The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band - The Dance of Death
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Following a frantic and explosive year of touring, festivals and crazy parties, The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band has unleashed its first music video on New Zealand audiences and unsuspecting net users worldwide. After sellout crowds across the country, including an extensive month long tour of the South Island in the summer, and spots in festivals such as Prana (where the band brought in the New Year), Jambalaya, Parihaka and Splore, those unlucky to have missed out on the band's outrageous live show now get a chance to experience their debaucherous shenanagins close up. Ryan Heron directs the video for The Dance Of Death, the single off the bands current ep Danse Macabre, which has already enjoyed successful radio airplay, including spending 5 weeks in the Kiwi FM top ten. With this release, the band are starting polish up material for their next album, to be recorded early 2009, and have plans to relocate to Berlin midyear. All of the key traits of the Bordello Band experience are on show in this rampant clip: crazed dancing, audiences driven wild, bare chests, virtuosic playing, and dancing, dancing, dancing...
Director Ryan Heron spent 18 months circumnavigating the globe on a boat in 2006-7 shooting footage for the Earthrace series and since then he has been busy shooting and editing for a range of companies including C4, MTV, Screentime, Television Spaceman, Cream Media, Two heads, Film Construction and Curious films.