The Revolution didn’t plan on reunion tours after Prince’s death from an accidental drug overdose in April of 2016. But as they performed more tribute concerts together, the shows gradually morphed into a tour last year that’s turned into more tours, and the experience has been celebratory enough for both them and the audiences that the group will continue doing it for as long as it feels right. To that end, they’ve recruited managers Richard Bishop of Red Light and Jeff Jampol of Jam Inc..”)
Variety caught up with the group’s Lisa Coleman and Bobby Z after the Revolution’s show-stealing set at the Arroyo Seco concert in Los Angeles last month to talk about the tours, the legacy, the music, and what’s next.
How have these songs changed for you in this format?
Lisa Coleman: We started out trying to stay kind of close...
Variety caught up with the group’s Lisa Coleman and Bobby Z after the Revolution’s show-stealing set at the Arroyo Seco concert in Los Angeles last month to talk about the tours, the legacy, the music, and what’s next.
How have these songs changed for you in this format?
Lisa Coleman: We started out trying to stay kind of close...
- 7/12/2018
- by Steve Baltin
- Variety Film + TV
The Invisible Hands, an excellent documentary by Marina Gioti and Georges Salameh, explores the unlikely collaboration between American musical provocateur Alan Bishop and a group of young Egyptian musicians whose lives were upended by the Arab Spring. The film's international premiere is occuring this month at Berlinale. The Asian premiere is at Tokyo's Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, which also takes place this month. In the late '70s, Alan Bishop (aka Alvarius B.), Richard Bishop and Charles Gocher formed the avant-rock band Sun City Girls. The group mixed punk, improv, ethnic music, glossolalia and whatever else into a singular genre-bending sound (e.g. listen to the group's album Torch of the Mystics). After Gocher's death in 2007, the group disbanded and the songs,...
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- 2/19/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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