"Superduck Day" (2)

Since today is henceforth known as Superduck Day, here comes some very exciting news....

"The Posters Came From The Walls", the film directed by Nick Abrahams and Jeremy Deller about Depeche Mode fans around the world is going to be included in the BFI London Film Festival!!!!



"In Russia, May 9 is Victory Day, a national holiday. It’s also the birthday of Dave Gahan, lead singer with Depeche Mode, and a group of Muscovite fans have declared it Dave Day, gathering together to celebrate the group with homemade banners, mass sing-alongs and club nights. In Russia and countries of the former Soviet Union, the band’s music has been treasured since it was only available on illegal bootlegged cassettes in the 1980s, and it formed the soundtrack of the march toward freedom those countries embarked upon following the fall of the Berlin Wall. This situation is mirrored in Tehran, where fans take huge risks in listening to their music in a country that has banned all Western music since the Cultural Revolution. In Mexico, fans have seized upon religious inferences in the band's work, particularly after an image of the Guadalupe Virgin was used in a tour programme. In the UK, the church of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge holds services for goths where they play Depeche Mode records. Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller and collaborator Nicholas Abrahams tell these and other stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom, which is at turns bizarre, funny, sad and often touching. The Festival is delighted to be adding the world premiere of the film to our programme."
Michael Hayden


I am so excited to finally be seeing this! First of all what a great idea for a film, but also it's incredible how HUGE Depeche Mode's effect has been worldwide....

Book early!
Tue 21 October 2008 at 6:30 pm NFT1
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/posters_came_walls

Madame xx

"Superduck Day"

An update on Nick Abrahams' Sigur Ros comings and goings.......of course we know him as Superduck, but let's get professional here.....

This Thursday (2nd October), as part of the Concrete and Glass music and art festival they will be running a short loop of "Vid spilum Endalaust" , a film Nick has shot on Super 8 of the band on tour, alongside photographs by Eva Vermandel at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Whitechapel Road 6.30 - 9.00pm. Vermandel has spent four months with the band during the recording and performing of their latest album. You'll have to wait until November for a proper screening of Nick's film in its entirety but I for one will be nipping down to the Whitechapel pre-George and Dragon for a teaser.....



Madame xx

A Perfect End....

The boys went back to school yesterday. Duke came home with a blue card - not a good thing - and a "well done" sticker on his sweatshirt - to counterbalance the blue card perhaps. Joe was covered in yogurt and pronounced himself ill this morning. So none of us is particularly thrilled with the beginning of term.....

The last full day I spent with the boys was Monday. I was predicting a day full of name-tag stitching and gathering of school bits, but then Superduck called on Sunday night with a request for a band of singing children that he could film for his Sigur Ros projections project. A bit of phoning around and we spent a sunny afternoon on Clapham Common with seven lip-synching under 11's! It was fun. We went to the Italian ice cream parlour once everyone had given their all and then the kids had a bit of a climb all over the bandstand.....

Lovely, unexpected day out...and if the Super 8 turns out as planned we'll all be going to see their little faces behind the band in November at Alexander Palace.

The holiday ended quite beautifully actually. I drove down to Herne Bay for the last weekend where the boys were already, and while London suffered drizzle, we basked in Kent's micro-climate.


Between going to Gosport and Herne Bay, the boys probably spent about a week in London tops this summer, I'm really pleased, they look brown and healthy, had space to run around, messed around in the sea, on the sea....they seem to have grown about two inches, both schooldays I put Duke's uniform trousers on and they're whipping around his ankles! Even though we didn't go abroad or anything I feel rested after the summer for the first time since they were born!

Still, wish we could squeeze a couple more weeks of summer out....I'm not mentally ready for this jumper....

Madame xxx

Happy Birthday Superduck!

I missed his drinks at the French last night but Superduck came by today for Birthday cake and it was as though Maison Bertaux had created a new cake in his honour!!! I've never seen this Chocolate Montblanc before...it was filled with chocolate stuff instead of chestnut and cream and then dusted with chocolate powder...

Splendid isn't it??!!
So, Superduck needed to ready himself for the huge treat he was about to take on...

And as I watched him eat it hopefully I'm afraid I was only offered but one mouthful...


Still, it was his special day, not mine....

Madame xxx

Finally...

You remember ages ago I showed you a still from Nicholas Abraham's Lee Hazlewood video which he shot in Iceland and where I styled the girls? Well, last night he sent me the finished wonderful video....so beautiful, looks quite David Hamilton I think, which is a very good thing as far as I'm concerned. I was a little worried how much he dwelt on those socks and plimsoles though, very keen on those.......

Madame x