New Cumbernauld Man feat. Dan Boeckner
Added 2021-08-04 23:30:28 +0000 UTCWe brought on Dan Boeckner, musician from the bands Wolf Parade and Operators, podcaster with Riley from the show Bottlemen, to discuss a 1977 spy thriller called 'Cumbernauld HIT' set in Cumbernauld, Scotland. Except it was funded by the local council to promote Cumbernauld, using the film as a promo for the New Town and all its drab concrete labyrinth glory. Here is the spirit of Labourism, a new model community where society is building a new man who, crucially, does not jack off.
Watch the film here if you dare! https://youtu.be/9w1Um8fd7Jc
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Comments
As someone who grew up in a similar albiet English new town a lot of this sounds very familiar. I kind of miss our horrible badly maintained and designed brutalist town centre. Which has now been replaced by a generic red brick and glass monstrosity.
Ferrosol
2021-08-09 15:20:06 +0000 UTCAfter listening to this I was shocked that I hadn’t heard of it before. I’ve lived in Cumbernauld my whole life so when I saw this I realised how far the town has fallen. What was even more shocking was that the toy plane was piloted by MY FATHER when he was a 12 year old boy.
Calum Ferguson
2021-08-09 00:50:03 +0000 UTC
