Planning - 1

"London Calling"

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared, and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

[Chorus 1:]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone
Forget it, brother, you can go it alone
London calling to the zombies of death
Quit holding out, and draw another breath
London calling, and I don't wanna shout
But while we were talking, I saw you nodding out
London calling, see we ain't got no high
Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

[Chorus 2: x2]
The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too
An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!
London calling at the top of the dial
After all this, won't you give me a smile?
London calling

 I never felt so much alike [fading] alike alike alike

We looked at the lyrics and decided what we could do to incorporate into our music video. Punk music during the 70's was highly topical, mentioning political, economic and social issues. This will be hard to both represent these issues in the modern day, or to those of the 70's. We feel that there is the possibility that we don't have to make our video topical, rather that we keep the punk rock image. 

This may be hard to recreate now as some of the issues such as "Now War is declared, and battle come down" or "A nuclear error" both concern the Cold War. This is obviously something that is not highly topical now and something that would be too hard to create in our video, especially as we are trying to update the bands image and not maintain. We can't do this as we feel the band's image is too iconic and we feel trying to recreate it would not work, as it  would be too hard to achieve. It would also effect our music video and we would lose our authenticity.