With new single ‘Bad Company’ out now and offering a storming new side to JAWS’ coin, today the band are thrilled to unveil the track’s all-new accompanying video.
Influenced by Anton Corbijn’s famed Ian Curtis documentary Control, the video tracks the everyday mundanity of modern inner-city youth. The clip is directed by long-time friend of the band Richard Manning, who states, “Connor's lyrics relate to isolation and a feeling of disconnection to the world during adolescence. I wanted to portray this view through stark locations and the subject’s idiosyncratic yet melancholic view on life."
On the video, vocalist Connor Schofield says: “For this video we wanted a completely outside idea on what we could do with it. We didn’t have any input really, we literally sent Richard the track and he did the rest. It was pretty risky but it’s paid off. I like the video a lot. Although its simple I think you get the point of the track from it, that just being general social awkwardness and anxiety with trying to fit in with the status quo.”
With last year’s debut album Be Slowly fine-tuning their versatility and seeing the unsigned band hit the top 75 in the Official Albums Chart, JAWS are now ready to hit their summer of festivals with renewed vigour (full dates below), ‘Bad Company’ marking the next wave of their ocean of potential.
UK Live Dates May 23rd | Common People Festival, Southampton May 24th | Weird Era Weekender, Wakefield May 30th | Camden Rocks Festival, London June 6th | Jubilee Club, Birmingham June 21st | 110 Above Festival, Leicestershire July 18th | Truck Festival, Oxfordshire Aug 1st | Y-Not Festival, Derbyshire
