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

xp
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?

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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)