Search - Ed Hamell :: Rant & Roll (W/Dvd) (Dlx)

In August 2007, Ed Hamell traveled to Scotland to take part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one of the oldest festivals for new and outsider performance art. A week of performances ensued, from which Three Weeks raved, "The man may very well be a genius. Obscene, outrageous and brilliant." Recorded on CD as The Terrorism of Everyday Life and captured on DVD as Rant & Roll, this deluxe edition proves that Ed Hamell has much more up his sleeve than an extra guitar pick. The CD, based upon his award-winning theatrical show The Terrorism of Everyday Life, and the Rant & Roll DVD are fast-moving, often-hilarious celebrations of the day-to-day life of a journeyman musician. Equipped with a guitar he strums like a machine gun, a politically astute mind that can't stop moving and a mouth that can be profane one minute and profound the next, Hamell sets his sights on some classic subjects (sex, drugs, rock and roll) and some personal ones, too - his relationship with his father, and Hamell's nearly fatal car crash. Rant & Roll mixes live footage from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland (where he received a coveted Herald Award) and at Ani DiFranco's Babeville in Buffalo, NY with on-the-spot interviews, tell-it-like-it-is road footage, DIY animation and Hamell's own cartoons. The film is as unique as the man himself.