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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Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Pedro Takahashi
- Producer
- Fred Qvortrup
- Production Company
- F
- 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