Thanks to Quicksand Studios, Paul Sparkes Productions, and all our NZ Party members!

Video shot/directed by Edward Shiers
Song recorded by John Armstrong at Atlantic Records Studio A and mixed by Steven Miller

FROM THE FUTURE

We’re working on the edit of another new music video – the footage of which we shot in the great land of New Zealand.

… and to celebrate The Small Hours all being on the same continent for the first time this decade… here’s a trailer for you to enjoy!

Hope you like it!

Here’s our video for “The Party” from “The Battle Of Airstrip One”. We shot it at Quicksand Studios in Christchurch, New Zealand December 2010.

Directed by: Edward Shiers
Camera Operators: Daniel O’Sullivan, Paul Sparkes, Edward Shiers
Editing / Post Production: Edward Shiers
Co-Producer / Co-Director: Paul Sparkes
Executive Producer: Michael Burtscher

Actors: Jo Nixon-Sparkes, Melanie van Ameyde, Ben Whelan, Rebecca Mason, Cameron Mason, Steve Jarden, Paul Sparkes
Lighting: AC Lighting, Steve Jarden, Michael Kelly
Make-up: Liz O’Sullivan
Wardrobe Assist: Jo Nixon-Sparkes
On-Set Sound: Thom O’Connor
Still Photography: Peter McCarthy

Special thanks to Quicksand Productions

From the Future

We’ve got the vision, got the soul
Got some seeds that we wanna sow
We keep the secrets no one knows
In a cupboard underground
Because we need it, because we can
For the good of your fellow man
Happy people, happy plans
We know what’s best for our children

And when you see this,
Yeah when you see this you will know
There’s only one way you can go

Oh oh, we’re from the future you know
We’re from the future, everything is wonderful
Oh oh, we’re from the future you know
We’re from the future

When we reach these happy days
We’ve got the parts that you’re gonna play
Over there, you just smile away
Now there’s a good little soldier
The perfect way to live forever
’cause if you bite us we bleed together
It’s tried and tested, and really clever
Take what you see as a lesson

’cause when you’ve seen this
Yeah when you’ve seen this you will know
There’s only one way you can go

Oh oh, we’re from the future you know
We’re from the future, everything is wonderful
Oh oh, we’re from the future you know
We’re from the future

Thought Crime

Hush hush, don’t talk about it
Don’t tell a soul
Hush hush, don’t talk about it
Don’t let anybody know

We don’t have to worry ’cause they’re watching us sleep
They’re always near
They’ve got the finest innovations in privacy-deprivation
So we can’t afford to dream
Please, please, please won’t you cure our minds before we lose control?
’cause I don’t wanna know it if I’m not even allowed a soul

We’re not criminals, we’re not criminals
We’re not criminals but we play the part
We’re not criminals, we’re not criminals
We’re not criminals but we can always start

Speaking without talking is a trick of the living but a sign of the dead
(we are the dead)
Here comes a candle to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head

We’re not criminals, we’re not criminals
We’re not criminals but we look the part
We’re not criminals, we’re not criminals
We’re not criminals but we can always start

They’ll find us, they’ll see us, they’ll never believe us
And they’re killers, they’re killers, oh my god
I said you liars, you liars, renegade Messiahs
Why’d you lead us to silence? Oh my god
I said they’ll find us, they’ll see us, they’ll never believe us
And they’re killers, they’re killers, oh my god
I said you liars, you liars, renegade Messiahs
Why’d you lead us to silence? Oh my god

Hate Song

I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me but they are
They’re coming now, they’re coming now
And singing Hate Songs to themselves

You can’t jump off, if you won’t look down
And you can’t lay blame when there’s none to lay

Oh feeble, feeble world
Why won’t you go easy on someone who tried to feed you?

I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me but they are
They’re coming now, they’re coming now
And singing Hate Songs to themselves

I caught you out trying to turn it round
But you’re just like me and you know it now

Oh feeble, feeble world
Why won’t you go easy on someone who tried to feed you?
Oh feeble, feeble world
Why won’t you go easy on someone who tried to feed you?

I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me
I don’t know why they’re coming for me but they are
They’re coming now, they’re coming now
And singing Hate Songs to themselves

Loose Lips Sink Ships

You’re making sure you’ll never be on your own
I’m a silent trophy that you will never show
‘Cause it’s no fun when you tell everyone
About your sinful other life
About your whipping-boy on the side
No, it’s no fun when you tell everyone

Don’t leave me to hide away
Don’t leave me on my own again
It’s the last time, I don’t like it here
Don’t leave me on my own again

I can be what you want, I can be what you say
I can be myself another day

When you say “Go” I must go
But what will you do when I ruin the show?
‘Cause it’s no fun when you’re not number one

Don’t leave me to hide away
Don’t leave me on my own again
It’s the last time, I don’t like it here
Don’t leave me on my own again

I can be what you want, I can be what you say
I can be myself another day

Please don’t leave me on my own again
Please don’t leave me on my own again
Please don’t leave me on my own again
Please don’t leave me on my own

Think of Something

Honestly never say never
You know we’re kinda clever
We’ll think of something else to try and fill our time on earth
So silently we changed the way it used to be
When I was in your bloodstream
Nothing could infect the way we were
‘Cause we were wiser souls

Don’t you ever say we can all do this alone
‘Cause you never know

Watch that girl, she is a lonely soul
She is a lonely soul
Watch that boy, watching the lonely girl
They are the lonely ones

Constantly I wonder how it came to be
That it’s not up to you, it’s not up to me
The last time I saw you I felt alive, in control
But not enough to say it’s right, my head’s working too slow
I need to see, I need to know if you could be the one I love
But every time you come to mind, I don’t want to realize

Don’t you ever say we can all do this alone
‘Cause you never know

Watch that girl, she is a lonely soul
She is a lonely soul
Watch that girl, she is a lonely soul
She is a lonely soul
Watch that boy, watching the lonely girl
They are the lonely ones

All they know, they’re not really on their own
Never the lonely ones