Lots of planets have a North

[hazelk]

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.



Keeping with the nostalgic Northern theme (well they were from Liverpool) downloaded CCC’s Revolved mash-up and woah head rush, sensory overload. Like David Bowie in The Man who fell to Earth mainlining earth culture on that panel of TV screens. It’s settling out on re-hearing but that first time, brain desperately trying to place all the different stands simultaneously and the memories that go with them. For No One is the staircase of an old apartment building on a French school exchange programme but Close to Me is ten years later in the basement of King’s college. And they put it all together and kept just enough of that wonderful horn solo.



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.

Comments

[obsessive24.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the rec! Ah... the good old days of jumpin' UST.

[aycheb.livejournal.com]

Reciprocally! I used to love that show.