Mick Harvey is looking back on the show reel of his life. It’s the video for his song When We Were Beautiful and Young, where startlingly intimate images – of his parents, back yard cricket, through to lifelong partner, Katy Beale, and their children – are mixed with footage of old friends, collaborators, the much missed and dearly departed. Over the top, we hear Harvey softly crooning a song marking their passage:
And the seasons offered up the extremities of hope
The circles in a spiral of those who could, and couldn’t cope
And there were some who came undone
When we were beautiful and young
