Oct 25, 2011

Dancing about architecture

The international music documentary festival In-edit, which will begin next week, is essentially a jacked-up cram-packed really awesome event that is about to initiate its sixth year. The program for this years festival includes every range of the musical spectrum from a documentary on the 20th century composer Steve Reich to a look into the drug-induced decay of Pentagram, the 70s heavy metal band. It's a festival that not only presents rare concert footage, but also analyzes music's relationship with culture and encourages us to think about where things are headed.

Also on the program for this season is a documentary on Jay Retard called Better than Something. Considering his recent death (yes, it is still very recent) I am disappointed at how little he is being talked about. The prolific musician who formed The Retards, The Lost Sounds, but most importantly wrote catchy epic rock songs that everybody likes. Anyway, what I’m getting at is that he should live on and be played until we scratch through our vinyl and burst out our speakers and get as sick of his songs as we must be getting of Michael Jackson’s or Amy Winehouse’s by now. Seriously.

If you're in Barcelona from Oct 27th to Nov 6th make sure to catch some of the movies!!
Check out the program here:
http://www.in-edit.beefeater.es/webapp/programacion;jsessionid=1wniet708jdma