Heute gibt es die Videopremiere zur nächsten Pet Shop Boys-Single "Vocal".
Im Video geht es um die 80er-Rave-Kultur in England (M25 und Hacienda Footage und so wie die großen Raves alle hießen), gespickt mit Amateur-Aufnahmen von eben diesenDas Treatment zum Video kommt nach dem Jump.
Ein wenig Musikgeschichte für die Menschen, welche wissen wollen wie elektronische Musik hype wurde.
Mehr Videos von Pet Shop Boys gibt es hier auf tape.tv.
Der Musikvideo-Regisseur Joost Vandebrug dazu:
Just as the reference this film will consist of authentic amateur video footage – footage that was shot at the late 80’s raves.
Eastern Europe had found its freedom and England had found its individuality. What I want to show is how England’s youth found its own freedom: a new culture which was epitomised by the famous M25 raves.
What you have seen in the reference is footage from three different raves combined with footage shot in the Hacienda – and there is much more out there. During the intro of the track we will, just as in the reference, see blurry close ups of people, portraits of a youth living [dancing] its dream. We can just about recognise their hairstyles, outfits, and dance moves, and together with the jerky camera movements it will evoke an 80’s dance feeling, a time from which I would like to show its innocence, realness and newness.
As the track builds up, we’ll see a multitude of people dancing, going for it: feeling free. We see how massive these raves were, how intensely people were enjoying – en masse and individually. Everything about those nights still feels right. Shots of the crowds are cut with shots of a singled out boy, lonely and strange, but he’s become one with the beat of the track. A close up of a girls face in the sun is cut with another face – a face in euphoria, with the sweat glistening in the dark.
As day turns into night, and night turns into day, the transition takes place. The viewer can’t help but feel drawn to this world of bygones, close in memory yet unattainable. I want to include the course of the night, when on the hunt for an M25 rave: showing how the excitement started with a flyer that only contained a phone number. The approximate location was just an answer phone away, and the chase would start.
The built-up of this hunt is going to be edited into the film, including the speeding along the M25 and anxiously searching the skies, hoping to find the lasers, and finally finding the rave.
This will be a second layer in this film, and the suspense of this chase will coincide with the crescendo the track contains – it’s in the music.
