“On August 23rd 2009, a group of Radiohead fans descended on the Výstaviště Holešovice Exhibition Hall in Prague on a mission to capture the band playing using as many different angles as possible. Bringing together the exceptional talents of many contributors, here’s a glimpse of the result.”
The footage was shot by 50 people using Flip cameras. Radiohead provided audio masters to the makers of this DVD, shot on 23 August 2009.
Lost track of British Sea Power, so I missed this lovely tune from 2009, set to a scene from Man of Aran, the classic 1934 film. The band did a complete soundtrack for the movie which was released on DVD. They performed the whole soundtrack live at the British Film Institute last year.
Simple Minds lost their way a long, long time ago. Now Jim Kerr’s trying it solo, as ‘Lostboy AKA‘. The album’s apparently not making any waves yet, but I’m surprised by this single in which Kerr marries 80′s ‘big’ guitar sounds with a 90′s danceable groove. Just misses the mark, but at least it’s not ‘Belfast Child’.
Had never seen the video before. Do have the single.
“Screech Owls were an Irish band, featuring a revolving flock of the finest – those birds that were a part of the pack included Debbie Schow, lead flockmeister, Dik Evans, himself formely of the Virgin Prunes, Martyn Baker, renouned engineer, bassist, and all round great musician and nice guy, Ian on trumpet, a Tinderstick to be on drums, Irish trad players, jazz players, punks, pranksters and others..”
The Call’s frontman Michael Been has died aged 60. He suffered a heart attack on August 19 at Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival . He was working as soundman for his son Robert Levon Been’s band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
I was a fan of The Call in the mid-Eighties. Joined their USA fanclub, even. They kind of occupied a place in between U2, Simple Minds and The Alarm. One of those bands that didn’t let their Christianity hinder them in reaching outside of the perceived demographic. It didn’t bother me, anyway. I saw them play once at The Paradiso in Amsterdam.
