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Awesome Science double LP/CD http://bit.ly/brewshop Itunes http://smarturl.it/humanflyitunes On tour with Bongripper & Conan April 2013 http://stereoposter.com/humanfly Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HUMANFLYBAND Twitter http://www.twitter.com/HUMANFLYleeds

Further UK tour announced with Bongripper & Conan announced:

Sat 20th April Liverpool The Kazimier
Sun 21st April Manchester Star & Garter
Mon 22nd April Basingstoke Sanctuary
Tues 23rd April Sheffield DQ's
Wed 24th April Preston The Continental
Thurs 25th April the Exchange, Bristol
Fri 26th April Edinburgh Bannermans
Sat 27th April Newcastle The Star & Shadow Cinema
Sun 28th April London Desertfest

Tickets: http://stereoposter.com/humanfly

Directed, shot and edited by Rich A. Lehman, Amenity Media 2013.

Directors notes:

I pitched this video to the Fly-dudes as "imagine you're playing live on the BBC circa 1976 ...on the Old Grey Whistle Test ...BUT some maverick acid-whacked crazy is crashing the studio directly into the sun as you shred and wail".

I felt this pretty neatly summed up the right aesthetic vibe for the shiny, sparkling yet at once organic Floyd meets Sabbath meets Santana meets Tool meets Mars Volta prog sounds the brothers are purveying on their new Awesome Science record. And apparently they concurred. There was a collective outpouring of "I get it! You get it! We all get it! Woo!" back slap-a-rama and everyone was plum happy and basking in the tasteful glow of each other! And onward to making it...

For all those musical comparisons, the new Humanfly record has a feel all of it's own, as the critics/music press seem to agree. A five star, stone cold banger of a melting pot for sure, but something else wholly unique, not just a bunch of fantastic comparisons; something distinctly "fly" (and yes I mean that in a hip 70's sense as well as a
shortening of the name). Everyone knows these chaps are incredible musicians, it's as plain as a Hairy Bikers pony-tail, and that was what really needed to come through. It couldn't just be a typical flat music video. It couldn't just be a wide shot and a bunch of strobing lights and some hyper prancing about. Not this one. Not this time. No. This video was going to be Schwartzenegger ...as John Matrix ...going to reclaim the rock, like his daughter Jenny in Commando ...while listening to Genesis.

It needed to be honest, an amalgam of genuine raw studio performance, and in some way a direct illustration of the individual contribution, the layers of musicality each member brings to the whole sound. This needed to show the thinking, as well as the sweating. It had to show what they do, and how they do it, honestly and without being
contrived, but still shot and put together in a stylistically appropriate psychedelic manner. So that's where the visual layering came in. And striking that balance of raw and slick wasn't super easy or anything yo.

There are close to 300 overlapping edits in the 5 minutes of this suckers duration, and the aim was to make it so every single frame would be one you could pause on and it'd be a little piece of proggy artwork in itself (somewhere between 70's prog and 90's hardcore anyway). And it's like that all the way through, because, well that's what the track is. It's every member of this band coming together all at once and collectively making an almighty fabulous grown up noise.

So ultimately this video is intended to show visually, the individual "fly-guy" layers you get on record. On record you don't hear one instrument at a time, nor do you hear each component in sequence, and most importantly of all, nor was it written that way. It was written by four plainly talented musicians with a clue, in a room, and that's what this video is; we all get to see all that chaos creating something so tight and cohesive.

And I hope this video does these chaps proud, because the sheer quality of what these old friends here have put out, throughout their career, but so mindblowingly (sic) with Awesome Science, deserves something that does their individual and collective talent justice.

Oh, and my alternative idea for this video, which I felt would be equally communicative, indeed for any of the tracks on the album, was to just shoot a fixed camera shot of some big hairy balls, although that might have been a hard sell. But the plan was to maybe just ask around our friends, set up an audition, observe some huge powerful hirsute dangly man-orbs and then film them, static shot, grainy black and white a'la Warhol's Empire State, just hanging there, suspended in space (well, y'know, framed so the thighs weren't visible). And maybe put some shots of the cosmos behind them or something. Man, that was such a fresh idea. I think it needs to happen ...someone get a Kickstarter going on!