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“If it’s a funeral, let’s have the best funeral ever” is the tagline for ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ the chronicle of the final stop of the final tour of LCD Soundsystem; Madison Square Garden on April 2, 2011. This movie will run one night only — Wednesday, July 18 — and the Providence the venue will be the Cable Car Cinema.
Watch the trailer and keep an eye for out local fave Gavin Russom who played keyboards and synth on that last world tour. (We wrote him up at the time of his appearance on the Colbert Report on February 2011 during this tour.) Gavin is dressed all in white . . . because he’s a good guy. Look for the jaunty white cap.
Wired Magazine reviewed the film:
The film begins when the final LCD show ends. “We just pulled off a high-school play at Madison Square Garden,” says Murphy. The next thing we know it’s the morning after, and we are in his bedroom, where Murphy and his French bulldog are waking up to a new world: One without LCD Soundsystem. The film brilliantly juxtaposes shots of the morning after (and days before) the final show with the concert itself, moving through the set-list and the day after seamlessly, interweaving shots and creating an engaging editorial narrative.
Shut Up and Play the Hits‘ central dialog comes from an interview journalist Chuck Klosterman conducted with Murphy. The questions are fantastic, yielding fantastic answers and a deepened insight into Murphy.
Gavin of the white cap has many friends and fans around these parts, and people like this band . . . and the Cable Car is not a huge theater . . . and this is one night only . . . just sayin’.
$9.25, 7pm, Wednesday, July 18, Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main Street, 272.3970