The Psychedelic Furs are delighted to reveal the new video for “Wrong Train” directed by award-winning artist, photographer, and filmmaker Hans Neleman. “Wrong Train” is taken from the band’s new album Made Of Rain which became the band’s second highest-charting UK Album and No.2 in the Independent Album Charts.
The album also featured in the end-of-year Best Albums roundup in Mojo, Uncut, Good Morning America, Classic Pop, and Vive Le Rock. “Wrong Train” is the latest song to be lifted from Made Of Rain, alongside “Come All Ye Faithful,” “No-One,” “Don’t Believe“ and “You’ll Be Mine.”
Richard Butler has said “‘Wrong Train’ continues the black and white textured, mysterious feel of the previous videos from ‘Made Of Rain’. It was a pleasure working along with Hans Neleman on this project. The creativity Hans, Peter Sebastian and their team brought shows in every frame. Much like in paintings, imagery in this video is altered to where it is seen in an entirely different way.”
For the video, Neleman drew inspiration from Furs’ frontman Richard Butler’s paintings. “Wrong Train” explores the theme of a disintegrating relationship and the idea was to deliver something rooted in a more abstract realm rather than illustrating the lyrics literally. I photographed and filmed Richard while painting his face as if he were delivering an art performance”
Neleman says. Restricted by Covid-19 limitations, the video was shot in Neleman’s home-studio in Connecticut and at Michelson Studios in upstate New York. After the shoot, the photographic material was handed over and digitally manipulated by Peter Sebastian.
Made Of Rain was produced by Richard Fortus with The Psychedelic Furs, whilst mixing duties were handled by Tim Palmer (David Bowie, U2, Robert Plant). Made Of Rain is available on CD, Double Gatefold vinyl, digitally download and stream via https://psychfurs.lnk.to/MoRPR
The Psychedelic Furs previously released seven critically acclaimed studio albums – The Psychedelic Furs (1980), Talk Talk Talk (1981), Forever Now (1982), Mirror Moves (1984), Midnight To Midnight (1987), Book Of Days (1989) and World Outside (1991). They released many classic singles throughout the ’80’s and into the 90’s, including: “Sister Europe,” “Love My Way,” “The Ghost In You,” “Pretty In Pink,” “Heaven,” “Heartbreak Beat,” “All That Money Wants” and “Until She Comes.”
In addition to lead singer Richard Butler, the six-piece line-up features co-founder Tim Butler (Richard’s brother) on bass, Mars Williams on saxophone, Rich Good on guitar, Amanda Kramer on keyboards, and Paul Garisto on drums.
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NME has a nifty article about the Psych Furs new video here:
The article talks mostly about the video, but in this choice blast-from-the-past nugget Richard Butler talks about filmmaker John Hughes:
‘In other news, Butler revealed last year that John Hughes “got the wrong end of the stick” about his band’s 1981 single, which inspired a 1986 rom-com of the same name.
The frontman said that the US filmmaker took the meaning literally, and centred his Molly Ringwald-starring “brat pack” film Pretty In Pink on a beautiful girl in a pink dress. But Butler was using a metaphor for describing a naked, wayward girl.
“God rest his soul,” Butler told Sky News, ‘[Hughes] kind of got the wrong end of the stick with that song.
“He made it to be literally about a girl that was wearing a pink dress and it wasn’t about that at all. It was about a rather unfortunate girl. Me saying ‘pretty in pink’ meant somebody who is naked. It was a metaphor…given that, the movie did us a lot of good.”’
