Words: Sam Geary
Ahead of their forthcoming album 'Five', released on February 1 2019 through [PIAS] Recordings, White Lies have shared the video for new track 'Believe It'.
Shot in Tijuana, Mexico and directed by Mexican Academy of Film Award winning film director David Pablos, who describes the video “as a portrait of my hometown, Tijuana” - bassist and lyricist Charles Cave explains how Pablos got the final edit.
"He had made two very different videos for us on our last album, so we felt confident to hand over the song, for him to utilise us as actors and orchestrate his personal vision. The stronger of the two videos was shot in Tijuana, a place that David has a deep connection with, and the chosen backdrop for his latest film. We shot in such a plethora of locations for the video that portrays the unique spread of existences within the border city and to a greater degree within Mexico as a country.
“This is not, per se, a political video, but rather a film about humans, about the homes humans make for themselves and the lives they cultivate within and around those homes. It is an undeniably Mexican world shown, but can, and should be easily transposed to any country, any city, any town. he continues; “the themes are universal. The track is about the efforts people make to stay sane, and the people who profit from those efforts. Whilst not a literal response to the lyrics, the video is undeniably a film that echoes those sentiments of the desire for health, and wellbeing, and the many obstacles that get in the way of that pursuit.”
White Lies undertake an extensive EU/UK tour in 2019.
JANUARY 2019
31 BRIGHTON Concorde
FEBRUARY
01 BRISTOL SWX
03 LEEDS Academy
04 NEWCASTLE Boiler Shop
05 GLASGOW QMU
07 LIVERPOOL Olympia
08 MANCHESTER Albert Hall
09 NOTTINGHAM Rock City
11 EDINBURGH Liquid Rooms
13 CAMBRIDGE Junction
14 LONDON Forum
15 BIRMINGHAM Institute
18 AMSTERDAM Paradiso NL
19 NIJMEGEN Doornroosje NL
20 BRUSSELS AB BE
22 COLOGNE Kantine DE
23 BOCHUM Matrix DE
24 HAMBURG Markthalle DE
26 STOCKHOLM Berns
27 OSLO Rockefeller Music Hall NO
MARCH
01 AARHUS Train DK
02 COPENHAGEN Vega DK
03 BERLIN Huxleys DE
05 WARSAW Proxima PL
06 POZNAN Zamek PL
07 PRAGUE Roxy CZ
08 VIENNA Ottakringer Brauerei AT
10 ZAGREB Culture Factory HR
11 BOLOGNA Estragon IT
12 LAUSANNE Les Docks CH
13 ZURICH Dynamo CH
15 MUNICH Neue Theatre DE
16 LEIPZIG Werk 2 DE
18 WIESBADEN Schlachthof DE
19 PARIS Trabendo FR
20 LUXEMBOURG Den Atelier LU
21 EINDHOVEN Effenaar NL
26 DUBLIN Button Factory IE
27 CORK Cyprus Avenue IE
28 GALWAY Roisin Dubh IE
29 DUBLIN Button Factory IE
30 BELFAST Elmwood Hall
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