Check out “Manning Hill,” a sick and philthy video by aspiring Canadian geniuses Chastity where sounds and images work together like a Great White Northern suburban message for the ages.
Chastity’s singer Brandon Williams explains how he found the perfect director for the video, “I met the director, Justin Singer, at bible camp a few years ago, found him on the internet in the fall to tell him about this Smashing Pumpkins inspired video I couldn’t get out of my head. Luckily he wasn’t brain washed like some of our old pals and was up to put pennies on train tracks, shave someones head, tattoo SORRY on our drummer Sam, run around Whitby with all of us.”
Williams is very critical of his hometown of Whitby Ontario, which he says is simply “bleak, suburban sprawl, it’s made skids out of bored kids here.”
This song is named for Manning Hill, the largest hill in Whitby, a hill Williams and his friends have always skated and tried to conquer.
“This video’s for Whitby, and all the places like it,” says Williams. “We made it together on practically nothing. The video exceeded all of my hopes.”
“This summer we’ll be celebrating the release of the video with a series of shows in record shops, on rooftops, skate parks, and a bush party we’re having here in Whitby.”
