WALKABOUT – The Vampire's Wife

I’ve had a bit of a Nicolas Roeg week, this week. After watching the brilliant Don’t Look Now, I watched the equally strange and disturbing masterpiece Walkabout, one of my husband’s all time favourite films. Starring Jenny Agutter and the great David Gulpilil, Walkabout tells the story of two schoolchildren that are abandoned in the Australian outback and come across a teenage Aboriginal boy who helps them survive in the wild. A film that is a haunted journey that travels from experience to innocence to dark mystery. A wonderful film. Love Susie. x

WALKABOUT

THE CARNIVAL IS OVER

I have just a simple song for you all from 1967, all the way from Australia (where my husband is), by The Seekers. I love this song, melancholy but so stirring, and Judith Durham, dressed in what looks like something from the archives of The Vampire’s Wife, is so touching. It is a song full of tears about the end of things and love’s enduring presence. We adore this song here at The Vampire’s Wife.

TIME AFTER TIME, LITTLE JIMMY SCOTT

Look at this heart-breaking piece of film of Little Jimmy Scott singing Time After Time and giving his thoughts on what a song is meant to be. He is a vast talent and a beautiful man; we met him at my husband’s Meltdown Festival in London in 1999.

TO DIE BY YOUR SIDE

I heard this wonderful version of The Smiths classic song "There is a Light That Never Goes Out" by the brilliantly ebullient Dum Dum Girls on the DJ Lonny’s amazing Cover to Cover on Radio Lewes this week. What a great show! What a superb song! What a joyful cover! ‘To die by your side is pleasure and a privilege’ indeed!