Memo from Alex Bond of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Was it on this list that someone said that Mills was to change his DJ style
from now on?
I'm sure he'd said he was going to play different stuff, was there any of
that going on last night?
Was thinking on checking him in Manchester, but if he's going to go through
the old routine I'll keep my money in my pocket I think.
That 'do' last night sounded good, shame as always that these things can't
be done out of London as well, but never mind. Us un-cultured types up here
might not have understood the concept of shutting up for more than 15
minutes at a time......!
"Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/05/2002 13:45:24
To: Jonny McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Org"
<[email protected]>
cc:
Subject: RE: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall
>Erm, it's from 1920s Germany! I've never seen "It's A Wonderful Life",
Oh yeah, so it is ... apologies, don't mind me - but I still like the film,
the edit & JM's score for the same reasons. But whatever.
Anyway, what did you think of Mills' set/djing? ... I thought it was nice
to
have a little bird's eye view of what he was doing for a change! Man, he's
fast! - although I noticed a few hiccups, as for the content, hmmm ... I
thought he'd moved on .... but of course, I bopped along all the same...
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:01 PM
>To: Odeluga, Ken
>Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall
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>
>Erm, it's from 1920s Germany! I've never seen "It's A Wonderful
>Life", but I
>don't think there's any moment of comparable moment of lucidity in
>Metropolis in any case: no matter what Lang was trying to say, I can't
>discern any message of substance. Anyway, all in my most humble opinion :)
>
>J
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Odeluga, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Jonny McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Org"
><[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:43 PM
>Subject: RE: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall
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>> The feeble grasp of Marxism (in the 1920s for God's sake!)
>> >is bad enough, never mind the saccharine "love conquers all"
resolution.
>Oh
>> >dear.
>>
>> Naaah - you're ommitting a vital fact Jonny! This is 1930s
>America, happy
>> endings and easily-comprehensible plots were virtually compulsory. Think
>> studio system and remember political interfence/patronage (....hmmm...
>that
>> sounds very contemporary, 'Black Hawk Down' anyone?)
>>
>> Also, do you remember Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life"? Remember
the
>> part when he tries out being dead and suddenly, in an ostensibly quite
>> treakly, not to say twee film, we get 5 minutes of [EMAIL PROTECTED] near
>actualite:
>> Gangsters, prohibition, McCarthyism, prostitution and hints of more
>> international warefare ... then it all goes back to normal. Phew! Jimmy
>> Stewart decides against it and all's well that ends well ... But, for
me,
>> the juxtuposition jarred so much that I wasn't really convinced that the
>> ending depicted what Capra was essentially trying to say. I got a
similar
>> feeling in seeing Metropolis - both visually and thematically. Anyway,
>this
>> all remains mho and of course you were entitled to despise it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:19 PM
>> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org
>> >Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall
>> >
>> >
>> >And mine too:
>> >
>> >> My tuppeny worth
>> >
>> >I thought the film was almost awful. I'm glad they cut it down. God
only
>> >knows why such a lumbering primary school plot originally required over
>two
>> >and half hours. The feeble grasp of Marxism (in the 1920s for God's
>sake!)
>> >is bad enough, never mind the saccharine "love conquers all"
resolution.
>Oh
>> >dear. Visually, though, "Metropolis" entirely deserves it's reputation.
>The
>> >robot replica was pretty techno. Mills' music is ace, but I don't think
>it
>> >fitted all that well, though it worked best when it was more storming:
>> >"Robot Replica" and the destroy the machines scene. There were a lot of
>> >moments where I thought the music was ill timed - though it was cool to
>> >watch a film with the soundtrack as the object of interest, and
>I think I
>> >appreciate much more how much effort has to go into scores to be
>> >successful.
>> >Scoring for a silent movie and striking the balance between subtlety
and
>> >expressing when there's no dialogue is probably even harder. I think
>Mills'
>> >Metropolis comes down more on the, err, "Scarface" side of that balance
>:)
>> >
>> >From where I was sat in cheap seats, the mosh pit that developed during
>the
>> >DJ set was pretty entertaining, though some charted accountant behind
me
>> >started dancing as if he'd been restraining himself all evening at this
>> >point and whipped out one of those little light gadgets.
>> >
>> >Matt Herbert put on a great show. Though I still liked the idea of
>> >it better
>> >than the sound. I got one of those free cds which I've not listened to
>yet,
>> >but I might do as requested and pass it on :) Super Collider, by
>contrast,
>> >seemed pretty inept. I really liked the LP, but this show, IMO, was
like
>> >sitting through bad performance art set to turgid trip hop (with a weak
>> >drummer to boot).
>> >
>> >Oh, and it was a tremendous view from the balcony out behind the
stalls.
>> >
>> >
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