Original video located here. Accessed 28th October 2015
Song title: Long Loud Hours
Artist: Urthboy with Bertie Blackman
Year: 2015
Why I like this song:
I already knew about the story of the criminal John Killick and Lucy Dudko so imagine my surprise when a song relating that narrative comes along.
For the uninitiated, Killick was in prison when he struck up a bond with Dudko, who he had met previously. She visited him on several occasions before a plan was conceived: She would hijack a tourist helicopter, fly to the prion and airlift him out. And Dudko, who had no criminal background prior, did just that: holding a pilot at gunpoint. Following this, Killick and Dudko went on the run before finally being caught forty-five years later.
Not quite a Bonnie and Clyde situation but a compelling story nonetheless.
So it is interesting for Urthboy to take an empathetic approach, giving his subjects through a humanising perspective. And it works
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