When I was handed this videola and told to review it, I thought, "Yeah, witht a combine harvester."
Well, such is not the case. The NELSON twins aren't as bad as I was hoping. To look at them, you'd think they'd sell more cheap gimmicks than those shitty turtle things that have destroyed many a bank account balance and caused young children to throw their parents out of house and home to make way for the important things in life like Ninja Turtle Death Stars that really kill.
Matt and Gunnar (is that really his name?) seem sincere enough about their music and their commitment to making a visual art form that translates their feelings (man). So, would I if I stood to make a million or three.
After a chitty-chatty and a view of some screaming, adoring fans (held on the other side of a fence, I hasten to add) the first number, "Love and Affection," fills my screen in all its glory, and it ain't a bad little tune at that. A few effects are bunged in here and there, like reversing the film, then slowing it down and speeding it up -- a bit like your average day on the M1.
To my reckoning, the strong has got to be the title track "After the Rain," which is accompanied by rather a profound story that starts off with a slob of a father telling his son that he's no good. To cut a long story short, the son gets dragged out of his bed by the twins who come out of his wall and they end up sitting by a campfire with Cochise, the strange Red Indian who's holding two coloured balls in his hands (ooo er missus!), one representing spirituality, the other sexuality and aggression. Pan right (lovey) and we have the concert scene.
When filming a live concert for MTV, a decision not to overdub was taken by Mattso and Gunnso. So we get all the lowdown on how it was done. They also go to great pains to prove that they are more than corporate mannequins set to trap the unsuspecting public, so we get shots of live playing in domestic situations and also in the final scene where they perch themselves on stools with a couple of acoustics and knock out "Keep one heart" as is whilst the cameraman goes around in circles. Pretty good.
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
August 1991
After a chitty-chatty and a view of some screaming, adoring fans (held on the other side of a fence, I hasten to add) the first number, "Love and Affection," fills my screen in all its glory, and it ain't a bad little tune at that. A few effects are bunged in here and there, like reversing the film, then slowing it down and speeding it up -- a bit like your average day on the M1.
To my reckoning, the strong has got to be the title track "After the Rain," which is accompanied by rather a profound story that starts off with a slob of a father telling his son that he's no good. To cut a long story short, the son gets dragged out of his bed by the twins who come out of his wall and they end up sitting by a campfire with Cochise, the strange Red Indian who's holding two coloured balls in his hands (ooo er missus!), one representing spirituality, the other sexuality and aggression. Pan right (lovey) and we have the concert scene.
When filming a live concert for MTV, a decision not to overdub was taken by Mattso and Gunnso. So we get all the lowdown on how it was done. They also go to great pains to prove that they are more than corporate mannequins set to trap the unsuspecting public, so we get shots of live playing in domestic situations and also in the final scene where they perch themselves on stools with a couple of acoustics and knock out "Keep one heart" as is whilst the cameraman goes around in circles. Pretty good.
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
August 1991
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