“When someone pitches a “performance video” in the HECK video think tank, they are generally met with stony faces and rolled eyes. Music videos are a chance to show more creativity visually. Straight up performance generally say fuck all except “this is what we look like playing our song” which, you know, is great and all, but is worth about 10 seconds of your YouTube time before going back to watching compilations of people braining themselves whilst trying to surf an ironing board down a main road.”
That’s Heck frontman Matt Reynold’s view on performance videos. It’s just as well, then, that the band went all-out on their latest video effort for ‘The Breakers’, employing the use of “a BBC wildlife camera crew, a nuclear lighting rig and a motorised robot buggy camera thing that came from the future”.
The use of equipment usually spared for capturing wild beasts in their natural habitat seems the perfect fit for Heck, who are no more at home than on-stage tearing it up (literally). If there’s one thing that’s missing from the video it’s more opportunities for Matt and co. to get smashing. More furniture, ornaments and general breakables required in the next one, lads.
Tour Dates
October
18th London Alexandra Palace (Warped Tour)
31st Bristol Exchange
November
1st Bournemouth The Anvil
2nd Plymouth The Junction
3rd Cardiff The Globe
4th Stoke Underground
5th Glasgow Audio
6th Carlisle The Brickyard
7th Huddersfield The Parish
8th Leeds Key Club
10th Birmingham Cellar
11th St Albans The Horn
12th Derby The Venue
13th Leicester Soundhouse
14th Burnley Sanctuary Rock Bar
28th London Dr. Martens’ Stand For Something Tour, The Black Heart, w/ Bury Tomorrow