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Around that time I used to help with the production of a women's newsletter in Manchester. It was literally a cut and paste job where the editor would stick hand typed, hand drawn or hand written stuff from the contributors onto A4 paper, then photocopy it onto the cheapest paper available, or ream ends of odd colours that we were given. I had the lowly job of helping to collate and staple the pages together.
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Just seen it, really think it adds to the song, and successfully (further) mines what James once said about that particularly Welsh melancholy that seems to rise up out of the hills themselves. Plus the oldish chap with the beard who crops up briefly twice is writer & actor Boyd Clack. Very fondly thought of in South Wales but probably little known further afield, I highly recommend his autobiography 'Kisses Sweeter Than Wine'. I have been told on good authority that he 'smells very strongly of male cat.'
There's yer gossip.
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Anyway it seems that they just followed the girl on the video?!
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I love it, emotional, beautiful and totally captured the mood of the time. Made me cry too.
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I preferred Rewind the Film tbh, but it's a good one even if I can't relate in anyway with the subject matter beyond the fact that my great grandfather worked the coal mines in Ireland and Scotland and died fairly young due to the affects of 'black lung'. Not an industry anyone in my family laments for.
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I've never cried at a music video before, I don't know what happened but I just went. I'm not Welsh and was born years after all the miners stuff and yet... Just, wow. I found that incredibly powerful. The bit when all her lights went out was amazing.
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That was just..... ouch.
A really weird sensation as it brought back so many memories. For info I grew up in a village a few miles outside Sheffield. I was only a mere teenager when all that was going on, and was going out with a miners' daughter at the time. Its odd as I've only ever really thought of that time as being bitter and just plain awful. It was pretty heartbreaking at the time. I didn't really understand at the time why my mum kept inviting the whole family round for dinner and why they kept coming round but never really seemed to be pleased about it (I wasn't the most observant of 14 year olds - took a while to sink in that they had fuck all to eat at home). They really were shit times, yet weirdly watching that has kind of changed my perception, not sure how yet.
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Sorry for being a bad manics fan here, but have they announced when it'll be released? The single itself that is.
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november 25th i think
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Looks like iTunes only Pre-order too.
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http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2013/...e-kieran-evans
Following his excellent promos for Rewind The Film and Show Me The Wonder, Kieran Evans delivers more brilliant work for Manic Street Preachers - this time for the bands next single Anthem For A Lost Cause. Its another moving and poignant piece, this time dealing with the struggle and impact of the Miners Strike in the 80s. Evans' promo is woven with archive footage from the time (supplied by South Wales Womens Group and Swansea Womens History Group) and features a superb cast headed by Tori Lyons - delivering an emotional performance. FROM THE DIRECTOR KIERAN EVANS "After Show Me The Wonder, we started talking about extending the story into the ’80s and about bringing in something more political. It was the era we all grew up in and the backdrop for what was really a modern British civil war. "The heroic battle that wives of miners and the women's support groups waged against an oppressive state hell bent on destroying their communities should be an inspiration to all. They represented the very essence of true socialist principles; collectivising and organising themselves not only to protest against the huge injustice they suffered at the hands of Thatcher but also to feed, clothe and support their fellow workers and families. "In some small way we wanted to bring a sense of this history to the promo and shine a light on the heroic women who took on Thatcher and her thugs. We should never forget their struggle".
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