SOUND FOR THE FUTURE will be released December 2022 on Amazon/Google Play/Apple TV.
THE HIPPIES were a bizarre English punk band formed in '79 by the Hulse children, Toby (12), Matt (11) and Polly (8). Their cassette album 'A Sound for the Future' featured songs about disease, assassination & the Antarctic.
"Would you please stop sitting around in your pyjamas, eating toast & singeing your legs by the gas fire. Get up & do something creative!" (Ruth Pendragon, Mother & Manager) The band performed ticketed live shows for their mother’s kindly but chaotic group of friends, part of the ramshackle 'Cambridge fringe element': the homeless, drunks, animal rights activists, junkies, cross-dressers and a pair of gay Franciscan Friars.
Their DIY approach & domestic sound still resonates with semi-ironic naive charm, echoing The Shaggs, or Daniel Johnston. The Hippies star shone briefly, before breaking up due to musical differences and possibly an argument over crisps.
The film is an energetic, jarring, comical musical ride through a part-remembered, kaleidoscopically fractured, family history, bringing both hope and resolution, built on a love of the DIY punk aesthetic. XTC, SLEAFORD MODS, GANG OF FOUR, THE STRANGLERS, OUGHT, FRED CHAMPION and THE HIPPIES all provide music to soundtrack the film.
SOUND FOR THE FUTURE features the last performance by the sadly departed Andy Gill of GANG OF FOUR.
The film is presented together with Pinball Films, Creative Scotland and Creative England.
