The Lemon Twigs release their debut album ‘Do Hollywood’ tomorrow (Friday 14th October), and to celebrate they’ve today shared a new video for ‘As Long As We’re Together’ – watch below. It’s really something.
“First, I listened to the song 100 times… as I do, eyes closed… except when driving,” says the video’s director, Autumn de Wilde. “I kept ending up in an empty golden landscape. I’m obsessed with the space-age future once described by the past… now lost and forgotten.
“I talked to production designers, Adam Siegel and Tina Pappas about creating a colorful apocalyptic barren universe. They came back to me with this amazing car. It was the car that Catwoman fake-kidnapped the Joker in on Batman the tv show AND Captain Kirk’s hotrod on Star Trek.
“Shirley Kurata dug for colors and textures to compliment the car and found this amazing vintage pink satin wings jacket. Vanessa Price jumped in the van with us and brought all her favorite dusty desert makeup. The Lemon Twigs are unbelievable live…. so I knew I wanted to do a performance video, but still place them in an electric surreal dream world.
“The wind picked up and howled through us. The car wouldn’t start. My bare-bones camera department was DP Matt Lloyd, producer Saul Germaine, two shitty folding chairs, me and a camera. The dust and wind became a monster we were battling all day, but we all had a blast… and damn it looked good.”
The Lemon Twigs are on tour later this year. Catch them at:
NOVEMBER
21 PARIS, Les InRocks Festival
22 KOLN, Artheater
23 BERLIN, Kantine am Berghain
24 AMSTERDAM, OT301
25 BRUSSELS, The Witloof Bar
28 LONDON, Moth Club
29 LONDON, Moth Club
30 BIRMINGHAM, Hare And Hounds
DECEMBER
01 LEEDS, Brudenell
04 GLASGOW, Nice ‘n’ Sleazy
05 MANCHESTER, Deaf Institute