The original video for Queen of Everything in full HD for your pleasure. Taken from the His Dark Master EP 'The Lion, the Fish and the Bear,' Queen of Everything is a blend of marching band, tweecore indie, free jazz and existential musings on the relationship between an addict and his addictions...all inside a 2 minute 50 second pop song about how brilliant your missus is. This film was shot on location in the fantastic Eight Bells pub in Putney and in beutiful Bishop's Park, Fulham. The storyline is essentially a homage to Ingmar Bergman's Seventh Seal, where Danny the Knight is challenged to a Meet the existential mime artists' homage game of Monster Top Trumps by Death in order to save his friends. Along the road, Danny stops in at a hostelry and meets a company of players. Unfortunately he loses them and the Grim Reaper comes for them, manifesting himself as a dog on a leash led by a sozzled bishop.
Directed by Carl Winberg, produced by The Dark Master in association with Zebra Crossing and Keif Gwinn. Production design, wardrobe, styling, creative research: Nina Neuwirth. Make up: Michelle Jackson & Anna Wolejko. Cameras: Yuval Raeburn & Keif Gwinn. Lighting: Roy Gwinn. Storyboarding: Jess Wahls. Assistants: Jake & Steve. Editing: Karl Vinberg & Andrew Potter. Thanks to Sue at the Eight Bells and Emma Blackwell at RMS for the use of their establishments. Catering kindly provided by Nina Neuwirth.
Actors: Jodie Berry, Takatsuna Mukai, Eddie Stevens, Nina Neuwirth, Lenka Matsova, Jess Wahls.
Imagination; it takes a bit of that to start a band and write songs but Danny Valentine And The Meditations seem to have been allocated way more than their fair share, to the point where the world in which they live has almost completely morphed into a fantasy land. Danny
Valentine is a psychotic poet who fronts the band, Jesus Hydes fulfills duties on the drums and K.Goff plays bass, a swirling mass of other mu-
sicians come and go from the band, making their musical contributions before running for their sanity we would expect. On stage, their numbers swell to eleven.
Their new E.P entitled 'The Lion, The Fish And The Bear' is named after the three personalities in the band. "I like poncing about and shouting," says the Lion (Danny). "I'm really good at lifting stuff," says the Bear (K.Goff). "I like hitting things and dancing to Roxy Music," says the Fish (Jesus). They believe these are all excellent qualities for a surrealist indie pop group - a ponce, a grunt and a glam thug. According to their MySpace the band live in the 19th Century and have a time machine which allows them to put digital things into the digital realm (us either) but in real life, they live in South London and make excellent pop music with a dark edge, we are not the only ones who think so as well as their first double a side single 'Architect Of My Love/Killling Floor' completely sold out. Just how seriously this lot are taking themselves is up for debate and as always, the line between genius and madness is a thin one indeed, but in the mean time their unique brand of eccentric music is ours to enjoy, from a safe distance of course.
www.myspace.com/dannyvalentineampthemeditations
(Amy Cutter, Playground Magazine, 2009)
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