Q & A
How did you choose this track?
I’m going to tell you the story in a long convoluted way: during the mid Naughties when we were working in London, Patrick did a lot of shooting for Day for Night Films, a production company run by some fellow LFS alumni. On one particular job, a Spanish dude called Jose was doing the sound recording. Now, Jose is also a musician, and his band is called The Missing Limbs. So, ever curious, Patrick went on MySpace (remember this was the 90s) and listened to some tracks and really liked them, and he especially liked “Loco.”
“I’m gonna set some visuals to this music one day,” he said to Jose. And, Jose said “O.K.” A few months later, we were in Spencer’s back garden chucking white food products at each other.
How did you come up with the concept?
Loco got filed away in Patrick’s brain until a few months later when Spencer called him to say that he’d rented a high speed camera and wanted to do some tests with some live chickens in his back garden. So Patrick hotfooted it over to Highgate, and he shot Spencer throwing live chickens up in the air. Well, that triggered something in Patrick’s brain, and the idea came to him: he would chuck milk and yogurt and eggs and water balloons at me while shooting it in slow motion. The track would be Loco because what crazy person would do such a thing?
Is there more to the story?
There are two asides, and it will show you how everything is connected. Patrick and Francois cast Spanish Dude Jose as the cosmonaut in Happy Rabbit. And, funnily enough, the live chicken footage ended up being used in The Kirmann Project. Recycle, reuse.
