Aztec Camera - Good Morning Britain

What this video is

Released October 1990, 'Good Morning Britain' arrived at a pivotal moment of UK political and cultural transition: Margaret Thatcher's eleven-year tenure was weeks from its end, the acid house revolution had already reshaped British youth culture, and the post-industrial wounds addressed in the song's lyrics — deindustrialisation, the Miners' Strike, The Troubles, Welsh and Scottish marginalisation — remained…

Why it matters

A late but significant entry in the tradition of British political pop music videos, 'Good Morning Britain' occupies a rare space between mainstream chart pop (UK #19) and documentary video art. Director Scarlett-Davis applied the collage logic of the 1980s Scratch Video movement — a form defined…

The director

British artist, director, writer, and editor born July 1950. Pioneer of the UK Scratch Video movement in the early 1980s, directing TV Dinner (1982), Behaviour Red (1982), and A to Z (1983). His early video art was included in international exhibitions…