S Club – The Movie – September 26, 2002
DAY SEVEN – SNAPPER’S TRAILER AGAIN: Heroes of the Set Part 101 – (those of you familiar with my 2gether diary will already know about this section so forgive me Nouria et al if you don’t get a mention...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – September 27, 2002
DAY EIGHT – ARRIVING AT THE AIRPORT, DRIVING INTO BARCELONA, ESCAPING FROM THE RECORD STORE: Heroes of the Set Part 102 – the sound guys. Ours are called Tim, Will and Javier. As well as recording the...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – September 28, 2002
It might seem like the weekend but it isn’t. Over the next 48 hours I will bug Guillermo the AD on his cell phone about 30 times; half the crew will be dragged early from their beds to do a location...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – September 30, 2002
DAY NINE – SCLUB SEE THEMSELVES ON TV – THE FAMOUS FINAL SCENE. My Mum always wanted to visit Sitges and she never got her wish. But here I am on the first day of the off season stopping traffic on its...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 01, 2002
DAY TEN – SCLUB WIND UP IN JAIL. We are in Cordoniu – a famous winery 30 minutes North of Barcelona which has beautifully decorated grounds and aging brick buildings which all have the smell of...
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S Club – The Movie – October 02, 2002
DAY ELEVEN – SCLUB DANCE THEIR WAY OUT OF TROUBLE. Unsung heroes of the set part 103 – Props Man Miguel. If Rachel needs her cell phone, Hannah needs her glove puppets, Jon needs change for the cafe...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 03, 2002
DAY TWELVE – SCLUB FIND THEMSELVES IN THE MAZE ON THE WAY TO THE CLONE HOUSE. In the original script this scene was going to take place at night and the band were going to leap over a wall and emerge...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 04, 2002
DAY THIRTEEN – SCLUB VISIT A HOLLYWOOD STUDIO. We started and finished the day in the toilet. Dawn saw nineteen of us squeezed into the ladies room where Tina KO’s Clone Hannah. Boys I have great news...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 05, 2002
Heroes of the set part 104: AD’s (Assistant Directors). Guillermo (pronounced Gijermo) is my A.D. or Assistant Director. In many ways his is the most onerous job on a film crew. It is his...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 06, 2002
After languishing in a customs shed for a month under the eye of some Iberian jobsworth my travel bike has finally arrived in Barcelona. By 9 a.m. I am climbing the slopes of Montjuic for the second...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 07, 2002
DAY FOURTEEN – 3 SCLUBBERS WAIT IMPATIENTLY FOR THEIR BAND-MATES TO RETURN. THEY GET ARRESTED. Unsung Heroes of the Set part 104: Drivers. Mine is called Biel and every morning when I emerge from the...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 08, 2002
DAY FIFTEEN – A MORNING AT THE BEACH AND NATALIE’S APARTMENT IN OLD BARCELONA. I persuade Jon, Rachel and Hannah to dig frantically in the sand while remembering where they came from while Jo and the...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 09, 2002
DAY SIXTEEN – SCLUB FOIL PLAN Q, BREAK OUT OF JAIL (AGAIN!) AND WE SEE VICTOR IN HIS CASTLE. After wrap last night we drove the 80km to Cardonna where we will stay and shoot till the end of our...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 10, 2002
DAY SEVENTEEN – THE SALT MINE. Unsung Heroes of the Set Part 107: Video Assist. In the eyepiece of the modern film camera is a tiny colour video camera which sends a signal to the small High 8 video...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 11, 2002
DAY EIGHTEEN – VICTOR GOES TO HIS LAB, SCLUB ARRIVE AT EAGLE PEAK. It’s a beautiful day and the morning goes well but we find ourselves behind by lunchtime. Alan has a mantra for me which describes how...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 12, 2002
I take the travel bike out on a run to the East of Cardonna. Within minutes I am struggling up a hill against an unforgiving headwind and for a moment the red earth and the simple houses remind me of...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 13, 2002
I take the travel bike out on a run to the East of Cardonna. Within minutes I am struggling up a hill against an unforgiving headwind and for a moment the red earth and the simple houses remind me of...
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S Club – The Movie – October 14, 2002
DAY NINETEEN – EVERYONE CHEERS WHILE VICTOR IS LED AWAY, SCLUB EAT SOUP WITH THE CLONES. There are only two days to go but there is so much to be accomplished that complacency is not an option – but...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 15, 2002
DAY TWENTY – SCLUB AND CLONE SCLUB DANCE THEIR WAY OUT OF TROUBLE (AGAIN) AND FOIL VICTOR’S DASTARDLY PLAN. Like the last day of term you normally look forward to the end of the shoot with such joy and...
View ArticleS Club – The Movie – October 16, 2002
PICK-UP DAY. With the main body of troops already onto their next gigs a few of us stayed behind to mop up the bits of scenes we’d not had time for – Jon’s hand collecting Euros at the Sitges beach...
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