The Lovelies are a fairly unique trio of punks and pop-rockers who’ve been flitting around Melbourne’s various dark haunts for a few years now, but they’ve just pulled their socks up and released their first ever video clip – and it’s a good’un.
Filmed for their new slacker-rock ditty ‘Scabby Knees’, it starts out normally enough as the bratty trio begin to skate, bike and scoot down an empty street (with a nice cameo from their former drummer as he stacks it on the pavement, his replacement Gina Somfleth entering the fray immediately afterwards).
Soon, though, the lazy trek down the streets gives way to some pretty intense skating action that, despite the insistence of the band to the contrary, we can’t quite believe is actually them. We’re not sure what it is, but something just seems… off.
Whatever the case, it’s a very impressive debut clip (shot by filmmaker Jamie Harris, and edited and written by the band’s own bassist Sean Kirkpatrick and ukeleleist Alison Erlanger respectively) that pairs perfectly with the laid-back strains of chunky bass and their signature electric uke, and it serves as a great introduction for anyone who’s managed to dodge them on the Melbourne circuit thus far.
If you’re keen for a night of stripped-back punk jams smashed together with earworm pop hooks (and some of the best stage banter you’ll find), The Lovelies will be playing a gig with local hooligans Face Face and Dead End at The Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford on April 19th.
