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ONE MAN IN THE BAND
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ONE MAN IN THE BAND Doc about people who play as solo musicians

Male
36 years old
London, London and South East
United Kingdom



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Websiteonemanintheband.com
InfluencesFilm synopsis: ’One-man band’ conjures up images of tuneless street entertainers with drums on their backs and cymbals on their knees, whereas contemporary one-man bands are diverse and vibrant in their musical output. They are more than just solo performers: a one-man band brings to the stage noise and spectacle worthy of a whole band. However, unmediated by creative collaboration, the result can have a peculiar intensity verging on the downright eccentric.

DirectorsIn this film we follow a selection of one-man and one-lady bands from Europe and the USA as they survive on the fringes of the gigging circuit. We meet the Man From Uranus, a veteran of the first Gulf War who wears wellingtons on his hands as he hammers his Moog keyboards into submission. Ninki V weaves webs of sound with her theremin and Thomas Truax has built a backing band of automata. Dennis Hopper Choppers turns the volume up to eleven, while Honkeyfinger wrestles werewolf rock from a lap-steel guitar, The Two Tears pines for her Californian past and Duracell drums with a hurricane in his soul.

Rather than mocking the musical excesses on display, the documentary takes an intimate approach to depicting its subjects, helped by the fact that it’s a film about one-man bands made by a one-man band filmmaker. With its intercutting of multiple stories, a broader theme emerges: the question of what drives us as humans to create.
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    ONE MAN IN THE BAND's Interests
GeneralMaking films and looking behind mirrors.
MusicAppearing in the documentary ONE MAN IN THE BAND...

DENNIS HOPPER CHOPPERS A gifted London-based musician who seems to have sold his musical soul at a crossroads somewhere in the American deep south. His music is seductive, beguiling, world-weary and utterly modern. As a one-man band, his virtue is his insistence on playing all his instruments 'live'.

DURACELL A heroic figure among DIY noise kids and chip tune enthusiasts, Lyon-based Duracell has perfected the idea of giving electronic music a thoroughly physical manifestation. Using an elaborate system of modular triggers around his drum kit, he comes across as the hybrid of the band Lightning Bolt with a Commodore 64 home computer, possessed by the spirit of Animal from The Muppets.

HONKEYFINGER Howling and eloquent, Honkeyfinger unleashes swamp trash blues from his homely lap-steel guitar in an adrenalised rush. With a stated aim of taking on power rock behemoths such as Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer at their own game, he has recently acquired a 'go faster' pedal which makes his live performances truly memorable. He also has a splendid beard.

MAN FROM URANUS Originally from Florida, Man from Uranus is defiantly in a musical dimension all of his own. Using analogue electronic instruments such as Moog synthesizers and theremins, he brews violent and seductive rhythmic trances that borrow equally from Stockhausen and vintage children's TV. He must never be allowed to become a musical hermit.

NINKI V Trained as a medieval musician, Ninki discovered instruments such as theremins, drum pads and casio keyboards and now delivers elaborate musical epics with invigorating energy and bamboozling dexterity.

THOMAS TRUAX Thomas tours with a full backing band, except that he made them himself from junkyard trash and drags them around in an oversized suitcase. A complex array of characters from mad scientist to broken-hearted crooner become sublimated into Thomas' mesmerising performances, with solid backing from his bizarre contraptions.

THE TWO TEARS Once there were five, now there is only one left in The Two Tears. From the high-energy LA girl punk scene to Paris' boulevards of broken dreams, The Two Tears epitomises the drive, focus and ferocity of a true survivor.
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Status:Single
Hometown:London, UK
Body type:0' 1"
Zodiac Sign:Sagittarius


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   ONE MAN IN THE BAND's Blurbs
About me:
My name is Adam Clitheroe and I'm a documentary filmmaker with a background in avant-garde film and a smattering of children's TV. The former earned me a reputation for gratuitous nudity, the latter BAFTA and RTS nominations here in the UK. I was making a fascinating feature-length doumentary about the act of looking out of windows when I encountered the fantastic MAN FROM URANUS in a pub and was introduced to the intensely exotic and disturbingly peculiar milieu of the modern one-person band. The windows documentary was temporarily put on hold - fenestrists, don't worry, it's coming soon - and I was sucked into the world of ONE MAN IN THE BAND, meeting many unique musicians along the way, of whom DENNIS HOPPER CHOPPERS, DURACELL, HONKEYFINGER, MAN FROM URANUS, NINKI V, THOMAS TRUAX and THE TWO TEARS made it into this documentary. The obvious choice was to make the film as a one-man band myself, and so I plunged in with my equipment strapped to my limbs and my camera rolling. What intrigued me about the one-man bands I met was that they were all doing music that was really quite adventurous and 'out there', but they had progressed beyond the need for acceptance by the music industry or, indeed, anybody else. They were doing what they wanted in an unadulterated and quite public manner. As a filmmaker who has always hidden behind glass eyes, this nakedness and lack of pretension in front of an audience was refreshing and quite alarming. I think it was no coincidence that for many of the one man bands I met, their personal lives were in turmoil. Over the course of filming them observationally for this documentary, I began to grasp - as my own life descended into chaos - exactly what it takes to persist as ONE MAN IN THE BAND. It's the yearning for the sweetness of one's own vision, raw and undefiled, and a dogged stoicism in trudging the wastelands of solitude to get to that place. So do try and see my film ONE MAN IN THE BAND - screening at film festivals and coming out on DVD in 2009 - and ask yourself - was music ever meant to be this lonely?
Who I'd like to meet:
Formally inventive documentary filmmakers such as Agnes Varda, Ulrich Seidl and Errol Morris. Errol Morris' film VERNON, FLORIDA (1982) was a direct influence on this film, ONE MAN IN THE BAND.

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Pevin Kinel

Pevin Kinel



Dec 5 2009 7:57 PM




11 tracks recorded from 2006 to 2009
More info here...

Mondo Ray

Mondo Ray



Dec 2 2009 12:33 AM

hi Aaaaadam!!! hope all well aboard!! now you are in the movie!
the true story of the end

the true story of the end



Nov 20 2009 10:33 AM

hi adam,
really great festival at graz !!!
one man band rules !!!
I am happy to have met you.
see you soon in another crazy one man band festival !!!
alex




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lucy 'n' roll

lucy 'n' roll



Nov 17 2009 4:36 PM

hi, thanks for the friendship!
lucy
Sylvie Undoigt

Sylvie Undoigt



Nov 17 2009 1:08 PM

Sylvie UnDoigt  Presents

TWO TEARS
( OneLadyBand / Garage expé / New-York )
www.myspace.com/thetwotears

THE CRETEENS

( thrash Garage / Paris )
www.myspace.com/thecreteens

THE BZZ
( Garage tribal /Paris )
www.myspace.com/thebzzpage

LE VENDREDI 27 NOV
@ CHIQUITO / 26 rue Ménilmontant /PARIS ROCK CITY 20/M°Menilmuch .
19 H PETANTE !
$ 5 dans la caisse ...c'est claire !!??!!

Et Un ZAC AFTER SHOW - " BARKING GARAGE " Dj set Herr Broken .
www.myspace.com/herrbroken
 a partir de 22 H / Rue victor Letalle /a deux doigts du Chiquito / Ménilmuch /face Féline .

 
S .
-TheBigSoundOfCountryMusic-OneDeadManBand-

-TheBigSoundOfCountryMusic-OneDeadManBand-



Nov 16 2009 2:33 PM

Hi Adam!!!great party friday!!!i hope to see you soon again...
hugs,
Diego
rawsounds

rawsounds



Nov 14 2009 4:44 PM

First Raw Sounds Movie Club session : onemanbands galore - hope to screen your One Man in the Band soon !
Hi & thanks from France,
Ratel





the Bombay Sweets

the Bombay Sweets



Nov 10 2009 2:10 PM

One Man Band from Minneapolis, MN:


Pevin Kinel

Pevin Kinel



Nov 9 2009 10:31 AM

onemanbands

onemanbands



Nov 8 2009 9:34 PM

uarghhhh! manic monday is waiting! have a nice time in graz and lublijana! greetings to kerry too! D.
onemanbands

onemanbands



Nov 5 2009 6:54 PM

a litte game for you! cheers from doro!

http://www.miniclip.com/games/one-man-band/de/
Sheriff Perkins One Man Band

Sheriff Perkins One Man Band



Nov 4 2009 2:10 PM

WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! Reconstruction Program

WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! Reconstruction Program



Nov 1 2009 7:34 PM

Severin - WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! DJ set
(Kamikaze Pussyfreak - Living Dead City)

***live show: DELTAHEAD*** 
(punk blues - Sweden)

Monday, November 2nd @ WILD AT HEART
Berlin Kreuzberg - Wiener Straße 20





WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! Reconstruction Program

WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! Reconstruction Program



Oct 24 2009 5:57 AM



Severin - WE LOVE TO BOOGIE! DJ set

27/10 @ Ping Pong Bar Kreuzberg Glogauerstr.

30/10 @ CCCP Mitte Torstr. 136

2/11 - DELTAHEAD aftershow @ WILD AT HEART Kreuzberg Wienerstr.




ZED PENGUIN

ZED PENGUIN



Oct 15 2009 11:24 PM

Barry Armpit and the Personification of Plates: Episode Two.

Arriving late to his cousins wedding, Barry Armpit took his seat without ceremony. So far everything had gone without a hitch. Conserving his energy for the reception, he slept through the hyms and vows like a baby in the backseat of a car. Suddenly shuckled awake by the sounds of Zorba the Greek his eyes creaked open, only to be soberly slapped by the vision of an ominous stack of plates. Knowing there was nothing he could do, he froze in helpless horror. He knew he was but a paralyzed, caged witness, forced to look on and bury the guilt from his face. He would never have believed it before but he swore the whole stack of plates took a deep breath and prepared to face their demise with the proud defiance of forgotten Cambodian doctors. He left in disgust.
onemanbands

onemanbands



Oct 8 2009 4:36 PM

Hey! It's a long time ago! have to write you a new letter to tell about all the things! soon! everything fine? still didn't translate the subtitles.... uarghhh.... so wait for the letter.... have a nice day, doro
Waked Lunch

Waked Lunch



Oct 3 2009 5:22 PM

Thanks for befriending me. A big hello from Nashville, TN. As a thank you, snag 2 FREE downloads,

Enjoy Your Lunch! ROSEMARY
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Old house playground



Oct 2 2009 1:36 PM

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COWPUNX FROM HELL TOUR 2010

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Sep 26 2009 8:21 AM


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Sep 20 2009 3:55 PM

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voici notre nouvelle sortie.  AUTOMATIC PUSSYCAT est un duo composé de KING AUTOMATIC et SAM de DIGGER & THE PUSSYCATS. sur ce 45 tours, on y retrouve 3 titres dont une reprise des CRAMPS et un des EASYBEATS !!!


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John Carpenter

John Carpenter



Sep 19 2009 1:40 PM

THANKS, .... best wishes, john carpenter

http://johncarpenter.bandcamp.com/track/one-for-me


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man from Uranus

man from Uranus



Sep 19 2009 1:30 PM

Oscillations was tremendously great. Belfast is fascinating and the people were really cool and well into it. My smapler was broken when I arrived but was loned equipment and had to completely improvise on dance music related gear. Blew the place daown and they wouldnt let me off until I had played for nearly an hour and a half. perfect. great gig.

What new films are you working on? getting into making film myself these days as exhibited here. Green screen has opened my creative doors:

NOISY PIG

NOISY PIG



Sep 5 2009 7:14 AM

Silly Pepper music video from vacio on Vimeo.



Music video for Silly Pepper released on Noisy Pig' s Disaster # 1 Cd.
Featuring Noisy Pig, Katie Conxita and Yujiro Akihiro.
Filmed-edited-concept - ReveRso
Artwork - Noisy Pig
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Alcoholic Clown Records



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Capitan Mandioca



Aug 29 2009 11:21 PM

Kick Out The Jams!!!!!
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