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Blue Morning/Blue Day

1984 Music video
  • Indie

From the Album Music Media (1984)

'Blue Morning /Blue Day' is drawn from the first album by Brent Hayward and Julie Cooper, aka The Kiwi Animal. The fiercely independent Hooper embraced a DIY ethos. Cooper is a theatre performer, poet and journalist. The lyrics for 'Blue Morning /Blue Day' are hers. The song is an impressionistic portrait of two people in a landscape, the vocals weaving in and around a simple acoustic guitar line. The video is similarly stripped back: the duo are seated on bales of hay evoking a barn dance feel ,and they sing bathed in blue light. The song feels timeless but Cooper's coat and layered haircut are very late 1980s.