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Post by South-Punk Admin on Jul 25, 2007 11:28:42 GMT
'Bloody Kids', the one-off 1979 UK TV Drama written by Stephen Poliakoff, Directed by Stephen Frears and starring Gary Holton had Southend connections and I'm sure featured some Southend Punks - does anyone remember anything about this?
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Post by Planet Mondo on Aug 20, 2007 10:36:05 GMT
Yeah, remember seeing this one Sunday Night, parts were filmed in Canvey. And I definitely remember some scenes in Victoria Circus and the Chinese that used to be there (forgotten the name - but loads of red and Gold inside, and think it was above the Wimpy)
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Post by foggy on Sept 21, 2007 14:13:33 GMT
yep was at the football match ,, southend v bury i think it was and they were filming it outside as the game ended , still remember the fake blood on the floor, bloody kids !!!bloody hell for remembering that film
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Post by Billyb on Sept 22, 2007 14:24:42 GMT
I watched Bloody Kids on video last night. It's a really good film, actually, with loads of weird dialogue and a strange dark atmosphere.
It's about a cunning, conniving little boy- who steals a policeman's hat; then sets up his ginger haired mate to look like HE'S stabbed him outside Roots Hall!
It all seems to be filmed in Southend (about '79?) Lots of it down the Seafront and at Southend General Hospital. The ginger kid falls in with a gang at Rossis Ice Cream Parlour- and there's a bunch of Punks, with bleached spiky hair, sitting round one of the tables. They all go to a Disco where Mel Smith is the bouncer!
That night- they all go to Victoria Precinct where they have a gang fight and throw a bin through a shop window! Then they drive up Southend High Street in a stolen car!
A massve gang of teenagers take over a double-decker bus - and the leader of the gang- Ken (played by Gary Holton (RIP) who was in Auf Wiedersen Pet) falls off the roof!
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Post by Billyb on Sept 22, 2007 14:26:33 GMT
Oh yeah- my old mate Ross, used to reckon he was one of the little kids in the crowd scene outside the Football Ground...
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Post by South-Punk Admin on Sept 23, 2007 11:00:09 GMT
Thanks everyone for all the info - I'll try and get the DVD of it at some point and do some video captures from it - especially the Rossi's scene!
In the summer I went to China Doll's exhibition in Reading, about the punk history of that town, and it was interesting to learn that several Reading punks were in that old 'Don't Be A Dummy' - Lee Cooper add. 'Bloody Kids' certainly seems to have a similar Southend punk relevance.
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Post by graham on Dec 6, 2007 8:47:57 GMT
Oh yeah- my old mate Ross, used to reckon he was one of the little kids in the crowd scene outside the Football Ground... The thought of Ross in a Steven Poliakoff drama... Surreal... I can just see him tilting his champagne flute at an exquisitely tasteful angle saying incredibly witty and sophisticated things in a big stately ballroom with wall hangings colour co-ordinated to his mohican...
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Post by graham on Dec 6, 2007 8:53:49 GMT
I watched Bloody Kids on video last night. It's a really good film, actually, with loads of weird dialogue and a strange dark atmosphere. It's about a cunning, conniving little boy- who steals a policeman's hat; then sets up his ginger haired mate to look like HE'S stabbed him outside Roots Hall! It all seems to be filmed in Southend (about '79?) Lots of it down the Seafront and at Southend General Hospital. The ginger kid falls in with a gang at Rossis Ice Cream Parlour- and there's a bunch of Punks, with bleached spiky hair, sitting round one of the tables. They all go to a Disco where Mel Smith is the bouncer! That night- they all go to Victoria Precinct where they have a gang fight and throw a bin through a shop window! Then they drive up Southend High Street in a stolen car! A massve gang of teenagers take over a double-decker bus - and the leader of the gang- Ken (played by Gary Holton (RIP) who was in Auf Wiedersen Pet) falls off the roof! What fun! But is this really made by the same Steven Poliakoff who nowadays seems to specailise in really, really long, slow moving dramas with really, really expensive production values ususally seeming to consist of really, really sophisticated people hanging out at really, really posh garden parties saying really, really clever things to each other?
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Post by Billyb on Dec 10, 2007 0:02:03 GMT
Yes, it's definitely the same person...
Funnily enough, I was only remarking to Ross the other day- as we sipped chilled Dom Perignon at one of my garden parties- about how Poliakoff's work has substantially evolved over the decades...
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Post by purplenasty77 on Jan 2, 2008 16:03:14 GMT
garden parties ; in december?
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Post by Billyb on Jan 3, 2008 20:30:06 GMT
What's wrong with that?
We're all very hardy, in this neck of the woods- I'll have you know...
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Post by anabdab on Jan 4, 2008 19:46:00 GMT
Command parrot to imitate person with chest infection.
Poliakoff.
Oh, sorry, wrong thread. Don`t mind me, carry on.
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Post by purplenasty77 on Jan 4, 2008 20:24:22 GMT
ha ha ; thats a really good one
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Post by filf on Jan 4, 2008 22:55:27 GMT
Anabdab really is an all-rounder isnt he?
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Post by Billyb on Jan 4, 2008 23:40:13 GMT
Yeah, he does come up with some blinders...
I have to admit...
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