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OTHER THINGS MARLING
Marling's Music in Film, Theatre, and TV
PEAKY BLINDERS
In Season four of the crime family epic PEAKY BLINDERS, Marling is "featured heavily". Rhian Daly of NME wrote: "You might not expect a show whose watchword is 'outlaw' to go heavy on the folk, but, after featuring in season two, Laura Marling has three songs featured in the fourth season – a cover of Nick Cave’s ‘Red Right Hand’, another mystery cover and one of her own originals. 'Being an outlaw is not about being loud,' explains [composer Anthony] Genn. 'Being an outlaw is about being powerful. When Laura Marling opens her mouth and sings...this person is the real deal'.”
BODY AND SOUL
Hungarian writer-director Ildikó Enyedi's film, ON BODY AND SOUL (Testrol és lélekrol), is a tale of two loners, Endre (Géza Morcsányi) and Mária (Alexandra Borbély) who live on the outskirts of Budapest and fall in love. Laura Marling's song "What He Wrote" is the one tune Mária plays over and over. BODY AND SOUL can be streamed on Netflix.
ROMA
"Roma: Music Inspired By The Film, is a collection of songs inspired by the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated film, curated by the film's director Alfonso Cuarón. Track 14 is Marling's cover of Mary Hopkin's song Those Were The Days.
BONNY PORTMORE
Episode 5 of TURN features an interpretation of Bonnie Portmore, a 300 year old Scottish protest song by Marling and Jonathan Wilson. In a review of the episode, Brian Ives of radio.com quotes Marling on her involvement with the song.
“I was asked to perform it at a gathering in London in honor of The People Speak, [the 2009 film] influenced by Howard Zinn’s writings about the history and power of speech and protest. And the night [singer/songwriter] John Martyn died [January 29, 2009], I was on tour in rural Scotland and the entire village came together in the pub and passed around a guitar taking turns to play his songs and sing together, full of joy. That was one of the most important musical experiences I ever had. Not least because in rural Scotland in one pub there were at least 20 people better at singing and playing guitar then me.”
WHEN BRAVE BIRD SAVED
The short film When Brave Bird Saved, by Frederick Scott & Nicholas Jack Davies is described as "an introduction to a visual journey directly inspired, informed, and narrated by the first four tracks of 'Once I Was An Eagle.'" Castmembers are: Jessica Lee Keller, Sean Patrick Parnell, Amanda Balen, Christopher Black, Jasmine Albuquerque, Cathy Cooper, Haylee roderick, Bill Prudich, Andy Acosta, Rhoda Pell, Forrest Temple, Theresa Balderson, Galen Howard, and Alfred Gilliam.
CONTEXT OBJECT AUTHORITY
Laura Marling composed the music for this intimate dance video featuring Jasmine Albuquerque, was filmed in the area surrounding her Malibu Canyon home before devastating 2018 fires. "The location played a big role in this film," explained long-term Nowness contributor Justin Tyler Close. "It truly was a relationship between Jasmine and nature. We shot this at Jasmine's house in Malibu Canyon, which now is abandoned and charred from the Woolsey Fires. They lost everything. So in many ways this film is a love letter to that land."
METHOD IS MADNESS
Marling's 'Rest in the Bed' is the music behind the short film produced to promote 'Method in Madness', a a theatrical productiion which was part of Edingurgh Fringe in 2015. Written by Alex Doble and Katie Dunstan, and devised by Entita Theatre, the play combined "Shakespearean text and new writing with physical theatre and elements of dance".
A QUESTION THAT SOMETIMES DRIVE ME CRAZY...
Hazel Clarke, Artistic Director/Choreographer of Kairos Dance Company, was inspired by the song My Manic and I to create "A Question That Sometimes Drives Me Hazy: Am I or the Others Crazy?", a full-length work of choreography focusing on mental illness in the early 1960s, it's stigmas, and it's effect on society. "“I was listening to her song, ‘My Manic,’ and it just hit me,” Clarke told Easy Reader News. “I just saw a mental institution and a set with a man struggling with schizophrenia and a woman in the institution in love with him.” Dancer Jessica Harper added: "It's a dark piece, but there are comical aspects of it and light parts. There is a lot of light and beauty in it. We're all human, we all have issues. It doesn't matter if you're diagnosed with anything or not, everybody can relate."
I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN - the musical
In the summer of 2013, "I Speak Because I Can", an original musical featuring the songs of Laura Marling was performed by student-run theatre group Dorothy L. Productions, based in Flower Mound, Texas (near Dallas). The musical was set in the Boston area in the year 1960, with a story that explored themes of civil rights and feminism. All profits were donated to Traffick911, an organization dedicated to fighting sexual slavery of children in the U.S. Video of this project is no longer online.
Fan Things
Marling Will Always Live in the English Counrtyside
Guillermo Rodicio described howhe discovered Marling's music in an article titled "Laura Marling sempre vivirà na campiña inglesa". "I did not quite understand what he was doing," he wrote, "but I took the first English bus that appeared and I was half asleep listening to Laura's music, because it seemed to be what had to be done. I woke up again at the last stop on the line and the driver told me we were in Reading, west of London. It was an orderly and quiet city, with deserted streets on a Tuesday afternoon. I decided to continue walking, without a destination. I passed a car rental, but at that time I did not have a credit card. What I could do was ride a bike, so I rented one in a store that I found. I left Reading mounted on a borrowed bike, and thinking of the verses of I speak because I can...Night was beginning to fall when I saw a light in the distance, beyond the trees. I arrived at a solitary, white and sunny roofed house, invaded by the ivy and in front a green door, on which was carved Blackberry Stone, like in that Laura song that begins: 'Well I own this land / And I wrote this sky / And I have no reason to reason with you.'"
The Boy With The Marling Tattoo
[on the way home from seeing "Local Natives" play their last show of 2010 at The Forum]
"But this time it's just a guy, about my age, on his way back from a gig. He asks us if we know who Laura Marling is, and we say we do, and he says we look like we would (I don't know what that means). He'd been to see her that night, on his own, and had been standing right in front of the stage and had lifted his leg up there to reveal to Laura Marling a tattoo, from his ankle to halfway up his calf. It said Laura Marling. In child-like handwriting, large, with two child-like flowers at each end. It was not the best tattoo I'd ever seen.
"The woman herself saw it and proclaimed him to be 'the most chronically weird' fan ever, to which he replied that he was drunk when he got it done. So she told him he was 'the coolest' fan ever. Respect to her for acknowledging him. It must be really, really odd when people you've never met ink your name on their body permanently. So he tells us all this and explains that when he got the tattoo it had been a toss-up between Laura Marling or The Courteneers. 'You probably did alright there,' I tell him."
---- CHAL RAVENS blog post (excerpt) - 25/11/2010
GRETTA RAY: Love Letter to 'Once I Was An Eagle'
Australian singer/songwriter Gretta Ray wrote a love letter to ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE, explaining that she has "never known a record that sounds more like a musical reading of a classic novel or an iconic collection of poems", and continued: "Once I Was an Eagle, I only recently learned that you were recorded, from beginning to end, in two takes. I have always adored how each song of yours flows directly into the next, but this new piece of information only further exemplified to me how seamless and raw your highly emotionally intense narrative truly is. I remain indescribably obsessed with how you occasionally slip into the tone of spoken word and fall gracefully back into melody."
ALISON THOM: Love Letter to 'Alas I Cannot Swim'
Allison Thom of the Australian Dark-Folk group Howlite penned "Love Letter To A Record: Howlite’s Alison Thom On Laura Marling’s ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. "Dear Alas I Cannot Swim," she wrote. "I first met you in year 10 on a burnt CD, wrapped in coloured paper and handed to me, like a drug deal, in the aisle of the school bus by my friend Melissa. Between us, Melissa and I had established something of a piracy ring of Myspace music downloads, YouTube rips and Limewire files. We were the curators of our own secret music club, dedicated to scouring the internet via dial-up for new and exciting artists. There was no band too obscure, no demo too rough, no download too painfully slow. Every few weeks we would return from our crusades and wordlessly exchange handmade cases, with meticulously handwritten notes detailing the contents."
Charlotte and the Shirt
Charlotte blogged on 'Thoughts From Another Kook' - 25/04/2010: "i really, really love it! apart from the fact that it is seriously huge. i'm not kidding, it goes almost to my knees. they had no smalls left at the stall so i went for a medium. whatever, it's clearly a dude's medium. it also says laura marling underneath the 'i speak because i can' bit, but you can't see that because i had to tuck it into my skirt, so that you could actually see my skirt. i did tell you it was huge."
A Fan's View Of A Marling Concert
From a (since deleted) Tumblr blog dated October 2012, likely describing Marling's appearance at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art on 26 October of that year.
so last night i got to see laura marling live in Massachusetts, which is like 3.5 hours away from where i live, right, but i really wanted to go and then arielle and her friend, laurel, were going to be there like awesome.
so i went to school, etc. and that was all i talked about all day and everyone was like lol shup up lucy lol but i wouldn’t because this concert was really important to me
so we were supposed to leave at 3:15 because i wanted to get there kind of early so maybe i’d get decent seats, but my dad was getting the car serviced and the people at the servicing place were taking forever so he didn’t even get home until 3:40 and then he had to get ready so we basically didn’t leave until like 4 which made me really mad and i thought we would be really late.
then on the way we got stuck in crazy ass traffic because there was a really bad car accident like /really/ bad car accident so we were stuck for like 20 minutes on a road that should have taken us about 2 minutes to cross.
we ended up getting to the venue around 6:45 and i was really mad because i just wanted to go in but my parents were like nope jk go eat something but i was really persistent and they’re like fine just go wait for like 2 hours in that stupid line
so i went and i mean i was only waiting for like 10 minutes before they let me in and i wasn’t really that close to the front but kind of close so i saw that there were five front row seats left and i walked really quickly to get to them like i would have run but i didn’t want to be kicked out and i got the seats and reserved the four for the people i was coming with.
i really didn’t expect front row seats though wow. and then i was in the room for like an hour before anyone came in and arielle and her friend still weren’t here so i was like fuk because the concert was about to start and i didn’t know if they would get there on time.
then laura came on and i was crying because just wow she’s really perfect okay like she’s so pretty and she’s so nice like she’s really so sweet and humble which i guess you don’t see too often with celebrities but just aw and then she played Sophia omfg when she played sophia like that song just wow and i was so happy i didn’t think she was going to, but between songs, she would tune her guitars and the like and she had these little banters, which were like the cutest thing like she’s such a real person she’s perfect omg so basically it was an amazing concert and then after, arielle, laurel, and i went out to wait for her and we found the backstage door thing and we probably waited for 30 minutes then she came out and ugh we walked up to her and we were like hi etc.
and so then we started talking a bit but i’m so fucking awkward so idk but arielle showed her a note that laura wrote her in response to a note and aw she actually remembered it so 7a7 arielle and then i was going to get her to sign my phone case on the inside but it wouldn’t come out so she signed the outside instead which was cool so now i can’t use it i’m like preserving it in this bag.
and then laura told laurel that sometimes her parents called her laurel and i was like aw you’re like twins and then she was like yeh then she laughed and then i told her we had the same shoes and then we were twins too and her boyfriend had them as well so triplets.
and then i told her about how i started guitar because i wanted to learn how to play sophia and she told us we were adorable and just omfg it was so amazing and she’s so cute awh okay
so basically i met laura marling and sat front row at her concert mhm.