Ray Dar Vees EP#2

by la Blogothèque, on 27/07/2010 share

They must have lived barely sixty years between the three of them. Mysterious and androgynous, the band is fairly new but already very much in place. We could tell, however, that the idea of being filmed was stressing them out a bit. The fear of failure, of baring themselves in public, of just letting themselves go and seeing what happens, was getting to them. They’re young, but like a set of grizzled industry veterans, they wanted to control everything. Fortunately for us, they didn’t get to.

They wandered about in the Covent Garden market, receiving amused looks from the vendors packing up for the day, and amused to be there, being told to do English things by some French people. Well, things that French people think English people do. But they were good sports, despite a small case of the nerves.

Deciding to brave the rain, we left the market for Trafalgar Square. We didn’t even get a chance to pull out the camera before a guard told us to bugger off. So we moved on to St. James Park, but the rain redoubled its efforts to foil the shoot. We found ourselves under the trees, ready for a somewhat unpolished but nonetheless enthusiastic rendition of “One Day.”

We then turned off towards the Horse Guard barracks. A bit of a awkward moment followed when the band walked by both sides of the cavalryman on duty, who rather generously but very dutifully moved to the side in order to avoid disrupting the shoot. Alas, it was too good to be true. A sergeant burst onto the scene, and marching purposefully with a baton under his arm, navigated through the shoot and told Thomas firmly and evenly to quit filming and requested that we leave the premises.

Shot in London, UK

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