Straight To Video @ The Garage, London

The Freelance Hellraiser & The 20th Century Fox will be playing soundtracks, re-edits of scores and that kinda shit at the snazzy new GARAGE in Islington on SATURDAY 4 JULY.
We've been entrusted with our very own room.

We're hoping we'll be able to offer you the following:
• Some new music*
• The premiere of our new Straight To Video film-based visuals**

*This depends whether The Freelance Hellraiser has done the edits he was talking about a few weeks ago.
**This depends whether The 20th Century Fox has actually made them. (She started, but then got distracted by Wimbledon. And there's loads of Celebrity Masterchef to catch up with on Sky Plus. And she hasn't checked if there's anything to play them on. She's a bit shit all round really.)

Straight To Video @ International Hi-Fi
Saturday 4 July
The Garage
20-22 Highbury Corner
N5 1RD
(beginning of Holloway Road,
opposite Highbury & Islington tube station)
10pm-4am
£7

Buy Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=330475&interface=garage1
Map: http://www.thegarage.co.uk/cms/index.php?id=75

John Williams would be proud

The Jacknife Lee sent us this last week:

Beauty Pageant Star Wars Trumpet - Watch more Funny Videos

There are so many quite obviously amazing things about our Stacy - her camel toe, her musical prowess and her Leticia Dean circa 1985 barnet, to name but a few. But her massively inelegant stance during the trumpet-playing portions of the sterling choreography has to be the best bit though, right?

I hope she won. She'd kick Susan Boyle's arse on Britain's Got Talent any day of the week. Fact.

In other news, we've got some new dates to announce very soon. Stay tuned...

We've been busy making new music and new websites and things. Have a listen to the latest Straight To Video mixtape on our Podcast below.

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Mixtape - The 20th Century Fox's Favourite Tracks

In no particular order and off the top of my head because I have cakes in the oven...

Kenny Loggins :: ‘I’m Free (Heaven Helps The Man)’ – from Footloose

‘Footloose’ would be the obvious track to put in a movie Top 10, but ‘I’m Free’ just pips it. It features in the climax of the movie, where the ban on music and dancing (yes, really – but it is set in Utah. John Lithgow is essentially the Taliban) is lifted, and the kids can hold their dance. Victory for Kevin Bacon.

M.I.A. :: ‘Paper Planes’ – from Slumdog Millionaire

I’m a fully paid-up member of the Slumdog bandwagon, but I liked this the first time round. And the second time. And now the third time.

The Who :: ‘Baba O’ Riley’ – from the trailer for Frost/Nixon

Musical wizardry from start to finish. It almost made me want to see Frost/Nixon, but then I remembered I can’t bear Michael Sheen.

Feist :: ‘We’re All In The Dance’ – from Paris, Je T’aime

Simple and sweet; I love Feist’s voice. I can't wait for New York, I Love You.

Sha Na Na :: ‘Born To Hand Jive’ – from Grease

We have a ban on Grease songs at Straight To Video because we don’t want it to sound like a hen night. But I like to sneak this one into every set. I defy anyone to listen to this song and not smile.

Cyndi Lauper :: ‘Goonies R’ Good Enough’ – from The Goonies

If my memory serves me correctly, you see Cyndi Lauper singing this on the TV while Josh Brolin works out in the living room. Plus she had a cameo role on Gossip Girl - what's not to love?

Rolling Stones :: ‘Gimme Shelter’ – from The Departed and Adventures In Babysitting

My favourite Stones track ever. I should probably act cool and say I love the way this track is used in the opening scene of The Departed… But it actually came to my attention when it was used in (the brilliant) Adventures In Babysitting.

The Smiths :: ‘Please Let Me Get What I Want’ – from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Pretty In Pink

Ferris Bueller has a beautiful instrumental version of the song by The Dream Academy.

America :: ‘Horse With No Name’ – from Hideous Kinky

Hideous Kinky is the little indie film Kate Winslet chose to do after the mammoth success of Titanic. It’s an adaptation of my favourite book of the same name, by Esther Freud. I love the gentle, folky quietude of this song.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers :: ‘It’ll All Work Out’ – from Elizabethtown

Worst. Film. Ever. Cameron Crowe is overrated, but as an ex-Rolling Stone writer, what he does know how to get right in his films are the soundtracks. And Elizabethtown is no exception.

We thought Awards Season was over...

But it ain't over till Katherine Jenkins sings.

The Classical BRITs had a glitzy ceremony to announce nominations in grotty London's posh Mayfair last night.

Up for Soundtrack Of The Year are:
I Am Legend - James Newton Howard
The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
The Other Boleyn Girl - Paul Cantelon

James Newton Howard won last year for his composing genius on the brilliant Blood Diamond, and our money's on him and Mr Zimmer scooping this year's gong for The Dark Knight at the Royal Albert Hall on 14 May.

Elsewhere, Jonathan Ansell (ex-G4 and last seen making a tit out of himself on Hell's Kitchen) scored an Album Of The Year nomination for Tenor At The Movies. As much as we love film music here at Straight To Video, we'll be giving this one a body swerve - soz Jonsy.

Hail Gallaxhar

It appears 3D movie technology has come on a bit since I saw Michael Jackson’s Captain EO at the Epcot Centre in 1987 (yep, The 20th Century Fox is late to the 3D party – soz).

Monsters Vs Aliens 3D is officially AMAZING. Well, the film itself would have scored a ‘pretty good’, but the 3D-ness turned it right up to 11.

As you know, Straight To Video is all about scores and soundtracks, so our favourite scene has to be this really, doesn’t it:

A bit of Williams and a bit of Faltermeyer. Amaze. In fact, ALL of the President’s scenes were amaze. He’s the most ridiculous - thus hilarious - political figure since Sarah Palin.

We don’t ever want to see a 2D film again now - sad face. But we draw the line at watching The Jonas Brothers Live in 3D. Thanks anyway though Jonaseseses.

Ummmmmm...

Why are you reading this when Monsters Vs Aliens 3D is currently showing at your friendly local multiplex?

While you're here, you may as well have a gander at this. It's kind of amaze:

Ps. Maurice Jarre (score maestro of Lawrence Of Arabia, Ghost (amazing), Cocktail (amazing), Dead Poets' Society) is brown bread.

CORRECTION

On Sunday 29th March 2009, Straight To Video published a blog suggesting the bastardisation of AR Rahman's 'Jai Ho', from the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, was the work of the Pussycat Dolls. We accept this was misleading as the song is credited in the charts as 'The Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger'.

Straight To Video apologises unreservedly to Nicole Schwarzenegger and her family for any upset which may have been caused as a result of this blog posting.

What Straight To Video fails to understand is why Nicole Schwarzenegger gets her own special mention when she is, and has always been, a member of the group?

Dear The Freelance Hellraiser,
We have a new name:
Straight To Video feat. The 20th Century Fox
Ok? Ok.

When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt III

Why would anyone allow this to happen?

It's No.3 in the iTunes Top Songs charts too :(

Apologies for not being able to post the proper video - YouTube and the PRS are still being petty twats. I believe the Pussycat Dolls perform a Bollywood routine similar to the one in Slumdog's closing credits (while bogling seductively into the camera, probably).

When Bad Things Happen To Good Soundtracks Pt II

Christ in a proton pack. Is there some kind of free for all with the Ghostbusters theme in advertising world at the moment?