life as moth episode 1.
Behind the scenes of ‘Too Late To Go Outside’ music video, our third single.
1. Matty in the tunnel, Seth is nervous about speed cameras
2. Burnouts at Botany giving Matty smoke inhalation
3. Tawny getting papped in the street
4. Golden hour test shoot
5. Tawny news report
6. Finbar perfectly times run to the fretless bass solo
7. Twins mogging, Seth in a food coma
8. Something fell off the bed
By @darwin.schulze@katesowadahicks
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Have you ever woken up and for a split second have no idea where you are? This week’s Wild One from Sydney locals Kate Moth captures that energy.
Kate Moth vocalist Matty finds himself floating through Sydney streets from the comfort of his own bed in the bands newest music video for ‘Too Late To Go Outside’. Shot on a shoe-string budget without special effects, the video recreates the dream-like experience of falling in and out of consciousness and the inner conflict of wanting to face the outside world. Or not.
“When we first wrote the song we knew it had a nocturnal feeling, and Matty’s vocals fell into this kind of not-happy-not-sad sleepy persona” explains co-director and Kate Moth guitarist Finbar Watson. “These increasingly early sunsets as the season changes got thinking about a half-dazed man, floating the streets of the city, seeing friends emerge from streetcorners while he can’t bring himself to get out of bed. But clearly the bed had other plans…”
It’s thanks to the co-directorial expertise of Darwin Schulze that the team opted to forgo any SFX and instead shoot everything IRL. Finbar explains “Darwin is the master of practical effects so we decided absolutely no green screens and we were gonna do this for real. Him and our Production Designer Kate Sowada built the bed in a trailer while our guitarist drove it around hoping not to get pulled over. So far there have been no fines in the mail and the guy who we rented the car from hasn’t made a peep. Yet.”
