nightworker

A lovely conversation that did crop up whilst I was trialing the mobile exhibition was how many songs there are about working at night. The anthem of the lot, ‘Nightshift’ by the Commodores was considered a classic, even with Lionel Ritchie singing. Stood in the rain, huddled under an umbrella, it was nice to hear everyone’s different rendition. ‘Harlem’ by Bill Withers, which I don’t think is about night work just the alienation that night time can bring up. The best of the bunch, and so morbid is ‘Midnightcleaners’ by The Cleaners from Venus. A grim polemic I had seriously remixed in my mind with the film ‘nightcleaners’ made in the seventies by the Berwick Street Film Collective. It’s beginning to feel like that period now.