I think some of this actually got written but fuck knows where that is.
Obviously I was looking for something else - which I can't fucking find - but that's alright for now. It's somewhere.
Everything's somewhere isn't it.
SIBOLS.
1. The piece starts with a Heavy Rock number, Kill’s dream of stardom.
He is awoken by all his family coming in to his bedroom one by one - his dad is supposed to be waking Kill up but moiders about his latest ‘failsafe’ lottery winning system. His sister comes in and taunts Kill into waking up. Finally Kill’s mam comes in and gives Ewart <dad> a row for not getting Kill up. She also hands Kill a letter from the dole office that says he’s got an interview with them in half an hour.
2. Walking through Bangor on his way to the dole office, Kill meets Steve and Bez who have been to an all night rave and are both still buzzing a bit.
Steve informs Kill that he’s intending to leave the band in order to concentrate on his ‘A’ levels. Kill replies that they will discuss the matter in their band practice later in the day.
Kill cops a bit of stick from some thuggy lads who have been banned from his folks’ pub, and on top of this gets a good old fashioned moidering from his old Headmaster about what he’s been doing in the year since he left school.
3. Loads of people have had the same letter from the dole and a small riot breaks out in the Job Centre, as well as a smart song. Kill manages to escape the scuffling and goes to see his Nain.
4. Kill and his Nain are on the pier. He’s knackered and buys his Nain an ice cream. We see that the two are close. Nainsays there’s a storm coming, similar to the biggest of them all that took place back in 1907. She tells Kill more of her big brother - who died when she was 5 years old. She can’t remember the thing clearly but she remembers the storm. She’s moidering because she knows she’s not long for this world. In fact she says she’s ‘going to join her brother before too long’ and says Kill reminds her of him. Kill doesn’t want her to die. She gives him a box of ashes, of her dead brother. A quiet reflective time. For the first time we learn of the Clio, a youth correction ship moored off the coast of Port Penrhyn at the turn of the last century.
5. The band are practicing in the cellar of the pub. Tensions are really coming to the fore. Kill isn’t there to begin with. Manon and Cliff go off together and say that they really will have to tell Kill. Steve says he wants to leave. Kill comes in and Fflur sticks up for him re. Steve.
6. After the practice they’re having a drink in the pub. Kill goes to the toilet and Steve puts some of the ashes in Kill’s tobacco tin. The hooligans from 2. Start a fight with Kill and the skull falls from its glass case.
There is a timesouping change in Kill as he smokes the rolled cigarette with ashes in. In the middle of the trouble the Clio Headmaster bloke comes up from the stairs. The pub is turned on its head, customers into whores, the bar suitably 1900s. Kill escapes from the clutches of the Cwchmeistr into the streets of Bangor and is taken into a whorehouse by one of the girls.
7. Kill is found by the cwchmeistr and marched to the Clio, where the riot act is being read to the boys by the head of the ship. Kill is partnered by William to clean the deck. When the two try and talk William gets a good hiding from the supervising master, more so than Kill - the master seems to relish whipping Will more.
8. A local dignitary and his wife <Lord & Lady Penrhyn?> turn up for a ‘surprise’ visit. Lady Penrhyn chats to the subdued boys and sees their injuries. Kill is the only one to tell the truth - that the master’s been battering them. Will says little and is in fact sticking up for the master.
Kill and Will are alone. Will says to keep his trap shut because it’s just not worth the hassle.
9. The middle of the night. William is grabbed by the master and made to climb the rigging naked. It’s a sexual kick too far and Will falls to his death. The master tells Kill to keep his mouth shut or he’s going to be next.
10. Back to the present time. Kill comes to his senses in the police station alongside a load of the other fighters from the pub incident. He gets interviewed by the policeman <who is himself a Hirael boy> and the message comes through that Nain is on her deathbed.
11. Nain’s deathbed. Fflur turns up to see how Kill is getting on. Kill tells his Nain the story of William’s death. His Nain starts to sing. Kill can’t take it and goes into the corridor for another fag.
12. Which of course transports him back in time once more. John, a new boy on the Clio, is singing the same folk song <The Song of the Sea> as Nain. It’s late at night. The master is telling the lad he sings very nicely. Kill is hiding. The master begins to assault the boy. Kill manages to knock the master out and rescue John, who promptly fetches the cwchmeistr. Kill is marched into a cell.
13. A fire breaks out. The master is taunting Kill. John has not returned to his bed and hears the whole conversation. John manages to let Kill out from his cell and in the confusion of the fire the two jump over the side of the boat and escape.
14. Kill is back in the present, at his Nain’s deathbed. He is telling the whole story to his Nain. She dies and the storm dies with her.
KILL: The storm’s dying down
NAIN: Fydd lot o storms yn dwad I chdi
KILL: Dyla fi bod yn iawn
NAIN: Ie. Fyddet ti
She dies.
15. In the pub. Kill and Old John spit on the Skull. Fflur and Kill hold hands.
Exit Music: Fflur and Kill performing “The Song of the Sea”.
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