BICEP | GLUE (Official Video)

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Taken from ‘Glue EP’ released 2nd November 2017 via Ninja Tune.

Inspired by the song’s homage to the rave era, the video for Bicep’s GLUE by Joe Wilson is a series of landscapes which revisit the sites once brought alive by now infamous raves. Today they sit desolate and empty, retreating back to their former state, with little to show of their impact they had on UK music culture. The static shots offer space to reflect on the importance and idiosyncrasy of these locations and how an abandoned lido, remote airfield and disused warehouse helped to shape the lives of a generation.

Juxtaposed with the images are the hazy, fragmented recollections of those who were there, lifted from Youtube comment sections of the genre’s most defining sounds. Perhaps the most beautiful and poignant pieces of evidence from the period, they eulogise over a time of unity and euphoria, and are a longing to be returned for just one more night.

Executive Producers: Saskia Whinney & Freddie Fraser-Forsyth
Producer: Carla Steinberg
Camera Assistants: Corey Bartle-Sanderson, Lottie Bea Spencer, Holly Lucas
Colourist: Myles Bevan at Time Based Arts
Typography: Studio Terrasse

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[exgrd-]

This song is like when you're coming home for the first time after a walk with someone you've fallen in love with

[ristaradicevic]

I remember that morning, coming back with friends from my first rave. We sat in a local cafe, had a drink and got in the car. Looked at the sunrise, overwhelmed with emotions, a friend says I have a song for you ... he plays this masterpiece on his phone, the third friend who drove puts on his glasses and slowly starts the car. For the next five minutes no one said a word, I looked out the window, the sunrise warming my face. I will remember that moment, those emotions and that morning for the rest of my life.

[matthewchorlton]

I was 19 years old at my first rave when my mates older brother said to me “here ya go kid, take one of these, do half now and see how you go”....well the next thing I know I’m 38, engaged to be married and raising 2 kids.

Still can’t seem to figure out where the last 20 years went, but I wouldn’t change them for the world. The journey which I embarked on from that night 20 years ago was one which changed me as a person, made me see life and other people in a completely different way, a better way, which only those of you who know what I’m talking about will fully understand.

Despite frying probably a million brain cells along the way, I have a mind full of the most amazing and beautiful memories which I will cherish for the rest of my life. For the most part, these memories make me smile, but sometimes they make my heart sink when I think that it’s all over now, those crazy care free days are now in the past and will never return.

To all the young ravers who read my comment, savor and relish every moment of your youth, many of you may not yet appreciate that you’re living the greatest days of your life....and trust me, they flash past you in the blink of an eye.

“Don’t be sad because it’s gone...smile because it happened.”

There’s no school like the old school.

I’d do it all over again in a heartbeat if I could. Time goes too fast.

[ZirrEEWTF]

This song is truly a transportation between infinite youth and inevitable ageing, every person listening knows exactly where they are on that journey and accepts it

[alfie_]

This song means so much to so many people yet it doesn't speak a single word. This is the true power of music!

[romanalexia]

This song makes me feel “that feeling”. “That feeling” for me is when it’s past 4am at a party and the comedown has everyone, while you’re starring at yourself in the bathroom mirror drunk and high af, with your hair messy and your makeup ruined, trying to remember your name, hearing the party’s music in the backround, and you’re just sitting there looking at yourself wondering what you’re gonna do with your life

[tuca]

This song feels like when you're walking back home in the morning after a night out. You feel free but tired, you feel happy but sad that the night is over

[baijayantitoppo]

This song is like recalling the old childhood memories, playing around everywhere without having a tension of being lost somewhere, cycling to a far place with friends, without having a single idea that one day we'll return home and never go back again. *Back to present*

[sharonbaele]

I lost my son 2 weeks ago, he was only 19.
This was our song ❤

[calummcmanus]

Trying to explain to everyone how this triggers every emotion you didn’t know you had

[hammadhashmi]

This song makes me nostalgic for a life I haven't even lived.

[markl]

This is by far the most beautiful comment section I've had to pleasure of reading on YT & I've only scratched the surface. I'm 49 years old & now a grandfather, every comment seems to be drawing on dormant thoughts & memories from my mind that I thought were long gone. This tune transcends music..

I'm listening to this, thinking of friends that have passed & relationships that have gone. Life move so fast. Much love to all of you. 🙏❤

[SubscriberswithnovideosC-okwv]

This triggers an emotion I can’t even describe.

[nicst]

Imagine this. You're in another country, you're at a beach festival, the sun is setting, everyone's off their faces, eyes closed, floating around and the energy is REAL. This makes me feel things I've never felt before, I feel empty but I also feel complete.

[vini]

Indescribable feeling of euphoric anxiety, actually gives me the feels so bad

[rebeccafisher]

54yo old skool raver from SE London here. Many many messy funny memories made. Coming out of clubs sun rising then onto after parties without a care in the world. So glad i was there. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[ganggamm]

This song gets into your head and makes you go on a trip I can’t explain

[darkness.thinking]

It is difficult to describe the feelings this song evokes.

[rimfissihaye]

Everybody is the main character when this is playing

[efektor]

I'm 42, I have two kids, I have memories. I'm divorced, I lost almost everything. Almost everything... but I can listen to this song. It brings back memories that I will never lose, that will be with me forever. This song motivates me to generate new memories. I love this song ♥️Bicep - Glue♥️

Marcin