Taking the low road: High Places will be featuring as part of next month's festival
Back for its fourth year next month, the Glasgow Music & Film Festival 2012 has announced its line-up today, including Silver Apples, High Places, Umberto, OV and the return of underwater experience Wet Sounds.
The festival returns as part of the eighth Glasgow Film Festival – its line-up to be announced on January 18 – and will be taking place from 16 – 26 February 2012, with tickets on sale today.
Curated by Glasgow Film Theatre and the Arches, the festival celebrates the special relationship between film and music, blending reverential cult offerings with new, experimental sonic and visual explorations.
Organisers are hopeful that their selection of live events, fascinating documentaries and feature films – as part of the GMFF film strand at the Glasgow Film Theatre – will “excite, shock, astound, space out and downright terrify” gig-goers.
The 2012 programme features US cult avant garde act Silver Apples – the hugely influential avant-garde act who formed in New York in 1967 – LA based art rockers High Places and horror soundtrack maestro Umberto, who will be flying over exclusively from Kansas City, Missouri to provide a live soundtrack to a secret film of his choice.
Also featuring are Scottish occult project OV, the debut performance of the Psychogeographical Commission. and The Wyrding Module. There’s also a Focus Left Special with Victoriana influenced multi-instrumentalist Serafina Steer and her brother Sam, described as “a bazaar of extraordinary new short films and animations” with Serafina performing her own live scores on harp and vocals.
The festival also welcomes back eerie, underwater experience Wet Sounds at North Woodside Swimming Pool. As listeners swim above and below the atmospherically lit pool, two separate soundsystems create an immersive and unforgettable experience, featuring live electronics from Joel Cahen and La Horrox.
Tickets for all GMFF gigs go on sale on Wednesday 11th January 2012 via the Arches and GFT box offices. For more information on the GMFF film strand go to: www.glasgowfilm.org/festival from 19 January 2012.
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