Miscellaneous - June 2015

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published: 19 / 6 / 2015

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Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. Live music and cinemas have had an on-off connection for decades. As older visitors

Hello and welcome to the June edition of the Pennyblackmusic Magazine. Live music and cinemas have had an on-off connection for decades. As older visitors to this site will remember, a large number of gigs of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s took place in cinemas. While that practice died off in the 1980s as many cinemas converted into multiplexes, several rock acts have recently found themselves back in film theatres, playing live to the scores they have composed for otherwise silent films. King Creosote has played several dates in cinemas to promote his evocative soundtrack to Virginia Heath's extraordinary archival documentary, 'From Scotland with Love'. British Sea Power were early pioneers of this and played cinema dates for their soundtracks to two separate films, the first time in 2008 for a 1934 fictional documentary 'Man of Aran' about the remote Aran Islands off the Western coast of Ireland and on the second occasion in 2013 for 'From the Sea to the Land and Beyond', a modern film which compiles together ancient and modern footage of Britain's coastlines. The latest converts to the cause are the Mercury Award-nominated Newcastle-based group Field Music, who have recently recorded the soundtrack to a 1929 film 'Drifters' about Scottish trawler men, and who are currently playing cinema shows to promote it. In our lead interview this month Owen Peters travels to Belfast to see them play live to a screening of 'Drifters' and talks to Peter and David Brewis from the band about its making. This new relationship between cinemas and musicians is an issue which we will be exploring further in the near future. In the meantime this edition includes interviews with established artists such as Simon Townshend who talks about his day job playing guitar in his older brother Pete's band The Who and his new album 'Denial' and Heaven 17 singer Glenn Gregory about his latest project, touring David Bowie's 'The Man Who Sold the World' with original drummer Woody Woodmansey and producer Tony Visconti. There are also interviews with newer artists such as acclaimed young folk singer Hattie Briggs about her debut album 'Red and Gold'; the Montecristos, the new band of Neal X from the controversial Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Russian shoegazing band Pinkshinyultrablast and rising country artist Barna Howard at his first UK gig. There are also interviews with Tom Bridgewater, the owner of Europe's leading Americana label Loose Music, and Fairport Convention, Emmylou Harris and Toyah Willcox, all of whom will be appearing at this year's Fairprot Cropredy Convention. Other highlights include a double edition of our regular series 'Ten Songs that Made Me Love...'., one on Northern Soul and the other on Husker Du and Sugar's Bob Mould, as well as a feature on this year's Gigantic Indie All Dayer and several more live reviews. As always this magazine has put together as a result of thr hard work and enthusiasm of a lot of people. Thank you to Carl Bookstein, Malcolm Carter, Daniel Cressey, Dastardly, Nick Dent-Robinson, Anthony Dhanendran, Dastardly, Nick Dent-Robinson, Gillian Fish, Dave Goodwin, Tommy Gunnarsson, Keith How, Ben Howarth, Adrian Huggins, Adrian Janes, Erick Mertz, Mary O’ Meara, Owen Peters, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Billy Seagrave, Dominic Simpson, Melanie Smith, Anthony Strutt and Lisa Torem, all of whom have contributed in one way or another to this edition. Speical thanks to our webmaster Richard Banks. We will be back in early July with an album and singles reviews update, and then later on in thr month with a full edition. We hope then to run all our regular features and interviews among others with the Pretty Things, the New Dylans, Ian Anderson, Alice Cooper guitarist Dennis Dunaway, Laura Moody, Mishka Shubaly, RepoMen, Sam Shinazzi, Roy Moller and Minnie Birch. Please don’t forget to check out our regular Facebook and Twitter updates. Thank you as always for reading Pennyblackmusic, John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk