there’s something very fitting about a rather ropey cover on the soundtrack of a rather ropey remake don’t you think?

‘trouble’ has been used as one of the lead tracks on why-bother brit-flick st trinians - currently pulling pigtails at a cinema near you. this particularly painful video clip is to my utter astonishment the official offering from polydor. i can just about cope with it until the ‘posh’ ones start and then its all over for me..
however i clearly am not ‘down with the kids’ because it’s apparantly a number 1 hit on youtube. there’s even a kareorke version..
i am indeed ‘frilled’

for those not in the know st trinians started life as a wonderful series of cartoons by ronald searle and was later adapted into an equally wonderful series of films beginning with the belles of st trinians in 1954.

Searle’s drawings were conceived while he was held in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, in particularly horrific conditions: the “girls” are the prisoners and the “mistresses” their jailers and tormenters. In one drawing, a school mistress hangs from a tree (captioned “Okay, now where’s old Stinks?”). Vultures sometimes circle overhead. Jolly hockey sticks and Thelwell ponies seem a million miles away. As well as echoing some of this darkness, the old St Trinian’s movies were startlingly full-on, all stocking-tops and anarchy where one might, given their subject matter, have expected demure gentility and angst about prep. Searle’s schoolgirls and their cinematic counterparts were the antithesis of nicely brought up, middle-class young “ladies”

for more read this great article

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