TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR THIRD GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FESTIVAL

TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR THIRD GLASGOW MUSIC & FILM FESTIVAL

16 – 26 February 2012

Various times and prices – see listings for full details

The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL and other venues around Glasgow

Tickets from the Arches Box Office on 0141 565 1000 or from www.thearches.co.uk OR from GFT Box Office on 0141 332 6535 or www.glasgowfilm.org/festival


Back for its fourth year, the Glasgow Music & Film Festival 2012, returns as part of the eighth Glasgow Film Festival, once again taking over Glasgow’s edgy and unusual spaces from 16 – 26 February 2012, with tickets on sale today (Wednesday 11th January 2012).
Cultivated by seasoned film fanatics at GFT and switched on music aficionados at the Arches, the festival celebrates the special relationship between film and music, blending reverential cult offerings with new, experimental sonic and visual explorations. This year’s expertly crafted selection of live events, fascinating documentaries and feature films (as part of the GMFF film strand at the GFT) will excite, shock, astound, space out and downright terrify gig goers. The unmissable 2012 programme features US cult avant garde act Silver Apples, LA based art rockers High Places, horror soundtrack maestros Umberto, Scottish occult project OV with the Psychogeographical Commission and The Wyrding Module and a Focus Left Special with Victoriana influenced multi-instrumentalist Serafina with brother Sam Steer. We also welcome back eerie, underwater experience Wet Sounds at North Woodside Swimming Pool.

New York formed and now LA based DIY dance-punk duo High Places perform at the Arches on Thursday 16 February (8pm). With a lulling ambience driving their sound, much of their material is home recorded using household appliances and they also design evolving live visuals that journal their daily lives and travels. High Places have performed in a variety of art spaces across the US and Europe. We can’t wait to see what kinds of audio visual treats they have in store for us in Glasgow.

The Arches’ event platform for film and the live experience Focus Left and GMFF present Serafina and Sam Steer’s “Like A Ham Head In The Wind”, a bazaar of extraordinary new short films and animations at the Arches on Saturday 18 February (7pm). For this unique event, Steer will be performing her own live scores on harp and vocals alongside the fairytale animations of her filmmaker brother Sam Steer in what promises to be a vivid and enthralling live experience. Steer’s London-tinged Victoriana-folk stories, haunting melodies and captivating wordsmithery have made her one of the most unique and intriguing performers of the past decade, a statement confirmed and enhanced by collaborations with artists from John Foxx to Chromehoof and Patrick Wolf. The latest opus of this brother and sister team ‘Postman’s Familiar; A Rabbit’s Revenge’ was commissioned by Branchage Film Festival, Jersey, in 2011; a stop-motion animation in response to Kenneth Anger’s ‘Rabbit’s Moon’ 1950.

After the sell-out success of last year’s event, ultimate underwater musical experience Wet Sounds returns to the eerie Victorian chambers of North Woodside Swimming Pool on Sunday 19 February (5.30pm – 7pm then 8pm – 9.30pm). As listeners swim above and below the atmospherically lit pool, two separate soundsystems create an immersive and unforgettable experience. Featuring live electronics from Joel Cahen and La Horrox, this is Glasgow’s quirkiest and one of 2010’s most talked about live events.

A Psychocinematic Ritual: OV, Psychogeographical Commission and The Wyrding Module is at The Old Hairdressers on Thursday 23 February (8pm). After their spectacular warm up for Italian horror soundtrack legends Goblin at last year’s festival, occult project OV return. Featuring members of Desalvo, Unwinding Hours and Sons and Daughters, they will use ritual, coincidence, numerology and a hefty dose of magick to explore both the beauty and cruelty of war. Performing live film soundtracks (what films? Do we know?) alongside intriguing visuals, prepare to be reminded of the power of music and cinema to shock and disturb. This is the debut performance of the Psychogeographical Commission who explore the many interfaces between the built environment and the people who inhabit it through dérive, magick and sonic experimentation. The Wyrding Module is a solo project by Paramusician Christopher Gladwin, one half of Team Doyobi. Their psychotronic sounds are inspired by Kosmische Musik, Mantra-Rock, Post-Industrial Ambience and the Occult.

The Arches and Cry Parrot present Umberto who will be flying over exclusively from Kansas City, Missouri to provide a live soundtrack to a secret film of his choice at SWG3 on Saturday 25 February 2012 (8pm). 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.

The Arches presents Silver Apples at Mono on Sunday 26 February (8.30pm). Pioneers of electronic rock, the hugely influential avant-garde act formed in New York in 1967 and have influenced everyone from Kraftwerk to Suicide and Spacemen 3. A contrast to the flowery psychedelic rock of the time, they assembled an assortment of filters, telegraph keys, radio parts, lab gear, a variety of second hand electronic junk and oscillators to create their minimalistic, experimental sound. This rare Silver Apples show will follow the world premiere screening of Silver Apples: Play Twice Before Listening at GFT on Sunday 26 February (3.45pm).


Tickets for all GMFF gigs go on sale on Wednesday 11th January 2012 via the Arches and GFT box offices. For more information on the GMFF film strand go to: www.glasgowfilm.org/festival from 19 January 2012.

The full Glasgow Film Festival line-up will be announced on 18 January 2012. The 8th Glasgow Film Festival will run from February 16–26 2012 in venues throughout the city. The Festival is the fastest-growing film event in the UK, attracting audiences in excess of 30,000. Tickets will go on sale from 19 January 2012 at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival.

Glasgow Film Festival 2012 is supported by Glasgow: Scotland with Style and Creative Scotland.

Glasgow Film Festival would like to thank its major partners:
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EventScotland is the national events agency. EventScotland is working to make Scotland one of the world’s leading event destinations. By developing an exciting portfolio of sporting and cultural events EventScotland is helping to raise Scotland’s international profile and boost the economy by attracting more visitors. For further information about EventScotland, its funding programmes and latest event news visit www.EventScotland.org.

The Year of Creative Scotland 2012 will spotlight and celebrate Scotland’s cultural and creative strengths on a world stage and is a Scottish Government initiative led in partnership by EventScotland, VisitScotland, Creative Scotland and VOCAL. More information and resources to help businesses engage with Year of Creative Scotland are available at www.visitscotland.org/yearofcreativescotland-toolkit.

Creative Scotland is the national development agency for the arts, screen and creative industries, and its ambition is to see Scotland recognised as one of the world’s most creative nations. Investing in our Creative Future, the organisation’s first corporate plan sets out its vision: that Scotland is recognised as a leading creative nation – one that attracts, develops and retains talent, where the arts and the creative industries are supported and celebrated and their economic contribution fully captured, a nation where the arts and creativity play a central part in the lives, education and well-being of our population. www.creativescotland.com.

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