Memphis garage psychos The Sheiks have built a reputation around their hard-rocking, sweaty live shows. Frank McClellan, Keith Cooper, and Graham Winchester have gone from crashing Gonerfest to backing up Jack Oblivian and touring relentlessly. This video for their song “She Said All These Things” had its origin at a New Year’s Eve house party in 2013, when Memphis filmmaker Ben Rednour showed up with his camera and cut together this 3-minute blast of fun. If you want a sense of what the Memphis underground has to offer, here it is in all its chaotic glory.
Music Video Monday: The Shieks
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For our final Music Video Monday of 2015, I’m counting down the ten best videos of a fantastic year of collaboration between Memphis filmmakers and musicians.
I’m not usually one for lists, but hey, it’s the end of the year, so why not? This Top Ten list has13 entries, which just shows you how bad I am at this whole list thing. So here it is, the best Memphis music videos of 2015, arbitrarily chosen and ranked by me:
As with most things created by the time-travelling aristocrunks, this clip will have you asking where parody ends and actual decadence begins. Then you just won’t care.
For his latest entry in his solo project Vending Machine, Robby Grant enlisted some of the best directors in Memphis to create music videos. The best of the bunch, and the best Memphis music video of 2015, is this clip created by G. B. Shannon, with cinematographic help from Ryan Earl Parker and Edward Valibus, and ace editing by Ben Rednour.
