Icebraker & BJ Cole to perform Brian Eno's "Apollo"

An announcement about a space music concert:

Icebreaker with BJ Cole perform
APOLLO: For All Mankind
with NASA footage
music by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Roger Eno

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, plus national tour
15 and 16 September 2010, 7.30pm
QEH Tickets: £18.50, £16, £14 (plus concessions)
www.icebreakerapollo.co.uk

“moving and sublime” – The Guardian

This September, pioneering ensemble Icebreaker and formidable pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole bring their critically acclaimed performance of Brian Eno's album Apollo to the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, London. At the QEH, Icebreaker will also perform extracts from Michael Gordon's electrifying Trance [parts I & IV] and David Lang's Cheating Lying Stealing.

Widely regarded as Brian Eno's best and most influential ambient album, Apollo was written for Al Reinert's documentary on the Apollo space missions, For All Mankind. Music from the album also appeared in the films 28 Days Later, Traffic and Trainspotting. This show returns the music to its original conception - as a counterpart to NASA footage from the Apollo programme, which is projected on a big screen above the performers - matching the mesmerising beauty and tranquil mystery of the moon and earth, and the dizzying scale and ...