Directed by Andrew Rutter
Director of Photography - Christopher Hood
1st AC - Paul Warsaw
Gaffer // Day 1 - Billy Jackson
Producers - Andrew Rutter & Christopher Hood
Associate Producer - Evie Branka
Set Design & Production Support - Adam Fray
Production Assistant - Ryan Ives
Drivers - Mark Furneaux & Joanna Bottomley
Costume Designer - Danijela Vunduk
Bike Provided by - Reece Kennedy
Editing / Grading / VFX - Andrew Rutter
Additional Telephone Sound - Werra
Special Thanks - Joanna Rose, Danielle Sanderson, Joseph Ladlow, Charlie Hood, Rose & John Caldwell, Grayson Bottomley, Mitchell Fray, Aquatic Impact, Pannyhire, Steve Hayward, Cecilia Whitehouse, Bala Adventure & Watersports
Cast - Daniel Lipton, Niamh Finlay, Dina Dal Forno, Keith Casablanca & Iona Crampton
Funded by Nicola Waldman & Philip M. Peverley @ Classic Album Club Records
'Real Britannia' recorded at Factory St. Studios by Producer Alex Eden
For our dear friend Keith 'Casablanca' Whitehouse.
www.andrewrutter.com
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'Kon-Tiki' taken from the NEW album 'Real Britannia' from ULTRASOUND available 2nd December 2016
Real Britannia is, as its title suggests, a bittersweet, Potter-esque contemplation of this sceptred but septic isle. Land, as bassist Vanessa Wilson puts it of “knickerbocker glories to Jimmy Savile’s salacious abuse and yet also this green and pleasant land. It’s all bonkers-ly? beautiful and harrowing.” Or, as Tiny says, was what it means to British, what that means to people. But also to get to grips with this whole idea of nostalgia; harking back to times that never existed. Things were just as bad and just as good back then; they’re just as bad and just as good today.”
From “No Man’s Land”, triggered by the 80s post nuclear drama Threads, with musical nods to both Pere Ubu and even Jethro Tull, to the single “Kon-Tiki”, whose guitars burst fresh from the cupboards of the late 1990s, to “Soul Girl”, Vanessa’s first ever penned contribution to an Ultrasound album, a motorik, affirmative celebration of a force that will not be denied, to “Asylum”, with its vivid, musty fragrance’s of the provinces, Real Britannia is an album that straddles the styles of the late 20th century decades, from segmented Prog to Chicks On Speed-style raw, minimal pop. “It helps the fact that we’re all different ages,” says Tiny. “We all bring something different to the table.”
It’s an album about about low times, bad places yet also propelled, as Vanessa says by “ascension, a feeling of moving towards the light.” It’s an album on which love and care has clearly been lavished, the product of four years of patient architecture, evolved in its own time.
Mojo - 4 stars
Guardian - 4 stars
Q - 4 stars
Prog -
