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3 unusual facts about Offbeat


Offbeat

Offbeat generation, association of writers united by their opposition to mainstream publishing

Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip, a compilation album from the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series

Offbeat Guitarist, is a free edutainment music video game in the style of Guitar Hero but with real guitars


Andreas Ulvo

In addition he has "Ulvo Ensemble", and have worked with bands and artists like Shining, Mathias Eick Quartet, Solveig Slettahjell & Slow Motion Orchestra, "Frøy Aagre Offbeat", Karl Seglem and Thom Hell to mention some.

Ek Baar Phir

This offbeat social drama casts Suresh Oberoi and Deepti Naval as lead pair with Saeed Jaffrey, Chitto Chopra, Pradeep Verma, Vinod Pande in support cast.

Mary Badham

At the urging of actor/writer/director Cameron Watson, Badham came out of retirement to play an offbeat cameo opposite Keith Carradine for his film Our Very Own.

Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen

Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchen (Originally titled in Canada and the UK as "Bitchin' Kitchen") is an offbeat cooking show starring Nadia Giosia that used to air exclusively on the Food Network Canada.

Penny Flanagan

In 1997, she contributed an offbeat cover of Kylie Minogue's 'Better the Devil You Know' to the soundtrack of the Australian film, 'Dust Off The Wings' and released a music video for the song that aired on MTV and Rage.

Saint John of Las Vegas

The film, directed and written for the screen by Hue Rhodes (based on a story by Dante Alighieri) and produced by Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci, and Spike Lee, follows an ex-gambler as he takes a road trip with his new partner, an auto insurance fraud debunker, to investigate a fraud, while meeting a series of offbeat characters, including a carnival's human torch, a paraplegic stripper, and a nude militant, along the way.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski

Ed Wood led to a succession of offbeat biopics, including The People vs. Larry Flynt; Man on the Moon, about the short life of comedian Andy Kaufman; and Autofocus, chronicling the downfall and subsequent murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, which they produced.

Simon Farnaby

He is also well-known for his numerous similarly offbeat characters in the CBBC live-action series of Horrible Histories, notably including Caligula and the Grim Reaper.

Sophie Delaporte

In September 2011 Vicki Goldberg wrote about her "Sophie Delaporte is a French fashion photographer who is on permanently good terms with fantasy and a cheerfully offbeat approach. She has a distinctive sense of color, a fabulist's imagination, an edge of surrealism, and a knack for ambiguous narrative".

Space Ranger

The oddities in this and several other offbeat stories is "explained" by crediting them to the pen of Bizarro.

Star Winds

Rhys Hughes reviewed Star Winds and The Pillars of Eternity as "offbeat" but ultimately reworkings of earlier material.

The Pain Teens

The group was signed to King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label for their offbeat yet nightmarish psychedelic music—similar to labelmates Crust and Coffey's band, Butthole Surfers.

Trent Harris

He wrote and directed the offbeat 1991 comedy Rubin and Ed, in which Crispin Glover and Howard Hesseman wander the desert looking for a suitable place to bury a frozen cat.

Trude Eick

She has toured with Ole Bolås and Sigrun Eng (cello), among others, and has at times conducted 'Chateau Neuf Storband. She played with Frøy Aagre's Offbeat at Dølajazz (2007).


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