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A portrait of Raymond Francombe, jobbing gardener and composer. Ray is a familiar figure around the centre of Bristol. What will not be known by most of those who pass him every day is that for years he has been composing sacred music – and, until this programme was made, he had never actually heard a note of it performed. In this film Derek Jones gets to know Ray, and attempts to have his music professionally assessed.
Declan McKenna live from London's Brixton Academy during his 'Zeros' tour
Part 1 of the Operavox series.
Los Campesinos! recorded live during their sell-out show at Troxy, London on 17th February 2024.
Neil Hannon invites us into his ‘mind palace’, the place inside his head where his career lives, as he looks back on 30 years of The Divine Comedy.
Synth-pop pioneers Soft Cell reunited for one last time at London’s The O2 on Sunday 30th September 2018 – their first UK show for 15 years. Marc Almond and Dave Ball performed together for a one-off show, ‘Say Hello, Wave Goodbye’, as they celebrate their 40th anniversary as a duo with their first UK show since 2003. This was the band’s last EVER show.
Join Emergency Break on a huge night in the bands history; after headlining and subsequently selling out The Camden Assembly in 2023 after being around for 2 months as a band can the band do it again? but even bigger?- this 50 minute documentary shows everything from the show itself to all the lush behind the scenes
Musical short featuring Hal Swain's Kit Kat Band. 'The Prince Twins sing Sweet Music, Six Gainsborough Girls dance on a Hawaiian beach to the haunting tones of Aloha, the Plaza Boys give an excellent demonstration of acrobatic dancing, Hal Swain sings Sarah Jane, and the Prince Twins close the show with Come On Baby.' (The Bioscope)
This ballet is choreographer Michel Fokine's new reading of his ballet created a few years before, Chopiniana, where he pays a tribute to the old days romantic ballets. The work does not follow a logical narrative progression, as Karsavina says in the introduction, it is a "Romantic reverie." The unique male dancer (John Field in this version) embodies a Poet. The corps de ballet and the three women soloists Alice Markova, Violetta Elvin and Svetlana Beriosova are intimately linked to the Russian Ballet and to Russia as a whole.
Live studio performance of Toska’s first release, Ode To The Author - recorded at Brighton Electric Studios Filmed & Edited by Dark Fable Media. Mixed & Mastered by Rabea Massaad and Dave Hollingworth.
The Quireboys live at the Legendary Marquee club in London, the dual cd/dvd shows The Quireboys doing what they do best, entertaining a crowd in a live environment. The gig dates from around 2002, the members of the band at the time being Spike (Vocals), Guy Griffin (guitar) , Nigel Mogg (bass guitar), Keith Weir (keyboards), Luke Bossendorfer (guitar) and special guest on drums legendary Jason Bonham. A set list filled with classic Quireboys tracks such as; Hey You, There She Goes Again, Tramps and Thieves, 7 O'Clock, I Don't Love You Anymore and the firm crowd favourite Sex Party all go to show that the Quireboys have lost none of their energy from their days on Top of the Pops in the 1990's. New songs C'mon, This is Rock 'n' Roll, Show Me What You Got and Turn Away, prove that there love of celebrating good times are still as relevant as ever.
Rhythm and romanticism rules over realism in this recreation of the origins of the rhumba dance
Vladimir Horowitz's piano recital in 1982 at Royal Festival Hall in London.
An experimental dance film that explores how we change ourselves, altering our appearance and behaviour in order to please other people and the emotional and mental impact that has on us.
The Music of Terezin. During the Second World War, people imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto of Terezin in Czechoslovakia performed theatre, cabaret, concerts and opera. Among these people destined for Auschwitz were four composers: Viktor Ullman , Hans Krasa (Brundibar!), Pavel Haas (Study for Strings in The World on Its Dark Side) and Gideon Klein , all of whom were sent to their deaths by the Nazis. This documentary shot in Terezin, looks at their music.
To mark the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth, Britten’s Endgame explores the composer's creativity in the face of death. Those closest to him watched anxiously as he raced to complete his final opera, Death in Venice, in defiance of medical advice, tackling an edgy subject with many resonances in his own life. His eventual heart operation left him incapacitated and prematurely old and frail, yet somehow he rediscovered his creative urge to produce two late masterpieces. This is a rich and poignant film about Britten’s final years, and the impact of what Peter Pears called 'an evil opera'.
Live film from 6th March 2025 in Manchester, UK. Setlist: Take the Night Off / I Was an Eagle / You Know / Breathe, Tap at My Window, Nouel, Fortune, Song for Our Daughter, The End of the Affair, Goodbye England (Covered in Snow), Child of Mine, Patterns, Your Girl, No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can, The Shadows, Caroline, Looking Back, Lullaby, Patterns in Repeat, What He Wrote, Daisy, Once, For You
The last show of the Mantaray and More Tour, which took place on 29 September 2008 at London's KOKO in Camden. A live performance by Siouxsie Sioux, including tracks from Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures and the solo album "Mantaray".
Live at the Hard Rock Cafe is the second live DVD released by UK singer Melanie C. Filmed in 2008 at the Hard Rock Café in Manchester, it features Melanie performing a selection of songs from her first four albums. Fans from all over the world came not only to see Melanie perform, but also to help raise money for Hard Rock Cafe's yearly fundraiser, Pinktober. Already five months pregnant, Melanie performed a selection of her greatest hits along with some personal favourites during a 75-minute set. Filmed with just three camcorders, this film captures the raw intensity of this special acoustic event.
A commissioned music video for Emmit Fenn’s instrumental track, Wind.
in 2010 Beardyman went on tour around the UK performing a show based on suggestions from his fans. Here is it's story. Any likenesses to persons living or dead is completely intentional.
Filmed over three years at the Rebellion punk festival.
To coincide with the release of their 2006 hits compilation The Sound Of Girls Aloud comes this action packed DVD, filmed live at their triumphant 2006 live performance at Wembley. Initially winners of the UK version of American Idol, this all-girl group have exceeded all expectations and have won over critics and audiences alike. Features 18 songs including Biology, Waiting, See The Day, No Good Advice, Long Hot Summer, I Predict A Riot and many more. Also contains bonus features including video clips and other fun stuff.
Am I? is the first feature film by acclaimed concept and AI artist Kevin Abosch. The completely synthetic film (every frame of the film is made with artificial intelligence) is a musical wrapped in a documentary wrapped in a sci-fi movie.
The Specials started making music in the late 1970s and pioneered the 2 Tone movement. They are live in session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music.
"Usual thing, try and get the question in the answer" - A conversation with the band discussing recording techniques, inter cut with personal archive footage from previous album sessions.
On the 18th May 2015, Peter Hook & the Light preformed a special Joy Division show live at Christ Church, Ian Curtis’s boyhood church in Macclesfield, England. This concert premiered 40 years after Curtis' death to celebrate the life of Curtis. The set list contains the entire Joy Division/Warsaw discography played in full.
Aesthetically bold, visually rich – a beautiful non-linear encounter with the physical and social dimensions of chronic pain.
Ethics and passion in their purest form. Welcome to the world of Sarah Records, active between 1987-1995, and possibly the most indie of all indie labels. This is a documentary where principles prevail and attitude and actions are just as important as the music. Heroics and belligerence, ephemeral-eternal-pop, fanzines and the incorruptible founders Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes. Their inspirations, the records, the bands, the letters, the long list of journalists that detested Sarah, the fans that love Sarah...The defiance and determination of our founding duo and their final declaration.
English folk artist Kate Rusby performs a selection of Christmas carols and songs. Recorded at Harrogate Royal Hall in December 2012. Songs: 1. Cranbrook; 2. First Tree in the Green Wood; 3. Hark, Hark What News; 4. The Holly and the Ivy; 5. Home; 6. Kris Kringle; 7. Walk the Road; 8. Little Town of Bethlehem; 9. Here We Come A-wassailing; 10. Poor Old Horse; 11. Seven Good Joys; 12. Joy to the World; 13. Sweet Bells; 14. Hail Chime On; 15. The Wren.
The Stranglers in concert at the Royal Theatre, Nottingham and broadcast via the ITV network
The Pixies live set at Brixton Academy in London on June 26, 1991.
In this film-poem Browzan illustrates his experience living in Berlin between 2016-17. Browzan uses collage, still photography, video and boomerangs to re-imagine this dirty paradise as a throbbing visual mosaic. The evocative imagery is harmonised by a dark music score composed by The KVB.
40 Years of The Enid
A surrealist short that takes inspiration from Dali works, Philip Glass music, Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Freudian theories, and subjective interpretations of the nature of dementia. A man with no identity is trapped in a literal box using his dreams as a form of wish-fulfilment. His memory begins to lapse until there is nothing but a shadow of himself left.
Feeling disgruntled, a group of punks start a litter picking group to counter the amount of litter their community faces.
Pixies are a band who shaped the sound of Alternative Rock. Having sold just under 2 million albums worldwide, they are among rock music's greatest pioneers. Single-handedly spawning the grunge movement of the 1990s, their unique mix of punk, pop and surf rock inspired an entire generation of musicians, and embodied 90's alternative Rock. After splitting acrimoniously in 1992, they reformed in 2004 to wide acclaim. They're captured here from BBC's Maida Vale studios in London.
Nerdy teenage mummy's boy David dreams of wowing the girls with his disco dance moves - but alas he was born with two left feet.
Singer Eva Cassidy died of cancer at a young age. After her death in 1996, her music was only widely picked up and sold. The American was at home in all markets, as can be seen on this DVD; she plays jazz, pop, country and folk together. Covers like What A Wonderful World, Time After Time and Autumn Leaves are beautifully performed in a unique way. The performance was filmed somewhat amateurishly with one camera, 9 months before her death on January 2 and 3, 1996, at the Blues Alley Jazz Club in Washington. The sound is perfect and Cassidy sings flawlessly.
Merging the artistry of a visual album with the depth of a documentary, Twa Double Doubles follows Scottish musicians Norman & Corrie as they return to Norman’s ancestral home—a remote island in the North Sea. Exploring themes of folklore, fatherhood, and the challenges of forging a career remotely, this 30-minute film offers a rich, intimate portrait of Shetlandic culture, capturing its beauty, history, and enduring mysteries.
Night Thoughts is the seventh studio album by English alternative rock band Suede. Produced by long-time collaborator Ed Buller, the album was released through Warner Music UK on 22 January 2016 to widespread critical acclaim. It was accompanied by a feature film, directed by Roger Sargent. During their 2016 tour the band performed from behind a screen on which Sargent's film was projected during the first half of their set. When You Are Young -Outsiders -No Tomorrow - Pale Snow - I Don't Know How to Reach You - What I'm Trying to Tell You -Tightrope - Learning to Be - Like Kids - I Can't Give Her What She Wants - When You Were Young - The Fur and the Feathers
Acclaimed dancer Carlos Acosta introduces a new generation of film makers who use b-boying, ballet and contemporary dance to tell their stories. Subjects range from dancing in a bingo hall, acid attacks, body image and wellbeing and the mystical world of baby eels. Each is a remarkable fusion of dance and film. Anatomy of a Crooked Spine; Blast; Elver; Full House; I Am Soldier; I Dance Best with You; Inside; Inside We Break; Manmade; Petals and Pain; Scapelands; We Are Ready Now; We Are Always Here; Do I Have Free Will?
Renowned Photographer Chris Floyd captured the tumultuous life of the iconic band The Verve from the inside, as they toured as relative unknowns on their first American tour, all the way through to their farewell tour in 1997 at the very top of their game. Using previously unseen photographs, self shot video from the band and interviews, this is an intimate look at an important moment in popular culture. Chris candidly talks about the relationship he had with the band and reveals incredible insight into his process, as well as explaining his views on the meaning of the relationship between photographer and subject and what can happen when that professional line becomes blurred.
When the model of an impressive dress meets with an accident on the night of a graduate fashion show, its designer must fight her fears and find a way to show her work to the world.
Documentary following singer Olly Alexander as he prepares to represent the United Kingdom at the long-running celebration of music, the Eurovision Song Contest. Cameras follow the Years and Years singer on the promotional circuit as he releases his song Dizzy, juggles press attention, performs at European parties in Madrid and London and prepares for the event itself
2008 archive release, recorded live at Penningtons in Bradford on April 8th, 2003 during the band's European tour. This recording features Phil Lewis on vocals, Kerri Kelli from Slash's Snakepit on guitar, Brent Muscat from the Liberators on guitar, Adam Hamilton on bass, and Steve Riley on drums. LA Guns look and sound as good, if not better than ever.
John Bishop's Christmas Show is an all singing, all dancing festive comedy spectacular.
This film captures Rattle's very first performance as Music Director; a programme in which British composers took centre-stage. The world-premiere of Helen Grime's Fanfares, which became the first movement of the work Woven Space, opened the concert before violinist Christian Tetzlaff took to the stage to perform the concerto written for him in 2010 by Harrison Birtwistle. Two more works close to Rattle's heart followed: Thomas Adès' Asyla and the pocket-sized Symphony No 3 by the late Oliver Knussen. Finally, Rattle's stunning interpretation of the Enigma Variations brought the concert to a close and then the audience to its feet, filling the Barbican Hall with rapturous applause.
A detailed profile of the life and career of musician Phil Collins.
The metalcore icons perform a riotous headline set.
Tape Crackers' is a vital documentary focussed on one guy, Michael Finch, and his amazing tape collection of pirate radio recordings made in the mid-late '90s.
The Glasgow Orpheus Choir sings 'Londonderry Air' and 'Loch Lomond'.
Puma Blue will celebrate the release of his eagerly anticipated debut album In Praise Of Shadows with a one-off concert film titled ‘A Late Night Special’. The live performance, which is set to be filmed at the historic Battersea Arts Centre in London and features an expanded eight-piece band, will be broadcast on February 11.