For most bands, making videos can be a bit of a chore.
They tend to involve long days, not much creative input, and several hours standing still while their latest single plays on a loop around them.
Circa Waves are not like most bands, however. For their latest clip, frontman Kieran Shudall is transformed into a bloodthirty serial killer, while Isaac Hempstead Wright, best known as Bran Stark in Game Of Thrones, makes a guest appearance.
It's all delivered in a schlocky, tongue-in-cheek, hammer horror style, bathed in fake blood and moody lighting. Kieran Shudall says, “When someone offered me the chance to be a serial killer in an Italian b-movie it was hard to resist…. I messaged Isaac from Game of Thrones on Twitter to see if he would be one of my victims and by some weird twist of fate it turned out he was a big fan of the band and agreed. It was great to do something away from your standard performance video and incorporate some early hammer house of horror into the song, it’s a monster!”
It certainly is, Kieran! And you can watch it below.
Catch Circa Waves at the following shows:
March
18 Sheffield Academy
20 Glasgow Barrowland
21 Newcastle University
23 Manchester Academy
24 Liverpool University
25 Oxford Academy
27 Bristol Academy
28 Nottingham Rock City
30 Birmingham Institute
31 London Forum
April
3 Norwich UEA
4 Cambridge Junction