The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
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“AIR GUITARISTS” with a difference are being recruited for a film screening of a 1980s classic in Dundee Airport’s departure lounge next month.
The plucky volunteers are hoping to take the audience’s breath away by playing along with the soundtrack to Top Gun at the event, the first of its kind in the airport’s history.
The August 10 screening is part of the Dundee Contemporary Arts-curated Blue Skies Festival.
DCA director Clive Gillman said: “Alice Black, our head of cinema, proposed we do a screening of Top Gun and when we started talking about how we could add a bit of value to that, it went off on a bit of a tack quite quickly and turned into something everybody got a bit excited about.
“We are having to bring in projectors and sound systems, but the airport are letting us use the check-in desk and everything like that.”
The movie’s multi-million selling soundtrack includes Berlin’s No 1 single Take My Breath Away.
Mr Gillman said: “We have done some things in the DCA cinema with silent films and live musicians.
“Everyone associates the whole air guitar thing with that era, so we thought we’d go one better and get real guitars.
“We ’r e still not entirely sure how it will work, but I quite like that edge, it’s exciting. “It will be something that hopefully adds to the dynamic of watching the film.”
Mr Gillman said that the airport embraced the idea of the screening and the plan quickly took off.
He said: “The thing about the Blue Skies Festival is we keep coming up with these things that we want to do and speak to people thinking they will say: ‘What are you talking about?’ and actually they say: ‘Yes, brilliant’.”
Guitarists who want to enlist in the elite squad should email dca@dca.org.uk with the word ‘Maverick’ in the subject line for more information.