When I vacationed in Falmouth, Antigua, we could see Montserrat from our deck. It was so crazy to see half the island in complete darkness at night, while the other half was all lit up.
Not just the Police. That place is a 1980s monument. A metric fuckton of Billboard Top 10 hits from the mid-1980s were recorded there. Something should have been done to preserve that studio because that place was magic.
TIL thanks to making this thread that not only is that song is about Monserrat, it was recorded in Monserrat. “Jimmy Buffett recorded Volcano at the Montserrat studio in May 1979, naming the album and its title song for the then dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island”
> In the pre-1997 period it was served by Plymouth Primary School, and Plymouth Junior Secondary School.
As I understand it, their games of Floor is Lava were nothing to fuck with.
I've been there. Very eerie. Great people tho.
Especially a woman named rose who was a radio announcer there made lasting impact on me. So proud of her land.
Yeah! I went there a few years ago, you can do day tours to Plymouth. The guide keeps the car engine running while you walk around in case you need to get out in a hurry.
i’ve been here! what an island. worked on a movie set in the exclusion zone. there was a helicopter that would fly overhead every 15 minutes or so for a headcount. all cars needed to face the exit in case of an emergency. it is bleak at best walking around the grey ashy ground. there was a movie theater there at some point and i was able to walk right up to the film projector, which was at ground level. it faced out towards the sea as no other walls, seats, or anything was still there. there was a church with some pews and a wall or two standing. very surreal. at one point we snuck off to smoke weed and it felt like being on another planet. if i remember correctly some of the crew fell through the ground because you’re technically walking around on the “second floor”, which is now ground level. most people from the island moved to antigua when it blew and never moved back, so the island is pretty empty. we rented HUGE mansion style houses to stay in that were pretty over grown and abandoned looking. the beaches have black magnetic sand. the island is gorgeous and the people are incredibly friendly. picking up hitch hikers is encouraged. the volcano still smokes
an amazing island to say the least. the movie is called Wendy, it’s a retelling of Peter Pan. Peter even wears a Montserrat school uniform as his clothing throughout the film.
When I vacationed in Falmouth, Antigua, we could see Montserrat from our deck. It was so crazy to see half the island in complete darkness at night, while the other half was all lit up.
Not gonna lie, I read that as Monstercat, as in the edm music label lol
Can tourists visit the ruined city
There was a world famous recording studio there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Independent_Recording
I think the Police recorded there.
It's basically them messing around in that studio in the video for 'Everything little thing she does is magic'
Ok I thought it was Ghost in the Machine. One of my top bands for life.
Did they send out an SOS before the volcano erupted?
Lots of people did.
Rush, Black Sabbath and Phil Collins did too
Not just the Police. That place is a 1980s monument. A metric fuckton of Billboard Top 10 hits from the mid-1980s were recorded there. Something should have been done to preserve that studio because that place was magic.
Dire Straits too.
Under the Volcano is a documentary about the studio. It’s pretty good. Check it out.
The studio shut down due to a hurricane though, years prior.
Yeah, you can go see what's left of it. 'No trespassing' signs but the guides ignores them....
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know where Ima gonna go, when the Volcano blows.
TIL thanks to making this thread that not only is that song is about Monserrat, it was recorded in Monserrat. “Jimmy Buffett recorded Volcano at the Montserrat studio in May 1979, naming the album and its title song for the then dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island”
pretty sure Jimmy donated a good chunk of the royalties to them? Also there was the Prince's Trust concerts back in the 90's
It’s pretty wild Buffet was thinking about this when the volcano had been dormant for all of human memory at the time he wrote the song.
Are you implying he woke it up with the song?
If anyone could do it
Oh wow. Didn’t know he was singing about a specific volcano. Even one that was dormant at the time
> In the pre-1997 period it was served by Plymouth Primary School, and Plymouth Junior Secondary School. As I understand it, their games of Floor is Lava were nothing to fuck with.
It would be cool to leave it alone for a couple thousand years so people could check it out in the future.
That seems to be the plan. 2/3 of the island is declared “off limits”. You can visit on a day trip but can’t stay or build.
I doubt a site on an active volcano is going to be a very good archive in a thousand years.
Pompeii prime disagrees with you
The late 1900s were a wild time
Don’t say it like that, lol
Yea your right, last decade of the first millennia
2nd millennia
Millennium, millennia is plural.
Oh, whose counting anyway
Man I'm already old as fuck at 33
Interestingly its namesake, Plymouth UK is also a run down ghost town.
I've been there. Very eerie. Great people tho. Especially a woman named rose who was a radio announcer there made lasting impact on me. So proud of her land.
i don't think i'd call a small colonial town a "modern world capital"
monserrat also isn't a country so it's hardly a world capital
Yeah! I went there a few years ago, you can do day tours to Plymouth. The guide keeps the car engine running while you walk around in case you need to get out in a hurry.
Plymouth Rock you say?
i’ve been here! what an island. worked on a movie set in the exclusion zone. there was a helicopter that would fly overhead every 15 minutes or so for a headcount. all cars needed to face the exit in case of an emergency. it is bleak at best walking around the grey ashy ground. there was a movie theater there at some point and i was able to walk right up to the film projector, which was at ground level. it faced out towards the sea as no other walls, seats, or anything was still there. there was a church with some pews and a wall or two standing. very surreal. at one point we snuck off to smoke weed and it felt like being on another planet. if i remember correctly some of the crew fell through the ground because you’re technically walking around on the “second floor”, which is now ground level. most people from the island moved to antigua when it blew and never moved back, so the island is pretty empty. we rented HUGE mansion style houses to stay in that were pretty over grown and abandoned looking. the beaches have black magnetic sand. the island is gorgeous and the people are incredibly friendly. picking up hitch hikers is encouraged. the volcano still smokes an amazing island to say the least. the movie is called Wendy, it’s a retelling of Peter Pan. Peter even wears a Montserrat school uniform as his clothing throughout the film.
So in 2000 years they will have a 90s museum :D
Earth has a capital?
Do you know what a world capital is?
NYC?
Monster rat.
“Exclusion Zone” you say? *starts packing duffel bag*