NEW VIDEO FROM FILTHY BOY
Here’s an exclusive for y’all: the new video from the dark and often hilarious heroes of south London’s indie scene, Filthy Boy. Like the twisted videos for their previous run of singles, it’s directed by the band themselves led by twin brothers Michael and Paraic Morrissey (who have also directed videos for the brilliant King Krule, also a Peckham resident). ‘That Life’ – the song – flips between the homeless narrator’s present and his past (perfect house, perfect wife, muscles ‘like some guy in a gay magazine’), but the video is only the here and now: the subject’s drunken and desperate stagger through night-time London, taking in some landmarks on the way and culminating in a half-crazed chant. It’s poignant, sure, but somehow it’s hard to feel entirely sorry for the guy…