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It was the hazy summer of 2007 when Bandwidth were approached by Belfast act The Remains Of Youth to produce a music video for their latest EP “(You Miss The Full Picture)”.

The Remains Of Youth started as the side project of Adam Shirlow and Michael Henderson from another great Belfast band, Coda. Joined by Andy Melville and Gareth Scott they started making waves in 2007 and, with the release of what was to be their final EP, found a mature post-punk sound that evoked Fugazi and At The Drive In.

The band were very keen to allow Bandwidth to pick the track we wanted to work on, and to their suprise we went with Set Low. By far the black sheep amongst the punchy collection of tight, lo-fi guitar riff tracks, Set Low weighs in at nearly 5 mins and gradually builds upon deeply personal lyrics and a very subtle melody.

Perfect.

The shoot took place over two sweltering August evenings in Belfast, when, for reasons still uknown, it never seemed to get dark. The band were rehearsing as usual in the basement space below the AU magazine offices on Bradbury Place when we arrived. Adam grabbed some christmas lights he found under the sink and we tried to pretty the place up a bit – but we didn’t need them – the rustic charm of the place shone through. This was the band in their natural habitat, playing Set Low over and over, segueing into other material totally unintentionally, so completely lost in the music they love, playing together so intensely, just a band standing around in a circle, that they barely heard Will’s hollers of ‘Cut’ and ‘Play it again’.

The following day, after looking over the footage, and listening to Set Low on a loop, over and over, because we still fuckng loved it more and more every time we heard it, Will grabbed a camera and filmed his sister Lucy, an actress, riding on the bus while listening to the song on her ipod. A whole new element of the video became apparent to us; here was a Remains Of Youth fan, walking around Belfast at night, doing nothing but captivating us because she loves the band and so do we. Initially we think she is travelling to one of their gigs, or maybe she’s going to pop in on the guys in the rehersal room. But she wanders around, captivated, trying to catch light between her fingers, picking up lost flowers, and the band play on – the soundtrack to that very moment in her life, and ours.

A film as natural to us as music comes to the band – a time capsule of a summer, subtle, personal, and forever stuck in our heads.

Director: Will McConnell
Camera: Martin Bolton, Will McConnell

Bandwidth 2007

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