The Bamboos – You Ain’t No Good
The band was after a clip they would appear in but as the track features a US-based guest singer, a straight performance piece was out of the question.
The father of a friend of Tony’s is a retired cop and he had lent Tony some mugshot books dating back to the 40s – each shot with its written details is a micro story. Tony threw in a couple of movie reference names from Don Siegel’s 1964 The Killers – Lee Marvin, Clu Gulhager, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
In the end the approach was to shoot a photographic idea and make it work. The entire clip was shot on a very tight budget in about 8 hours at the Abbotsford Convent.
You can visit the Bamboos website here.
