Bond Street Bridge – Silver
‘Silver’ is the second single from Bond Street Bridge’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Mapmaker’s Art.’
The song and the video tell an epic story of folly, adventure, and eventual insanity. A well-dressed but confused-looking young man pushes a mannequin in a post-apocalyptic shopping trolley through a desert populated by dessicated skulls, poisonous snakes, and cantankerous alchemists. With only a deck of cards for guidance, he’s searching for a mysterious potion – presumably he’ll know it when he sees it. As in most ill-conceived endeavours, things go wrong quite quickly.
The video was shot in lush black and white by Briar March, and directed by Nigel Braddock. Sam Prebble, the one-man multi-instrumentaliser behind the Bond Street Bridge project, wrote the script and provided art direction. He explains ‘the logistics of the shoot were a bit of a nightmare, but since it was my idea, I couldn’t really complain about having to push a severely distressed shopping trolley up a sixty-foot sand dune. At least, that’s what Briar and Nigel reckoned – I decided to complain anyway.’
The bulk of the shooting was completed in one very long day at Bethell’s Beach, on Auckland’s west coast. Racing to fit so much action into one day of shooting gave the finished product exactly the epic qualtiy the team was aiming for. ‘I wasn’t acting by the end of the day,’ says Sam. ‘All that rolling around and falling over towards the end of the video was a pretty good reflection of my state of mind by that stage.’
The video was edited by Campbell Farquar and features Sam Prebble and Derek March.
