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12th February 2012…15:36 LEONARD COHEN
In the summer of 2008 I saw one the best performances that I’ve even been fortunate to catch when Leonard played the mid afternoon slot at Glastonbury Festival. It was a truely outstanding gig, which perfectly summed up a fantastic weekend, and I’ll remember that day as long as I live.
Now almost four years on and Cohen has released a new studio album ‘Old Ideas’, it really is another fantastic collection of songs, showcasing Cohen’s beautifully unique voice. I’ve been listening to it a lot lately and have been considering putting moving pictures to it.
I’ve played around a bit and illustrated his new song ‘Amen’ with some old WWII stock footage, I think it goes together really well, the song telling its own story and helping to bring the images to life. It was just a quick job which I did to hopefully get a few more people to give the album a chance.
You can watch the video that I put together here:
The stock footage was taken from The Internet Archive, from a video entitled ‘Rush repairs of supply ships etc’. It can be viewed in full here.
Meanwhile I advise you at least give Leonard Cohen’s ‘Old Ideas’ a quick listen, it really is fantastic stuff. You can find out more and buy it here.
28th September 2011…21:18 FUN WITH EDITING
As I said in my previous post I’ve been thinking for a while that I should start following through with a few more of my ideas and put them up on here rather than just sitting on them. So I’ll follow up with this one that I came up with a couple of years ago (it’s a bit outdated as a result, but nice to get started). I won’t go into to many details so as to avoid revealing to much of the video but you can watch it here…
22nd September 2011…16:30 EDDIE VEDER vs GODZILLA
Sorry that I haven’t been very actively blogging on here recently, I have been relocating from Pronce George to Vancouver so everything that goes along with a big move like that has been getting in the way.
I was thinking that I should use this blog to bring some of the more left field ideas that I have to you so that is something that I hope to do from now on; starting with this video that I have just put together…
While waiting for some files to come across for me as part of the ‘Dad’s Group’ project I am working on for Great Stories I was watching more news of global recession on BBC World News and also listening to the Eddie Vedder song – Society. As I sat listening to his lyrics being somewhat related to the problems of the world I thought that it would be great to contrast the song with some scenes of destruction from the Godzilla movies. So that is what I did, and I am quite pleased with the results (although I am pretty much always pleased when watching Godzilla movies).
Obviously I do not own the copyright to either the song or any of the video and this was done purely from a fan point of view, I respect both the artist and the makers of Godzilla and just wanted to play around a little.
Anyway it can be watched here and I’ll hopefully be adding more like this soon.
20th July 2011…20:15 LIVE AT SQUAMISH
I’m looking forward to my first Canadian festival proper when I head to Live at Squamish on August 20-21st. I’ve recently been checking out some of the smaller acts and here are my favourites and links to where you can listen to their tunes. I’ll take my camera and post some photos while I’m there!
The Belle Game
a seven-piece energetic, folksy band from Vancouver, B.C. with sparkling harmonies and dreamy melodies, sure to be a hit, especially if we get some sun.
Sweet Thing
Toronto based pop group specialising in guitar music you can tap a foot to. Interesting vocal set up and cool summer vibe.
Guilty about Girls
with Lou Reed style vocals and dirty guitars that effortlessly drift into pop choruses Guilty about Girls look set to put on one hell of a show.
20th July 2011…20:00 NEW BLOG
I’ve recently cleared all of my old blog enteries and will be starting afresh. Keep a look out for new updates, I like to comment on a whole range of things particularly film and music.
