Past highlights include a 2004 performance by Black Sabbath, where Judas Priest's Rob Halford filled in for a sickly Ozzy.
Many of the pioneers who laid its foundations are now old men.Celebrating the industry's past highlights the extraordinary impact of their achievements and provides an opportunity for calm reflection in a constantly changing field.
It celebrated with Michael Chaplin's play Tyne, which stitched together past highlights from luminaries including Alan Plater and Chaplin's father Sid, along with a new song donated by Sting.
Past highlights include the premiere of the opera "Monkey: Journey to the West" by the former Blur frontman Damon Albarn and the comic book artist Jamie Hewlett; an exhibition of performance art curated by Marina Abramovic, and a series of stamps, by the visual artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, bearing the portraits of British soldiers who died in Iraq.
Growing in capacity from 400 to 2000 this year, past highlights include the first ever gig by the Ting Tings (2007) and early- career sets by Marina and The Diamonds (2009), Alt-J (2011) and Sampha (2011) You'll see Salford on foot and actually go in a real (and I mean real) live pub.
Three panels, to the north, south and east, showed past highlights: the 1541 "discovery" of the Mississippi by the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto, the 1764 founding of St . Louisby the French trader Pierre Laclède and a 1780 attack on St . Louisby Indian tribes allied with the British during the American Revolution.
Even people who have trouble identifying it as an organization can probably list some of its past highlights: Virgil Thomson's "Four Saints in Three Acts," staged by Robert Wilson, at the first festival in 1996; "Twelfth Night" with Helen Hunt in 1998; "The Peony Pavilion," a 19-hour spectacle from China, in 1999.
This festival has always been a reliable source, and this weekend it will begin another series of monthly screenings of past highlights at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village and — for the first time — at the Bronxville Cinema in Westchester and the Red Bank Art Cinema in New Jersey.
Past highlights include Playfish (acquired, but then shut down, by EA), the once-popular Moshi Monsters from Mind Candy, and Monument Valley from Ustwo Games.
As a presenter, he took on the action/adventure role filled by John Noakes and Peter Duncan in the past; highlights included flying with the Red Arrows and in a World War II Supermarine Spitfire, completing submarine escape training with the Royal Navy, surviving the Bolivian jungle, being attacked by an alligator in Louisiana.
Past highlights include the 2008 World Cup, when the announcers refused to call Moravian College anything other than "the nation state of Muldova" and made calls like, "Wow Jim, I haven't seen them run that fast since the coup of 1973," and "That's another goal scored by Muldova, chief exporter of wooden crates.
