Celebrated Australian troubadour Dan Kelly is about to set off on a headline east coast tour throughout next month — proudly presented by The Music — but before he gets to hitting the road, we're stoked to be hosting the premiere of his excellent new video, NeverStop The Rot.
The clip's accompanying track is the first single to be taken from Kelly's forthcoming album Leisure Panic!, due for release on 9 October (via ABC Music) and from which his impending tour draws its name.
Kelly will be joined by stalwart backing outfit the Dream Band, with the outfit ready to traverse Kelly's acclaimed, diverse, back-catalogue as well as giving some air time to the new goodies up the man's sleeve.
Dan Kelly & His Dream Band will kick off their Leisure Panic! east coast tour on Saturday, 17 October, at Saints & Sailors, in Portarlington, Victoria. The sojourn will also take in appearances in Adelaide (solo, with Wireheads; 22 October), Brisbane (with Ben Ely; 23 October), Sydney (with Ben Ely; 24 October) and Melbourne (with Ben Ely and Total Giovanni DJs; 31 October).
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Read an account of the video's creation from Kelly himself below.
‘Never Stop The Rot’ the video was directed by Sunny Leunig In a green screen studio in a storage facility in Brunswick. Phoebe Taylor was the star and plays my bored travel partner with fabulous seventies flair! She is a designer, a motorbike rider and a drummer in the Steve Miller Band. We had to borrow a motorbike off her friend Tao as her bike broke down and we borrowed a small rubber dinghy too.
The band have been coming to rehearsal in Skins after riding/jogging from work so I thought they should try them in the clip. I think it's made for one of the great guitar solo shots ever. No guitar or guitarist just the band on exercise bike and stretches. I spent two hundred bucks at the army disposals on hiking gear and we only used half a second of hiking! I looked quite silly. Sunny was looking after me there.
Some of the Dream Band couldn't make it so we just didn't use them and pretended to play their instruments. Sorry Maddy and Joe but time was tight. The theme started as a slide night of my holidays for bored friends. We used that at the start but realised no one under 30 knows what a slide is, so it descends fairly quickly into japes, high jinks and group exercise. The green screen was invaluable here as we had to cover a huge amount of territory again due to my lust for geography in songs.
Sunny shot it in a day and edited it in five days to meet the insane online demand for my product. Peace.
