The Aussie music community has learned a valuable lesson thanks to the exploits of a indie rock four-piece: bouncy castles and bands don’t mix.
To shoot their new music video, Brisbane’s Fox & Fowl managed to bribe a friend into loaning them a giant jumping castle to use as the setting for the music video to their upbeat, indie rock number ‘Pilot’. After throwing in a bunch of exercise balls and cardboard instruments into the mix, things started getting a little out of hand.
Over enthusiasm saw props swiftly turning into weapons and early on in filming ‘Pilot’, lead guitarist Elliot Goard became the accidental victim of a cardboard drum kit to the head. The injury forming a prominent scar on Goard’s forehead (which you can actually see clearly at the 2:02 mark in the video if you freeze frame).
Luckily the injury-inducing shoot didn’t led to a premature split for Fox & Fowl, who have been on the rise since playing the Foreshore Music Festival this year and upping sticks from Canberra to Brisbane, inspired by the city’s summery guitar music scene.
The music video did however inspire a crowdfunding campaign – but don’t worry, it’s not to raise money for bandaids for a future bouncy castle blitzkrieg.
Fox & Fowl’s Pozible campaign is aiming to launch their forthcoming self-titled EP to help with the costs of printing, publicity, marketing, and producing the four-track set (due April via MGM).
Recorded at Airlock studios in their adopted home of Brisbane with local producer Yanto Browning (who’s worked with The Jungle Giants, Art Of Sleeping, and The Medics), the Fox & Fowl EP “encapsulates the journey shared by the band while traveling the Americas… and the resulting tracks are an upbeat and uplifting collection of tunes.”
The Pozible campaign also offers the typical range of unique rewards for pledgers; from digital copies and limited merch to offering a personal performance of your very own in Brisbane (for $500) or anywhere in Australia ($1,000) – bouncy castle not included.
The band have currently raised $1,980 of their $5,000 target, managing over $1,600 of that figure in the first 24 hours, with 44 days left to reach their goal.
The band will personally be spreading the word with a couple of live shows later this month, playing the Eat Street festival in Brisbane and a gig at the Black Bear Lodge, and assuming their crowdfunding campaign is successful, you’ll see them touring further and wider from April.
Just don’t bring any cardboard instruments to the shows or the guitarist might get flashbacks.
Fox & Fowl Australian Tour 2014 Dates
Saturday 15 March – Eat Street, Brisbane QLD
Sunday 23 March – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane QLD w/ Twin Lakes
Tickets and further info at: http://www.foxandfowl.com/
