Some people thought it was madness, but I recognized it was genius, uniqueness,...
- 8/31/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Vivien Goldman was a pioneering London punk journalist in the 1970s, covering bands like the Slits and the Raincoats, dabbling in music with her indie dub records. Now a professor at NYU, Goldman tells a fascinating tale in Revenge of the She-Punks—as she calls it, “A Feminist Punk History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot.” It’s the freewheeling tale of how radical women who could barely play their instruments ended up changing the world. “Punk was exciting and it was doable,” the Raincoats’ Gina Birch tells Goldman. “I thought,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Richard Hell is known for many things — his short-lived stint in Television, his success with the Voidoids, his long career as a downtown poet. But maybe best of all, he’s known as the handsome lothario of the 1970s NYC punk scene. Yet when cultural historian Carlo McCormick asked Hell about the connection between punk and sexuality, Hell told him that wasn’t the point. “I remember Richard Hell saying to me, ‘Well Carlo, punk wasn’t really about sex,'” McCormick says with a smile in a gallery at...
- 12/10/2018
- by Elisabeth Garber-Paul
- Rollingstone.com
There have been an estimated 500 books about Bob Marley, according to author/broadcaster/historian/archivist Roger Steffens. Many are excellent: See Stephen Davis’ Bob Marley, Vivien Goldman’s career-peak profile The Book of Exodus and Steffens’ own Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Definitive Discography, co-authored with Leroy Jodie Pierson, which may be the most lovingly Herculean feat of record-collector archaeology ever.
So why do we need another? Steffens offers plenty of reasons in his accurately titled So Much Things to Say, due out in paperback October 30th. Here’s one: a riveting,...
So why do we need another? Steffens offers plenty of reasons in his accurately titled So Much Things to Say, due out in paperback October 30th. Here’s one: a riveting,...
- 10/29/2018
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
For all the scholarship that exists on pop history, plenty of mysteries remain: Who killed Jam Master Jay; what precisely happened on the night of Sam Cooke’s death; and what exactly was the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon? Netflix’s new ReMastered docuseries seeks to investigate these and other tales in the months ahead, starting with its first entry, Who Shot the Sheriff?, an examination of the events leading up to — and following — the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976. Here, a few things we gleaned from the hour-long doc,...
- 10/26/2018
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
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