TL;DR: Simon asked me to helm this for him – the concept is all his. He is a perfect producer – I asked for a generator and a smoke machine, and he delivered! Rafe and I both filmed, and then I had fun in the edit. I love shooting in forests. This one turned out beautifully. Pagan/Blair Witch/black metal vibes FTW.  

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Continuing our remit of doing whatever we want whenever we feel like, I shot a video for The Standard Issue, a blazing cut featured on The Lost Album – Live At Smiths.

The Lost Album was recorded live at Smiths in 2019. We didn’t release it on Bandcamp until October last year, and now it – along with the rest of our discography – is up on streaming services. Yay!

A few months ago, I wrote an ambitious list of things I wanted to get done this year, including a lot more cinematography. To ease back into shooting and editing, I thought a no-stress video for one of The Lost Album songs could be a good opening volley. The note I wrote to myself was ‘formal but busy – 20 set-ups of band playing (same framing) in different locations’. Plus there’s something appealingly perverse about doing a full music video treatment for a live recording… that contains no footage of said live recording.

We shot the video over a weekend – five locations in Braddon and ten in Queanbeyan. I didn’t have to think hard to come up with any of these spots – the only hurdle we encountered was I wanted to shoot at the Guns ‘N’ Hoses carwash in Queanbeyan but it was too busy on a Sunday morning. Instead, we moved two doors down and shot out the back of a tyre shop, which probably worked out even better. The shoot was breezy – we had Lou and Violet filming for us! – and it was fun just to hang out with everybody. We got a few bemused looks and some friendly enquiries at some spots, but mostly people paid us no mind.

Along with shooting a bunch of b-roll, Violet also manned the drone for the final shot – what a kid!