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Heavy rain, in the cinemas

The long-awaited return of the legendary James Bond to the big screen will be with the film “Heavy rain“, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig Thursday 1 November 2012.

Skyfall is not just the 23rd movie starring him 007. It is the film that coincides with fifty years of James Bond.  All it takes to make Ian Fleming's legendary agent the longest-lived bachelor in the history of cinema. Half a century after Dr. No (1962), with six actors having stepped into the shoes of the role, with countless girls and journeys to all corners of the planet and iconic rivals along the way, James Bond has seen a lot and done even more. And then, a golden anniversary deserves to be what,what does he want, from boring or glamorous to simply formal.

In the case of Skyfall, one thing is certain: that the whole team – old and new-  who worked for this film, took the opportunity to give a thorough account of this British phenomenon called Bond. So, Daniel Craig, who plays the role for the third time, dives, literally and not,  into the deep to find what this something is, beyond the chase and women,  which has determined him 007 until today. Something similar happens to Judi Dench, who returns after seven tougher films,  but also more vulnerable than ever. They are both tired, or to be precise, under the confident direction of Sam Mendes, they dare to be tired. And they have every reason,  with the first and best being the blistering opening action scene. With thousands of kilometers separating them (he is in Turkey, while she gives orders from MI6 headquarters in London) , M will make a decision that will tear them both apart. So, the femme fatale in the new James Bond film is none other than M, who thanks to her maternal dimension awakens various personal demons, including those of the evil Javier Bardem who does not attack to destroy the world, but because he wants to end a personal affair. Like the weapon young Q supplies to Bond, which is activated solely by its own fingerprints, so Skyfall ultimately tells personal stories.

Meantime, Adele's song has been dressed up in a dreamlike and highly encrypted underwater sequence, great lines - that will go down in history-  a host of sly references to his universe have also been made 007 has emerged from the most unexpected corners. This is definitely a positive report.

Summary:
Bond's latest mission in Turkey doesn't end well at all, and some of the world's most important secret agents are irreparably exposed. The MI6 offices are bombed and M (Judi Dench), under pressure and challenge from the new chairman of the Secret Service and Security Committee, Mallory(Ralph Fiennes), is forced to take drastic measures. MI6 is under threat from within and without, and M can trust no one else, except for Bond. O 007 plunges into the dark past, with Agent Eve as her only assistant, (Naomie Harris) to follow the trail of the mysterious Silva (Javier Bardem), whose motives he must discover.

“The Daniel Craig era comes of age with a tough Bond who takes risks for good. You know something; After all, you can teach old dogs new tricks". Neil Smith, Total Film

"They were needed 23 movies and 50 years to learn the truth about Bond,  but it was worth it… Without sacrificing the action, Mendes puts the actors in the spotlight, explores their wonderfully complex emotional world in ways that the show has never dared to do before”. Peter Debruge, Variety

“Dramatically riveting, but retaining its underground humor, this beautiful film will be loved by loyal fans around the world as one of the best Bond films ever". Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter

"Skyfall is a great British film. From the moment the orchestral sound pours in with Adele's voice and a nostalgic shiver runs down the audience's collective spine, we know this will be a triumphant return to classic Bond". Kate Muir, The Times of London

"Mendes doesn't hesitate to let the quieter dramatic moments breathe... and master cinematographer Roger Deakins makes the ambitious action scenes the most beautiful in Bond's fifty-year career" Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

Trivia/Fun Facts:
• The role of Q has its own special story. Bond's right-hand man first appeared in 'Dr. no", where the role of Major Boothroyd was played by Peter Burton. He was followed by Desmond Llewelyn for 17 films between 1963-1999. Later, we had the opportunity to enjoy John Cleese who started as R, i.e. Q's sidekick in The World Is Not Enough to be promoted to Q's role in Die Another Day.
• Even though the opening scene is only twelve minutes long, it took three months for rehearsals and two months for filming.
• The first time the Aston Martin DB5 played alongside Bond was in the film 'Goldfinger'.
• Much of the film was shot at the historic Pinewood Studios, just outside London. There, after all, most of them have been filmed – with the exception of three- his movies 007.
• For Skyfall they were built 31 different scenes, among which are the underground offices of MI6, the interior of the Golden Dragon Casino, the exterior of Dead City (which is located on a deserted island near Macau and hosts the subchthonian Silva).
• For the scene, where a subway train derails with dangerous results, the workshop built 2 wires of regular dimensions, that they weighed 7 tons each.  They had been placed on the stage 10 cameras with remote control, to capture the conflict from various angles, without having to endanger anyone.
• For the exterior of Golden Dragon Casino, were recruited 12 craftsmen from China to manufacture 300 authentic Chinese lanterns.
• Many exterior scenes were shot in London, even those set in China. Specifically, the fourth tallest building in London, o Broadgate Tower, it was dressed and lit to look like a company building in Shanghai.
• The National Portrait Gallery is where Bond meets the new Q, in one of Skyfall's most enjoyable performances.
• In collaboration with the London authorities, the production managed to close Vauxhall and Milbank Bridge for a spectacular explosion scene.
• London Underground filming took place at Charing Cross station in 4 Weekends.
• In Ian Fleming's penultimate book ("You Only Live Twice"), the author mentioned some facts about Bond's family roots, revealing that his father was from Scotland. This detail plays a catalytic role in the film, as one of Skyfall's most beautiful scenes was shot in the beautiful Scottish countryside.
• The opening scene of the film was shot in Istanbul and Antana. Bond, neither more nor less, pursues a dangerous rival in the Eminomu district, one of the old and beautiful areas of Istanbul, which is definitely one of the busiest spots. For the needs of this particular sequence, the production created a huge market, where they were housed over 250 benches.
• The spectacular chase continues on the spectacular ceilings of the Grand Bazaar, which, under normal conditions, hosts 400,000 visitors daily. Filming took place only on Sundays, when the bazaar was closed. For this reason, an entire business was set up for as many Saturday nights as it took, in order to clothe the bazaar.
• A fleet of 12 Land Rover Defenders and 16 Audi A5s were modified for this particular scene.
• It is not the first time that James Bond visits Istanbul. The first time was in the movie "From Russia with Love", where Ian Fleming himself accompanied producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and the crew to the shoot. The second time was a short stint in The World Is Not Enough.
• “Take the Bloody Shot”. One of the film's most iconic lines is heard while Bond is fighting his adversary, on the roof of a moving train. This shoot was one of the most challenging and complex parts of the intro sequence. The specific scene that defines the plot of the film, takes part in the Varda Bridge, which has been built the 1912 and has height 100 meters . Important detail, considering that the scene ends with Bond falling into space. To achieve this, a crane had to be added to one of the wires from which the stuntman was tied by a very long rope.
• Our own Tonia Sotiropoulou, may have a brief appearance in the film, but enjoys special treatment, as her role, ensures her particularly intimate moments with the sought-after bachelor. The scene was shot on a remote beach in Turkey, where production had to negotiate with 613 landowners so he could return there.

Source : culturenow.gr

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Write a story on Twitter

The fiction contest of the well-known social networking medium poses new expressive challenges in literature

According to a literary legend, Ernest Hemingway once bet that he could write a story in less than 10 words. He earned it with a suspenseful story, dramatic tension and… only six words: «For sale: Baby shoes, never worn» (They are sold: Baby shoes, unbearable).

Total, in English, 27 characters, many less than a tweet, which comparatively gives to the lovers of the small, smallest form 140 characters to tell a story, such as the stories to be told by those participating in Twitter's five-day online literary fiction festival at the end of November.

“Twitter is a place where we tell stories. They often involve news reporting, the policy, sports or music, but, as it turns out, Twitter is also a place for telling fantastic stories. As argued by a professor from Michigan State University, "tweeting can be considered a new literary practice". We want to celebrate it!». With these words the Twitter team announces the launch of the Twitter Fiction Festival (#twitterfiction), a creative experiment in fictional storytelling involving writers from around the world.

“Twitter has already hosted great literary experiments, like the “Black Box” by Jennifer Egan, the “Small Fates” by Teju Cole or @mayoremanuel by Dan Sinker. Now we want to go further," says the Twitter team.

If the question is simply brevity, the comprehensive, laconic expression in 140 words, then the medium is not original. The 2007, when Twitter was still a baby (was founded on 2006) Britain's Guardian newspaper asked established writers to follow Hemingway's example by writing six-word stories. John Banville, David Lodge, Jeffrey Eugenides, the A. S. Bayat, Ian Rankin, recent bi-Booker laureate Hilary Mandel and other contemporary authors, overall 35 writers, they rose to the challenge. At best, like that of David Lodge ("Apple;"No." “Try it!""ADAM;» My God!) witty humor prevails. In the worst case, the venture ends up a flop, unintelligible verbal utterance.

A similar experiment with the tweet microform was recently attempted in Greece by the authors of the e-book Tweet_Stories – Literature in 140 characters (Openbook.gr, 2012), which is a digital version of the Openbook library. "Can literature work in the suffocating context of the very small form of social networks;" was the question that was posed to internet users, the Cretan author and IT professor Giannis Farsaris explained to "Vima", who edited the volume.

"Many renowned Greek writers responded to the challenge, like Evgenios Trivizas, Manos Kontoleon, Ersi Sotiropoulou, Nikos Dimos, Eleni Ghika, Sakis Serefas, Christoforos Kasdaglis and dozens of others, who succeeded and squeezed the inspiration, the plot and dialogue of their stories within the narrow confines of Twitter posts”, clarified for us.

Gathered more than 600 original micro-stories, of extent up to 140 characters. Reading them 371 selected to be published in a freely distributed e-book, one understands how difficult it is to write a story in a tweet. Most formulations end in aphorisms, some sarcastic and some witty, or they slip into high school scrapbook sentimentality, in the catchword complaint or in the elliptically distorted expression of the ad.

But there are signs that the project can be successful, such as, for example, the following: “Always carry live with you to eat. They don't rot. All that matters now is survival. The road. The trip. “Boy; My son; Come here”.» (# 006: Kyriakos Athanasiadis). "He's coming on time. He wears his everyday, I take out the good tableware. I remember the wrong person, it seems. But the name is the same. It never goes away.” (# 008: Dimitris Athinakis). «”Please ma'am, I have three days to eat”. She didn't turn to look at him. He couldn't look Mr. Head in the eye again." (034: Alexander Vlazakis). “Look at the Word. If the State Service came to check; Lexi and him, a new environment. Read it again, ready for anything!» (# 078: Mitsakos Zaf). “He liked men. The mother did not speak to him, but on holidays he sent ties. After the funeral he resigned. Now he sells books at bazaars.” (# 332: Annita Hadjikou).

The suggestive, staccato, terse way of tweets, the suggestive and witty style also inspired their 'Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less» (Viking/Penguin 2009) by Alexander Eichmann and Emmett Rensin. The sophomores, then, students at the University of Chicago summarized 80 known texts, from Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey" to Shakespeare's "Hamlet", "Anna Karenina" by Tolstoy, "Great Expectations" by Dickens and "Harry Potter" by J. K. Rowling in 20 tweets each. Some called the result a desecration of literary masterpieces. Others found it hilarious. Albert Camus' "The Stranger" ended up like this: "The mother is dead. Unknown today or yesterday./ At the funeral. I'm bored. People look sad. This old man “arranged” the mom!/ The funeral was not about to end. I banished a woman on the way back. I will see her tomorrow, maybe it suits me. /… ».

The book of the two young men was published by the publishing house Penguin, which is not only the publishing house with the most famous series of modern classic literature but also shows great interest in literary experiments on the Internet. The 2007 had carried out the participatory literature program "Million Penguins", an experiment in writing a novel together, inspired by the logic of Wikipedia, in which they collaborated 1.500 people.

Participation, and not only the condensation in the limited space of 140 characters, seems to be the aim of the organizers of the Twitter Fiction Festival competition. They therefore ask those who wish to participate in the competition to specify in their application: “How will you use our real-time global platform and the content it offers - micro-stories in Tweets, Twitter chat, live-tweeting-, where anyone can contribute to your story at any time or, even better, how you plan to create new content on this platform;;».

We certainly expect that one of the most common practices in tweets, sending a URL (of the address of a resource on the World Wide Web), will also be used during the competition. The experiment will therefore also be extended in the direction of "hyperliterature", that is, interactive texts that incorporate and make extensive use of hyperlinks, interspersing the written word with other texts, picture, sound, maps etc. and catalyzing linear readout.

Brevity and fragmentation, sign language, polyphony and thematic variety, are the features of Twitter, which the American prose writer Jonathan Franzen, described in a recent interview as "unspeakably irritating". He commented that Twitter is an irresponsible medium, space not for serious readers and writers but for those who love to chatter about themselves unnecessarily and added: “Twitter represents everything I loathe. It is difficult to cite facts or structure an argument in 140 characters… It’s like writing a novel without the letter P…”.

Having studied philology, Franzen is of course aware that such expressive limitations, related to the length of a sentence or the number or type of letters to be used in a text are not an invention of Twitter. The pioneering French Workshop of Potential Literature OuLiPo by Raymond Kenaud, Francois Le Lione, Georges Perec et al. practices experimental literature from the 1960 placing various morphological constraints on literary composition and combining writing with painting and mathematics. Texts were written exclusively with words that start and end with the same letter or phrases that are completely missing a letter, like the novel "La disparition" (1969, The disappearance) by Georges Perec, where e is completely absent, the most common letter in the French language.

The point is that, despite their interest, these experiments usually fail to gain widespread acceptance, to transcend the narrow confines of the group that inspired them and to have duration. With Twitter we will see if in the age of the internet experimental literature can be more widely recognized or if traditional forms of storytelling prove stronger than the technological challenges.

The great new parameter introduced by the Internet and Twitter is time: We are watching a text in its genesis. The time interval of the tweets, their thickening or thinning over time is an element of style. Alongside, consumption of the text in real time greatly influences its meaning and interpretation. This is all completely new data, and exciting. Traditional media, such as the American magazine "New Yorker", strongly support the festival and the New York Public Library has planned a major open discussion.

Those interested in participating in the Twitter Fiction Festival can fill out the relevant application by 15 November. Selected authors will be announced on 19 November. The competition will be held online from 28 November until 2 December.

Source : tovima.gr

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Depeche Mode returns to Greece on 2013 (;)

Information about their new world tour is expected to be announced by Depeche Mode soon.

According to online magazine UnderTheRadar, the start of the first leg of the tour is scheduled to take place on 7 of May 2013.

Overall, the tour reportedly contains 34 stops in as many European cities, among which Athens is included on 10 May.

The official announcement is expected to be made on 14:30 (Greece time), according to the countdown on the band's official website.

Depeche Mode's thirteenth album is due out next spring, which will succeed the “Sounds Of The Universe” of 2009.

Source : rocking.gr

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Art loves scandal

In Paris, they threw eggs at a performance by Castellucci. In the US, a photo of Christ in urine causes an uproar in the Senate. And in Athens, far-right and extreme Christians demonstrate in the "Smelter". Aesthetic taste and the provocation of political or religious sentiment

Uploading his show Romeo Castellucci "On the concept of the person of the Son of God" in October 2011 at the Theater de la Ville in Paris caused intense polemic. Members of para-religious organizations picketed outside the theater with the dominant slogan "Stop Christianophobia" demanding that the show be stopped, which continued only after the intervention of the police. Not the next day, and despite increased security measures, spectators were attacked with eggs and oil.
The events provoked angry reactions, with the Italian director himself commentating by paraphrasing Jesus. "I forgive them because they don't know what they are doing," Castellucci specifically said. "I forgive them because they are ignorant and their ignorance is much more arrogant and harmful because it has to do with faith".
A few months earlier, in any case, the staging of the same work in Athens as part of the Greek Festival had gone smoothly. Any objections from the viewers were left at the level of private commentary, with a computable part being identifiable, perhaps, with a recent one, then, phrase of the critic of the British "Guardian" after the London "station" of the show. “Despite the shocking warnings, felt more slightly bored than morally offended," wrote Michael Billington referring to, obviously, in the recurring motif of the well-dressed son rolling up his sleeves to change the diapers of his elderly father who gets dirty and dirty on everything, with an oversized reproduction of Antonello da Messina's "Savior of the World" dominating the background of the scene.
The Athenian performances of another "blasphemous" play went on just as "calmly", the rise of which in Paris also caused strong reactions in parareligious and far-right circles. The reason for it «Golgota Picnic» of Argentina's Rodrigo Garcia, which we saw just last June at the Athens Festival and referred to the life of Christ through harsh images of the consumer society. As for the "Tolerance Orgy", another subversive performance by the Belgian "heretical" artist Jan Fabre which "traveled" to Athens in the summer of 2009, the image of Jesus with a cross in his hand taking part in the casting of a fashion photographer was one of the mildest in the whole spectacle…
In this context, the heterochronized reactions to Lena Kitsopoulou's performance "Athanassios Diakos: The return' and, more recently, what happened in the theater "Foundry" on the occasion of the Greek uploading of his work Terence McNally "Body of Christ" they could also be surprising for reasons beyond the obvious and much-discussed in recent days.
Where are they due?; In an ever-escalating climate of tension fueled by the clash of extremes; In "ethical populism" which according to some is being encouraged (and) by a portion of the mass media; At some random juncture; In all of these together; Or maybe something else;
The truth is that the "shock" in art with the vehicle "blasphemy" has a precedent in recent years in our country. A typical example is the de-fixation of the work of the Belgian Thierry de Cordier from the Outlook exhibition on 2003, about a month and a half after its inauguration and after it had already been visited by more than 20.000 individuals. A few years later, the 2007, the confiscation of Eva Stefani's video from the Art Athina exhibition and the subsequent arrest of the director of the event for "violation of the obscenity law and insulting symbols of the Greek state" once again brought to the fore the debate about censorship and the existence or non-existence of limits in art.


Shock and awe in a cruel world
Does art still have the power to shock?; Does this make sense in an age where with a simple "click" on the Internet, everyone gains access to even the harshest images; What emotion follows the “oh!» of the initial shock; The above questions were the focus of a large investigation conducted about a month ago by the "Times" of New York.
For two weeks, critics, artists, intellectuals and readers participated in the public debate which was held against the backdrop of the amateur film "The Innocence of Muslims", which caused events of incredible ferocity in the Arab world (its echo also reached our country), the sentencing of members of the all-female punk band Pussy Riot in Russia, but also the re-exhibition of Andres Serrano's much-discussed photo "Piss Christ" in a New York gallery.
The presentation of this photo – which depicts Jesus "drenched" in urine – the 1989 provoked strong reactions in the US Senate and led to the modification of the art grants regime. In this case, the prospect of its new presentation led to efforts to revive the "culture war". The reaction of a Republican senator who accused President Barack Obama of "religious hypocrisy" is typical, calling on him to condemn the photo with the same harshness he used against the film profane for Muhammad.
In an interview granted to the "Times" critic Maggie Nelson, author of the book “The Art of Cruelty: an estimate", disagrees with director Michael Haneke's view that art, reflecting the cruelty of the world, "rushes the viewer into independence". She said characteristically: "I like it when artists face the unmanageable consequences of their work instead of trying to hide it behind press comments “my job is not hard, the world is cruel”. Artists are not moralists or psychologists. I'd rather admit that, depicting shocking or violent behaviour, we always raise tough questions about voyeurism, the sadism, masochism and erotic arousal and that these challenges are not always under the control of the artist".

Turn to conservatism
In an earlier interview with "Vima" Jan Fabre discerned a more general shift towards conservatism. "Ten years ago I participated in a festival and if someone left in the middle of the show, the people in charge said: “a, something important is happening here, something new”. Now they tremble at this kind of reactions of the people. They are afraid of bad reviews, the impact this may have on grants or private sponsorships.'.
For Fabre the term challenge is identified with the enlivening of the mind. "However, I never intended to provoke, to create a scandal" he said in the same interview. "I'm just talking about things that interest me and it just so happens that some people get provoked. But that is not my starting point. Often people are quick to label anything provocative,what they don't understand, The,what they can't put into a category or something they don't want to deal with seriously, to contact him. But no serious work of art begins with the intention of provoking".
British opera director Graham Vick has also seen a turn towards conservatism in recent years, another "terrible child" of the European scene. On the occasion of his debut in Greece a few years ago, he himself confessed to "Vima" that he has suffered many personal attacks from time to time and keeps folders full of hate messages.
What meaning does he give to the words "risk", "challenge" and "scandal"; "Risk is the driving force. The challenge makes me narrow minded, while I find the scandal useless. I'm usually called provocative when I don't mean to be. I want to have one in front of me “bet”, but it is not in my intentions to create scandals…».

From Roosevelt's rage to the "broken" kiss
What was the most shocking moment in 20th century Art?; With this question, the "New York Times" conducted a poll among its readers as part of a wider related survey. The results brought the first place exhibition "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum on 1999 (the then mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, threatened to cut off funding if he did not "take down" the work of Nigerian-born British artist Chris Ofili, which featured a portrait of the Virgin Mary "adorned" with clippings from porn magazines and elephant feces), in the second Stanley Kubrick's "Ringed Orange" and in the third "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky, the premiere of which the 1913 there was a huge scandal.
In the opinion of many, this last event in conjunction with the first Exhibition of Modern Art in the USA, which drew the ire of former President Theodore Roosevelt a little earlier, created a new "cultural manifesto" by reducing shock to cultural value.
That the challenge as such does not guarantee artistic quality is of course clear and the Greek public has similar experiences. In a production of "Rusalka" a few years ago at the Lyric Stage, the reactions to the Prince's much-discussed gay kiss turned an admittedly bad production into the season's talking point., which even managed to exceed the borders of our country.
On the other, the "cutting" of the kiss between a nobleman and a servant imposed by state television in the first episode of the BBC serial «Downton Abbey» just a few days ago, constitutes yet another case of censorship and even on the occasion of a subject that has certainly long since ceased to be a taboo.    

Source : tovima.gr

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Outlaws directed by John Hillcoat, in the cinemas

Odeon presents John Hillcoat's new film with an original title «Lawless» and the Greek translation "Illegals"which will premiere in Greek theatres, on Thursday 25 October 2012.

After the hard and pessimistic "The Road", Australian John Hillcoat tackles the historical novel "The Wettest County In The World" and tells a true story set in America during the Great Depression. The Tom Hardys (“The Dark Knight Rises”) and Shia LaBeouf (“Transformers”) play the Boudurand brothers, producers and smugglers of illegal whiskey. Co-starring Gary Altman and Guy Pearce, while the cast is completed by Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska. The script was written by musician Nick Cave.

In the era of Prohibition, the Bondurant brothers are a legend in Franklin State, Virginia. Having survived the Great War and the Spanish Flu, they indulge in whiskey smuggling, also called moonshine because it is traded under the light of the moon. But the arrival of Police Officer Rakes from Chicago turns things around – and while the whole State submits to his new and corrupt regulations, the Bodurands bow to no one.

The Director
Director John Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia 1961 and grew up in Canada. He has directed music videos for artists such as Siouxsie and the Banshees, Depeche Mode, Placebo and Nick Cave. The 1988 is directing his first feature, το “Ghosts Of The Civil Dead”, for the screenplay of which he collaborated with Cave and is based on the life of the criminal and later author Jack Abbott. Follow it 1996 "To Have and To Hold" starring Cheki Karios, and 2005 "The Proposition", again scripted by Cave, starring Guy Pearce, Emily Watson and Ray Winstone. The 2009 the dramatic film "The Road" made a sensation, from Cormac McCarthy's book of the same title, starring Viggo Mortensen. "Illegals" was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival.

Source : culturenow.gr
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Accept – Greece 2012 The triumph is repeated!

Thursday 18 October – Fuzz – Athena
Friday 19 October – Principal/Mill – Thessalonica

Ticket pre-sale has started 20 months after the triumph, sold out, their appearance in Athens, the German Gods of heavy metal return for two history-making concerts.

"Accept appeared on Gagarin's board as a well-oiled Teutonic machine, causing delirium of enthusiasm with the familiar side effects of crowd surfing and other noble concert institutions …this was a live epitome of the genre."
(Metal hammer)

“It might read graphic, but those who did not manage to attend lost a life experience that they will probably never live again in our country. Accept simply, without fanfare, they delivered lessons in pure standard heavy metal, constantly reminding them why they belong to the elite.”
(Rocking.gr)

It seems unbelievable but it is 100% true that this legendary band continues to this day to inspire the admiration of both old and new fans of heavy metal, proving with every appearance the quality and timelessness of his music. Having just released a new record, the “Stalingrad”, Accept is coming back for a concert that everything shows will be unforgettable.

The roots of Accept can be traced back to the late 60's when the then teenage Udo Dirkschneider (voice), Michael Wagener (guitar) they form Band X, who after some time change their name to Accept. Their professional career begins in 1976 with the addition of guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes to the band. The 1979 release their first self-titled album, followed by the following year “Ι’m A Rebel”. Until that time Accept were playing hard rock with a strong AC/DC influence in their sound, which will change with their next release, the “Breaker” (1981), in which the band hardens its sound and acquires its own musical identity.

With the “Restless And Wild” (1982), Accept are already in the elite of the world heavy metal and present rough, aggressive yet melodic heavy metal that stands out from Udo's growling vocals and Hoffmann's guitars that clearly flirt with classical music. Three discs will follow, the “Balls To The Wall” (1983), “Metal Heart” (1985) and “Russian Roulette” (1986), works that giantize the band's name around the world and contain some of the most classic songs of the heavy metal epic of the 80s.

After the “Eat The Heat” of 1989 in which Accept appear with singer David Reece the band breaks up to regroup 4 years later with its original singer and a series of records that will bring them back to the fore. They are the “Objection Overruled” (1993), “Death Row” (1994) and “Predator” (1996). The band will retire for a few years and return 2005 for a series of appearances but the full comeback will take place on 2010  with the amazing Mark Tornillo as the singer and the album “Blood Of The Nations”. A work that received rave reviews, it was loved by the world and brought Accept back into the limelight.

The band's new album titled “Stalingrad” was released a few days ago showcasing the band at their peak and making fans anxiously count down the days until they can once again see them live on stage performing their immortal material.

Ticket price – The pre-sale has already started:
Athena: 32 euro (same price at the box office on the day of the concert)
Thessalonica: 30 euro (same price at the box office on the day of the concert)

Points of sale:


Athena:
In all Public and Ticketservices (University 39, Pesmatzoglou Gallery) 


Thessalonica:
Musicland (Metropolis 102)
Online Sales or credit card purchases: www.ticketservices.gr


Source : rocking.gr

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"Feathers" made seven paintings by a billionaire from a Dutch museum

Among them works by Picasso, Matis, Monet and Gauguin

Seven paintings, among them works by Picasso, of Matisse, of Monet and Gauguin, were stolen on the night of Monday to Tuesday from the Kunsthalle Rotterdam, as the Dutch police announced today.

“This morning seven works of art were stolen from the Kunsthalle in Rotterdam. After the permission of the owners, police can now release photos of the works", the police said in a statement.

The burglary took place at approx 03:00 (04:00 Greece time), according to police.

"Police are interviewing potential witnesses and reviewing CCTV footage", the police statement adds, which points out that “according to the first evidence, it appears that the burglary was well prepared".

The works that belonged to the great Dutch collector and billionaire Willem Cordia, they were on loan to the museum for the anniversary 20 years of the Triton Institute. The billionaire's collection has been exhibited in the past, but it was the first time that all these works of supreme historical importance and great value had been exhibited together in an exhibition entitled “Avants Guardes: The collection of the Triton Foundation”.

According to information the robbers “they were waiting” these works quite some time, and the fact that they were all exposed together made the robbery very tempting.

The works are "Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, "The Woman Reading in White and Yellow" by Henri Matisse, "Waterloo Bridge" and "Charing Cross Bridge" by Claude Monet, the "Woman in front of an open window, the fiancee' by Paul Gauguin, Meyer de Haan's 'Self-Portrait' and Lucian Freud's 'Woman with Closed Eyes'.

"An investigation has been launched and experts are on the scene", said Patricia Wessels, Dutch police spokesman. "We are looking at how (the perpetrators) managed to enter' the museum, Wessels pointed out, "what time and who committed this theft".

Source : protothema.gr