One from the weekend (and lack of free speech in the UK)
2008-03-31 by Kevvy K
Chilly – For Your Love
Another wonderful night’s dancing and getting on down at the Godfather of Disco after party. It felt very different from the usual Horse Meat do’s in that there was plenty of smoke and lasers and a beefier system, and was generally that bit more chi-chi than the lovably scuzzy Eagle.
Maurice Fulton was on fine form.. playing an appropriately more disco-oriented set for the evening. This 1978 Chilly euro-classic was something he dropped towards the end, and sounded magnificent played loud and epic.. up to this point, I had always felt that the rocky middle-8 kind of let the song down a bit (and there are a couple of edits floating about that snip it out), but with appropriate EQ-ing and the extra volume, it definitely injected extra dance-floor wig. The housier room was looking very sweaty and exciting still just as I was leaving, but alas, my boogie wad was well and truly blown.
On a less hedonistic note, the documentary On the Verge that the powers are be are trying to shut down is on tour around the country, and will be shown in London at Housmans Bookshop at Kings Cross on Friday, the 11th of April at 7pm.
This is from the Guardian last week – “The war on terror has many bedfellows. Today we meet just one of them, the war on cinema. Hostilities begin in Brighton, where anti-war protesters committed to celluloid their campaign against EDO, the local armourer. The result, a documentary called On the Verge, is to be shown at venues around the country. The tour was to begin with a screening at Brighton’s Duke of York cinema, but things all became a little strange when the local council said the screening could not take place because the film had not been certificated. They said the police wanted it banned, and so the showing was cancelled. In the days that followed, the police denied any official intervention – a claim contested by the council. But what is stranger still is that, since then, many of the scheduled screenings, in towns the length and breadth of the country, have apparently encountered similar difficulties. Some venues, it is said, have been told they risk prosecution over the certification issue; others that they are assisting subversives. The result, of course, is that many more people than before want to see the film, and now mainstream cinemas want to screen it. Isn’t notoriety just the best PR?”
There’s more info on the film and other screenings around the country here and more info about the Smash EDO campaign here
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