The Dodge Brothers @ The Barbican for opening night of BFI British Silent Film Festival

4th June 2009

 

    

"…On the night this slice of supra-realism as screened at the Barbican, its scenes of passionate romance and spine-tingling adventure were fabulously augmented by the tear-jerking or rip-roaring tones of the Dodge Brothers (who are not related, and do not live in Dodge City, but play like they are both)."

Clive Sinclair, Times Literary Supplement 

"The Dodge Brothers swept into the Barbican Cinema on the 4th June, and with their delectable accompaniment to the 1921 silent western White Oak, made the opening gala of the 12th British Silent Film Festival a night to remember. With twangy guitar riffs in the mould of Chet Atkins or the UK’s legendary Bert Weedon, lashings of echo and reverb, and accordion sounds which could have emanated from North Carolina or the Appalachian mountains, their blend of country music captured the essence of contemporary Americana as Oak Miller (played by William S. Hart, one of cinema’s earliest cowboy heroes) battled to right the wrongs done to his sister. It was a triumph."

Robert Rider, Head of Cinema, The Barbican.