BLACK LIPS: DOCUMENTARY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Film director Bill Cody is appealing for funds to sent the Georgia rock band Black Lips on the road in the Middle East! Using Indiegogo.com, Cody is in the hunt for $35,000 in order to finance travel and equipment expenses for the film, which will see the Black Lips playing shows across the Middle East with various local bands as an example of "cultural bridge builing".

They might be crazy, but The Black Lips are always coming up with crazy ideas! That’s why we love them!

The flick is pitched as "A Hard Day's Night meets Don't Look Back". Hell yeah! Where do I pledge!

Cody, who directed the 1987 music documentary, Athens, GA: Inside-Out, which featured REM and the B-52's as well as working on 2006's Two-Headed Cow , which featured Jack White, Neko Case and Cat Power, has written: 


"I'm now setting out to make the biggest project I have ever conceived of. A bridge building music event through the Middle East featuring the one of the best live acts around, The Black Lips from Atlanta, GA, with help from local acts like Lazzy Lung of Beirut, Lebanon (Esquire magazine's pic for best band in the middle east and winner of Rolling Stone's Middle East Battle of the Bands) and other bands from the region."


Bringing people together instead of pulling them apart. Peace and understanding."



For information on the film, visit: Indiegogo.com/blackliptourfilmME