At turns unwittingly hilarious, fascinating and incredibly boring, this 1984 nightclub documentary is a great British pop culture document
It's hard to understand why someone in late 1984 took it upon themselves to finance and make an amateur film about an alternative night at a club in Batley, West Yorkshire, called Xclusiv. The person who uploaded it to YouTube claims it was the idea of Xclusiv's owners, Annie and Peter Swallow, who sold copies to the club's clientele ("mainly futuristic and way-out people," as Peter puts it in the film). Anyone who stumped up the £2 certainly got their money's worth in terms of quantity: The Height of Goth, as it's called, goes on for a mind-boggling two hours.
Whatever their reason for taking a video camera into what the introductory voiceover – delivered with the halting quality of a hostage reading a ransom demand, over footage of Batley Job Centre and an easy-listening...
It's hard to understand why someone in late 1984 took it upon themselves to finance and make an amateur film about an alternative night at a club in Batley, West Yorkshire, called Xclusiv. The person who uploaded it to YouTube claims it was the idea of Xclusiv's owners, Annie and Peter Swallow, who sold copies to the club's clientele ("mainly futuristic and way-out people," as Peter puts it in the film). Anyone who stumped up the £2 certainly got their money's worth in terms of quantity: The Height of Goth, as it's called, goes on for a mind-boggling two hours.
Whatever their reason for taking a video camera into what the introductory voiceover – delivered with the halting quality of a hostage reading a ransom demand, over footage of Batley Job Centre and an easy-listening...
- 5/13/2012
- by Alexis Petridis
- The Guardian - Film News
Frank Carson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 6, 1926 from a family of Italian descent. He began his working life as a plasterer and electrician before joining the Parachute Regiment. He served in the Middle East for three years during the 1950s, before he tried his hand at stand-up comedy. Carson soon became popular on Irish television and later moved to England. He appeared in the music hall show The Good Old Days and eventually hit the mainstream with his appearances on talent show Opportunity Knocks, which he won three times. Carson went on to reach further fame by appearing alongside fellow comics including Charlie Williams, Bernard Manning, Mike Reid and Jim Bowen in The Comedians in the 1970s. Over the next two decades he would appear in various UK television shows including Who Do You Do? and The (more)...
- 2/22/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
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