The 2006 James River Film Festival featured Hotel X performing a live original soundtrack to a Harold Lloyd film (The Eastern Westerner) from 1920. Gary Lucas performed his live soundtrack to some Surrealist short films, and then joined Hotel X for a set of their tunes.
Tim Harding composed the song Shona Shimmy especially for this film and the song has since joined the regular repertoire of Hotel X performances.
Gary Lucas blogged about the event a few days later:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006
Love Not Given Lightly
Left Richmond on Monday in a state of euphoric elation...the Saturday night gig went so well, a big crowd in a large old fashioned rock club (not a typical venue for surrealist films soundtrack contemplation admittedly) responded vocally, wildly to my performance, then the jam with the excellent Hotel X went off without a hitch, and quite thrilling it was for me to sail and wail over such tight horn-driven tropical hotdog grooves, very nice guys too particularly Tim Harding and Ron Curry...before the gig a cool bbq at Prof. Mike Jones lovely abode with a multitude of film profs from the surrounding hinterlands assembled under one roof with various other friends of the James River Film Festival including James Parrish, one seriocomical moment occurred when one of the DVD prints I was scheduled to play to was found missing at the 11th hour, in a case of mistaken assumptions, but a last minute raid on a the local university film library produced the desired copy of Rene Clair's "En'Tracte" on DVD and my many many man-hours of preparation of my designated solo guitar score proved to have been worth it in the end (but what me worry, I was ready to improvise to whatever they had to throw on the screen)...
Tim Harding composed the song Shona Shimmy especially for this film and the song has since joined the regular repertoire of Hotel X performances.
Gary Lucas blogged about the event a few days later:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2006
Love Not Given Lightly
Left Richmond on Monday in a state of euphoric elation...the Saturday night gig went so well, a big crowd in a large old fashioned rock club (not a typical venue for surrealist films soundtrack contemplation admittedly) responded vocally, wildly to my performance, then the jam with the excellent Hotel X went off without a hitch, and quite thrilling it was for me to sail and wail over such tight horn-driven tropical hotdog grooves, very nice guys too particularly Tim Harding and Ron Curry...before the gig a cool bbq at Prof. Mike Jones lovely abode with a multitude of film profs from the surrounding hinterlands assembled under one roof with various other friends of the James River Film Festival including James Parrish, one seriocomical moment occurred when one of the DVD prints I was scheduled to play to was found missing at the 11th hour, in a case of mistaken assumptions, but a last minute raid on a the local university film library produced the desired copy of Rene Clair's "En'Tracte" on DVD and my many many man-hours of preparation of my designated solo guitar score proved to have been worth it in the end (but what me worry, I was ready to improvise to whatever they had to throw on the screen)...