Modern folklore of England through it’s Art

Recent TV, Music, Film, Fiction, Images - that are English, (and have something deeper to say about englishness)

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the lore of: Fantasy, ambition, extraordinary integrated into real world situations. Showing it to be a real thing. Not just in movies, but in a street, there, ordinary, magical...believing in Imagination 

Alex Chinneck, Sculpture. 

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”we will be carried away by the swell soon enough. But in between, in a single day of living… that dancing in a strip of sunlight, we can find what we miss. The love that makes us whole.” The lore of: How we face death. The price of ambition. What happens in end times. Sacred music for coping with death. In the end, folk reach for loved ones more than anything else. (Game: Everybody’s gone to the rapture)

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‘What becomes of you my love, when they have finally stripped you of?’ The lore of: surviving mild grey oppression, men scrapping over dominance, distracted by each other not realising the surroundings. That spite which comes from misdirected, lost frustration. Masks for popularity. Short term stimulation entertaining folk who don’t care about you. 

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“In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.”

“Those who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”

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The lore of: becoming extreme in one dimension of life (obsessive), boxed in with no variety, 

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Underworld - Born Slippy

A song played in the movie Trainspotting.By Underworld

...and so the folk looked to dance, to feel free.  The lore of: Expression as the way. Sing for what you are ‘for’ , instead of against. Adult expression.

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Oh, my country...I am one of your sons. It is true. I am. Yet, how shall I show my love?

"Child be strange, dark, true, impure and dissonant. Cherish our flame. Our dawn shall come…"

The lore of: artist coming of age, Living true despite the funnels set out, A calling for an affinity with compositions - more than usual. #nature #paganspirit #school #church #army #englishart #pendasfen #television #spirit #art  

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Lore of: appearing rather than being, status protection, wealth protection, hiding from true opinions to fit in.

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Fans named this song “Rhubarb”. ‘not having a worry in the world’.  It’s more than that.  Richard James

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D I S M A L A N D exhibition (Weston super-Mare, 2015)

Not even a Princess is free. CCTV.

the lore of: infected culture, stimulants, fun as religion doesn’t last, Hollywood Disney as false guidance,

#exhibition #folklore #paparazzi #dismaland #art #control #fairground #dark #gentrification #freedom #limits #rotten #cctv 

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“Just some of the things that had gone on in our communities that had happened, you know , and they were kind of atrocities ..but they’d gone… gone unnoticed, unrecognised.. horrible things had happened but they’d been done.. and almost in the name of leisure , you know what I mean?..  kind of like this is wrong..  we started talking about incidents where nobody even paid for that..  Those guys are still going around today.” - Paddy Considine 

The lore of: the vulnerable, modern leisure, easy money, leisure turned atrocity, 

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“It’s a struggle, life’s a struggle, and Monday morning might be a struggle for a lot of you. Working in a job you despise, [for] a boss you despise,  You’re a slave to money then you die” - Richard Ashcroft 

The lore of: when work becomes detached, community erosion, 

Ironic fact: All the royalities for this song were stolen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_s90-Hi2ZY 

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“It’s a quiet as snow. It’s got that wonderful silence to it. And even when the snowman knocks something over, you can’t really hear it. Kind of dream-like”  - Posy Simmonds  The lore of: Magic, Fleeting experiences, Loss Child-like wonder & play, the wonder of snow, the wonder of flying, the wonder of a having new experiences with a new friend.. the truth of magical experiences being brief / that they must end.