Underground cinema, scuzz art, wild nights/shame-free days, your work... feed us with your work...
Music
Robert Lloyd and Vi Subversa "Keep Lying I Love It", that great old busker in Church Street (Liverpool) who sits down with the teddies and the little cd player - he featured on the cover of an old Mercy fanzine (www.myspace.com/mercycollective), Nigel Burch (busking and with the Flea Pit Orchestra - an expert ear will hear him on the Volcano fundraising clip), R Dean Taylor, Silver Apples, Faust, Magnetic Fields, Bob Dylan, ESP records, Billy Jenkins, Leafcutter John, A Hawk & A Hacksaw, Sun Ra, Dick Dale, Davie Allan and The Arrows, Charlie Feathers, Roxy Music, Eno, Winkies, Terry Riley, Snatch, Birthday Party, Broadcast, ALL Trunk Records, The Specials, Matmos, Soft Pink Truth, People Like Us, Electrelane, Neu!, Can, Liars, Alessandro Alessandroni, Ennio Morricone, Stooges, Black Dice, Meat Puppets, Foetus, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Comets on Fire, Bongwater, Lee Hazelwood, Serge Gainsbourg, Nino Rota, Nora Orlandi, Piero Piccioni, Pluramon, Royal Trux, Swans, Marc Almond, Foetus, MC5, The (mighty) Fall, Nightingales, Metal Machine Music, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Captain Beefheart, Suicide, The Cramps, Joe Meek, Bo Diddley, Link Wray, Carl Perkins, Carl Stalling Project, Ornette Coleman, John Zorn's Spy vs Spy, The Monks, The Saints, Blue Cheer, United States of America, Seeds, Syd Barret, 13th Floor Elevators, Horror Soundtracks i.e. DagoRed's great coloured vinyl reissues, Finders Keepers Records, Karen Dalton, Jack Rose, Henry Flynt, Nancy Sinatra, Petula Clark, Sandie Shaw, Dusty Springfield, Ronettes, Chiffons, Angels, Pipettes, X-Ray Spex, Wu Tang, RZA, Ghostface, Ol Dirty Bastard, Genius/GZA, Edan, El-P, Cannibal Ox, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley (listed for the second time, in case anyone speeds through this!) AND too much more, (but only on vinyl - natch!)
Terry Deeks, Adam J Maynard, L.F. Celine, Guy Debord, J.G. Ballard, Jon Ronson, Stewart Home, Cornell Woolrich, Charles Portis, Jim Thompson ... and more!
Heroes
Jack Smith
Harry Smith
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Patti Smith (not featured here - her footage is kinda overly familiar with all these wasn't Punk Rock so inspirational documentaries etc - so here is a collosal Lydia Lunch video! ORPHANS - sing along!)
About me: FLIXATION Underground Cinema Club
will be taking a breather during August, but will be back on September 20th at the HORSE HOSPITAL +++
+++ Seek out FLIXATION for MORE no-budget underground cinema, video mash up, amateur film Art, performance and music --- SEE BLOG FOR UPDATES & LINE-UP AND FULL DETAILS --- +++
http://www.myspace.com/flixation +++ http://www.thehorsehospital.com
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Who I'd like to meet: If you have any work you'd like to show or a performance you'd like to do - GET IN TOUCH!!
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Hi Clive,I'm coming to London in February to take part in a group show. I hope that I'll have stroke of luck and that there is a flixation show when I'm there. I'll leave you with my newest video for now:
Hi Clive... Here's an animated video for my song 'She Burns' from my album 'Melancholia'... The video was made by Norwegian film-maker Ulf Kristiansen 'Melancholia' is available to buy here Ashley...
hi clive - have a good 'un tomorrow night - not been to the horse hospital in yonks - hope to make it along. are you coming to see felix kubin and silver apples next week??
EXPLODING CINEMA Friday 15th February at the Half Moon in Herne Hill
London’s most experimental OPEN ACCESS folk cinema returns to the satellite suburbs !
Mend that broken/lonely heart with our evening of underground aphrodisiacs. Animations, documentaries, sci-fi, dada and radical rants: Our irregular round up of the latest lo-budget/no-budget work from some of the best film-makers around is sure to set your pulse racing and your endorphins pumping. As if that isn't enough you'll also be able to sit back and relapse during the intermissions while James III and the Puritan lure in all sorts of amorous creatures with their merciless pheremones.
OFTEN IMITATED BUT NEVER APPROPRIATED !
The Half Moon, 10 Half Moon Lane , Herne Hill SE24 9HU Doors open 8pm/ Films start at 8:30. £5 membership
Rail: Herne Hill Bus: 3, 37, 68, 196, 201, 322.
Contact: explodingcinema@hotmail.com or the Half Moon: 0207 274 2733
UNDERGROUND GALA at the Horse Hospital Thursday October 18th 7.30 pm till late Tickets £4
To further celebrate the launch of Duncan Reekie's new book Subversion: The Definitive History of Underground Cinema there will be a gala night of film and video from the London underground cinema club scene featuring optic gems from the the NO-BILITY of the NO-WAVE, rare documentary footage of the birth of the movement, sensational live performance, kaleidoscopic visuals and mystery guests. MC the author.
And not to be missed - the cinema premiere of Jennet Thomas' new film Return of the Black Tower and Arthur Lager drums live to his epic : I Walked with a Surrealist !
The Horse Hospital : Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX
By tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line - buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188