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City: Wellington/Sydney/London
State: Wellington
Country: NZ
Signup Date: 8/30/2005

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

A bit about the My Delirium video..
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On the 22nd of September, the day my album was released in the UK,I shot the video for my song My Delirium, which is my next single.

I wrote the song a year and a half ago after days of no sleep due to terrible jetlag. I felt like I was going out of my mind. I was missing my friends and family back home, and I was basically living to hear my phone ring in hope that it would be one of them calling. So my delirium came out of me thinking I was going crazy from lack of sleep!

I always knew this song had the potential for a really imaginative video, considering the general theme of the song is me going crazy. So when I read the treatment sent in by the Frater guys, a duo of London based directors who specialise inanimation, I knew it was the one!

Basicallyit had been written around the idea that my best friend Sarah Larnach, who doesall my artwork, was to illustrate the video, along with the frater guys.

So she came over all the way from Sydney to crash on my couch for a month and spend every day painting pictures for the video!

Benji Davies and Jim Field (otherwise known as frater) were really lovely guys and very easy to work with.

The idea of the video is that I'm hauled up in a hotel room, on the roadside in themiddle of the Arizona desert.

There are two paintings on the wall above the bed, and as my head starts to get foggier, the pictures start to come to life, and I end up inside the paintings, driving in a muscle car down the desert, my suitcase in the back, going somewhere which ends up being outer-space..... after flying over the edge of a cliff. Everyday kinda stuff ya know?

It's filled with beautiful water colour back-grounds, and washed out psychedelic painted space scenes.

We shot a day of live action which roughly went from 8am till about 9 or 10pm. It was all the scenes of me in the hotel room, and me driving the car. The hotel set was built in a studio, and huge attention to detail was paid to make it look as close to American road-side motel as possible. Old clocks, dressers,lamps, light fittings etc. It was a lot of fun to shoot, and the least stressful and turned out to be my favourite video so far. To check out more of Sarah's artwork, check out her myspace at www.myspace.com/sarahlarnach and to take a look at some other work done by the Frater guys check out their website: www.fraterfilms.com.

I hope you guys all enjoy the video!
Ladyhawke
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