Tibet Film Festival and Wolfmen Team-Up

The Tibet Film Festival pitches up in London today, running until the end of July, before taking a tour around the UK.

Films, readings and occasionally live music performances (more on that later) will be hosted at select venues across the UK’s capitol city including the ICA, Riverside Studios, Roxy Bar & Screen and Ritzy Picturehouse

What can you expect on the menu? New films themed around twin topics: environment and music - from young and emerging Tibetan, Indian and women filmmakers.

Showing at Riverside Studios on Monday the 5th is Nmgyal Lhamo’s award Paradise Lost - this powerful music video featuring Tibetan opera singer Namgyal Lhamo is full of compelling imagery and movement that stands as a metaphor for the plight of her homeland, with an unusually striking combination of traditional Tibetan music and indie rock. Music written, performed and produced by The Wolfmen

Preview screenings and introductions take place tonight at Cinephilia West (doors open 8:30) but it will be busy, so get along early.

The full festival rundown is available here – with all information, dates and details available at the Tibet Film Festival website.

The Wolfmen's World Cup Anthem.

Getting into the whirl of World Cup mania, did you know The Wolfmen field a selection of international players - Italian, Greek, Austration and American are all represented in the group lineup.

And how about this Wolfmen walloper for the 2014 World Cup anthem? If you fancy a grabbing a copy you'll find Room 103 on the B-side of Wak That Bass

Asia Major

Friend of The Wolfmen Daler Mehndi, has been bigging up the band in his blog Bollywood Bhangra King Daler Mehndi .

We may not be familiar with Daler's name or work here in the west, but in his home territory, Daler is a larger-than-life legend. A giant icon of popular music with multi-platinum album sales and a string of music awards to his name. Imagine an Elvis Presley/ Michael Jackson hybrid given a Bollywood a go-go make over and you're close to the towering scale of his stature and following.

Internationally Daler’s Hindi-Pop compositions draw a dedicated global audience, and have him regularly touring across the continents including Canada, the US and UK. Self composition, mixing and matching musical and cultural references are facets of Daler’s unique style, but his snappy fashion and eye catching oufits have also earned him Elle magazine’s "Most Stylish Person in Music" trophy

A dazzling example of Daler’s boundary-breaking, chart-topping, cross-pollinated pop is Two Eyes, a storming power house of Indie-Punk meets Hindi-Pop and a Mehndi-meets-The-Wolfmen collaboration,which, spent Four weeks at number one on the BBC Asian Network Chart. But don't just take our word for how hot Two Eyes is...

BBC Radio 1's Bobby Friction: “The greatest crossover song ever to have come out of India.”

Music Week: “The most infectious Asian crossover single since Punjabi MC’s Beware
of the Boys.”

Big Cheese: “The shape of punk to come?”

The Guardian: "Things this single could soundtrack: Delhi street gangs squaring up
and backflipping across futuristic rooftops in cyberpunk parkour; camel-riding
insurgents outrunning fighter jets, missiles and Airwolf in a desertscape; 1977 punk
rockers bogling, breakdancing and krumping in Bollywood; afterburners igniting.
Daler Mehndi is one of India's biggest musicians, the Wolfmen were once Adam's Ants,
and this fierce bhangra-rock crossover rules. Fire up!"

If you haven’t heard it yet – taste test below. But be warned it is fast, furious and fiery.

You can catch Daler's thoughts on working with The Wolfmen here - see a gallery of the get-together here

And check out the official Daler Mehndi website

So You Wanna Hear Some New Tunes?

Friends of The Wolfmen The Dandy Warhols have embeded the Courtney Taylor-Taylor mix of a minty new Wolf-tune Wham Bam JFK on the DW website. 'The record is fantastic' - is the official verdict from Courtney himself - but click on the link to hear this galloping piece of pop-rock 'n' roll for yourself

WAM BAM JFK - Courtney Taylor-Taylor mix

And if you haven't grabbed a listen of Cat Green Eyes yet - set to be the second single, preceeding Married To The Eiffel Tower's release - check out the recent podcast Podrophenia from Piley and Mondo - where Chris makes an appearance at 29:45 introducing 'Cat'

Podrophenia - Rock 'n' Roll Animals

I Am A DJ, I Am What I play *

Radio plays for new and vintage Wolfmen tunes continue appear on domestic and worldwide radio shows.

On the UK's most listened to station - BBC Radio 2, Jackie, Is It My Birthday? has been hand-picked by presenter Alex Lester for his inclusion in his exclusive Lester's Library collection.

While back in the USSA Little Steven's Underground Garage show have been hitting Needle in The Camel's Eye with a run of heavy rotation and officially labelling Needles one of The Coolest Songs In The World

* It's a pop quiz - which Bowie song is this line lifted from?

Make A Date

Nmgyal Lhamo friend and collaborator of The Wolfmen has a couple of upcoming live dates to pencil in your Rock Date Diaries

You can catch Namgyal at the UK Sunrise Celebration Festival, in south Somerset - 'Sunrise' starts today and runs until the 31st May

Followed by an appearance at the Inauguration of Tibet Night at The Melkweg Amsterdam. An evening of events attended by the Dalai Lama , and taking place on the 5th June

Namgyal's album, due out at the tail end of this year, features co-writes with The Wolfmen on three tracks.. including the award nominated Paradise Lost

Wolfmen International

Just in case you may have missed them, some very postive ravings and wolf-whispers have working their way around the web..

Bobby Friction (pictured stage left above) has been keeping George Lamb's seat warm on the 6 Music breakfast Show this week, and spinning 'Thieves and Liars' (a Daler Mehndi & the Wolfmen collab').

Bobby has previous form in bigging up the Wolfies on his shows...
" The Wolfmen have got pedigree, a full-on pedigree. I’ve been playing them on Radio 1 but – you know what? – f*** pedigree, they’re an amazing band and they’re going to take you somewhere else musically..."

While the good people at American Label Burning Sky Records have been spreading the Word of The Wolf

UK superband The Wolfmen’s amazing cover of Brian Eno’s 1973 glam classic “Needles In The Camel’s Eye” is going to appear on our upcoming release Take Refuge In Pleasure: The Songs of Roxy Music Revisited as one of our “Roxy Progeny Revisited” Bonus Tracks. It is a fabulous cover of a fabulous song.

The Wolfmen have also created a stellar video to go with the song - Identifying the references you may recognize is fun in and of itself, and the whole effect is really rather staggering. You have to check it out!



And if you happen to be one of our inter-continental readers based in South America Modernity Killed Every Night is now available in your corner of the 'globo'

Best Of Breed

The second 'Asian Hot Shots Berlin' festival of film and video art is underway and runs until the 18th January, with one of the entries 'Chang Yare/Paradise Lost' being soundscaped by our very own Wolfmen.

Namgyal Llhamo's music video 'Chang Yare/Paradise Lost' is just one of three tunes written, performed and produced by The Wolfies (with mixing from Steve Musters) for Namgyal's upcoming album 'Highland Supernova'..

Why not have a peep at the Namgyal's nominated film below, which also stars Hollywood tattoo artist Poh Khungsa....



You can check Namgyal's Myspace here.. - and get some info on the film right here

Closer to home - Modernity Killed Every Night has been handpicked as the album of the year for 2008 over at Start The Revolution...

*NEWS JUST IN* - you can vote online for Namgyal's entry in the 'Mixed Magazine World Music Awards' right here