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| Icehouse - Great Southern Land |
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When "Great Southern Land" was released as the
first single from the Primitive Man album in 1982,
a video for it was filmed in a disused sandstone
quarry in the Kuringai National Park near Sydney.
Then, in 1989, when the song met its first release
as a single in North America and Europe, a new
clip had to be made to accompany the overseas
single. This time, the background Australian
landscapes were provided by the Myall Lakes
National Park on the mid-north coast of New South
Wales. As befits the song, both clips were, of
course, typically Australian in content, but the
earlier one did feature a few Australian native
animals, including a large goanna crawling across
barren sandy earth. This latter typical Australian
had obviously won many fans, since, when the new
clip appeared there were quite a few appeals for
"the one with the goanna." The result was that
both "Great Southern Land" clips had to be
included in the commercial video released in 1989.
(www.spellbound-icehouse.org)
Tags : Icehouse Iva Davies great southern land 80's music video |
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Affichage : 191889
Durée : 298 s |
| Icehouse - "Icehouse" |
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Written by: Iva Davies
Director: Russell Mulcahy
"Icehouse" is widely considerd to be one of the
band's best songs. The live performance always
sends chills down the spine, and Iva's voice soars
both on the recording and on stage. His
performance on the "Live at the Ritz" concert is
particulary noteworthy.
Mulcahy's clip for "Icehouse" featured highly
atmospheric, eerie and, at times, macabre scenes,
largely in mediæval settings and representing the
nightmare images of a young girl sleeping inside a
transparent icehouse. The latter was depicted in
the clip by a cube outlined by lighted fluorescent
tubes. This same device was used a few months
earlier in the staging of the 1980 Countdown
Awards performance of "Icehouse." On that
occasion, Iva Davies appeared singing the song
enclosed in just such a cubic cage of light, and
Molly Meldrum did not fail to comment on the
similarity on the first and only occasion on which
the Mulcahy clip was played on the Countdown
programme. Whether through annoyance at this
apparent plagiarism or the stated reason of the
chilling nature of the child's nightmare images,
the "Icehouse" clip suffered a ban on Australian
television shortly after its release.
Russell Mulcahy made two further clips for
Icehouse, both filmed in exotic locations and both
as spectacular, elaborate and expensive as the
first. These were for the two singles drawn from
the Primitive Man album and which made such an
impression on the European market, "Hey Little
Girl" and "Street Café." The clip for the former
was filmed in London and included many shots in
the Sadlers Wells Theatre, particularly in the
ballet rehearsal room.
Tags : Icehouse Iva Davies Russell Mulcahy 80's |
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Affichage : 83537
Durée : 245 s |
| Icehouse - Street Cafe |
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Icehouse's Street Cafe from The Album Primitive
Man (1982)
The "Street Café" clip was filmed in Tunisia, in
a four day visit into which was packed a
lifetime's worth of difficult, unpleasant and even
hazardous living experience for performers and
film crew alike. Iva Davies flew out of Tunisia
still covered with dust and camel dung, clad in
the boots, breeches and bandolier used in the
filming, and vowing never to return to that part
of the world again.
Tags : Icehouse Street Cafe Primitive Man |
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Affichage : 48442
Durée : 246 s |
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