From S.Norgate-ie4g9922 Sent Wed, Dec 3rd 1997, 17:21
From S.Norgate-ie4g9922 Sent Wed, Dec 3rd 1997, 17:21
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 14:13:54 +0000 (GMT) From: xxxxxxxx@xxx.xx.xx To: xxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: re Come to Viddy My mate got the new Aphex video yesterday and I thought some of you might want a quick review. It's got three tracks (Ventolin mysteriously absent) namely On, Donkey Rhubarb and of course Come to Daddy. On was directed by Jarvis Cocker of Pulp apparently but you never have guessed as it's no where near as interesting as their own videos. It's basically a beach scene in Cornwall with a variety of seaside clutter stop frame animating itself around the place. There's a deep sea diver pottering about the place, a cardboard cut out of RDJ and lot's of repetition. It's very boring and I found myself ffwding to end quite soon (I always preferd the Mu-ziq mix of On anyway). Donkey Rhubarb is a bit more like it with a trio of dancing teddy bears leering all over the place in a variety of settings. One scene has them in a sepia tinted (brown and white) warehouse location, formation dancing like some overweight Take That from a Muppets sketch, other scenes have them walking in an industrial landscape against a blood red sky and another frolicking about with a bunch of primary school kids. Throughout the whole thing there's an inexplicable amount groinal thrusting, even from the kids at one point, which brings in a couple of questions about good taste in my opinion. Finally the moment we've all being waiting for (those of us without eMpTV anyway) Come to Daddy. The `story' is of an old lady walking her dog through some urban desolation next to block of flats somewhere in Britain. When her dog stops to take a piss against an abandoned TV set it receives an electric shock and a demonic face appears on the screen demanding her soul, the track kicks into life and the demon's minions (school kids wearing latex RDJ masks) scamper from their hiding place to run amok parading the TV around, frightening the flats tennants, smashing things up with sticks and generally having a great time of it (much same as any kids on council estate behave really). At one point the track breaks down and we have bit of nursery rhyme "the flowers that bloom in the warmth of the sun/are there to be loved be every one" which I think comes from the track AFX2 which appears on the TVT records Analogue Bubblebath release. This is only a brief respite however as pretty soon the demon in the TV breaks out and a full size, and quite horrible, RDJ demon appears to scream in the old womans face with the force of a hurricane. The kids go wild and gather round the emaciated figure (where did they find someone so ill looking?) and the film is finished. The whole thing has a really grainy quality to it and there's some nice touches like when the sound track filters and distorts the screen goes fuzzy as well. All in all it's worth getting just for Come to daddy and at 5.49 you can't really go wrong. I don't know how available it is, is it limited? But when my mate bought it in HMV they only had one copy so you might have to order. Hope this has been of interest P.S. David Holmes is Irish, in case you're interested. We are the willing, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible, for the ungratful.