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Thread #113358   Message #2409124
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
09-Aug-08 - 05:15 AM
Thread Name: A Taste of English Culture
Subject: RE: A Taste of English Culture
get Scott Walker to sing it

The fact that Scott has not only made England his home but also defined many key points of Englishness underlines the universality of Englishness as a concept, showing how wonderfully subjective it might be, once we get away from those who assume they know what Englishness is! Those anthemic self-penned ballads from his early solo albums are indicative of the same England Saint Etienne are still singing about, and even his recent work is about as English as it gets really...

Meanwhile, here's a wee film I made some years back in which Scott's We Came Through was serendipitously found to last the exact same time it took to ascend the Holy Jesus Multi-Storey Car park in Newcastle upon Tyne:

First the Production Footage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqf3TRP7XYs

And the finished article:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_ktTtAZfV4