Transit of Venus

After the easter gig, Simon Raby and I got chatting about music videos, and somehow we stumbled across a good idea for a video for Meatmarket.  I then forgot about it, as you do with late night brilliant ideas, and then a week later it popped back into our heads.  “Lets do it!” We agreed.  “Lets do it this coming Friday” I politely insisted.  And you know what… we did it.  This Friday we did my first music video

It was a lot of work to throw everything together in a week, Simon did an amazing job at making everything happen.

I am incredibly thankful to all the crew who jumped on board at such short notice, and who worked so hard so late at night.  And some whom even stayed and helped clean up the fairy bread and balloons in the early hours of the morning!  Simon Raby, Anthony Corban, Lizzie McGowan, James Dudley, Sophie Musgrove, Joshua Haw, Sam Heart.

Those boys in the band did a great job. Tory’s loud drumming caused a few technical difficulties but he made up for it with general awesomeness.  Mike’s costume outdid the rest of us, and as always he looked fabulous.  Ralph was very very convincing (I have bruises) when he pushed me off the piano stool (give yourself a self high-five man).  Robin Liu plays guitar in the lead break of this track, he did a fantastic job on the vid as you’ll see.  Dave Edmaier was dragged in on bass for this after I called him up the night before the shoot, I am so grateful he could fill in without much warning.

The extras were fantastic!  They came in costume, they looked amazing, they were very patient and understanding when the evening dragged on later and later.  They behaved themselves 99% of the time, and during that other 1% Ant and Kendal did a great job keeping them in line.

All in all I am just blown away by how much work everyone put in to make this happen.  It was pure AWESOME!

The video is planned to be released at the Bitter Sweet Love EP release Party on the 14th of May.  w00t!

I have been trying to remember to blog once a week, though I’m completely in the dark as to whether or not I’m keeping up. I could check, but I’d rather not know if I’m failing miserably at something as trivial as remembering to write a few words now and again.

So, latest news. This week and last week has seen a bit of work on the artwork for the EP cover. The concept is a picture of a mouth biting into a strawberry and all this icky bitterness kinda spilling down the chin. In some vaguely obvious way it’s symbolizing Bittersweet Love which is going to be the name of the EP. If you’re a twitter follower you might have seen a couple of pictures of ideas already. Anyway, last Friday got together with my number 1 photographer Anthony Corban, and gorgeous model Kristina Koveshnikova, and took some shots.

Previous concept shots had been done with chocolate sauce which just didn’t quite look right, so tried to think of an alternative. Ended up coming up with a great idea, dying honey black with food dye. As you can probably imagine it was a rather messy photoshoot, but it was a lot of fun and there were plenty of yummy strawberries left over to snack on afterwards.

A date has been set for the EP release party, but more on that later.  The big news is that this coming Saturday is out FIRST EVER GIG!  When I first started Transit of Venus Project I didn’t really think of it as any more than a recording project, but now with the live band and everything it seems so much more exciting.  If you dont’ already know, it’s at The Dogs Bollix in Auckland.  Thats the green sorta Irish Pub style place on Newton Rd.  First band is on at seven.  With the easter licensing laws we have to finish at midnight so we’re starting quite early.  Don’t be late and miss us!  Yes, I’m talking to you Josh

Finally got some photo’s semi sorta worked through from our last band shoot a while back.  Sometimes I feel like we do more photoshoots than band practice!