2 Ballifield year zero
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Jamie Taylor
Abstract
The investigation gathers pace as Ken’s daughter, Michele, hands over a carrier bag of unseen cinefilm reels from her dad’s collection and they are screened unprofessionally in a Meersbrook attic. Sheffield artists Jarvis Cocker, Glenn Gregory, Adi Newton and Martyn Ware recall the glamour and optimism of the Apollo missions and the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The cultural temperature of Sheffield in the late sixties is taken, focusing on the Sheffield Playhouse’s Eastern bloc affiliations and the apprenticeship of jobbing actor and playwright Chris Wilkinson. McCloskey’s Apocalypse are celebrated as early agitators in the Sheffield music scene and the book and record shop, Rare & Racy, is honoured by Jarvis Cocker and Martyn Ware.
Abstract
The investigation gathers pace as Ken’s daughter, Michele, hands over a carrier bag of unseen cinefilm reels from her dad’s collection and they are screened unprofessionally in a Meersbrook attic. Sheffield artists Jarvis Cocker, Glenn Gregory, Adi Newton and Martyn Ware recall the glamour and optimism of the Apollo missions and the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The cultural temperature of Sheffield in the late sixties is taken, focusing on the Sheffield Playhouse’s Eastern bloc affiliations and the apprenticeship of jobbing actor and playwright Chris Wilkinson. McCloskey’s Apocalypse are celebrated as early agitators in the Sheffield music scene and the book and record shop, Rare & Racy, is honoured by Jarvis Cocker and Martyn Ware.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Epigraph v
- Dedication vi
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1 Death of a futurist 1
- 2 Ballifield year zero 13
- 3 The analogue trace 28
- 4 Untrained/undaunted 40
- 5 The décor of tomorrow’s hell 53
- 6 War chants 60
- 7 This is tomorrow 72
- 8 Knock three times and ask for Big Jake 86
- 9 Musical Vomit 110
- 10 Adolphus rising 122
- 11 New ruins 141
- 12 No illegal connections 154
- 13 Fast products 164
- 14 Notes from a condemned terrace 189
- 15 Dreams of leaving 213
- 16 The wall in the head 232
- 17 Buried dreams 251
- Acknowledgements 268
- List of illustrations 270
- Notes 272
- Index 283
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Epigraph v
- Dedication vi
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- 1 Death of a futurist 1
- 2 Ballifield year zero 13
- 3 The analogue trace 28
- 4 Untrained/undaunted 40
- 5 The décor of tomorrow’s hell 53
- 6 War chants 60
- 7 This is tomorrow 72
- 8 Knock three times and ask for Big Jake 86
- 9 Musical Vomit 110
- 10 Adolphus rising 122
- 11 New ruins 141
- 12 No illegal connections 154
- 13 Fast products 164
- 14 Notes from a condemned terrace 189
- 15 Dreams of leaving 213
- 16 The wall in the head 232
- 17 Buried dreams 251
- Acknowledgements 268
- List of illustrations 270
- Notes 272
- Index 283
