Paris-based synth rockers Zombie Zombie (Versatile Records ) played in Glasgow last night as part of the Glasgow Film festival, performing a live soundtrack to the silent movie Battleship Potempkin, an early 20th century Soviet propaganda movie that was to be one of the most influential films ever, establishing as it did many of the rules of film making that have been used since.
The band played in Glasgow last year performing their versions of the work of John Carpenter that he created for his horror films, there's a clip to a performance of Halloween added below.
I didn't make it to the show last night, but it sounds like they made quite a job of the Battleship score.
STV film and entertainment critic Michael McLellan wrote on the stv.tv website: "...when more dramatic moments provided the opportunity Zombie Zombie certainly made the most of it, the simplicity of their line-up allowing for bracing moments that might have had the audience thrusting their fists into the air, were they not stuck to their seats.
"This was especially case for the famous scene on the Odessa stairs, a descending bass line’s accompanying instrumentation gathering up into a furious cacophony at the massacre of the citizens, and also at a high octane end as the Potemkin seems set for battle."
Read full review here >
Hopefully I'll get the chance to see them before long. It would be good to see them at a gig rather than as an event
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