a boy looks at a girl, and a girl looks like a pony
8 July 2008Now, Fatboy Slim has always been cool. Noone’s going to deny that. When your song produces three full minutes of Christopher Walken dancing…that’s some kind super power in my opinion. However, I don’t think I would have ever considered purchasing a whole album by Fatboy Slim–his best songs have made their way into my collection via assorted Various Artist albums, and I’m more than content to watch the music videos that have been produce on repeat. That is, until now.
Fatboy Slim, or should I say Norman Cook’s new side project with David Byrne (of the Talking Heads) is entitled The Brighton Port Authority. It’s similar, a little, to what you might think of as Fatboy Slim crossed with David Byrne, but if they was making music in the late 1970s and there was a time exchange program being set up that brought completely random, yet supercool artists back 30 years to record with them. Get that?
The fictional backstory on MySpace tells of the groups short rise and fall of local fame building “a huge word-of-mouth reputation on England’s south coast from the early 1970s onwards before petering out in the mid ’90s.” Further, the songs are all put together from tapes found in a box at the Brighton dockside warehouse.
Now, BRA already has two music videos, the one — a song called “He’s Frank” featuring Iggy Pop — I couldn’t find a decent version of. (Or maybe it’s supposed to be out of sync, I don’t know.) And the other, well you may have seen it before, as I know I came across it by way of a friend’s link to CollegeHumor for a video entitled “Censor Bar Art”. You’ll see why.
