Sound + Vision lineup unveiled for EIFF 2016
Badly Drawn Boy and FOUND top a bill of live music at Summerhall, while Glasgow's Chemikal Underground Records gets the documentary treatment
Edinburgh International Film Festival has announced the full lineup for Sound + Vision, a film and music event organised in conjunction with the Nothing Ever Happens Here promotions team at Summerhall.
Taking place in the venue's courtyard space, the two-day event features a screening of Niall McCann's Chemikal Underground documentary Lost in France on 17 June, following its world premiere at EIFF the previous day (Odeon2). This is preceded by live performances from eclectic experimentalists FOUND, Phantom Band frontman and solo folk singer Rick Redbeard, and psych-rockers Holy Mountain. Julian Corrie, aka Miaoux Miaoux will also DJ on the day. Read our interview with Chemikal Underground co-founder and ex-Delgado Emma Pollock here
18 Jun sees a screening of Paul Weitz's Nick Hornby adaptation About a Boy (starring Hugh Grant, Toni Collette and a young Nicholas Hoult) alongside a live appearance from Badly Drawn Boy, who wrote and performed the film's soundtrack. Also playing on the second day are chamber popsters Admiral Fallow, indie-folk act Randolph’s Leap and four-piece pop outfit TeenCanteen.
Other music-related screenings at EIFF include the world premieres of Moon Dogs, featuring a soundtrack by Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Cineworld, 17 & 18 June), and Ibiza club thriller White Island (Odeon, 23 & 24 June), and the European premieres of Gary Numan documentary Android In La La Land (Odeon, 19 June; Cineworld, 21 June) and Kurdish docu-drama A Flag Without a Country (Cineworld, 16 & 18 June).