[Event Chat] Dead Media Present - The Resistance, Intermission to Saturn, The Fuzzy Lights - 09/06/0

Welcome to another wonderful Bigmal-annoying event chat for your pleasure. This is next weekend for your post strawberry fair, pre Glastonbury entertainment.

We have the consistantly great Fuzzy Lights playing. They are consistantly glorious.

Intermission to Saturn use sitars, harmoniums and all kinds of REALLY COOL weird stuff. They are from Leicester and this is their first Cambridge gig.

After doing the usual songs around the country the last two months The Resistance are doing lots of new material and songs we don't usually do so it will be an event in itself. This is also the last Cambridge gig we are doing for quite some time so come along.

There will also be films and sweets, as ever.

Hurrah for actually being here for this!

Hooray! Can I pin the sheet up please?

So does this (cross-thread-comment)! :-)

Fuzzy Lights and The Resistance - I'm sold.

Dance MF dance!

Monday bump. Yep.

Can't make this - playing in London.

That's a good enough reason, I guess. Hopefully you won't get your sound sabotaged... ;)

Anyone (except DJOMG) got any suggestions for films? We've got two in mind but there both black and white and it'd be nice to have at least one colour one. Intermission to Saturn seem like a pretty technicolour kind of band and all.

Oh, and Matt; the sheet is yours. You put it up beautifully. Don't fall on Em this time though.

Anyone (except DJOMG) got any suggestions for films?

Flesh For Frankenstein!

No!

How about Return to Oz?

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I need to see Flesh for Frankenstein, I completely missed your showing of it. We were thinking about showing Trash, but there's probably a few too many penises in it. Always a potential problem with Warhol films, bless him.
I've haven't seen Return to Oz either. Shameful, isn't it? Does it have flying monkeys? It's definitely a contender if it's got flying monkeys.

Flesh for frankenstein has nudity and is dire, Return to Oz is great and has flying monkeys and a which who changes head for different occassions. Therefore it is winner.

I just went and read some stuff about it and it sounds really traumatic. This is what imdb says about it:

"Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful."

Psychiatric experiment? What the Christ? Still, that's a pretty compelling argument you've got there, what with the monkeys and all...

Flesh for frankenstein has nudity and is dire

Having nudity is surely a bonus! Also it is completely ace and well suited to a Dead Media night. It'd be a shame to miss the amazing accents though, and some of the lines. Maybe you could have subtitles on? Well, even if you don't use it, I recommend watching it.

Return to Oz is also skill though. Haven't seen that for ages.

Dorothy gets sent to a mental hospital after telling her family about Oz, she escapes and goes back to Oz.

Basically the books upon which both films are based are much darker than the films, but Return is a lot more like it, and hints that Oz is somewhere Dorothy retreats to when things are hard. It is brilliant.

In other news I have just eaten 250g of joghurt covered raisins and now I feel a bit sick. In fact I may have to take a brief trip to the toilet. gross, I knew this would happen if I bought them

I know I'm not allowed to make suggestions but how about La Battaglia di Algeri?

How about Jim Henson's 'The Dark Crystal'? That has lots of cool creatures too.

Ok, found Return to Oz. It's downloading and I'll watch it when I get home. If I can't sleep tonight, it's all your fault.

I need to see for myself just how dreadful Flesh for Frankenstein is. Subtitles don't really work at these things because of the wretched bands who get the way when you're trying read them. Maybe we should show Buster Keaton films all night — but then they're black and white too. Hmm. Possibly the thing to do is ditch the whole music bit of these nights and just hire the Portland for a film night. Cinema + fully licensed bar. Yeah, that could work.

La Battaglia di Algeri? - I don't what that is, but it sounds pretty clever. Alright, you're back in but we're going to be watching you very carefully. So what is it then?

Pans laberinth?

Mole!

You see? I'm making serious suggestions here. Everyone else is just suggesting rubbish 80's kids films with puppets. I hate you all.

No you don't DJOMG.

ps. I can't spell but can't be arsed to edit the above post, and I take no responsibility for nightmares.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Battaglia_di_Algeri

I love everybody really :P

Mole isn't a rubbish 80s kids film with puppets. It's a genius 60s/70s kids Czech cartoon. So there.

Pans laberinth isn't either, I'm just a bit slow :S

>Maybe we should show Buster Keaton films all night

I was thinking this while watching one the other night. The worst thing about my copies is the musical accompaniment which is rubbish and seems not to synchronize with the action at all. I have a couple of these on DVD if you want.

Or one of my all time favourite films, which I got from a newspaper: Belleville Rondevous!

Pink Floyd - The Wall

*runs away*

Belleville Rondevous!

Yes!

Is that the same as the Triplets of Belleville? Finally! I film I've actually seen! I'm still quite freaked out about the frogs though. Eugh.

I think Buster Keaton with a sound track by the Fuzzy Lights or some guys from Leicester could be pretty cool.

Jude, do you have Mole on DVD?

Is that the same as the Triplets of Belleville?

yep.

If you really want to freak people out why don't you put a late 90's teen movie on the projector. Something really dispicable like a Freddie Prinze Jr film?

Awesome. Apart from the frogs anyway.

Pink Floyd - The Wall
*runs away*

There's no way on earth you're getting Mole now. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.

"If you really want to freak people out why don't you put a late 90's teen movie on the projector. Something really dispicable like a Freddie Prinze Jr film?"

We don't want to freak people out, we just want something that looks nice. I'm not sure I want to know what a Freddie Prinze Jr film is.

Did you know that if you watch the original wizard of oz whilst playing pink floyd's dark side of the moon, it fits perfectly?

I haven't tried this yet but apparently if you press play on the record when the mgm lion roars, it works...

That only works on the same principle of serendipity that all the films at Dead Media nights sync up with the music played (and they do frequently, it's very pleasing.). Basically it's rubbish spouted by students who've smoked too many special cigarrettes.

actually, it was my bass player who told me that based, i believe, on the fact that he has done it

Wizard of Oz, 108 minutes. DSOTM, 43 minutes. Do the math as our American cousins say.

oh, ok then... i'm only reporting what i've been told. i have obviously been misinformed

If you google for it, it's been debunked by someone who went through it and pointed out all the bits than don't sync.

Don't tell me to do the math /stupid indie referencing

fair dos... I'll shut up

I once listened to DSOTM for 15 minutes on the wrong speed without noticing.

Damn, me and my ill-advised "joke" suggestions.... Kascha - only got Mole on video, anyway (plus, would have had to to mug a 4 year old to get it), so never mind ;-)

Dark Side Of The Moon wouldn't sound much slower and duller at 16rpm than it does at 33 1/3. And The Wall is actually quite funny, albeit highly unpleasant to look at and with an unforgivable soundtrack.

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one for all and all for one
muskehounds are always ready
one for all and all for one
helping everybody

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stuff Dogtanian, what about Albert the fifth musketeer? One of those cartoons that were worth watching even though you were out of the target age range.

In fact, how about a classic montage of kids animation? no?

Have you still got that version of the Quantum Leap theme tune?

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We ran a (long) series of nights featuring dogtanian, and we don't really want to re-cover old ground, awesome though it was. There could be something in the Quantum Leap thing though. Maybe when Kettles Yard give us an exhibition we can run it for two months straight with a soundtrack by pink floyd played at 0.5% of the original tempo. I'll get on to the Arts Council in the morning...

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After the success of our Quantum Leap season there's no way they could refuse us Cities of Gold. I was about six when that started running and nineteen when it finished. It did finish, didn't it?

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Probably with algorithmic plot generation so that it will run for all eternity. Pah indeed!

It's always nice when you start a thread when you go away and you get back to find that it's had 50 replies. Top work people. :)

Shoalin Soccer with the Resistance music would be beautiful.

It might be worth mentioning that this may well be the last Resistance gig in the band's current form. So come along. And don't forget the Fuzzy Lights and Intermission to Saturn are both very good.

What's Shoalin Soccer?

"in the band's current form"!!! Intrigue.

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Ooh, I'm all interested now. Is it going to be an addition or a subtraction, SR? Any clues you can give?

Oh, Rob, you can't tease us like that, it's cruel!

I have an idea, but I shall just go back to my hole

*still intrigued*

I'm saying nothing until we sort out details. Hopefully it will add an air of mystique to proceedings.

This will also be the last Resistance gig where we can smoke onstage. I don't usually smoke onstage because the Alex James pose usually ends up with smoke in my eye. But I'm going to try my damnest to do it anyway.
*looks into booking gigs in still smoking and proud Germany*

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How exactly does one stand like a cheese correspondent?

*sigh* I LOVE Alex James... I may buy his autobiography.

I love biographies written by one member of a band without the others. They usually end up dishing the dirt on the others. I look forward to hearing previously untold stories about Damon Alban's massive ego, Graham Coxon's alcoholism and what a smashing bloke Dave Rowntree is. They'll probably be some stuff about champagne drinking, space and growing a massive fringe too.

It's being billed as "by the second-drunkest member of Blur". I like the title too. I just basically really like Alex James.

Graham must be the drunkest? Although I once met Damon Albarn at feet first in Camden. He was so drunk he couldn't stand up. Later in the evening he was spotted passed out in the toilets.

I was assuming it was a reference to Graham, yes. Sorry - we've digressed quite a lot away from the forthcoming fabulousness of tomorrow night :-)

It keeps the thread at the top. ;) Blur could be quite wonderful apart from their alarming habit of releasing many of the most annoying tracks as singles. Inertia, Luminous, This is a Low, Oily Water, Yuko and Hiro, He Thought of Cars, Battle, and Trim Trabb all go unreleased when the odious Charmless Man, Stereotypes, Bang, Sunday Sunday and Tender all get played to death.

But yeah, sitars and REALLY COOL stuff.

Sitars? REALLY COOL stuff?

Awesome.

Lots of REALLY COOL stuff.

Outta sight!

Indeed. :)

Here's hoping no-one breaks your MOTHERFUCKIN' SITAR!

Sitars are actually really light and fragile. They are very easy to break in onstage fights.

We haven't had a fight onstage for like three months now. It'll be fine...

Woody Guthrie never said "this sitar kills fascists". With very good reason.
(x 100)

Last bumb. Tomorrow people!

REALLY COOL weird stuff! ;)

I like having a sitar in the house. Isn't there a shamisen as well- or did I imagine it?

Which instrument was the one DJOMG was playing in our back garden?

There isn't a sitar in the house. My sitar is at our studio. I've been meaning to bring it round to show you but it's 4 and a half feet long and Mill Rd is full of sitar muggers. Plus the bloody thing takes n hour to tune with it's 19 strings. There is a shamisen in the house, which DJohmygod was playing at the BBQ.

There's pics of both on the images page of my myspace page www.myspace.com/rkemp78

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DJOMG was the bomb at shamisen.

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so i went to the toilet instead

if only more people would vent their anger through going to the loo the world'd be a happier place......

You did have to be there. 'Twas fun. I tried to break my tele with a bit of wood, but the bit of wood, then the cable broke before the guitar. Damnit. The laptop fell off the organ but didn't break which was very good indeed. The Fuzzy Lights were exceptional and left their t shirts behind. Intermission to Saturn were very good despite someone throwing their poleroid camera at them. Cheers for all for coming. It was tremendous fun. I'm currently working through a bottle of Baileys feeling pleased.

It was great. I held my breath a bit when the laptop crashed to the floor, but was relieved when the 'apple' light came on again. I liked the maraca- and tambourine-wrangling.

For once I've not woken up the morning after with a resistance symbol in felt-tip on my cheek. One of the benefits of sobriety is that I now remember to wash it off my hand when I get home! Intermission to Saturn were really drowse-inducing in a GOOD way, I could totally have happily drifted off listening to them (this could be partly cos I got a seat near the front to listen to them on). Fuzzy Lights are awesome, and I greatly regret not really having seen them properly before (and missing the beginning of their set).

Top night.

Sorry I missed. I was on the worst date EVER. Wish I'd come to this instead :'(

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What did they do?

aw ax, how rubbish. I stayed in cos I'd got myself all unhappy which was silly, so watched Inspector Morse and then went to bed.

Just think nothing ventured nothing gained, and then buy yourself some chocolate x

yes ax, chalk it up to experience. and then buy a gun and become a MAN MURDERER.

's'all good

pity i missed the resistance. i was wankered in stourbridge grove.

*edited to add - HELLO ROB!*

What were you doing in Stourbridge Grove? I used to live at number 56.

I was rather worried that it was me who was to be the murderee rather than becoming a man murderer myself.

I'm sure I'll tell you what happened at some point but at the moment all I'll say is that the police are aware of what happened.

Oh god ax, that sounds worrying.

Bluebelle what did this policewoman say to you in the pub? I seem to have missed something.

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:)

What were you doing in Stourbridge Grove?

getting wankered on strong continental lagers, rumandcokes and, er stuff.

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>>i'm sure wearing a spaghetti strap top with no bra and a thong had nothing whatsoever to do with it ;)

You had trousers/ skirt on 'tho didn't you? Or do you often go out in just your knickers.
I'd love to go bra less but my boobs would rest on my stomach if I did.

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