Colin Newman (Wire, Githead) - B

[shetlandrew]

Do you have the lyrics for this? I can't find them anywhere.

[wakamiya]

fun



[halfcabdisaster7]

My mind is now blown out of the perimeters of space.

[Riicker]

Wow; I wouldn't want to be in his shoes!

[Auxiliofaux]

cornucopia of visual and sounds. Bliss

[fromthecentre]

Superb.

[alguerrero]

Pure Genius@@

[imfpredicts]

I remember this being played on kids Saturday morning show Swap Shop and staring in disbelief at the unfolding spectacle. The video ended and cut back to the studio where the presenters sat in the same open mouthed shock as me and then the normally useless and bland presenter Noel Edmonds delivered the line that still brings a smile "AMAZING, the Nolan Sisters just get better and better!"

[shakedydogshake]

Looks this could have been an early Cure video as well.......EXCELLENT!

[Karvken]

Perfect

[diskochimp]

Is it a Reeves & Mortimer production?

[diskochimp]

Never seen this before, thanks...

[Karvken]

Fantastic...

Brazil likes of Gary Newman

[wooothooot]

the first time i saw this video, my response was what is this shit? since then i've come back to it frequently and have been drawn in by it. the whole thing is just absurd and chaotic, but i think that the point digs deeper (as it usually does in newman's work). personally i think it stands for mental issues in children and how they cant control their minds/themselves. now whenever i watch it, it depresses the hell outta me.

thanks again colin

[MrOoppoddoo]

Thank you.

[SecondsToLast]

Colin: "Basically this video pre-dates MTV and the only place you might have got a kind of music video on was on kids TV. So the basic idea was that the video should have that “lunatics take over the asylum” quality that kids have when they are going crazy. I suspect also that the deep origins of this one were also in a plan I had with Slim (who I was at college with) to re-do the cabinet of Dr Caligari on a bucket full of speed in the college canteen. Of course we never did it!"

[aadamjacobs]

I saw this in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art years ago. I'm so pleased to see it again and see it at all after listening to it for 30 years.

[kallegunderssen]

This is GREAT, sounds like The Associates (A) and this is B :-)

[Sillyzombie666]

THIS IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD/ SEEN

[mrtgvn]

this is a piece of art XD. video tastes like jared hess movies somehow and the music is awsome.

[claudscape]

sounds like an Eno record to me, fantastic !!!

[dlmx13]

Wow, I had no idea this existed. Wicked. I love Colin Newman.

[cm2dude]

One cannot deny that this sounds like a darker Metronomy.

[VJnumber1]

love this clip, love this song. I wonder who made the video, and what they did since then?

[SecondsToLast]

@VJnumber1

I know your post is old, but I thought I'd appease your curiosity anyways in case you're still interested(or anyone else is wondering the same thing), since I've read the story behind this.

The video is the work of Colin Newman himself. He brought in a "proper" director essentially to supervise things, but the concepts, art direction, and camera angles were all Colin's idea to begin with. He's and odd, but talented, cat.

[SecondsToLast]

@VJnumber1

Colin: "Although we used a “proper” director for the video (Rob Smith who was “frontroom”) actually the ideas were pretty much mine. We spent half the budget on making up the oversized Wellington boots which were my starting idea (along side the souwester). Various people either assembled their own kit & costumes or used what we provided (masks, piano shield etc.)

[invisiblemute]

wow

[matsonit]

Man, this video has me in tears.... lol... P