So it goes. :( A track from Redpoint’s Protect & Survive album - ‘Lonely Water’ - was inspired by the film.

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

If you're feeling stuck, read this You're not broken. You're just far from home...

Love this. It’s not about getting closer to nature. It’s about accepting we ARE nature. open.substack.com/pub/jamesluc...

I do hope you’re going to Munchmuseet, young man.

Pulp - The Day Before You Came (ABBA Cover) in the Radio 2 Piano Room YouTube video by BBC Music

When we visited Stockholm a while back, each lift in the hotel played a different Abba song, and I insisted on waiting for the one that played The Day Before You Came. That's how much I love this song. And I think Pulp just made the definitive version.

Ohhh amazing. And what a song - and still so strange that it wasn’t on The Visitors which is ace. One day I will write a 200,000-word Knausgaard-type novel based on this song.

Can you start a Cultural Snow subreddit or something? I always enjoy the posts but would love somewhere to talk about them that’s a bit livelier than Blogger.

Yes! I enjoyed your Cultural Snow blog on that - and also the one on Uncut (although I was expecting the twist would be the Hopkins soundtrack got 10/10 and it was next to a full-page ad). Also, you called him Jon Wilding and not Jon Hopkins but I can see why.

Looks great. I’m there. Thanks for the recommendation. :)

DOLLIES

My family are shit at getting ready - used to get annoyed and shout. Now I have a todo list and get small jobs done in the time between us supposed to be leaving and us actually leaving. Today I shaved my balls before a dog walk.

Yeah, that’s horrible and tabloidy. Like ‘butchered’.

To paraphrase Jeremy Hardy, his grave will become a urinal for right-thinking people everywhere.

Seriously just starve this narcissist of attention.

Nailed it. Narcissists don’t care if the attention is positive or negative, as long as they get it.

Wow. I love the way the music shifts around, mirroring the story - curious, delirious, tense, crestfallen. Great find!

Viz

On a darker note… Holy shit.

This is one of those books I don’t want to end. I want the 6-episode documentary version, the podcast remake, the limited edition cassette with 151 extra tracks. It’s a flawless tribute to Richey’s epigram (‘music and words came first’). Bravo @keithcameron2.bsky.social 🙂 #manicstreetpreachers

Yes! The best stink bomb trick was to burst one on a shopping centre escalator so the stench just kept travelling around and around. Optimal emanation.

I know what you mean but some things just catch you. And he sort of rewrote it with Late Night, Maudlin Street which is a monster.

Phew. Nicely done! But I’d put in a strong shout for Back To The Old House (acoustic from HoH). It’s a bit soppy yeah but that acoustic guitar is gorgeous, and that line still catches me - ‘When you cycled by/Here began all my dreams/The saddest thing I’ve ever seen’.

He never really knew what drugs weEre.

Ohhhh yes. Quite a joy to get two iconic football moments in the space of four days. (Along with Rio).

GARY NUMAN - Music For Chameleons (Jim'll Fix It, 20.03.1982) YouTube video by 3Disco

Finally, one of the weirdest music TV clips - as discussed in our episode with @simonprice.bsky.social - has resurfaced.
Gary Numan on Jim'll Fix doing Music For Chameleons while a haunted child circled him slowly in an electric car with torches for headlights.
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The Beatles’ Let It Be film is back and as depressing as ever — even if this time it’s for different reasons It's here at last: Let It Be the motion picture, dead duck of the canon, unavailable for more than half a century, to no one's great dismay. On its original release, this dim and rickety film, which n...

"Soon the Beatles will pass from living memory, and everything they did for the post-war world will seem obscure and irrelevant, having to be explained to children like the jokes in Shakespeare."

Wow. Taylor Parkes never misses. This is great.

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Nice. :) The RedMen TV live-watch is a beauty. (“He’s a child and he’s scored the winner!”)

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Bravo, sir! I want to have your babies for this. I’m sure Mr Neil K would approve too…