B R U C E
S O O R D
SINGER-SONGWRITER-GUITARIST
PROGRESSIVE ROCK SENSATION'S
THE PINEAPPLE THIEF
SPECIAL GUEST ON
INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
BBS RADIO
The Pineapple Thief have launched their brand new
video for “Try As I Might”, the new single from their forthcoming new studio
album Dissolution. The highly
anticipated follow up to 2015’s Your
Wilderness, is the band’s second album to feature King Crimson and
Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison.
Vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Bruce Soord
explains his dystopian view “The video
follows the theme of the song and the album – if you sign up to this hyper
connected world we live in, then you have to live with the consequences. Try as
you might to get out of it.”
The futuristic clip was created by Blacktide
Phonic/Visual (www.black-tide.co.uk) director
George Laycock, who expands on how he created the film “When The Pineapple Thief came to me with their track ‘Try as I might’,
they had a broad basis for an idea for a music video that dealt with a social
media obsessed ‘connected’ world.
This had nods to previous
films and television like ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Black Mirror’, the ‘Big Brother’
landscape and its preceding shows, so it was about creating a storyline using
these broad influences and encapsulating into an obscure 3-minute film on a
budget.
I was interested in the
concept of ‘in eye cameras’, scary technology and I am sure isn’t too far away
from us. We decided to go down the optical medical route and follow our
character on a journey from first pre-operation, to surgery, recovery and then
trying to battle the decision he has made, whilst battling with the corporation
he has signed up too. The film hopefully leaves the viewer to create their own
conceptions on his outcome.
We filmed it all on the
Dorset/Devon coastline around where I live and were fortunate to be able to
secure great locations to shoot in with a few favours, including a remote
seaside post-modern house, a private beach and a real working hospital and
opticians.
To keep the cast down to a
minimum we decided that the camera that is watching Bruce would become the main
supporting actor and his nemesis, appearing in scenes without anyone operating
it. This allowed us to see the cameras point of view and tell the story to the
fictional viewer. This old broadcast camera weighed an absolute ton, and
carrying through remote woods, down a mile-long steep cliff path to a beach was
a challenge on some of the hottest days of the year. Filming in the water at
the end was a welcome refreshment.
The Pineapple Thief have grown to become one of the
leading lights of Europe’s experimental rock domain, Your Wilderness produced
4m+ album streams, a #7 in the UK Independent Charts and two extensive headline
European tours culminating at London’s Islington Assembly Hall where the
concert was recorded for the live release Where We Stood, and their new album
Dissolution promises to propel the band to even greater heights.
The Pineapple Thief is a progressive rock band, started by Bruce Soord in 1999
in Somerset, England. The band has released
eleven studio albums.
THE PINEAPPLE THIEF IS …
Bruce Soord – vocals, guitars (1999–present)
Jon Sykes – bass (2002–present)
Steve Kitch – keyboards (2005–present)
Gavin Harrison -
drums (2016–present) played with British progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and King Crimson.
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