Keep It Fresh

It’s Friday and I am sleepy. Very sleepy. So to whip things into a frenzy, I attempt to supply you with a quickfire inventory of musings that are occupying my overactive mind:

• Robots In Disguise are rather terrible.
• Lightspeed Champion is rather not terrible.
• Black coffee saved my life today. And not for the first or last time.
• I await the Kevin Drew gig with fervour.
• If you still haven’t seen Control, get on it.
• Mark and Dave are DJing the Lobby Bar in Crawdaddy tonight. Get thee there. There promises to also be some lady action – ladies who have already been referred to in this post, in fact.
• If Jessica Alba can’t wear neon denim effectively, then neither can you or I mere mortals.
• Why aren’t more people tickled pink by the fact Super Furry Animals are playing next week?
• My assumption accuracy is not as honed as it used to be.
• The Some Days Never End Festival has much, much potential, though I have a feeling I will be disappointed.
• Arts and Crafts are fun.
• Did I mention Blur are probably reforming?…yup, thought so…
  

 http://www.entertainment.ie/festival

I like forgiving and forgetting

I dislike constant lethargy

 _sarah_

The ever amazing Anton Corbijn’s “Control” opened in the IFI today. Corbjin’s first feature film (having previously photographed the likes of U2, Depeche Mode and The Killers), Control is a biopic of late Joy Division front man Ian Curtis and is based on the book written by Curtis’s wife entitled “Touching From A Distance“. The film stars newcomer Sam Riley (who funnily had a small role in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, a film which loosely follows the life of late Tony Wilson and his involvement with the Manchester music scene including bands Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays) as lead man Curtis and Samantha Morton (In America, Minority Report) as Deborah Curtis, his ever suffering spouse. Shot in stark black & white the film has the added appeal of all it’s cast members playing their instruments live. This looks like a must see for both fans of music and cinema. I’ll hopefully get a chance to check it out over the weekend but until then here’s the trailer.

-phil

I’ll be attending the premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s new flick “Death Proof”, which kicks off tonight at Dublin’s Savoy. The man himself will be attending and a Q&A session will follow the screening. Also if your signature inclined Tarantino will be signing scripts at HMV Grafton Street from about 5.30pm onwards.

“Death Proof” was originally part of the Grindhouse concept, put together by Tarantino and fellow cult director Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” coupled with “Death Proof” made up an exploitation double bill which would be screened and marketed as one film. Nice idea but apparently the concept flopped in the States and wasn’t making anyone any money so the Weinstein Company promptly split the two films and began marketing them as individual films.

I hear good things from those that have seen the films but word on the street is that “Death Proof” is a Tarantino through and through. It won’t be winning him any fans but the fan boys will lap it up. I’ll do my best to post my thoughts over the weekend but I’m neck deep in work so I won’t make any promises!

-phil

I could hype up the film but until I see it I can’t tell you how good it is. Soon we’ll get Keep It Fresh big and influencial and we’ll be able to go to press screening and get free CDs but for now we just watch clips on YouTube (I do anyway) and I stumbled across this interview that went wrong with some of the Superbad dudes.

Click here to see a trailer longer than the 20 second tv spot!

And here’s the official site!

- Kieran

Does anyone ever watch that Made show on MTV? It usually starts with a geek or ugly kid who wants to be a jock or prom queen or something. It can be quite funny. I even watched 20 minutes of an episode this afternoon.

But mix the idea up with some hipsters and a film maker who wanted to make a parody of the whole thing and what you get is Made: I Wanna Be A Hipster. The guy in the show’s prom type event ends up being a night at MisShapes where he get’s his photo on the famous White Wall in the basement of Don Hill’s. Have a look at the trailer below.

Here’s a link to shot’s of Keep It Fresh’s hipsters at MisShapes last March. God we’re so hip! And we’ve been on the cobrasnake loads of times too!! We’re so hip.
Dan, Kieran
Phil, Sarah and Dave should upload some hipster photos soon too.

- Kieran

Now while I’m sure that isn’t going to be the actual title, I can confirm that a good friend of mine is currently shadowing Fight Like Apes every step of the way as they  ascend (descend?) towards musical greatness. He’s followed them from their Topman Unsigned win right through to recent Electric Picnic goodness and covered everything else in between. The following is the first teaser to be released and I’ll be sure to keep you posted on further developments.

Don’t forget the new Apes EP is released October 26th!

-phil

A word from one of my favorite design collectives:

“This weekends sees us bring together our biggest project to date. In a world first (please tell us if we’re wrong) we’ve managed to bring together some of the very best Irish and international creative talent to present their work at Ireland’s best festival Electric Picnic. In association with Topman we’ve programmed 30 hours of live presentations by leading artists, illustrators, directors, designers and musicians…”

Sounds like my cup of tea alright and I’ll be sure to check it out when I have some down time at the Picnic.
For more info on ‘Sweetness And Light’ event head to:
www.candycollective.com/sweetness_light // www.candycollective.com/epicnic_timetable // www.candycollective.com

-phil

One of the worlds greatest music video directors, Michel Gondry, is living out every film students wet dream with his next feature film, Be Kind Rewind. The film focuses on a junkyard worker (Jack Black) who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. This causes him to become magnetized, resulting him to erasing all of the tapes in his best friend’s (Mos Def) video store. So in order to keep all the customers happy they decide to…well watch the trailer and see for yourself. Genius. The film also stars Danny Glover so it can do no wrong.

-phil