We really loved Kiwi Jr.’s album, Football Money, and it seems like we weren’t the only ones. Riding on the success of the album’s 2019 Canada-wide release via Mint Records, the Prince Edward Island ex-pat-filled band have put out a fresh video for “Gimme More” and the band promise to do just that. They’re re-releasing the album worldwide on Persona Non Grata Records later this month.
The video for “Gimme More” is a smorgasbord of repetition – variations on a theme that are continually regurgitated to form a visual kaleidoscope that doesn’t get it boring. It’s all a little surreal with the band reincarnating scenes atop one another, all while calling for more and more of… whatever.
Director Sean Foreman explains, “We wanted the video to feel like it was based off dream logic. Things don’t make sense, the band keeps popping up, rooms are oddly connected somehow, it’s nonsense but at the same time there seems to be some undercurrent of reason guiding things.”
“It was shot mostly at our favourite bar in Toronto — Black Dice Café,” say the band. “It’s a rockabilly bar and though Kiwi Jr is very unhip to that scene, we tried to pay it justice by wearing leather jackets. We’ve had probably every band meeting we’ve ever had at that bar, and the owner Hidecki was nice enough to let us shoot there as long as we didn’t break anything (which we did during load in before we even started shooting).”
Football Money, if you haven’t already snagged yourself a copy for reasons we might accept such as being abroad, will get its worldwide release on January 17. They also have a series of dates laid out for early 2020 but, sadly, none on Canada’s east coast.
Tour Dates:
01.11.20 – Toronto, ON @ Gladstone Hotel (Long Winter Fest)
01.29.20 – London, UK @ The Waiting Room
01.30.20 – Bristol, UK @ Old England
01.31.20 – Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club
02.01.20 – Manchester, UK @ Gullivers
02.22.20 – Ottawa, ON @ Live on Elgin
02.29.20 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo
03.13-14.20 – New York, NY @ New Colossus Festival
03.16-21.20 – Austin, TX @ SXSW