Psylons Run To The Stranger Promo 1986 Version 1 and Version 2

 

Run To The Stranger Promo 1986 Version 1 and Version 2 

This film has not been seen by anyone, including members of the band for forty years. Only recently turning up in a box from a loft. Getting the single together had been our goal and had given no thought to any wider outlet for it than the Radio and Music Press. With a single of the week in the N.M.E leading to the Peel session and a rapidly arranged distribution deal (Revolver in Bristol) the record entered the indie chart at number 21. With the possibility of it rising in the chart we were asked if we had a video to go with it. We had not. Fortunately we had an association with the College of Art so were able to rapidly arrange the use of a studio and edit suite. We didn’t have time to over think what we were doing so the result is a classic ‘lazy mime” backed up by our usual stage lighting. The edit suite offered all the visual effects of the 80s era, but the only two effects added were a touch of 8mm film and a tube of coloured lighting gel held in front of the camera. A few takes were edited about resulting in its Lo/fi fuzzy psych feel. The sound was never broadcast quality and has now been finished. We put it together within a week but ran out of steam when the single dropped out of the Indie Chart. We were pleased with the result at the time but out attention was drawn towards the release of a follow up single. The Run to the Stranger tape was never marked up for easy identification and after being passed around the band the only VHS copy went into a box to be lost for forty years, only ever having been watched by a handful of people. So we are pleased to present to you a 1980s curio, which we hope you will enjoy as much as we have enjoyed finding it and seeing it for ourselves. The Psylons wish to thank Sean Nye for Camera work and editing, Mike Snarr for Lighting and Sean O’Connell for the transfer from the original VHS to Digital. Cheers Chaps

West Country Tales

 West Country Tales was an early 1980s anthology supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in by viewers in response to a BBC appeal. Of the hundreds of letters received, 14 stories were selected and turned into TV scripts. Some of the actors who appeared in the series included Nanette Newman, Jenny Hanley, Anita Harris, Milton Reid, John Abineri, Wendy Richard, Tom Adams, Jack Watson, Keith Barron. Unfortunately of the 14 stories only nine seem to be available. The missing episodes are Tell It to the Marines, Sarah, The Little Bounder, The Healer, The Sabbatical. In some ways this series was perhaps a forerunner of programs like Channel 4's recent series True Horror. The episode called The Visitor tells the tale of A mother and her daughter who live in a remote cottage. One day they receive an unwelcome visitor whose intentions may or may not be malevolent.This is an interesting tale which could have almost been written (but was not) by Robert Aickman. In places this story does have the pace and feel of some of Aickman's short stories, some of which always seem to leave you feeling slightly undecided and unsure but always wanting to know more. If you can track a copy of the series down it is def worth a purchase. But I should add that the quality of some of the episodes on the DVD are quite poor. (I should mention I did not buy my copies, they were a gift from a friend, so do not know where they were purchased from) There are a few episodes of West Country Tales on YouTube