Saturday 16 July 2016

Stuff That Looks Like Stuff Off Doctor Who

Fourth in a very occasional series.

Two mechanical things in the background of a scene from the 2015 animated movie April and the Extraordinary World.



The Special Weapons Dalek from Remembrance of the Daleks and Asylum of the Daleks.






















Earlier instalments:
1st here
2nd here
3rd here

Wednesday 6 July 2016

Updated Archive.org Downloads List

You can download most of our releases for free from the Happiness Patrol Archive.org profile where you'll also find a handful of field recordings, some interesting TV documentaries about the eccentric English (grab them before the inevitable copyright claims) and an interesting acetate LP we found.

Our music:
Send In The Idiots "Everyone You See Will Be Righteous"
China Pig Pro c/w Send In the Idiots "Life Unfolds Wherever You Are"
Send In The Idiots "Mini CD-R #1" (Bonus Tracks Only)
The Happiness Patrol "...after Hymnen"
Send In the Idiots "A Fine Collection of London Hats"
Send In the Idiots "RaQet"
Send In the Idiots "At the BBC"
District Convention Dog Shit Overseer "1" - Pointless, crap, and lazy. Please ignore.
China Pig "Shut Up Grammatic Oil!"
China Pig "Let Them Eat Pork"
The Happiness Patrol "Curing Mental Spasticity"
Send In the Idiots "Mmm, Naked Librarian"
Various Artists "1.0 Outside" (+ The Happiness Patrol "Messing With Bob's O.C.D.")
Kenny Loggins At Live Aid "2 Improvisations for 5 Stringed Electric Guitar"

Bloody Spoons Netlabel:
BS 003 - Duck Halt, Send In the Idiots and The Happiness Patrol "Protest Songs Are Boring"
BS 002 - "Our Kingdom Ministry (a Happiness patrol Sampler)"
BS 001 - "Exotic Sauce: Archival Crap From A Wonky Cassette"

Other folk's music:
Ceramic Hobs "Free Tim Telsa" (mini album 2000)

One of a kind (?) acetate LP (Original blog entry here):
Wedding of Michael Stewart Vernon to Patricia Alice Turner (Hazel Grove 1964)

Field Recordings:
Walking Through Macclesfield Town Centre 1234pm 27th March 2012
Heaton Chapel Station To Fapp Manchester Via Manchester Piccadilly Station 1616 thru 1638 10th March 2012
Noises, Chatter and Some Guy Humming Strangely To Himself 1201pm through 1208pm on the Bredbury to Marple Train 22nd January 2012
Sounds Recorded at Romiley Board Mill on the Afternoon of July 29th 2011

Documentaries:
Dave Allen in Search of the Great English Eccentric - 50 minutes
Sam Smith "Genuine England" - 15 minutes
The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea (part 1) - 15 minutes
The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea (part 2) - 15 minutes

Friday 1 July 2016

Every Movie I Watched During June 2016


"Wish You Were Here" (1987)
David Leland
Cinema Club, DVD, UK



"Haunters of the Deep" (1984)
Andrew Bogle
British Film Institute (BFI), DVD, UK



"Down Among the Z Men" (1952)
Maclean Rogers
Second Sight, DVD, UK



"Personal Services" (1987)
Terry Jones
4 Front Video, VHS, UK



"Mannaja" (1977)
Sergio Martino
Another World, DVD, Denmark



"Cherry 2000" (1987)
Steve De Jarnatt
Signal One, DVD, UK



"Iron Monkey" (1993)
Yuen Woo-ping
Hong Kong Legends, DVD, UK



"Ich Mochte Kein Mann Sein" (1918)
Ernest Lubitsch
Eureka Masters of Cinema, DVD, UK



"A Goofy Movie" (1995)
Kevin Lima
Disney, DVD, UK



"Witchfinder General" (1968)
Michael Reeves
Prism, DVD, UK



"Attack the Block" (2011)
Joe Cornish
Optimum, DVD, UK



"Toy Story" (1996)
John Lasseter
Disney, Blu-ray, UK



"Pigs and Battleships" (1961)
Shohei Imamura
Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray, UK



"A Useful Life" (2010)
Federico Veiroj
Dogwoof, DVD, UK



"Out of the Darkness" (1985)
John Krish
British Film Institute (BFI), DVD, UK



"Die Puppe" (1919)
Ernest Lubitsch
Eureka Masters of Cinema, DVD, UK



"Casino Royale" (1967)
John Huston, Val Guest, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish,
Joseph McGrath, Richard Talmadge
MGM, DVD, UK



"Wall-E" (2008)
Andrew Stanton
Disney, Blu-ray, UK



"Eaten Alive" (1977)
Tobe Hooper
Arrow Video, Blu-ray, UK



"Cinderella" (1950)
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske
Wilfred Jackson
Disney, Blu-ray, UK



"Beat Girl" (1959)
Edmond T. Gréville
British Film Institute (BFI), Blu-ray, UK



"A Month In thec Country" (1987)
Pat O'Connor
British Film Institute (BFI), Blu-ray, UK



"Nughtbirds" (1970)
Andy Milligan
British Film Institute (BFI), Blu-ray, UK



"A Dangerous Method" (2011)
David Cronenberg
Lionsgate, DVD, UK



"The Yellow Balloon" (1953)
J. Lee Thompson
Studiocanal, DVD, UK



"The Body Beneath" (1970)
Andy Milligan
British Film Institute (BFI), Blu-ray, UK



"Tales That Witness Madness" (1973)
Freddie Francis
Fabulous Films, DVD, UK



"Dobermann" (1997)
Jan Kounen
Tartan, VHS, UK



"Eskimo Nell" (1975)
Martin Campbell
88 Films, DVD, UK



"X-Men First Class" (2011)
Matthew Vaughn
20th Century Fox, Blu-ray, UK



"The ABCs of Death" (2013)
Nacho Vigalondo,  Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza,
Marcel Sarmiento,  Angela Bettis,  Noboru Iguchi, Andrew Traucki,
Thomas Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yûdai Yamaguchi,  Anders Morgenthaler,
Timo Tjahjanto, Ti West, Banjong Pisanthanakun,
Bruno Forzani and Héléne Catte, Simon Rumley,
Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, Srđan Spasojević, Jake West, Lee Hardcastle,
Ben Wheatley,  Kaare Andrews, Jon Schnepp, Xavier Gens,
Jason Eisener, Yoshihiro Nishimura
Monster, DVD, UK



"The Asphalt Jungle" (1950)
John Huston
Warner's, DVD, USA



"Oblivion" (2103)
Joseph Kosinski
Universal, DVD, UK



"Alien 2: On Earth" (1980)
Ciro Ippolito
88 Films, Blu-ray, UK



"Cello" (2005)
Lee Woo-cheol
Tartan, DVD, UK



"Return of the Killer Tomatoes" (1988)
John De Bello
Boulevard, DVD, UK