Manchester's Shaking Chains Share Video for 'Drunk No More'

Following sold-out single launch shows in London and Salford, Manchester's Shaking Chains have shared a new music video for 'Drunk No More', taken from their AA-side single, due April 21st via Concrete Recordings. Shaking Chains recently took the internet by storm with their unique, ever-changing film for 'Midnight Oil', inspiring features at the Guardian, BBC, The Creators Project and many more. 'Drunk No More' sees a complete contrast; with a lo-fi look behind the scenes of their single artwork photo shoot, as model Anna Gordon negotiates a pint of the unimaginable. A faulty video camera captures the full pint, in one gruesome, giggly slow motion shot.

Speaking of the video's inspirations, Shaking Chains' drummer and video artist Jack Hardiker says:

"Here nauseous gloop remodels itself on the chin as a slow-motion stalactite of horror, a steady drip of hangover regret that sticks in the frame and the face. With a nod to the stylised title sequences of Jean-Luc Godard, distorted lyrics flash back at you on the screen like slivery figments of chat from the night before. But they're the wrong lyrics, intruding at angles it hurts to tilt your head towards. By the time you've figured it out they're gone, replaced by awkward giggles and incessant, oil-based weirdness. Playing on both song titles, the imagery is indicative of that typically British love of punning, a welcome antithesis to the complex and occasionally lofty ambitions of the 'Midnight Oil' film. Here they are, hungover and falling back on single shot, lizard brain manoeuvres. But this 'hair of the dog' has not felt, or looked, any grimmer. Purgatory, purgatory, purgatory."

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