Addictive TV Live @ National Theatre

Voting them number one in their 2004 Worldwide VJ poll, DJ Magazine said of London based Addictive TV "If there ever was a truly ground-breaking bunch of guys in the VJ world, it's certainly this lot." The group of VJs, DJs and producers have been championing the art of the VJ and pushing it into mainstream media for a decade now; performing, producing TV shows such as the seminal DJ:VJ music series Mixmasters for ITV1 in the UK and releasing DVDs (Addictive TV set-up what's acknowledged as the first VJ-oriented DVD label back in 1999), releases have included Audiovisualize, the Mixmasters compilation series and DVD cult classic Transambient.

Criss-crossing both the art and club worlds, they've played at venues from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to Tokyo superclub Ageha. And as VJs, they've mixed live visual sets for artists including Howie B, Andrew Weatherall, Goldie and Fatboy Slim. This year, Addictive TV were asked to be the judges for the VJ category at the 2005 Diesel-U-Music Awards and the Radio 1 / BBC archive "Superstar VJs" competition.

Teaming up with the UK's National Theatre to launch their Watch This Space outdoor strand, Optronica presented the festival organisers Addictive TV performing their new AV show The Eye of the Pilot live on the fly-tower of the National Theatre building. The giant 30 metre projections were visible right across the River Thames and stopped traffic on Waterloo Bridge! With an original soundtrack from Addictive TV featuring live guitar from French artist Alejandro de Valera, the aerial travelogue remixed the incredible 8mm colour archive of the French airline pilot Raymond Lamy, filmed during his global travels back in the 1950s.

Straight after the show, Addictive TV performed a special short AV club set, where The Streets met Elvis, Mick Jagger and the Stones never looked so young and The Italian Job got completely remixed!

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