Hateful Chains

 Another day shooting video

We are now in the process of tweaking the final masters of the songs that will be on the first album, soon to be released. We listen in the car, through home stereo, everywhere and then do some tweaking here and there. All the recording is done, all the tracks are there. The order is almost set, it might go through some slight change, but the big picture is there.

I had a nice two weeks off from work, which has continued during Corona-time, and I spent that time creating the album cover. I used several photographs and paintings and created a bunch of images with image manipulation software. (not PS, although quite similar) It was nice to get into the flow state when the ideas started coming, and when I got the first not-so-good ideas out of the way. The band voted for the best three, and these will go into further processing and finally one image will be chosen to be the cover. I can't share them here, as the work is still in process, but I will as soon as I can.

Last weekend we gathered together to shoot video material. We want to make another music video, this time a "live" one, like Siouxsie's Israel. Our drummer's partner was really helpful in finding a location. She had a contact to a local night club, Apollo and she just called and asked, if we can shoot there, since it's empty now anyway. And it happened. There was personnel helping us with the lights and sound and we also had smoke. It was such a nice feeling to just do your job while other people handle the stuff you're not the expert of. 

We had the same photographer to handle the shooting as before. This time we did the "directing" ourselves and had a simple list of all the takes and parts of the song that we needed. After everything had been saved on camera, there was of course time for funny stuff and tomfoolery. I think we'll do the editing ourselves, as soon as possible, to get it out as soon as possible of course!

To get some variation in the takes we changed clothes, just the guitarist and bassist, though. I made them black skirts, with metal d-rings on the side. Long skirts, ankle length. It was actually the guitarist's idea, and I said ok, I'll do it! The model was quite simple but it still took me one day to finish both, because the machine I used was a monster to be tamed. But how ever difficult the making of them was, they looked really good on the men! 

I wore my band vest, which I DIY:ed out of a thrift store find. Messy hair, regular make up. And killer boots with red leather and strings...

After shooting we went to dinner. I had a good glass of wine, which I felt I needed after all the jumping in very high heels and trying to give it all. Exhausting, but so enjoyable! Another kind of flow. 

So, it's a promise that there will be lots of interesting video material on the way! Thanks to all people who helped us shoot and organize everything, that is! I'll keep you all posted about the video and other news. Because there are some interesting things happening in the near future...