Babysweet Sessions

*27/07/10: we have taken down the trailer for a little while for top secret reasons. it should be back in a month or two.*27/07/10

So we have been online for one whole year this month. It’s time to have a long, meandering blog to celebrate. Above us you can see the trailer for “You Think You Know, You Don’t Know: A film about Two Door Cinema Club”. It’s the finest thing we have ever made and we are very proud of it. It is having it’s Northern Irish premier at this years Forfey Festival. The festival also boasts an incredible line-up with some adrenaline pumping through ol’baby for Cast of Cheers, SixStarHotel, Not Squares, Captain Cameron and Continuous Battle of Order. The last band will be referred to as TCBOO from here on in. I was in the same shed as them last year but wasn’t able to savour that as I was filming the Forfey (fawr-fee) film and was stressed. I saw them two weeks ago at the Trans Festival at the Waterfront Hall. The gentlemen are butchers. They are quite fantastic live. The front man has so much charisma it’s unique and he barely calls on it at any point. 

I have been working on a documentary about Tom McShane’s album recording. I will detail that in a later blogg but if you can read then read about it over at Alternative Ulster. Anyway it was a really pleasent surprise to see TCBOO frontman featuring on Tom’s album. We interviewed him and discovered he sings in a country band with Tom which you can listen to here. The diversity in this man is quite fantastic. Tom is a huge fan of the album. He said to me that he felt the album “PTTRN SKRS” (pronounced P-A-T-T-E-R-N  S-E-E-K-E-R-S) was a landmark album for Belfast and that although there weren’t exactly pop hits on the album it will stand as one of the more important released from this fair city. Make up your own mind and have a listen here. And after that think about how babysweet would never ever make a video for this band….or would they?!

"two high class gentlemen - model 1.AC4"

It is a beautiful thing that our film has the pleasure of being at the Forfey Festival this year. It was at last years festival where babysweet really got its self back together after about Two Years of floating through the nothingness. Those years where the lost years and you could have found me in a bad mood in any one of those 730 days. It was at HaNnAhS suggestion that we made a documentary about the Forfey Festival. It was our first serious project since the mood had been escaped. It is quite remarkable how we have developed since then I think. We didn’t film Forfey in widescreen because I felt that it would cause problems in the edit. The way to improve is to do things I guess. Anyway it will cement a productive year when the film is screened on the dear old Farm this August.

(i spoke about the film on radio 1 and you can listen to it again here) *from tomorrow

At the beginning of next month we are making a video for our oldest of subjects. We are still working out the idea. We have also experienced different preferences for song choice. This will be a hard one to crack. There are a few music videos in the pipeline. I know I have said that before with the whole “One Film A Month” shit. That didn’t happen because of the bands canceling, not us me lud.

Here is a poem by John Darnielle. He is the lead singer in The Mountain Goats. They are one of the most lovable bands on the planet. They have 17 studio albums though so where to start?! If you like this poem you can read more at his blog Last Plane To Jakarta.

THE TEMPLE AT THE END OF THE COSMOS

gonna go out on a limb here
and say that somewhere out beyond the final star in the universe
there is a building
standing on a grassy hill

suspended there in the final iteration of all seeing
like the cover
of some trippy science fiction
paperback

and since I am feeling emboldened to describe things
seen by few and remembered by fewer
let me further speculate that there is a record player inside the building
and speakers in the windows on the second floor

the speakers point out toward the small field
whose terminus is the void;
the turntable to which they are connected
plays a ride for revenge album

the album is called wisdom of the few
its sleeve is on hi-gloss stock
and it’s an awesome record
no matter what anybody tells you

if you listen to it now as many times as you can
then when you arrive at that final floating island
it will feel very familiar to you.
on the other hand

if you wait
then you’ll be really surprised
the choice is yours,
as mr. case, my algebra teacher, used to say

"oh! we hear ya John"

Cheers John.

Here is a photograph of me at Flat Lake Festival where we had secret, uber cool, mega, fantastic secret test screening of our Two Door film last month.

"this ain't no pocket novel Claud!"

 

Here is a letter talented photographer man bang bang mcclean sent

The Roy of the Rovers man always had a tear of blood streaming from his eyeball

Here is my current facebook profile picture if you know where it is from then you should be a bobby

"how one yearns to read but shant"

The clan from which my dear love came

"the clan from which my love evolved"