A blast from the past

15 Apr

My favourite music video was the last I made, shot way back in 2006, my second with the artist Whitey. It wasn’t the highest budget or the biggest chart hit, but it was a great piece of music and a video that caught how I felt about it, in a way that more complex or polished videos never could. It was shot over the course of two tours, including dates in Hollywood, San Fransisco, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver.

Using night vision and an infrared light allowed the glamorously seedy nightlife of late-2000s Hollywood to carry on undisturbed, when turning on a normal film light would have killed the mood stone dead. This was the time of the Hollywood wild-child, of limo crashes, scenesters and entourages - look out for cameos from Lindsay Lohan and Steve Aoki. The video was intended not just to show a band from the outside, but to show how it felt to be inside a band, looking out.

See below for some never before seen stills from the original rushes.