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Hold Fast – Colin Macleod

Posted by LSFF on August 6, 2021 British, colin macleod, Music, musician, surf music | HOT NEWS, News, Uncategorized

We’re long time pals of super talented musician and songwriter Colin Macleod. We first met at the London Surf / Film Festival in 2013.  He’d just flown in from a gig in Norway, guitar in hand to support friend and Scottish filmmaker Jim Hope with his premiere at the festival. […]

Never Gave Up

Posted by LSFF on October 30, 2020 jack Bessant, Music, singer | HOT NEWS, News

“This is my journey and it’s as raw as any other person’s,” explains singer/songwiter Jack Bessant, reflecting on his latest solo project Brother Thunder EP. This most recent body of work – which also includes the album Lucky Mountain (August 2020) – have been something of a catharsis, confronting an […]

Translate – The Sound of Surfing

Posted by LSFF on August 21, 2020 CJ Mirra, europe, Music, surf sounds, UK Premiere | HOT NEWS, News

It’s fair to say we’re pretty big fans of super talented composer and musician CJ Mirra. Through his collaboration with award winning filmmaker Chris McClean, scoring more than 20 surf movies, CJ Mirra AKA has confirmed his status as ‘the sound of cold water surfing’.  We premiered their latest project, […]

Original Surf Soundtracks

Posted by LSFF on April 6, 2018 CJ Mirra, Music, musician, surf music | HOT NEWS

We’re longtime fans of CJ Mirra  – his transportive soundtracks and film scores have carried us away to the frigid shorelines of Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, The Faroes and beyond. Ethereal soundscapes, lo-fi guitar excursions and rising orchestral, neo-classical moments summon images of the wild, awe-inspiring surf destinations – anyone who managed to […]

The Reef: London Performance

Posted by LSFF on March 2, 2017 Australia, film, Live performance, mick sowry, Music, tognetti | HOT NEWS, News

An audio / visual delight not to be missed In 2008 filmmaker Mick Sowry teamed up with world renowned violinist Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra to produce the multi award-winning Musica Surfica, a documentary that invited the world to look at the art of surfing in new ways. As well as […]

Jack Bessant with The Cheddar Experiment Band

Posted by LSFF on July 22, 2015 jack Bessant, Music, sounds, The Cheddar Experiment band | News

The boys from StringerBessant  blew everyone away when they played an exclusive set for us at the opening night of LS/FF 2014 so we were stoked to get a call from Jack Bessant about his new project  ‘The Cheddar Experiment Band’ – a beautiful collaboration headed up by Jack bringing his songwriting, vocals, guitar and […]

StringerBessant Gala Gig

Posted by LSFF on October 3, 2014 Music, REEF, StringerBessant, surf | HOT NEWS, News

We are stoked to announce that the mighty StringerBessant will be playing an exclusive set at the LS/FF on Thursday 9th October, as part of the opening night festivities. Gary Stringer and Jack Bessant are the nucleus of the band Reef, and their gravelly, soulful  folk-rock is the perfect soundtrack […]

Colin Macleod // California x Caledonia

Posted by LSFF on March 3, 2014 2013, colin macleod, Music, scotland | HOT NEWS, News

We first met musician Colin Mcleod at last year’s London Surf / Film Festival. Quiet and unassuming, with a flop of brown hair and a salty twinkle in his eye, he’d flown in from Norway, guitar in hand to support friend and British filmmaker Jim Hope and ended up blowing […]

Behind the scenes: Auction for the Promise Club

Posted by LSFF on October 12, 2012 approaching lines, Music | News, Uncategorized

We’ve know AFTPC for quite a while now – Toby the drummer used to manage the surfshop in Aggie, Zoe -on vocals and guitar worked with our friends at Finisterre while Perran’s granddad was a coffin maker who also made some of the first surfboards in the UK. But this […]

Behind the scenes: Matthew P

Posted by LSFF on October 4, 2012 2012, approaching lines, Music, UK Surf | News, Resources, Uncategorized

We’re stoked to have Matthew P play at this year’s London Surf / Film Festival (Thursday 11th October), but our collaboration seemed fated from the get go. While out in Indo last year, Matt was hanging out with filmmaker Jimmy James Kinnaird who was working on a movie called Tracking […]

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