Found the observatory too. It's called the Camino al Observatorio de Sierra Nevada. And a photo, in fact a whole photostream, is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juandesant/220926388/. It seems you can visit both the castle and the observatory during the summer. The observatory's full English website is here: http://www.osn.iaa.es/osn_eng.html Also, this link:http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0solFXjIK8MC&pg=PA577&lpg=PA577&dq=La+Cal... brings up a guide book which mentions the roads Bill and Jimmy drove on up into the snow level at the end of TWR. Hmm ... maybe THIS would be a better place to make a KLF "pilgrimage" than Stockwell! :-) John

Message Received: Jun 14 2008, 09:09 PM From: "Juli Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] Spanish locations in "The White Room" in another, earlier rock movie

Working out the location shouldn't be too hard by means of looking through photos on flickr of castles in Andalucia. I've found one in a very similar style so far, but it's made of the wrong material and in a very different sort of landscape. More eyes probably would have better luck :)

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:40 PM, John Milne <john@highlandland.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

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There's also a shot of a tractor that's practically identical - and Adam Faith can be spotted in the same square as Bill Drummond.

Sadly, nothing more specific re: locations than "Granada, Andalucia" - but it's an interesting bit of trivia.

John

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Message Received: Jun 14 2008, 07:57 PM From: "Jon doe" <jondoe@clsmweb.fsnet.co.uk> To: john@highlandland.fsnet.co.uk, "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] Spanish locations in "The White Room" in another, earlier rock movie

both have sheep noises too! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Milne" <john@highlandland.fsnet.co.uk> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:52 PM Subject: [KLF] Spanish locations in "The White Room" in another, earlier rock movie

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People may know about this already, but I watching the David Essex movie "Stardust" on Saturday night. The film ends with Essex's rockstar character moving to Granada in Andalucia, and living in a castle on a hill. I'm 100% sure it's the castle from "The White Room". In fact, it's very odd to see it in another movie! Also, the mountains, fields, farmers and towns of the surrounding area appear in "Stardust" too (although, not the observatory from the very end of TWR).

Of course, the whole "White Room" is on Youtube - as is "Stardust".

To compare castles, check part 4 of TWR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Rywtj2zvE and fast forward to 2.58.

Then, check part 9 of Stardust: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s72Vje3kcgs and fast forward to 4.00.

Filmed 15 years apart, you can see that the tower and door into the castles are identical, as is two small pieces of "wood" (?) sticking out of the castle wall above the doorframe. And of course, the hill were Bill runs down is also featured in "Stardust" with delivery trucks arriving.

Anyone think that Bill and Jimmy picked this location on purpose - or is it a very, very, very unlikely coincidence?

John

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