Sonny E. Cyberbilly and Repo Man - Friday 30 August 9pm at the Rio Cinema, Dalston
A GIG AND A FILM!
REPO MAN with what will be an amazing performance from Sonny E. Cyberbilly on-stage before and after the film! From 9pm
" It’s wacky, waaaay out there and all brilliantly good fun. It’s got a touch of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a whole lot of talent show Elvis. If you found yourself in a bar in ‘Blade Runner’, SONNY E. would be the star turn." - Electronic Sound
Repo Man
"It is the first movie I know of that combines 1) punk teenagers, 2) automobile repossessors, and 3) aliens from outer space'“
Roger Ebert (Rebel Reel’s favourite Critic!)
Disaffected punk Otto (Emilio Estevez balancing nihilism and naiveté) is roped into the Repo Man life when he unwittingly helps charismatic and curmudgeonly Bud (the legendary Harry Dean Stanton) repossess a car. When word gets out of a Chevy Malibu with a $20,000 bounty on it, our leads, their colleagues (which includes a deliciously bizarre Tracey Walter), and a rival repo crew set their sights on a huge score. What they don’t know is that the trunk of the missing Malibu contains the bodies of extraterrestrials stolen from a government black ops site. So, sinister but inept government spooks are also on the hunt. Throw in subplots about Otto’s punker friends on a robbery spree and a vacuous televangelist mesmerizing local dullards, and you’ve got a pretty strange stew of a plot.
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music is the (scatter) brainchild of British music producer and artist Adam Tinley, formerly known as Adamski, a key figure in the explosion of 80s/90s rave culture…
Having had a dual passion for forward thinking, danceable electronic music and rockabilly since childhood it made it a fairly simple and obvious choice for him to fuse the two together .
Well aware that he’s by no means the first to do so he is somewhat perplexed that he’s one of the few (or indeed the only one) to be doing so right now. Rockabilly is obviously synonymous with the birth of pop culture as we know it.
Whilst non-conformist digital music is the perfect soundtrack for its emergent grand finale…
Sonny E. wears his influences on his polyester sleeves …artists like electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and Suicide - the latter having had an obvious rockabilly feel that was largely overlooked by their myriad imitators but a lodestar for the visionary Sigue Sigue Sputnik, (Sonny’s heroes), The Cramps, Godparents of psychobilly while he also channels many 1950’s icons including Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry who created the artistic templates that still resonate strongly today.
Sonny has enjoyed rapturous reactions from a wide diversity of audiences having played in art galleries and museums, underground techno parties, raves, festivals, drag events and warming up for revered post-punk and psychobilly bands.
Sonny E. is a Teddy Boy Timelord who traverses cyberspace to slip through wormholes into different eras (as we all do), and plunder the most rockin’ and electrifying elements to bring you ‘Cyberbilly’.
The Phil Polecat trio are A-grade world class rockabilly musicians who can literally play for hours. Phil was and is the upright bass player in legendary Neo-Rockabilly band ,the Polecats who famously upset their own scene by covering Bowie’s ‘John i’m only dancing’ which earned them big chart success.
Phil, like Sonny, likes to throw a spanner into cultural norms whilst also maintaining a deep reverence and mastership of particular styles.
A GIG AND A FILM!
REPO MAN with what will be an amazing performance from Sonny E. Cyberbilly on-stage before and after the film! From 9pm
" It’s wacky, waaaay out there and all brilliantly good fun. It’s got a touch of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a whole lot of talent show Elvis. If you found yourself in a bar in ‘Blade Runner’, SONNY E. would be the star turn." - Electronic Sound
Repo Man
"It is the first movie I know of that combines 1) punk teenagers, 2) automobile repossessors, and 3) aliens from outer space'“
Roger Ebert (Rebel Reel’s favourite Critic!)
Disaffected punk Otto (Emilio Estevez balancing nihilism and naiveté) is roped into the Repo Man life when he unwittingly helps charismatic and curmudgeonly Bud (the legendary Harry Dean Stanton) repossess a car. When word gets out of a Chevy Malibu with a $20,000 bounty on it, our leads, their colleagues (which includes a deliciously bizarre Tracey Walter), and a rival repo crew set their sights on a huge score. What they don’t know is that the trunk of the missing Malibu contains the bodies of extraterrestrials stolen from a government black ops site. So, sinister but inept government spooks are also on the hunt. Throw in subplots about Otto’s punker friends on a robbery spree and a vacuous televangelist mesmerizing local dullards, and you’ve got a pretty strange stew of a plot.
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music is the (scatter) brainchild of British music producer and artist Adam Tinley, formerly known as Adamski, a key figure in the explosion of 80s/90s rave culture…
Having had a dual passion for forward thinking, danceable electronic music and rockabilly since childhood it made it a fairly simple and obvious choice for him to fuse the two together .
Well aware that he’s by no means the first to do so he is somewhat perplexed that he’s one of the few (or indeed the only one) to be doing so right now. Rockabilly is obviously synonymous with the birth of pop culture as we know it.
Whilst non-conformist digital music is the perfect soundtrack for its emergent grand finale…
Sonny E. wears his influences on his polyester sleeves …artists like electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and Suicide - the latter having had an obvious rockabilly feel that was largely overlooked by their myriad imitators but a lodestar for the visionary Sigue Sigue Sputnik, (Sonny’s heroes), The Cramps, Godparents of psychobilly while he also channels many 1950’s icons including Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry who created the artistic templates that still resonate strongly today.
Sonny has enjoyed rapturous reactions from a wide diversity of audiences having played in art galleries and museums, underground techno parties, raves, festivals, drag events and warming up for revered post-punk and psychobilly bands.
Sonny E. is a Teddy Boy Timelord who traverses cyberspace to slip through wormholes into different eras (as we all do), and plunder the most rockin’ and electrifying elements to bring you ‘Cyberbilly’.
The Phil Polecat trio are A-grade world class rockabilly musicians who can literally play for hours. Phil was and is the upright bass player in legendary Neo-Rockabilly band ,the Polecats who famously upset their own scene by covering Bowie’s ‘John i’m only dancing’ which earned them big chart success.
Phil, like Sonny, likes to throw a spanner into cultural norms whilst also maintaining a deep reverence and mastership of particular styles.
A GIG AND A FILM!
REPO MAN with what will be an amazing performance from Sonny E. Cyberbilly on-stage before and after the film! From 9pm
" It’s wacky, waaaay out there and all brilliantly good fun. It’s got a touch of Sigue Sigue Sputnik, a whole lot of talent show Elvis. If you found yourself in a bar in ‘Blade Runner’, SONNY E. would be the star turn." - Electronic Sound
Repo Man
"It is the first movie I know of that combines 1) punk teenagers, 2) automobile repossessors, and 3) aliens from outer space'“
Roger Ebert (Rebel Reel’s favourite Critic!)
Disaffected punk Otto (Emilio Estevez balancing nihilism and naiveté) is roped into the Repo Man life when he unwittingly helps charismatic and curmudgeonly Bud (the legendary Harry Dean Stanton) repossess a car. When word gets out of a Chevy Malibu with a $20,000 bounty on it, our leads, their colleagues (which includes a deliciously bizarre Tracey Walter), and a rival repo crew set their sights on a huge score. What they don’t know is that the trunk of the missing Malibu contains the bodies of extraterrestrials stolen from a government black ops site. So, sinister but inept government spooks are also on the hunt. Throw in subplots about Otto’s punker friends on a robbery spree and a vacuous televangelist mesmerizing local dullards, and you’ve got a pretty strange stew of a plot.
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music
Sonny E. and his Cyberbilly music is the (scatter) brainchild of British music producer and artist Adam Tinley, formerly known as Adamski, a key figure in the explosion of 80s/90s rave culture…
Having had a dual passion for forward thinking, danceable electronic music and rockabilly since childhood it made it a fairly simple and obvious choice for him to fuse the two together .
Well aware that he’s by no means the first to do so he is somewhat perplexed that he’s one of the few (or indeed the only one) to be doing so right now. Rockabilly is obviously synonymous with the birth of pop culture as we know it.
Whilst non-conformist digital music is the perfect soundtrack for its emergent grand finale…
Sonny E. wears his influences on his polyester sleeves …artists like electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk and Suicide - the latter having had an obvious rockabilly feel that was largely overlooked by their myriad imitators but a lodestar for the visionary Sigue Sigue Sputnik, (Sonny’s heroes), The Cramps, Godparents of psychobilly while he also channels many 1950’s icons including Little Richard, Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry who created the artistic templates that still resonate strongly today.
Sonny has enjoyed rapturous reactions from a wide diversity of audiences having played in art galleries and museums, underground techno parties, raves, festivals, drag events and warming up for revered post-punk and psychobilly bands.
Sonny E. is a Teddy Boy Timelord who traverses cyberspace to slip through wormholes into different eras (as we all do), and plunder the most rockin’ and electrifying elements to bring you ‘Cyberbilly’.
The Phil Polecat trio are A-grade world class rockabilly musicians who can literally play for hours. Phil was and is the upright bass player in legendary Neo-Rockabilly band ,the Polecats who famously upset their own scene by covering Bowie’s ‘John i’m only dancing’ which earned them big chart success.
Phil, like Sonny, likes to throw a spanner into cultural norms whilst also maintaining a deep reverence and mastership of particular styles.