Pablo Fiasco/Jamie Lidell film/vid/live sound @TWANG 8 Nov 03, London

[invisibleplanet]

Saturday 8th November 2003

Doors 7.30pm

Tickets £7 / £5


DO NOT MISS


Jonny Crash : It Came From Outer Cunt : Pixelvision : Mounties : genre noir



The Horse Hospital is honoured to present TWANG : a performance based act working with film/video and live sound,

featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny.

The evening will also feature screenings of film works by PABLO FIASCO, MATT McCORMICK and ARTHUR LIPSETT


SCREENINGS :

IT CAME FROM OUTER CUNT : Pablo Fiasco 13 minutes 2001

RAZORHEAD : Pablo Fiasco 8 minutes 2002.

DIAL ZEE FOR ZEIMER : Pablo Fiasco 15 minutes 2002

THE UNCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL : Matt McCormick 2001

PLUS

Two short films by ARTHUR LIPSETT



TWANG EXPRESS

Twang are a performance based act working with film/video and live sound.

Featuring the stories and films of Pablo Fiasco; performer, and filmmaker. Live voice and laptop soundtrack is provided by Jamie Lidell. Guitar by Mike Denny.

Twang cross the old world with the new…the mythologies of the wild west are ransacked but the tales are of graffiti writers, aliens, -- and a terribly modern world our heroes are poorly suited to live in, but they do it with such enthusiasm, that you can’t help but get caught up in the momentum.

Twang use live cameras, films, and the sharp shooting stories of Pablo Fiasco – who plays Jonny Crash, a lovable rogue who shoots his teacher at the age of 6. The stories twist, turn, and time-travel across fiction, history, mediums and believability.

Freeing the slaves, levitating to California, and avoiding global armaggedon by travelling on a beam of sound are just some of the antics you witness as the Twang posse blindly follow dreams and act out their illusions amidst a list of obstacles and distractions.

Pablo Fiasco and Jamie Lidell have teamed up under many guises. The accompanying video includes the first Twang show, and a short live piece of Lidell and Pablo Fiasco in action.

genre noir SCREENINGS

IT CAME FROM OUTER CUNT

A found footage extravaganza. Made from over two hundred films, this movie splices together hospital soap operas, sex ed films, and science fiction films to hilarious effect. 16mm film becomes a battleground of celluloid surgery; parts are removed and parts replaced. The film itself is scratched, punched, cut, chemicals solvents applied, objects stuck to it:. It literally tries to see how hard you can push film. And it gives you cause to doubt your doctor. 13 minutes 2001

RAZORHEAD

This film was made on t he pixelvision 2000 camera; a cult camera for kids created by the Fisher-Price toy company in the early eighties. Pixelvision records audio and video on ordinary audio cassette tapes. It’s style of low resolution is a ghostly grainy B+W image. "Razorhead" is a fictional autobiography, in the form of a pastiche on the styles and motifs of David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock. 8 minutes 2002.


DIAL ZEE FOR ZEIMER

A real life document where the Mounties don’t get their man. A 15 minute phone call to the RCMP to report a dead body turns into a s bewildering a conversation as you are likely to come across. This call was illegally recorded on a police radio scanning device, and had circulated as an exotic object in the underground punk scene in Vancouver, Canada when Genre Noir came across it. Who is Ernie Ziemer? Humour, horror and mystery. And it’s real. 15 minutes 2002

THE UNCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL

Matt McCormick made this gently amusing study of those who erase graffiti. Their traits, styles and the meanings behind their obliterating works.

Two short films by ARTHUR LIPSETT

Arthur Lipsett was an extraordinary filmmaker and visionary, who was employed along with Norman MacLaren in the 1960s by the National Film Board of Canada. His first film "Very Nice, Very Nice" won an academy award in 1961, and he was asked by Stanley Kubrick to create the trailer for Dr. Strangelove. He made several more films for the National Filmboard before they terminated his contract. He never recovered from what he saw as an act of betrayal by his former employer, and took his own life some years later.


THE HORSE HOSPITAL
COLONNADE
BLOOMSBURY
LONDON
WC1N 1HX
www.thehorsehospital.com

[invisibleplanet]

methinks graffiti is one of the best examples of an urban palimpsest..
anyway, it is to my art mind lol


i reckon it's a must for Super Collider/Lidell/Fiasco fans :)

[namshub]

loox fuckin killah....Oh U lucky yurpers...

[invisibleplanet]

yurpers? what means this please? lol (rumages around for OZ-English dictionary.....)

[deccard]

gnarrr...i wanna be a rich cunt and just fly over.

[invisibleplanet]

deccard, perhaps it's possible for this showcase to tour? I know it would go down a treat amongst the art/performance art/dance students up here, and there's the naughty Horse Hospital's sweet sister, Cube Cinema Multiplex in Bristol also.

I'd best see if I can get a train ticket today!!

[deccard]

i thought about that too. here in frankfurt would be a location that would perfectly fit cause of the other events they host there www.mousonturm.de
and i bet there could be interrest in berlin too. dunno of other german citys but a minitour in german or a gig weekend down here..hm..EMMA! DO SOMETHING! ;)

[invisibleplanet]

i think u need to email popculture@thehorsehospital.co m for this one, deccard, and speak to James Hollands, the curator. He'll give u the lowdown on the showdown :)

[invisibleplanet]

perhaps no-one has noticed the words 'Live voice and laptop soundtrack by Jamie Lidell yet:!

[dirtyho]

that is on the day i move to london - result
welcome to london eh!

[invisibleplanet]

absolutely, dirtyho!

i'm going! will u take a break from unpacking, and head to this event?

[dirtyho]

I'm going with my mate keith whos house I'm moving into - me and him have made short films together before so i really want him to see jeffs stuff which will blow his mind I reckon. See you there.

[invisibleplanet]

yeah! I'm there to see TWANG doing their thang. Ever since i saw Super Collider Live@dedbeat, I wanted to view his film-work, so this is a bit of a desire fulfilled for me, as regards Fiasco.

Also, will be great to hear Lidell making the soundtrack LIVE with his laptop and superb voice, with guitarist Mike Denny.

[invisibleplanet]

*bump*

lol

[Lady E]

not going to make it

need to rest up this coming weekend

[invisibleplanet]

i understand emma, and think i'll feel like u after this coming weekend is over, but it will be worth it! i've wanted to see those films for some time now, so I can't pass this up!

(check your mail for some haywire fotos this am)

[Me?]

I would have loved to have made this, but unfortunatly I am too skint!
We shall have to have a night out another time IP, I look forward to it too.

[Lady E]

saw geoff (pablo) last night

he was did an impromptu guest performance stencilling chicks on speed during their set

[invisibleplanet]

he stencilled the chicks? kuhl :)

i saw the monster warp party e-advertisment, and that mentioned Pablo was VJ.

[Loz]

think he did Jamie's visuals

[invisibleplanet]

are ya coming out to play then, fellow NERD?

[Loz]

Of course. I never stop playing.

[invisibleplanet]

oh we're in deep doo doo
no tickets from ticketweb available. dire london post. stores wont accept debit card booking (!!!) and want cheque only, and there's only 3 days to go

*eek*

[invisibleplanet]

*stop press*
originally by MachineMaid from the Little Detroi forum
If you still haven't got a ticket come down to the record shop, we're open late night Thursday and Friday until 8.30pm and we're only 10mins from the venue...And just to make it real easy and extra special we're having a pre-party gathering on Friday at The Griffin, Leonard St. Shoreditch - a few drinks, tunes, drinks, tunes and maybe a few more drinks...and you'll be able to get your ticket!

Pre-party gathering : The Griffin, Leonard Street, Shoreditch London EC2A
7pm - 11pm
last few tickets will be on sale...see Amanda, Mel or John

Info: 08456 444737


that's good to know LOL

[invisibleplanet]

Let's implement plan B which we discussed over the phone, Loz, and head to London early Saturday morning. Heading to see the Turner Prize Nominees at the Tate Britain gets my vote, followed by lunch, and then a pint at the Lark in the Park before heading on to TWANG, without feeling drained from an all night dance.
As Emma stated, This event really will be quite different from what you may have come to know of them through their Super Collider/Warp releases.

I'm sorry but I don't know anything about Mike Denny, the guitarist !?

I'd also like to check out the Uglyfunk gig which is happening on the Sunday also cos Michael Forshaw is playing but I don't know what time yet.

[platinumray]

IP, if you can, I highly recommend checking out the new installation at the Tate Modern. It's out of this world.

[Lady E]

mike denny will be playing country guitar as far as i know. he is an editor and worked on the Invisible Inc. film about Req that geoff directed and i produced (never again)

they used to do twang in brighton yonks ago but i never saw it, i think its country styles though.

IP im confused what the machine maid post has to do with the twang gig. they are two separate things arent they?

[invisibleplanet]

Thanks for that infos on Mike Denny, Emma

and, emma, the MachineMaid post refers to another gig (@Fortress/Haywire) happening the night before which which I was thinking of going along to (plan A).
However I'm opting instead for maximum daytime slack so I can take some more graf-foto's in the daylight and check out the Tate Gallery (plan B).

I think that Twang did a show at Artrocker (a midweek event in Islington) back in June this year.

I'll take some fotos whilst I'm there, if they don't mind.

[invisibleplanet]

in the meantime, follow the links for
a clue of what the horse hospital looks like ....

The Horse Hospital (http://www.invisibleplanet.pwp.blueyo nder.co.uk/contemporary wardrobe/)

[doc]

enjoy yourself ip :)

[7875]

the title 'it came from outer cunt' is funny as shit, i don't know why.
this festival sounds awesome. damn, i wish i could see this.

[invisibleplanet]

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TWANG were:
Mike Denny - gee-tar twang man
Pablo Fiasco - narrator/cine-illustrator man
Jamie Lidell - vocs-laptop surround sound man
Req - different drum man

more images/words to follow...

[Loz]

IP: Req played Harmonica, too, if I recall.

Great evening. Jamie's 'freakathon' techno skit at the end was a great high to end on, but really the entire evening was totally fantastic. Enjoyed it greatly, but drank a bit too much wine. Had a nasty headache when I woke up first thing this morning.

[Lady E]

cool i didnt know req was playin too. nice.

[audiofelch]

that was a wicked nite!

really fun.. yeah jamies jam at the end rounded things off very nicely.... nice and intimate after an oversized warp extravaganza..


the whole thing wasgreat... probably the only time a country hoe-down has involved a laptop...

[invisibleplanet]

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Mike Denny

[grobelaar]

I had a thoroughly enjoyable time, like total multimedia overload. I don't own a telly, so I think I can get a bit overwhelmed. I can't remember the actual story that Pablo was telling, cos I was too busy looking at the pictures and listening to the music. and, yeah the jam techno hoe-down at the end was totally ace, I was very pleased as it made up for missing the set at Warp, which I keep bumping into people who keep telling me it was the highlight of the night...

It was all very cosy, with comfy chairs to sit on and little bar area and I bet Jamie's never been able to do a performance from the comfort of a Shackleton High Chair...

[audiofelch]

hey grobelaar.. were u one of the amusing noisy people at the back?.....


i have a feeling we may never witness mr lidell in such intimate surroundings again...

[Loz]

grobs, ip, myself, and a couple of people who's names escape me were sitting right at the front.

for references, I was the smart-arse who said "can we go home now?" before Jamie started his freestylin'

[grobelaar]

No we were the front row fanboys... :)

[audiofelch]

damn u... inches from the action.. i arrived a bit late and skulked around in the darkened middle rows...

[grobelaar]

Didn't know quite so many of us were going... maybe we need a secret Erutufon handshake so we can identify each other... :)

[audiofelch]

definately... an official signal should be created... i was asking the guy next to me a series of conspicuous questions....he started to get uneasy and confused... it was then i knew that he was not one of the few born under the star of erutufon.. there must be an easier way to know this... perhaps we all bear a 'mark' or have a strange glint in the eye...

[wheezer]

I suggest puking with a bottle of jägermeister in the right hand.

[audiofelch]

its a deal.i might have to drag a horse carcass around with me as inspiration until i get my vomit-on-demand skillz up to scratch...