The latest PJ Harvey
video for Let England Shake
has just been released for the track On Battleship Hill. Filmmaker Seamus Murphy offers this insight:
It opens in the house in Berlin I was staying while editing the films with Sebastian Gollek. This is Franz, Sebastian’s stepfather. I liked having a German reciting the opening lines to a song written from and about the other side of the trenches. The bingo ladies were shot on Canvey Island, near Southend in Essex. Liked connecting them with the rockabilly/skiffle sound at the beginning of the track. Maybe when they were young women they jived to that sound? The bingo hall might have been a dance hall in their day. Canvey Island was certainly home to Dr. Feelgood.
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