The Boiler - The SPECIAL AKA FEATURING RHODA DAKAR

The Boiler was made in 1982 with Steve Binnion on 16mm film with a crew from Nottingham Film workshop. The single was actually banned from Radio 1 and it was only broadcast twice. Tyne Tees TV cut off the end which includes snippets from TV shows from back in the day due to copyright clearance costs. The main issue we wanted to explore was that rape was fundamentally about violence against women, as opposed to “sex.“ We wanted to use images of passive women and violent men from mainstream media to use as a metaphor. However when it was broadcast the TV company cut out the TV collage and replaced it with a silhouette of a man raping a woman which was classic irony. I am going to get a copy direct from the 16mm film as this is just a tarted up old VHS copy.