| Maureen |
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Date: Early
1985
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: "It
was a fast song, but when we'd finished we realised that everything we'd
filmed was completely static, so we ended up editing it very fast in an
attempt to make it exciting. It didn't work. It does feature nude torso
shots of all the male members of the band though!" (Jarvis). |
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| Manon |
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Date: October
1985
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: "There
are two versions of this video because we shot it on two separate cameras
at the same time & then found we couldn't edit the two together. My favourite
one is the one shot on an ancient 60's video camera 'cos it looks like it
came from another century." (Jarvis). |
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| They
Suffocate At Night |
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Date: September
1987
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: "This
was a leap into semi-professionalism. It was made by someone who claimed
to have done the lighting on "Chariots of Fire", [although Jarvis
can't be sure...it might have been "Letter To Brezhnev"... and
also can't remember if he was the director or cameraman or anything - Ed.]
which impressed
us a great deal at the time. In typical Fire fashion we could only afford
one roll of film, so he had to keep winding the film backwards &
forwards for different bits of the song. I constructed the set in an
abandoned warehouse across the road from the factory I was living in at
the time. I converted an inspection pit into a kind of sunken bedroom then
filled about 200 freezer bags full of coloured liquid for another bit
elsewhere. For some reason there was a horse skeleton in the building so
that ended up in the film too..." (Jarvis) |
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| Death
Goes To The Disco |
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Date: August
- October 1988
Directed by: Pulp
/ Jean -Phillipe
Notes: "
This was intended as a record of the infamous "Day That Never
Happened " concert. Jean-Phillipe, a French student living in
Sheffield, and someone else whose name escapes me, filmed the whole debacle.
It was then up to me to edit the resultant footage into something
coherent. There was no way that an "in concert" type of thing
was going to work so instead I put the edited highlights over the longest
piece of music we had at the time. It features some stuff I filmed at the
fairground, plus some stuff nicked from National Geographic videos" (Jarvis). |
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| My
Legendary Girlfriend |
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Date: February
1991
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: "
There were quite a few false starts on this one. First we tried filming
something in the room of the East End pub where the Great Train Robbery
was planned (don't ask why). Unfortunately we didn't light it enough &
so ended up with mostly black film. I then shot some stuff of my
girlfriend of the time but then split up with her and became too depressed
to use it...We were now in a difficult position as I had spent just about
all of Fire's massive £200 budget & had nothing to show for it.
"Unchained Melody" was at number one at the time and I liked the
way it used one performance of the song filmed from various angles as the
video. So we decided to try to do something similar in the photo studio at
St Martin's. We blew the rest of the budget on a star cloth
background and I ended up having to make Nick a drum kit out of cardboard because
we couldn't afford to bring the real one down..." (Jarvis). |
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| Countdown |
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Date: June
1991
Directed by: Pulp
/ Martin Wallace
Notes: "
We shot the verse footage on the stage at The Leadmill in the afternoon
& the chorus footage came from a concert we played there that same
evening. Unfortunately, the stuff we had done during the day was badly
exposed and unusable on its own so we had to shoot some extra stuff with
me lip-synching the vocal to mix over the top. It still looked crap so I
shoved an effect over the top which helped a bit. I was coming towards the
end of my studies at St Martin's and so had to edit this at the same time
as my graduation film. This involved the extreme step of hiding in a stock
cupboard in the college so that we could edit overnight after the
caretaker had locked up. It was during one of these sessions that my
fellow editor, Martin Wallace, had to 'go to the toilet' in a carrier bag
as a trip to the toilets would have set off the burglar alarm"
(Jarvis). |
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| O.U.
(Gone, Gone) |
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"'O.U.'
never had a video due to extreme poverty at the time, but we did have some
ideas for it. We were going to construct two giant letters ('O' and 'U',
naturally) and have them revolving whilst we performed the song. Could've
been a classic" (Jarvis). |
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| Babies |
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Date: June
1992
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: "This is probably our most successful completely self-made video and it was
also one of the easiest and least traumatic to make. I had met Selina and
Sophie round at Bob Stanley [of St Etienne's] house and I thought they
would be perfect to play the sisters in the song. I filmed all their
scenes one Sunday afternoon in Tufnell Park. the band performance scenes
were shot in an "infinity room" in a studio in Camden. The
exterior shots were filmed on the Sceaux Gardens Estate in Peckham, where
I was living at the time" (Jarvis). |
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| Razzmatazz |
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Date: December
1992
Directed by: Jarvis
& Martin Wallace
Notes: " We
were due to be playing a couple of concerts in France and so I came up
with the idea of "wouldn't it be great if we could shoot the video in
the Moulin Rouge in Paris?" Imagine my surprise when they agreed to
the idea, the owner even offered to let us use his pet crocodiles! Imagine
my even greater surprise when we arrived in Paris to find they had changed
their minds. Luckily for us, we were staying in one of Jacques Brel's old
haunts - the extremely seedy 'Ideal Hotel' in Montmartre - and in a Cliff
Richard-like flash of inspiration we decided "let's do the video here".
We smuggled all the camera equipment into the hotel & shot over the
course of one day. Then in the evening we went out, just around the corner
onto La Pigalle, and amused the passers by by shooting some lip-sync out
on the streets. We arrived back in England still needing some material and
so gained access to the 'Sunset Strip' strip club on Wardour St at 7am one
morning. We had four
hours to film in before the paying punters would be knocking on the door
expecting "An Erotic Xmas Revue". We just got it done in time.
The interior domestic shots were filmed in Jane Oliver's flat in Camden.
She was working for our press agents at the time, and had been out all
night so it was easy to get the frayed, slightly numbed performance we
were after" (Jarvis).
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Date: November
1993
Directed by: Jarvis
& Martin Wallace
Notes: "Big
budget time. We'd seen this "inflatable environment" called
"Eggopolis" and thought it'd be fantastic to film in it. The
problem was finding a studio that was big enough to fit it in. We
eventually found one at Pinewood next to the James Bond studio. As usual
the day was fraught with difficulties: Eggopolis took ages to inflate, and
the cameramen took even longer to light it, with the result that we only
ended up filming in 2 out of 4 eggs. My good friend and source of much
inspiration, Miss Julie Jones (DD) had a boudoir set up for her shots and
I ended up having to film all her parts in 10 minutes at the end of the
day whilst the crew were already dismantling everything. I left the studio
with a sense of abject failure. I edited the video in my sister's loft in
the middle of November & as a consequence contracted severe flu.
Myself & Martin Wallace finished the video while in a semi coma and whilst
I think we did a good job, it still makes me feel ill every time I watch
it". (Jarvis)
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| Do
You Remember The First Time? (single & documentary) |
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Date: Feb-March
1994
Label:
Island
Running Time:
Documentary: 31.20 mins
Directed by: Jarvis,
Steve, Martin Wallace and Pedro Romhanyi.
Notes: "We'd
decided on "Do You Remember The First Time?" as the next single
and fancied doing something different in terms of the video. I had the
idea of making a documentary about people's first sexual encounters as
well as a conventional promo clip. As we were still in the studio working
on the LP at the time, it was obvious that we weren't going to be able to
make both the documentary and the video ourselves, so we enlisted the help
of director Pedro Romhanyi for the video. I have to admit that our idea
was heavily "influenced" by "Downside Up" which was
made by the British film maker Tony Hill (sorry Tony). The video was shot
on a very cold day in February in Acton, Plumstead & South Kensington.
Our extras included John & Chris, who later went on to form
Menswear. The documentary was handled my myself, Steve & Martin Wallace.
Steve phoned up all the interviewees and Martin & myself converted a
room at Britannia Row studios into a makeshift studio. The interviews were
fitted in whenever people had a spare hour or so, so it was a case of
putting down the guitars for a few minutes, talking to a guest, then going
back to record again...I decided to use my own story as a linking device
and we originally intended to travel to Sheffield to film the actual
location. This proved to be impossible due to lack of time, and it was
looking grim until one night when I was falling asleep on Steve's settee I
had the idea of filming any patch of grass and then making out it was the actual
site of my first time....We premiered both the video and the documentary
at the ICA. I discovered later that night that someone had actually lost
their virginity that very night, a few hours after the screening".
(Jarvis). The
documentary features interviews with Justine Frischmann, Jo
Brand, Terry Hall, Alison Steadman, Viv Stanshaw, Vic Reeves, Bob
Mortimer, John Peel, and Sandra Voe (Candida's Mum). |
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People |
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Date: May
1995
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.06 mins
Directed by: Pedro
Romhanyi
Notes:
Features British actress Sadie Frost and a shopping trolley.
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| Mis-shapes |
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Date: September
1995
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.17 mins
Directed by: Pedro
Romhanyi
Notes:
The people in the disco were members of the fan club roped in as extras.
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| Disco
2000 |
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Date: November
1995
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.55 mins
Directed by: Pedro
Romhanyi
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| Something
Changed |
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Date: March
1996
Label:
Island
Running Time:
3.15 mins
Directed by: Pedro
Romhanyi
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| Help
The Aged |
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Date: October
1997
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.33 mins
Directed by: Hammer
& Tongs; Art Director, John Currin
Notes: The
second part of this, when the group ascend to Heaven, was inspired by Powell & Pressburger's
19 film "A Matter Of Life And
Death".
Island
US sent out a promo video of Help The Aged, This Is Hardcore, and Like A
Friend to US Radio and TV stations around September 1998.
Click here
for stills from the video shoot. |
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The Aged broadcast coverage |
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Date: 27 November 1997
Label:
Island / Media Research Ltd
Running Time:
65 mins
Notes:
Compilation of TV appearances around the release of 'Help The Aged',
October / November 1997
Clips:
MTV News / Big Breakfast - 3 part feature / interview with the group /
GMTV - 3 broadcast versions of a short interview with Jarvis about the La
Monte Young charity concert / London Tonight - same clip / Top of The Pops
- Help the Aged / Big Breakfast - unused footage from the earlier
interview / This Morning - interview with Jarvis / The O Zone - interview
with Jarvis, Nick and Mark / TFI Friday - interview with Jarvis plus live
performance / Live & Kicking - interview with Jarvis and the Help The
Aged video / Top of The Pops
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| Like
A Friend |
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Date: February
98
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.32 mins
Directed by: Pulp
Notes: Like A Friend
features on the soundtrack CD for Great Expectations, scenes from which
appear in the video.
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| This
Is Hardcore |
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Date: February
1998
Label:
Island
Running Time:
6.30 mins
Directed by: Doug
Nichol
Notes:
The inspiration for this video, was a book entitled "Still
Life", edited by Diane Keaton and Marvin Heiferman (Calloway, New
York, 1983). This beautiful book contains photographs of stills and
publicity shots of films produced in Hollywood between 1940 - 1969. All
possess a fantastic, super-real quality, reproduced very accurately in the
Pulp video. Many of the scenes in the video reproduced specific
stills, substituting members of Pulp for actors. Click here
for examples and click here for
stills from the video shoot itself.
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| A
Little Soul |
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Date: May
1998
Label:
Island
Running Time:
3.21 mins
Directed by: Hammer
& Tongs
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| Party
Hard |
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Date: August
1998
Label:
Island
Running Time:
3.55 mins
Directed by: Mike
Mills
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The Trees |
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Date: 9 October
2001
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.49 mins
Directed by: Phil
Harder
Check it out! Windows
Real
Audio
Also available on the XFM
site
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Bad Cover Version |
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Date: 23
January
2002
Label:
Island
Running Time:
4.14
Directed by: Jarvis
Cocker & Martin Wallace
Notes: This
video is a spoof
of the Band Aid "Do
They Know It's Christmas?" record, using lookalikes instead of the
real thing. According to Nick Banks, "It was good fun, what with
nearly 30 lookalikes from The Bee Gees to Kylie, and myself unrecognisable
in beard and wig (Dick Witherspoon, record producer). Kylie sang like an
angel, Keef and Noel put down some great axe, Brian May was triumphant at
the end, Bowie was Bowie, Phil Collins and Macca got a great groove going,
Missy Elliot and J-Lo were 'Street'. Elton kept 'powdering ' his
nose..." The lookalikes are spot on, barely
discernable from their real life counterparts.
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