SAINT ETIENNE – WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, MERVYN DAY?
2012-10-15Heavenly Films are to release a DVD release for ‘What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?’, Paul Kelly and Saint Etienne’s classic depiction of London’s lower Lea Valley before it was redeveloped to become the Olympic Park.
After their 2003 feature debut ‘Finisterre’ (co-directed by Kieran Evans) Paul and the band were commissioned by the Barbican in 2005 to direct a creative documentary with a live soundtrack. The film beautifully captures the east London site – its winding overgrown canals, and derelict warehouses – before the developers and bulldozers moved in, before the birthplace of plastic and petrol was changed forever.