fredthe3rd wrote:

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You could start a Pulp walking tour!

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 I guess that's kind of what I had in mind. I don't know how you'd go about populating Google Maps with points-of-interest (without paying any money anyway), but certainly if we had somewhere were we could go to add such sites in graphical form, a 'Sex City Tour' would gradually take shape... and it'd be a beautiful thing...

The vision in my head, outside of the purely practical, is to simply do the song justice. It's more a matter of finding the right photo and of a good enough quality. It's being done on the cheap but I wouldn't like it to look cheap. I still wanna be staring at the stars while lying in the gutter.

I hope you'll allow me a 'lol' at that. The wall wasn't that high and I was trying to squeeze the camera inbetween the gap betwixt top of fence n razorwire and caught my finger. If the council ever bothered to trim the trees it wouldn't have been a problem. At various other times I climbed over the wall onto the bank to take pics, you're not really supposed to do that either. But there was never art without suffering; someone must have said that once. I'm a big boy and I can swim, although to be honest the water's only a few inches deep! It'd be the drop from the bank that would kill me.

Hi, I've been lurking around here for a while, I used to have an account on the older version of this forum.

Having read this thread, if you're after images of the river underground and a few sites, you might want to take a look at this urban explorer website: 28 Days Later forum

There's some huge drainage system running under Sheffield (dubbed the megatron) which people often wander down to take pictures of,

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Just search for Sheffield for some interesting views or Megatron for the huge underground drains.. not sure if it's really what you're after for this video, but it might help :)

Oh there's several. The river does run through a concrete culvert at the end of Queens Road before a traffic island, on Suffolk road it runs through a narrow concrete channel but in front of the station and not near any particular traffic island and in the Pond Hill candidate the photo is facing the worng way; there is a concrete channel at the other end of the exposed section of river (currently undergoing some intense building work. Cue amused glances from Sheffield workmen as I appear to photograph them yesterday) but once again in front of the station and quite a way from the huge traffic island. My personal fave is the culvert at Queens road. It has been built up somewhat recently and the traffic island there has been replaced. So...take yer pick! I know about megatron, the issue is that that section of tunnel does not correspond to anywhere in the song geographically. Also, we're talikng about two different rivers here in these concrete channels and in fact there are five rivers in Sheffield all of which conflate to become one river in the song.

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The Queen's Road one looks pretty good. From space, anyway. It's a lengthier stretch and perhaps more worthy of a visit by the narrator in the song. Also, maybe saying it was "after the Leadmill" refers to its proximity to the venue rather than being a reference to an event that happened there - an early Pulp gig, for example. The more you think about it, the more likely Queen's seems.

saw119 wrote:

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I know about megatron, the issue is that that section of tunnel does not correspond to anywhere in the song geographically.

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 Sure thing, but even so there's generic river talk "flowing through dirty brickwork conduits" and "on for miles and miles" etc. :)

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Might be more suited for a homage to Firestarter rather than Wickerman 

That's an interesting little article that, I remember reading it at the time. What strikes me though is that the Porter is little more than a trickle by the time it reaches the Midland station and doesn't get much bigger for it's entire course all the way up to Forge Dam, maybe he means the Sheaf? Went to the exact spot where Jarvis lived next to the river Don the other day, warehouse is gone but you can still trace his journey all the way to Tinsley Viaduct. It's a wonderful trip!