Well, Film Fest is on us once again, and this year we're determined not to let it slip by us with too many films unwatched. That doesn't mean we're going to do what some friends are doing and take two weeks off just to watch every film on the schedule (much as we'd like to), but we will be seeing a lot of movies. I'll keep the schedule updated here- if anyone wants to join us at any of these sessions, please do so! Likewise, if you're going to any film that you think we absolutely must see, please let us know and we'll add it to our schedule. We'll be at the following films:
Saturday 26 July 2008
1:00 PM ACMI - SON OF RAMBOW
9:15 PM Capitol - DIARY OF THE DEAD

Sunday 27 July 2008
7:00 PM Cooper's Festival Lounge - IN CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE A ROMERO

Friday 1 August 2008
7:15 PM Greater Union 5 - JAR CITY
9:15 PM ACMI - GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Saturday 2 August 2008
7:15 PM ACMI - DEAD END DRIVE-IN

Sunday 3 August 2008
1:00 PM ACMI - THE WAVE
7:00 PM Greater Union 6 - LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

Friday 8 August 2008
11:30 PM Greater Union 5 - JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER

Saturday 9 August 2008
1:00 PM Capitol - CARAMEL
7:00 PM Greater Union 6 - PERSEPOLIS
11:15 PM Capitol - DEAD DAUGHTERS

Sunday 10 August 2008
3:15 PM Capitol - THE CRAZIES
8:00 PM Greater Union 6 - [REC]

If you'd have sat me down, lo these thirteen years ago when I was a sweaty, excitable teen, and said to me: "Listen, you know your favourite band right now? In over a decade, you're going to be mates with two of the guys from that band, and you're going to be in a band with them, and that band is going to put out an album, and, and this is the kicker, that album is going to not only be really unique, it's also going to be really good." I'd have thought you were barmy. But I'd be eating my words right now, dear reader, because I was, and we did, and it is.

That band was Grok, and, as I may have mentioned previously, last year we spent two days in a studio making a hell of a lot of noise. This was unrehearsed, unplanned, made up on the spot, never to be played again, the way all Grok songs are. What... what's bizarre is that it works, it totally works. I am so immensely proud of this album. It's quiet, it's noisy, it's happy, it's sad, it's angry, it's ofttimes hilarious. It contains a hundred beautiful accidents that you just couldn't get from planned songs, rehearsed songs. You can listen to it over and over and hear something new every time, and it will take you somewhere differen,t every time.

And... it was released today! And you can buy it - and you should.

You can order the cd digipak album online at Amazon, Play, Zavvi and others.

The album can be downloaded from iTunes, Amazon, emusic, Rhapsody and others.

More info on the album here.