Dock Of The Bay. Music Documentary Film Festival 10th - 17th January 2015

Director: Natalie Johanna Halla
Year: 2014
Country: Spain, Austria
Length: 60 min.
Original language: German
Leadings: Michael Andreas Haeringer, Nathalie Haeringer, Josef Bergmann, Gennady Dzubenko, Howard Griffith
Editors: Hanna Mutter
Writer: Natalie Johanna Halla
Producers: Natalie Johanna Halla
Film company: Creative Movies

How does musical genius come about? THE HEIR OF LISZT tells about the unusual life of the 11-year-old piano genius and composer Michael Andreas Häringer and sheds light on some of the lesser known aspects of the biographies of his famous ancestors, Franz Liszt and Sophie Menter.

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Director: Don Argott
Year: 2014
Country: United States
Length: 90 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Lamb Of God
Editors: Demian Fenton
Camera: Don Argott
Producers: Sheena M. Joyce
Film company: 9.14 Pictures

It's the year 2012. And everything's hunky-dory for the metal group Lamb of God, from Richmond, Virginia (USA). They've just recorded their new album, Resolution, and their singer Randy Blythe celebrates two years on the wagon. The first half of this new film by Sam Dunn and Scott McFadyen hones in on the band, their progress and misfortunes: how they started off as hopeless small town losers and the perilous path that led them to win Grammys and tour with Metallica. But rotten luck put pay to the original vision of this documentary and transformed it into a pure thriller. We set off around the world through their fans, now Colombia and then Jerusalem, until Randy Blythe (singer) is accused of murder, following the 2010 death of a fan in the Czech Republic, when the dude pulled a stage dive. As The Palaces Burn therein becomes an unsettling drama filled with emotion.

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Director: James Marcus Haney
Year: 2014
Country: United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Length: 72 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Ben Howard & Band, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff, Bear's Den, Gill Landry, Ben Lovett
Editors: Kitty Green, Ty Johnson
Sound: Timothy Dutch Vannette
Producers: Ty Johnson
Film company: Sideshow Alley

5 old VW camper vans. 4 bands. 3 thousand miles. 2 weeks. 1 gloriously backwards tour. The adventure starts after a fire-fuelled final night at Austin's SXSW Music Festival, where the bands (Ben Howard, The Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff, Bear's Den) pile into their rides and head northeast. They play everywhere from bars to barns, rooms to rooftops, packing out tiny venues and wowing crowds with their unique sounds. But heavy rainstorms, multiple breakdowns, and cramped conditions remind them that to push through sometimes you need to pull together. Featuring Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett and narrated by Gill Landry this documentary is about a modern tour, done the old fashioned way.

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Director: Doris Dörrie
Year: 2014
Country: Germany
Length: 86 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: María del Carmen, Las Estrellas de Jalisco, Las Pioneras de Mexico
Editors: Frank Müller
Sound: Daniel Seiler
Producers: Helge Albers
Film company: Flying Moon Filmproduktion

It's the year 2012. And everything's hunky-dory for the metal group Lamb of God, from Richmond, Virginia (USA). They've just recorded their new album, Resolution, and their singer Randy Blythe celebrates two years on the wagon. The first half of this new film by Sam Dunn and Scott McFadyen hones in on the band, their progress and misfortunes: how they started off as hopeless small town losers and the perilous path that led them to win Grammys and tour with Metallica. But rotten luck put pay to the original vision of this documentary and transformed it into a pure thriller. We set off around the world through their fans, now Colombia and then Jerusalem, until Randy Blythe (singer) is accused of murder, following the 2010 death of a fan in the Czech Republic, when the dude pulled a stage dive. As The Palaces Burn therein becomes an unsettling drama filled with emotion.

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Director: Asbel Esteve Obiol
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Length: 68 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: Antonio Moreno, Pabellón psiquiátrico, Juan Antonio Canta
Editors: Salva Viñets
Writer: Asbel Esteve
Producers: Guillermo Rojas
Film company: La Sinyora Films, Dos de Catorce Producciones

Sooner rather than later, the cinema had to turn its eyes to Juan Antonio Castillo, a.k.a Patauchas, a.k.a. Juan Antonio Canta. Perhaps no one represents as he does the legend of the artist drowned by success in the Spanish music context of the end of the 20th century. Only the few people who knew him well, his fellow travelers from his beginnings as a vocalist for Pabellón Psiquiátrico or his friends at RESAD are authorized to act as guides in this very dignified approach to a boundless character. And we will discover that his story isn’t so much that cliché of a toy broken by fatality or abuse, but that of a recognizable human being swallowed up by show business society. “I wanted to make music, not juice”, was how he summarized it very graphically.

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Director: Nickolas Rossi
Year: 2014
Country: United States
Length: 104 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Elliott Smith, Autumn de Wilde, Marc Swanson, Larry Crane, Chris Douridas, Aaron Espinoza, Jeremy Wilson, Ross Harris, Ashley Welch, Steve “Pickle” Pickering, Tony Lash, Kevin Moyer, Sean Croghan, Janel Jarosz, Pete Krebs, Tres Shannon, Joanna Bolme, Corey duBrowa, Slim Moon, Margaret Mittleman, Rob Schnapf, James Clark, John Chandler, Dorien Garry, Rob Sacher, Mark Flanagan, Jon Brion, Conan O’Brien, Paul Pulvirenti, Alyssa Siegel, Shon “Goldenboy” Sullivan
Editors: Eli Olson, Nickolas Rossi
Camera: Jeremiah Gurzi, Nickolas Rossi
Producers: Jeremiah Gurzi, Kevin Moyer, Nickolas Rossi, Marc Smolowitz
Film company: Heaven Adores You LLC

Fame requires you to wear a suit of armour, but Elliott Smith didn't pack his chest plates. Back in 1998, he declared: "I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous". A year earlier he'd shot to fame for the music for Good Will Hunting, by Gus Van Sant, and four years later, he took his own life. Heaven Adores You establishes a direct connection between the film, Smith's shocking appearance at the Oscars, and his death. Show business was to blame ("It's the worst thing that could have happened to him" – his friends affirm), and this documentary isn't afraid to show the industry what its machinery can do to a sensitive soul. Through radio chats and interviews with his inner circle we see Smith's ascension to the onerous Olympus the path that propelled him there. His childhood in Dallas (Texas), his settling down in Portland (Oregon), punk city, his band phase (Heatmiser), his acoustic conversion ("he rebelled against the noise of his ex-band), his signing to Kill Rocks Stars and the growing word of mouth following the apparition of Either/Or in 1997. And the upwards (or downwards) spiral that would culminate in his tragic death. You just weren't made for the business, Elliott.

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Director: Kikol Grau
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Length: 50 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: Eskorbuto
Editors: Kikol Grau
Sound: Alejandra Molina
Producers: Kikol Grau

Making use, with subversive intentions, of Youtube’s vast audiovisual archive, Kikol Grau conducts an imaginary interview with the punk bank Eskorbuto, while portraying the post-Francoist Spain of the 80s. The epitome of national punk was born and grew up on the marginalized left bank of the river Nervión, in Bilbao, and through its fits of lyrics spat out to the rhythm of three guitar chords, Grau makes an incisive collage, full of causticity, using news reports, ads, “cine quinqui”, video clips and almost any type of material within his grasp. An era shaken by terrorism and the shock of the arrival of democracy (and its first disillusionments), whose only possible soundtrack is that of Eskorbuto.

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Director: Linda Hakeboom
Year: 2014
Country: The Netherlands
Length: 57 min.
Original language: Dutch, English
Leadings: Jelte Tuinstra, Tony Platt
Editors: Tim Roza, Linda Hakeboom
Sound: Jaim Sahuleka
Producers: Linda Hakeboom
Film company: Vara

Nail polish, lipstick, jewelry: nothing is too much for Dutch musical wonder Jett Rebel. He draws audiences like a bona fide star, with the talent and charisma to match. His schedule is full of TV appearances, girls stand screaming in line, and in the meantime he works energetically on writing new songs. But all this is just the outside. Jett Rebel is an alter ego dreamed up by Jelte Tuinstra and his manager – Jett dares do everything that Jelte doesn’t. His professional record company boss also joins in the contemplation of who and what exactly Jett Rebel is, what he can become and how far he can go. Although his star is rising, this candid portrait reveals that the person behind the image is still insecure. At home in his studio in the Dutch town of Soesterberg, musician Jelte Tuinstra is a shy twentysomething who has doubts about everything. Playing music and being Jett Rebel are his life raft. “When I’m performing, I'm more interesting, more self-assured. It’s just a lot cooler being him.” But when you’re still growing up and developing your personality, how can you ensure that you don’t become isolated behind a stage persona?.

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Director: Carlos Iglesias Serrano, Xabier Agirre Arenaza
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Length: 59 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: Francis Díez “Francis”, Jose Ignacio Giménez “Josi”, Raúl Lomas , Luis Javier Saiz “Txanpi”, Aitor Agiriano “Toro”, Enrique Sáenz de Villaverde “Kike”, Josu Monge, Kaki Arkarazo, Nando de la Casa, Aiora Renteria, Edorta Jimenez, Kirmen Uribe, Itziar Ziga, Joseba Martín, Itxaro Intxausti
Editors: Xabier Zabala A.
Writer: Xabier Agirre, Carlos Iglesias
Producers: Carlos Iglesias
Film company: Bideografik Ekoizpenak S.L.L.

With the track “Busco en tus labios” [“I Search in Your Lips”], Doctor Deseo won the 1st Basque Encuentro Pop in the mid-80s. This was the beginning of a career on stage that is still continuing.

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Director: Andrew Horn
Year: 2014
Country: Germany, United States
Length: 137 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Sally Avellino, Donna Boccuzzi, Garry Bushell, Phil Carson, Mike Corcione, Fingers Fingrz, Jason Flor, Jay Jay French, Joe Gerber, Dave Gillespie, Peter Hackett
Editors: Eric Schefter, Silke Botsch
Sound: Jaim Sahuleka
Producers: Andrew Horn
Film company: Andrew Horn Filmproduktion

It’s been 40 years since the formation of the band Twisted Sister, which started out as Grand Funk of Glam and NY Dolls of Metal. If you’re wondering what that might mean, imagine boys wearing hot pants and lipstick, drinking like animals and blasting the roof off every club they played. These musicians’ recollections of their glory days are so vivid it makes you want to take a leap back in time to the early 1970s club scene in and around New York City. Twisted Sister operated in the slipstream of bands such as The Who and upcoming greats including David Bowie, wreaking havoc onstage – from a vomiting competition to out-and-out destruction. Now well into their fifties, the band members dryly reconstruct their rise, fall and resurrection. The anecdotal structure of the film parallels the music itself, with staccato sequences of recollections from the band members. The punchline of each is followed by a short cut to black and the final strike of a drum or cymbal. This infectious film immerses the viewer in the distorted reality of a group that’s very much alive and kicking, and still appearing at major festivals.

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Director: Matt O'Casey
Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 60 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Mike Oldfield
Editors: Richard Fretwell
Camera: Rick Clark
Producers: Natasha Dack
Film company: Tiger Lily Films

Oldfield's life is full of highs and lows. And at the heart of it all: Tubular Bells, one of the greatest super-sellers of all time, an album recorded – no less – when its author was in pieces. This is the story of the album and its creator, and it will bestow all you wish to know. Here you'll find Oldfield's family, his adolescence, his time in the Kevin Ayers Band, his "bad acid trips", Terry Riley and the spirit of repetition. Then arrives Tubular Bells, something that still can't be put into words. Oldfield orders dozens of instruments. Upon hearing the finished master, Richard Branson, exclaims "But he doesn't sing!". It all explodes from there, but Oldfield can only mumble deliriously in interviews. In this film, we discover crucial details like the cover, the letter type and how he chose them. We see what could rocket Tubular Bells even higher sales-wise: the use of a fragment of the LP in the soundtrack to The Exorcist (1973). Oldfield tells all here, his spiritual "rebirth" and from there to his recent risorgimento in the inauguration of the 2012 Olympics.

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Director: Paul Ferrara
Year: 1968
Country: United States
Length: 40 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Fred L. Stegmeyer
Editors: Frank Lisciandro
Music: Harrison Ford
Producers: John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison
Film company: Eagle Rock Productions

In April of 1968, filming began for what would become the first and only film produced about The Doors, by The Doors. Feast of Friends offers a cinematic look at The Doors just as they were on the road during those few short months of 1968. Featuring concert performances intercut with playful, fly-on-the-wall footage of the group in their natural habitat, Feast of Friends offers a cinematic look at The Doors just as they were on the road during those few short months of 1968. Plundered before for its iconic footage, here is the film in its entirety.

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Director: Rhys Thomas
Year: 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 85 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Freddie Mercury, Peter Freestone, Roger Taylor, David Arnold, John Reid, Paul Gambaccini, Jim Beach, Brian May, Paul Prenter, David Wigg, Jim Hutton, Luciano Pavarotti, Like Moran, Matt lucas, Montserrat Caballé, Tim Rice, David Richards
Editors: Christopher Bird
Camera: Matt Cheney
Producers: Rhys Thomas, Jim Beach, Joss Crowley
Film company: Eagle Rock Productions

The Great Pretender centers on Freddie Mercury, singer and front man of Queen's solo journey, from 1985 until his death in 1991. The striking stuff starts where the others left off. It speaks about his non-rock interests that would go on to mark his final years: ballet, Liza Minnelli, opera... It speaks of his bonds with the other members. It speaks, of course, of the Great Rebirth: the apparition of the moustache, the discovery of gay hedonism and the NewYorkan discos. And it speaks of how Mercury rediscovered himself as a performer, showing his true colors. Extraordinary things inhabit this film: an unreleased duet with Rod Stewart, another with Michael Jackson (the relationship with Jacko fizzled when he insisted on inviting a llama to the studio); intimate declarations by Montserrat Caballé; his 1979 appearance as a ballerina for the London Royal Ballet; "Barcelona", in never-before-seen detail; and much more. Roger Taylor and Brian May's defense on TV just after his death may just be the best possible culmination in a film filled with whispers and wonders.

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Director: George Hencken
Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 106 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Tony Hadley, John Keeble, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Steve Norman
Editors: Chris Duveen
Music: Dan Johnson, Bernard O'Reilly
Producers: Steve Dagger, Simon Rigden Green, Scott Millaney
Film company: Wellingmax

One can get all worked up about Spandau Ballet - as demonstrated by this excellent summary of its journey. Soul Boys Of The Western World has the one thing that's conspicuously absent from the '80s nostalgia programmes: context and vision. A documentary that oozes enthusiasm and finally returns Spandau Ballet to the podium they deserve. The band members appear one by one, telling it their way, and it's impossible not to get swept away by the anticipation and euphoria. Five working class lads from Islington, sons of the '60s, soul boys and failed punks reborn as feather-fettled new romantics. From the days of Blitz to the first #1s, from "To cut a long story short" to Spandaumanía, world tours, Live Aid, fatigue and collapse, lawsuits and a bitter ending. But the story lives on. Like the songs.

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Director: Josu Venero
Year: 2014
Country: Spain
Length: 60 min.
Original language: Euskera
Leadings: Kirmen Uribe, Mikel Urdangarin, Rafa Rueda, Bingen Mendizabal
Editors: Alain Beaskoetxea, Naiara Román
Sound: Alain Beaskoetxea
Producers: Ángel Valdés, Leire Zugasti
Film company: Elkar Fundazioa

The new multimedia show combining poetry by the writer Kirmen Uribe, the music of Mikel Urdangarin, Rafa Rueda and Bingen Mendizabal and illustrations by Mikel Valverde premiered in New York in late 2013. This pictures set out to be a record of it.

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Director: Florian Habicht
Year: 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 90 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle, Richard Hawley, Steve Mackey, Mark Webber
Editors: Peter O'Donoghue
Camera: María Inés Manchego
Producers: Alex Boden, Will Clarke, Edward Fletcher, Eve Gabereau, Florian Habicht, Hugo Heppell, Susan Jacobson, Steve Milne, Mike Runagall
Film company: Pistachio Films

Pulp and Sheffield are inseparable. As Jarvis Cocker states two minutes into the film, this couldn't have happened anywhere else. Nor could it have been filmed in any other way: here there's life, death, supermarkets and cutlery. These are the good people of Sheffield, who reflect upon the band's omnipotence in the final few months before Pulp's last UK concert. Pulp – reluctant popstars against the odds – also speak candidly about doing their thing. A phenomenal film that explains Pulp better than all the biographies. Pulp are this because they come from there. Now we get it.

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Director: Greg Olliver
Year: 2014
Country: United States
Length: 95 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Johnny Winter, James Cotton, Clive Davis, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Joe Perry, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Edgar Winter
Editors: Jeremy Mack, Greg Olliver
Camera: Greg Olliver
Producers: Greg Olliver, Jeremy Mack, Chris Robertson
Film company: Secret Weapon Films

The tortuous path of the albino guitarist. A sarcastic, southern seventy-something year old Winter – squinting beneath translucent eyebrows – leads us through his career, addiction and salvation. It's like being in a caravan with him, listening to anecdotes about his improbable survival. His arid childhood, his love of blues, his dedication and the miasma of his appetite for narcotics. Winter puked over Joplin, spent a year speaking in monosyllables, died and was resuscitated in an ice bath following an overdose, and a period passed – the 90's – in which "I wasn't really there". But Winter, bruised survivor of a bloody war, still sees the funny side of it all. This pale man will touch your heart: 70 years old, Four vodka and ice shots in a row, one daft hat, being carried to the van, big ass smile on his face. Winter died in 2014, shortly after appearing in this documentary, but Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Joe Perry (Aerosmith), BB King and many more celebrate his tricks and his art here.

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Director: Carles Prats
Year: 2013
Country: Spain
Length: 85 min.
Original language: Catalan, Spanish
Leadings: Peret, Chacho, ramonet, Tía Pepi, Tío Toni, Peret Reyes, Johnny Tarradellas, Candeli Reyes, Petete, Abraham, Jorge Ragna, Miliu, Soraya, Jack tarradellas
Editors: Pau Bacardit
Camera: Francesc Olivé
Sound: Cora Delgado
Producers: Pau Bacardit
Film company: Rollout Producciones

Cuchíbiri Cuchíbiri is the history of Catalan rumba according to Peret. His vision. His gospel from the beginnings to the new generations. Stories of stardom, race and family but also of his disenchantment with the music industry and abandonment. It gives us the man that took charge of his destiny with sheer determination and talent, only to later say thanks and goodbye. The documentary goes back to his early days, the Hermanos Montenegro duet that Peret formed with his cousin Pepi. From there we look at three rumberos who took different paths; Peret, Chacho and Ramonet. The first ended up selling millions of records and sharing the stage with the greats. Charo, the 'cool' rumbero that played the piano, released a healthy number of records but never reached mass success and Ramonet ended up selling clothes. Cuchíbiri Cuchíbiri probes the lesser-known facets of Peret's life; when he gave up music in order to dedicate himself to the Evangelist Church of Philadelphia, and how his godchildren convinced him to come back. From a climax to a happy ending with the next generations of the saga; the innovative funk of Lady Gipsy and the pure classicism of Miliu. And it don't stop.

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Director: Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn
Year: 2014
Country: Canada
Length: 87 min.
Original language: English
Leadings: Alice Cooper, Sheryl Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Robert Ezrin, Ella Furnier, Shep Gordon, Elton John, John Lydon, Iggy Pop, Neal Smith, Dee Snider, Bernie Taupin
Editors: Reginald Harkema, Alex Shuper
Music: Amy Fritz, Erin Hunt
Producers: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Reginald Harkema, Lana Belle Mauro
Film company: Banger Films Inc.

His real name is Vincent Furnier, but he's best known as Alice Cooper, the dude that was, for years, the most infamous and influential rock star on the planet. The storyline here is what you'd expect (humble beginnings, catapult to fame, descent into ruin through drugs, madness and lust and ultimate redemption), but nothing about Alice Cooper was particularly standard, nor is this review of his life. Super Duper Alice Cooper uses photographs and original footage combined with the voice of the only possible narrator – Cooper himself – to retell a rollercoaster life that went belly up in the middle. The result is addictive, intimate (come on, it's Alice Cooper).

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Director: Elena Goatelli, Angel Esteban
Year: 2013
Country: Spain, Italy
Length: 87 min.
Original language: Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, English
Editors: Antonio Frutos, Angel Esteban
Sound designer: David Espinosa, Fernando Pocostales
Music composer: Tim Boland, Sam Retzer
Producers: Elena Goatelli
Film company: Kottom Films

The primary goal of this initiative is to attract young audiences to cinemas and bring culture and the arts industry closer to them. With the active support of the European Capital of Culture organisers DSS2016 and the city development agency Fomento de San Sebastián, it will enable younger people to see a top-class music documentary, understand what they are and why and how they are made. We want to get across to pupils that film is an industry as well as art. We want them to find out how it works, what its virtues are and how it can actually get made.

Director: Álvaro Fierro, Joseba Gorordo
Year: 2013
Country: Spain
Length: 66 min.
Original language: Spanish, Euskera
Leadings: Álvaro Heras, Fernando Gegúndez, Ángel Silveiro, Iñaki Uriate, Iñaki Elorriaga, Gari Gamarra, Juancar Parlange, Belén Mijangos, Isabel Fernández, Estíbaliz Hernández, Javi Letamendía, Iñigo Romera, Ricardo Andrade, Jesús Valdaliso, Unai Fresnedo, Roberto Moso, Koldo Serra
Editors: Diego Urruchi
Music composer: Zarama, Eskorbuto, Los Clavos, Bonzos, Parabellum, El Inquilino Comunista, Lord Sickness, The Gravestones, Cancer Moon, Rufus, Electrobikinis, Elsso Rodríguez
Producers: Diego Urruchi, Raúl López Ortega
Film company: Media Attack

The primary goal of this initiative is to attract young audiences to cinemas and bring culture and the arts industry closer to them. With the active support of the European Capital of Culture organisers DSS2016 and the city development agency Fomento de San Sebastián, it will enable younger people to see a top-class music documentary, understand what they are and why and how they are made. We want to get across to pupils that film is an industry as well as art. We want them to find out how it works, what its virtues are and how it can actually get made.

CACHITOS DE HIERRO Y CROMO unashamedly shows off the musical legacy of RTVE in the form of studio sessions. For nearly 60 years artists and others have been storming viewers’ screens. Now you can see and hear them again in this series of programmes with all-embracing themes (from song lyrics to disco music and not forgetting sex) which sets out to be educational without losing its sense of humour. The programme’s secret weapon is the TVE historical archive, the repository of the collective memory for over half a century. The sources CACHITOS draws on are incredible music shows like La Edad de Oro (The Golden Age), Plastic, Popgrama, Galas del Sábado (Saturday Galas), Los Conciertos de Radio 3 (Radio 3 Concerts), Tocata, Aplauso, Esta Noche Fiesta (Party Tonight), Zona Franca (Free Zone), Musica Sí (Yes Music) or Valerio Lazarov’s music specials (which would be enough for a whole series by themselves…). We know that despite YouTube and Spotify, there are still some surprises lurking on the shelves of the TVE archive. Over the last few months we have turned into archaeologists of images and sybarites of sound, in search of true gems of audiovisual memory, whether for musical reasons or as television events. TVE’s La 2 TV channel and Radio 3 join together once more to carry on with this successful musical formula + archive which has worked so well in the two seasons it has been showing.

Cachitos Greatest Hits will be a 50-minute film featuring the best of the two seasons in the opinion of Jero Rodríguez (director), Virginia Diaz (presenter) and Joan Pons (scriptwriter for some episodes), who will be on hand to answer questions after the film.

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“With just some toy keyboards and a bunch of second hand pedals, these two sci-fi individuals decided to create their songs from the room of a hostel for students in London, trying to reproduce sounds from those bands they admired in the 90s:Godspeed You Black Emperor, Disco Inferno, Mogwai, Flying Saucer Attack, Tortoise…an ode to the analog power”. The Suicide Of Western Culture is no longer a secretive duo. Their eponymous first album was named the best Spanish electronic music album by press, public and critics in 2010. Since then, they’ve been touring around half of the world (SXSW, FYF Festival, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, C/O Pop, Wilsonic, Popkomm, Primavera Sound, Sónar, Rockmotives, Vienna Electronic Beats, LeFest, Canadian Music Week, etc.) and supported artists such as Animal Collective, Orbital, Cut Copy, Clark, etc.

Linda Mirada is a project which began with the release of a debut album “China es otra cultura” (“China is Another Culture”) on her own label “La Cooperativa” back in 2009. 2012 saw the release of her second album, “Con mi Tiempo y el Progeso” (“With My Time and Progress”), which was praised by the music press and confirms her status as one of the landmarks of synth pop in Spanish. There are constant, clear references ranging from Italo Disco to Jan Hammer’s prog rock or soundtracks by people like Tangerine Dream. However, it is also a tribute to great bands with great songs like those of Fleetwood Mac or Talking Heads. It also features contributions in the form of remixed tracks by names ranging from Nite Jewel or Phenomenal Hand Clap Band to Ruby Suns and the artist Angelino Secret Circuit. At today’s event we’ve got her making the best of a great selection of Boogie/Disco Music discs together with Kigo.

Over the last few years, DJ Kigo has carved out a place as one of the top nocturnal agitators on the Spanish scene thanks to his Desparrame parties at Nitsa in Barcelona and the activities of the Calor group, based at Siroco in Madrid. As specialist in club sounds and anything coming out of the UK, he redraws frontiers between styles in every one of his sets. His “Espanish Boogie” series of mixes has become a mass digital phenomenon and helped to revive the Spanish post-disco scene of the eighties.

C.C. Egia
Organizers: Qualia, Donostia Kultura.

Diego Besné makes what we see more attractive. He retains an image in his eyes, blinks and then starts drawing. And while he does it, he never stops smiling. It’s hard to show buildings and makes them look friendly. It’s hard to draw objects and put movement into them. It’s harder to portray people. And even harder to portray people who are building nice things. In this exhibition Diego Besné has set down in his drawings a scene that looks familiar to us now, but which in a few years we’ll remember as something unrepeatable. Every time has its music in every venue. These are the components of the music scene in our city in recent years. Diego Besné has retained them, blinked and simply drawn them. And without stopping smiling, he’s managed to freeze them in simple strokes and delicate watercolours. In beautiful, unrepeatable drawings.

Garoa 13:00 - 14:00 h.

Expop up. Expop de exposición, que la habrá. Y de pop, que siempre está genial. ¿A quién no le gustan las palomitas, eh? Pues eso. Expop up. Up de subidón. Es la primera vez que hago esto. Y de seven up. Fido Dido molaba. Y LO SABES. Durante un rato Garoa será una galería fotográfica temporal. UNA hora en la que podrás ver mis fotos relacionadas con la soledad. O era la tristeza? No seas bobo, se puede estar solo y no triste. Y sino, aprende. Dos horas en las que podrás comprar las fotos. Por una buena causa. ¿Hacerme feliz? También. Pero me refiero a otra cosa. El dinero recaudado irá a una asociación cultural sin ánimo de lucro (=perder pasta por amor a la música). Tranquilo, que cada foto valdrá menos que un cubata. Y a las dos horas aire, viento. Y libros. También quedarán los majos dependientes de la librería. Pero nada que haga recordar que allí hubo una exposición de fotos.

Garoa 13:00 - 14:00 h.

Expop up. Expop de exposición, que la habrá. Y de pop, que siempre está genial. ¿A quién no le gustan las palomitas, eh? Pues eso. Expop up. Up de subidón. Es la primera vez que hago esto. Y de seven up. Fido Dido molaba. Y LO SABES. Durante un rato Garoa será una galería fotográfica temporal. UNA hora en la que podrás ver mis fotos relacionadas con la soledad. O era la tristeza? No seas bobo, se puede estar solo y no triste. Y sino, aprende. Dos horas en las que podrás comprar las fotos. Por una buena causa. ¿Hacerme feliz? También. Pero me refiero a otra cosa. El dinero recaudado irá a una asociación cultural sin ánimo de lucro (=perder pasta por amor a la música). Tranquilo, que cada foto valdrá menos que un cubata. Y a las dos horas aire, viento. Y libros. También quedarán los majos dependientes de la librería. Pero nada que haga recordar que allí hubo una exposición de fotos.