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    Cleaners from Venus/Martin Newell

    I don't know where to put this, so it can have a new thread.

    https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/events/upstairs-planet/

    My friend's film about Martin Newell and the Cleaners from Venus is showing at Norwich Arts Centre on Thursday, there will be a short set from Mr Newell and interesting DJs. Last time, Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants) turned up and played a set. (I was plucking up courage to tell him how much I loved Weekend, luckily I didn't, as that was his former bandmates' band and not his.)

    Anyway, it's a great little film, I've seen it twice and loved it. Martin Newell played a set at the Regent's St Cinema showing and it was quite special.

    If any CfV/Newell fans can't get to Norwich, make yourself known and I'll give the heads-up next time it's playing. (Kicking myself for not inviting DM to the showing at the Horse Hospital, I think she'd have liked the evening.)

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    The Gist was Moxham's post-YMG band - they had a catchy single Love at First Sight and a patchy album Embrace the Herd, which I have somewhere. Their best track was the seductive instrumental Greener Grass on the NME C81 tape. I also have a Moxham solo album Cars in the Grass, but it's so long since I played it that I can't pass fair judgment (I bought to for $2, so it's possible I played it once and then forgot about it). He's one of those artistes where you just want him to keep re-producing something as good as his masterpiece, in this case Colossal Youth, but he never comes close.

    The only thing I know about the Cleaners from Venus is from the chapter in Giles Smith's book Lost In Music when he was briefly a co-member. I've never knowingly heard anything by them/him, which is odd because it's exactly the kind of thing I probably would have been into in the 80s.
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      This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10lwpQ8rwk

      Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me. Coincidentally and quite randomly, it's one of my neighbour's favourite records, although he's not remotely an indie kid.

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        Originally posted by MsD View Post
        This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10lwpQ8rwk

        Ilya Kuryakin Looked at Me. Coincidentally and quite randomly, it's one of my neighbour's favourite records, although he's not remotely an indie kid.
        My favourite David McCallum anecdote is when he's talking about the entire cast of The Great Escape being seconded to tie bits of cotton onto string to imitate enough barbed wire for the Swiss border scene put together to allow Steve McQueen to do his motorbike thing.

        (One day, I'm sure, he'll clear that fence.

        After all, he's had enough practice)

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          #5
          I recommend this lovely film to anyone interested in DIY/indie pop, online for 2 weeks only.
          https://www.docnrollfestival.com/doc...txPRj1M2qK8uVo

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