{"id":1101,"date":"2020-10-01T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2023-10-30T12:15:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:15:47","slug":"death-of-a-gull-kings-of-the-south-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/death-of-a-gull-kings-of-the-south-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Gull \u2013 Kings of the South Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kings of the South Seas - Death of a Gull\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/222521681?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"188\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Documentation of a recording session with art-rock-folk band Kings of the South Seas for the album \u2018Franklin\u2019, with producer Ben Hillier. Filmed at St Andrew&#8217;s Arts Centre, Gravesend, on the River Thames. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album explores the musical milieu of Arctic explorations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church in which it was recorded contains a plaque to Sir John Franklin and his crew, who were blessed in this same church before they sailed in 1845 on an expedition to find a North-West passage for sea trade through the Canadian Arctic. They disappeared in the icy wastes and mystery still shrouds their demise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Track: Instrumental of &#8216;Death of a Gull&#8217;. Filmed using an Iscorama anamorphic lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below: the final track; one of ten videos I made to accompany live performances by the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kings of the South Seas are Ben Nicholls, Richard Warren and Evan Jenkins.<br>Music produced and mixed by Ben Hillier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by the Arts Council England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Death of a Gull \u2013 Kings of the South Seas\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/374922246?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentation of a recording session with art-rock-folk band Kings of the South Seas for the album \u2018Franklin\u2019, with producer Ben Hillier. Filmed at St Andrew&#8217;s Arts Centre, Gravesend, on the River Thames. The album explores the musical milieu of Arctic explorations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The church in which it was recorded contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,18,21,14],"tags":[200,199,201],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary","category-music","category-music-video","category-performance","category-video","tag-gravesend","tag-sir-john-franklin","tag-thames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamclitheroe.co.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}