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godisinthetv [Edit] [Delete] 15:57, 16 June '09

Hello a quick GIITTV update for you this week:

Interviews:

Metric:
GIITTV's Sophie Appleton spoke to Metric guitarist James Shaw about their fourth full length studio album 'Fantasies', their inspirations, having one of their songs appear on a Polaroid advert.Plus how the internet has bennefitted the band, and what the future holds for Canada's Metric who are tipped to be a 2009 festival favourite.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3420&type=Interviews

Features:

Indepth: Terminator:Salvation:
Mc G’s Terminator: Salvation is a conflict between spirit and machinery. Christian Bale’s John Conner is prone to making prophetic sounding assertions, and at one point proclaims “human’s have a strength beyond imagining”; presumably exactly the thought flying through his mind as he’s pummelled by an endoskeleton t-800. But the wider conflict lies between Terminator the creative soul of the B-Movie and Terminator the interchangeable franchise machine; the quipping “uncle ‘bob’” Arnie learning eco-lessons about the human spirit and a row of interchangeable tabula rasa killing machines stacked for a destruction which multiplies like arithmetic. It’s fortunate then –for allegory fans and critics- that the film’s plot machina is all about ambiguities and hybrids. So this is an action thriller penned by previous ‘art-drama—thriller’ hybrid creators Paul Haggis- Crash (fatuous though it was) to James Bond, and Jonathan Nolan ‘Memento’ and The Dark Knight. Re-tooled by these writers over an initial pulp framework provided from a script by Brancato and Ferris-‘auteurs’ of (yes, that) ‘Catwoman’ and nineties paranoia pot-boiler ‘The Net’ along with a T-3 primarily significant for primped-up T-1000 Kristinna Loket’s artillery.

http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3412&type=Features

Advance look: Idlewild- Post-electric blues

In 2002 Idlewild reluctantly stared success in the face, squaring up like Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, flexing their 24 inch pythons and strutting around the ring, pretending to be superstars. They had just released The Remote Part, an album that surprised critics, fans, perhaps even themselves and found them playing in venues much bigger than they were used to. Roddy acted as frontman accordingly, touching the hands of fans in the front rows, scanning the venues and making eye contact with their newly-enlarged crowd, but it was clear that this was never something they felt comfortable with and after a bout of fisticuffs and the departure of bassist Bob Fairfoull they went away and recorded Warnings/Promises. Like its predecessor, the album surprised both critics and fans, this time because the energy and electricity of The Remote Part had been replaced with a collection of comparatively tame folk songs - still retaining the pop-sensibilities of their earlier records - but the sudden reduction in volume lost them a lot of support. Poor chart positions left them without a label and in need of something to bring back the departed fans. Make Another World, for a short while, was that record. On the surface it was a return to form rock album, but on repeated listens it became apparent that we had been duped, for beneath the overdriven guitars and thumping drums was an unprecedented lack of melody and many who previously thought it fantastic now regard it as one of the band's worst. The five-piece spent the last year re-learning and re-visiting their entire back catalogue from the frantic, instrument thrashing beginnings of Captain through to this, their latest effort Post-Electric Blues via the medium of the now fashionable album shows – a brave move considering no-one had heard the 11 new songs. The record, complete with tantalising extras, was only available to pre-order directly from the band, choosing to avoid record label complications (for now at least), offering a rare first listen to fans and after a two month delay it started appearing through letterboxes at the end of this week.
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3427&type=Features

REVIEWS:

LIVE:
The Joy Formidable
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3414&type=Live
Teitur/Emily Scott
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
The Hornblower Brother/Almost Orphans
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3416&type=Live
Johnny Foreigner
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=3417&type=Live

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