Archive for the 'Weekend DVD' Category
I don’t think there’s been a modern group that has divided people as much as Radiohead. Innovative and experimental rockers to some, miserable whiners to others. Grant Gee’s film Meeting People Is Easy is a chronicle of Radiohead’s 1997-1998 world tour, starting just when Ok Computer has been released. The band had already come [...]
Punk: Attitude is one of the best music documentaries of recent years. The film chronicles the timeline of punk rock; from it’s roots in 60’s garage rock and bands like the Stooges and MC5 to today’s bands like Green Day. The great strength of the film is the wealth of interviews from all the major [...]
Coachella is probably regarded as the music festival in North America. It’s apparently like Glastonbury but without the potential for bad weather. It’s based in the beautiful Californian desert and is skewed to featuring indie bands both big and small as well as a smattering of dance music and hip-hop. The festival’s been headlined by [...]
Some people really strike it lucky; commercial director Sam Jones thought he was simply going to make a film about the group Wilco, as they went about making their fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. The day before Jones started filming, he was told the group had dismissed their drummer Ken Coomer. A good start then. [...]
“I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies” Kurt Cobain, 1994. That’s the quote that opens the film and it tells you why the Pixies are one of the most important bands of the last 20 years. That quote was taken from a Rolling Stone interview, where cobain was asked on his influences were, [...]
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