Neil Young
It’s heartening to know that Jonathan Demme, the man who directed The Silence Of The Lambs and Philadelphia, is one of us — a music geek.
Sarah found this out when she interviewed Demme about his latest, and third film about Neil Young, Neil Young Journeys. Demme says he intends to do more films with Young, too, along with whatever other creative projects they can come up with.
Read the Spinner Canada story about it here.
Filed under Concerts, Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
When Neil Young and Jonathan Demme debuted their new concert film Neil Young Journeys at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 12 one of the defining characteristics of the whole event was what they did to the theatre they presented it in.
Basically they went super-mega acoustic nerd on the whole thing, adding speakers and tweaking the sound system. Then they talked to the audience about what exactly they did.
Sarah wrote about it for Spinner Canada. You can read the story here.
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The whole tenth anniversary of 9/11 media frenzy has been hovering close to too much for most people. But one 9/11 thing we can endorse which might restore some faith in humankind is Paul McCartney’s documentary The Love We Make, which followed his efforts to put together the benefit Concert For New York City shortly after the towers collapsed.
Sarah reviewed the film at TIFF 2011 for Spinner Canada. It’s a deep one you can read about here.
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With the Toronto International Film Festival kicking into gear Sarah decided to make a list of the best rock ‘n’ roll documentaries ever for Spinner Canada. You can read about it here.
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What I Call Music
A couple weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down to record a podcast for What I Call Music, the home base for my good friend and one of the most musically knowledgeable cats on the planet, Paul Kehayas.
We ended up talking for a verrrrrrrrrrrrryyy long time, so Paul had one helluva time shrinking it down to something of a dignified length, but for anyone curious I think it’s solidly entertaining. As such, if you’re bored, please give ‘er a listen HERE.
Some of the things we discussed were:
* The origin of the name Risky Fuel.
* Sloan still being credible 20 years later.
* Songs: Ohia/Magnolia Electric Co./Jason Molina.
* How I used to make my own music charts as a kid and my related favourite song of 1988.
* The infamous story of seeing Brian Jonestown Massacre play in a bush at the Wilderbeat Festival during the Blackout of 2003.
* The cultural awareness built by discovering The Clash’s Sandinista album.
The playlist includes: Songs: Ohia, Black Sabbath, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Clash and Raphael Saadiq.
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