A wooden cabin by a lake in the middle of rural Ireland. A freezing midwinter morning. Four musicians are in the living room. A bass guitar wobbles between two alternating notes. A complex drum fill crashes for half a bar, then stops. Two atonal synthesiser stabs, each from a different keyboard. From somewhere else in the cabin, a man's voice moans: "Again." The musicians go through the cycle again: bass wobble, drum fill, synth, synth. "Again," the voice wails, from a different room. Bass, drum, synth, synth.
I'm watching the band play on a monitor from the room next door, huddled with other technicians out of shot. The man shuffles past us and shouts through the wall: "Again!" Bass, drum, synth, synth. He is wearing a giant fibreglass head with big blue eyes and a severe parting painted on to it. The technicians are trying to keep their faces straight. The man opens the door and pokes his head into shot: "Again!" Underneath the head is Michael Fassbender, though at this stage, it can't be proved.
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/24/michael-fassbender-frank-sidebottom
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