Been thinking about this a lot. Loved seeing what was in there but wasn't really enough for my liking. I actually wondered whether it was the Death Goes To The Disco video as there was definitely some footage of swirling fairground rides mixed in and the song was listed on the credits despite the fact that I cant remember hearing it.
Yes, DGTTD was playing in the background. That and the fact it was ropey VHS quality makes me think it was from the video to that song, rather than the 'raw' footage of the concert.
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Hmm...less chance they will throw-on footage of that concert as a DVD extra if that's the case.
I thought all the archive footage looked grainy - was that deliberate? The TIH performance from Later for example is pretty clear on youtube and on one of the Later compilation DVDs I have. Does modern HD digital recording make everything earlier look so old when placed together in the same film?
The choice of old videos was interesting, I wonder why they opted for Babies from the Brixton '95 video. Babies had nice background visuals at the reunion shows (the milkshakes, stripey socks, lips etc. looped from the '94 promo) and would have looked good I thought.
I guess there wasn't much more archive stuff as the band and Florian were clearly eschewing the ''VHS Story Behind The Music" format which they mentioned in the Q&A disinterested them. A few little clips like they did put in provided a bit of context, the rest, as they said, you can find on youtube etc.
-- Edited by Eamonn on Monday 9th of June 2014 01:17:57 PM
SD material can be upscaled of course, but HD will always make the former's flaws very obvious. There was definitely what I can only describe as a low-resolution 'line' effect added to some of the footage, the Hardcore filming for one. The Brixton '95 footage looked very soft and fuzzy, and the DTNH looked atrocious as always, although given its origin I imagine that's probably the best quality available.
one thing that struck me about the old footage that was shown was the conspicuous absence of any Russell. The only time he appeared was in tin foil I think. I couldn't see him in that '95 Babies clip from Brixton.
Yes, there was already one slightly uncomfortable question during that Q&A about why the film wasn't made by a local Sheffield film maker... the woman seemed to completely miss the point that it was Florian's film and he approached Pulp!
Yes, there was already one slightly uncomfortable question during that Q&A about why the film wasn't made by a local Sheffield film maker... the woman seemed to completely miss the point that it was Florian's film and he approached Pulp!
that really annoyed me! She'd heard the story of how the film came to be made, surely?!
The little section in that NME article last week, that I finally laid my hands on in Strensham services on the way home, is very strange: "It's best if we don't say anything", then Steve waffling on about not flying, but even so, admitting that that was a convenient cover for the real reason. Russell said originally he was quite taken with the idea of winning over festival crowds who had no idea who they were and presumably saw some sort of artistic merit and challenge in that. So maybe he just felt that had been achieved and then, you can imagine him giving them some kind of grief about it just becoming a commercial exercise and like when he left the first time all over again etc., etc.
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