On Saturday, May 30th the Ceremony Festival will be held at the Magasin 4 in Brussels. Let us present you the bands that will be performing. Today: Modern English.

Modern English released its debut 'Mesh & Lace' on the legendary 4AD label - the label of Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Clan of Xymox, Bauhaus and many other historical bands - in 1981. 'Mesh & Lace' was a very dark album in the style of Joy Division and The Sound. They would soon follow other paths. With 'After The Snow' (1982) and 'Ricochet Days' (1984), the group hit a more poppy direction, which brought them a lot of success. Modern English had meanwhile moved to New York and broke with 4AD, even though that label had contributed significantly to the band's success. They recorded another LP - 'Stop Start' (1986) - before the band fell apart. Singer Robbie Grey founded a new version of Modern English in 1989, that lasted until 1991, and did so again in 1995, after which it became a semi-permanent collaboration. In 2010, the original line-up with Robbie Grey, Gary McDowell and Michael Conroy reunited, and that's the formation that you will be able to see at work at the Ceremony Festival.

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And here we go again with the next chapter of the FireFly Festival !

The fundraiser event takes place 02.-04.10.2015 at Reese Theater – Kulturpark West – Sommestraße – Augsburg, Germany.

The benefits from this festival all go to 'Glühwürmchen e.V. (http://www.gluehwuermchen-ev.de/) !

LineUp Friday, 02.10.15

System84

Muscles on the Move

Pokemon

Frontal

Jäger 90

LineUp Saturday, 03.10.15

Alienare

Hätzer

reADJUST

Chrom

SITD

LineUp Sunday, 04.10.15

Mitgift

Voodoma

Unzucht

Rabia Sorda

You can get day or weekend tickets for the festival. And remember, it's all for a good cause!

For further information, please check the festival homepage: http://www.firefly-festival.de/

Or visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fireflyfestival.augsburg?fref=ts

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Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the European Blu-ray debut of Hammer’s legendary gothic flick, The Hound of the Baskervilles, arriving on 1st June 2015. Starring genre stalwarts Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, this classic Sherlock Holmes adaptation stands as arguably the best re-telling of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale to date.

This new edition comes loaded with a bumper crop of bonus content, including a new audio commentary with Hammer experts Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby alongside a brand new documentary, Release the Hound!, which looks at the genesis and creation of the Hammer classic, featuring interviews with hound mask creator Margaret Robinson, film historian Kim Newman, and actor/documentarian and co-creator of BBC’s Sherlock Mark Gatiss.

Also included on the disc are featurettes such as André Morell: Best of British, which looks back at the career of the late great actor and the 1986 documentary The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes which examines the many incarnations of Conan Doyle’s celebrated character, narrated and presented by Christopher Lee.

Rounding off the Blu-ray is an archive interview with Christopher Lee, excerpts from The Hounds of the Baskervilles read by Lee, the original theatrical trailer and an extensive image gallery. The Blu-ray comes with a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper and a collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by former Hammer archivist Robert J.E. Simpson, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes is the most filmed character of all time – but it is arguably this 1959 re-telling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale The Hound of the Baskervilles, from legendary horror studio Hammer and starring genre stalwarts Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, which stands as the super sleuth’s finest cinematic hour.

Rising up out of the swirling mists of Dartmoor, Baskerville Hall stands tall and gloomy. Its occupant, Charles Baskerville, has been found dead in mysterious circumstances. Could Sir Charles have been the victim of the so-called “Baskerville Curse”, which tells of a deadly beast that stalks the surrounding countryside? Unperturbed by the legend, next-in-line Sir Henry Baskerville (a rare leading man performance from Lee) sets out to Dartmoor to assume inheritance of the family estate, under the auspices of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and right-hand man Dr. Watson (Andre Morell).

Imbued with an atmosphere as thick as fog, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a superlative gothic yarn which benefits from game performances from Cushing, Lee and Morell, as well as the expert direction of Terence Fisher, known for helming many of Hammer’s most celebrated efforts including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out.

Special Features

· High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) feature presentation

· Original uncompressed Mono 1.0 Audio

· Isolated Music and Effects Soundtrack

· Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

· New audio commentary with Hammer experts Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby

· Release the Hound! – a brand new documentary looking at the genesis and making of the Hammer classic, featuring interviews with hound mask creator Margaret Robinson, film historian Kim Newman, actor/documentarian and co-creator of BBC’s Sherlock Mark Gatiss, and others

· André Morell: Best of British – a featurette looking at the late great actor André Morell and his work with Hammer

· The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes – a 1986 documentary looking at the many incarnations of Conan Doyle’s celebrated character, narrated and presented by Christopher Lee

· Actor’s Notebook: Christopher Lee – an archive interview in which the actor looks back on his role as Sir Henry Baskerville

· The Hounds of the Baskervilles excerpts read by Christopher Lee

· Original Theatrical Trailer

· Extensive Image Gallery

· Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper

· Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by former Hammer archivist Robert J.E. Simpson, illustrated with original archive stills and posters

PIL live show at the TRIX, Antwerp on 18 october

The postpunk band Public Image LTD, nowadays mostly run by the legendary singer John Lydon (or Johny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) , is working since 2009 on a second life. They sound fresher than ever (listen therefore to their latest album ‘This Is PIL’). Besides they will release after the summer a new album called ‘What The World Needs Now’. An ideal moment to go see them alive.
Pic credit: Dave Wainright/© Public Image Ltd

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Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection, in collaboration with Filmmakers Showcase, are proud to present 30 films, restored to pristine high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.

 
Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable of expressing dynamic unspoken concepts in totally abstract visual terms.

Included on this premiere collection of 30 films are the most acclaimed names of American avant-garde experimental filmmaking, including Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich, Ralph Steiner, Jay Leyda, James Sibley Watson, Jr., Melville Webber, Emlen Etting, Joseph Cornell, Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth, Rudy Burckhardt, Francis Lee, Maya Deren, Alexander Hackenschmied, Oskar Fischinger, Helen Levitt, Janice Loeb, James Agee, Marie Menken, Francis Thompson, Bruce Conner, Jordan Belson, Bruce Baillie, Lawrence Jordan, Jonas Mekas, Tom Palazzolo, Lawrence Janiak, Amy Greenfield, Phil Solomon, and Stan Brakhage.

To watch these films is to see the world anew through cinematic interventions: fast cutting, expressive camerawork, abstract animation, surrealistic collage, distorted and superimposed imagery, and many more extraordinary techniques. Essentially the filmmakers ask us to open our eyes and see, to permit the reception of pure sensations uninhibited by any complex web of predetermined associations dominant in mainstream Hollywood cinema.

Collected from archives around the world, and beautifully restored in high definition, the majority of vintage silent films in Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 feature new musical scores from innovative composers Donald Sosin, George Antheil, Eric Beheim, Rodney Sauer, Gustavo Matamoros, Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo.

Bonus Materials Include:

* Seasons... (2002, dir. Phil Solomon, Stan Brakhage) 
* Alternate version of Manhatta (1920-21, dir. Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand) with a 2013 music score by Henry Wolfe and Phil Carluzzo. Honored in 2010 with a "Film Heritage Award" by the National Society of Film Critics. 
* Booklet featuring an essay and extensive notes on restorations by curator, filmmaker, and film historian Bruce Posner.