When we came to make a video for ‘2 Minutes to Midnight’, the director was keen to show how cinematic his storyboard was, so he met us to show polaroids of locations. The Greenwich foot tunnel was one of them. It brought back memories of college and walking under the river to catch the bus to the Green Man in Plumstead. He then produced a series of drawings describing the mercenaries’ hangout. ‘We found this fantastic location. It’s disgusting, full of rats and piss – horrible,’ he said. He flipped over the polaroid. ‘I used to live there,’ I muttered. It was 22 Roffey House. How the world
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