Chapter One – Son Of Sea’s Dreaded Green Bag
What is a dreaded green bag? Is it actually dreadful, does it possess the capability of being dreaded? Is it really green, or is it even a bag? Does it even matter? For Son Of Sea’s purposes, it could have been anything, but the green bag was chosen, and it’s not actually very frightening or capable of being dreaded. It’s really just Son Of Sea’s latest undertaking – an album of songs and film (otherwise known as music videos). Confused? Read on…
It all began during one of those what to do next? moments in July of 2009, when it suddenly seemed that recording a single song and making a video for it seemed the best course of action at that particular point in time and space. But everyone does that! So why not complete the video bit first, and then only once that’s done, write the song? And with that concept in place, the process of writing a three-minute short film began, Ebay was scoured for a few choice Super 8 cameras (what else would anyone in their right mind use to make a film other than a 1970s film camera?) and thus began this vaguely trial-and-error project.
Well, not even a single roll of film had been shot before it began to seem like a good idea to make more than just one of these films. Why not make ten of them? An album where every single song has a video to go with it. It could either be listened to or watched like some kind of disjointed movie. So began more writing, writing, writing. Music was forgotten for the moment. Meanwhile, the shooting of the original video was completed and instruments sold to finance the necessary video editing gear. Songwriting once again resumed. By this time 2010 was already in full swing and only two videos had actually been shot. The realisation set in that the Dreaded Green Bag was going to take a long time.
So now, with the aid of a website, Things From The Dreaded Green Bag can be a living breathing thing before it has even been completed. So, watch this space, as they say, because periodically Martin will post the latest completed videos from Things From The Dreaded Green Bag. Maybe just the good ones. No… maybe only the mediocre ones so there is still an element of surprise when the time comes to listen/watch the whole … erm, bag.
Oh and before I forget… who is this Son Of Sea character? What can I tell you… he’s a young chap called Martin who lives in Brisbane, Australia and makes music out of his home-garage-studio (mostly his own, but he does it for other people too). He has a significant interest in the technology of decades past, such as old cameras – hence the reason the Dreaded Green Bag is being filmed that way. He usually ends up playing most of the instruments on his recordings because he doesn’t like to bother other people too much, but sometimes others do generously lend their skills to his projects. He is always very grateful when this happens.
— Some bloke (2010)
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