Hardwicke Circus are fast building a reputation as the most exciting band to emerge from the UK in recent years. Having gained a large internet following, and fans all over the UK through playing countless live shows, this band has what it takes to go all the way.
We were contacted by Dave Robinson the bands manager, who had seen our video ‘Cutbacks‘ that we produced for local band Suburban Symphony. He liked the look and flow of that video and wanted us to produce the next video for Hardwicke Circus.
We asked him to send the track through so we could have a listen and we instantly fell in love with it! At this stage the single had not been recorded in the studio and it was just a live version. However we could already hear the potential of the song and ideas were starting to come together about how best to portray the song visually.
A few emails back and forth were followed up by a mock-up video to give the band some level of confidence that we were on the right track…
We packed up the car with all our gear and headed up to Carlisle to shoot the bands portions of the video.
We knew that the video was going to be in Black & White and therefore were planning to film at two different locations, one being a white studio with the band wearing black, and the other being a dark location with the band wearing white.
The 'White' room location was actually a photographic studio of a friend of the band, who kindly (and bravely) handed over his studio to allow us to get our shots. We had the single playing back on a loop and filmed multiple different passes of the band, which resulted in much hilarity as we hope you can see in the final video! 🙂
A quick costume change for the band, then we headed over to the 'Black' location, which was actually the bands rehearsal space. We cleared out the space and positioned multiple flood lights to illuminate the center of the room, this enabled the band to remain well lit whilst the camera rotated around the band..
After several takes enduring the ever increasing room temperature we called it a wrap and packed everything away..
On returning back to the studio the bands footage was incorporated into the video and the first draft was completed in a couple of days and sent through to the band...
If you enjoyed the video we would encourage you to go and check them out on Social Media, superb musicians and we wish the band well for whatever the future holds for them… They deserve to go far!
