About the videos:
We are choosing
highlights from about an hour each from two gigs -
Southampton: Talking Heads
on Tuesday 8th May 2001 and 13th Nov 2002 shot by Jed and
Bournemouth:
Mr Smith's on Monday 14th May 2001 filmed by Jed, Maria James
and Martin Lee.
The master digital video tapes from the hastily borrowed miniDV cameras are surprisingly clear, with the in-camera sound at 48kz less distorted than we feared. We suffered short battery life and some annoying auto-focus shifts on the 2001 gigs (no manuals... or practice time...) and in the future the sound would be improved if we could overdub from DAT or minidisc straight from the desk. Nevertheless, here are the first of some outstanding Harper moments which cut through these limitations and the horrors of experimental compression for web delivery.