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Kate Bushs Army Dreamers was blacklisted on the BBC Here is Norwegian singersongwriter Moddis reinterpretation of the 1980 classic



ABOUT THE SONG
SOME CALLED IT THE “VIDEO GAME WAR” The Gulf War of 1991 saw 34 nations join forces to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein Western viewers could follow the warfare live on TV with daily videos brought to their living rooms from cameras aboard US bombers

At the same time criticism against the war was muffled 67 songs that were removed from the BBC because they were considered “inappropriate for airplay” during the combats in the Gulf One of these songs was Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers a story about a grieving mother who laments the loss of her fallen son

“What should he do
Could have been a rock star
but he didn’t have the money for a guitar
Could have been a politician
but he never had a proper education
Could have been a father
but he never even made it to his twenties”

The individual human suffering of Western warfare is often downplayed Rather we are fed with a public narrative about the necessity and urgency of our military involvement Songs like Army Dreamers that highlight the consequences of war are seldom played on the radio or given public attention

More than a hundred thousand people lost their lives as a consequence of the Gulf War Army Dreamers was blacklisted for talking about one



PRODUCTION TEAM

Director
Maren Skolem

Producer
Marte Hansen

Cinematographer
Annicken Aasheim

Production manager
Pål Moddi Knutsen

Production designer
Catrine Gormsen

Editor
Matilde Fridlund

1st AD
Marte Hansen

2nd AD
Line Herud

Focus puller
Magga Vala

1nd AC
Sondre Hemstad

Gaffer
Anton Østerlund

Best boy
Alexander Ophaug

SFX Make-up
Ingvild Håheim

Colorist
Lasse Sevli Uhørt

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ACTORS

Dad
Roy-Allan Larsen

Children
Vetle Bråthen
Heidi Kaafjeld
Berge Grundstad
Linn Sollien Vestad

Teenagers
Mats Røysom
Henriette Rinde
Marius Jonassen
Hege Etnestad

Soldiers
Sigve Bakken
Torstein Reistad
Mikkel Horsberg
Beate Haugsdal

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TUSEN TAKK

Krypton
Christian Berrum
Location-service
Filmbin
Fiksern
Kapp Kirke
Vestoppland Bussveteran
Julie Tollefsrud Foss
Ramirent
Remi Antonsen
Pål Røed
Anders Fristad Rudolph

Produced with support from Mediefabrikken vRemi Antonsen and Viken Ung vAnders Fristad Rudolph



Army Dreamers is taken from the album Unsongs released by Propeller Recordings in 2016

Producer
Hasse Rocbach

Musicians
Pål Moddi Knutsen
Hasse Rosbach
Peder Kjellsby
Katrine Schiøtt
Trondheimsolistene

Mixed by
Mike Hartung at Propeller Music Division

Mastered by
Morgan Nicolaysen at Propeller Mastering



Disclaimer In Moddis original interpretation of Army Dreamers the line Ive a bunch of purple flowers to decorate a mommys hero had been replaced with daddys to reflect the position of the singer but had to be changed back again in this version due to copyright issues



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