Pink and blue are not colours usually associated with the drab of the nation’s capital, but like TV Colours before them, they are the ones Canberra outfit Wives have chosen for the visual palette on the video for “Buried”.Directed by Ed Wood (no, another one), the video was originally inspired
by the Specials “Ghost Town” of driving around with a sense of hopelessness and is meant to compliment what the track tries do sonically. You can’t get a much better visual/musical statement than footage of the failed old Canberra Hospital implosion.Originally called Sweet Shoppe until a recent name change, Wives present a buzzy but melodic guitar pop. They have just released their debut cassingle 'Buried' and have finished recording for their debut album due early 2015.Jordan Roger gives us the lowdown on driving around Canberra.Noisey: Was the shot meant to be deliberately ambiguous/blurred/hard to make out?
Jordan: Not really, at least not to begin with. We had been planning a different kind of video for ages, then we shot and cut the whole thing in a day, and well, I guess it just kind of unraveled into this strange, distorted film.So it was all filmed in Canberra?
Anja and Bobby Kill both grew up in Curtin, a suburb in Canberra, which was where the TV Colours album artwork was taken. We revisited that spot for the video and a few other notable Canberra locations. The Telstra Tower is a reoccurring feature in the video, for anyone who isn’t from here it’s kind of like our shitty version of the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty but more bleak and pathetic looking.Why the name change?
After a change in line up when Tim joined the band and a slight shift in sound, we
decided to start fresh with a new name. Sweet Shoppe felt like it only fitted the old version of the band, so Wives is like the rebirth or something like that. It’s a far better representation of our musical influences as a whole.“Buried” is available now through Cinnamon Records.
by the Specials “Ghost Town” of driving around with a sense of hopelessness and is meant to compliment what the track tries do sonically. You can’t get a much better visual/musical statement than footage of the failed old Canberra Hospital implosion.
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Jordan: Not really, at least not to begin with. We had been planning a different kind of video for ages, then we shot and cut the whole thing in a day, and well, I guess it just kind of unraveled into this strange, distorted film.So it was all filmed in Canberra?
Anja and Bobby Kill both grew up in Curtin, a suburb in Canberra, which was where the TV Colours album artwork was taken. We revisited that spot for the video and a few other notable Canberra locations. The Telstra Tower is a reoccurring feature in the video, for anyone who isn’t from here it’s kind of like our shitty version of the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty but more bleak and pathetic looking.Why the name change?
After a change in line up when Tim joined the band and a slight shift in sound, we
decided to start fresh with a new name. Sweet Shoppe felt like it only fitted the old version of the band, so Wives is like the rebirth or something like that. It’s a far better representation of our musical influences as a whole.“Buried” is available now through Cinnamon Records.