The Matches New DIY Video

Tue 19th Jun, 2007 in Local News

The Matches, staying true to their DIY roots, have orchestrated their new video by themselves, including acquiring 80-odd old TVs and VCRs by any means possible, (even claiming to be teachers). The video is for the second single, Salty Eyes, from their album Decomposer.

In their MySpace blog, singer Shawn Harris writes:
The idea was to create a modern appropriation of what is often dubbed the first music video ever shot, which is Bob Dylan’s cue card dropping Subterranean Homesick Blues. It’s been referenced hundreds of times, which a simple wiki-search will illuminate, if you’re curious. Our concept: to replace the cue cards with recently-antiquated box TVs (as flatscreens, HD’s, and plasmas have recently and quickly become the new staple). Old box tv’s of the 80s and 90s have lost nearly all value, so are being discarded at such a rate that it was just plausible enough that we would be able to, with a bit of conniving, score enough of them for free to illustrate our song’s lyrics while still funding the video on our own pocket jingle.

The band did everything themselves, including choreograph the epic one-take that they took to film the video, and recording the queues to drop the TVs at over a double speed version of Salty Eyes, which they have now posted on their MySpace.

Salty Eyes is a classic Matches video, never veering from their do-it-yourself ethics or their strange humour.