BRISTOL - MUSIC & CULTURE

A few short clip of St Pauls Bristol from 1988 featuring two sounds Qualitex Studio & Raiders 32 sound. The videos are showing an early evening gathering in 1988 to remember the St Pauls "main" riot of April 1980. St Pauls rioted every single year until 1986 when the last major one took place.　from here

Sort Of Champion.

So this was my first ever attempt at filmmaking, it won the British Amateur Video Award in the early 90s, long before You Tube was ever dreamt of! The music is by Portishead's Adrian Utley and features Goldfrapp's Wil Gregory - long before Portishead and Goldfrapp were ever dreamt of ofcourse. Yes and I play all the parts...

10-minute film screened as introduction to each concert on the 1997/98 World Tour and accompanied by a DJ Andy Smith mix of tracks performed by Portishead, footage consists of a car driving from Bristol to Portishead. directed by Hazel Grian.

In the spring of 2004, The Drinker, a sculpture by graffiti artist Banksy, was kidnapped. At midday, in front of a live audience of lunching office workers of the media industry, this pseudo replica of Rodins Thinker, crowned with a traffic cone, was lifted from its central London location onto the back of a truck. Three men wearing white overalls, their faces covered with gas masks, strapped him up and gagged him. The event was documented on film. A photo shoot featuring the blindfolded and gagged Drinker ensued. Photographs were taken and distributed to the press together with a ransom note. The negotiations between the artist and Art Kieda, the movement behind the kidnap, unfolded on the pages of the Guardian. Banksy decided not to concede to Art Kieda demands and The Drinker remains, unharmed, in the possession of the movements spokesperson and founding member, known as AK47. I am a prisoner and would like someone to pay for my ransom and take good care of me! i am 9 foot tall, 4 foot square, weigh one tonne and i'm made of fireglass. I am valued more than £200,000 and worth every penny !

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■Simon Hattenstone: How I became an art hostage negotiator | Art and design | The Guardian