GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL 2012 LIVE MUSIC EVENTS

GLASGOW MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL 2012
LIVE MUSIC EVENTS TICKETS NOW RELEASED

Tickets are now on sale for Glasgow Music and Film Festival 2012 live music events. Now in its fourth year, GMFF (16–26 February) showcases an inspired and inspirational programme of live music events that celebrate the special relationship between film and music, each an inventive fusing of sound with innovative imagery curated by the always groundbreaking music aficionados at The Arches. The events are complemented by Glasgow Film Festival’s audacious programme of music-related films and documentaries, to be announced on Wednesday 18 January at the GFF 2012 official programme launch.

Live events will take place at The Arches, Mono, SWG3, The Old Hairdressers – and North Woodside Leisure Centre, which will see the return of Wet Sounds, which went down a splash at last year’s Festival.

This year the Festival will also present High Places, a boy/girl duo whose multi-sensory partnership combines the homemade with the exotic to a backdrop of their own visuals, and Umberto, master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic. After supporting Italian supercult group Goblin last year, occult project OV return with A Psychocinematic Ritual, and Serafina Steer and her brother Sam provide a fairy-tale experience at The Arches.

GMFF 2012 is also very proud to present a world premiere screening of Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening and to give Glasgow the chance to see a rare live performance by Simeon himself.

HIGH PLACES, The Arches, Thursday 16 February (20.00) £8

High Places is a collaboration between visual artist Rob Barber and orchestral musician Mary Pearson, who met in Brooklyn and have combined their musical backgrounds and aesthetics to great acclaim on albums High Places and Original Colours. Multi-instrumentalists, Mary’s lilting vocal melodies and their percussive sounds created from household objects are set against a backdrop of their own video projections. High Places’ fusion of music and visual art is the quintessential GMFF experience.

SERAFINA AND SAM STEER: A FOCUS LEFT SPECIAL, The Arches, Saturday 18 February (19.00) £6/£4

Multi-instrumentalist and multi-talented harpist Serafina Steer’s London-tinged Victoriana folk stories, haunting melodies and captivating wordsmithery make her one of the most unique and intriguing artists of the past decade; a sound confirmed and enhanced by collaborations with everyone from John Foxx and Benge to Chromehoof and Patrick Wolf. For this special gig, Serafina will perform her own live scores using harp and vocals to the fairy-tale animations of her filmmaker brother Sam Steer in what promises to be a magical and enthralling live experience.

WET SOUNDS, North Woodside Leisure Centre, Sunday 19 February, (Session 1: 17.30–19.00, Session 2: 20.00–21.30) £9, All ages. Tickets must be bought in advance from Glasgow Film Festival.

A beautiful Victorian swimming pool is transformed into a live resonating art space for this underwater deep listening experience. Two distinct sound systems – one above and one below the water – emit a combination of Joel Cahen’s electronic modulations and sound collage and La Horrox’s voice and live electronica. The result is a surreal and cinematic sound experience. www.wetsounds.co.uk

A PSYCHOCINEMATIC RITUAL, The Old Hairdressers, Thursday 23 February (20.00) £5

After their spectacular warm-up for Italian horror soundtrack legends Goblin at last year’s Festival, occult project OV returns – this time using ritual, coincidence, numerology and a hefty dose of magick – to explore both the beauty and cruelty of war. An unsettling collaboration between members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and Sons and Daughters, OV was born out of a shared fascination with the occult and the otherworldly. Performing live film soundtracks alongside intriguing visuals, OV uses the power of music and cinema to shock and disturb.

CRY PARROT PRESENTS: UMBERTO – Secret live film soundtrack, SWG3,
Saturday 25 February (20.00) £5

A true master of the horror film soundtrack aesthetic, Umbertos music is a hypnotic, all-consuming journey, reeling you into a foggy, neon-lit world of graveyards, stalkers, haunted houses, witches and blood-stained corpses. Evoking the unsettling progressive rock of Goblin and the sinister, dystopian synth-work of John Carpenter, his acclaimed releases are as playful and experimental as they are expertly crafted. Flying over from Kansas City, Missouri for this special performance, Umberto will be providing a live soundtrack to a secret film of his choice in cutting-edge arts venue SWG3. Independent promoters Cry Parrot co-present this creepy and otherworldly performance.

SILVER APPLES, Mono, Sunday 26 February (20.30) £10

Having languished in obscurity for many years, 60s duo Silver Apples are now recognised as pioneers of electronica, thanks to their groundbreaking work. In contrast to flowery, psychedelic rock, they assembled an assortment of filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, oscillators and other electronic junk to create their minimalistic, experimental sound. The pair’s music – a surreal concoction of
drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies – was way ahead of its time and switched on taste-makers like John Lennon and Jimi Hendrix sang their praises. But their brief first career ground to a halt until, in the mid-90s, a bootleg CD of their two cultish albums revived interest among the music cognoscenti. In later years, with the likes of Beck, the Beastie Boys, and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow all acknowledging their influence, Silver Apples renown has grown and surviving member Simeon visits Glasgow to let us have a bite. www.silverapples.com

SILVER APPLES: PLAY TWICE BEFORE LISTENING, GFT, Sunday 26 February (15.30) £8/£6

GMFF 2012 is proud to host the world premiere of Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening. Directed by Barak Soval, this documentary unfolds the story of the enigmatic duo through interviews, rare performance footage, and contributions from a gallery of enthusiastic talking heads including Thurston Moore. Barak and Simeon from Silver Apples will take part in a live Q&A following the film and Simeon will give a live performance later the same evening.

Tickets for all shows are on sale now from the Glasgow Film Theatre Box Office, by phone on 0141 332 6535 and online via www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or from The Arches Box Office, on 0141 565 1000 or online via www.thearches.co.uk.

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