Foy Vance
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7/20/2006 3:13:10 PM
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New Foy Vance Films
Foy will be celebrating the release of his new EP "Watermelon Oranges" on July 24th by releasing a series of 5 films. They are all based around the "Birth of the Toilet Tour" concept.
Here is a little background on the films. We will be posting them to the IAC page as well as www.foysnoise.com. Hope you like them.
For you this time (Film 1) - Currently Available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okAAM82Uy-c
We'd actually tried to get another toilet for this shoot...it was the same sort of toilet, but it was next to the place where Joanne worked when we first met, which was one of the reasons for wanting to film it there. Everything was arranged, we'd arrive at 8am, just as the sunning was skimming the street, and there's be a lot of people passing by on their way to work that we could interact with...but alas, it wasn't to be, and here's why...
When we turned up at the toilet and opened the door, we were met with an almighty pong!!! Someone had been in it the night before a smeared there crap all over the place. Now when I say crap, I'm not talking general bits and pieces that you keep in you pockets, as the term sometimes refers to...oh no, this was actual crap... dung... keek... whatever you want to call it, it mattered not, the only thing that mattered was finding another toilet just like it, and near by...preferably without someone’s terds smeared into the ventilators....yikes, what a terrible thought!
We found one on the next street, clean as a whistle, and right next to a skip...which we all agreed, was the ideal sleeping place for the character in question...Speaking of whom...he's a sort of alcoholic, schizophrenic, wannabe Christian sort of a character...more or less a caricature of me and my Father when we respectively met our wives to be...you know the sort, lots of promise, and on many levels good people to be around, but prone to making a balls of just about everything beautiful in their lives....a cycle we both got out of, you'll be glad to hear...
When you still walked with me (Film 2)
Currently posted on my IAC page:
http://iacmusic.com/artist.aspx?ID=43750
and on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBvp8RJiaY
This was recorded in a derelict pool ("you'd never have known" they said sarcastically) that my Father used to frequent in his youth. He was know to occasionally avoid going home at the end of the week, because it meant paying his dues to his father...ie. his rent and board...so instead he'd go straight to the Templemore Baths (in spite of the jolly good shoe-ing he knew he'd receive later for doing so)...he'd order himself a bath, and forget his worries for the night.
There were two main rooms in Templemore Baths...one was the swimming pool, which is where the toilet that we recorded in faces out on to, and the other was the baths room. It was (and is) a long hall with little cubicles on each side, with little holes in the wall, beside the door of each cubicle, that the attendant would could pipe in more hot water. The cold water, you had free run of, but to get more hot water, you had to call out..."More water in cubicle 10 please!"...My Dad would go in here, have his shave while the bath was being filled with steaming water...then in he'd get. anytime he started to think of the consequences to his luxurious tendencies, he'd just shout..."more hot water in cubicle 10 please!"
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