ROCKFEEDBACK TV: LATEST EPISODE
By: Thomas Hannan
COMING SOON: ROCKFEEDBACK ONLINE REDESIGN - Work is going on hard behind the scenes to bring you, within the next few weeks, an all new Rockfeedback.com with a far greater emphasis on all our TV content. Soon, everything from footage of our club nights to our celebrated Channel 4/MTV2 series, from our recent trips to the likes of Primavera in Barcelona and SXSW in Austin, Texas to exclusive in house sessions with Alessi's Ark and J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes, will be able to be streamed directly from Rockfeedback.com. Until then, please reminisce below about our prevous shows, and bear with us if certain parts of the site are updated less frequently during this transitionary period. Onwards and upwards, Rockfeedback.x
Stop Press! No, really. Stop. Put that down and listen. It's been a long day, you're very tired, and now you're just showing off. This is important.
Suggs from Madness came to our club night the other night (true - Dan charged him £4!), and we had him confirm that in 'One Step Beyond' when he sang "HEY YOU! DON'T WATCH THAT, WATCH THIS!", the 'this' in question was indeed Rockfeedback TV. Tonight (18th Feb 2009) sees a repeat of our Underage Festival 2007 documentary going out on Channel 4 at 2.05am - which means you'll be able to look at Toby's face on a massive screen, and pause the bits where our names come up so you can you can show your mum! Or, for those not directly involved with the making of the thing, appearances from all these bands constitute reasons to watch instead -
Cajun Dance Party / Crystal Castles / Jack Penate / Johnny Flynn / Kitty, Daisy and Lewis / Lethal Bizzle / Mystery Jets / Pigeon Detectives / Young Knives
We know, we know, we're on opposite UEFA Cup highlights, Jeremy Kyle, Deaf Zone and BBC News 24. Tough crowd. But didn't you listen to Suggs? Don't watch that! Watch this!
[MICACHU]
Rockfeedback TV, as documenters of the musical endeavours of today's finest soundsmiths, has been known to spread its net as far and wide as Japan, Texas and Iceland, determined to get to the good stuff. This time, we were simply lucky that the good stuff was just down the road in East London.
[JAMES YUILL]
The inaugural Concrete and Glass festival took place last month at various venues around Shoreditch and Brick Lane. The first in what will become an annual event, it was a highly successful and thoroughly fascinating affair that managed to combine big name headline acts with some truly experimental and avant-garde music and art.
[TV ON THE RADIO]
Yep, that's right, art. And for the first time on Rockfeedback TV, we'll be paying a lot of attention to the art side of the event, with input from the artists Martin Sexton, Alister McCymony, Paul Renolds and Amanda Couch sitting alongside our coverage of the aural shenanigans delivered by Threatmantics, Micachu, James Yuill delivering an exclusive acoustic track, Ludovico Einaudi, The Oscillation, The Big Pink, Flashguns, Bass Clef, Little Boots, Errors, yet more TV On The Radio and Kimmo Pohjonen - a bemohawked man who plays the accordion and uses live agricultural machinery as percussion.
[LITTLE BOOTS]
That all goes out Friday night (well, Saturday morn) on Channel 4 at 1.35am.
[BASS CLEF]
PREVIOUS EPISODES OF ROCKFEEDBACK TV HAVE INCLUDED
[NEON NEON]
Tomorrow night (30/10/08) sees us continue to broadcast our latest tasty episode of our televisual spectacular, Rockfeedback Presents... on Channel 4 at 12.45am (you know the drill - technically Friday morning). We're right after Bloc Party doing a live session for 4music, so why not grab a tub of ice cream and have yourself a nice night in front of the idiot box. Radio Times user raters give us a 5/5 rating you know, BAFTAS are sure to follow soon enough...
[ROBYN]
This time, the show is coming to you from the post industrial wasteland of Ferropolis, near Berlin, an old coal mining field as intimidating as it is weirdly beautiful. But alas, we've not gone all Time Team on your collective ass - those Ke-razy Germans use said setting as the backdrop for the MELT! Festival, perhaps the best convergence of cutting edge indie rock and mind, well, melting electronica that takes place in Europe all year.
[JAPE]
Expect to be dazzled by the likes of Modeselector, Adam Green, Friendly Fires, Jape, Robyn, Bonde Do Role and one hell of a set from Neon Neon. Plus a relatively amazing storm and all the other the usual interview shenanigans as we probe deep into the minds of bands, unlocking the great secrets of their creativity, and just, you know, generally muck about.
OTHER ROCKFEEDBACK TV EPISODES HAVE INCLUDED IN THE PAST:
Tonight, 9.30pm, MTV2 - it's the second part of Rockfeedback's documentary on the SXSW music conference in Austin, Texas. Doing our best to aid the local cause of 'Keep Austin Weird', we feature a smile-inducingly diverse line up of unsullied new talent (Cut Copy, Liam Finn [pictured bottom], Langhorne Slim) in alongside near mythical scene figureheads like record producer Kim Fowley (pictured below, mid interview) and, in some of the greatest footage we've shot to date, Jeffrey Lewis giving us an illustrated lecture on the history of communism in Russia.
Also expect the likes of an exclusive, tear inducing Jeffrey Lewis cover by Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn (pictured top), Two Gallants playing an outdoor acoustic set just for us before we got down and dirty with The Kills and These New Puritans as the Domino Records bands rocked Antones (perhaps the best place for a hoe down in all of Texas). That, plus Ed Harcourt serenading us on the weirdest taxi journey of all time, and MGMT (pictured below) playing to a packed audience in an Urban Outfitters store. Clothing outlets - it's the new CBGBs, we're told.
One more show in this series to go, airing next Friday, when we recount what exactly went down when Future of the Left played in our living room for a post Camden Crawl house party. It's a good job we filmed it, because we can't remember a thing.
OTHER ROCKFEEDBACK TV EPISODES HAVE INCLUDED IN THE PAST:
Tonight (2/5/08) at 2.05am, Channel 4 will be broadcasting the next episode of Rockfeedback TV, documenting what happened when we decided, some would say rather foolishly, to have a party in RFB overlord Toby L's front room - with Soko, Jeremy Warmsley and the almighty Future of the Left all very nearly, literally, tearing the house down.
It turns out whispers carried on the wind throughout the preceding day's Camden Crawl event that something was going down after hours up the road had been picked up by many a festival goer, and thus what we expected would be a nice tea, cake and chit chat affair turned in to the biggest housequake we've ever witnessed.
Soko's (pictured top) delightful Daniel Johnston covers, impromptu collaborations with people she'd just met and beguilingly honest, endearing diatribes about this, that and the other started the evening in civil enough fashion before the ever handsome Jeremy Warmsley unveiled himself to be something of a slavering rock beast with a top draw set that had each of the three billion people cramped in to Toby's sitting room bouncing in approval. The closing duet with Shinghai Shoniwa of the Noisettes (pictured) was a tear-inducingly special moment.
Following that, Ex Mclusky and Jarcrew types Future of the Left didn't so much take to the stage as they did fight their way through the hordes, set up in the corner of the room and tear the living shit out of the place with, and this is not hyperbole whatsoever, genuinely one of the greatest gigs we've ever witnessed.
But then the floor started to buckle. And then the police turned up. And then the council whacked a massive fine on us.
Totally worth it.