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Shame 'Quiet Life' by Pedro Takahashi

Rob Ulitski - 17th July 2025

Pedro Takahashi explores the idea of staying rooted to a place despite knowing that it is harming you in a conceptual performance video for Shame. 

Dialling in to the band’s live energy, the video for Quiet Life is anything but. It comprises the band performing in a rundown warehouse, whilst a group of hard hat-wearing intruders burst in with wrecking gear to cause chaos around them. 

As the camera orbits around the performance, we see snapshots of destruction of the space, with the mob getting ever closer to attacking the band, adding a frantic, breathless energy to the visual. Meanwhile the band barely acknowledge the mayhem around them - a manifestation of the meaning of the song which, according to vocalist Charlie Steen, "is about someone in a shitty relationship."

The result is both a mesmerising video from Takahashi, and a more introspective and serious side of Shame than we've seen before.

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Rob Ulitski - 17th July 2025

Tags

  • Post punk
  • Performance
  • Warehouse
  • Industrial
  • Hi Vis
  • Tracking
  • Run Down

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Pedro Takahashi
Producer
Fred Qvortrup
Production Company
Executive Producer
Mel Giles

Camera

Director of Photography
Max Conran
Focus Puller
Arthur Attenborough
2nd AC
Shee Won Park
BTS
Beth Knight, Holly Glanvill

Lighting/Grip

Gaffer
Poppy Landen
Lighting Trainee
Daisy Dixon

Art

Production designer
Flo Webb

Casting

Extras
Gzi Wisdom, Herbie Jones, Rosie Spencer, Harry Willis, James Baker, Barton Young, Oksana Demidova, Connor McGarry, Issy Bright Daniel Pablo, Chloe Ching, Jacek,

Commission

Label
Dead Oceans

Rob Ulitski - 17th July 2025

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