Legendarily lost/awful/cult Pet Shop Boys movie It Couldn’t Happen Here is being screened on Friday 9pm on Sky Arts. Tivo set chez moles.
Pet Shop Boys – It Can Happen Here
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Apparently newly reissued on DVD ‘by the BFI’ – good to see that lottery money being used for worthwhile causes.
A very odd project. The PSBs equivalent of Magic Mystery Tour, if that’s imaginable….
It’s entertaining but ultimately quite rubbish too 😂
“It’s entertaining but ultimately quite rubbish too” – that’s the difference between MMT and ICHH – MMT wasn’t remotely entertaining.
@Moose-the-Mooche
Simply won’t be the same without Al
Or Ivor.
A Pet Shop Boys’ film from 1988 sounds more dated than catching the Clapham Omnibus via a Hansom cab to see Marie Lloyd sing “My Old Man Said Follow the Van” after witnessing Tottenham Hotspur win a trophy.
It also sounds shite.
Thank you McDonald Hobley!
From what I recall, they’d basically seen a few Peter Greenaway films and walk around like Gilbert and George. Two Divided by Zero was a good scene though.
It came out on Blu ray a year or two ago. It’s not very good. I bought it, but I can’t imagine I’ll watch it very often, and by that I mean ever again. They haven’t had many misfires over their career though, so we can forgive them this one. At least they tried to make something a bit different. Sadly it feels like they were making it up as they went along and if the scenes they shot were the best things they could come up with, I’d hate to see the stuff that didn’t make the cut.
I wouldn’t call it their Magical Mystery Tour though, because that had I Am The Walrus and the Bonzos (with a stripper).
I thought Neil Tennant went downhill after he edited “The Dairy Book Of Home Management” (which was when I met him).
I thought you were joking (you usually are), but you weren’t.
It started life as a South Bank Show profile, with Neil & Chris suggesting some staged inserts relating to their upbringings, so it wouldn’t just be the usual talking heads interview scenario, then SBS regular director Jack Bond suggested it could become a feature if they added a bunch of songs into the “narrative”… yes, by any applicable human standard it’s quite poor, but it’s certainly different, and therefore very Pet Shop Boys…
The Dairy Book Of Home Management was at least useful, if your home was unmanageable.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1761197.The_Dairy_Book_Of_Home_Management
I don’t think this book will be of interest to Afterworders, unless it’s about a grizzled, hard-drinking home manager whose career is on the rocks and is thrown one last home management job that nobody else wants.
I like to think that the delicate Art of Home Management isn’t entirely unappreciated by Afterworders – I can see Gary, for one, finding a place for this on his shelf. Moose, not so much.
Maybe. People get given books like that as a message, is all I’m saying.
See also tomes like “Lose Weight, Fatso” and “Seize the Day and Stop Being an Arsehole”
@Hawkfall
Is he something of a maverick with a car crash of an emotional life?
If so, count me in!
I think I have a copy of that in a box full of crap from my mum’s house. Should I list it in Discogs as the ultimate PSB rarity?
We have it somewhere packed away after numerous moves. Clearly Neil’s wise advice hasn’t quite sunk in…
I can’t remember where I read it, possibly the interview that came with the Alternative set in 1995, but Chris Lowe reckoned they should have put ‘A Wank of Epic Proportions’ as the strapline on the movie posters…
That dude doesn’t say much, but when he does…
Caught up watching this last night – as bizarre as I remembered.
I read somewhere that it started out as an album video for ‘Actually’, instead of going on tour.
I think they still look back on it fondly; I recall Neil saying somewhere that the best review he read had the headline – It shouldn’t happen anywhere.