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Just been watching Stewart Copeland's 'home made' tour movie The Police Inside Out. Very good it was too.

From day 1 of the band, he recorded day to day life, first in photographs then, when cash allowed, on Super 8. His film consists only of his images with his (recently recorded) commentary. He focussed on the day-to-day mundanities of touring - radio stations, record shops, schmoozing the record company reps, endless miles, one Best Western after another, with occasional onstage footage from his camera propped on an amp. One man's vision - Copeland filmed it, edited it and voiced it; a sort of glorified home video really :-)

My first reaction is that it's the best 'on the road' movie I've ever seen - certainly quite unlike any other as it's seen from one mans personal perspective. A sort of movie equivalent of Bruce Thomas' 'The Big Wheel' book.

Definitely gets the Stimpy Seal Of Approval

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yes..and it's got

a tasty audio commentary from Stewart and Andy too.

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Kay Lester | 3 July 2010 - 6:00pm

Am guessing...

its probably not like "Meeting People Is Easy"

aka Thom Yorke's slow descent into the bleak bourgeois police state that is the workings of the modern music industry as he and his chirpy cohorts grimace their way through the overt mundanities of the promotional side of music whilst touring America (where they get shouted at in the street), and Japan (where their audience remains unnervingly quiet).

Fascinating viewing though.

And it did introduce me to this song. You've got to love it for that. Can't beat a bit of Scott Walker's "On Your Own Again" when staring out of a 30th floor hotel window.


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badger_king | 3 July 2010 - 6:49pm
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