Violent Soho’s WACO well and truly took the Queensland outfit to the next level. Having broken through with 2013’s Hungry Ghost, the follow-up has given us the biggest Aussie rock tour of the year and the biggest tour of the band’s career.
There’s also been a massive Splendour set and plenty of music videos, including the memorable clip for lead single ‘Like Soda’, which was filmed at Bardon Bowls Club in Bardon, Queensland, and had the band cast as a group of geriatric bowls players.
The video, which has racked up almost 536,000 views on YouTube and was directed by frequent collaborator Dan Graetz, heralded the return of Australia’s favourite alt-rock revivalists, but also riled up one particular member of the Bardon Bowls Club.
According to Violent Soho frontman Luke Boerdam, one of the club’s regulars wasn’t crazy about having a rock band show up and ‘ruin’ his sanctuary and proceeded to get a bit violent.
“We had this guy show up who’s like a member and he lost his shit,” Boerdam recently told the Brisbane Times. “I’m talking screaming, throwing his bowls bag, yelling ‘Get out. Get out!'”
“The producer’s gone, ‘Calm down, Calm down.’ The guy that owns the place was loving it because he’s thinking, ‘It’s so good for our bowls club to have some attention.'” Luckily, the band were surrounded by fans for their latest clip.
While the rest of us were out enjoying our sausage sizzles and deciding the fate of the nation (boy, did an unfortunate majority of us drop the ball on that one), Violent Soho were busy rocking out with their fans to film their ‘Blanket’ clip.
The clip for ‘Blanket’ was the brainchild of filmmaker Matt Weston, best known for his work with High Tension (in which he plays bass) and Cosmic Psychos, including directing the spectacular 2013 Cosmic Psychos documentary Blokes You Can Trust.
