AXEMEN "Drink For The Heart..." (c.1985) by Lawrence Lens

Probably the peak of Lawrence Lens's celluloid involvement with AXEMEN is this quasi-instructional film "Drink For The Heart, Heart For The Road", the soundtrack of which is the McCabe ditty of the same name. The "how to" theme of 1985's "Screen Printing" is carried over and combined with priceless historical reportage, and hallucinatory fantasy scenes at McCabe's pad in Christchurch. His school boy beginnings as a backyard brewer, have by this stage developed into there being a constant supply of 1.5litre (3 pint) "sleek botts" bulging with murky liquid amphetamine (a.k.a. coffee wine). Occasionally due to fancy, budgetary constraints, or experimental urges, frozen free-flow carrots, peas and corn were also utilised. But it was the "Chateau de McCabe" coffee wine which jump-started the boys after a pre-gig snooze on the dance-floor during the previous act, and powered them through many glorious gigs up and down the emerald isles.

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