The Elephant 6 Recording Co. - Film Screening

Free entry film screening & free cup of tea!!
The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
Film Screening plus short live sets from:
Speedreaders, The Leaflets + Troutflies
This is a free event but please confirm your space via See Tickets.

*This is a seated show with all seating unreserved*

We enter 2026 with a gentle gig and film screening at The Crescent, featuring short sets from three of our faves from the local underground Speedreaders, The Leflets + Troutflies.

18:30 - Doors
19:00 - Film Showing
20:33 - Film Finishes!
21:00-21:20 - Troutlies
21:30-22:00 - The Leaflets
22:10-Finish - Speedreaders

Around 1985, a group of high schoolers from Ruston, Louisiana began experimenting with whatever random instruments and gear they could lay their hands on. Moving to other small college towns including Denver, Colorado and Athens, Georgia, their musical coming of age coincided with the new consumer availability of old-school 4 and 8 track recording technology and cassette tapes.

Sharing like-minded sensibilities, influenced by past sounds and psychedelia, and with little to distract them, their efforts to create whole new musical worlds became the bands Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, the Apples In Stereo, Elf Power, the Music Tapes, the Minders, the Gerbils, of Montreal, Beulah, Dressy Bessy, Great Lakes and many more. While the collective grew to a natural breaking point, its founding members overcame obstacles and remained closely bonded, reuniting for tours and still collaborating today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCzXf5ZiE3k

Reviews:

'The Elephant 6 Recording Co." is a vivid time capsule of musical community before the internet, before tape trading became a thing of the past and before indie rock became such a marketable commodity.'
New York Times

'A doc about creativity that quickly caught fire, inspired like-minded others who rallied to the cause...created a special community, a simmering and exciting potent moment of pop/rock/psychedelia experimentation, and one that fizzled out way faster than it should have.'
The Playlist

'A beautiful and deeply intimate look at the collective, as well as a crash course on all of E6's most beloved and influential recordings.'
Grammy.com

'Definitive...captures the collective's whimsical essence'
Stereogum

'Joyous, heartfelt'
Aquarium Drunkard