Andy Warhol's 13 Most Beautiful - Dean and Britta

Hi ,

thought this might be of interest to ROLinc folks...

Dunfermline Carnegie Hall is delighted to present the UK premiere of ‘13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’: a multimedia pop culture must-see featuring exclusive Warhol film footage of Lou Reed, Dennis Hopper, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, ‘Baby’ Jane Holzer, (plus many more), and a live music soundtrack from dream-pop doyennes Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (Galaxie 500, Luna).

Having taken US art-houses by storm, ’13 Most Beautiful...’ comprises 13 four-minute silent film portraits of 60s and 70s Factory icons (full details overleaf). Each short movie will be screened as a large-scale video projection while Dean and Britta, (plus backing band), perform an illuminating live accompaniment on the stage below.

Each rarely-seen, transfixing four-minute Screen Test has been scored individually, and the live soundtrack is set to provide an exhilarating blend of bespoke pop tributes, cinematic compositions, vintage Dean and Britta material, plus two intoxicating cover versions: an astral take on Bob Dylan’s ‘I’ll Keep It With Mine’ augments the filmic portrait for Nico (for whom Dylan penned the song), while a mesmeric reworking of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Not A Young Man Any More’ provides a fitting aural foil for Lou Reed’s un-missable four-minute movie.

Jointly commissioned by the Andy Warhol Museum and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust for the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts 2008, ’13 Most Beautiful’ came to fruition after Dean and Britta – long held as contemporary proponents of the Warhol doctrine – were given access to the museum’s archives, and asked to select (from several hundred) the 13 moving portraits with which they’d most like to work.

’13 Most Beautiful...’ has already been avidly received in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago and, not least, New York: a performance that Wareham proclaimed as “spectacular” – thanks to the stage’s backdrop (a 90-foot-high view of the city’s night skyline) – although the fact that Lou Reed showed up for the performance didn’t hurt either...

Following its UK premiere at Dunfermline Carnegie Hall, ’13 Most Beautiful...’ will travel to Paris, Marseille and St Etienne.

UK premiere of ‘13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests’:

Wed July 8, £18 / £13 Concs

Carnegie Hall,

East Port, Dunfermline, Fife KY12 7JA

Box Office 01383 602 302

www.ticketweb.co.uk