THE SILVER PANDA – ‘SUMMER BABE‘ video still (2022)

The Silver Panda is the name that my daughter Mika picked for our ‘weird covers’ collaboration with Maree Choie. A ‘lockdown’ project that grew into a band. Our debut album, ‘Freak Scene’ was a set of radical re-workings of noisy guitar records from the late ’80s & early ’90s (grunge, shoegaze, art punk…) that we stripped back to acoustic instruments, harmony vocals, Latin percussion & Maree’s jazz-inflected woodwinds, in order to try to take the songs somewhere completely different…

We made videos for all ten tracks on the album, and this is a still from track 2, our take on Pavement’s ‘Summer Babe’.