Tame Impala

Lucidity Video info

'Lucidity' is the latest track to be taken from Tame Impala's visceral debut, InnerSpeaker. A rollicking, searing rocket ride, 'Lucidity' comes accompanied by a (literally) spacey video, directed by Robert Hales.

Shot outside the country town of Mildura, 500 odd kilometres from Melbourne, the Lucidity video was a leap into the unknown, a series of experiments and blind faith launches into the final frontier, involving cameras being launched into space inside weather balloons, tracking all that went on below, including Tame Impala ripping through "Lucidity".

After being let go by the band's Kevin Parker, the flight ascent was just under 1 hour. The camera swiftly loses site of our band (much to the label's disdain), flying through the clouds before the edge of the earth comes into shot and it reaches its summit somewhere between 20 and 24km up. At this point things go all woozy, flipping and flopping about, spinning to stare at the sun, before the balloon popped, ripping it's safety parachute from the box and launching into a free fall to earth.

This descent took 16 minutes, the approximate speed at impact with earth somewhere between 75 and 100 km/hr, all the while the camera continued to roll.

Upon hammering down to earth, in a wonderful stroke of universal happenstance, a curious wedge-tailed eagle wanders into shot to pick at the parachute and form the completely unscripted, perfect ending to our video. Local farmers believe the eagle must have seen the payload coming down and stalked it thinking it was an injured animal.

Of the many cameras sent up, the video you see involves the only camera that didn't either fog up or fly through too much cloud rendering it all akin to watching the world through a bucket of fairy floss. The cameras were packed with a GPS unit, after a failed attempt by the 3 support vehicles the day of the launch they were retrieved the following morning approximately 130km from the launch site, in an area in Lake Mungo ironically called No Man's Land. In the days leading up to the shoot the area was lashed with flooding and gail-forced winds, where the cameras might have landed if that was the case on shoot day is anyone's guess.

Stay tuned for the video premiering this week. Behind the scenes video below.

Posted on September 27, 2010 at 07:04pm

Lucidity clip - Behind the scenes...

Posted on September 27, 2010 at 05:40pm

[V] Oz Artist 2010

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Posted on September 25, 2010 at 08:31pm

US & Canada Headline Tour

Tame Impala will be returning to American soil this Fall, heading out on a month-long headlining tour across the US and a few shows in Canada. The last time they were stateside was supporting MGMT and their own mini headline tour saw the band sell out 3 shows in each New York and Los Angeles.

Bands also playing these shows are Stardeath and White Dwarfs & Kuroma

All tickets are on sale now, info on the left.

Posted on September 21, 2010 at 01:33am

European Tour Oct / Nov

After only just finishing up a successful festival tour of Europe and sold out headline shows in Paris and Berlin, Tame Impala have returned to Australia to announce another 12 date tour through Europe.

Following on from the 3 dates in the UK, the tour will take in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Holland.

The dates are up with all tickets on sale now.

Posted on September 08, 2010 at 10:16am