September 07 2007
Lounge Links
posted by Steven Shaw at 3:23 pm
Some of NZ’s finest bands from the 1960s are getting back together to perform in November, including The Pleazers, Chants R&B, The Breakaways (Midge Marsden’s old band) and The Underdogs. Even Ray Columbus is getting together with old Invaders bandmates Dave Russell and Billy Kristian.
The promoters say the bands will be 100 per cent original lineups and in no way will this be a safe nostalgia show — it’s unbridled, fuzzed out garage R&B, recreating the sweaty basement club atmosphere of the 1960s. Check out more at the Wild Things 07 MySpace site…
Leonardo DiCaprio and The Departed screenwriter William Monahan are circling a new I, Claudius project after producer Scott Rudin picked up the film rights to the Robert Graves-authored Roman Empire novel…
Pitchfork calls David Kilgour a “touring machine”. Damn straight, and those lucky USA fans will get to meet his backing band, The Heavy 8s, for the first time…
Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd is back: Season 2, episode one, on ze YouTubes…
Tour news: Kristin Hersh to tour NZ (Auckland 14 Oct Kings Arms, Wellington 15 Oct SFBH) and Rufus Wainwright is doing a solo show (at Auckland’s Studio on Feb 4)…
Well someone keeps funding him: Director Brian De Palma is equally known for his successes (The Untouchables, Scarface) and his failures (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Black Dahlia). His latest effort, Redact, focuses on the nasty side of war. Follow this discussion, on NY Times’ Screens blog…
Who says Neko Case won’t tour with The New Pornographers? Here she is, adding bvs on Letterman
HBO buys rights to show made in Second Life: Yep, they paid a six-figure sum for the rights to Douglas Gayeton’s short film about a man who goes missing from the real world and uses the avatar Molotov Alva in Second Life. William Gibson, who coined the word cyberspace, should be very proud…
Video: The remaining living members of The Band are all hard at work on separate projects. Levon Helm has just released his first album in many years, Garth Hudson has some London shows coming up and Robbie Robertson appears on the Fats Domino tribute album, according to Mojo blog… but really, this is all just a thinly veiled excuse to embed the holy grail of music clips — The Band playing “King Harvest” at their legendary Woodstock rehearsal space in 1970 (followed by “Long Black Veil” from the Festival Express doco)…