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VIDEO: Pocket & Steve Kilbey Collaborate On Webcam Clip For "Hear In Noiseville"

posted Aug 17th 2009, 19:39

 

 

 

The spirit of internet collaboration that drives Pocket's Singles Series has produced a complementary video concept: A webcam, a few simple video techniques and a copy of iMovie & voilla! -  Homespun Music Videos! Steve Kilbey of Australian alternative godfathers The Church, performed his part for the video in front of his computer's camera. He then emailed the file to Pocket AKA Richard Jankovich, who spliced them together with footage he shot of the lyrics in a flip book style montage reminiscent of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" video as seen through the eyes of Napoleon Dynamite

director Jared Hess.

Here's Steve Kilbey's take on the whole process from his blog, The Time Being:

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a guy called richard sent me some music a while ago
and i sang some stuff n sent it back
it wasnt quite my cup of tea
but it had a certain joie de vivre that i liked
it seemed very eighties
but i didnt understand that that was its trip, did i?
i was listening to it at my daughters place in sweden
when their ears
pricked up
"daddy,THIS is really cooo-oool" they said
this is...? i say
(you see sometimes i dont know what i'm doing or
what anybody else is either)
listening to it thru a new set of ears
its a perky poppy feelgood little thing
its still got words like "inevitably " in it
so its not a total pop out
but you know
its catchy n singalong-y
if you like that kinda thing
sometimes we all do, dont we?
so richard gets all these weird mixes down n stuff
and he asks me to help do a vid
oh the wonders of the modern age
casting my mind back twenty years
the pain n drudgery and yes
the outrageous expense
of making a video
if richard had suggested this twenty years ago
i would have to have found a camera man
a lighting man
someone to synch it up
a caterer and blah blah blah
then have to shoot it
process it
edit blah blah blah
get it over to the u.s.
blah blah blah
but wow
i did my bit last night
richard did his thing while i slept n went out for a walk
come home its already up on you tube
pocket featuring steve kilbey "hear in noiseville"
go n take a look
(warning: if you hated anchorage from th'other day
you may not like this!)
but lighten up
hey richard
i think you did a marvellous job!
the song and the vid are a real gas!
good on you, my man!
stealing a feeling a feeling
revealing a feeling i felt!
oh ha ha
the eighties live on forever
thats rocknroll, children
and everythings possible

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