Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever share ‘Cameo’ video

Following the release of new album ‘Sideways To New Italy’ earlier this month, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are sharing the new video for ‘Cameo’.

“This is a love song. It’s about reaching through time portals,” says the band’s Fran Keaney. “The lyrics were pieced together over about a year like a little puzzle. I found the first pieces in Rushworth, and the last pieces in Darwin.”

“We made this video with Nick Mckk, who shares our vision for the earnest and the absurd,” Fran continues. “This is our first video to feature skivvies, a wall of cardboard boxes and a human-powered rotating stage.”

“Fran had the idea to separate each body part playing, disembodied like the famous Queen artwork,” says director Nick Mckk. “I think it was Tom who really wanted to dress like Molloy, the cat burglar from The Simpsons. White sneakers, black pants and a turtleneck. I was very for this.

“Because I’m a fool and I don’t know how to work a gimbal (stabiliser), I ended up shooting a lot of the clip on rollerblades, which let me zoom around the spinning stage. Set Designer Grace Goodwin and I created the big bricks that the band could smash through, representing the disintegration of memory and the rebuilding of recollection. I mean, it was that for me, I can’t speak for the band!”

Have a watch below, and revisit our interview with them for our June 2020 issue here.