The busy shop window pastiche becomes a powerful single image. By the time the artwork had bounced back and forward, all the other pictures were pulled out and it got down to the nitty gritty… we were down to a single image!īelow: The distillation process. Dave Balfe’s distillation process took hold again.
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But the thing that jumped out of it all was one of the strongest images which were these greyhounds. From his first notable role as a teenage actor alongside Ray Winstone in the cult film Scum, via the central character of Jimmy the mod in the mighty. The image that we wanted to create was a pastiche of the shopfront with a designed montage of several sports people throwing darts, swimming, horse racing, playing football… all that would be going on as you walked past a betting shop window. Goldie also happens to be an actor and a producer (you may have seen him on. The final album cover image was actually inspired by a shop front window in a William Hill betting office. The eagerly anticipated Parklife arrives in Manchester this weekend and so. The vibe also fitted the sort of London vernacular of Parklife especially with Phil Daniels being involved and injecting a bit of ‘Cockney geezer’ to proceedings.
We had to work with working titles at this point as the band hadn’t yet settled on Parklife.īelow : Unused visuals for the Parklife album The European version of the singles sleeve for Parklife the single Unused visual for the Girls and Boys single.Īs the song Parklife developed, it became such an important song during the making of the album that they decided to call the album by the same name and everything started to gel. I remember there was even a point when they wanted to include ‘London’ in the name of the album. They were saying about how they felt that everything about London was so cool at that time – even though places like Chelsea were really changing. We produced heaps of visuals and photographic references and had a meeting with the band at Maison Rouge in Chelsea where they were recording.
#Parklife actor full#
He wanted London to be at the core of the album sleeve concept. Blur Parklive (2012 Video) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Matthew Amos Cast Produced by Film Editing by Perry Bellisario Additional Crew Ross Sweet. So, it triggered a theme really, and Damon had also read it. He starts to frequent pubs and watch the guys playing darts and he wallows in this seedy world of people enjoying their leisure time with more working class pastimes, unaware that he is a key player in a crime yet to be committed. The narrator is a failed writer who’s from a kind of middle class background, ill and down on his luck, arriving in central London.
His books are generally a bit odd and I’d recently become a bit of a fan. I remember Martin Amis had a book out at the time called London Fields.
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