What happens when you combine one part Metalcore band, one part Aunty Donna skit with one part Jackass stunt? You get Life Pilot’s new video for The Nerve.
The Adelaide band have just dropped an epic 15 minute video that is as funny as it is true. Dodgy promoters, inane conversations and frustrating band mates. It’s all there….
Inspired by the iconic Jackass roller-disco truck skit, Life Pilot pays homage to the MTV stunt team by piling themselves into a moving van and doing their best to play their song while vocalist Angus Long takes the band on an unwitting drive.
The result? Pure chaos.
Filmed and edited by bass player Nicholas Evans, The Nerve is a true showcase of Life Pilot’s DIY ethos.
“I got the idea after rewatching all the Jackass movies one weekend. I thought “That looks like fun, and surely the safety warnings they give are all for show. How bad could it be?” Says drummer, Eli Green.
Turns out, quite painful. As the band found themselves crashing into walls, careening in to one another and being knocked to the ground over and over.
“It was actually quite terrifying once those van doors were closed and things started moving. We really got our asses kicked.”
The band’s absurd comedy styling is also on display in the video. A lengthy story skit written by vocalist Angus Long at the front of the video explains how the band ends up stuck in the van the singer unwittingly taking them for calming drive after a fight with a sleazy venue manager.
“We wanted to poke fun at some of the insane reasons people in the industry have given us to pay us less than they should have, or not at all. And at the same time, have some fun improvising some absurd comedy as send ups of our own bizarre character selves.”
Going for your throat from the opening riff, The Nerve is about adjusting to a life without the partner you envisioned spending the rest of it with. The inevitable throes of ending years of hard effort and emotional investment. Feeling free, yet lost without them and trying to recall the person you once were.
With thanks to Maric Media
