40th birthday parties should be pretty special, and they don’t come any more special than the recent 40th anniversary celebrations for New York’s Anthology Film Archives who put together a sterling line up in honour of the experimental cinema and the legendary film maker and occultist Kenneth Anger, which included the Virgins, slamxhype favourites Sonic…

Two of the world’s most important names, in my opinion anyway, got together in 2006 to create history. Julian Schnabel and Lou Reed combined in their own ways to create BERLIN. Staging Berlin has been discussed for over 30 years and in December of 2006 it became a reality. Berlin was said to be one…