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The Octopus Project Braves the Sea For "Wet Gold" Video


Listen to The Octopus Project's Golden Beds EP here.


Austin four-piece The Octopus Project are excited to reveal their brand new video for "Wet Gold," one of the featured videos on their brand new Golden Beds Enhanced EP (Peek-A-Boo Records), which includes five different tunes and seven brand new videos! Josh Lambert in the band talks about the making of the video:

...it was wet and cold! We filmed it in Galveston a couple of months after the hurricane hit, so it was pretty devastated. The whole city (specifically the beach) was filled with debris and completely ripped up buildings -- totally creepy. There was a pretty gnarly fog that day as well, so it only added to the eeriness. Making the video was a blast! Yvonne spent a couple of days learning semaphore and was spelling out "Wet Gold" when we filmed it. I've never been colder in my life. Standing in the ocean all day long in the middle of January wouldn't be first on my list of things to do in the future, but we had a ton of fun nonetheless!


The Octopus Project has amassed a continuously growing fan base over the past few years. Their live shows are infectious, often inspiring musical passions in audience members they didn't know existed. In fact, a good friend of mine who recently saw them in San Fransisco is still bugging me to buy her a theremin for her birthday (anybody know where I can find one?)


They've been on tour since the beginning of August, and you can still catch them in a few places:



08/17 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir

08/18 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey

08/21 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

08/22 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge

Comments

Gordon Charlton said…
Moog sell good theremins.
Anonymous said…
Haha, we found our theremin at a junk store! Keep an eye out at the dump and stuff. Ebays golden too...

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