I'm on the pavement
A plug, but at least a very creative one. On Friday producer Caroline and I finished making our documentary for Radio 4 about the history of the rockumentary. It's called Rockumentary Rollercoaster (for want of a title easier to marker pen onto a sheet of cardboard), and airs on November 13, as far as I know, on Radio 4. Because, among others, we have interviewed DA Pennebaker, who shot Dylan's Don't Look Back (I know, I know, it doesn't have an apostrophe, but I couldn't bring myself to leave it out) in 1965, and use that as our jumping off point, thereafter attempting the impossible feat of covering this fascinating subject in just 30 minutes, it was Caroline's genius idea of finding the exact spot behind the Savoy Hotel where Dylan stood with his cue cards and present the introduction to the show from there. This, we did. (I know it's radio, but you can't fake these things.) Anyway, we took a publicity shot while we were on hallowed ground and this is it. I doubt it'll be printed anywhere else because I'm too small in the shot, but it's a fabulous souvenir. All we knew is that the alley was round the back of the Savoy, so when we found it, it was truly thrilling, just like the first time you see the Abbey Road zebra crossing, or the tenement block from Physical Graffiti in New York, which I once had pointed out to me.
Most people will already know that you can send your own personalised Subterranean Homesick Blues film as a message via the official Bob Dylan site. You can't embed them yet, but here are some grabs of the one I just sent to myself. A fantastic way for us to advertise the show, virally, I guess. Get yours done here.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 12:53 PM
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How's this for a new game? Taking your idea of famous locations from pop history and drawing them against one another in an FA cup style knock out competition.
For example...
Abbey Road v Salford Boys Club
Alley behind the Savoy v Battersea Power Station.
Get the idea?
That little toy on the Bob Dylan site is brilliant.
You should have got Herring to come along and be your Ginsberg (though Herring does have too much hair)
I can't even get Herring to reply to my emails.
Well Screen Wipe AND The Culture Show; probably all gone to his head.
I am afraid that because of my failing middle-aged eyesight, and the slighty gloomy photography, i didn't see that photo initially as a Dylan tribute, but as Andrew offering us our weekly ShortList...
I can't seem to get enough of that Dylan thing. I've sent out half a dozen today. What an utter waste of my time.
CURSE YOU, COLLINS.
Are you supposed to be Lux Interior from The Cramps in that picture, Andrew? A sort of Folk/Psychobilly fusion, perhaps?
For some bizarre reason that photo of you makes you look like Tracy Emin
Regular readers will have noticed that it is in fact Mark Steel
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