Arctic Monkeys, The Beatles and Patti Smith head the music line-up for this year’s Raindance Film Festival.

Running from October 1 – 12, the festival now in it’s 16th year, will host a special event with Sir George Martin’s son Giles in aid of the London premiere of All Together Now, a new film charting the creation of The Beatles/Cirque du Soleil collaboration, Love.

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The Arctic Monkeys new film, Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo, also gets it’s London premiere, directed by The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade.

Patti Smith: Dream Of Life and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (who is alos on the Raindance judging panel)’s basketball documentary, Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot will also receive their UK premieres.

In the cinema strand, there’s also premieres for Choke, the Chuck Palahniuk adaptation starring Sam Rockwell, and Flick, starring Faye Dunaway.

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For the full Raindance Festival programme please go to www.raindance.co.uk

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