We are pleased to announce The Beat Is The Law will be screening its first BluRay version at the North West Film Forum over 3 nights on the 6th, 7th and 8th of January 2012. More details here>>
Seattle’s The Stranger publication reviews the film as “deeper and richer than your average music doc, diving into the political and economic realities underlying the music, and it’s terrific” more here>>
We are pleased to announce this week The Beat Is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People has been chosen as one of the best music films/DVDs of 2011 by both UNCUT magazine (NO.4) and the NME (No.6). This tops a great year for the film which has picked up some superb critical acclaim.
You can still order the DVD from our online shop in time for Christmas (last postal delivery Western Europe – Monday 12th Dec, UK – Wednesday 14th Dec).
Otherwise if you are in the UK and are doing your last minute Xmas shopping, the DVD is available in the following shops: Sheffield:
- Rare and Racy, Division Street
- Record Collector, Broomhill
- The Sheffield Music Shop, Ecclesall Road
- The Old Sweet Shop, Nether Edge
- HMV, Meadowhall and High Street Manchester:
- Magma London:
- Rough Trade East
- Magma
We have put together some The Beat Is The Law offers in the SHOP which we think are great ideas for Xmas pressies all with a TBITL theme.
For those who know about our other film Made In Sheffield, our Sheffield Vision Webstore has put together some great offer packages with a Made In Sheffield theme which you may want to check out.
PLEASE NOTE:
Don’t delay ordering from us if you want to receive our products in time for Xmas as last Xmas posting using Royal Mail International Airmail is:
5th December – South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (incl. Japan), Australia & New Zealand
Friday 9th December – Eastern Europe, USA & Canada
Monday 12th December – Western Europe
United Kingdom last posting date for standard parcels is Wednesday 14th December
We are very excited to announce The Beat Is The Law will screen in the Melkweg, Amsterdam at the Play International Music and Film Festival on 18th November 2011 at 12.30pm and again on the 20th at 01.00am. More info and how to get tickets here>>
The location for the screenings has special significance not only for Sheffield music, bands and artists but also personally for the filmmakers themselves.
Martin F Bedford, one of the founders of Sheffield’s venue The Leadmill ( which was originally based on the concept of the Melkweg) who created amazing artwork for posters promoting the Leadmill gigs throughout the 80′s, will be exhibiting his brilliant art during the Festival as well as starring in the film. More info here>>
Various Sheffield bands featured in the film played at the Melkweg in the 80′s and 90′s:
On 24th February 1985 Hula, In The Nursery, Chakk, and Artery (well Artery is from Made In Sheffield) performed there as well as Leitmotiv. The gig was called ‘Sheffield Revisited’
Eve (who is Dutch) and Richard Wood (who is from Sheffield), the film’s director and producer, used to live in Amsterdam during the 90′s and remember being totally blown away by the performances The Longpigs and Pulp (Different Class tour) towards the end of 1995 at the Melkweg.
Eve will be attending the Festival and doing a Q and A after the Friday screening (in Dutch and English??)
Interviewed at the Leeds International Film Festival screening of The Beat Is The Law, Candida Doyle talks about the film, Pulp, Margaret Thatcher’s 80′s and the future of music.
After the screening she did a great Q and A with the film’s director, Eve Wood. As Candida said herself, she doesn’t get much opportunity to talk, its usually the men.
The screening was a great event in such a grand setting of the Leeds Town Hall. To see the film projected onto such a massive screen and hear the sound coming back at you on such a scale was amazing. A truly memorable night for us as filmmakers. Big thanks to the festival and of course Candida.
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We are pleased to announce The Beat Is The Law’s first screening in Asia at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival on the 9th and the 14th November 2011
賈維斯卡克說：「即使手錶停了，它一天至少還會正確兩次。」而這個世界終於在一九九五年追上他的腳步，因為The Stone Roses 吉他手John Squire 騎單車摔斷鎖骨、搖滾公雞洛史都華又婉拒邀約，成軍將近二十年才以〈Common People〉初嚐成名滋味的Pulp，意外站上英國Glastonbury 音樂節主舞台，由現場八萬人共同見證了Pulp 與雪菲爾同儕們用十餘年寫下的音樂傳奇。
Below is a scan of Taiwan’s biggest broadsheet daily, The China Times 31.10.2011. On the back page of the newspaper is this piece on The Beat Is The Law and Pulp. Spot the English music references amongst the Mandarin text!
We are very pleased to announce ‘The Beat Is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People’ will have its Official UK Premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival 2011 on the 4th November @9pm in the spectacular setting of Leeds Town Hall.
The Q and A afterwards will include Pulp’s Candida Doyle and the film’s director, Eve Wood.
Here’s a clip of Fox 9 News in Minneapolis covering the Sound Unseen Music and Film Festival. Half way through the reporter discusses The Beat Is The Law with the festival organiser.
Its interesting because despite the film being about Pulp, she really likes the socio-political aspect of the film and ends with a shot of a guy collecting money for the miners to keep them off the dole. Its a bit surreal to see Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News showing derelict steel factories, police and protesters protesting about the oppressive regime of The Iron Lady herself, Margaret Thatcher, being beamed to homes across what is a large population in Minneapolis at breakfast time!
The film is screening tonight at 9pm, Trylon Cinema, Sound Unseen
We are pleased to announce The Beat is The Law – Fanfare For The Common People will be screening in Minneapolis on the 13th October 2011 as part of the Sound Unseen Film/Music/Art Festival
The film has so far played to packed cinemas in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“The screening went GREAT! People LOVED the movie, attendance was strong, there was a fun Brit Pop tie-in at a nearby bar, all that! One of our employees is a filmmaker who has been at a dead end with her project, and she found the attitude of the Sheffield scene to be super-inspiring. I think that is so awesome” Mike Keegan – Roxie Theatre, San Francisco
If our films inspire others then we have done our job.
The North American tour continues at The Roxie Cinema, San Francisco on the 29th September at 7.30pm and 9.30pm.
They created this poster especially for the screening. The screening is preceded by a vide mix of britpop’s highs and lows and bassists on blow!!??
