Recently two short animation films were made available for the first time on YouTube. Both feature Dayglo Fishermen music on their soundtracks.
The films, made in the early 1980s by Dayglo Fishermen band member Peter Fothergill and his brother and former band member David, were recently rediscovered in the hidden archives at Artlite Studios, the band's former production facility in Northumberland. The facility has been closed since 1994 following the band's relocation to south east England.
The films have now been digitally remastered and edited. And it seemed natural and only right to use some of Dayglo Fishermen's more cinematic tracks to add depth and atmosphere to each one.
'The first film, 'Attack of the Desert People', features extracts from 'Shades of the Visionary', the moving and mildly eiree instrumental track on Dayglo Fishermen's 1992 album, 'What the Hell'.
The second film, 'The Creature from Devil's Gorge', starts and ends with extracts from 'Irritating Cliché', featured on the band's classic 1998 pop album, 'Painting Aliens'. The gently haunting intro to the track was perfect for the opening sequence of the film, and the track's melancholic middle section was ideal to enhance the mood generated by the film's closing imagery.
To view all the films now visit the Video page, or visit the Action Man Animation YouTube channel.
If you enjoy those, you'll be pleased to hear that a third film - a science fiction epic - is due to be released later in the year. |
