Movie stardom

Last week was a whirlwind.


We have been pressing up thousands of records in the states. Vinyl remixes on 12" and three differnt albums. Phone calls to pluggers, PR agents, retail managers, bookers, insiders and new people that we hope to do business with. All exciting stuff.

But the real thrill this week was shooting a video of superstar for Glovebox.

We got a gang of local film makers to go out on a limb for us to make the video and they started shooting on Australia day. Or at least we thought they would! In fact the whole day was spent in rehersals, which is really professional but really boring if you aren't doing any acting. Our A&R guy (famous Ian) was there from sparrow fart in the morning (THAT EARLY!) to late late late and did not much but make coffee and move props. Not a nice day for him really. It was certainly not all glamour.

So day 2 dawns and the band have flown up from Melbourne complete with new drummer Sarah and Morris sporting a new "tash. They arrived at 8pm on Thursday and shooting started at 5.30 am Friday! Holy Cow!!!! The day was then spent in a small apartment in Brisbane with a crew of hundreds and a cast of 5. Weird how that is always the case.

As for we label types - we went off to a location in the city to set up the gear for the "live" sections of the shoot. Amps, keys, drums, mikes etc all ready to go on time. We then sat in the blistering sun for another 4 hours before anyone else arrived.

I decided to go back to the office and got on with some work whilst they guys shot the last scenes so I never actually saw a single second of footage being recorded! Trust is all in these situations.

After a highly stressed few hours we all got back togther at a restaurant in town and the few of us who were not exhausted hit the town with a vengenance. Lets just say that the 4am cab ride home was a bit blurry.

The day after and all is well. Shoot was good. Rushes are done and so is my liver. Recovering now as we await the first cut.

I am very happy to recount the fact that although the shoot itself was about as exciting as constipation the end results are by all accounts fantastic. It is all glamourous eh?

God knows how Shaun Connery does it after 300 years as a movie star. I guess he gets to kiss the girls everytime. Thats how. As for us we just kissed the pavement when the beer beat us up. Rock n Roll baby.