Video of the day: Dansette Junior

Love dubstep, hate pigeons? Or hate dubstep, love pigeons?
Either way there should be something in this video for you.

It’s the official video for Paranoid, the debut offering from Dansette Junior, brainchild of ex-pat Brummie producer and songwriter Will Hunt, with the single due to be released on August 30 on Columbia Records.

Will upped sticks from his native Birmingham in the summer of 2005, so the story goes, setting up home above a Wetherspoon’s pub in Bethnal Green, pulling pints part-time and gigging across the capital as an acoustic singer-songwriter before beginning to dabble in clubbing music after moving to Kentish Town a year later and buying a load of DJ equipment and synths, inspired by places such as Fabric and The Cross.

He later met  Graham Gaffney in a local Kentish Town pub when the pair bonded over a shared love of Godspeed You! Black Emporer and decided to make music together, with Graham on drums and Will on guitar and synths, before adding Johnny McDermott on synths and bass in September 2008.

Two years later and they are hoping for chart success with Paranoid, produced by drum n bass men Drumsound & Bassline Smith, with a heavy, throbbing bassline, electronic synths and radio-friendly melodic vocals, not to mention the inspired video, following the antics of flocks of bass-loving pigeons.

It’s also worth watching it on YouTube just to read the comments underneath. “Who Wants To Have Sex With Those Pigeons????” is a personal favourite.