From the new NME (6 May 1995). Draw your own conclusions, but don't shoot the
messenger :)
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Future Sound of London are currently working on a TV show, _Teachings From
The Electronic Brain,_ which they describe as a "modern" culture programme.
It is the latest project from the duo who are attempting trio blur the lines
between being a 'band' and a multia-media organisation.
FSOL's Gary Cobain told NME: "Basically, it's what we do best, which is
mincing a lot of diverse things we like from film, music, comedians, through
our machines... it's sort of a _Max Headroom_ for the 90's."
The first 30-minutes sequuences will be unveiled on MTV and at Glastonbury
this year.
FSOL have also completed work on four videos to accompany their 'Far Out Son
Of A Lung' EP, released by Virgin on May 15, which will form part of their
ongoing _Yage_ film project.
"It's a myth that video needs to be expensive," Cobain said. "By the time you
bring everything in-house, you become free creatively to do what you want to
do."
Although slightly derisory about the myth that has built aroud FSOL - the
band who tour the world on the Internet from their front room - Cobain said
that FSOL are working towards staging a major event.
"I'm a real critical fucker," he said. "Both of us believe in rock'n'roll,
for want of a better term, but 90 per cent of it is crap, like 90 per cent of
everything is crap. It's the ten per cent that blows your head off that makes
it worthwhile. In the future we're leaning towards a big entertainment
extravaganza because, at the end of the day, what we're about is
entertainment."
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Looking forward to that big FSOLpalooza of 1999 ;)
ERkki
Tampere, pHinland
trerra@uta.fi
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