Notes to Editors
1. BIOG
Robin Mahoney - Director/Producer
Robin started out a child. At the age of 24 he formed an allegiance with veteran film-maker Mike Sarne and produced The Punk (aka The Punk and the Princess). The film went global with a premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and worldwide cinema distribution. Off the back of this Robin got to direct his first movie, the feature documentary Glastonbury The Movie, a rollicking no-holds-barred trip through the world famous music festival. This too was released theatrically and also had the honour of being the very first feature film to be Lottery awarded. He also produced and edited Glastonbury and soon moved on to edit a number of other films, short and long. The short film Cereal Killer that he cut and associate produced with director Robert Heath won the Canal Plus - Best European Short award at the prestigious Brest International Film Festival. He also achieved certain notoriety as editor of the seminal late night Channel 4 show The Trip, a favourite with insomniac clubbers of the late 90s. He also makes music, if you can call it that. And some of his tunes were on Si Begg's bonkers compilation album The Complete Death of Cool.
Robin also works with collaborators on his AV project HoFuN, which could be loosely called VJ performing. See http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=HoFuN2006. Sometimes HoFuN comes as standalone AV mixes and other times as not-so-pretty pictures on the walls behind performances by the likes of Si Begg (he took us on tour), Tim Wright (he did too), Cursor Miner, Lusine ICL, Point B, Kelpe, Abstract Knights, Con Brio, Tipper, Crunch, Pole, Bitstream, Subjex, Claro Intelecto, Kansas City Prophets and Abstrakt Knights.
Charade is a piece originally commissioned by Addictive Television for an ITV 1 late-night series called Mixmasters. It was exhibited at Londons Institute of Contemporary Art, shown at The National Film Theatre, Raindance Film Festival and at numerous events worldwide and has been hailed as one of the definitive film-remixes.
HoFuNs eyewatering output continues with a series of UK Festival dates planned for summer 2007 and a full length DVD album in conjunction with Si Begg almost completed. This will be out the Addictive label later in the year.
He also works with artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard directing and editing their video pieces File under Sacred Music (2003), Walking After Acconci (2005) and Walk With Nauman (2006)
Lately Robin, with his company MENSCH, has been the creative director and producer of several chart-topping music DVDs for artists such as Basement Jaxx, The Prodigy, Pixies, White Stripes, Peaches, Badly Drawn Boy, Dizzee Rascal, Lemon Jelly and Electric Six. The Pixies DVD was nominated 'Best Music DVD' at the 2005 NME Awards. He has just put the finishing touches to a special edition DVD for last years Amnesty International - Secret Policeman's Ball. The triple disk box set of Glastonbury The Movie will be released in July 2007 and features over 12 hours of video and a staggering 24 hours of audio. Stay tuned.
www.hofun.org.uk
www.menschfilms.com
2. DVD CONTENT
Triple Disk box-set in high quality matte laminated art packaging.
DVD packaging design by AIRSIDE
Performances by: Lemonheads, Omar, The Orb, Spiritualized, Roy Harper, The Verve, Perry Farrell / Porno For Pyros, Back To The Planet, Chuck Prophet, Airto Morreira, Evan Dando, Louise Goffin, Andy Guithrie, Ozric Tentacles, Kickshaw, McKoy, Si Begg, The Co-Creators, Cristian Vogel, Dr Didg, The Filberts, X-Productions, Bender, Charlie Creed-Miles, Dexter Fletcher.
DISK ONE - FOLLOW THE COW
'Glastonbury The Movie Original Cinema Format - Cinemascope (1:2.33 anamorphic).
Dolby Digital 5.1 audio.
DTS 5.1
Dolby Surround
Dolby 2.0 Stereo / Pro-Logic
96 minutes.
Along with the main feature the user will have the ability to Follow the Cow. This is a way of setting up the play run so that at relevant moments during the film, on being prompted by a little cow icon in the corner of the screen the viewer is able to branch off into a host of added material. Of the forty or so times that the cow pops up the extras could be anything from the continuation of a stage performance to an interview about the fire ceremony at the stone circle.
Some of the added 2 hours of video and 11 hours of audio are are:-
Extra songs from The Verve, Lemonheads, Orb, Spiritualized, full 50 minute audio-only gigs, studio recorded versions of the tunes, Airto Morreira's percussion master-class and many more street/field performers.
Another extra feature on this disk uses the unique programming facility of DVD to allow the viewer to watch various extended Special Plays of the movie featuring the extra material edited together with the original Feature.
DISC TWO - MULTI ANGLE
This disc makes full use of the multi-angle capabilities of DVD-Video. Again 96 minutes long but with 4 simultaneous video tracks and 9 audio tracks the disc contains almost 5 hours of video and 12 hours of audio. By pressing the angle and audio buttons on their remote control the viewer can determine their own unique experience every time they watch. Also including a pre-programmed set of shuffle and randomise functions it can automatically provide its own unique edit every time its played. Its possible to have the disk play for 38 hours without having the same sound and picture running in sync twice.
DISC THREE - EXTRAS
50 minute documentary entitled 'Avalon' originally shown on Channel 4 in
1999.
Bazzas puntercam - Over an hour of interviews with gurning funsters and the
like.
The Miniscule of Sound at Glasto 2002.
Picture gallery from The Visual Noise Collective. Fine on-site Grafitti from
Banksy and colleagues.
EPK - half an hour of interviews and behind the scenes with the makers.
Interview with Michael Eavis and other organisers.
Priceless interviews with local residents (30 mins).
Extended mix of the soundtrack including full versions of the tunes. (80
mins)
Music from the soundtrack producers - two and a half hours of it.
The 1984 Stonehenge Festival film State Within A State. (30 mins)
A bunch of short films, music videos and VJ mixes from the makers. (60 mins)
A DVD ROM section will include graphics files, music and audio, avi and mpeg
files.
Ho-FuN - The Worlds Smallest Film Festival - 4 hours of short films in
Quicktime format.
One section, mainly intended for VJs, will be royalty free.
PLUS LOADS MORE AS YET UNCONFIRMED STUFF...........
3. PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
Release date 30th July 2007
RRP 23.99
Distributed by Vital. Available in all high street stockists, Amazon and through www.glastonburythemovie.com
