Be prepared for a mind-bending experience at PhilaMOCA’s Tuesday Tune-Out tonight when Nightlands, a.k.a. Dave Hartley, takes over the weekly music and film series, which is being curated by BITBY. The basketball lovin’, indie music community go-to bassist from The War on Drugs will be performing a live original score to Stanley Kubrick’s epic movie 2001: A Space Oddyssey with assistance from special guest Jeff Zeigler, and Mikele Edwards will also be helping to set the mood with some space-age sounds. If you had any questions about what will be going down this evening, I’ve gathered a series of tweets (below) from Hartley yesterday that should cover most of them.
“YES. The dialog will remain in the film. YES. There will be an intermission. YES. I’ll be playing Nightlands songs. YES. I wrote new songs for this performance. YES. There’ll be improvised bits. YES. Producer/musician extraordinaire Jeff Zeigler will help. YES. 2001 is the greatest film ever made. YES. smoking reefer to enhance the experience is encouraged. NO, you need to bring your own.”
(No worries about that last one – I’ve got you covered if you forget. ;o) PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 7pm, $14, All Ages – Q.D. Tran