Stars’ new album, The North, is out September 4, 2012. Download “The Theory of Relativity” at http://youarestars.com
Tickets for the U.S. Fall Tour are on sale now at http://youarestars.com
9/20 - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall ^
9/21 - Boston, MA - Paradise ^
9/22 - New York, NY - Webster Hall ^
9/23 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^
9/25 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theater ^
9/26 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle ^
9/27 - Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre ^
9/28 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse ^
9/29 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge ^
10/2 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall ^
10/3 - Cincinnati, OH - 20th Century Theatre ^
10/4 - Indianapolis, IN - Deluxe @ Old National Centre ^
10/5 - St. Louis, MO - Plush ^
10/6 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note ^
10/9 - Lawrence, KS - The Bottleneck ^
10/10 - Tulsa, OK - Cain’s Ballroom ^
10/11 - Little Rock, AR - Revolution Music Room ^
10/12 - Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s Upstairs ^
10/13 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theatre ^
10/14 - Austin, TX - Austin City Limits *
10/17 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues ^
10/18 - Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theater ^
10/19 - Santa Cruz, CA - Rio Theatre ^
10/20 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore ^
11/7 - Portland, OR - The Aladdin Theatre
11/8 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox
11/9 - Victoria, BC - Save on Centre # *
11/10 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena # *
11/12 - Kelowna, BC - Prospera Place # *
11/14 - Calgary, AB - Stampede Corral # *
11/15 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place # *
11/17 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre # *
11/19 - London, ON - John Labatt Centre # *
11/23 - Kingston, ON - K-Rock Centre # *
11/24 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre # *
* - ticket does not include album download
^ - Diamond Rings and California Wives opening
# - with Metric
Sometimes I make work around a single phrase; sometimes its a whole person. I have made a series of books about individual characters over the last few years, some of which will be on display in the exhibition. The book I made about Torquil - and I keep revisiting it and making versions - contains all the words he speaks in the film. I devised it as a book in the round - I wanted a sense of things whirling round - echoing the key whirlpool moment in the film. It has an edge of chaos and perhaps slight threat; reflecting the effect the character has in the film. Torquil throws Joan’s ordered life into chaos - she is afraid of him, or perhaps what he makes her feel, what he represents.
I’ve always thought the scene on the stairs where Joan is leaving, having forced Kenny to agree to take her to Kiloran, is extraordinary. The expressionist lighting, physicality & violence - Torquil takes Joan by the throat and shakes her - quite shocking I think.
Wonderful shadows ! And the scene ends with another doorway - a recurring motif in IKWIG (must go back to this idea some time….)
Torquil
