Thomas Dolby's The Invisible Lighthouse Live
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013, 19:30
Venue: Phoenix
Thomas Dolby: synth-player, musician, record producer, award winning independent film-maker and famous for his 1980s hits 'Windpower', 'Hyperactive!' and 'She Blinded Me With Science', now brings his latest project The Invisible Lighthouse to Phoenix!
There is a mysterious island across the water off the East Anglian coast that, during its chequered history, has been an airfield, a military testing ground for experimental weapons and home to the main transmission network for the BBC World Service. On the tip of the island is a beautiful lighthouse. But now, it is about to be closed down.
Like many lighthouses around the world, it's becoming obsolete as ships adopt satellite navigation. With global warming and beach erosion threatening its very foundations, it's soon going to be a pile of rubble left to fall into the North Sea.
Over the past year Thomas has taught himself to become a writer, film-maker and editor in order to produce this impressionistic documentary that follows in the vein of his music and lyrics, describing it as 'a kind of tone poem with music and moving images.'
A unique transmedia performance, Dolby accompanies the screening of his award-winning documentary with live narration and musical soundtrack linking songs from various stages of his career, including 'Cloudburst At Shingle Street' through to 'Oceanea' in one breath-taking show.
Links
More information: http://www.thomasdolby.com
