Let's explore the hinterlands of Britain through the medium of the pop video

Wanna wander through the nowhere zones with me? I just watched the video below and it occured to me that maybe these sorts of places have been documented a thousand times over by a hundred amateur film makers and maybe the odd pro slumming it too and i just want to see more of it tbh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztJLQ7ALXg
The Shrubs - Another Age (1988)
Location: ????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbQbfUCAH8
Kissing The Pink - Mr Blunt (1983)
Wilmington Hill, East Sussex

bookmarked <3

related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NplXP6uPo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUEcG1moF-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVcB-qX9Ke4

xp oh perfect! reminds me that Donald's brother Derek of Factory labelmates 52nd Street also went for a wander in the countryside in this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUmx-zqoB4U
52nd Street - Can't Afford (1984)

Someone's got to recognise that viaduct i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vCpT1H7u0
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria

guessing it's near Sheffield somewhere?

That ACR video, I'm guessing, might be up in the Pennines somewhere?

I feel like every C86 band should have one of these squirrelled away on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QV7PXg1hLs
Talk Talk - Dum Dum Girl (1984)
Eddlesborough, Bedfordshire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwbFKKJMIW0

XP "trousers right?" Love that video

I feel like every C86 band should have one of these squirrelled away on YT

100%. Here's hoping anyway!

god I love that Cabaret Voltaire video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cocmk9Hdor4
Real Lies – Dream On (2022)

bumping for the weekday crew, new answers please

I think this from the 52nd street video

https://i.ibb.co/wQ53j4c/Screenshot-2024-11-04-at-11-44-20.png

is here

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.7597171,-2.0080715,3a,75y,267.2h,76.96t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2Us-Z4MSNgYQ3m-35xpL0A!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D13.03867834320323%26panoid%3D2Us-Z4MSNgYQ3m-35xpL0A%26yaw%3D267.19995660414077!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://i.ibb.co/PcRS752/Screenshot-2024-11-04-at-11-53-36.png

These look like the Tinsley cooling towers with M1 in the foreground, demolished pre-streetview

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AFCR4W/tinsley-cooling-towers-and-the-m1-motorway-in-sheffield-south-yorkshire-AFCR4W.jpg

from the cabaret voltaire

oh fantastic! My idle daydream is to have a clickable map of all these places so you could launch the videos as you navigate across it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkSUAj4BEac

Crowded House - Locked Out

In which Melbourne’s finest purveyors of jangle pop take us on a tour of *checks notes* the backstreets of Treherbert at the top of the Rhondda Cynon Taff valleys.

Although anyone from there would kill me for posting that in a thread about England tbf

Was gonna post the Freak Scene video, but I dunno if The Membranes' back garden and living room in Blackpool necessarily counts.

My friend from Leyland always claimed that was at Ajay's from the Dandelion Adventure, or at least it was his pink fisherman

Although anyone from there would kill me for posting that in a thread about England tbf

I won't tell them if you don't! Fab video btw, never seen that before

As for the viaduct, this would be my guess

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.7273863,-2.1232029,3a,90y,6.66h,98.17t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sylPd9hYbR9f-fmKwROPH0g!2e0!5s20180801T000000!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-8.170000000000002%26panoid%3DylPd9hYbR9f-fmKwROPH0g%26yaw%3D6.66!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205410&entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTAyOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

There's a path underneath, and then to the left the fencing is possible similar

XXP - Hah interesting, I wonder if it's in Robb's book.

Always wondered where this beach was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq8pqVN4ITk
Wolfhounds - Cruelty

might even be Rottingdean near Brighton looking at that windmill

Only a few shots in this one, I feel like that car park might be the St Georges Centre in Harrow but that's a very wild guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VmnqUTbeI

must be loads of rave era videos like this, scruffy herberts from one club towns going wild in the not quite country

xps to cherry blossom

I knew that was the monument near Hebden Bridge/Todmorden, straight off. It's a massive fucker, visible from Halifax as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fX0UbpZls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D2qcbu26gs

The music video for "I Wanna Be Adored" was made concurrently with "Fools Gold" for the American release of the single in 1989; hence the videos share similar visual effects and scenery. The videos were both filmed near the A57 Snake Pass between Sheffield and Manchester, in the same location that Inspiral Carpets used for the video of their song "This Is How It Feels."

Horrific landscape in the second half of this, the ruins of commerce soundtracked by the ruins of music. outer london somewhere, probably now buried under a retail park.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLrVKGLig9U
World Domination Enterprises- Hotsy Girl (1987)

More Yorkshire hills... but where?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__R3K0ttLHE
The Mekons - Hole In The Ground (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwtRs2XqfF4
Skeletal Family - Promised Land (1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-IF0sr2zhQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a50KwHUAXo

^ guessing that's scotland somewhere?

Ah yeah Nick I didn't realise, which is doubly bad as I'm from the same area

tbh ive got no idea why i put england in the title, i just made a trap for ourselves

*cues about 4 Shop Assistants videos*

well so long as we’ve ventured into Scotland, here’s the beta band rollicking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8fE0LQ_jXQ

Also, is this England in Charlatans “then” video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHeYPEQGf8

^ guessing that's scotland somewhere?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barshaw_Park

There's not exactly a lot of other green spaces in Paisley!

aha!

have asked the mods for a change in the thread title - scotland, wales fill yer boots

there we go

thread is making me wish there was a music video for "Poptones"

A jaunt round the canals of Warwickshire with Eyeless In Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri-arERZino
Eyeless in Gaza - New Risen (1983)

same vintage, no idea where this is but i like to think that Eyeless were passing by down below while Tracy was tagging the bridge...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ZyKPTNIPY
Everything But The Girl - On My Mind (1983)

Big Country, "In a Big Country", in which the lads get up to all sorts in the countryside AND on the water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkr_2G3Jlko

The Tubs keeping the tradition alive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MDLKzwwZo

well so long as we’ve ventured into Scotland, here’s the beta band rollicking about

that is actually England in that video, it all looks like it's filmed in Wiltshire down in the southwest - the big hill is Silbury Hill, the neolithic burial chamber is West Kennet long barrow, and then they drive through the village of Avebury later on

ilxor Westbury White Horse to thread svp

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Wait, scratch that, I've just clocked the reg plates on the cars. That's non-uk

looks like the eiffel tower is in there too! :D

enjoyed the tune though

haha put me on geoguessr now

hehehe! would actually love Geowizard to have a go at some of these for real

Big Country, "In a Big Country", in which the lads get up to all sorts in the countryside AND on the water!

Had honestly never seen this before and what a treat it is! Why did no-one give them their own daytime tv show for that stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMqPlQgHww8

wow, another one i'd never seen before! tim pope gone all tarkovsky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqtqi9MCX8

Julian Cope Laughing Boy

Near Tamworth

XP - Tried to find out where it was filmed, Pope says he found the fisherman, named John Button, when he was near Rye, but idk if the video was actually made there, so lovely and bleak.

bidfurd that was great, very transportive, thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLruiHP8U8
Eurythmics - Never Gonna Cry Again (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IpBRMm_QAg
Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing (1984)

what beach is that?

^ what i really like about that video is that they obviously couldn't be arsed carrying the drumkit down to the sand so they left the drummer on top of the cliff instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCvs2w_Mjeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IpBRMm_QAg
Prefab Sprout - Don't Sing (1984)

what beach is that?

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Monday, November 4, 2024 8:15 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

A lot of scrolling through the comments eventually gets Marsden beach.

oh cheers for that! and indeed that columnar sea stack matches up with the pictures - it's Lot's Wife, poor girl!

Marillion - Heart of Lothian, although filmed in west London rather than Lothian itself probably because it was cheaper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkyZhlK8Q0

man just couldn't get a ride, maybe a fish needs a bicycle after all

Jane - It's A Fine Day. 1983 seems to be the apogee for promo clips filmed in Shit Britain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vgcYBwyw28

oof that's oppressively drab! late 70s sunday night tv drama vibes. maybe it's 'Wings' that i'm thinking of specifically? i do like that song though, i bet Edward Barton has a bunch of other things that would fit this thread

thinking about it, some of Barton's stuff was kind of like the Richard Dawson of his day, and speaking of which...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-Ktpvc
Richard Dawson - Jogging (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBvEIUv80k
I feel vagely embarrassed posting this as it's from my youtube channel but it's the only place you can see this music video that BBC Scotland made of my friend's band on the beach in Edinburgh back in 2006

too obvious?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvUS0zDTowc

Not a music video, sorry, but the sequence from 24:50 onwards here sums up my British Hinterlands experience better than anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IgL8iCkg6Q

The outdoor scenes in Loughborough, peppered throughout this are kinda delicious, plus it's one of the greatest documentaries ever made ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUKvV42ouKA

Superb thread. Never seen that ACR video before and I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p_BvaHsgGg

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

A gritty ‘slice of life’ reportage, documenting the mean streets (and fields) of West Kington, Wiltshire

The outdoor scenes in Loughborough, peppered throughout this are kinda delicious, plus it's one of the greatest documentaries ever made ;)

As a 50-year-old man from Leicester who spent a fair bit of time in Loughborough 89-92, it gets me every time. The purest record of East Mids loitering. Shane Meadows could never.

Maybe deeper Fall heads can turn up other things (you'd think it's their turf) but the Cruiser's Creek industrial estate/building site seems closest to remit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pem02CWn4Do

Eat y'self Fitter springs to mind but I bet there's a bunch

Nothing from perverted by language bis is quite right imo - too many interiors (+ football ground for kicker conspiracy).

(but it is the perfect VHS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8q14frWQ-U

Buxton, Derbyshire, shot across two days.

The Kane Gang monkeying around pre-gentrification Newcastle quayside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGffrSPt5k0

Fair few glimpses of hinterland mixed in with car park business and finally some none-more-85 views across Gateshead (?) in Hurrah!’s “Who’d Have Thought?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWq323Fhd3g

Haha xpost a favourite spot for Kitchenware video people I guess.

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Youtube comments seem to confirm that it's hinterland icon the Get Carter car park (Trinity Square)

The Parachute Men - Leeds Station, presumably at erm, Leeds station.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x2Fv6EGFXA

scars on the ouskirts of edinburgh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcJ_L9z2Xs
Scars - All About You (1981)

Trying to work out if the location in the Hurrah video at 1’31 is to west of Tyne Bridge looking north to Newcastle or east and looking south.

don't know if anyone ever listened to the band Way Through but they are very much *this thread*. this is them exploring the ghost villages of Salisbury Plain...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpU02Og4rT4
Way Through - Imber & Tyneham (2013)

The Very Things - The bushes scream while my daddy prunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA7qOnnpnuM

Not sure about location, think it might be Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire.

god I love the Very Things, thanks

This John Grant video was filmed around Grangetown, Cardiff, a lot of it is one street over from where I used to live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFWpbb_NqE

Nothing from perverted by language bis is quite right imo - too many interiors (+ football ground for kicker conspiracy).

― woof, Tuesday, 5 November 2024 21:06 bookmarkflaglink

this is right imv. trying to drag up memories from Shift Work and Holidays which iirc contains some Lake District action in the weird bit 'Pearson's Revenge'.

I'm hesitant to post this as everything about it screams archetypal fall shoddy and the worst vhs rip i've ever seen, but looks like it might qualify albeit in a v limited way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F-dqX7GbuQ

great thread btw!

re Very Things - shame the Cravats never made a video for Precinct but the single sleeve picture is the Shend in front of the Kingfisher Shopping Centre in Redditch

The start of the Cruisers Creek video feels like the North Circular but nothing solid

Got curious and this thread places the pub they're playing in front of as the Ravenscourt Arms, Hammersmith, and then goes on to put the rest of it in Wandsworth:

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thefall/cruiser-s-creek-notes-and-queries-t6019-s50.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWPk7OOcHLQ

xxxxp that John Grant video also appears to be filmed in one of my old ‘00s DJing haunts, Clwb Ifor Bach :)

Inverpolly, more Beta Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okKnDaewuC4