Seattle’s Deer Venom released a self-titled EP this winter, and the rowdy 4-track collection has been one of our favorites ever since so we were more than stoked when the project’s founder Mario Barbetta asked us to produce a video for the standout cut “Not Today.” The EP has received airplay on the KEXP shows Sonic Reducer and Audioasis, and the track has been featured on Real Punk Radio, CILU’s The Sonic Blender, and Punk Rock Demonstration, as well as coverage on an international smattering of blogs including Velvety, Soundsphere Magazine, Sounds Good, and Schmutz. The video for “Not Today” was directed by a shadowy figure within the ranks of our Live Eye Tv crew who goes by the name Pilfered Viewings III, and it’s an homage to classic-era film noir, B-grade horror flicks, and Russ Meyer’s buxom classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill. When asked for a brief synopsis, Viewings offered:
“”Not Today” chronicles the exploits of a creeping Orange Menace. When a band of Supernal Females hops aboard a flying saucer to meet the challenge, it leads to an epic showdown at the White House.”
When we pressed the dude further as to just what this Orange Menace was, and who this band of Females included, he said: “Watch the video!”–and hung up the phone. So we did, and while the Orange Menace soon became painfully clear, we reckon that band of Supernal Females includes some super-rad ladies like X-Ray Spex Poly Styrene, Siouxsie Sioux, Debbie Harry, and Vivienne Westwood, as well as the occultist Madame Blavatsky, “If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution”‘s Emma Goldman, and a gun-toting Joan Crawford. With an eminent bunch of ass-kickers like that fighting for all that is Good and Just, that Orange Wigged Monkey doesn’t stand a chance!
Deer Venom is a Seattle-based post-punk band founded by multi-instrumentalist Mario Barbetta in his basement in 2010. His self-titled EP was recorded at Seattle’s Earwig Studio with engineer Don Farwell and hired gun Mike Stone on drums. The release features Barbetta on guitar, vocals, and bass. Watch “Not Today”…
