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The General Assembly

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For AC Newman's jolly strum-a-long I'm Not Talking, The General Assembly contrast the breezy soundtrack with a deadpan, deliciously odd retro performance piece.

With a heavy dose of irony – performing a song called I'm Not Talking on a chat show – this soft-focused, Parky-style promo in a 4:3 aspect ratio is hugely watchable...

AC Newman
I'm Not Talking (Matador Records)
Director: The General Assembly
Production Company: Honey Badger
Exec Producers: John Benson & Gower Frost
Producer: Frenchie Alburtis
DP: Charles Son
Art Director: Nigel Mogg
Editor: Joseph Remerowski
Cast: Zach Steel as Whip Nicken & Peter Karinen as The Audio Engineer
UK Representation: <a href="http://www.skinflicks.tv/"target="_blank">Skin Flicks</a>
Watch: <a href="http://www.skinflicks.tv/home#!/videos/ac-newman-im-not-talking"target="_blank">here</a>

Honey Badger

John Benson & Gower Frost

Frenchie Alburtis

Charles Son

Nigel Mogg

Joseph Remerowski

Zach Steel as Whip Nicken &amp; Peter Karinen as The Audio Engineer

AC Newman 'I'm Not Talking' by The General Assembly

Intense, brooding and just a bit tongue in cheek... The General Assembly take a late-night road trip with LA indie rockers Everest in this cinematic, monochrome beauty for their surreal new single Ownerless. 
It's a little bit David Lynch, and a whole lot General Assembly, who have their own special way with comedy-drama.
And Everest take to the road with Neil Young later this year...

Townhall

Elise Velasco

Everest 'Ownerless' by The General Assembly

For the retro synthpop of TEED's Trouble, The General Assembly recreate a heavily-styled 80's 'cocktail party from hell' complete with strange, interesting characters keeping a straight face. Intriguing...

Townhall/Skin Flicks

PJ Sodaski

Greg Lang

Sam Seager

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' Trouble by The General Assembly

The Wombats return, dispensing with their chirpy-chap image of yore in favour of full (and rather unlikely) rock and roll shallowness: Japanese sex, loads of drugs, and fucked-up fame. It's a tough job, etc...
Much well-crafted fun from LA-based directing team The General Assembly - who brought us Grum's wonderful <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/2010/07/30/grum%E2%80%99s-through-the-night-by-the-general-assembly/" target="_blank">Through The Night</a> - in their first UK label commission.

Richard Skinner UK / Jeff Shupe USA

Skin Flicks

Simon Thirlaway

Craig Eisenberg

Josh Locy

New Selecta

The Wombats’ Tokyo (Vampire & Wolves) by The General Assembly

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For DJ extraordinaire Grum's Through The Night, The General Assembly unveil this superb video which dares to tread in the footsteps of Sabotage, but then develops its very own interpretation of 'buddy love'.
"The General Assembly is a team of Southern gentlemen who traversed from Oklahoma and Texas to California in order to mine for gold in the realm of music videos," explain the collective, who have just signed to SkinFlicks for UK representation. "We continue to dig deeper and deeper, hoping to bring in that claim. We have a slight obsession with moustaches, and 70's and Early 80's cinema. 
"We'd talked with Grum and the label about doing a homage to all the homoerotic undercurrents of the over-the-top machismo Bruckheimer/Bay-esque films of the 1980's. We watched a number of Starsky and Hutch YouTube mashups set to cheesy romantic ballads for inspiration (look into it) and set about creating these two characters. From there we cast these two actors, Derrick and Eric, we knew who are incredibly hilarious and have amazing chemistry together period. 
"We gave Eric the worst mullet of all time, bleached his hair that lustrous shade of orange and manicured a couple of mustaches and took it from there. We shot it over a very full two days in Los Angeles. We cracked one of Eric's ribs in the first two hours of the first day, narrowly avoided being pulled over driving a Bronco with a police light and a car-full of fake guns and coke, greased-down a grouchy body-builder's chest and frightened numerous early-morning beachgoers. 
"You probably can't do a cop-based music video without comparisons to Sabotage and we're certainly fans of that. We tried to do something very original from a similar starting point however and I think shortly into it's playing time it's starts to reap very different benefits, which is good. 
"There is a good deal of hilarious outtakes and an excellent Behind The Scenes featurette which we're planning to roll out down the road as well. We like to think there's more mileage to be had out of these characters and are exploring options as to what else we can do with them down the road".

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