A ghost gets a funeral he never had—by the voices he never knew he touched.
Filmed at the Barbican in January 2010 and curated by Joe Boyd, producer and general champion of Nick Drake, 90 minutes of performance highlights from a diverse but renowned cast of modern day troubadours. Presenting their own interpretations of Drake's songs are Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren, Robyn Hitchcock, Kirsty Almeida and Harper Simon.
Direction
Janet Fraser-Crook keeps it spare; the songs breathe.
Cinematography
Soft shadows, warm wood, Drake's ghost in the architecture.
Production
Joe Boyd's curation is a love letter, not a museum piece.
Director
Janet Fraser-Crook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Drake sold fewer than 20,000 records alive; posthumous streams now number in hundreds of millions.
The Barbican's brutalist concrete halls were built the year Drake recorded 'Five Leaves Left'—architecture and artist, both misunderstood in their time.
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