After Drums of Death closed Bestival with a brilliant and surprising performance swapping his Trouble and Bass tunes for live snares and mutant power-pop, he now debuts his music video for 'Got Yr Thing'. A twisted heartbreaker of a tune taken from his forthcoming Greco-Roman release 'Generation Hexed', the video was directed by the duo John Major’s Daughters (whose previous videos include Lesser Panda and The Black Lips) filming Drums of Death howling in the dance hall.

Dazed Digital: What is the concept of the video?
Drums of Death: It's a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. How I fall in love but can't get close to anyone. It's also an attempt to capture the spirit of Greco-Roman raves. Everything portrayed is based on true events that may or may not have actually happened.

DD: Drums of Death the Movie... when is that coming?
Drums of Death: Ha. Not yet.

DD: How was the experience of making your first video?
Drums of Death: Boring, tedious and I did the least work. Everyone had been working since 8am or such and I swanned in mid-afternoon, wrestled my megalomania, then left.

DD: John Major's Daughters, how was it working with Drums of Death?
John Major’s Daughters: DoD is amazing. We'd seen him perform a couple of times and knew we could make something for him. He's a wild man...

DD: What's Colonel Blimp?
John Major’s Daughters: Colonel Blimp is a cartoon character from The Evening Standard, “pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically British” is how Wikipedia sum him up. Once we've taken the time to write it, that's also how Wikipedia will describe those of us who work at Colonel Blimp, a London-based music video production company.

DD: How freaky did things get on set? All that face paint...
John Major’s Daughters: Things got freaky. Fast. A force came over us far too powerful to deny. People were foaming at the mouth and convulsing in the corners, the lights started to strobe and we danced a scary dance. Even our cameraman was caught. Some of the runners didn't even make it through, who knows where they are now. Poor souls. But for those who did, life will never be the same again. Ever.

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