FRIDAY 4th FEBRUARY, 7pm, £5 at The
Cube Cinema
Independent Heroines launch night
++++"Get down ladies, you've got nothing to lose"++++
Music is what most of us can't live without, so it's what we start with. + Midnight Movie
Desperately Seeking Susan
MALE- live music
What is Male? Male is a four legged, four breasted, twin tonsilled, Teutonic/Arabic mix of post-punk guitar and post-rock rhythm experimentation. One Male is a quarter of Big Joan. The other was a quarter of Mooz.
EDGEPLAY: A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS
Independent Heroines launch night
++++"Get down ladies, you've got nothing to lose"++++
Music is what most of us can't live without, so it's what we start with. + Midnight Movie
Desperately Seeking Susan
RISE
ABOVE: THE TRIBE 8 DOCUMENTARY
Tracy
Flannigan/USA/2003/80 mins
Rise Above documents dyke punk rock band, Tribe 8. A ferocious, all female, all-queer punk band from San Francisco whose members bare their breasts onstage and whose lead singer likes to pull a straight boy from the audience and make him give a blow job to her strap-on dildo. Featuring live performances, candid moments and controversy at an all women's music festival.
www.riseabovethetribe8documentary.com
Rise Above documents dyke punk rock band, Tribe 8. A ferocious, all female, all-queer punk band from San Francisco whose members bare their breasts onstage and whose lead singer likes to pull a straight boy from the audience and make him give a blow job to her strap-on dildo. Featuring live performances, candid moments and controversy at an all women's music festival.
www.riseabovethetribe8documentary.com
MALE- live music
What is Male? Male is a four legged, four breasted, twin tonsilled, Teutonic/Arabic mix of post-punk guitar and post-rock rhythm experimentation. One Male is a quarter of Big Joan. The other was a quarter of Mooz.
EDGEPLAY: A FILM ABOUT THE RUNAWAYS
Victory
Tischler-Blue/USA/2004/110 mins/DVD
Edgeplay chronicles the rise and disintegration of the seminal `70's all-teenage-girl rock band The Runaways, whose members included future rock stars Lita Ford and Joan Jett. The film explores the effects of stardom on girls too young to drink, but old enough for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. New interviews with members of the band combine with unseen footage and live performances and interviews.
www.edgeplaythemovie.com
www.therunaways.net
Edgeplay chronicles the rise and disintegration of the seminal `70's all-teenage-girl rock band The Runaways, whose members included future rock stars Lita Ford and Joan Jett. The film explores the effects of stardom on girls too young to drink, but old enough for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. New interviews with members of the band combine with unseen footage and live performances and interviews.
www.edgeplaythemovie.com
www.therunaways.net
+ VIDEOS SELECTED BY DELIA SPARROW.
Delia, the London independent music heroine that we last saw playing in Riot girl band Mambo Taxi, serving
us at Rough Trade, Talbot road, Djing at numerous gigs and of recent times and actionettte, artrocker columnist,
and awesome drummer with the A Lines and Actionettes has found us some music vids from her archives.
Delia, the London independent music heroine that we last saw playing in Riot girl band Mambo Taxi, serving
us at Rough Trade, Talbot road, Djing at numerous gigs and of recent times and actionettte, artrocker columnist,
and awesome drummer with the A Lines and Actionettes has found us some music vids from her archives.
And
at Midnight Desperatly Seeking Susan presented in collaboration with
Midnight Movie.
Desperately Seeking Susan DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN
(Susan Seidelman/1985/USA/104 Minutes/35mm/Cert 15)
(Fri 4th / midnight / £4/3)
To tie in with Independent Heroines 2005, the Midnight Movie is proud to present
this underrated classic of 80s cinema - a film which so often gets lumbered with
the mantle of being a mere "star vehicle" for the young Madonna, rather than
being acknowledged as a fun, yet reasonably sharp dissection of female identity
in the modern world, and the effect on ordinary people of the ideals of feminist
polemic which dominated the previous decade. Despite being drenched in period
detail - heinous crimes of fashion and riotous use of expressionistic colour -
the film is a masterpiece of mistaken identity comedy with a healthy dollop of
social satire. And the soundtrack's not too bad either.