The Jerusalem nightlife scene goes prime time with Submarine TV
First, there was the Srugim phenomenon. Then, in May, Channel 24, Israel's answer to MTV, broadcast live from Zion Square for a good part of a month. Now Jerusalem is once again making waves on national television.
A new music documentary series, Live from the Yellow Submarine, to air on Israel's Channel 1, will feature live performances by Jerusalem-area bands at the Yellow Submarine, a long-time hub of Jerusalem music. The 10-part series, to be moderated by Hadag Nachash's Shaanan Street, himself a Jerusalem resident and active promoter of local music, will consist of live footage from the Yellow Submarine stage interspersed with 10 minutes of documentary-style background on the band their sound.
Bands on the line-up include hipster favorites Coolooloosh and Cham Umechamem Boom and songstress Tamar Eisenman, whose January 31, 2010 (with Kitzo) performance closed out production of the series.
For Eisenman, fresh off the release of Gymnasium, her latest album, the initiative has been particularly poignant. "Every time I appear at the Yellow Submarine, it's very moving for me because such a large part of my musical development took part at the Yellow Submarine. I did my first show there when I was 15 or 16. I grew up musically there. When I was in school, the Tzolelet (Yellow Submarine in Hebrew) was where we rehearsed. It was like a second home for us, a musical home. To this day it remains a house for young bands, a house of music - all different kinds of music. For me, this program is helping to highlight the role that the Yellow Submarine plays in the Jerusalem music scene."
As Eisenman relates, "Every person contains a bit of the place they come from within them. So artists from Jerusalem contain a bit of Jerusalem. Here in Jerusalem, the music is not on every corner like it is in Tel Aviv. Its more closed, more internal. The scene is definitely developing here and what is being created is very important but for better or for worse, it's more modest in a way, less exhibitionist, than in Tel Aviv. That internality gives it depths and leads to innovation. I think the Yellow Submarine is a major part of that and this program will highlight the different sounds being made here in Jerusalem."
The Channel 1 broadcasts of Live from the Yellow Submarine are scheduled to begin airing on Thursday nights at 22:00, beginning with Michael Greilsammer's episode on July 15.
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