Blue Is the Warmest Colour trying to make their flesh more familiar to us than his own." "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" is also filled with visual symbolism. The colour blue is used extensively throughout the film—from the lighting in the gay club Adèle visits, to the dress she wears in the last scene and most notably, in Emma's hair and eyes. For Adèle, blue represents emotional intensity, curiosity, love, and sadness. Adèle also references Pablo Picasso a number of times, who famously went through a melancholy Blue Period. As Emma grows out of her relationship with Adèle and their passion wanes, she removes the
This Is Colour demo "First Steps (2005 demo)" at West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, this recording was never physically released and only three of the tracks made it to the band's Myspace page (This Is Colour's main outlet for publicity at the time). The demo has since leaked, but even with intense Google searching, it is still hard to come by. Their first actual release, "A Brief Demonstration", recorded in Jason Naylor's shed, Glemsford, Suffolk, UK, was released in 2007. "A Brief Demonstration" grabbed the attention of promoters all over the UK, This Is Colour toured extensively, playing with the likes