Comments on: Popdown Progress

By: Hernán Rubin

Hernán Rubin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:42:43 +0000

I´m happy you , Peter Prentice, and the WIPED people, have been around there on POPDOWN! I´m so sorry I could not attend you anymore, since June last, as I had to attend very dfficult university matters, at the place I work. I´m back again, to thank you, and let you know I´m to help too.

By: Peter Prentice

Peter Prentice — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:11:41 +0000

As far as I’m aware, Joerg, yes, the performances ARE exclusive to the film. Whether all the performance footage used was actually SHOT for Popdown is less clear cut, but the sequences involving Kevin Westlake & Gary Farr, the Idle Race, Andy Ellison, Luiz Bonfa and Dantalian’s Chariot WERE definitely filmed with the picture in mind. The Dantalian’s sequence is accompanied by an edited version of “The Madman Running Through the Fields” and a 38-second excerpt of “Soliloquy” (as Fred Marshall remembered it in 2000) – an unreleased experimental piece by the band.

By: Joerg Reinicke

Joerg Reinicke — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:59:11 +0000

Peter, I really appreciate your enduring efforts in rediscovering the Popdown movie. Since I have never seen any part of it (so far) I would really like to know if the musical performances contained in it are unique to the movie, i.e. have they been filmed exclusively for the movie?
Thanks and keep on the great work.

By: Hernán Rubin

Hernán Rubin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:18:28 +0000

Thanks, Peter Prentice!
You have been doing well here with Popdown XXI Century Renewal: very professionally indeed, I am sure. I am also sure you´ll reach honour at the end of the project, because it´s important, and dignifying of a moment in the time of London when it was a center, as a reference, in the Global Village Marshall Mac Luhan had been envisioning at the same time, no doubt! You have developed the project in a way you involve so many people as from BFI officials to us, ordinary people who accompany Fred Marshall´s dreams, hopes, expectances, worries, and son on. Thanks, Peter Prentice, I am with you, as I know Michael, Juan Carlos, Erich, John, Harun, Josbel also are. May Fred from his land of reward, bless you as well as we all.