You’re playing a show where??

Jun 28

Music Video Filmed and Produced by Anthony McGill

I thought I had the wrong address...

But no, the address was correct and I was just shocked... I was about to film a video on the second floor of a Derby, CT apartment. When you think apartment, you think couch in the living room, table and chair in the kitchen, a bed and dresser in the bedroom. You definitely thought wrong if that's what you thought this apartment was.

But I definitely owe a big thank you to Matt, Vincent, Jade and Josh for having me and Mia out to film this event!!!

Not a couch in sight

Meanwhile, when you think of a venue, you think stage, green room, dance floor or pit and merch booths. This apartment actually had all of that: the kitchen was the merch booth, the bedroom was the green room, and the living room was the pit. I’m telling you the place was transformed into a budget Project X house — it was just missing Mercedes in the pool. If you though we were gonna make some lasagna in the kitchen, you thought wrong, because that stove was merch inventory ready to be sold to the craze of people just barely fitting into the apartment.

It wasn’t as smooth as I thought it was going to be

So after listening to their song “The Serpent” about a hundred plus times, the members of Wxther told me that they would not be performing the song for me to film. Instead, the music video I’d be making would feature the song over a bunch of other clips.

It’s crazy how unprepared I was for this since I was ready to have about three cameras set up to sync and film and cut through clips. So a few minutes before the set, I asked Jade — the singer of Wxther — if we could just have her do her lyrics to the song and I could dub it all together. If it wasn’t for the slow shutter or the syncing vocals, I wasn’t sure how I was pulling this off. But then I suddenly remembered this super controversial music video from 1997 that didn’t even make it month on MTV before it was pulled... but it surfaced on YouTube some time in 2005/2006 and became the inspiration for some of the clips in this video. Have you ever heard of electronic music artist known as “Prodigy”? The video was made for a song called “Smack My B*tch Up” and had this first person view throughout the video. If you know that video — what do you think? Do you guys see the inspo in “The Serpent”?

A huge thank you to everyone who helped put this together is absolutely in order. A major thank you to Mia Palazzo for the photos, Vincent and Matt of Wxther for asking to come along, and Jose for having this spot open to all the great bands that played that night... you guys killed it!!!