Bombay Bicycle Club / Launch Director’s Cut of video for new single ‘Carry Me’
Having unveiled the ground-breaking interactive video for their new single ‘Carry Me’ earlier this month – which allowed fans to control the band’s actions throughout, essentially making them the director while the band perform in time to the music – Bombay Bicycle Club have launched a Director’s Cut of the video on their VEVO channel featuring a collaboration between nine animators (full list below).
‘Carry Me’ – the first single from the quartet’s forthcoming new album (due out on February 3rd 2014 through Island Records) – is a monumental fists in the air dance anthem that is probably the band’s most daring, explosive and exciting departure yet from their previous work.
Watch the video now.
Watch the original interactive video for ‘Carry Me’ here now. An embed code for this video is available below. The audio for ‘Carry Me’ is also available on the Bombay Bicycle Club YouTube channel as an embeddable player. Go here.
Bombay Bicycle Club have also recently announced their first major UK headline tour in two years. The band are well known for their massive live following and critically acclaimed performances which have seen them play major slots at some of the biggest festivals across the world as well as some huge venues including London’s Alexandra Palace last year which sold out (10,000 capacity) well in advance of the show. The full list of 2014 UK Tour dates are as follows:
Bombay Bicycle Club – UK Tour
March 2014
Sun 02, Leeds O2 Academy
Mon 03, Glasgow O2 Academy
Tue 04, Aberdeen Music Hall
Wed 05, Newcastle O2 Academy
Fri 07, Nottingham Rock City
Sat 08, Birmingham O2 Academy
Sun 09, Norwich UEA
Mon 10, Portsmouth Guildhall
Wed 12, Bristol O2 Academy
Thu 13, London O2 Academy Brixton *sold out*
Sun 16, Cardiff Uni Great Hall
Mon 17, Exeter Uni Great Hall
Tue 18, Brighton Dome
Thu 20, Manchester Albert Hall *sold out*
Fri 21, Manchester Albert Hall *new date*
The new album looks to break exciting new ground yet again for a band that are effortlessly diversifying and innovating at an astonishing rate. Frontman Jack Steadman wrote the record while travelling through India, Turkey and Tokyo as well as the UK and the Netherlands; you can really hear the influence of all the different cultures and their native genres among the beautifully crafted songs on this hugely ambitious record.
The album was produced by Jack in the band’s studio in London, making it their most personal record to date. There was always purpose from the beginning to bring everything together for this album, to tell a story from the first track through to the finale with everything interconnecting as a complete body of work. ‘The whole creation process was a really honest one. Jack’s not afraid of us saying a part or lyric doesn’t work so we were able to all be very involved at every level’ says guitarist Jamie MacColl. They called in Mark Rankin (in top form having recently mixed QOTSA ‘…Like Clockwork’ and Aluna George ‘Body Music’) to help record and mix the album. The album also features familiar vocal contribution from Lucy Rose as well as impressive newcomer Rae Morris.
The straightforward guitar patterns have gone out the window and in their place a juxtaposition of tough, offbeat rhythms with shimmering keys, techno blips as well as Bollywood movie samples over exotic instruments like the marimba (played by drummer and percussionist Suren de Saram). It is a record that is almost impossible to categorize and without doubt a defining record for a band that are not even halfway through their twenties.
A snapshot of Bombay Bicycle Club’s history throws up even more unexpected revelations of a band who have quietly become one of the most successful young British bands of their generation. They released their first album ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ in 2008 and shortly afterwards won the NME New Band Award beating The XX and Mumford & Sons. They followed this up midway through 2010 with Flaws’, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello. Their most recent album, ‘A Different Kind Of Fix’, was released in August 2011 and like its predecessors, went gold seeing the band’s fan base increase exponentially, culminating in various major main stage festival slots including the Reading and Leeds Festival.
‘Carry Me’ Director’s Cut Animators
Anna Ginsburg – http://www.annaginsburg.co.uk/
Loup Blaster – http://loupblaster.tumblr.com/
George Wheeler – http://www.gworge.com/
Jake Evans – http://javaknees.tumblr.com
Daniel Sherer – http://www.danielasherer.com/
Grace Helmer -http://gracehelmer.co.uk/
Mark Prendergast – http://www.markprendergast.co.uk/
Aaron Cook – http://cookaaron.blogspot.co.uk/
Luiz Stockler – https://vimeo.com/luizstockler