Media References
Dungeness now appears quite often in music videos, album covers and adverts.
The shingle beach and fishermen's shacks feature extensively in the Lighthouse Family promotional video for their 1998 song "High".
The album/project Bass Communion, one of Porcupine Tree's frontman Steven Wilson's other bands/projects, features the T-shaped Shipping Marker. It is located near the fisherman's huts in Dungeness.
The acoustic mirror at Dungeness is featured on the cover of the album Ether Song by the British indie band Turin Brakes. Dungeness appears on the covers of albums as diverse as So much for the city by The Thrills and Aled by Aled Jones.
Athlete have a song on the album Vehicles and Animals called "Dungeness" which is about the area. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly mention Dungeness and the lighthouse in their song "Lighthouse Keeper". The Kent-based hardcore punk band November Coming Fire released a 2006 album entitled Dungeness, featuring a track called "Powerstation" which included a recording of waves on the beach. The Prodigy's single "Invaders Must Die" video was filmed here, and shows both the acoustic mirrors and the lighthouse.
In television, the Dungeness landscape, the lighthouse and the power station have been used on digital channel E4 at the beginning and end of advertising breaks. It featured in an episode of the BBC detective serial The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and in March 2007 was the setting for a major part of an EastEnders special. The BBC filmed episodes of Doctor Who in Dungeness during the 1970s.
The 1981 fantasy film Time Bandits shot its 'Time of Legends' sequence on the beach and much of the 1998 Rachel Weisz movie I Want You was set in and around Dungeness: the lead character's home was one of the wooden beach dwellings.
In the 1993 film, "Mrs Doubtfire", Mrs Doubtfire's reference to "Dungeness" - "She's got the crabs dear, and I don't mean Dungeness" - refers to Dungeness, Washington, where Dungeness Crabs come from. Dungeness, Washington, was named after the area in Kent.
In the 2010 film Robin Hood, Dungeness is the landing point for King Phillip of France's siege on England, and the subsequent battle at the climax of the film. As it was not filmed there, the site on screen bears no resemblance to Dungeness at all.
The nuclear power station at Dungeness was mentioned in "I'm ebola" by the band The Stripper Project who live in nearby Hastings "...Im like a three-handed child in the shadow of Dungeness...where we can grow our extra toes.."
It was also featured in episode 5 of "Citizen Smith", as the location for an interview with the Rubbish men.
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