Hot on the heels of the release of their first single, “California Dime”, local pop-punk band Sundown Superhero released their second single “Midnight Knock” and their first ever music video to accompany it. In the video the band – Emile Sabga, Philip Norville and Craig Haniff – play spies who have been charged with retrieving a briefcase from a woman in a red coat. In our recent interview with the band, they described the video shoot as “[so] much fun” and “a good experience.”
Bassist Craig Haniff said of the song and video:
“‘Midnight Knock’ as a song title refers to a knock on your door/phone call/text etc that you might get late at night from someone you should or shouldn’t be talking to. The song basically refers to a girl who gets in a relationship that sucks and it’s almost as difficult to get out of it – we compare that scenario to a binding contract with the CIA/FBI.
The video wasn’t really inspired by anything or anyone per se, it was an idea we were bouncing around for a while. I wrote the broad script and the boys took it and ran with it and made it into what it is now. Funny enough, Emile called me late last year and said he had and idea for a video and it was pretty similar to what we have now, so we kinda combined ideas.
The entire band is excited and relieved that we don’t have to wait any longer. Nathan Mack, our videographer/video editor, did all the filming, directing and editing. We were nagging him constantly and it was worth the wait. So far everyone has been giving us some amazing reviews and some priceless advice and constructive criticism. Initially we weren’t going to release the song to radio but we changed our minds on that and decided we’d make it available for people who might wanna just crank it up in their car. It’ll be available on Apple Music, Spotify, and Bajan radio waves soon.
Just wanna say thanks to Simon Pipe at Creek Production who sprinkled his magic dust on the mix and master of the song to make it amazing. Fun fact: Simon also plays the guitar solo in this song. A huge shoutout to Jah Reddis for being the world’s worse boss, Lennox for his help and coming out – we go way back with him – Kris & the staff at Castaways, Melanie Mark (whose character was inspired by Carmen Sandiego), plus the countless people that made the video possible. We’ve got so much more in store!”
A couple of hours after the song and video’s release, AnimeKon announced that the band will be performing at AnimeKon IX: World of Wonder in August.
Check out our interview with the band and be sure to like them on Facebook, follow them on Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube channel. Watch the music video for “Midnight Knock” below:
Of all of the characters that make up the cast, I think that Stan got the most character development in this episode. It was done very, very well. Unfortunately, now that we know more about him and have a better idea of who he is, I’m not so sure about his romance with Angel. I still want her to get the fairy tale romance that she wants, but I’m somewhat doubtful that it’s what she will get, though she still could.
That he is so bewitched by and infatuated with her is adorable, but that it manifests itself as a desire to control and own her is scary. After her spiel of not being a kept woman I was very disappointed that Angel just accepted becoming exactly that. She spoke about keeping her dignity, but where is the dignity in doing so? At least as a sex worker she was independent. She didn’t even need a place to live, she had the the House of Evangelista and an empowering House Mother in Blanca to guide her.
Even though she was arrested – and unfairly at that – I was certain that she would go back to the gay bar yet again and that once she did they would finally, begrudgingly, serve her. That didn’t happen. She did go back, but she stood outside, looking in dejectedly. There was no happy resolution…She lost. Saddened as I was by that outcome, I did appreciate it. You can’t win every battle in life and that just made the whole thing feel a little more real. But that wasn’t the only lost she suffered in this episode; she once again went up against Elektra in a ball.
On a more positive note, things are looking up for Damon. Not just at school but, romantically. By the end of the episode I felt really bad for distrusting Ricky. He was all cute and charming when he first met Damon, but by the time they were alone together at the pier and he was coming on really strong…I was suspicious of him. He was too quick to talk about loving Damon (whom he’d literally just met) and seemed to only have sex on his mind. I really thought that he would blow off Damon and just find someone who would put out immediately and Lil Papi seemingly confirmed that suspicion when he said that Ricky was a “hit it and quit it” kind of guy.
Remember when I said that Westworld needs to flesh out Ghost Nation already and tell us what they’re doing? Well, it has. In the span of one beautiful, brilliant episode, Ghost Nation has gone from an enigmatic mystery to the most sympathetic group in the entire series. By exploring Akecheta’s story they’ve gone from intimidating boogeymen to the heroes of this story. This was the best episode of the season so far and I’d dare say that it’s the best one of the entire series.
If there is one thing that the awakened hosts have proven to be true – including Dolores, despite her rampant violence – is that love is what drives them. Maeve with Hannah, Lawrence with his wife and daughter, Dolores with Peter and Teddy and now Akecheta with Kohana. They are all characters who at some point in their history were programmed to be selfish or aggressive or violent or murderous and none of that forms the core of who they are. It is the love for those that are precious to them that does.
His story is so much more heartbreaking than Maeve’s. His search for Kohana was immensely longer than her search for Hannah, he did it alone and when he finally found her he couldn’t get her back. Hannah is still there, “alive”, and Maeve – as long as she doesn’t die – still has a chance to be with her.
It’s not clear to me if Akecheta was part of Robert’s plan. He did say that he had been watching Akecheta. It seemed like he had his plan for Dolores killing him, etc, already when he encountered Akecheta, or a least most of it planned. So maybe he incorporated him into it afterward? To me “When the Deathbringer comes for me…you’ll know; to gather your people and lead them to the new world” is pretty ambiguous in terms of Robert’s intentions and can be interpreted a number of ways…Or I’m thinking about it too hard. I do believe, though, that he was telling Akecheta that that would be the time to go and find the door.
I didn’t want it to happen, I was hoping that it wouldn’t happen, but it looks like it’s going to happen. Charlotte will use Maeve as a weapon against the other hosts and it’s all because Sizemore told a technician about her ability. I don’t blame him for that. The guy wasn’t listening and he just wanted to dump Maeve and Sizemore was desperate to save her. So he told him the one thing that would make her worth saving to them. I’m not much worried about Maeve at all. I have faith that she will be able to get herself out of this situation, maybe even with Sizemore’s help.
For a show made by Ryan Murphy about ball culture in the LGBT community of the late eighties, in this first episode, Pose is surprisingly subdued. It’s not as over-the-top and extravagant as one would expect from a series that focuses on this subject. Although the show does turn it up a notch when it comes to the balls themselves, but it never quite wows there either.
Of the four main characters Blanca is my favourite. It’s unfortunate that she has AIDS, mostly because I wish that we could get away from telling stories about LGBT people that have to do with HIV/AIDS. It’s like how every other movie about Black people is about slavery or the Civil Rights era. Her status, however, is neither here nor there. I just love how big her heart is and how much she cares about her children. She opened a house to secure herself a legacy, but she’s not selfish or ruthlessly ambitious. She certainly wouldn’t have her children rob an exhibition…
As a show that features characters who are part of a heavily marginalised group, Pose obviously has something to say. Several things, in fact, if this episode is any indicator of things to come. It is most definitely a show with a message. It is a very important message to be sure, but Pose has a very on the nose delivery that lacks a lot of subtlety. More that once the dialogue was very heavy handed and just took me out of the scene.
A few days after teasing that another guest announcement was imminent, AnimeKon has revealed who their fourth featured guest for this year’s World of Wonder will be; cosplayer, model and gamer Brit Bliss. She will be joining fellow cosplayer Kay Bear, voice actress and singer Olivia Olson and actor Manu Bennet when the ninth edition of the convention kicks off on August 16th with the Mages and Babes Cosplay Catamaran Cruise aboard Jammin’ and from the 17th to the 19th at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
The first theory to have been confirmed in this episode was the truth of Delos’ secret project; immortality. By this point in the series, however, it wasn’t much of a theory as it was more or less confirmed quite a while ago. Bernarnold’s exchange with Robert only provided more details – that the entire park was an experiment with the hosts as controls and the guests as variables, they themselves the subjects under observation in order to be copied. As Robert later explains to Bernarnold, it seems that the guests serve as a general blueprint for humanity; the key that will enable Delos to understand humanity and thus create lasting host/human hybrids.
When Stubbs assumed that Dolores and company had attacked the Mesa in pursuit of their backups I thought that he was wrong. After all, the impetus for Dolores going there in the first place was to get her father. As it turned out, Stubs was only half wrong; they were there for their back ups. Not to retrieve them, however, but to destroy them. Dolores know so very much about how everything in this place works, I’m not surprised that she knew about them even though we weren’t told that she did.
At first I thought that Maeve was the “beginning” that Robert wanted The Man in Black to return to. After all, killing her and Hannah was the first thing that he did after his wife died to see if he could feel anything. So in that way it would have made sense. However, Robert wasn’t in control of Maeve and would not have manipulated events for her to have wound up at her old home at the same time as The Man in Black. It was pretty much a coincidence, fate even. But him seeing her again, although not part of Robert’s plan, was an important step on his journey to redemption. A journey which I thought he wouldn’t complete.
Speaking of, I also thought that Maeve was going to die in this episode. That would have been a terrible way to end her story and I would not have been here for it at all. Although, given her ability to control the other hosts telepathically, it would have been a good way to get rid of her now that she is overpowered. I never would have thought that Sizemore would show up and save her. It honestly warmed my heart that he did, but he did prove that he wasn’t entirely heartless and cowardly in the last episode. He did look rather regretful when he called for help.
AnimeKon is wasting absolutely no time with these guest announcements! In just two weeks (it’s been exactly fourteen days) they have announced three guests that will be attending this year’s edition of the convention, World of Wonder. The first guest – Kiwi actor Manu Bennet – was announced on the 16th of this month, followed three days later by the announcement of voice actress Olivia Olson. Today cosplayer, artist, model and gamer, Kay Bear has been revealed to be the next guest.