Crow Cries / Mighty Despair
25th August 2017
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Country Sleaze / Scum
7th October 2016
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Goat Girl: Your video style is very unique – how did it come about?
Douglas Hart: In film, as well in music, it’s the things that first enthral you in your early teens that serve as an inspiration throughout your life. So for me it was seeing bootleg videos of “A Clockwork Orange” and Sex Pistols’ 1978 tour of the USA when I was around 14 or 15 years old. Both tapes were 4th or 5th generation copies, so the colours were heightened and distorted as if in a dream. I think I’ve been trying to capture something of that look and atmosphere ever since.
GG: Did you enjoy the day we spent making Country Sleaze video? Or did it feel like routine?
DH: Yes, I enjoyed the shoot… It was more like a discotheque than an video shoot.
GG: Do you miss being in a band? If not, what are the reasons?
DD: Yes, I do sometimes miss being in a band. It’s something pretty special to travel the world playing music with your friends at such young age… It was the escape route I used dream about when I was miserable in my home town… and the dream came true. Very little else in life can be quite as exciting and intense. But, what I do now, especially on a shoot, comes pretty close.
GG: Do you have any advice for a new band?
DD: To paraphrase Samuel Beckett “Dance first.Think later. Its the natural order”
