The Long Distance Loneliness Of CFCF

Tom Courtenay stars in the new video for CFCF's You Hear Colours, but not the current 72-year-old knight of the realm, it's the lean, brooding 25-year-old from Tony Richardson’s classic 1962 adaptation of The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner. Editor Tommy Boy has boiled the film down to a daydream about wanderlust and freedom that's a perfect fit for CFCF's billowing Balearica. Mike Silver, the brains behind CFCF, told me how the song came about: "I made it while in a strange listen...

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