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You can read an interview (by Peter Hollo) about Icarus with Ollie Bown and Sam Britton in the latest issue of Cyclic Defrost, Australia’s quintessential (and only) electronic music magazine. The magazine itself is available to download for free here.

You can get a copy of the new Icarus live album: "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds" here.

Martin Hampton will be screening a film from a project he’s been working on for the past few months about memory loss, called Gentle Oblivion. In his words:

“It’s a portrait of my half sister Jacqueline, who since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 6 years ago, has lived more or less alone in the mountains of Provence. The stigma attached to the term Alzheimer’s Disease invokes fear and panic. As life expectancy continues to rise at a rate of 5 hours a day it becomes ever more probable that we will experience dementia ourselves. But if we treat this gradual slide out of reason as a natural phase of life, perhaps as the symmetrical counterpoint to infancy, might we become less afraid to plan for, and more willing to adapt to, the life changes it demands?"

Gentle Oblivion – a film by Martin Hampton – duration 35mins

Friday April 9th and Saturday April 10th @ 9pm

Cinema Space,
Shunt Vaults,
20 Stainer Street
London SE1 9RL

020 7378 7776

Short edit of film ‘Strecken’ by Britt Hatzius featuring ‘Spin’ by Ollie Bown and Lothar Ohlmeier. Screening at Cafe Moskau, Berlin in July 2009.

The new Icarus live album: "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds" is now available! You can get a copy here. Australian tour dates here.

An epic occurrence: Icarus are playing some shows in Australia and to celebrate, Martin Hampton has edited some of the superb film he made for the live set to a new track called "Uke ‘Em" which you can see above.

On March 25th, we’ll also be releasing a live album entitled "All Is For The Best In The Best Of All Possible Worlds", recorded during the Sylt Remixes shows last summer to co-incide with the tour. The album features almost entirely new material ("Uke ‘Em" is one of the tracks featured), worked up over the course of the tour and will be available as a limited edition numbered CD and mp3 download. Watch this space …

Icarus – Antipodean Tour 2010

March 25th: Canberra (The Street Theatre) with Shoeb Ahmad, Reuben Ingall and Luke Penders

March 26th: Sydney (Bon Marche Studio, UTS) with Jon Hunter, Shoeb Ahmad, Jordan Bryon

March 28th: Melbourne (The Toff in Town) with Infinite Decimals, Ross Bencina, Casey Rice (DJ set)

(And an extra Melbourne show on March 31st brought to you by Audio Actions).