Lots of planets have a North

Watched the Royale Family swansong last night , sniggered a little and wept buckets over Nana’s death. K says it’s all too much like experimental theatre for him, there’s no real plot just excerpts, each ending in a song. It’s really a musical. But we both loved that Terence Davies film Distant Voices, Still Lives, which was similar in subject and the use of music (at least that’s how I remember it and the aerial shot of all those umbrellas) but with a far more cynical view of the former. So maybe it’s more that what it depicts is a generation distant for me, not unfamiliar but not a direct experience. Not too close for nostalgia.

(  Happiness is a mashed gun  )

One of the tracks is a blend of Yellow Submarine and That’s All, which reminds me to rec obsessive24’s Lois and Clark vid to the Genesis song. Deceptively simple, cleanly edited vid but it really captures the heart of the first season of the show when the UST was jumpin’ and the chemistry between the actors was high.