London Alt Gigs and Cult Cinema

Teeth of the Sea play experimental psych with electronica leanings and an array of influences they say includes Morricone, Eno, Delia Derbyshire, Goblin and the Butthole Surfers. And they're pretty good! Here are a couple of vids from the new album:

Kowalski used to be a cop, then a racecar driver. But now he's a delivery man, hurtling across the USA in a muscle car, wired on speed and pirate radio, outrunning the cops and the establishment who would crush all our spirits, man.

Nic Roeg followed up his electrifying debut, Performance, with this, a poetic depiction of a brother and sister from the Australian city who are left to fend for themselves in the outback, before they meet an Aboriginal boy who guides them through.

That's the main plot anyway, it's fair to say the film itself is more ambiguous in execution. Lots of imagery and not a lot of dialogue, concentrating on the sense of isolation and the distance between nature and what most of us think of as the civilised world. The trailer is a bit dated but you get the idea:

See, I told you lot this would go out tonight. Using a mixture of fact, myth and imagination, 24 Hour Party People tells the story of Tony Wilson, the TV host who set up Factory Records, home of Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays and a bunch of bands you probably haven't heard of. And they launched the Hacienda nightclub, the most famous club of the acid house era. Not bad for a decade's work.

Anyway, this is helmed by Michael Winterbottom (you could argue no director this interesting in the past 30 years has also been this British), with Steve Coogan in the lead and the real-life cast played by the likes of John Thomson, Paddy Considine, Lennie James, Andy Serkis, John Simm and Ralf Little.