The growth of the project has demanded a real focus on completion and has meant Dean's latest band GiANT has been put on the back-burner.Īnd to become part of the Archive 'family' means a lot. Streets in Bishop's Stortford were filmed for the documentary (55545488)ĭean and Ben are not the only Stortford stamp on the album and film project: the Super 8 soundtrack was engineered by local producer Tim Webster while guitar on the album was provided by local music scene regular Rich Panrucker. "It's proper old-school analogue, it's very like a home-made movie," said Dean. But the band were so taken with the initial results that the project evolved.įilmed throughout 2020, 20 on a Super 8 camera found in the attic of Darius' childhood home – with scenes shot on the streets of Stortford as well as London, Brighton, Southampton and Wales – the film has a nostalgic atmosphere to it.
#The archive songs series
Originally the pair were asked to produce a series of behind-the-scenes featurettes intended as exclusive material for fans who pre-order the new album. After getting to know Archive founder Darius Keeler, who moved to Stortford five years ago and frequented the Star pub in Bridge Street, Dean and fellow Stortford musician and film-maker Ben Sommers were asked to document the writing and recording of the new album, which was spawned through the trials and tribulations of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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