“While you were drinking [and] unemployed, we were drinking, unemployed and filming,” note Halifax metal four-piece Turbo. And it shows; their new video for “Make Bail” off their upcoming album Fast As Fvck is a marvel of DIY tomfoolery and shenanigans, manifested by sheer willpower and an overabundance of Olands.
Turbo describe themselves as “your dishevelled uncle on Christmas morning; Turbo is trashed, pissed off, sleazy, mean, and sick of your shit.” Which, for starters, doesn’t compare very favourably to any of my uncles, or explain how this video got filmed.
Filming from each of the band member’s houses, while strictly observing all quarantine safety regulations, the band then turned to filmmaker and videographer Neil Hunt. The resulting video “came together better than the band expected.”
“When COVID-19 was on the rise and the quarantine hit in full-force, everyone was trapped inside and bored on a biblical scale,” explain the band. “Shows were cancelled, tours were cancelled, and we had to come up with a fun backup-plan and fast. We decided on a DIY music video, and it only took a very short conversation and a coy laugh before we agreed that a song called ‘Make Bail’ was almost too good of a fit for the ‘Stay The Blazes Home’ breakout-of-your-house video we had in mind.”
While the timing turned out to be just right for the release, the song has a longer history than that. The band points out that “Make Bail” was the first song they had written together, during their first rehearsal. Collectively experiencing a series of bad breakups, the band described “Make Bail” as their PFO anthem, suitable for both parting shots or an overstayed virus, as the case might be.
“Make Bail” is the fourth single off the band’s upcoming album, Fast as Fvck, which will be released later in 2020.