Travis Oaks’ debut music video launched online by Le Cheile
Supporting The Riptide Movement, The Hot Sprockets and The Minutes at this year’s Le Cheile Music and Arts Festival, Travis Oaks today launched their ‘Last Love Song’ official video via the festival's website.
Although Travis Oaks have yet to release any material, the blues/rock quartet decided to celebrate the launch of ‘Last Love Song’ this August bank holiday weekend, in style.
The newly introduced four-piece that formed when Aran McGillick, Killian McCourt and Taran Plouzane joined Mike Paterson and started writing blues/rock were hand selected by NuMu Promotions management who were impressed with the band’s demos. Armed with producer Barry Murphy the quartet headed for NuMu Production's Kildare-based studios to record their debut three-track EP due for full release this autumn.
The video for the EP’s leading track was directed by Luke Sweetman of Little Beast Films (The Hot Sprockets, The Stypes) who created the idea, which can be described as Mad Max meets Apocalypto. “It grabbed my attention immediately, it stood out and it started giving me the itch to create a video that matched its energy. We had a blast making it with some truly fantastic people; a bunch of whom are in the video, it was a night shoot and didn't start filming till 8.30 and finished at 7am the next morning, so I think some of the cast, crew and band's mad energy rubbed off on the video,” said Sweetman.
Deciding on the video release so last minute, front-man Mike Paterson explains how the vivid and crazy images are ones that will remain lodged in your memory. “Little Beast have imagined something special here and the only reason all of this exists is because of the kindness of all those who helped us, and saw in us something that we could only hope was there. I think it's very easy to see all of that hard work and dedication by the whole team as soon as the video starts to play!'
Travis Oaks came to the attention of many when The Hot Sprockets announced a competition to win support at their Button Factory Album Launch. Travis Oaks submitted their cover of The Hot Sprocket’s ‘Bad Jim’ injecting it with their edgy vibe thus introducing Bad (Ass) Jim, the cover song that won them the June 7th support slot.
Gary Dunne, organiser of Le Cheile Music and Arts Festival, who is a big supporter of upcoming acts explains why the festival was enthusiastic to launch the video before the big weekend.
“At Le Cheile we watch what's happening on the scene in Ireland and we try to spot the talent before they get beyond the reach of a small festival. The likes of The Blizzards played their first ever festival gig with us, we had The Frames before they were huge, and two years ago we had Kodaline when no one had heard of them yet. This year we booked Travis Oaks and we're keeping a very close eye on them for the future.'
Travis Oaks' music is steeped in the sound of dirty old blues rock, with many modern influences such as Arctic Monkeys, QOTSA, The Black Keys, The Minutes.
Producer Barry Murphy says: “The idea behind the production was to represent this modern take on an older sound. To achieve sound this we used a mixture of modern and vintage technology, painstakingly re-recording each individual part to analogue tape before being brought into the modern era with the use of a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation).”
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