Cult Figures Drop “Rapid 40 Slideout” Video

Rejuvenated Birmingham punks Cult Figures have unveiled a new video ahead of the launch of their latest album next week. Rapide 40 Slideout is the second single to be released from the band’s third album, Between Us And Heaven, and features the last lyric to be written by founding singer Gary Jones before his sad death last year, while the video is once again the work of the band’s guitarist Jon Hodgson. Cult Figures will be be appearing at Clerkenwell, London’s The Betsey Trotwood on Friday 27th October with tickets available here.

“‘Rapide 40 Slideout’ is an incredibly high octane punk track so I knew it would require some seriously energetic imagery. Luckily, I came across this brilliant old footage of 1940s dancers on the Prelinger Archive, which looked oddly incongruous stylistically, but to my surprise perfectly matched the breakneck speed of the song. The film is mostly constructed from the  archive footage, but I also inserted a number of black and white cameo shots of Cult Figures band members, filmed at one of our recent rehearsals. So as to blend in with the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers lookalikes I persuaded our singer Fraser to perform in tuxedo and bow tie, which I think works pretty well, although try as he might, he couldn’t work out how to tie the bow tie!” (Jon Hodgson)