Buried in this National Post piece about Jack White’s new Nashville recording studio/record store and new band The Dead Weather (with Raconteurs Jack Lawrence, and Dean Fertita, and The Kills lead singer, Alison Mosshart) is a speculation that the White Stripes documentary, “The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights” is expected to appear at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (actually the Post says “close out” the festival, but closing films generally are reserved for big name films with movie stars, so we can only assume they mean “play on that last Sunday of the festival” when everyone has left, aside the people of Toronto).
The doc was shot on the Stripes 2007 Canadian tour, where they played a gig in every province and territory. A tribute, White says, to his Nova Scotia roots. White says about the tour, “I always thought it was an untapped frontier. We booked a show in every province and territory and we found out that no Canadian band had done that. It was great to be part of a new frontier there for a minute or two.” This must be the film that White referred to in this Self-Titled magazine interview we noticed back in April. White also appears with Jimmy Page and The Edge in this summer’s guitar-god rock-doc, “It Might Get Loud,” which played at TIFF last year.
In addition to launching the film, White is also touring this summer with The Dead Weather and working on a new White Stripes album and possibly a solo album. Anyone wanna place bets on the TIFF thing?
