See Hear Podcast Episode 101 - Interview with Amit Itzcar, director of "Furious And Fast: The Story of Fast Music And The Patiphone"

I'm lucky to live in a town with a great music scene.
Notwithstanding the tough times that both bands and venue operators
are facing in the wake of the pandemic (and the rip-off merchants
who believe that their bottom line is more important than paying
musicians a living wage), Melbourne has always had a healthy music
culture as do many cities around the world. I'm talking about
cities where music venues are plentiful, bands are playing all
week, and punters with a myriad of tastes can find something to
please them. One of those cities is Tel Aviv.   Welcome to
episode 101 of See Hear Podcast.   Tim is still away and
Bernie was running the Rock 'n' Roll Jumble Market, but I had the
company of Israeli director Amit Itzcar. He has directed a great
documentary called "Furious And Fast: The Story of Fast Music And
The Patiphone”. On one level it is a film about an independent
record label (Fast Music) in the late 90s to the early 2000s. This
was a time when there were nearly no such thing in Israel. Linked
to this label was a club on the wrong side of the track in Tel Aviv
that was home to many garage and punk bands. Some achieved
worldwide fandom....some just got gigs at the club. I had to pose a
question about musician Ami Shalev whose wild behaviour made me
think of another musician we've discussed on the show....   On
another level, the film is about the friendship of Amir Schorr and
Jango – musicians both who started the label and the club after
realising they didn't like the control of the major labels. A
familiar tale in your music-loving city?   Amit and I spend
time talking about the bands, the making of the film, and his “day
job” at Tel Aviv Cinematheque....and his role in a number of video
clips for the duo, Lo (Hebrew for “no”). Even if you haven't seen
the film yet, I think there's plenty here you can enjoy about the
discussion.   I send my gratitude to Yaniv Eidelstein who
suggested this film to me, and who was responsible for the English
subtitles for the film. Keep an eye out for it on the film festival
circuit and hopefully, it won't be too long before it gets a VOD
release.   You can listen to many of the Fast Music roster of
artists in Youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOQtVFukqZ_yD6vU8CuvSbQ/videos
(the records are almost impossible to get a hold of nowadays). You
can watch the video clips Amit appears in for Lo at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrg3nKVmQ_TlBOgJoNF36-g ….and just
for the fun of it, here's a Q & A at Cinematheque with Henry
Winkler that Amit tried to
moderate.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBlmVtIx54&t=2377s
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