The History
of Club Foot Part 3By Richard Marriott
Four years of club dates and two albums later, the CFO "discovered" silent movie performance. How did this happen? According to Richard Marriott: "I was interested in doing something visually that further expressed the ideas behind the music. I considered projecting slides of experimental art on a screen behind us.
"Then a friend suggested, after catching our show: 'The music is so cinematic, why don't you take outtakes of 50's sitcoms and score them.' I put it under my hat. Later that night I saw a Lily Tomlin skit on 'Saturday Night Live'. She was reading the 'Dow Jones' averages of various art trends. She reported, 'Pop Art up 10...OP Art up 20... Expressionism DOWN 30.' I turned the channel. And there was 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and the distorted sets and dreamlike atmosphere in the film were the qualities what I always envisioned accompaning our music. The subversive plot was drenched in the unconscious. I was obsessed to write for that film."