The Billy Nayer Show
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Wed 1 November 2006 // 20:00
(cancelled)
DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL THIS GIG IS CANCELLED
THE BILLY NAYER SHOW + THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT
(Wed 1st Nov / 8pm / £5/4)
New York-based The Billy Nayer Show return to the Microplex during their European tour. Explaining The BNS is like the Supreme Court trying to define pornography. Their specialty is a dark and sometimes cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising core belief in the power of love. BNS is a band infused by an internal mythology outside and beyond any trends. At once slinky and angular, lush and bright, rough, raw and refined, the bands current direction sparkles with a glam rock aesthetic delivered with straightforward garage attitude. And after the gig we will screen the bands cult feature film...
THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT
(McAbee / US / 2001 / B/W / 91 mins / 35mm / cert 15)
Following the exploits of greasy, laconic interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee of the BNS) this unique film is filled with psychotic song and dance sequences, and bone-dry humour. There is great use of shadow in the flinty black-and-white photography, plus zero-budget sets but the spirit of the final frontier shines through in it's inventive script and structure. This independent effort crashlands somewhere between FLASH GORDON and TWIN PEAKS. Do not miss this rare opportunity to catch this wonderfully original feature. ffi
thebillynayershow@myspace.com
THE BILLY NAYER SHOW + THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT
(Wed 1st Nov / 8pm / £5/4)
New York-based The Billy Nayer Show return to the Microplex during their European tour. Explaining The BNS is like the Supreme Court trying to define pornography. Their specialty is a dark and sometimes cryptic sarcasm that encases a surprising core belief in the power of love. BNS is a band infused by an internal mythology outside and beyond any trends. At once slinky and angular, lush and bright, rough, raw and refined, the bands current direction sparkles with a glam rock aesthetic delivered with straightforward garage attitude. And after the gig we will screen the bands cult feature film...
THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT
(McAbee / US / 2001 / B/W / 91 mins / 35mm / cert 15)
Following the exploits of greasy, laconic interplanetary trader Samuel Curtis (Cory McAbee of the BNS) this unique film is filled with psychotic song and dance sequences, and bone-dry humour. There is great use of shadow in the flinty black-and-white photography, plus zero-budget sets but the spirit of the final frontier shines through in it's inventive script and structure. This independent effort crashlands somewhere between FLASH GORDON and TWIN PEAKS. Do not miss this rare opportunity to catch this wonderfully original feature. ffi
thebillynayershow@myspace.com