babylon film

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admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:10:05 +0000

Transpontine on a recent event at The Albany in Deptford about Babylon and its locations…

Babylon on UK terrestrial TV…

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:42:39 +0000

for the first time in about 25 years!

BBC2 Sunday 6 September, midnight. (i.e. late Sunday / early Monday, if that makes sense).

3:AM Magazine on Babylon

admin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:38:50 +0000

Nice little piece over at literary fanzine 3:AM.

The golden age of the dispossessed

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:32:57 +0000

Clunky and cliched, British music films of the late 1970s - such as Babylon and Breaking Glass - had their flaws, but they were stunning documents of a nation in flux. By Jon Savage

Today Programme

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:19:52 +0000

Babylon was featured on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today Programme” this morning. Franco Rosso and Trevor Laird were interviewed and there were a good few snippets from the film including “Shaka gonna beat you Beefy - Shaka RULE!” which was pretty mad to hear while I was still in my dressing gown.

Also interviewed was Dr William “Lez” Henry (aka Lez Lyrix).

The subjects covered were quite uncompromising with Laird and Rosso speaking about police violence and the sus laws whilst Dr Henry dealt with the National Front and the fact that black youth today are mostly fighting with other black youth rather than being the victims of racist violence.

You can listen to an mp3 here:

Thanks again to Dave Home!

Franco Rosso speaks!

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:41:52 +0000

Franco was interviewed last week by Robert Elms for his BBC London radio show. Here it is:

Thanks to Dave Home for ripping the mp3.

The Story of Babylon by the People Who Made It

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:34:00 +0000

Excellent article on the Channel 4 (UK TV station) site by Ali Catterall.

Guardian review

admin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:32:04 +0000

Babylon was reviewed in the Guardian Guide recently.

Online version.

Scan of the printed version.

Site history

admin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:25:01 +0000

I added the interview with Franco Rosso from New Britain zine to my dub pages in January 2001.

A few months later some information about the soundtrack was added as well.

In early 2002 this was expanded further into a little mini-site about the film. I have added extra material on an occasional basis since then.

In October 2008 the site was overhauled using Wordpress as a content management system.

I hope you like it.