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Film Debut of ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’ at ‘The Henderson Project’!
By InCinemas / 05 Feb 2015 (Thursday)
For the first time ever, the poignant documentary inspired by electronic English band ‘Depeche Mode’, will be making its film debut in Singapore at The Henderson Project by Dream Academy!
Tickets to the second screening is selling fast! Don’t miss this chance to catch the film by Turner prize-winner, Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams.
Having sold millions of records worldwide and dozens of chart-topping hits, Depeche Mode is known as ‘one of the most commercially successful electronic band and one of the world's best-selling bands in music history’. The band is recognised to have made a significant impact on the development of various popular music genres and music fans all over the world have swoon over them, where some crossed the line as to stalk their idols.
The documentary touches on the out-of-the-world fandom, which is at turns bizarre, funny, sad and often touching.
The Henderson Project - ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’
Screening 1 - SOLD OUT!
Date: 6 Feb 2015, Friday
Time: 7pm, 9pm, 11pm
Venue: 203 Henderson Road, #02-01, Henderson Industrial Park (Lift Lobby A)
Ticket Pricing: $15 for each screening
*(Post-party from 12am until 3am with DJs Aldrin & KFC on decks, live visuals by M/SF/T of Non/Aligned)
Screening 2
Date: 7 Feb 2015, Saturday
Time: 5pm
Venue: 203 Henderson Road, #02-01, Henderson Industrial Park (Lift Lobby A)
Ticket Pricing: $15 for each screening
*(Post party: DJs from Depeche Mode Fan Club Singapore on decks)
To buy tickets, call the ticketing hotline: 97267866, 62780377 (office hours) or email t@thehendersonproject.com
*Post parties are free for anyone above 18 subject to capacity (priority will be given to ticket holders
[Review of the Film - By Darren Ng]
Q Magazine calls Depeche Mode ‘the most popular electronic band the world has ever known”, for influencing the modern electronic culture and bringing synth pop and new wave to the masses. Even recognised artists like Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan and Hurts have cited the Basildon band as a huge significance in their development as an artist, however, their influence on its captivated audience are rarely seen.
True to form, these devotees are extreme in their adulation for the band even as they struggle with their inarticulate english, from the fans in Russia who obey a national holiday ‘Dave Day’, which falls on lead singer’s Dave Gahan’s birthday, to the hysterical hand-waving Californians who travel to the Rose Bowl twenty years after the band's last showing in America. Unconventional forms of worship are also interjected into the unorthodox mix; Has anyone seen a holy communion in Church performed to Depeche Mode’s ‘Personal Jesus’?
While in other parts of the world, being a fan of the band means shelling unrelenting sacrifice. The phrase “It is in the pain that we find the meaning in life” speaks volumes to Depeche Mode fans in Iran, where getting beaten up by the strong arms of the law for dressing like their idols or listening to their music, happens more often than not. In London, a homeless man points to his disc-man, “My greatest fear is not about getting enough food but running out of batteries.”
While fifty songs in the UK Singles Chart does do most of the talking, ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’ is not a celebration of the 80’s band but one for its fans, detailing the exact and extremity of a fan’s brimming passion for an immortalised idol.
While the 72 minute documentary was never scheduled for a world-wide release, The Henderson Project (from the team behind Dream Academy) will bring the film to fans in Asia for the very first time over two weekends. Bragging rights are up for grabs, after all, you will be the very first few in Asia to have watched this fascinating documentary of how three boys from Basildon shaped a legion of fans to step out of the laws of the jungle and into their personal independence, free from judgment.
[About the Film]
Touted as ‘A brilliant documentary’ by the Sunday Telegraph, ’Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode’ is an unusual, inspiring and poignant documentary about the fans of Depeche Mode. Made by Turner prize winner Jeremy Deller and film maker Nick Abrahams, the film shows us how music shapes our identity and behaviour; a rapturous insight into fan culture like no other as the band and their devoted fans serve as subject and style reference for the night.
[About The Henderson Project]
The Henderson Project is Singapore’s newest platform for PLAY and PARTY.
Curated by the team at Dream Academy with artists who want to come out and play with a radical call to party, join in the excitement this February 2015 with two very different underground projects. Staged on two consecutive Fridays, these two projects are co-organised by creative consultancy, Present Purpose.
Whether or not you know the band or their music, come and be inspired too, by this first-ever Singapore screening of “Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode”.
(Find out more about The Henderson Project at the official Facebook page here!)
Indulge in a night of art, poetry and music with The Henderson Project 2: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
The Henderson Project 2: The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Date: 13 Feb 2015, Friday
Time: 8pm
Venue: 203 Henderson Road, #02-01, Henderson Industrial Park (Lift Lobby A)
Ticket Price:
• $20 for subscribers to Dream Academy’s mailing list
• $25 in advance
• $30 at the door
To buy tickets, call the ticketing hotline: 97267866, 62780377 (office hours) or email t@thehendersonproject.com
Featuring Benjamin Kheng & Michaela Therese with L.A.B., ShiGGa Shay, a 7-piece UK Band, Lazy Habits, and DJs Matteblacc (JNR & DREM), it’s going to be a funky-hip hop night with poetry beats, a full brass section and hip hop performances.