Oxford Collapse brings the rock to a sheep farm in this very indie video for "Please Visit Your National Parks." How indie is it? Instead of using earwigs and some fancy playback system, the band members listen to the track through old school cassette Walkmen and bulky headphones. And instead of shooting at some glamorous spot, they chose a sheep pen. The sheep get to enjoy the tune — the shearing, not so much —but the cassettes suffer the same fate: The magnetic tapes get yanked out and sent to a woman at an antique loom to hopefully be woven into a fine musical garment.
Michael Pace, singer/guitarist of Oxford Collapse: "Sub Pop had solicited treatments for the video and the majority were totally lame. Stuff like, 'The band is playing in a practice space in Brooklyn and a bird flies in a window and attacks the band.' Or, 'The band is walking the
streets of Brooklyn, looking cool.' And that's not what we're about really. Then we see a treatment about the band performing at a sheep farm, in a pen, surrounded by sheep and feces. We thought that encapsulated our band perfectly. It was a no brainer.
They found a working sheep farm out in Yaphank, Long Island. We shot in this pen all day. Sheep don't speak, of course. They bah, or whatever. It's really disturbing. But it was a really good first video experience to be covered in sheep shit and surrounded by sheep urinating all over the place."
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ps: Be sure to visit the YouTube version of the video. Not because it's any different or better, but so you can read the comments of "girliiegirl," who not only detects that "the Jewish singer pretends to play guitar," but also uncovers how YouTube fits into the overall International Jewish Conspiracy that runs the world. You go, girliiegirl!
Oxford Collapse "Please Visit Your National Parks" (Sub Pop)
Michael Reich, director | Sebastian Kaufmann, producer | Draw Pictures, production co. | Mark Stetz, DP | Enzo Semmens, editor
