Four years after the unexpected and exquisite treat that was Philip Selway’s debut album Familial, the man formerly known only as the drummer of Radiohead returns with his sophomore record, Weatherhouse. At ten tracks and 38 minutes, the album is as concise in shape as it is expansive in mood and assured in execution, mining a generally darker, fuller sound than its gentler, more acoustic-based predecessor and reflecting the band-centred nature of its construction and its creator’s growth in confidence.
Weatherhouse was made in collaboration with Adem Ilhan and Quinta; artists in their own right who had previously performed in Philip's backing band. “From the outset,” Selway recalls, “we wanted the album to be the three of us, and we covered a lot of instruments between us. With a studio full of inspiring gear and a great-sounding desk, we felt like a band. Different musicians stretch you, and I felt stretched on Weatherhouse, but very enjoyably so.” Working mostly out of Radiohead’s studio in Oxfordshire, Adem also produced and engineered Weatherhouse, while Quinta played an equally integral role in the arrangements. The album was mixed by David Wrench.
Album opener ‘Coming Up For Air’ sets the scene with its brooding, spectral mood, mantra-like pattern and Selway’s simmering, reverb-drenched vocal exploring the album’s dominant theme. “It’s very much about taking stock of my life. I wanted to convey a sense of release and affirmation,” he says. “This was the first song that we recorded. Immediately it felt in a very different space from Familial.”
The album's talismanic qualities explore a world of hope and plans, connection and disconnection - between family, friends and self - and dreams and fears: “I love records that you can almost live in, where the songs become talismans that you take to heart. That’s what I was trying to create in Weatherhouse.” With its emotional frankness, haunting melodies and gripping tension, Selway has made a great artistic leap and created something that even the most experienced singer-songwriters would be proud of.
Weatherhouse will be released 6th October on Bella Union. Album artwork, new photo (by Deirdre O' Callaghan) and album tracklisting below:
Soon in the theatres: THE RIOT CLUB
Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.
Director: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Natalie Dormer, Sam Claflin, Jessica Brown Findlay
DUTCH VERSION
Een film van Lone SCHERFIG ('One Day', 'An Education', 'Italian for Beginners')
Met Max IRONS ('The White Queen'), Sam CLAFLIN ('The Hunger Games'), Douglas BOOTH ('Noah'), Natalie DORMER ('Game of Thrones'), Jessica BROWN FINDLAY ('Downton Abbey') en Holliday GRANGIER ('The Borgias')
Naar het toneelstuk POSH van Laura WADE
POSH van Laure Wade debuteerde in 2010 in het Londense Royal Court Theatre. Het bleek een instant succes bij zowel pers als publiek. Nu volgt de verfilming THE RIOT CLUB. De titel verwijst naar de gelijknamige studentenvereniging, een nauwelijks verholen gefictionaliseerde versie van The Bullingdon Club. Deze hoogst elitaire vereniging aan de Universiteit van Oxford is berucht wegens zijn eeuwenlange traditie van decadente schranspartijen, vandalisme, en tal van andere uitspattingen.
Talrijke ex-leden van de Bullingdon Club stootten door naar de politieke en financiële top van Groot-Brittannië, zoals bijvoorbeeld de Britse premier David Cameron, burgemeester van Londen Boris Johnson en minister van Financiën George Osborne.
De Bullingdon Club in 1987, met David Cameron (bovenste rij, tweede van links)
en Boris Johnson (zittend, eerste van rechts).
Synopsis
Aan de Universiteit van Oxford wil iedereen deel uitmaken van 'The Riot Club': een hoogst elitaire vereniging waar briljante en steenrijke aristocratische studenten hun eerste stappen zetten om de toekomstige leiders van het land te worden. Maar vooraleer de ogen van de wereld op hen gericht zijn, willen deze jongemannen nog eens flink het beest uithangen. De Riot Club staat dan ook vooral bekend voor zijn pervers en decadent gedrag.
Miles en Alistair zijn allebei geniale eerstejaarsstudenten en komen uit bevoorrechte 'upper class' families. Alistair wil, aangespoord door een familiegeschiedenis vol succesverhalen, koste wat het kost deel uitmaken van deze exclusieve club. Miles is initieel gecharmeerd door de uitnodiging en het bijhorende sociaal statuut, maar zijn hart zit er niet helemaal in.
Tijdens een decadente schranspartij worden de rivaliteit en jaloezie tussen Miles en Alistair ten top gedreven, en lopen de uitspattingen van de Riot Club helemaal uit de hand.
The long wait will soon be over... on the 21st of November, 2014, the anticipated QNTAL VII will be released. Here is a small glimpse at what is to come. A shortened version of the song "Frühlingslied" with photos from the official photoshoot at Heinrichshorst Castle.
Sam Mendes will begin filming the 24th James Bond film on Dec. 6, with the main cast members meeting for a table read that date at Pinewood Studios.
Daniel Craig will return as the iconic British spy for his fourth Bond movie. Also reprising their roles will be Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny, Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner and Ben Whishaw as Q.
Mendes, who directed the last Bond pic,”Skyfall,” is helming from a script by John Logan that was rewritten by the team of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The three scribes collaborated on “Skyfall.”
MGM, Sony and producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced last summer that they had locked in release dates for the film, setting the U.K. launch for Oct. 23, 2015, and U.S. for Nov. 6, 2015.
“Skyfall” is the top grosser in the franchise with $1.1 billion worldwide, the best DVD/Blu-Ray seller and the all-time best performer at the U.K. box office. It also won Oscars for Adele’s original song and sound editing.
Source: Variety
With time ticking down until the launch of 88 Films’ SLASHER CLASSICS COLLECTION – kicking off with GRADUATION DAY on October 13th (a packed BluRay that comes with the feature length documentary SCREAM QUEENS: HORROR HEROINES EXPOSED) the label is pleased to announce the continuation of this crimson-caked line of slice and dice shockers. On 5th January MOTHER’S DAY will arrive on UK shelves, uncut and in HD, followed by the video nasty classic DON’T GO IN THE WOODS on February 9th. But if you thought that these initial three titles were as far as the weapon-wielding terror went… well… think again!
88 Films is proud to announce four worldwide BluRay premieres as part of the SLASHER CLASSICS COLLECTION – each debuting with new HD scans from the original materials approved by the directors themselves!
First up is 1984’s SPLATTER UNIVERSITY. Unavailable in the UK since the glory gory days of VHS tapes, this satirical campus-set sickie is one of the bloodiest and barmiest slasher-shockers ever made. Headlining the feisty Forbes Riley as a teacher trying to work out why her classes are featuring increasingly less students, SPLATTER UNIVERSITY picks up the pace with a succession of superb sanguine-packed massacre-moments. A maniacal murder-mystery that is not afraid to crack out the crimson, SPLATTER UNIVERSITY turns up the suspense en route to an outrageous conclusion. From the maniacal mind of director Richard Haines (CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH), this exercise in horror insanity graduates with full honours. Take it from us: this is one lacerating lesson that you will never forget!
Also forthcoming from 88 Films is another much-missed rental shop splatter-satire – 1987’s SLAUGHTERHOUSE. Indeed, if you ate-up THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE then you are sure to pig-out with the flesh-filleting fun of this immortal fright-favourite. SLAUGHTERHOUSE introduces one of the screen’s most memorable madmen in Buddy – a cleaver-wielding backwoods baddie who, along with his father Lester, doesn’t take too kindly to anyone infringing on his weirdo way of life. Buddy was brought up killing and packing meat, and even lived among his family’s livestock, but now his rage turns to trespassing teens and market-capitalists seeking to buy-out his dad’s property! The end result is a tongue-in-cheek terror totem that is finally back on the shelves and ready to menace an all new-generation of gore-junkies!
Next-up is a creeper that proved to be a cut above its contemporaries - namely 1983’s corpse-ridden romp SCALPS. Directed by B-movie master Fred Olen Ray, SCALPS mixes arterial-opening action with the supernatural when a group of college kids begin digging around an old Native American burial ground. Unfortunately for our intrepid explorers, a spirit by the name of Black Claw was enjoying his sleep and he is none too happy about receiving a premature wake-up call. A slaughter-thon that does not skimp on the genre-essential plasma-spillage, the long-awaited re-emergence of SCALPS on home video is sure to have tribes of horror fans hollering in happiness!
And the good news just keeps coming as one of the most controversial classics in BBFC history comes to BluRay in Fred Olen Ray’s HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS. Heavily censored upon its original UK release – presumably after the British censors failed to appreciate the movie’s mix of macabre gore and limb-lopping laughs – HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS is finally unleashed in all of its uncensored glory! This colourful bout of carnage brings together two of cinema’s most beloved scream queens in Michelle Bauer (NIGHTMARE SISTERS) and Linnea Quigley (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD). Quigley plays a stripper that is being tracked by a sleazy private investigator (played by B-movie veteran Jay Richardson) who suspects she might know something about a slate of citywide murders. Meanwhile Bauer essays the prostitute-servant of a sinister cult-leader. Her shady sect worships the chainsaw and likes nothing better than to sacrifice a few new victims during a bit of power-tool fuelled bump and grind (with the emphasis on the grind!). Packed with babes, boobs and blood, and also highlighting a standout performance from Leatherface himself, Gunnar Hansen, HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS belongs in the collection of any self-respecting splatter movie buff.
States Richard Elliot: “We could not be happy with the four new additions to our ‘Slasher Classics Collection’. I hope that this quartet of horror gems, which are all receiving their worldwide BluRay premieres as part of this line, will reassure fans of our absolute dedication to genre cinema – in particular those movies that we all grew up loving on VHS. I am also thrilled that each title will have a new scan overseen and approved by the respective directors.”
Adds James Blower: “It has been a long process in trying to sort out the titles for wave two of our ‘Slasher Classics Collection’. The bar was set high by the first line of films and we really did not want to disappoint. However, we are thrilled that four great movies are now ‘out of the vaults’ and coming back to UK shelves in great-looking editions. It is madness to think that SPLATTER UNIVERSITY, SLAUGHTERHOUSE and SCALPS have not even had a DVD release in Britain yet! And as for HOLLYWODO CHAINSAW HOOKERS… well, who doesn’t want to see Linnea and Michelle in HD?”
As with the first wave of 88 Films’ “SLASHER CLASSICS COLLECTION”, wave two will come with collector’s booklets from film critic Calum Waddell, numbered spines, reversible cover art and special features to be confirmed.
