Someone's Looking At You....where?

suss · In the Long Grass

Someone's Looking At You....where?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Anyone got any idea where the street shot on single cover is?

Manhattan. Wall Street with Trinty Church at the end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church_(Manhattan)

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Trinity Church Manhattan

-- Edited by ArrGee on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 12:43:38 PM

suss · In the Long Grass

Brilliant - thanks for that. Don't think there's much dispute with that evidence. How on earth did you establish that?

I had a vague feeling it would be NY - just slightly gutted I didn't know that before my recent visit. Would have dragged the family miles out of our way to capture the same shot myself smile .

Thanks again.

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Brilliant - thanks for that. Don't think there's much dispute with that evidence. How on earth did you establish that?

From the deep recesses of my mind... That and a google search.

I never really paid attention to the cover until your post thinking it was a typical New York street scene, but the spire in the background made me wonder if it was St. Albans's tower in London. I checked that out, it wasn't, so did a search on New York Church Spire and voila! There it was third in the list.

In all likelihood the original picture is in an archive somewhere. But if I go to New York, I will be recreating it with the family standing in the appropriate spots smile

Wes[Wolverhampton] · House on Fire

On a similar subject.Anyone know where the house is at the start of the Mondays video?

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Wes[Wolverhampton] wrote:
On a similar subject.Anyone know where the house is at the start of the Mondays video?

In a field. smile

I'm not even sure it is a real house, most likely a model created in a studio. You'll have to check that out with David Mallet. Try info@serpentproductions.com

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Google Street View

-- Edited by ArrGee on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 12:51:37 PM

noelindublin · Loudmouth

It never accurred to me exactly where the Someones Looking cover photo is of, but I kinda knew it was somewhere in America, most likely New York. Had never really pondered this one.

I think ArrGee's photos are game, set and match proof positive. Now we all want to know exactly where the swimming pool is on the inside cover of Surfacing.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Wes[Wolverhampton] wrote:
On a similar subject.Anyone know where the house is at the start of the Mondays video?

Midwich, Winshire. The video was based on the film of the novel The Midwich Cuckoo's by John Wyndham. Wyndham retitled the film as Village of the Damned and a follow up film called Children of the Damned was made, both in the 1960's.

Midwich was a fictional village in a fictional county, Winshire, where the Army tested nuclear weapons and the kids in the village naturally came off the worst. I've seen both movies, and the spooky kids in Mondays are similar to the kids in the two films, as well as the opening scene in Mondays being a sort or rural idyll, possibly harboring some kind of evil.

Of course the answer ' a field' would be perfectly correct too but the Mondays director David Mallet has said that those two films were the visual inspiration for part of the Mondays video.

Here is a link to some stills from Village of the Damned to illustrate-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5NmyFlGt80

-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 29th of November 2011 01:50:57 PM

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

noelindublin wrote:
Now we all want to know exactly where the swimming pool is on the inside cover of Surfacing.

In the garden of the house in the field. smile

It must be time for one of Suss's trivia threads - geography based ?

Towns/Cities/Countries in Rats songs...

England
Sandycove
Tokyo
New Zealand
Hong Kong
Singapore
Gibraltar
Malta
Australia
Canada
Dun Laoghaire

Probably dozens more...

Lisa · Mondo Bongo

noelindublin wrote:
Now we all want to know exactly where the swimming pool is on the inside cover of Surfacing.

It's one of the many situated on my country estate - I wish ....

suss · In the Long Grass

ArrGee wrote:
It must be time for one of Suss's trivia threads - geography based ?
Towns/Cities/Countries in Rats songs...
England
Sandycove
Tokyo
New Zealand
Hong Kong
Singapore
Gibraltar
Malta
Australia
Canada
Dun Laoghaire
Probably dozens more...

Been there, done that...

http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t41139322/no-hiding-places/

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
ArrGee wrote:
It must be time for one of Suss's trivia threads - geography based ?
Towns/Cities/Countries in Rats songs...
England
Sandycove
Tokyo
New Zealand
Hong Kong
Singapore
Gibraltar
Malta
Australia
Canada
Dun Laoghaire
Probably dozens more...

Been there, done that...
http://boomtownrats.activeboard.com/t41139322/no-hiding-places/

Ah, so you have.

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Interestingly the Rats have never mentioned Dublin or Ireland directly in any of their songs in the way that the Clash and the Jam mention London.

suss · In the Long Grass

suss wrote:
I had a vague feeling it would be NY - just slightly gutted I didn't know that before my recent visit. Would have dragged the family miles out of our way to capture the same shot myself .

Just followed link kindly supplied by ArrGee for church details and realised I was stood right in front of the place only a month ago....

Derr!

suss · In the Long Grass

noelindublin wrote:
Interestingly the Rats have never mentioned Dublin or Ireland directly in any of their songs in the way that the Clash and the Jam mention London.

Can we count Living in an Ireland?

Jules · The biggest Geldof fan in the world, bar none!

I was opposite that church a year ago. If only I had known the significance of it. Of course, I didn't take a photo either...

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Isn't that the BT Tower (Post 0ffice Tower) London, on the inside cover of A Tonic For The Troops?