"Let This Be" is the new single from London solo artist She Makes War: multi-instrumentalist vocal chameleon (past collaborators include The Young Punx, Redroche, Michael Gray, Koolwah and Super Mal), videomaker, blogger, sometime session musician (previously for I Blame Coco, Tricky and Alex Parks) and strident purveyor of grungey dystopian gloom-pop.

Tales of love, loss, betrayal, homicide, genocide, crap friends and animal urges are swathed in poetry and intrigue and unleashed in the form of carefully crafted, powerful alt-pop songs - the props of war litter the lyrics, the bombs, bullets and blood acting as symbols for the battles we face daily in life and love.


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MEET THE CLOWNS
MAKING THE VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY BY LAURA WARD
Regé Page
Regé has grown up clowning around and generally drawing attention to himself, be it with The Super Nashwan Kids or occasionally on stage, television or in music videos under the guise of an ‘actor’. Let's face it, that’s just code for a bloke that has gotten away with wearing copious amounts of make up in public on more than one occasion.

When She Makes War offered just that opportunity, he jumped to answer the call.


THE REMIXES

We sent the stems for "Let This Be" out to some talented Twitter buddies - check out what they came back with:

Lenno Linjama (Official Remix)
Let This Be (Lenno Mix) : FREE DOWNLOAD by shemakeswar

Richmanu Remix She Makes War - Let This Be (Richmanu Remix) by Richmanu

Masonic Boom QE2 Remix Let This Be (Masonic Boom QE2 Remix) by EvrenKader

Alun Vaughan Remix + Blog Post Let This Be - Alun Vaughan Remix by AlunVaughan


Want to remix a She Makes War track? Drop us a line...


       


LET THIS BE : THE VIDEO : CREDITS

DIRECTED & EDITED BY
Laura Kidd

DOP
Ralph Messer

PRODUCED BY
Juan C. Bernal

STARRING
Regé Page
Bass
Steph Hope
Kat Bax
AS THE CLOWNS

AND
Mister Benji
AS HIMSELF

FOCUS PULLER : Fabio Guglielmelli
DIT / CAMERA ASSISTANT : Natalie Theobald
GAFFER : Colin Rifat
HAIR & MAKEUP : Sammm Agnew, Daryl Tait
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT : Usuyak Bassey
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR : Cat Munro
STILLS PHOTOGRAPHY : Laura Ward
COLOR GRADING : Yann Heckmann
STUDIO MANAGER : Dina Karklina
TIGER SUIT : Kigu

 


 


 

 

 

 



 

Steph Hope
Stephanie likes clowns, Stephanie likes music, and Stephanie has Wednesdays as her day off from uni and was thus very eager to help out for this particular adventure. She's played in a few bands: The Secret Hairdresser, Animal Planet, Comic Book Heroes, The Deets and Camarilla, and is currently working on a new project with her big sister.

You can have a gander at their last musical adventure here.
Kat Bax
Kat Bax is a London Muso and perpetual student/odd jobber/rockstar studying at Guitar-X in Acton for her degree in Popular Music as well as doing world tours, various TV odd jobs, cover bands, tribute acts.... She is also a qualified massage therapist, performance psychologist (BSc) and working towards her qualification in life coaching.

Current claims to fame include and are not limited to: miming lead guitar with Jedward last Halloween and getting to massage Bjork before her big show at Glastonbury.
Bass
Originally a nationally published teen poet and writer, Bass decided to pick up a guitar at university and start a band so that people would think he was less crazy when he screamed his deepest thoughts out in public. He now runs DIY label Genin Records and puts on events alongside fronting hardcore rock band Djevara.

Shortly after the LTB video shoot Djevara embarked on a two week DIY tour of Europe. Around the same time a large bag of clown makeup mysteriously disappeared. Coincidence?
Mister Benji
Dubbing himself "lover of sticks and all round trendsetter", Mister Benji is a consummate professional, as comfortable in front of the camera as he is chewing a pair of carelessly discarded slippers.

This video is the young dog's first foray in to moving pictures but he is an experienced photographic model with his own dedicated Flickr group "Benji - Dog About Town".
WIN LAURA'S HEART!

Well done to Richard Moss who knew that Mister Benji is a Miniature Schnauzer, and that his performance in LTB is a tribute to Colin from Spaced. Richard wins this awesome necklace from Mama's Little Babies.

 


 

 

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