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Interesting article here about a new Ken Patten documentary - showing at Sheffield Docfest but there's some kind of link at the bottom of the article to a stream - looks like it's available until Wednesday 29th June.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/27/studio-electrophonique-the-sheffield-council-house-that-became-a-pioneer-of-rock-recording



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Gah, missed this! Was going to stream it today but they took it down at midnight.

Don't suppose anyone saved it?

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Good article on it:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62001264



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And another. Posted in another thread but relevant here.Anyone in/near London, note the October screening in Dalston

https://tomronan.co.uk/2022/07/27/all-aboard-a-journey-to-studio-electrophonique/



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Eamonn wrote:

And another. Posted in another thread but relevant here.Anyone in/near London, note the October screening in Dalston

https://tomronan.co.uk/2022/07/27/all-aboard-a-journey-to-studio-electrophonique/


 Might go to this. I'll see nearer the time though.



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Anyone here going to the Barbican screening tonight? Still tickets available: tickets.barbican.org.uk/choose-seats/1107602

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Yeah, thinking about it. You?

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I'm working. Kind of irritating since I had last night off. Well if anyanyone is going have a lovely time.

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So did anyone actually go?

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Yes, it was a charming homage to Mr Patten.

A filmmaker and a musician who calls himself after Ken's "Studio Electrophonique" try and uncover as much as they can about the man and his home studio. Talking heads included Jarvis and he had the best anecdote about how Patten told the young Pulp how he had come-up with the idea of making vocoders out of toilet-roll tubes.
There was old footage of other bands he recorded (ABC and Human League) but in terms of Pulp content, just the audio of the song What Do You Say? 

Considering the lack of studio footage from the time and the fact Ken died over 30 years ago and kept a low profile, they did well to track down family and put together enough material to get a 1 hour doc out of it. Sean Bean, who lived just down the road in Handsworth, does a nice intro and outro voiceover.

Kind of in the vein of the Made In Sheffield films. Veterans of a scene talking about it with slim pickings in the way of original, source material. Worth a watch and fair play to the chaps who made it on a shoestring (ie an old iPad).



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