'Atomic Sunrise', will be screened at the Roundhouse in London on 11th and 12th March, and later a book and dvd may be released. Directed and produced by Adrian Everett, this is footage of a festival held at the Roundhouse in 1970, which includes the earliest known footage of Genesis, debuting songs that would appear on 'Trespass', their second album, just weeks before they signed with Charisma; Hawkwind before Lemmy; and 'The Hype', the band which saw the forming of a partnership between Bowie and Mick Ronson, leading up to the Spiders from Mars. Bowie's 'Space Oddity' had been his first big hit in 1969, released to coincide with the first moon landing, five days ahead of the Apollo 11 launch. As 'Hype', together with Tony Visconti (on Bass), Ronson and Bowie created characters and wore elaborate costumes that prefigured glam style and the Spiders;the recording was just weeks before the recording of 'The Man Who Sold the World'.No-one knows who was responsible for the original filming, but Everett first heard of it in the late 70s: it was being held against a film processing bill of thousands of pounds. In 1990 it was apparently to be destroyed unless someone footed the bill. Everett salvaged it and spent three days going through 33 hours of rushes; a chance encounter put him in touch with the original sound man at the festival, who helped him to add the music. Everett's financial backer dropped out and the project was stalled for another 20 years.
Following Mick Ronson's death in 1993 and John Mayhew's in 2010 (the original drummer of Genesis), Everett was determined to get a cut of the film out as a tribute.
It seems good timing, since Bowie has just released 'Where are we now?', his first single for ten years, produced by Tony Visconti; the album 'The Next Day' is due to be released 11th March in the UK and 12th March in thew States; and there's an exhibition of his costumes coming up at the V and A.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/david-bowie-is/
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