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Meanwhile, some seven months later, a Nikki Sudden home movie.....

Okay, so there's a danger of this becoming almost exclusively an archive for the works of Nikki Sudden and his brother Epic Soundtracks - not necessarily a bad thing - and to be fair the first two posts of 2012 feature Nikki - but rest assured, we'll deliver a little variety in months to come.

Anyway, I've been planning for some months now to start the process of copying some videos on to DVD and getting them on to YouTube - finally got round to coming up with this half hour extract from a video made back in 1991 by my brother, Nik, and ace photographer Steve Gridley. Brief details of the various locations used appear on the notes with the clip.



Still to come, more of Nikki strumming away in his parents' garden, some live acoustic and band stuff and some cool clips of the '95 version of the Jacobites messing around in the studio.

Kinda good to be up and running again - we'll see how long it lasts this time!

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  1. Johnny P11 March 2012 at 20:48

    It's good to have you back here Chris. Absolutely wonderful footage of Nikki here too. I absolutely adore this footage. Great to see something that as a huge fan I have not seen or heard before. Wonderful.

    JP

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