BROADMEAD - Various artists

BROADMEAD: The Soundtrack to the Film of the Place

Broadmead’ is the soundtrack to ‘Broadmead: The Movie’, a film by Stanley Donwood and Mat Consume. Named after a run-down shopping precinct in Bristol, it mournfully recalls a time when the government of the United Kingdom was building a National Health Service, new universities, nationalising the railways and creating a Welfare State.

Conveying a bleakly elegiac beauty, the film is a series of ‘moving photographs’, accompanied by deadpan narration and a beautifully sad score written and performed by John Matthias and Jay Auborn. Broadmead is a film that hints of a future that has now been lost.