Interview: Band of the Week - Self Against City - Page 5

Steve Heigler is brilliant though, as is the engineer Mike Watts. The fact that we were able to come together and record and produce the album in only 17 days is in and of itself an incredible feat. And it says a lot about how professional both those guys are.

I missed talking to Jonathon the last couple days because you were filming a video, For which song?

We were doing a video for "Becoming a Monster," and I have to say these last few days have been the most hectic of Self Against City's career.

We played a show in San Diego last Saturday, about ten hours south of where we live. We left Friday night for San Diego, drove ten hours, played the show, left right after the show and drove the ten hours back so we could start working on the video. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday we worked for no less than 10 hours a day on the video. Wednesday we had a half day because we had to play a show Wednesday night. So we shot the video for a half day and then drove an hour and a half to Davis, California to play a show, and then we went back for Thursday. Friday was our only day to get ready for tour. We are in Phoenix now [Saturday]. It has been nuts the last few weeks!

Aside from being extremely time consuming, what was the experience of shooting a video like?

Working on the video was like something I've never experienced. We walked in and the director, our buddy Marko from Yuba City, which is about an hour north of Sacramento, in less than two weeks not only put together a treatment for the video but put together an entire crew to make it happen. We were in the warehouse that his family owns and there were already two complete sets built for the shoot. It was like walking on to the set of a sitcom.

It blew my mind what Marko was able to pull together in just a week and a half. And the people were just so generous with their time and their creativity it made it very smooth to work on, even though it was hard work. Everything went very smoothly. I can't wait to shoot another video.

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