We have excellent news from the Grandlodge! Today MERCIFUL NUNS launched the video PHANTOM WALL as an appetizer for their forthcoming album METEORA VII (release date: 12th of September 2014)

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Starman Records did it again and released "The Light pours out of me" by the Belgian band S.O.V. This song was originally recorded in 1978 by Magazine. Our version was recorded at Purple People Park and mixed and mastered by Wim Labens at Tin Pan Alley Studios Antwerp. Tnx to all the people that helped us make this video and this single. Enjoy!

Film Fest Gent (14 to 25 October) is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s the Tramp with exceptional screenings of two of the greatest classics of Charles Spencer Chaplin: The Circus and The Gold Rush.

On 26 October, the festival will be getting an additional film music event toward its ending with a family concert of the silent film classic The Circus (1928). The film be screened with music composed by Chaplin, performed by a live orchestra led by Music Director Dirk Brosse at ‘t Kuipke.

Dirk Brosse: "Leading a silent film is always very exciting. Sometimes I feel like a tightrope walker who suddenly looks down, in this case almost literally. The music that Chaplin composed is compelling and efficacious. It waltzes from comedy to drama and banters from laughter to tears. And as is often the case: melancholy is never far away."

In recognition of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October, Film Fest Gent will screen The Gold Rush (1925), in collaboration with OCMW Ghent at City Hall. Each year different organizations from Ghent join forces to honour the victims of poverty, exclusion and violence at the Statue of Human Rights at the St. Peter's Square. Other activities are also organised at Ghent City Hall.

Patrick Duynslaegher, artistic director of Film Film Fest: "The reason why we are celebrating Charles Chaplin explicitly this year, immediately clarifies to what he owes his worldwide fame and immortality to: 2014 is not a commemoration of his birth (1889) or the year of his death (1977), but the year in which he created the character of the Tramp."

Chaplin was a moderately well known British vaudeville star when he signed a contract in January 1914 to appear in a few slapstick movies of Mack Sennett’s American production company Keystone Studios. Eventually he would act in 35 shorts and a feature film in twelve months time for Sennett. He appeared in the short film Kids Auto Races at Venice, Cal. for the first time as the Tramp, a character that would make him world famous. The Tramp, also a gentleman, is a poet and a dreamer, a lonely man who's always hoping for some romance and adventure.

More info on 100 years of The Tramp at Film Fest Gent and the screenings of The Gold Rush and The Circus can be found on our website www.filmfestival.be.

Chaplin’s The Circus presented by Proximus and supported by Ghent University will take place on Sunday, 26 October at ’t Kuipke at 15:00
Tickets are €15 (standard) and €12 (kids under 12) and are available at www.filmfestival.be.

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Phase Fatale is the new techno project of Hayden Payne (also behind the cold wave band Dream Affair) based in Berlin via New York.
With only two appearances on compilations from Nostilevo and Electric Voice Records last year, Payne debuts his first 12” EP, Skyscraper, through Avant! Records on July 15.
The EP moves between noise-ridden soundscapes and minimal industrial techno rhythms influenced by EBM classics, such as Front 242 and Klinik, to modern contemporaries like Silent Servant and Ancient Methods.
 
Only 23, Hayden Payne approaches his music with a youthful and unique touch turning disparate sounds into driving and danceable noise.
All tracks were recorded live using only hardware synthesizers, drum machines and effects.

Hand Of Dust is a trio from Copenhagen. They somehow belong the Posh Isolation brood but they play a personal variation of dark rock music with roots in folk and with a lot of focus on songwriting and lyrics. Originally formed in order to play the acoustic songs of singer Bo Høyer Hansen as an electric setting, it quickly grew into a band.
 
In September 2012 the band released a demo tape and in January 2014 they put out a 7" EP on NY label Blind Prophet called Without Grace Or Glory. Recently Hand Of Dust reentered the studio and recorded two songs that will be out on Avant! Records on July 15: Walk In White b/w A Sight For The Living.

Speaking of this upcoming 7-inch single, Danish webzine Vortexas says "I remember seeing them playing one of their first concerts: I nudged the guy next to me and exlaimed “They got like a neo-folk thing going, but electric, don’t they?” to which he answered: “Nah, they’re more like Dead Moon.” In a way I hear both". With some good ol' Gun Club vibe, we might add. This summer the band will arrange a small European tour and once again take to the studio, this time to record a full length LP which will be out on Avant! again after summer. Fow now you may enjoy these two new tunes: not many bands these days can create such a personal sound when it comes to dark folk/rock music.