Tag: documentary
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The Ballad of Shirley Collins
Beautiful and moving documentary about the folk singer Shirley Collins by Tim Plester & Rob Curry, currently available to stream for free at Lush. Amazingly David Tibet and Stewart Lee also feature, as she says her fan base is now quite diverse compared to the old folkie days. It details her history recording songs in…
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The Last Pirates
Just like the pirate stations, I don’t know how long this video will stay up, but this is a great documentary on London pirate stations of the 1980’s and 90’s. Kiss, Kool, Passion, Fire, used to listen to a lot of those (and remember the anger over Jazz FM). Not exactly the last pirates, there…
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Mogwai scores Atomic
Mogwai have scored the soundtrack to a documentary ‘Atomic – Living In Dread And Promise’ by Mark Cousins about atomic energy and nuclear weapons, and you can see the trailer above. It’s part of a series commememorating the 70th anniverary of Hiroshima. Looks and sounds amazing, and I’m sure it will be eye-opening for those…
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Gaspar Nali from Malawi
This seems to be doing the rounds even though originally uploaded 5 years ago via a VK Russian re-upload, it’s Gaspar Nali from Nkhata Bay in Malawi playing his ‘babatone’ self-made instrument and singing in a dialect of Chichewa a song apparently called ‘Abale Ndikum Gem’ (thank you Google Translate). If African music has a…
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Neal D Retke For President!
When Facebook suggest someone you don’t know from the other side of the world, can you *really* be friends? This documentary takes that to extreme, where Victor Van Rossem and Bram van Bree to Austin Texas to find Neal D. Retke when he doesn’t add them, and it ends up being a weird yet sweet…
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This pain is like a glacier moving through you
I make no secret of my love of John Grant, seeing him perform Glacier last year was probably the best moment in a gig, his voice blew right through me and lifted me up. I seem to be hearing a lot of him lately, what with the excellent documentary on Iceland that’s just aired, the…