More MCCB Alien Take-Aways

Looks like the MCCB site has crashed somewhere off the north-west coast of Cyberia - apologies to any folks out there waiting on new downloads - there should have been 9 more tracks available very soon, but that's not going to happen......just yet....

We're trying to either get things fixed, and / or start a MySpace Black Sheep page, as this is the only one of the MCCB groups with a future it would seem!

Alternatively we might use a download hosting site - stay tuned.

Later.

FAUST - New Films, Book, & CD Launch @ ICA London 1/2 December 2006

Press Release from Ankst Records :

This event will also see the launch of the new cd box set of Faust live in the UK, Autumn 2005.

EVENT TITLE - KINO ANKST

DATE - FRIDAY DECEMBER THE 1ST 2006

LOCATION - ICA , THE MALL , LONDON SW1 ( Cinema 1 +2 / BAR )

VENUE + BOOKING INFO - WWW.ICA.ORG.UK Tel : 02079303647

ICA PRESS OFFICE – EMMA PETTIT - Tel : 02077661406 EMMAP@ICA.ORG

SCREENING TIMES/PRICES :

Fri Dec 1st – CINEMA 1 – 8.30 – FAUST : NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED (2006) + Q&A + ENTRY INTO CLUB NIGHT (KOSMISCHE DJ’S)
£9 Full / £8 conc / £7 members.

Fri Dec 1st – CINEMA 2 – 6.30 – Y LLEILL (THE OTHERS) (2005)
Sat Dec 2nd – CINEMA 2 – 6.30 – Y LLEILL (THE OTHERS) (2005)

ANKSTMUSIK will be premiering their new film about German Krautrock legends Faust called NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED (2006) at the main cinema in The ICA. JEAN HERVE PERON from Faust will be attending the screening, and doing a Q+A session with ANDY WILSON, author of the newly released book FAUST : STRETCH OUT TIME 1970-1975. The film NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED is a concert film, featuring the band at the height of their powers playing an explosive concert at The Garage, London, in December 1996.

After the screening in the bar DJ’s from London’s KOSMISCHE Club and Radio Show will provide post screening musical entertainment - this includes the promise of brand new Faust music. The band will be releasing an album of new music in 2007. The film will be premiering at The ICA exactly ten years to the day of the actual extraordinary concert featured in the film. Earlier in the evening ANKSTMUSIK will also be showing their award winning debut feature production Y LLEILL (THE OTHERS) in Cinema 2, with a second performance on Saturday.

This BAFTA award winning bi-lingual (Welsh and English) first feature from EMYR GLYN WILLIAMS (ankstmusik boss, and producer of both Y LLEILL and NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED) is a contemporary tale about music and other less important things.

FILM DETAILS :

FAUST: NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED ( 2006)
A concert film / 90 minutes / colour / ankstmusik productions.

‘In the midst of FAUST’s music time ticks like a bomb!’
Faust manifesto - 1973.

STARRING…
Jean Herve Peron
Werner ‘Zappi’ Diermaier
Hans Joachim Irmler
Steven Wray Lobdell
Insa Winkler

On Sunday 1st of December 1996 legendary Krautrock pioneers Faust played an explosive concert at The Garage , London. The film is faithful to the sound, fury and disorientation of their performance as it takes the viewer into the thrilling ‘here and now’ of that packed venue on that winter evening. The band’s usual instrumentation was augmented on the night by amplified power tools, arc welders, hay threshing machinery, and in an evening of action painting, nudity, destruction and creation the band more than lived up to their promise of creating more of a happening than a standard concert.

Y LLEILL (THE OTHERS) 88 mins (15)
Welsh with English subtitles/Colour

WINNER ! BEST FILM BAFTA(CYMRU) 2005
WINNER ! BEST FILM SWANSEA BAY FILM FESTIVAL 2006
RUNNER-UP! AUDIENCE AWARD CARDIFF SCREEN FESTIVAL 2005

Y LLEILL (THE OTHERS) is a bi-lingual film about music and other less important things. The lives of a group of young aimless musicians (Y LLEILL) are examined as they play two concerts over a wintry weekend in North Wales. The importance of music to the individuals and the society they exist in is examined in the film. Music is played, recorded, stolen, attacked and censored. As Y LLEILL play their music, the hypocrisy and deceit that exists between the young characters and the resistance to their music that exists in the wider Welsh society is revealed. Manipulative guitarist and singer Pati (Rhian Green) starts the film by stealing the records she can't afford and sets Y LLEILL on a collision course with the established order.

Meanwhile lead singer Rob (John Reynolds) is a different kind of thief who blindly follows his own desires oblivious to family and friends. These fragile relationships are set to explode on stage as the band edge towards one last truly 'revolutionary' performance.

A contemporary tale shot through with politics, small town paranoia, and rock 'n' roll.

ANKST RECORDS: http://www.ankst.co.uk
FAUST-PAGES: http://www.faust-pages.com
KLANGBAD: http://www.klangbad.de
ZAPPI: http://www.zappi-w-diermaier.com
ART-ERRORIST: http://www.art-errorist.de

My Space - Your Call

Had to happen sooner or later - finally signed up.....

http://www.myspace.com/geoffleigh

I'll be your friend if you'll be mine, for ever and a day.

More knobs/buttons/urls/links/blinks/pastings/postings/virtual payments etcetc

Aliens Caught Jester In The Act

Just as every King must have a Court, so every Court must have a Jester. The Jester is another variation of a Jungian archetype, linked inextricably for better or worse with The Fool (Tarot), The Scapegoat (they're everywhere), The Monkey (Buddhist mythology), The Trickster (poor old Carlos Castaneda was a victim of that one!), and to a lesser extent The Black Sheep (say no more). Originally one of the most important pivotal characters of medieval life, History has sadly reduced him to a kind of anachronistic clown-like figure of fun, stripped of all his powers, which apart from his role as entertainer-in-chief, included giving advice and informed opinion on many state and political matters. His very existence was in a constant state of flux, walking a thin red line between total respect or death by execution, depending on his King's whim or mood of the moment. This precarious lifestyle no doubt helped fuel his incessant search for Truth and Wisdom, as many of the Kings were certainly not very bright, being mostly a bunch of inbred aristos, with varying degrees of dysfunctionalism, not to mention subject to the occasional bout of total barking madness. So pleasing some of these demagogic loonies was not an easy task - you know what it can be like - for example being interviewed by someone official (Social Security and Housing Benefit Officers are probably one of the best modern examples), with the knowledge that you almost certainly have more intellectual capacities than them, but have to be very careful not to let them realise this, because it will piss them right off. In other words you have to dumb down simply in order to survive. Closely connected to The Jester is of course The Fool - in Tarot symbolism The Fool is the very first card in the pack - poised and ready to walk blindly over a cliff-edge - this is a metaphor telling us that the search for truth and knowledge starts with blind ignorance - The Fool is an empty canvas, waiting and ready for the first splashes of paint which will eventually develop into a picture, if not A Work Of Art. (To Be Continued).

Who's holding up the sky?

New Ex-Wise Heads CD "Holding Up The Sky" just released.

http://www.exwiseheads.co.uk

Cover statue/title by Lucianne Lassalle.

http://www.luciannelassalle.co.uk/recent_work.htm