Drawn from Bees - The Sky is Falling - Mini Movie Marathon
This is the second of eight mini movies released as part of Drawn from Bees’ mini movie marathon to celebrate the single, “The Ballad of Running Bear”.
Stew and Dan perform a live version of ‘Undertakers’ at Miss Mouse, while Matt and Maverick (Dirty Love Photography) film using 8mm app on iPhones and Raven records the audio using some audio recording device thing.
Undertakers was nominated for a Queensland Music Award in 2011 and tells a love story from beyond the grave.
Drawn from Bees - Undertakers - Mini Movie Marathon (by DrawnFromBees)
Drawn from Bees - English Line
This is the first of eight mini movies released as part of Drawn from Bees’ mini movie marathon to celebrate the single, “The Ballad of Running Bear”.
Matt (drummer) filmed, edited and starred in this 1920s silent-film inspired love story, using only the 8mm app on his iPhone.
Drawn from Bees - Movie Marathon
To celebrate the release of our new single Running Bear Drawn from Bees will embark on an eight week Movie Marathon showing video’s made by band member and live performances of the our songs.
Dan James has created a great poster to promote the Movie Marathon virally!
Drawn from Bees - Movie Marathon
To celebrate the release of our new single Running Bear Drawn from Bees will embark on an eight week Movie Marathon showing video’s made by band member and live performances of the our songs.
Dan James has created a great poster to promote the Movie Marathon virally!
Drawn from Bees - Running Bear
The second single from Drawn from Bees forthcoming album The May King and His Paper Crown is Running Bear inspired by J. P. Richardson aka The Big Bopper’s 1960 hit of the same name.
Running Bear tells the Story of two Indian’s from two separate quarreling tribes who fall in love. The hatred the tribes have for each other is so intense that the young lovers must only meet in secret and are forever doomed to live apart. The heartbreak proves too much and the two lovers drown themselves in the hopes that they may be united in the afterlife….
The video was created by a good friend of ours Anthony Salsone and his team:
Produced & Directed by Anthony Salsone
Director of Photography: Kurt Riddell
Editor & 1st AD: Ahmad Halimi
1st AC: Danny Haneman
2nd AC: Daniel Shelton
Gaffer: Martin Jacobsen
Grip: Peter Kelsey
Production Assistant: Joe Salsone
Makeup Artist: Milana Cryer
Assistant Makeup Artist: Emily Castles
Starring Ashlee Jensen & Karl Windeknecht
Drawn from Bees - The Ballad of Running Bear [Official Music Video] (by bonefingerrecords)
Dusty Midnight Cowboys Tour - Melbourne Leg
Saturday
4am (GMT +9) – Raven happily dozes in bed
4.01am – Dan, Stew, Hannah crawl out of bed, head to airport. Matt already in Melbourne, fast asleep
5am - Raven happily dozes in bed
5.07am – Dan, Stew, Hannah arrive bleary-eyed and grumpy at airport. Stew is extra grumpy because he hasn’t had his morning coffee yet
5.25am - Raven happily dozes in bed
5.27am - Dan, Stew and Hannah try to down a coffee and breakfast before rushing off to plane
6am - Raven happily dozes in bed
6am - Dan, Stew and Hannah fly to Melbourne
8am - Raven happily dozes in bed, Matt heads off with friends for an enjoyable winery tour in the beautiful Yarra Valley
9am - Raven wakes, yawns, scratches himself, puts on pants, walks down stairs to have a slow cruisey breakfast
10am – Raven munches down vegemite toast while reading the ABC News and enjoying a coffee
11.15am (GMT +10) - Dan, Stew and Hannah land in Melbourne, struggle for hours with luggage and hire car
11.15am – Raven, now bored of waiting, texts “HURRY UP!” message to Stew
11.25am - Raven texts “HURRY UP!” message to Stew
11.28am - Raven texts “HURRY UP!” message to Dan
12noon - Dan, Stew and Hannah drive from airport to Raven Manor in Collingwood
12.30 – We all arrive at Yellowbird Café, Raven gets his usual table. Stew, Dan, Raven (and maybe Hannah?) fall in love with smoking hot waitresses (waiter for Hannah?)
Saturday afternoon we caught up with our friends, Blackchords from Melbourne and family, enjoying a quiet drink on the Southside (Raven apologies to his Northside friends in Melbourne, assuring them he isn’t about to cross the river). Saturday night Dan and Raven headed up to Northcote to hit a house party with our good friend from Moheak Radio Los Angeles, Bruce Ravid.
Sunday – Festival Day
Sunday dawned on festival day and after much fussing about achieving naught we headed down to soak up some rays at the festival. We enjoyed a nice afternoon lunch then hit the stage to play at the New Music Stage at St Kilda Festival, no doubt the highlight of this tour thus far.
We were invited by Dave from Pure Pop Records, St Kilda to do an exclusive after-show party at his record store so we headed over there and played another gig straight after our festival set. We enjoyed a slightly loose but enjoyable set there and Matt our drummer introduced us to Tim Rogers, who needs no introduction.
We finished up our weekend by dragging our now extensive entourage of about 30 people out to dinner at an Italian Restaurant on St Kilda Beach.
Monday
2:30am – Raven gets home, happily dozes in bed
4am – Dan, stew, Hannah wake up bleary eyed, head to airport…
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5am - Raven happily dozes in bed…..you get the picture! ;-)
Good weekend!
-RDJ
Dusty Midnight Cowboys Tour - Sydney Leg
Friday
Our regular reader will be by now greatly surprised about the fact that the Drawn from Bees family arrived at Sydney airport in usual style – drunk on Friday night. So much so that when my band failed to carefully pack the hire van, all of our bags ended up scattered along Sydney airport’s vehicle circuit.
The question of responsibility was debated vigorously between two parties, Jones who argued had the back been packed well by his band then the door he left open never would have had so much pressure as to open whilst driving, and a much weaker argument from the ‘rest of the band’ who illogically suggested the event would not have occurred had I closed the back door to the car properly.
Friday was a late arrival so we decided to invade James Manor and subject Dan’s parents to hours of our joviality while they made attempts at sleep.
Saturday
We were supposed to rehearse…….instead we drove a zillion miles out to the aptly named Blacktown, to do a radio interview with Jackie & Maz on SWR 99.7FM. We performed a couple of hung-over renditions of our songs acoustically and had much fun. Saturday afternoon was spent being rejected from every pub in Sydney as we sought a place that would allow our supposedly ‘teenage’ keyboardist, Hannah to eat with us.
Saturday’s gig was at the Oxford Arts Factory, which is one of our favourite venues. We enjoyed a grand evening before being taken out to be shouted drink by Raven’s brother (but paid for by Raven Endless-Pockets Jones). As Sunday began peering over the horizon we intelligently called it a night.
Sunday
Coffee & Breakfast Burritos at Envy. Perfection!
Raven D Jones
