COIL - Higher Beings Command

“Higher Beings Command“ - A fan-made COIL promo video of their “Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil“ album track (though the featured track edit here is exclusive to this video). This video uses elements from the 2001 “Hello Culture: Badness“ episode under Fair Dealing principles for review purposes. The film here is meant to accompany my “Jhonn Balance at Birnbeck Pier: 1998-2004“ essay from January 2018 (extract below). This video includes exclusively-sourced original digital video of COIL from 2001, straight from the production company. The visual source, without any further compression in this video, is: .vob 25fps 720x576. All broadcast footage on the Weston beach of COIL for the original feature is included in this video, visually unaltered from the production company’s .vob file source I was given by them, except for one rapid shot of the pier opposite. If your browser only shows the 360p quality setting as the highest in Youtube for this video then you need another device/browser to watch it at 480p. There is no HD version of this video, as I didn’t want to attempt an ’upscale’ of the original COIL footage (I wanted to leave that footage ’as is’), thus downscaled the additional footage I shot in Weston in December 2017 to fit better in line with the 2001-era quality of the digital video source. Presenter Collings, cameraman Ian Moss and series producer Ian MacMillan visited COIL at ’North Tower’ around March-April 2001 and the whole group travelled down to the Claremont limestone rock strata overlooking the ’Marine Lake’ area of the Bristol Channel, (down the slope beside Birnbeck Pier, past the Prince Consort Gardens). It was here where the team recorded some of the best - and most distinctive - promo footage ever shot of COIL, each of the three members (Thighpaulsandra joined them on the day) hamming it up on the beach, miming along on their expensive vintage analogue synthesizers. Jhonn himself was mimicking a performance on the vintage EMS VCS3 Analog Modular Synthesizer (much sought after - in 2010 one reached £6,700 in an eBay auction). Phil B.