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GALLON DRUNK - "Frug & Shimmy" - 1992

GALLON DRUNK - "Frug & Shimmy" - 1992 - 37 minutes A document of the band performing live in 1992 "I'M OVER HERE, MATE!" In 1992 Gallon Drunk was a contradictory mix of nervy, energetic assault and laid back nonchalance, a stance and attitude that the film FRUG & SHIMMY endeavours to capture with its raw, visceral approach. This was on the cusp of that transitional period when a primordial rock and roll band playing and recording for the hell of it, transformed into the tight, polished unit that achieved a step change with the album 'From the Heart of Town'. The early Gallon Drunk sound was characterised by primeval driving rhythms and instrumental incision punctuated by shrill, piercing vocals. The template was complemented by shuffling maracas, a loping or rolling bass, syncopated drumming and the savage, primordial feedback of the combined brainbiter guitar/wailing keyboard assault. Combined, all this potential mayhem resulted in an aural frenzy of nerve jangling proportions when committed to disc or let loose in the smoky, squalid venues of early 90's England. The film that eventually became FRUG & SHIMMY was conceived on the principal of trying to get a quart out of a pint pot. Originally a video shoot for the 'Bedlam' release, studious attention to budgetary detail and generous discounts and deals with labs and facilities houses, paved the way for a short film, proposed as a visual document of the band at that juncture in time. Despite the 'Bedlam' video taking priority, the band refrained from playing the song live and the video shoot for the single was mysteriously cancelled. By the time the film unit reached the recording studio for a last ditch attempt to salvage something usable, not a single frame for 'Bedlam' had been shot and the budget was effectively blown. Over the previous months some live footage had been shot at a number of gigs, material that was exciting enough to justify pursuing the project and eventually realising something that resembled, if not much else, the spirit of the original idea. Despite contrivances and artistic pretensions, FRUG & SHIMMY pertains to being an objective document (as opposed to a documentary), of a band at a particular moment in time. To be clear, this amalgam of mixing and matching footage takes liberties with the reality in so far as it recreates some performances that never actually happened, but the attitude was that some conventions such as continuity and synchronisation can be sacrificed so long as the final result grooves. Whether it's an accurate or objective version of events is therefore a matter of opinion. The film is also an exercise in self-indulgence, at one with the attitude of Gallon Drunk up until that time, as clarified by James Johnston in an interview in 1992: "We were a bit haphazard when we started, and it was certainly nice to start without a care for anything, almost even the songs. It was purely for the exhilaration of playing it live, and it was ridiculously self-indulgent. But you can't do that forever." The film dispenses for the most part with the obligatory back stage footage, de rigueur in most music productions, and cuts straight to the live performances often filmed in venues with limited stage lighting. The sound quality reflects the absence of professional recording equipment for the most part; one recording was completely ruined when the machine chewed the tape, another got lost and in a final ignominy, the tape operator forgot to press 'record'. In this type of film making rarely do things turn out as planned as it's not always possible to anticipate how an event will unfold. What there is at the end of the day is ordained by the situation and circumstances; when viewed, the material shot can often be anticlimactic or should really be better. By the same token it's entirely possible to end up with absolutely nothing at all, which fortunately wasn't the case with this particular film. .................CONTINUED in "I'm Over Here, Mate!" - 'Frug & Shimmy' Part 2    • GALLON DRUNK - Frug & Shimmy (Part 2). Mar...   email: [email protected]