Northeast Music Guide

Black Sabbath Legend Headlines Film Festival Rock Weekend. Tony Iommi, Black Sabbath's acclaimed lead guitarist, will be the guest at a screening of Black Sabbath’s landmark documentary ‘The End Of The End’ on 19th August 2018. The movie's celebrated director Dick Carruthers will also be a guest. The Rock Music weekend takes place at The Exchange in North Shields, hosted by the Whitley Bay Film Festival and presented by music historian and author Chris Phipps. Selling over 100 million records worldwide, the Black Sabbath guitarist has forged his place in music history as the "Master of Metal." Festival Director Ema Lea said, “We’re hugely honoured to welcome such a legend as Tony Iommi. His music has been massively influential and popular, particularly to people in the north-east. Tony will be talking about his life and times and the importance of the documentary which captures the band's homecoming final gig". Chris Phipps said, “The band took t...

Calling all cinema fans!   On Saturday 17th August new improvising quartet   Mister Q   (Mariam Rezaei, Hapsburg Braganza, John Hails and Posset) will improvise/live score Dziga Vertov's 1929 dada classic Man with a Movie Camera   as part of Whitley Bay Film Festival.   This frantic, thought provoking, stream of consciousness experimental film features brain-scraping visual jump-cuts that make your third eye water bitter tears.   Mister Q bring heavy sub bass, music box echoes, greasy tape squall and electrical doo-hickery to the table for your listening delight to compliment Vertov's genius sepia spew.   Music starts at 8pm with special cinematic-themed pieces from all of the above.  The main event kicks off with Mister Q playing with/against/above and below Man with a Movie Camera at 9pm.   This sensory cinematic experience takes place in Whitley Bay's historic Spanish City Dome....