The Beat Is The Law
Noise, Affect, Politics Conference Screening – Salford University
June 29th, 2010
The Beat is The Law (80’s) is screening as part of the Noise, Affect, Politics Conference at Salford University on 1st July 2010 and will be preceded by a lecture from Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire) entitled ‘White Heat, White Noise: Ambient Noise in Pre-Punk and Post-Punk Music‘
“…what exactly is noise and what conditions these relative thresholds in which sound crosses over into noise? Or are these more organised and polite sonic phenomena merely varieties of noise that have been tamed and civilised, and yet still contain kernels of the chaotic, anomalous disturbance of primordial noise? As a radical free agent, how is noise channelled, neutralised or enhanced in emergent cityscapes?
Such questions are particularly applicable to contemporary forms of music which, based as they are on a variety of noise-making technical machines, necessarily exist in the interface between chaotic, unpredictable noise and the organised and blended sounds of music and speech. Does modern noise seek to lead us to new, post-secular inscapes (as with psychedelia and shoegazer), or defy the lulling noisescapes of processed background muzak with punitive blasts of disorientating, disorderly noise? And why the cult of noise – in term of both volume and dissonance – in which low cultural practices (metal, moshing) meet those of the avant-garde (atonalism, transcendentalism)?”
Tags: cabaret voltaire, Stephen Mallinder
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The Beat is The Law DVD in Magma shops
May 28th, 2010
“Imagine a shop as a vial in which more or less volatile substances mix to release energy. Ultimately, walking into Magma should be like walking into a thermometer, an instrument indicating ‘where things are at’ at a certain point in time and space.” – Magma
We are pleased to announce that The Beat Is The Law DVD is available to buy in the wonderful Magma design shops in Manchester and London’s Covent Garden.
So if you want a day out then drop by the Magma shop for a great browse but don’t forget to by your BITL DVD!
Here are the Magma shop addresses www.magmabooks.com
If Manchester and London is too far then go to the following independent shops in Sheffield: Rare and Racy – Division Street, Record Collector – Broomhill, The Sheffield Music Shop – Ecclesall Road, The Print and Design Shop – Sharrowvale Road.
Of course you can always buy from our ONLINE SHOP
Tags: Magma, Rare and Racy, Record Collector
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The Beat Is The Law DVD is here
April 29th, 2010
It is a 6 page digipack design lovingly created by Ian Anderson and his Designers Republic team
(these photos don’t quite do justice to the colours. Top right image is best idea of colour of packaging)
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“…stories, both musical and political, are captured with great power…”
April 1st, 2010
I, me, mine: Sheffield’s rock outcrop and the pit dispute
“Any British cities possess a distinctive musical character but few have seen their rock’n’roll evolution shaped so profoundly by the prevailing political climate as Sheffield’s was during the early 1980s as the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire took on the might of Thatcherite Whitehall…”
Read more of this article about The Beat is The Law – Krushed by The Wheels Of Industry
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Russell Senior in the news about The Miners Strike
March 29th, 2010
Russell Senior (Pulp) and Eve Wood attended the The Beat Is The Law (Krushed By The Wheels Of Industry) film screening at Leeds University Conference examining the Miners Strike and its cultural legacy. Prior to it, Russell was interviewed by Radio 4’s Today programme and The Yorkshire Post discussing the Miners Strike, his role in it and Pulp.
All of this is of course featured in the film – release date 29th April 2010. Preorder now from the SHOP
Listen to Russell on the Radio 4 Today programme
Read about Russell in The Yorkshire Post
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DVD Release Date: 29th April 2010
March 19th, 2010
Its official! The date for release of the Beat is the Law 80’s special edition on DVD available to buy from this website is … 29th April 2010
Pre-order the DVD from our SHOP before the release date for discount and entry into prize draw.
To celebrate this glorious occasion, there will a launch event held at The Leadmill, Sheffield on 29th April featuring:
RuthJoy (Krush)
Winston Hazel (Jive Turkey/Forgemasters)
two Sheffield artists who played an influential role in the birth of the UK House movement, playing House Arresting tracks that shaped their own sound and in turn playing tracks by current UK artists influenced by the Fonetic beats mastered all those years ago that continue to resonate to this day.
Ralph Razor (Razor Stilleto/Space Cabaret) will also be in the mix playing more essential 80’s tunes.
Sensoria folk will also be joining us to celebrate the closing night of what will no doubt be yet another successful festival
We hope to see you there dancing your socks off!
Ticket details from www.leadmill.co.uk
Tags: Jive Turkey, Krush, leadmill, The Beat is The Law
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The Beat is The Law at Leeds University conference on Miners’ Strike
January 28th, 2010
The Beat is The Law will be screened at Leeds University (25th-27th March) as part of a 3 day conference discussing the 84/85 Miners Stike including a rountable discussion about the film and the broader issues associated with the strike, Thatcher and the role music played in that period. This conference coincides with the 25th anniversary of the end of the strike.
Hopefully Russell Senior (Pulp) will be attending the conference. Others include David Peace (author of The Red Riding Trilogy and Damned United) and the photographer Martin Shakeshaft (who’s work we have incorporated into the film – see photo above)
Here’s a clip of Russell talking about the NUM leader Arthur Scargill:
Pulp on The Miners Strike from thebeatisthelaw on Vimeo.
Tags: arthur scargill, david peace, jarvis cocker, martin shakeshaft, miners strike, pulp, russell senior
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Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
December 16th, 2009
From Sheffield Vision to everyone who has supported us in 2009 a big thank you.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
Eve and Richard x
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Showroom Sheffield
October 30th, 2009
The Showroom Cinema in Sheffield will be screening for one week only The Beat Is The Law Part One from the 9th to the 12th November. Click here for times and to book online
There will be a special Panel discussion on 12th November after the screening chaired by music journalist John Robb with special guests including Russell Senior (Pulp), Jake Harries (Chakk), Eve Wood (director) plus live music
So if you can’t make to the DocFest Screenings then here is a great opportunity to see the film in all its full screen glory.
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Sensurround Sweden
October 15th, 2009
A double bill in Scandanavia! Both The Beat Is The Law Part One and Made In Sheffield will be showing during the Sensurround International Music Festival in Sweden 20th and 21st November respectively. Eve will be attending the Q&A’s BITL and brief sightseeing before flying back for a Q and A at Salford Film Festival on 21st.
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