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Re: BTV 2
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 10:05 pm
by ya_dancer
LegsAche wrote:CyberMonkey wrote:
Am I the only one who couldn't find the second bloc channel?
We watched it for like 1/2 hour on the Friday night before we hit the stages but then couldn't find it again. Weird.
Saw a bonkers film at around 6am on Sunday night/Monday morning about a guy with glasses in some sketchy mad-max style desert town. Ends up pissing off this shamen-type dude so to settle their differences they break out into a guitar battle!
What a mind-meld. Anyone know what film this was?
I was watching that with the volume down whislt listening to a variety of detroit techno mixes and I remember saying to myself I'm gonna remember that....but then I was foolishly polishing off the spacey stuff that we had left. Try the bloc tv website....
We also only had one bloc channel all weekend. Watching cbeebies on sunday afternoon was fucked up.
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:08 am
by chrisclarksda
Rogue Molecule wrote:I remember watching some quite chilled thing then all of a sudden it turned into screaming children, flashing evil faces and psychedelic gravestones. Must have completely flipped out some of the worse casualties. Sick bastards!
Was that by any chance at 7am Saturday morning? If so i seen that and it was fucked up to the max!
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:35 am
by stripeyhat
We were told by someone working on Bloc TV that because Butlins had removed all the remote controls we couldn't retune the TVs - hence no second channel!
We didn't watch much of it anyway - oh except Tipper, and that really annoyed us as we'd meant to see him, missed him, and his set sounded mint!! Doh!
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:07 pm
by CyberMonkey
The folder of butlins itself said that channels 2 and 13 were programmed for venue stuff. Channel 2 was indeed one bloc channel, but 13 was just a lot of noise and soccer.
Re: BTV 2
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:55 pm
by abbotsgroove
LegsAche wrote:CyberMonkey wrote:
Am I the only one who couldn't find the second bloc channel?
We watched it for like 1/2 hour on the Friday night before we hit the stages but then couldn't find it again. Weird.
Saw a bonkers film at around 6am on Sunday night/Monday morning about a guy with glasses in some sketchy mad-max style desert town. Ends up pissing off this shamen-type dude so to settle their differences they break out into a guitar battle!
What a mind-meld. Anyone know what film this was?
This is called Six String Samurai (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118736/)
Great film!
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:56 pm
by dave87
Ours was only in B+W!
There were some sketchy Aphex videos then we watched the incredibly innocent "The Red Balloon" film by Lamorisse [1956].
Surreal doesn't cover it!
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:58 pm
by Obel
It was all about Tokyo Gore Police for me, fucking awesome!
That and Superjail!
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:46 pm
by l3m4nt
BlocTV
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 4:23 pm
by BlocTV::
Wow what an amazing weekend. Thanks to the Bloc crew for making 2009 better than ever,,, only just recovering form this year but can't wait till 2010 already!
Glad you all enjoyed the BlocTV Channels (those of you who managed to get both). We were also filming some of the performances, many of which are now online here:
www.bloctv.com
and here:
www.youtube.com/bloctv
more clips will follow in the coming weeks.
peace and love from bloctv
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:55 pm
by lizard hi tone
I thought there was only one channel in the end which was why they hardly screened any footage of the music. Gotta say I saw some great stuff like Superjail and some great vjing but far far too much extreme gore, seemed to be all there was every night when we got back. Got too boring for me and completely freaked out alot of people i spoke to. You guys are some sadistic programmers, bet you were sitting in the broadcast room cackling, "ahahahahaha, i wonder how many people on site are at this very moment crying and banging their heads against the wall!"......
More late-night variation next year please. More life-changing seminal moments of cinema and music footage, less throw-away gore and post-modern toss.
Thanks for putting bloc tv on regardless!
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 9:58 pm
by Warpiggy
it been fukked up mayhem every year and it's been great fun...why would they start changin up now?
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:16 pm
by edd
bloc tv rules lol the kinda shit that you can just sit and watch without thinking lol
by the way does anyone know the name of that sponge bob remix that was on? 'f is for friendship f is for fun'
that japanese film about punks and space invading apes was pretty sweet aswell
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 10:21 pm
by l3m4nt
and how bout that remix of the Itchy and Scratchy show ... does anyone know where that one came from?
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:47 am
by treepr0g
Seeing Tim Exile on bloctv made us go and see him live the next night - quite an innovator and has some great spontaneous sampling skills but mad as a box of frogs !
Anyone see the odd film on Monday morning around 10am about the baby that was raised by massive aliens? My mate turned it off as it was doing his noodle in...
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:48 am
by treepr0g
And spongebob as above - made a change from watching it at home with my kids !